This book constitutes the referred proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2025, held as part of EvoStar 2025, in Trieste, Italy, during April 23–25, 2025.The 16 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. These papers cover a variety of topics, ranging from benchmark creation, over genetic programming, heuristics for real-world and NP-hard problems, as well as the ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering, SSBSE 2025, held in Seoul, South Korea, on November 16, 2025.The 8 full papers, 4 short papers and 2 other papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Research Track; RENE/NIER Track; and Challenge Track.

This volume contains the papers presented at the 6th Culinary and Wine Tourism Conference. The conference took place in May 2024 in Krems an der Donau, Austria. Contributions from XY different countries on the following topics were included in this book: (exemplary) o Authenticity & tourism experiences; preservation of gastronomic heritage; branding/marketing strategies for destinations o Festivals/events as a driver of tourism development o Sustainable practices in food production and con...

This book constitutes the referred proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2024, held as part of EvoStar 2024, in Aberystwyth, UK, during April 3–5, 2024.The 12 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. They cover a variety of topics, ranging from constructive algorithms, machine learning techniques ranging from neural network based guidance to sparse surrogate m...

This textbook is a translation of the German textbook "Rechnen fUr Lagerstattenkundler und Rohstoffwirtschaftler, Teil 1" published by the Ellen Pilger Publishing Company. Those passages in the German edition which were especially written for the German readership were transform ed for English speaking readers. Compared with the German edition many chapters have been slightly amended. The main new additions in this English version are the chapter on linear optimization in Chapter 10.2 and ...

Building on the seminal work of David Teece, Kathleen Eisenhardt, Jeffrey Martin, and others, this volume applies the concept of dynamic capabilities to help readers understand how organizations can be successful in highly dynamic environments. The contributions, written by researchers who participated in the research program "Dynamic Capabilities and Relationships" and international researchers who participated in the program’s international conference (both funded by the Dieter Schwarz F...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence, ACALCI 2017, held in Geelong, VIC, Australia, in January/February 2017.The 32 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: artificial life and computational intelligence and optimization algorithms and applications.

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2023, which was held during April 22-27, 2023, in Paris, France, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2023.The 12 regular papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The proceedings also contain 2 tool papers, 2 NIER papers, and 2 competition papers ...

Group method of data handling (GMDH) is a typical inductive modeling method built on the principles of self-organization. Since its introduction, inductive modelling has been developed to support complex systems in prediction, clusterization, system identification, as well as data mining and knowledge extraction technologies in social science, science, engineering, and medicine.This is the first book to explore GMDH using MATLAB (matrix laboratory) language. Readers will learn how to imple...

Due to the vital importance of SMEs in developed economies worldwide, this book aims to provide a unique and much-needed investigation into the underlying mechanisms and practices of management within these companies by collecting a wide range of original conceptual and empirical research in the topical area of management in SMEs and new ventures.Collecting work from dozens of leading scholars in fields ranging from management and entrepeneurship to human resource management and st...

The open access book set LNCS 14933 + 14934 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2024, which took place in Milan, Italy, in September 2024.The 51 full and 4 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 219 submissions. They also include 2 invited talks in full paper length and 10 tutorial papers. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Invited pa...

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2020, held in Konstanz, Germany, in April 2020.The 45 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 114 submissions. Advancing Intelligent Data Analysis requires novel, potentially game-changing ideas. IDA’s mission is to promote ideas over performance: a solid motivation can be as convincing as exhaustive empirical evaluation.