This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Rough Sets, IJCRS 2016, held in Santiago de Chile, Chile, in October 2016.The 46 revised full papers presented together with 7 keynotes, tutorials and expert papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on Rough Sets, Approximation and Granulation; Rough Sets, Non-Determinism and Incompleteness; Rough Sets and Three-way Decisions; F...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications, COPA 2016, held in Madrid, Spain, in April 2016.The 14 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions and cover topics on theory of conformal prediction; applications of conformal prediction; and machine learning.

This, the 27th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains extended and revised versions of 12 papers presented at the Big Data and Technology for Complex Urban Systems symposium, held in Kauai, HI, USA in January 2016. The papers explore the use of big data in complex urban systems in the areas of politics, society, commerce, tax, and emergency management.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2016, held in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, in September 2016.The 10 full papers and 3 technical communications presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. Extensions and adaptations of classical rule-based languages have found their application in a range of areas, such as ontologies for the semantic web; querying web data; semantic data management; c...

This, the 24th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains extended and revised versions of seven papers presented at the 25th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2014, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2014. Following the conference, and two further rounds of reviewing and selection, six extended papers and one invited keynote paper were chosen for inclusion in this special issue. Topics covered include sys...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, in August 2015. The 5 full papers, 4 technical communications presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The scale and the heterogenous nature of web data poses many challenges, and turns basic tasks such as query answering and data transformations into complex reasoning problems. Rule-...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshopscollocated with the SEFM 2015 conference on Software Engineering andFormal Methods, held in York, UK, in September 2015.The 25 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed andselected from 32 submissions.The satellite workshops provided a highly interactive and collaborative environment for researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to discuss emerging areas of so...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th InternationalConference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2017,held in Le Mans, France, in October 2017.The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from39 submissions. The papers cover topics such as anaphora and conferenceresolution; authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering;computer-aided translation; corpora and language resourc...

The four volume set LNCS 9947, LNCS 9948, LNCS 9949, and LNCS 9950 constitues the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2016, held in Kyoto, Japan, in October 2016. The 296 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 431 submissions. The 4 volumes are organized in topical sections on deep and reinforcement learning; big data analysis; neural data analysis; robotics and control; bio-inspired/energy efficient information...

The two-volume set LNAI 9692 and LNAI 9693 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2016, held in Zakopane, Poland in June 2016.The 134 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 343 submissions. The papers included in the first volume are organized in the following topical sections: neural networks and their applications; fuzzy systems and their applications; evoluti...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2017, held in Guilin, China, in October/November 2017.The 65 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. These papers provided a sample of latest research outcomes in data engineering and automated learning, from methodologies, frameworks and techniques to applications. In addition to various topics su...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualization,- Enhancing Scholarly Data,- SAVE-SD 2016, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in April 2016.The 5 full papers, 6 demo and poster papers and 2 position papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The papers are organized in two topical sections: "Extracting Knowledge from Research Publications" and "Semantic Technologies for Citation and Topic A...