The rapid evolution of 6G networks demands communication systems that go beyond data transmission toward intelligent understanding. Semantic communication (SemCom) represents a paradigm shift from transmitting bits to transmitting meaning. By integrating artificial intelligence, knowledge graphs, and reasoning capabilities, cognitive SemCom further enables networks to infer, interpret, and deliver only task-relevant information, thereby achieving higher efficiency, robustness, and explaina...

The two-volume set LNCS 9242 + 9243 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering, IScIDE 2015, held in Suzhou, China, in June 2015.The total of 126 papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 416 submissions. They deal with big data, neural networks, image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition and graphics, object detection, dimensionality reduction and manifold learning,...

The 13-volume set LNCS 14425-14437 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2023, held in Xiamen, China, during October 13–15, 2023.The 532 full papers presented in these volumes were selected from 1420 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Action Recognition, Multi-Modal Information Processing, 3D Vision and Reconstruction, Character Recognition, Fundamental Theory o...

This three-volume set, LNAI 13629, LNAI 13630, and LNAI 13631 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 19th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2022, held in Shangai, China, in November 10–13, 2022.The 91 full papers and 39 short papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 432 submissions. PRICAI covers a wide range of topics in the areas of social and economic importance for countries in the Pacific Rim: artificia...

Natural interaction is one of the hottest research issues in human-computer interaction. At present, there is an urgent need for intelligent devices (service robots, virtual humans, etc.) to be able to understand intentions in an interactive dialogue. Focusing on human-computer understanding based on deep learning methods, the book systematically introduces readers to intention recognition, unknown intention detection, and new intention discovery in human-computer dialogue. This book is th...

This six-volume set LNCS 15986-15991 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2025, held in Singapore, during May 26–29, 2025.The 136 full papers presented in this book together with 89 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 731 submissions.They cover topics such asPart I-Machine Learning and Text.Part II-Emerging Application; NLP and Spatial-Temporal.Part III- Graph; ...

This 21-volume set LNCS 16642-16662 constitutes - in conjunction with the 5-volume set LNAI 16663-16667 and the 4-volume set LNBI 16668-16671 - the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2026, held in ON, Canada, during July 22–26, 2026.The 1096 papers presented in these proceedings books were carefully reviewed and selected from 4561 submissions.This year, the conference concentrated mainly on the theories and methodologies...

The five-volume proceedings set LNAI 16451-16456, 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 ...

The four-volume set LNCS 13943, 13944, 13945 and 13946 constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2023, held in April 2023 in Tianjin, China.The total of 125 full papers, along with 66 short papers, are presented together in this four-volume set was carefully reviewed and selected from 652 submissions. Additionally, 15 industrial papers, 15 demo papers and 4 PhD consortium papers are included. The conferenc...

This three-volume set, LNAI 13031, LNAI 13032, and LNAI 13033 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2021, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in November 2021.The 93 full papers and 28 short papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 382 submissions. PRICAI covers a wide range of topics in the areas of social and economic importance for countries in the Pacific Rim: artificial intel...

This 18-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2025, held in Shanghai, China, during October 15-18, 2025.The 692 full papers included in this book, comprising 66 oral presentations and 626 posters, were carefully reviewed and selected from 2370 submissions.PRCV's mission is to serve as a comprehensive platform for dialogues among researchers from both the academic field and the industry....

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Intelligence Science, ICIS 2024, held in Nanjing, China, in October 25-28, 2024.The 23 full papers and 2 short papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. These papers have been categorized into the following sections:Machine Learning; Causal Reasoning; Large Language Model; Intelligent Robot; Perceptual Intelligence; AI for Science; Medical Artificia...