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...

Metaheuristics exhibit desirable properties like simplicity, easy parallelizability, and ready applicability to different types of optimization problems. After a comprehensive introduction to the field, the contributed chapters in this book include explanations of the main metaheuristics techniques, including simulated annealing, tabu search, evolutionary algorithms, artificial ants, and particle swarms, followed by chapters that demonstrate their applications to problems such as multiobje...

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...

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 explains the application of recent advances in computational intelligence – algorithms, design methodologies, and synthesis techniques – to the design of integrated circuits and systems. It highlights new biasing and sizing approaches and optimization techniques and their application to the design of high-performance digital, VLSI, radio-frequency, and mixed-signal circuits and systems.This second of two related volumes addresses digital and network designs and applicatio...

Computational intelligence based techniques have firmly established themselves as viable, alternate, mathematical tools for more than a decade. They have been extensively employed in many systems and application domains, among these signal processing, automatic control, industrial and consumer electronics, robotics, finance, manufacturing systems, electric power systems, and power electronics. Image processing is also an extremely potent area which has attracted the attention of many resea...

This book LNICST 617 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing, CloudComp 2024, held in Luton, UK, during September 9–10, 2024.The 16 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The proceedings focus on topics such asThe Cloud-Edging ComputingWireless Networks; Network SecurityEmerging Applications /The Cloud-Edging Integration Applications

This book explains the application of recent advances in computational intelligence – algorithms, design methodologies, and synthesis techniques – to the design of integrated circuits and systems. It highlights new biasing and sizing approaches and optimization techniques and their application to the design of high-performance digital, VLSI, radio-frequency, and mixed-signal circuits and systems.This first of two related volumes addresses the design of analog and mixed-signal (AMS)...

This book examines the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based metaheuristics algorithms with applications in information security for digital media. It highlights the importance of several security parameters, their analysis, and validations for different practical applications. Drawing on multidisciplinary research including computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and modified/newly developed metaheuristics algorithms, it will enhance information sec...

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...

This book provides a comprehensive compilation of the latest research and advancements presented at the First International Symposium on Biomechatronics and Robotics in Healthcare (BioMRH 2025). The proceedings cover key topics such as the integration of robotic systems in healthcare, biomechatronics for rehabilitation, smart biomaterials, AI and machine learning in medical diagnostics and treatment, human-machine interfaces, and ethical challenges in healthcare robotics. By exploring how ...

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...