This book is a collection of thoroughly refereed papers presented at the 27th IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in June/July 2015.The 48 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They cover the latest progress in their respective areas and encompass broad aspects of system modeling and optimiza-tion, such as modeling and analysis of systems governed by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop on Graph-Based Representation in Pattern Recognition, GbRPR 2017, held in Anacapri, Italy, in May 2017. The 25 full papers and 2 abstracts of invited papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers discuss research results and applications in the intersection of pattern recognition, image analysis, graph theory, and also the application of graphs...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 20th IAPR International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, DGCI 2017, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2017.The 28 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on geometric transforms; discrete tomography; discrete modeling and visualization; morphological analysis; discrete shape representa...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th IAPR International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, DGCI 2016, held in Nantes, France, in April 2016.The 32 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully selected from 51 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on combinatorial tools; discretization; discrete tomography; discrete and combinatorial topology; shape descriptors; models for discrete geometry; c...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology, ISMM 2017, held in Fontainebleau, France, in May 2017.The 36 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on algebraic theory, max-plus and max-min mathematics; discrete geometry and discrete topology; watershed and graph-based segmentation; trees and hierarchi...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Geometric Science of Information, GSI 2015, held in Palaiseau, France, in October 2015.The 80 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions and are organized into the following thematic sessions:Dimension reduction on Riemannian manifolds; optimal transport; optimal transport and applications in imagery/statistics; shape space and diffeomorphic mappings...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, IWCIA 2017, held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in June 2017. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions.The workshop is organized in topical sections of theoretical foundations and theory of applications, namely: discrete geometry and topology; tilings and patterns; grammars, models and other technical tools for image analysis; image se...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, IWCIA 2015, held in Kolkata, India, in November 2015.The 24 revised full papers and 2 invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The workshop provides theoretical foundations and methods for solving problems from various areas of human practice. In contrast to traditional approaches to image analysis which implement conti...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation, LVA/ICS 2015, held in Liberec, Czech Republic, in August 2015. The 61 revised full papers presented – 29 accepted as oral presentations and 32 accepted as poster presentations – were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Five special topics are addressed: tensor-based methods for blind signal separation; deep neural networks for supervised speec...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in September 2016.The total of 93 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions.The meeting began with four workshops which offered an ideal opportunity to explore specific topics in intelligent transportation Workshop, landscape-aware heuristic search, natural computing in scheduling an...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Discrete Optimization and Operations Research, DOOR 2016, held in Vladivostok, Russia, in September 2016.The 39 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 181 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: discrete optimization; scheduling problems; facility location; mathematical programming; mathematical economics and games; applications of operational rese...