Based on the "Seventh International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters" (Vienna, Austria, July 2024), this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of disasters, focusing on the emerging theme of hybrid threats. As the world faces increasingly complex challenges, this volume sheds light on the intersection of natural and man-made hazards, emphasizing the critical need for advanced disaster preparedness and management strategies.Key concepts include the use of securi...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 16, which took place in Milos Island, Greece, in June 2022.The 36 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. LION deals with automatic solver configuration, parallel methods, intelligent optimization, nature-inspired algorithms, hard combinatorial optimization problems, DC learning, ...

Kepler Station is dying. The air is thin. The lights are failing. And the council has quietly decided to let it rot. Systems engineer Mara Voss has spent eleven months keeping this outer-colony station alive on stubbornness alone — crawling through conduits, filing reports nobody reads, patching failures nobody funds. She has never been afraid of anything she could diagnose. Then she finds the roots. Thick as her forearm. Warm. Bioluminescent. Threaded through the station's infrastructure ...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 15, held in Athens, Greece, in June 2021.The 30 full papers presented have been carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. LION deals with designing and engineering ways of "learning" about the performance of different techniques, and ways of using past experience about the algorithm behavior to improve performance in the future. Intelligent learning schemes for m...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences, MACIS 2017, held in Vienna, Austria, in November 2017.The 28 revised papers and 8 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: foundation of algorithms in mathematics, engineering and scientific computation; combinatorics and codes in computer s...

Group method of data handling (GMDH) is a typical inductive modeling method built on the principles of self-organization. Since its introduction, inductive modelling has been developed to support complex systems in prediction, clusterization, system identification, as well as data mining and knowledge extraction technologies in social science, science, engineering, and medicine.This is the first book to explore GMDH using MATLAB (matrix laboratory) language. Readers will learn how to imple...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in March/April 2016, co-located with the Evo*2015 events EuroGP, EvoMUSART and EvoApplications.The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers cover methodology, applications and theoretical studies. The methods included evolutionary and memetic algorit...

The multi-volume set LNAI 12975 until 12979 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2021, which was held during September 13-17, 2021. The conference was originally planned to take place in Bilbao, Spain, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 210 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 869 submissions.T...

The multi-volume set LNAI 12975 until 12979 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2021, which was held during September 13-17, 2021. The conference was originally planned to take place in Bilbao, Spain, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 210 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 869 submissions.T...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence, ACALCI 2017, held in Geelong, VIC, Australia, in January/February 2017.The 32 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: artificial life and computational intelligence and optimization algorithms and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Optimization and Learning, OLA 2023, held in Malaga, Spain, during May 3–5, 2023.The 32 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: advanced optimization; learning; learning methods to enhance optimization tools; optimization applied to learning methods; and real-world applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2021, held as part of Evo*2021, as Virtual Event, in April 2021, co-located with the Evo*2021 events: EvoMUSART, EvoApplications, and EuroGP.The 14 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They cover a wide spectrum of topics, ranging from the foundations of evolutionary algorithms...