Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design: Technologies, Implementation, and Impacts is the most comprehensive resource available on the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it relates to smart city planning and urban design. The book explains nascent applications of AI technologies in urban design and city planning, providing a thorough overview of AI-based solutions. It offers a framework for discussion of theoretical foundations of AI, AI applications in the urban design,...

Providing the most comprehensive source available, this book surveys the state of the art in artificial intelligence (AI) as it relates to architecture. This book is organized in four parts: theoretical foundations, tools and techniques, AI in research, and AI in architectural practice. It provides a framework for the issues surrounding AI and offers a variety of perspectives. It contains 24 consistently illustrated contributions examining seminal work on AI from around the world, includin...

This book provides an overview of successes and failures of Turkey’s mediation initiatives in different fragile and post-conflict societies. It is the first of its kind to run a systematic analysis of Turkey’s peacemaking. This edited collection treats its readers with a variety of analyses on the dominant narratives that guide Turkish mediation, the tools used by the Turkish government, and Turkey’s evolving self-image as a mediator since the mid-2000s. The book sheds a critical spotlight...

This book includes the refereed Selected Papers of the 20th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design. INTERCONNECTIONS: Co-computing Beyond Boundaries, CAAD Futures 2023, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in July 5–7, 2023.The 43 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: algorithmic architectural design; AI-powered architectural ideation; performance-based des...

This book is a collection of a wide range of research papers that combine both the humanities and sciences in applied informatics. In particular, it is intended for readers interested in the fields of artificial intelligence, data science, virtual reality, and intelligent systems.Technologies and findings in artificial intelligence, data science, virtual reality, and intelligent systems are being used in all academic disciplines today. This book is a compilation of specific and adv...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Southern African Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research, SACAIR 2021, held in Durban, South Africa, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the SACAIR 2021 was held online.The 22 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 70 submissions. They are organized on the topical sections on AI in the humanities and society, AI in and for information systems, computer vision and image processing...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Workshops held in conjunction with SAFECOMP 2023, held in Toulouse, France, during September 19, 2023.The 35 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions.- 8th International Workshop on Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems (ASSURE 2023)- 18th International Workshop on Dependable Smart Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems and Systems-of-Systems (DECSoS 2023)-...

This book covers a wide range of important topics including but not limited to Technology Trends, Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision, Communication, Security, e-Learning, and Ambient Intelligence and their applications to the real world. The sixth Future Technologies Conference 2021 was organized virtually and received a total of 531 submissions from academic pioneering researchers, scientists, industrial engineers, and students from all over the world.. After a double-blin...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2017, held as part of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2017, held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in July 2017. The total of 1228 papers presented at the 15 colocated HCII 2017 conferenceswas carefully reviewed and selected from 4340 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and...

The two-volume set LNCS 12765-12766 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the thematic area Human Interface and the Management of Information, HIMI 2021, which was held as part of HCI International 2021 and took place virtually during July 24-29, 2021.The total of 1276 papers and 241 posters included in the 39 HCII 2021 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5222 submissions.The papers included in the HCII-HIMI volume set were organized in topical se...

This book highlights new trends and challenges in research on agents and the new digital and knowledge economy. It includes papers on business process management, agent-based modeling and simulation and anthropic-oriented computing that were originally presented at the 17th International KES Conference on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2023), held in Rome, Italy, in June 14–16, 2023. The respective papers cover topics such as software agents, multi...

Computer engineering refers generally to the field that integrates hardware design, production, and implementation, and it combines the expertise of practitioners in electrical, software, and hardware engineering. Computer Engineering: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a broad, multi-volume collection of the best recent works published under the umbrella of computer engineering. It includes perspectives on the fundamental aspects, tools and technologies, methods and desig...