Bücher der Reihe Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues

This Festschrift is in honor of Ker-I Ko, Professor in the Stony Brook University, USA. He contributed significantly to advancing the theory of structural complexity, especially on polynomial-time isomorphism, instance complexity, and relativization of polynomial-time hierarchy.

The two-volume set LNCS 12013 and 12014 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2019, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in February 2019. The 123 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 172 submissions.

This volume constitutes the post- conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search, ICVNS 2019, held in Rabat, Morocco, in October 2019. The 13 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions.

The papers of track C cover topics in security and cryptography such as theory, secure computation, two-party protocols and zero-knowledge, encryption with special properties/quantum cryptography, various types of hashing, as well as public-key cryptography and authentication.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Algebraic Biology (AB 2008).

Constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2007, held in Kitakyushu, Japan, in November 2007, jointly with BRAINIT 2007, the 4th International Conference on Brain-Inspired Information Technology.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2007. It covers work on foundations and semantics of timed systems; examines techniques, algorithms, data structures, and software tools for analyzing timed systems and resolving temporal constraints;

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2020, which was planned to be held in Fisciano, Italy, during June 29 until July 3, 2020.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on High Performance Computing for Computational Science, VECPAR 2014, held in Eugene, OR, USA, in June/July 2014.

This volume contains the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Exascale Applications and Software, EASC 2014, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in April 2014. They are organized in two topical sections named: toward exascale scientific applications and development environment for exascale applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) Techniques in Constraint Programming, CPAIOR 2015, held in Barcelona, Spain, in May 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2015, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in August/September 2015. The papers cover a wide range of topics including among others molecular (DNA) computing;

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving, ITP 2015, held in Nanjing, China, in August 2015. The topics range from theoretical foundations to implementation aspects and applications in program verification, security and formalization of mathematics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, FCT 2015, held in Gdansk, Poland, in August 2015. The papers cover topics in three main areas: algorithms, formal methods, and emerging fields and are organized in topical sections on geometry, combinatorics, text algorithms;

This book constitutesthe proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models forthe Web Graph, WAW 2015, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in December 2015. They are organized in topical sections named: properties of largegraph models, dynamic processes on large graphs, and properties of PageRank onlarge graphs.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop onAlgebraic Development Techniques, WADT 2014, held in September 2014 in Sinaia,Romania.The 8 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 13presentations and focus together with one invited paper on foundations ofalgebraic specification, approaches to formal specification including processcalculi and models of concurrent, distributed and mobile computing,specification languages, methods, and environments, semantics of conceptualmodeling methods and techniques, model-driven development, graphtransformations, term rewriting and proof systems, integration of formalspecification techniques, formal testing and quality assurance, validation, andverification.

This book constitutes the thoroughlyrefereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Symposium onTrustworthy Global Computing, TGC 2015, held in Madrid, Spain, in August/September2015.

This bookconstitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Functionaland Logic Programming, FLOPS 2016, held in Kochi, Japan, in March 2016. The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selectedfrom 36 submissions. They cover the following topics: functional and logicprogramming;

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.

The two-volume set LNCS 9779 and LNCS 9780 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2016, held in Toronto, ON, USA, in July 2016. The total of 46 full and 12 short papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 195 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2016, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in August 2016. The papers cover various topics including: Theory and Algorithms; Parameterized Complexity and Algorithms; Scheduling Algorithms and Circuit Complexity;

The two volume set, LNCS 9886 + 9887, constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2016, held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2016. The 121 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 227 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, I3E 2016, held in Swansea, UK, in September 2016The 47 full and 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, ISCO 2016, held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, in May 2016. They present original research on all aspects of combinatorial optimization, such as algorithms and complexity;

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Learning and Optimization, LION 10, which was held on Ischia, Italy, in May/June 2016. The 14 full papers presented together with 9 short papers and 2 GENOPT papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the Second International Workshop on Brain-Inspired Computing, BrainComp 2015, held in Cetraro, Italy, in July 2015. computational models and brain-inspired computing methods with practical applications;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Unifying Theories of Programming, UTP 2016, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in June 2016, in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods, iFM 2016.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2017, held in Zaragoza, Spain, in June 2017.