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This volume constitutes selected papers presented at the First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Theories and Applications, ICAITA 2022, held in Mascara, Algeria, in November 2022. The 23 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2022, held Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in November 2022.The 113 full papers accepted for publication in these proceedings...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Rough Sets, IJCRS 2022, held in Suzhou, China, in November 2022. The 28 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They were...

The 4-volumes set of LNCS 13529, 13530, 13531, and 13532 constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2022, held in Bristol, UK, in September 2022. The total of 255 full papers presented in these...

Decision support systems are developed for integrated pest and disease management and nutrition management using open-source technologies as java, android, and low-cost hardware devices like Arduino micro controller. This text discusses the techniques to...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2022, which took place in Nancy, France, during September 12-15, 2022.The theme of ICCBR 2022 was Global Challenges for CBR aiming to consider how...

The 4-volume set LNAI 13455 - 13458 constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2022, which took place in Harbin China, during August 2022.The 284 papers included in these proceedings...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2022, held in Chersonisos, Crete, Greece, in June 2022.The 37 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers...

This book is an introduction to Markov chain modeling with applications to communication networks. It begins with a general introduction to performance modeling in Chapter 1 where we introduce different performance models. We then introduce basic ideas...

The field of narrative (or story) understanding and generation is one of the oldest in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI), which is hardly surprising, since storytelling is such a fundamental and familiar intellectual and...

Considerable progress has been made in recent years in the development of dialogue systems that support robust and efficient human-machine interaction using spoken language. Spoken dialogue technology allows various interactive applications to be built...

It has been estimated that over a billion people are using or learning English as a second or foreign language, and the numbers are growing not only for English but for other languages as well. These language learners provide a burgeoning market for...

Computational social choice is an expanding field that merges classical topics like economics and voting theory with more modern topics like artificial intelligence, multiagent systems, and computational complexity. This book provides a concise...

Data integration is a critical problem in our increasingly interconnected but inevitably heterogeneous world. There are numerous data sources available in organizational databases and on public information systems like the World Wide Web. Not...

From driving, flying, and swimming, to digging for unknown objects in space exploration, autonomous robots take on varied shapes and sizes. In part, autonomous robots are designed to perform tasks that are too dirty, dull, or dangerous for humans. With...

Human decision-making often transcends our formal models of "rationality." Designing intelligent agents that interact proficiently with people necessitates the modeling of human behavior and the prediction of their decisions. In this book, we explore the...

One of the grand challenges of artificial intelligence is to enable computers to interpret 3D scenes and objects from imagery. This book organizes and introduces major concepts in 3D scene and object representation and inference from still images, with a...

The two-volume set LNAI 13073 and 13074 constitutes the proceedings of the 10th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2021, held in Sao Paolo, Brazil, in November-December 2021. The total of 77 papers presented in these two volumes was...

This book includes revised selected papers from the International Workshops on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems, AICOL-XI@JURIX2018, held in Groningen, The Netherlands, on December 12, 2018; AICOL-XII@JURIX 2020, held in Brno, Czechia, on...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2021, which took place virtually during October 11-13, 2021.The 36 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 76...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2021, held in Salamanca, Spain, in October 2021. The 27 regular and 13 short papers presented in this volume...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2020, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, amalgamated with CAEPIA 2021, and held in Malaga, Spain, during...

This book constitutes selected and revised papers of the First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Computing for Smart City, AIS2C2 2021, held in Greater Noida, India, in March 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the...

This book develops a conceptual understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by seeking an understanding of AI, Deep Learning and Machine Learning in the truest sense of the word. It is an earnest endeavor to unravel what is happening at the algorithmic...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, MLSA 2020, colocated with ECML/PKDD 2020, in Ghent, Belgium, in September 2020. Due to the COVID-19...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2020, which took place during October 19-21, 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Thessaloniki, Greece, but had to change to an online format...

This book sheds light on the challenges facing social media in combating malicious accounts, and aims to introduce current practices to address the challenges. It further provides an in-depth investigation regarding characteristics of "Pathogenic...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2020, held in Bolzano, Italy, in September 2020. The 12 full papers presented together with 7 were carefully...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2020, held in Sant Cugat, Spain, in September 2020.* The 24 papers presented in this volume were carefully...

This book features a selection of extended papers presented at the 6th IFIP WG 12.6 International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management, AI4KM 2018, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in July 2018, in the framework of the International...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Explainable, Transparent Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, EXTRAAMAS 2020, which was due to be held in Auckland, New Zealand, in May 2020. The conference was held...

The two-volume set LNAI 12084 and 12085 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 24th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2020, which was due to be held in Singapore, in May 2020. The conference was held...

In this book the author's theoretical framework builds on linguistic and psychological research, arguing that similar image-schematic notions should be grouped together into interconnected family hierarchies, with complexity increasing with regard to the...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Modelling and Development of Intelligent Systems, MDIS 2019, held in Sibiu, Romania, in October 2019.The 13 revised full papers presented in the volume were carefully...

This three-volume set, LNAI 11670, LNAI 11671, and LNAI 11672 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2019, held in Cuvu, Yanuca Island, Fiji, in August 2019. The 111 full...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP TC 5, TC 12, WG 8.4, 8.9, 12.9 International Cross-Domain Conference for Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, CD-MAKE 2019, held in Canterbury, UK, in August 2019.The 25 revised full papers...

The problem of dealing with missing or incomplete data in machine learning and computer vision arises in many applications. Recent strategies make use of generative models to impute missing or corrupted data. Advances in computer vision using deep...

The two volumes LNAI 11649 and 11650 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference "Towards Autonomous Robotics", TAROS 2019, held in London, UK, in July 2019.The 87 full papers and 12 short papers presented were carefully reviewed...

This two-volume set LNCS 11554 and 11555 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2019, held in Moscow, Russia, in July 2019. The 111 papers presented in the two volumes were carefully reviewed and...

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 13th Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2018, held in Parma, Italy, in September 2018. The 12 full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from...