The 12th issue of the Transactions on Computational Science journal, edited by Alexei Sourin and Olga Sourina, is devoted to the topic of cyberworlds. The 13 papers in the volume constitute revised and extended versions of a selection of contributions presented at CW 2010, the 20th International Conference on Cyberworlds, held in Singapore in October 2010. The selected papers span the areas of tangible interfaces, emotion recognition, haptic modeling, decision making under uncertainty, reliability measures, use of biometrics for avatar recognition, cybernavigation, multiuser virtual environments, spatial data sampling, web visualization, and interactive character animation system design.
The 13th issue of the Transactions on Computational Science journal consists of two parts. The six papers in Part I span the areas of computing collision probability, digital image contour extraction, multiplicatively weighted Voronoi diagrams, multi-phase segmentation, the rough-set approach to incomplete information systems, and fault-tolerant systolic arrays for matrix multiplications. The five papers in Part II focus on neural-network-based trajectory prediction, privacy in vehicular ad-hoc networks, augmented reality for museum display and the consumer garment try-on experience, and geospatial knowledge discovery for crime analysis.
The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines. The journal focuses on original high-quality research in the realm of computational science in parallel and distributed environments, encompassing the facilitating theoretical foundations and the applications of large-scale computations and massive data processing. It addresses researchers and practitioners in areas ranging from aerospace to biochemistry, from electronics to geosciences, from mathematics to software architecture, presenting verifiable computational methods, findings and solutions and enabling industrial users to apply techniques of leading-edge, large-scale, high performance computational methods. This, the 25th issue of the Transactions on Computational Science journal, consists of two parts. Part I, which is guest edited by Khalid Saeed, Nabendu Chaki and Soharab Hossain Shaikh, covers the areas of computer vision, image processing for biometric security, information fusion, and Kinect activity recognition. The papers in Part II focus on optimization through novel methods for data fusion, clustering in WSN, fault-tolerance, probability, weight assignment and risk analysis.
The year 2008 marks a significant commemoration of Georgiy Vorono (1868-1908), celebrating his immense contributions to mathematics, particularly in number theory, through various scientific events. A highlight is the joint conference in September 2008, which includes the 5th Annual International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams and the 4th International Conference on Analytic Number Theory and Spatial Tessellations, held in Kyiv, Vorono's birthplace. His fundamental ideas have profoundly influenced key advancements in computational geometry, image recognition, artificial intelligence, robotics, and more, impacting fields such as navigation, molecular modeling, quantum computing, and biometrics. This book aims to provide a comprehensive overview and analysis of the essential methods and techniques that have emerged from Voronoi's concepts, particularly within the expanding realm of computational intelligence. It showcases cutting-edge research that bridges geometric computing via Voronoi diagrams and intelligent computation techniques, advancing current knowledge, improving existing solutions, and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle complex applied challenges.
