Bücher der Reihe Smart Innovation, Systems and

This book presents selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Applications and Tools, held on 29-31 October 2021 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is divided into two volumes and discusses latest research outcomes in the field of information technology (IT) including but not limited to information hiding, multimedia signal processing, big data, data mining, bioinformatics, database, industrial and internet of things, and their applications.

This book provides an overview on the current progresses in artificial intelligence and neural nets in data science. The book is reporting on intelligent algorithms and applications modeling, prediction, and recognition tasks and many other application areas supporting complex multimodal systems to enhance and improve human-machine or human-human interactions. This field is broadly addressed by the scientific communities and has a strong commercial impact since investigates on the theoretical frameworks supporting the implementation of sophisticated computational intelligence tools. Such tools will support multidisciplinary aspects of data mining and data processing characterizing appropriate system reactions to human-machine interactional exchanges in interactive scenarios. The emotional issue has recently gained increasing attention for such complex systems due to its relevance in helping in the most common human tasks (like cognitive processes, perception, learning, communication, and even "rational" decision-making) and therefore improving the quality of life of the end users.

The book focuses on the real-world case-based crisis management in digital product development. This includes forecasting, responding, and agile engineering/management methods, patterns, and practices for sustainable development. This book introduces a set of case studies for sustainability in management as a blend, the components of which have been carefully selected from a few domains adjacent to digital production such as IT-intensive operation, human resource management, and knowledge engineering, to name a few. The key ingredients of this crisis management framework include information management, tradeoff optimization, agile product development, and knowledge transfer. The case studies this book features will help the stakeholders in understanding and identifying the key technology, business, and human factors that may likely result in a digital production crisis, i.e., critically affect the organization outcomes in terms of successful digitalization and sustainable development. These factors are particularly important for the large-scale applications, typically considered very complex in managerial and technological aspects, and, therefore, specifically addressed by the discipline of IT crisisology.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Business Intelligence and Information Technology (BIIT 2022) held in Harbin, China, during December 17¿18, 2022. BIIT 2022 is organized by the School of Computer and Information Engineering, Harbin University of Commerce, and supported by Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE), Egypt. The papers cover current research in electronic commerce technology and application, business intelligence and decision making, digital economy, accounting informatization, intelligent information processing, image processing and multimedia technology, signal detection and processing, communication engineering and technology, information security, automatic control technique, data mining, software development, and design, blockchain technology, big data technology, and artificial intelligence technology.

This book serves as a reference for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry. Smart education, smart e-learning and smart pedagogy are emerging and rapidly growing areas that have a potential to transform existing teaching strategies, learning environments and educational activities and technology. They are focused at enabling instructors to develop innovative ways of achieving excellence in teaching in highly technological smart university and providing students with new opportunities to maximize their success using smart classrooms, smart systems and technology. This book contains the contributions presented at the 9th international KES conference on Smart Education and e-Learning (SEEL-2022) with the Smart Pedagogy as the main conference theme. It comprises of forty nine high-quality peer-reviewed papers that are grouped into several interconnected parts: Part 1-Smart Pedagogy, Part 2-Smart Education, Part 3-Smart e-Learning, Part 4-Smart University, Part 5-Smart Education: Systems and Technology, Part 6-Digital Humanities and Social Sciences for Smart University Development: the Innovative Methods, Models and Technologies, Part 7-Digital Transformation of Education and Economics in Smart University and Part 8-Smart Education for Children with Special Educational Needs. We believe this book will serve as a useful source of research data and valuable information for faculty, scholars, Ph.D. students, administrators and practitioners-those who are interested in smart education, smart e-learning and smart pedagogy.

"e;Smart City"e; programs and strategies have become one of the most dominant urban agendas for local governments worldwide in the past two decades. The rapid urbanization rate and unprecedented growth of megacities in the 21st century triggered drastic changes in traditional ways of urban policy and planning, leading to an influx of digital technology applications for fast and efficient urban management. With the rising popularity in making our cities "e;smart"e;, several domains of urban management, urban infrastructure, and urban quality-of-life have seen increasing dependence on advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) that optimize and control the day-to-day functioning of urban systems. Smart Cities, essentially, act as digital networks that obtain large-scale real-time data on urban systems, process them, and make decisions on how to manage them efficiently. The book presents 26 chapters, which are organized around five topics: (1) Conceptual framework for smart cities and communities; (2) Technical concepts and models for smart city and communities; (3) Civic engagement and citizen participation; (4) Case studies from the Global North; and (5) Case studies from the Global South.

This book includes best-selected, high-quality research papers presented at Second International Conference on Biologically Inspired Techniques in Many Criteria Decision Making (BITMDM 2021) organized by Department of Information & Communication Technology, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Odisha, India, during December 20-21, 2021. This proceeding presents the recent advances in techniques which are biologically inspired and their usage in the field of many criteria decision making. The topics covered are biologically inspired algorithms, nature-inspired algorithms, multi-criteria optimization, multi-criteria decision making, data mining, big-data analysis, cloud computing, IOT, machine learning and soft computing, smart technologies, crypt-analysis, cognitive informatics, computational intelligence, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data management exploration and mining, computational intelligence, and signal and image processing.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the KES International Symposium on Smart Transportation Systems (KES STS 2023). Modern transportation systems have undergone a rapid transformation in recent years, producing a range of technological innovations such as connected vehicles, self-driving cars, electric vehicles, Hyperloop, and even flying cars, and with them, fundamental changes in transport systems around the world. The book discusses current challenges, innovations, and breakthroughs in smart transportation systems, as well as transport infrastructure modeling, safety analysis, freeway operations, intersection analysis, and other related cutting-edge topics.

This book highlights new trends and challenges in research on agents and the new digital and knowledge economy. It includes papers on business process management, agent-based modeling and simulation and anthropic-oriented computing that were originally presented at the 17th International KES Conference on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2023), held in Rome, Italy, in June 14¿16, 2023. The respective papers cover topics such as software agents, multi-agent systems, agent modeling, mobile and cloud computing, big data analysis, business intelligence, artificial intelligence, social systems, computer embedded systems and nature-inspired manufacturing, all of which contribute to the modern digital economy.

This book contains the contributions presented at the 10th international KES conference on Smart Education and e-Learning (SEEL-2023) with the Smart University as the main conference theme. The conference is being held on June 14-16, 2023 in Rome, Italy in both in-person and online modes. The book contains high quality peer-reviewed papers that are grouped into several interconnected parts: Part 1 ¿ Smart Education, Part 2 ¿ Smart e-Learning, Part 3 ¿ Smart University, Part 4 ¿ Smart Education: Case Studies and Research, and Part 5 ¿ Smart Company: Case Studies and Research. Smart education, smart e-learning, smart universities and smart companies are emerging and rapidly growing areas with the potential to transform the existing teaching strategies, learning environments, and educational/training activities and technology in academic institutions and training centers. Smart education/training and smart e-learning are focused on enabling instructors/trainers to develop innovativeways of achieving excellence in teaching in highly technological smart classrooms/labs, and providing students/learners with new opportunities to maximize their success and select the best options for their education/training, location and learning style, as well as the mode of content delivery. This book serves as a useful source of research data and valuable information on current research projects, best practices and case studies for faculty, scholars, Ph.D. students, administrators, and practitioners ¿ all those who are interested in smart education, smart e-learning, smart university and smart business/company paradigms, concepts, systems and technology.

The proceeding presents best selected papers presented at 5th International Conference on Smart Computing and Informatics (SCI 2020), held at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, during 17 - 18 September 2021. It presents advanced and multi-disciplinary research towards the design of smart computing and informatics. The theme is on a broader front focuses on various innovation paradigms in system knowledge, intelligence and sustainability that may be applied to provide realistic solutions to varied problems in society, environment and industries. The scope is also extended towards the deployment of emerging computational and knowledge transfer approaches, optimizing solutions in various disciplines of science, technology and healthcare. The work is published in two volumes.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the KES International Symposium on Smart Transportation Systems (KES STS 2022). Modern transportation systems have undergone a rapid transformation in recent years, producing a range of technological innovations such as connected vehicles, self-driving cars, electric vehicles, Hyperloop, and even flying cars, and with them, fundamental changes in transport systems around the world. The book discusses current challenges, innovations, and breakthroughs in smart transportation systems, as well as transport infrastructure modeling, safety analysis, freeway operations, intersection analysis, and other related cutting-edge topics.

This book is a collection of best selected research papers presented at 7th International Conference on Computing in Engineering and Technology (ICCET 2022), organized by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere, India, during February 12 ¿ 13, 2022. Focusing on frontier topics and next-generation technologies, it presents original and innovative research from academics, scientists, students, and engineers alike. The theme of the conference is Applied Information Processing System.

The book includes new research results of scholars from the Second International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Technologies (ICAIT 2021) subtitled Intelligent Technology and Industry organized by IRNet International Academic Communication Center, held during October 15-17, 2021. The book covers research work from active researchers who are working on collaboration of industry and various intelligent technologies such as intelligent technologies applicable/applied to manufacturing and distribution of industrial products, factory automation, business, etc. The book focuses on theory, design, development, testing, and evaluation of all intelligent technologies applicable/applied to various parts of industry and its infrastructure. The topics included are all computational intelligence techniques applicable/applied to industry, intelligent techniques in data science applicable/applied to business and management, intelligent network systems applicable/applied to industrial production, intelligent technologies applicable to smart agriculture, and intelligent information systems for agriculture.

The proceeding presents best selected papers presented at 5th International Conference on Smart Computing and Informatics (SCI 2021), held at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vasvi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, during 17 - 18 September 2021. It presents advanced and multi-disciplinary research towards the design of smart computing and informatics. The theme is on a broader front focuses on various innovation paradigms in system knowledge, intelligence and sustainability that may be applied to provide realistic solutions to varied problems in society, environment and industries. The scope is also extended towards the deployment of emerging computational and knowledge transfer approaches, optimizing solutions in various disciplines of science, technology and healthcare. The work is published in two volumes.

This book presents the best-selected research papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing (ABC 2021), during 20-22 October 2021. The book includes works related to the field of vision- and sensor-based human action or activity and behavior analysis and recognition. It covers human activity recognition (HAR), action understanding, gait analysis, gesture recognition, behavior analysis, emotion, and affective computing, and related areas. The book addresses various challenges and aspects of human activity recognition-both in sensor-based and vision-based domains. It can be considered as an excellent treasury related to the human activity and behavior computing. 

This book addresses different methods and techniques of integration for enhancing the overall goal of data mining. The book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented in the Sixth International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Mining (ICCIDM 2021) held at Aditya Institute of Technology and Management, Tekkali, Andhra Pradesh, India, during December 11-12, 2021. The book addresses the difficulties and challenges for the seamless integration of two core disciplines of computer science, i.e., computational intelligence and data mining. The book helps to disseminate the knowledge about some innovative, active research directions in the field of data mining, machine and computational intelligence, along with some current issues and applications of related topics.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Nanomanufacturing (nanoMan2021), held in Xi'an on November 17-19, 2021 after postponing twice due to COVID-19 pandemic. It encompasses the synthesis of nanomaterials, the fabrication of devices, the characterization of various products and systems, process monitoring and quality control, simulations, and the applications of nanoscience and nanotechnologies.

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Intelligent and Cloud Computing (ICICC 2021), held at Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, India, during October 22-23, 2021. The book includes contributions on system and network design that can support existing and future applications and services. It covers topics such as cloud computing system and network design, optimization for cloud computing, networking, and applications, green cloud system design, cloud storage design and networking, storage security, cloud system models, big data storage, intra-cloud computing, mobile cloud system design, real-time resource reporting and monitoring for cloud management, machine learning, data mining for cloud computing, data-driven methodology and architecture, and networking for machine learning systems.

This book is a collection of peer-reviewed best selected research papers presented at 22nd International Conference on Computational Mechanics and Modern Applied Software Systems (CMMASS 2021), held at the Alushta Health and Educational Center, The Republic of Crimea, during 4-13 September 2021. The proceedings is dedicated to solving the real-world problems of applied mechanics using smart computational technology. Physical and mathematical models, numerical methods, computational algorithms and software complexes are discussed, which allow to carry out high-precision mathematical modelling in fluid, gas and plasma mechanics, in general mechanics, deformable solid mechanics, in strength, destruction and safety of structures, etc. Smart technologies and software systems that provide effective solutions to the problems at various multi scale-levels are considered. Special attention is paid to the training of highly qualified specialists for the aviation and space industry.

This book presents body of knowledge on the economic, social and environmental impacts of the new Industry 4.0 technology use in view of regulating the related risks to ensure inclusive and sustainable growth in the Post-Soviet and selected developing countries while transition to a new technological order. The book brings together collected empirical evidence and pilot innovative research projects run by the author team that illustrate functional abilities, application potential and challenges of Industry 4.0 key enabling technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence, neural networks, blockchain, nanotechnology, etc.) and provides useful applied recommendations on managing the risks of their use in order to achieve economic growth fairly across society in the developed and developing countries. It presents suggestions to improve national legislation and existing economic regulations, which would also ensure boosting scientific research and training highly qualified personnel in computer, economic, administrative, legal and social sciences at the advanced universities and research institutions in the Post-Soviet area.

This book includes selected papers presented at the International Conference on Marketing and Technologies (ICMarkTech 2021), held at University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, during December 2-4, 2021. It covers up-to-date cutting-edge research on artificial intelligence applied in marketing, virtual and augmented reality in marketing, business intelligence databases and marketing, data mining and big data, marketing data science, web marketing, e-commerce and v-commerce, social media and networking, geomarketing and IoT, marketing automation and inbound marketing, machine learning applied to marketing, customer data management and CRM, and neuromarketing technologies.

This book is concerned with the systemic examination of the prospects for the development of smart agriculture for sustainable development. This book substantiates the top-priority significance of smart innovation in agriculture for modern economic and ecological systems. The book not only examines the theoretical concept of smart agriculture, but also gives consideration to the rule of thumb in terms of its implementation in different countries worldwide. The book contains both fundamental and applied recommendations on the innovative technological development of smart agriculture in modern economic and ecological systems for sustainable development. The book is not limited to a single vector of development of smart agriculture, but is representative of all of them, making it possible to describe the future prospects in the fullest, most reliable and accurate manner, and to comprehensively present the directions for its development. The book has developed and applied an advanced and sophisticated methodology, the advantage of which consists in the reliance on big data with the use of datasets, which allows improving accuracy, reliability, authenticity, and coverage of results.