Drylands, a home for nearly 2.5 billion people, are highly vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change, and dryland area may expand to 50% of the Earth's surface by 2100. Climate change may aggravate the prevalence of undernutrition and malnutrition because of adverse effects on quantity and quality of food production in these regions. This book takes a holistic approach to sustainable management of drylands to make agriculture drought-resilient. Eminent scientists from around the world sha...

A comprehensive review of both the causes of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and the range of ways these emissions can be reducedParticularly strong focus on the range of nutritional strategies, from forage and silage to feed supplements such as plant bioactive compounds and direct-fed microbials as well as inhibitors and vaccinesCovers other approaches such as genetics and selection, improved husbandry as well as manure management

Provides an authoritative review of the key developments in achieving durable disease resistance in cereal cropsComprehensive coverage of the major diseases that affect cereal crops (Fusarium head blight, Septoria tritici blotch, tan spot)Assesses the key challenges in breeding durable disease-resistant cereals faced globally, with dedicated chapters to the regional strategies established by North America, North-west Europe, North Africa and West Asia

Epigenetics of Chronic Pain, Volume Nine, presents comprehensive information on the role of epigenetics in chronic pain sensitivity, providing a detailed, but accessible, view of the field from basic principles, to clinical application. Leading international researchers discuss essential mechanisms of chronic pain epigenetics, including the molecular processes of chromatin remodeling, histone modifications, and the microRNAs and noncoding RNAs involved in regulating genes tied to pain sens...

The four-volume set LNCS 16483-16486 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, held in Delft, The Netherlands, during March 29–April 2, 2026.The 46 full papers and 37 short papers presented together with 10 findings papers, 9 reproducibility papers, 17 resource papers, 11 workshop papers, 7 tutorial papers, 19 IR4Good papers, 13 demo papers, 14 doctoral consortium papers, 10 industry track papers, and 16 CLE...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Efficient Medical Artificial Intelligence, EMA4MICCAI 2025, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2025, in Daejeon, South Korea, on September 23, 2025.The 36 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The EMA4MICCAI Workshop focuses on advancing computational effciency in medical AI by exploring innovative techniques such as lightweight model architectures, resour...

The four-volume set LNCS 16483-16486 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, held in Delft, The Netherlands, during March 29–April 2, 2026.The 46 full papers and 37 short papers presented together with 10 findings papers, 9 reproducibility papers, 17 resource papers, 11 workshop papers, 7 tutorial papers, 19 IR4Good papers, 13 demo papers, 14 doctoral consortium papers, 10 industry track papers, and 16 CLE...

The four-volume set LNCS 16483-16486 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, held in Delft, The Netherlands, during March 29–April 2, 2026.The 46 full papers and 37 short papers presented together with 10 findings papers, 9 reproducibility papers, 17 resource papers, 11 workshop papers, 7 tutorial papers, 19 IR4Good papers, 13 demo papers, 14 doctoral consortium papers, 10 industry track papers, and 16 CLE...

The four-volume set LNCS 16483-16486 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, held in Delft, The Netherlands, during March 29–April 2, 2026.The 46 full papers and 37 short papers presented together with 10 findings papers, 9 reproducibility papers, 17 resource papers, 11 workshop papers, 7 tutorial papers, 19 IR4Good papers, 13 demo papers, 14 doctoral consortium papers, 10 industry track papers, and 16 CLE...

This book addresses several important aspects of complex automated negotiations and introduces a number of modern approaches for facilitating agents to conduct complex negotiations. It demonstrates that autonomous negotiation is one of the most important areas in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Further, it presents complex automated negotiation scenarios that involve negotiation encounters that may have, for instance, a large number of agents, a large number of issu...

This book aims to provide a description of these new Artificial Intelligence technologies and approaches to the modeling and simulation of complex systems, as well as an overview of the latest scientific efforts in this field such as the platforms and/or the software tools for smart modeling and simulating complex systems. These tasks are difficult to accomplish using traditional computational approaches due to the complex relationships of components and distributed features of resources, ...

This book provides a description of advanced multi-agent and artificial intelligence technologies for the modeling and simulation of complex systems, as well as an overview of the latest scientific efforts in this field. A complex system features a large number of interacting components, whose aggregate activities are nonlinear and self-organized. A multi-agent system is a group or society of agents which interact with others cooperatively and/or competitively in order to reach their indiv...