The book provides a comprehensive review of multiple information sources and multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization, specifically focusing on the novel "Augmented Gaussian Process” methodology. The book is important to clarify the relations and the important differences in using multi-fidelity or multiple information source approaches for solving real-world problems. Choosing the most appropriate strategy, depending on the specific problem features, ensures the success of the final solution....

This volume brings together the main results in the field of Bayesian Optimization (BO), focusing on the last ten years and showing how, on the basic framework, new methods have been specialized to solve emerging problems from machine learning, artificial intelligence, and system optimization. It also analyzes the software resources available for BO and a few selected application areas. Some areas for which new results are shown include constrained optimization, safe optimization, and appl...

Winner of the "Outstanding Academic Title" recognition by Choice for the 2020 OAT Awards.The Choice OAT Award represents the highest caliber of scholarly titles that have been reviewed by Choice and conveys the extraordinary recognition of the academic community.In recent years social media has gained significant popularity and has become an essential medium of communication. Such user-generated content provides an excellent scenario for a...

The five-volume set, LNAI 158710 - 15874 constitutes the proceedings of the 29th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2025, held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, during June 10–13, 2025.The conference received a total of 557 submissions to the main track, 35 submissions to the survey track and 104 submittion to the special track on LLMs. Of these, 134 papers have been accepted for the main track, 10 for the survey track and 24 for the LLM trac...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems on Advances and Trends in Artificial Intelligence, IEA/AIE 2025, held in Kitakyushu, Japan, in July 1–4, 2025.The 80 full papers and 9 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 130 submissions. They focus on the following topical sections:Part I: Reinforcement Learning; Optimiz...

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16013 to LNAI 16022, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2025, held in Porto, Portugal, September 15–19, 2025.The 300 full papers presented here, together with 15 demo papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 1253 submissions. The papers presented in these proceedings are from the following three conference tracks:The Research Track in V...

The five-volume set LNCS 17089-17093 constitutes the proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, ICANN 2026, held in Padua, Italy on September 14–17, 2026. The 296 papers included in these conference proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 450 submissions. The conference strongly values the synergy between theoretical progress and impactful real-world applications, and actively encourages contributions that demonstrate ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th CCF Conference on BigData 2025, which took place in Tianjin, China, during September 12–14, 2025.The 25 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. The topics of accepted papers include theories and methods of data science, algorithms and applications of big data.

This multi-volume set, LNAI 14941 to LNAI 14950, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2024, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in September 2024.The papers presented in these proceedings are from the following three conference tracks: -Research Track: The 202 full papers presented here, from this track, were carefully reviewed and selected from 826 submissions. These pap...

The four-volume set LNCS 16068-16071 constitutes the proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, ICANN 2025, held in Kaunas, Lithuania, September 9–12, 2025.The 170 full papers and 8 abstracts included in these conference proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 375 submissions. The conference strongly values the synergy between theoretical progress and impactful real-world applications, and actively encourages co...

This multi-volume set, LNAI 14941 to LNAI 14950, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2024, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in September 2024.The papers presented in these proceedings are from the following three conference tracks: -Research Track: The 202 full papers presented here, from this track, were carefully reviewed and selected from 826 submissions. These pap...

The five-volume proceedings set LNAI 16451-16455, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2025, held in Wellington, New Zealand, in November 17–21, 2025.The 197 full papers and 89 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 679 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I:Clustering, Representation Learning, and Learning ...