This book documents, analyzes, and shares the latest developments at the intersection of engineering, business, and startup strategy. It provides a comprehensive synthesis by combining empirical research, practical experience, and educational approaches to support both academic inquiry and practical application.The book is designed to inspire and enable readers to cope with the challenges and opportunities in the modern software startup landscape. To this end, it consists of three ...

The LNCS two-volume set 13905 and LNCS 13906 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2023, held in Tokyo, Japan, during June 19-22, 2023.The 53 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 263 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: side-channel and fault attacks; symmetric cryptanalysis; web security; elliptic...

INLA stands for Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations, which is a new method for fitting a broad class of Bayesian regression models. No samples of the posterior marginal distributions need to be drawn using INLA, so it is a computationally convenient alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), the standard tool for Bayesian inference.Bayesian Regression Modeling with INLA covers a wide range of modern regression models and focuses on the INLA technique for building Bayesian...

The LNCS two-volume set 13905 and LNCS 13906 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2023, held in Tokyo, Japan, during June 19-22, 2023.The 53 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 263 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: side-channel and fault attacks; symmetric cryptanalysis; web security; elliptic...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2022, which was held during November 8-11, 2022 in Bolzano, Italy. The special theme of ICSOB 2022 was “Software for Digital Transformation”.The 19 full papers together with 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The conference is covering different aspects of Digital Transformation, Software Startups, Software Ecosystems, Softw...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2021, which was held during December 2-3, 2021. The conference was originally planned to take place in Drammen, Norway, but changed to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The special theme of ICSOB 2021 was software sustainability.The 13 full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. They deal with a range of ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2015, held in Beijing, China in November 2015.The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on hash function; signature schemes; symmetric ciphers; elliptic curve and cryptographic fundamentals; Web and applications security; cloud ...

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2024, which took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during June 04-07, 2024.XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a unique forum where agile researchers, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concer...

This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held at the 25th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2024, which took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during June 04-07, 2024.XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a unique forum where agile researchers, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, resea...

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2021, which was held virtually during June 14-18, 2021.XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a unique forum where agile researchers, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concerns, challenges, a...

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2018, held in Porto, Portugal, in May 2018.XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice, and XP 2018 provided a playful and informal environment to learn and trigger discussions around its main theme – make, inspect, adapt.The 21 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submiss...

The four-volume proceedings LNCS 13090, 13091, 13092, and 13093 constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2021, which was held during December 6-10, 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Singapore, but changed to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The total of 95 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 341 submissi...