This collection provides a comprehensive review of recent developments in poultry breeding. The book begins by reviewing the current challenges facing poultry breeding such as genetic diversity and physiological constraints. It goes on to review recent research on the genetics of key traits, from production traits such as egg production to functional traits such as bone strength, and their impl…
These transactions publish research in computer-based methods of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as performance optimization in IoT, big data, reliability, privacy, security, service selection, QoS and machine learning. This 37th issue contains 9 selected papers which present new findings and innovative methodologies as well as d…
This volume presents a timely recognition, warning and mapping of the fast approaching wave, or “bio-tsunami”, of global socio-technical transformation, built by a much wider spectrum of converging powers, including biotechnology, new agriculture, novel foods, health, quality of life, environment, energy, sustainability, education, knowledge management, and design of smart applications. The…
Emerging contaminants are chemical and biological agents for which there is growing concern about their potential health and environmental effects. The threat lies in the fact that the sources, fate and toxicology of most of these compounds have not yet been studied. Emerging contaminants, therefore, include a large number of both recently discovered and well-known compounds such as rare earth …
This book honors the career of Professor Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch who was a pioneer and leader in the field of limnogeology since the 1980s. Her work was instrumental in guiding students and professionals in the field until her untimely death in 2016. This collection of chapters was written by her colleagues and students and recognize the important role that Professor Gierlowski-Kordesch h…
The two-volume set LNAI 13653 and 13654 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2022, which took place in Campinas, Brazil, in November/December 2022. The 89 papers presented in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 225 submissions. The conference deals with theoretical aspects and applications of artificial …
This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Edge Computing, EDGE 2021, held virtually as part of SCF 2021, held as a Virtual Event, December 10–14, 2021. The 5 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The conference proceeding EDGE 2021 presents the latest fundamental advances in the state of…
This book recognizes Mexico's effects and challenges in a natural disaster and offers empirical risk-reduction methods in critical cases. The proposals considered here include real and detailed analysis, a set of models, frameworks, strategies, and findings in the three stages of the disaster (before–during–after). This book: describes the methodology to find secure locations for …
The theory developed for ℤ2ℤ4-additive codes is the starting point for much generalization about codes over mixed alphabets. They have opened a new, emergent area of research. The techniques used for ℤ2ℤ4-linear codes are being generalized and applied to more general codes. By example, these codes have contributed to the classification of many nonlinear codes. Moreover, they can b…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics, LATIN 2022, which took place in Guanajuato, Mexico, in November 2022. The 46 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 114 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Algorithms and Data Structures; Approximation Algorithms; Cryptography…