.The following workshops are included in this volume: First Workshop on Conceptual Modeling Meets Artificial Intelligence and Data-Driven Decision Making (CMAI); First International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Life Sciences (CMLS); Second Workshop on Conceptual Modeling, Ontologies and (Meta)data Management for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Data (CMOMM4FAIR); First Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for NoSQL Data Stores (CoMoNoS); and Third International Workshop on Empirical Methods in Conceptual Modeling (EmpER). The 20 papers promote and disseminate research on theories of concepts underlying conceptual modeling, methods and tools for developing and communicating conceptual models, techniques for transforming conceptual models into effective implementations, and the impact of conceptual modeling techniques on databases, business strategies and information systems. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of five workshops symposia, held at the 39th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2020, which were supposed to be held in Vienna, Austria, in November 2020, but were held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic instead.

Additionally the book includes 22 special track papers and 3 extended abstracts.

The 20 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. Computational Data and Social Networks. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, CSoNet 2020, held in Dallas, TX, USA, in December 2020.Additionally the book includes 22 special track papers and 3 extended abstracts.

The 19 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: petri-net, simulation, and scheduling; formal modeling and verification, testing; and artificial intelligence and machine learning..Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems Thus, the main motivation for VECoS is to encourage the cross-fertilization between various formal verification and evaluation approaches, methods and techniques, and especially those developed for concurrent and distributed hardware/software systems.

The 19 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions..Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems Thus, the main motivation for VECoS is to encourage the cross-fertilization between various formal verification and evaluation approaches, methods and techniques, and especially those developed for concurrent and distributed hardware/software systems.

. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2020, held in Bordeaux, France, in November 2020.

.The selected papers present orig-inal research results in areas related to the physical layer, communication protocols and standards, mobility and traffic models, experimental and field operational testing, and performance analysis. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2020, held in Bordeaux, France, in November 2020. The 18 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions.

The 249 full papers, 18 short papers, and 21 further contributions included in the workshop proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 467 submissions.Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 Workshops The papers deal with diverse computer vision topics..

The conference was planned to take place in Glasgow, UK, during August 23-28, 2020, but changed to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.. The 249 full papers, 18 short papers, and 21 further contributions included in the workshop proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 467 submissions.Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 Workshops The papers deal with diverse computer vision topics.

The papers describe applications of pattern recognition techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance pattern recognition methods are especially encouraged. This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2020, held in Valletta, Malta, in February 2020.

The selected papers are organized in the following topical headings: Transactions, Mining, Second Layer and Inter-bank Payments.. For the CBT Workshop 8 full and 4 short papers were accepted out of 24 submissions.

The papers focus on Second Layer, Signature Schemes, Formal Methods, Privacy, SNARKs and Anonymity..

Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration.

The 31 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, MIKE 2019, held in Goa, India, in December 2019.The accepted papers were chosen on the basis of research excellence, which provides a body of literature for researchers involved in exploring, developing, and validating learning algorithms and knowledge-discovery techniques. Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration.

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2020, held in Valletta, Malta, in February 2020.

The 38 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 53 submissions.

This book constitutes the revised post-conference proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, EUMAS 2020, and the 7th International Conference on Agreement Technologies, AT 2020, which were originally planned to be held as a joint event in Thessaloniki, Greece, in April 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was postponed to September 2020 and finally became a fully virtual conference. Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies.

The conference was planned to take place in Glasgow, UK, during August 23-28, 2020, but changed to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.. The 249 full papers, 18 short papers, and 21 further contributions included in the workshop proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 467 submissions.

The papers cover the following topics: computer and communication networks; analytical modeling of distributed systems; and distributed systems applications.. The 54 revised full papers and 1 revised short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed and Computer and Communication Networks, DCCN 2020, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2020.

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The workshop had the objective of fostering collaboration and discussion among cyber-security researchers and practitioners to discuss the various facets and trade-o s of cyber security. Topics of interest address various aspect of the core areas in relation to digital economy..

The papers cover the following topics: computer and communication networks; analytical modeling of distributed systems; and distributed systems applications. This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed and Computer and Communication Networks, DCCN 2020, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2020.

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The papers selected to this volume belong to various fields of: Language Resources, Tools and Evaluation, Less-Resourced-Languages, Speech Processing, Morphology, Computational Semantics, Machine Translation, and Information Retrieval and Information Extraction.

. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2017, held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2017.The papers selected to this volume belong to various fields of: Language Resources, Tools and Evaluation, Less-Resourced-Languages, Speech Processing, Morphology, Computational Semantics, Machine Translation, and Information Retrieval and Information Extraction.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2020, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in May 2020.

Engineering Multi-Agent Systems.The 10 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 16 submissions. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2020, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in May 2020.

Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering This annual event is devoted to various aspects of security, privacy, applied cryptography, and cryptographic engineering.. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held virtual. The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48submissions.

The 45 full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2020, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in November 2020.

.Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering This annual event is devoted to various aspects of security, privacy, applied cryptography, and cryptographic engineering.