The objective is to provide the latest developments in the area of soft computing. These are the cutting edge technologies that have immense application in various fields. All the papers will undergo the peer review process to maintain the quality of work.

This edited book comprises chapters that describe the IoT, machine learning, and blockchain technologies for renewable energy and modern hybrid power systems with simulation examples and case studies. After reading this book, users will understand recent technologies such as IoT, machine learning techniques, and blockchain technologies and the application of these technologies to renewable energy resources and modern hybrid power systems through simulation examples and case studies.

This book addresses and updates the trends surrounding the potential advantages of renewable energy sources, distributed generation, energy storage, and other factors relevant to smart systems. In addition to well-consolidated topics such as photovoltaic and wind generation, new issues and solutions regarding smart grids, power electronics converters, energy management, storage systems, and innovative renewable sources exploitation techniques have been considered.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium on Information and Automation, ISIA 2010, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2010. The 110 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The symposium provides a forum for researchers, educators, engineers, and government officials to present and discuss their latest research results and exchange views on the future research directions in the general areas of Information and Automation.

This book "Communications and Networking" focuses on the issues at the lowest two layers of communications and networking and provides recent research results on some of these issues. In particular, it first introduces recent research results on many important issues at the physical layer and data link layer of communications and networking and then briefly shows some results on some other important topics such as security and the application of wireless networks. In summary, this book covers a wide range of interesting topics of communications and networking. The introductions, data, and references in this book will help the readers know more abut this topic and help them explore this exciting and fast-evolving field.

The five-volume set LNCS 3980-3984 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2006. The volumes present a total of 664 papers organized according to the five major conference themes: computational methods, algorithms and applications high performance technical computing and networks advanced and emerging applications geometric modelling, graphics and visualization information systems and information technologies. This is Part V.

The 9th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS 2010) was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during December 12–14, 2010. The conference was co-organized by the Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia, and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia. The conference received 64 submissions from 22 countries, out of which 21 were accepted after a careful and thorough review process. These proceedings also contain abstracts for two invited talks. All submissions were reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee; those authored or co-authored by Program Committee members were reviewed by at least ?ve reviewers. P- gram Committee members were allowed to use external reviewers to assist with their reviews, but remained responsible for the contents of the review and r- resenting papers during the discussion and decision making. The review phase was followed by a 10-day discussion phase in which each paper with at least one supporting review was discussed, additional experts were consulted where needed, and ?nal decisions were made. We thank the Program Committee for their hard work in selecting the p- gram. We also thank the external reviewers who assisted with reviewing and the CANS Steering Committee for their help. We thank Shai Halevi for use of his Web-Submission-and-Review software that was used for the electronic s- mission and review of the submitted papers, and we thank the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) for Web hosting of the software.

"This set of books represents a detailed compendium of authoritative, research-based entries that define the contemporary state of knowledge on technology"--Provided by publisher.