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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Metaverse - METAVERSE 2024, held in Bangkok, Thailand, during November 16-19, 2024.The 6 full papers and 4 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: research track; application and industry track; and short paper track.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology, DGMM 2024, held in Florence, Italy during April 15-18, 2024.The 34 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Digital Geometry - Models, Transforms, and Visualization; Computational Aspects of Discrete Structures and Tilings; Learning Based Morphology; Hierarchical and Graph-Based Models, Analysis and Segmentation; Discrete and Combinatorial Topology; and Mathematical Morphology and Digital Geometry for Applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing (IFIP-ICEC 2024) which was held in Manaus, Brazil, during September 30 - October 3, 2024.The 13 full papers, 8 short papers and 17 papers of other types presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The works collected in this volume discuss latest findings in the areas of Game Experience, Player Engagement and Analysis, Serious Gameplay, Entertainment Methods and Tools, Extended Reality and Game Design.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, MMM 2024, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during January 29-February 2, 2024.The 112 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 297 submissions. The MMM conference were organized in topics related to multimedia modelling, particularly: audio, image, video processing, coding and compression; multimodal analysis for retrieval applications, and multimedia fusion methods.

Since the turn of this century (and even earlier), a plethora of projects have arisen to promise us bold new interactive adventures and immersive travel into the past with digital environments (using mixed, virtual or augmented reality, as well as computer games). In Playing with the Past: Into the Future Erik Champion surveys past attempts to communicate history and heritage through virtual environments and suggests new technology and creative ideas for more engaging and educational games and virtual learning environments.This second edition builds on and updates the first edition with new game discussions, surveys, design frameworks, and theories on how cultural heritage could be experienced in digital worlds, via museums, mobile phones, or the Metaverse. Recent games and learning environments are reviewed, with provocative discussion of new and emerging promises and challenges.

This book provides a thorough overview of recent progress in video object tracking, allowing researchers and industrial practitioners to gain a better understanding of the most important problems and developed technologies in the area. Video tracking is a key research area in computer vision and aims to track unique objects in a given video, which are useful for various applications such as video conference, video editing, surveillance, and autonomous driving. This book begins with an introduction to the task of video object tracking, including the most common problem settings. Given the revolution of deep learning in computer vision problems, numerous new tasks, datasets, and methods have been recently proposed in the domain of video tracking. The book includes these recent results as well as benchmarks in large-scale human-centric video analysis in complex events.

This volume comprises the select proceedings of the 3rd Biennial International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME) 2022. It aims to provide a comprehensive and broad-spectrum picture of the state-of-the-art research and development in engineering design. Various topics covered include engineering system, synthesis of mechanism, failure analysis, solid and structural mechanics, contact mechanics, multi-body dynamics, fracture mechanics, vibration and acoustics, etc. This volume will prove a valuable resource for researchers and professionals in the area of mechanical engineering, especially engineering design and allied fields.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2022, which was held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, during April 12-14, 2023.The 38 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. IDA is an international symposium presenting advances in the intelligent analysis of data. Distinguishing characteristics of IDA are its focus on novel, inspiring ideas, its focus on research, and its relatively small scale.

This book presents the selected proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM 2021). The book provides insights to current research trends and opportunities in modelling and optimization of manufacturing processes and systems. The topics covered include modelling analysis, computing and simulation, traditional and non-traditional optimization techniques, surface coating methods, additive manufacturing processes, CAD/CAM, robotics and automation, welding and joining processes, supply chain management and CAE and reverse engineering. This book will be a good reference for beginners, researchers and professionals interested in modelling and optimization related to manufacturing engineering and related fields.

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Multiscale modeling is becoming essential for accurate, rapid simulation in science and engineering. This book presents the results of three decades of research on multiscale modeling in process engineering from principles to application, and its generalization for different fields. This book considers the universality of meso-scale phenomena for the first time, and provides insight into the emerging discipline that unifies them, meso-science, as well as new perspectives for virtual process engineering. Multiscale modeling is applied in areas including: multiphase flow and fluid dynamicschemical, biochemical and process engineeringmineral processing and metallurgical engineeringenergy and resourcesmaterials science and engineeringJinghai Li is Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a professor at the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS, and leader of the EMMS (Energy-minimizing multiscale) Group.Wei Ge, Wei Wang, Ning Yang and Junwu Wang are professors at the EMMS Group, part of the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS.Xinhua Liu, Limin Wang, Xianfeng He and Xiaowei Wang are associate professors at the EMMS Group, part of the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS.Mooson Kwauk is an emeritus director of the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS, and is an advisor to the EMMS Group.

Ad ap tive Contro l provid es tec hniques for aut omatic adjustment in real t ime of cont roller parameter s in order to achieve or to maintain a desired level for the performance of cont rol systems when the dyn amic param et ers of t he process are unknown and/or var y in time. These techniques have as a main feature t he abilit y to ext ract significant information from real dat a in ord er to tune the cont roller and they feature a me chanism for adjust ing parameter s (of a plant model or of a cont roller). While the history of Adaptive Control is lon g, significant progr ess in under ­ standing and applying Adaptive Con trol began in the early sevent ies. The growing availability of digital com puters have also contributed to the devel­ opment of the field . The earlier applicat ions in the sevent ies and beginning of the eight ies, provided important feedback for the development of the field . Theoretical developments allowed a number of basic problems to be solved . The aim of this book is to provide a coherent and comprehensive treatment of the field . The presentation takes the read er from the basic problem formu­ lation to the analytical solutions who se prac tical significance is illustrated by applications.

Das sehr vielgestaltige Gebiet Multimedia wird aus der Sicht der Nutzung in Informationssystemen von Unternehmen und öffentlichen Verwaltungen dargestellt. Dabei ist es Ziel des Buches, eine Kosten-Nutzen-Perspektive der multimedialen Informationstechnologien zu geben. Behandelt werden die Grundlagen, der Entwurf und die Entwicklung multimedialer Systeme. Der Einsatz und Nutzen multimedialer Anwendungen wird zur Präsentation des Firmenimage, erklärungsbedürftiger Produkte, elektronischer Kataloge für Konsumgüter, Investitionsgüter, immaterieller Güter, wie Software- und Beratungsleistungen sowie der Computer-Telephon-Integration vorgestellt.

Mit Fertigungsinseln wird eine interessante M|glichkeit zur wirtschaftlichenund humanen Gestaltung des Fertigungsbereiches vorgestellt, die zunehmenden Eingang in die industrielle Einzel-, Klein- und Mittelserienfertigung findet. Dabei wendet sich dieser Band vornehmlich an kleine und mittlere Unternehmen, denn er zeigt Wege, bei geringem Investment mittels Nutzung fortschrittlicher betrieblicher Informationstechnik zu leistungsf{higen Organistionsstrukturen zu gelangen. Fertigungsinseln als Organisationsform versprechen bei h|herer Termintreue eine Verringerung der Durchlaufzeiten und eine Verbesserung der Fertigungsqualit{t. Dieses Buch betrachtet Fertigungsinseln aber nicht nur als isolierte betriebliche Organisationsstruktur. Es werden vielmehr M|glichkeiten der Integration in }bergeordnete CIM-Strukturen aufgezeigt, wobei der Koordination mehrerer Inseln besondere Bedeutung zukommt. Neben den grundlegenden Ausf}hrungen zum Thema macht eine Reihe vonrealisierten Beispielen das Buch zum Handwerkszeug f}r den industriellen Praktiker.

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This volume LNCS constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing and Intelligent Technology, ICDCIT 2025, in Bhubaneswar, in India, in January 2025. ICDCIT is organized into two tracks: Distributed Computing (DC) and Intelligent Technology (IT). The DC track solicits original research papers contributing to the foundations and applications of distributed computing. The DC track PC accepted 10 papers (7 regular papers and 3 short papers), and the IT track PC accepted 8 regular papers, The conference presents and discusses results and ideas on the foundations and applications of distributed computing and intelligent technology.