This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search, ICVNS 2023, held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in October 2022.The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers describe recent advances in methods and applications of variable neighborhood search.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search, ICVNS 2021, held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in March 2021.The 14 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers describe recent advances in methods and applications of variable neighborhood search.Chapter “Reduced Variable Neighbourhood Search for the Generation of Controlled Circular Data” is availa...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed revised selected papers of the 10th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Models and Their Applications, BIOMA 2018, held in Paris, France, in May 2018.The 27 revised full papers were selected from 53 submissions and present papers in all aspects of bioinspired optimization research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact applications, new research challenges, theoretical contributions, implementation issues, and...

This volume constitutes selected papers presented during the 8th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, META 2021, held in Marrakech, Morocco, in October 201. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was partiqally held online.The 16 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 53 submissions. They are organized in the topical sections on combinatorial optimization; continuous optimization; optimization and machine learning; applicatio...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mobile, Secure and Programmable Networking, held in Paris, France, in June 2017.The 17 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They discuss new trends in networking infrastructures, security, services and applications while focusing on virtualization and cloud computing, network programming, software defined networks (S...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Metaheuristics, MIC 2022, held in Syracuse, Italy, in July 2022.The 48 full papers together with 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers detail metaheuristic techniques.Chapter “Evaluating the Effects of Chaos in Variable Neighbourhood Search” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via ...

This book highlights recent research results in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications. It presents 33 selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 2017), which was held in Marrakesh, Morocco from December 11 to 13, 2017. A premier conference in the nature-inspired computing field, IBICA is intended to bring together the world’s leading researchers and practitioners interested in advancing the state of the art in bi...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking, UNet 2017, held in Casablanca, Morocco, in May 2017.The 56 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: context-awareness and autonomy paradigms; mobile edge networking and virtualization; ubiquitous internet of things: emerging technologies and breakthroughs; and enablers, cha...

Networks of today are going through a rapid evolution and there are many emerging areas of information networking and their applications. Heterogeneous networking supported by recent technological advances in low power wireless communications along with silicon integration of various functionalities such as sensing, communications, intelligence and actuations are emerging as a critically important disruptive computer class based on a new platform, networking structure and interface that en...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Optimization and Learning, OLA 2023, held in Malaga, Spain, during May 3–5, 2023.The 32 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: advanced optimization; learning; learning methods to enhance optimization tools; optimization applied to learning methods; and real-world applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Optimization and Learning, OLA 2022, which took place in Syracuse, Sicilia, Italy, in July 2022.The 19 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Optimization and Learning; Novel Optimization Techniques; Logistics; and Applications.

This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1304 “Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)”. The book contains 14 chapters and constitutes a show-case of the main outcome of the Action in line with its scientific goals. It will serve as a valuable reference for undergraduate and post-graduate students, educators, faculty members, researchers, engineers, and research strategists working in this field.The explosive growth of t...