This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference, on Social Computing, ICSC 2025, held in Shanghai, China, during December 12–13, 2025.The 22 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections as follows: Advancements in methods for the broadly defined field of social computing; Online social network analysis, mining, and modeli...

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has recently attracted considerable attention from both research and industrial communities. Numerous papers have been published regarding solving the resource- allocation problems in NFV, from various perspectives, considering different constraints, and adopting a range of techniques. However, it is difficult to get a clear impression of how to understand and classify different kinds of resource allocation problems in NFV and how to design solutions t...

The book addresses the issue of interdisciplinary understanding of collaboration on the topic of social network studies. Researchers and practitioners from various disciplines including sociology, computer science, socio-psychology, public health, complex systems, and management science have worked largely independently, each with quite different principles, terminologies, theories. and methodologies. The book aims to fill the gap among these disciplines with a number of the latest interdi...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Applications, WISA 2021, held in Kaifeng, China, in September 2021. The 49 full papers and 18 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 206 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on world wide web, query processing and algorithm, natural language processing, machine learning, data mining, data privacy and security.

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are a form of attack that seeks to make a network resource unavailable due to overloading the resource or machine with an overwhelming number of packets, thereby crashing or severely slowing the performance of the resource. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a large scale DoS attack which is distributed in the Internet. Every computer which has access to the Internet can behave as an attacker. Typically bandwidth depletion can be categorized as either a...

This SpringerBrief provides state-of-the-art technical reviews on self-organizing and optimization in 5G systems. It covers the latest research results from physical-layer channel modeling to software defined network (SDN) architecture. This book focuses on the cutting-edge wireless technologies such as heterogeneous networks (HetNets), self-organizing network (SON), smart low power node (LPN), 3D-MIMO, and more. It will help researchers from both the academic and industrial worlds to bett...

This timely text presents a comprehensive overview of fault tolerance techniques for high-performance computing (HPC). The text opens with a detailed introduction to the concepts of checkpoint protocols and scheduling algorithms, prediction, replication, silent error detection and correction, together with some application-specific techniques such as ABFT. Emphasis is placed on analytical performance models. This is then followed by a review of general-purpose techniques, including several...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2022, which took place in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2022.The 21 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Cryptography; Post-Quantum Cryptography; Cryptanalysis; Blockchain; Email and Web Security; Malware; and AI Security.

This Springer Brief examines the tools based on attack graphs that help reveal network hardening threats. Existing tools detail all possible attack paths leading to critical network resources. Though no current tool provides a direct solution to remove the threats, they are a more efficient means of network defense than relying solely on the experience and skills of a human analyst. Key background information on attack graphs and network hardening helps readers understand the complexities ...

This book introduces the reliability modelling and optimization of warm standby systems. Warm standby is an attractive redundancy technique, as it consumes less energy than hot standby and switches into the active state faster than cold standby. Since a warm standby component experiences different failure rates in the standby state and active state, the reliability evaluation is challenging and the existing works are only restricted to very special cases. By adapting the decision diagrams,...

The development of information technology has made it possible to collect large amounts of spatial data on a daily basis. It is of enormous significance when it comes to discovering implicit, non-trivial and potentially valuable information from this spatial data. Spatial co-location patterns reveal the distribution rules of spatial features, which can be valuable for application users. This book provides commercial software developers with proven and effective algorithms for detecting and...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 10.3 International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, NPC 2020, held in Zhengzhou, China, in September 2020.The 34 full and 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: accelerator; AI; algorithm; architecture and hardware; big data and cloud; edge computing; emerging; network; and storage.