How do you prevent a critical care nurse from accidentally delivering a morphine overdose to an ill patient? Or ensure that people don't insert their arm into a hydraulic mulcher? And what about enabling trapped airline passengers to escape safely in an emergency?Product designers and engineers face myriad such questions every day. Failure to answer them correctly can result in product designs that lead to injury or even death due to use error. Historically, designers and engineers...

The two-volume set LNCS 16491 + 16492 constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2026, held in Saint Malo, France, during April 2026.The 27 full papers presented in the proceedings were carefully selected and reviewed from 66 submissions. These papers have been organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Security; Code-Based Cryptography; Lattice-Based Cryptography; and PQC Sig...

The two-volume set LNCS 16491 + 16492 constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2026, held in Saint Malo, France, during April 2026.The 27 full papers presented in the proceedings were carefully selected and reviewed from 66 submissions. These papers have been organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Security; Code-Based Cryptography; Lattice-Based Cryptography; and PQC Sig...

The past 25 years have seen a dramatic transformation in Europe’s former communist countries, resulting in their reintegration with the global economy, and, in most cases, major improvements in living standards. But the task of building full market economies has been difficult and protracted. Liberalization of trade and prices came quickly, but institutional reforms—such as governance reform, competition policy, privatization and enterprise restructuring—often faced opposition from vested ...

The two-volume set LNCS 15577 + 15578 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2025, held in Taipei, Taiwan, during April 8–10, 2025.The 25 full papers presented in the proceedings were carefully selected and reviewed from 59 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Code-Based Cryptography; Multivariate Cryptography; Lattice-Based Cryptography.Part II: Isogeny-B...

The two-volume set LNCS 15577 + 15578 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2025, held in Taipei, Taiwan, during April 8–10, 2025.The 25 full papers presented in the proceedings were carefully selected and reviewed from 59 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Code-Based Cryptography; Multivariate Cryptography; Lattice-Based Cryptography.Part II: Isogeny-B...

This volume presents an analytical and empirical overview of the array of issues that the Mexican media faces in the post-authoritarian age, which jointly explains how a partially accomplished democracy, its authoritarian inertias, and its unintended consequences hinder the democratic performance of the media.This is analyzed from three points of view: the stalemate Mexican media system and ineffective regulations, the conditions of risk and insecurity of the journalists on the fie...