This book is a guide to the combination of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Semantic Web, covering a variety of tools, technologies and applications that serve the myriad needs of the researchers in this field. It provides a multi dimensional view of the concepts, tools, techniques and issues that are involved in the development of semantics for the Web of Things.The various aspects studied in this book include Multi-Model Multi-Platform (SHM3P) databases for the IoT, clusterin...

This book includes state-of-the-art discussions on various issues and aspects of the implementation, testing, validation, and application of big data in the context of healthcare. The concept of big data is revolutionary, both from a technological and societal well-being standpoint. This book provides a comprehensive reference guide for engineers, scientists, and students studying/involved in the development of big data tools in the areas of healthcare and medicine. It also features a mult...

At the heart of the optimization domain are mathematical modeling of the problem and the solution methodologies. The problems are becoming larger and with growing complexity. Such problems are becoming cumbersome when handled by traditional optimization methods. This has motivated researchers to resort to artificial intelligence (AI)-based, nature-inspired solution methodologies or algorithms.The Handbook of AI-based Metaheuristics provides a wide-ranging ...

Machine learning and optimization techniques are revolutionizing our world. Other types of information technology have not progressed as rapidly in recent years, in terms of real impact. The aim of this book is to present some of the innovative techniques in the field of optimization and machine learning, and to demonstrate how to apply them in the fields of engineering.Optimization and Machine Learning presents modern advances in the selection, configuration and engineeri...

In today’s world, the concept of a circular economy has emerged as a vital solution to address pressing environmental concerns and foster sustainable development. At its core, the circular economy aims to minimize waste generation by keeping resources in use for as long as possible, thereby reducing the strain on natural ecosystems and promoting resource efficiency.Operations research and data science play a crucial role in implementing circular economy principles by bridging the g...

This book highlights the recent research on soft computing, pattern recognition, nature-inspired computing, and their various practical applications. It presents 69 selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2022) and 19 papers from the 14th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2022), which was held online, from December 14 to 16, 2022. A premier conference in the field of soft computing, artificia...

This unique book dicusses the latest research, innovative ideas, challenges and computational intelligence (CI) solutions in sustainable computing. It presents novel, in-depth fundamental research on achieving a sustainable lifestyle for society, either from a methodological or from an application perspective.Sustainable computing has expanded to become a significant research area covering the fields of computer science and engineering, electrical engineering and other engineering ...

This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Paradigms of Communication, Computing and Data Sciences (PCCDS 2021), held at the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India, during May 07–09, 2021. It discusses high-quality and cutting-edge research in the areas of advanced computing, communications, and data science techniques. The book is a collection of latest research articles in computation algorithm, communication, and da...

This book presents recent work that analyzes general issues of green transportation. The contributed chapters consider environmental objectives in transportation, including topics such as battery swap stations for electric vehicles, efficient home healthcare routing, waste collection, and various vehicle routing problems.The content will be valuable for researchers and postgraduate students in computer science, operations research, and urban planning.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest research in the area of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in health informatics. It focuses on how explainable AI models can work together with humans to assist them in decision-making, leading to improved diagnosis and prognosis in healthcare. This book includes a collection of techniques and systems of XAI in health informatics and gives a wider perspective about the impact created by them. The book covers the different aspe...

This book highlights recent research on intelligent systems and nature-inspired computing. It presents 50 selected papers focused on Information and Network Security from the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2023), which was held in 5 different cities namely Olten, Switzerland; Porto, Portugal; Kaunas, Lithuania; Greater Noida, India; Kochi, India, and in online mode. The ISDA is a premier conference in the field of artificial inte...

Due to increasing industry 4.0 practices, massive industrial process data is now available for researchers for modelling and optimization. Artificial Intelligence methods can be applied to the ever-increasing process data to achieve robust control against foreseen and unforeseen system fluctuations. Smart computing techniques, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, for example, will be inseparable from the highly automated factories of tomorrow. Effective cybersecurity will be a...