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...

This book delves into practical implementation of evolutionary and metaheuristic algorithms to advance the capacity of machine learning. The readers can gain insight into the capabilities of data-driven evolutionary optimization in materials mechanics, and optimize your learning algorithms for maximum efficiency. Or unlock the strategies behind hyperparameter optimization to enhance your transfer learning algorithms, yielding remarkable outcomes. Or embark on an illuminating journey throug...

In today’s world, the concept of a circular economy has emerged as a vital solution to address pressing environmental concerns and foster sustainable development. At its core, the circular economy aims to minimize waste generation by keeping resources in use for as long as possible, thereby reducing the strain on natural ecosystems and promoting resource efficiency.Operations research and data science play a crucial role in implementing circular economy principles by bridging the g...

This book highlights the recent research on soft computing, pattern recognition, nature-inspired computing, and their various practical applications. It presents 69 selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2022) and 19 papers from the 14th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2022), which was held online, from December 14 to 16, 2022. A premier conference in the field of soft computing, artificia...

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 highlights recent research on intelligent systems and nature-inspired computing. It presents 45 selected papers focused on Natural Language Processing 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 intelligence, and ...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2024, held in Bordeaux, France, during October 29–31, 2024.The 16 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of artificial evolution, including Algorithmics and Modeling, Implementations, Application of Evolutionary Paradigms to the Real World industry, biosciences, Machine Lea...

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...

This book highlights recent research on intelligent systems and nature-inspired computing. It presents 62 selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2019), which was held online. The ISDA is a premier conference in the field of computational intelligence, and the latest installment brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners whose work involves intelligent systems and their applications in industry. Including co...

This book presents work on healthcare management and engineering using optimization and simulation methods and techniques. Specific topics covered in the contributed chapters include discrete-event simulation, patient admission scheduling, simulation-based emergency department control systems, patient transportation, cost function networks, hospital bed management, and operating theater scheduling.The content will be valuable for researchers and postgraduate students in computer sc...