Bücher der Reihe Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language and Method, SOFL+MSVL 2015, held in Paris, France, in November 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing, GPC 2016, held in Seoul, Korea, in May 2016. The conference contains various aspects including green computing, cloud computing, virtualisation, data and storage, and network security.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2016, held in Torun, Poland, in June 2016.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Topology in Image Context, CTIC 2016, held in Marseille, France, in June 2016. The 24 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2016, held in Paris, France, in June/July 2016. The 18 revised full papers and 19 invited papers and invited extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2016, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in July 2016. The papers cover many topics of neural network-related research including signal and image processing; and cognition computation and spiking neural networks.

This two-volume set LNCS 9712 and LNCS 9713 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2016, held in Bali, Indonesia, in June 2016.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2016, held in Bergamo, Italy, in July 2016. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2016, held as part of STAF 2016, in Vienna, Austria, in July 2016. The 20 full and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation Systems, QEST 2016, held in Quebec City, Canada, in August 2016. The 21 full papers and 3 tool demonstration papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. Markov decision processes and Markovian analysis;

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ANTS 2016, held in Brussels, Belgium, in September 2016. The 18 full papers and 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2016, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in October 2016.The 23 revised full papers presented together with two short papers, two invited papers and one abstract of an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on program verification; design, synthesis and testing; calculi; specifications; composition and transformation; automata; temporal logics; tool and short papers.

The two-volume set LNCS 9952 and LNCS 9953 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, ISoLA 2016, held in Imperial, Corfu, Greece, in October 2016. The papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. Featuring a track introduction to each section, the papers are organized in topical sections named: statistical model checking; evaluation and reproducibility of program analysis and verification; ModSyn-PP: modular synthesis of programs and processes; semantic heterogeneity in the formal development of complex systems; static and runtime verification: competitors or friends?; rigorous engineering of collective adaptive systems; correctness-by-construction and post-hoc verification: friends or foes?; privacy and security issues in information systems; towards a unified view of modeling and programming; formal methods and safety certification: challenges in the railways domain; RVE: runtime verification and enforcement, the (industrial) application perspective; variability modeling for scalable software evolution; detecting and understanding software doping; learning systems: machine-learning in software products and learning-based analysis of software systems; testing the internet of things; doctoral symposium; industrial track; RERS challenge; and STRESS.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2016, held in Helsinki, Finland in July 2016. The 25 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2017, held in Palermo, Italy, in September 2017. They focus on fundamental studies on string processing and information retrieval, as well as on computational biology.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, TPNC 2016, held in Sendai, Japan, in December 2016. The papers are grouped in topical sections on applications of natural computing, evolutionary computation, formal models, and machine learning.

Algorithm Engineering is a methodology for algorithmic research that combines theory with implementation and experimentation in order to obtain better algorithms with high practical impact.

The volume contains 42 papers presenting original unpublished research, or expository and survey results in Turing degrees, computably enumerable sets, computable algebra, computable model theory, algorithmic randomness, reverse mathematics, and parameterized complexity, all areas in which Rod Downey has had significant interests and influence.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2017, held in Limerick, Ireland, in January 2017. graph theory and scheduling algorithms; quantum and matrix algorithms; algorithms for strings and formal languages;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, LATA 2017, held in Umea, Sweden, in March 2017. The 31 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First JARA High-Performance Computing Symposium, JARA-HPC 2016, held in Aachen, Germany, in October 2016. The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Algorithms and Computation, WALCOM 2017, held in Hsinchu, Taiwan, in March 2017. The 35 full papers presented together with three invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. graph algorithms;

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Frontiers in Algorithmics, FAW 2017, held in Chengdu, China, in June 2017. The 24 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. They deal with all aspects of theoretical computer science and algorithms.

The two-volume set of LNCS 10385 and 10386, constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2017, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in July/August 2017. novel swarm-based optimization algorithms; applications of particle swarm optimization; hybrid optimization algorithms and applications;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium, WADS 2017, held in St. John's, NL, Canada, in July/August 2017. The 49 full papers presented together with 3 abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions.

The papers cover various topics, including algorithms and data structures, complexity theory and computability, algorithmic game theory, computational learning theory, cryptography, computationalbiology, computational geometry and number theory, graph theory, and parallel and distributed computing.

The six volume set LNCS 10404 until 10409 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2017, held in Trieste, Italy, in July 2017. 

The six volume set LNCS 10404 until 10409 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2017, held in Trieste, Italy, in July 2017. Apart from the general tracks, ICCSA 2017 also include 43 international workshops, in various areas of computational sciences, ranging from computational science technologies, to specific areas of computational sciences, such as computer graphics and virtual reality. Furthermore, this year ICCSA 2017 hosts the XIV International Workshop On Quantum Reactive Scattering. The program also features 3 keynote speeches and 4 tutorials.