This volume, the 36th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains eight revised, extended papers selected from the 3rd International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2016, and the 10th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Applications, ACOMP 2016, which were held in Can Tho City, Vietnam, in November 2016. Topics covered include big data analytics, massive dataset mining, security and privacy, cryptography, access control, deep learning, crowd sourcing, database watermarking, and query processing and optimization.

This, the 37th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains five revised selected regular papers. Topics covered include data security in clouds, privacy languages, probabilistic modelling in linked data integration, business intelligence based on multi-agent systems, collaborative filtering, and prediction accuracy.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2021, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in November 2021.* The 28 full papers and 8 short were carefully reviewed and selected from 168 submissions. The selected papers are organized into the following topical headings: big data analytics and distributed systems; security and privacy engineering; industry 4.0 and smart city: data analytics and security; blockchain and access control; data analytics and healthcare systems; and short papers: security and data engineering. * The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society, DTGS 2019, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2019. The 56 revised full papers and 9 short papers presented in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 194 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ​e-polity: governance; e-polity: politics online; e-city: smart cities and urban planning; e-economy: online consumers and solutions; e-society: computational social science; e-society: humanities and education; international workshop on internet psychology; international workshop on computational linguistics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Conference on Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia, EGOSE 2020, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in November 2020. The 35 full papers and 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ​digital government: services, policies, laws, practices, surveillance; digital society: openness, participation, trust, competences; digital data: data science, methods, modelling, AI, NLP.

The aim of the book is to introduce new developments in Ambient Intelligence from researchers of several countries. The book includes different works in the area of Ubiquitous Computing, e-Health, Ambient Assisted Living, Distributed Computing and Context Aware Computing that have been selected by an international committee. The studies have been presented in the 9th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence held in Toledo in June 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2018, held in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2018. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: digitalization and transparency; challenges in e-government technology and e-voting; knowledge management in the context of e-government; semantic technologies and the legal aspects; open data and open innovation; and e-government cases - data and knowledge management.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 14th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security, FPS 2021, held in Paris, France, in December 2021. The 18 full papers and 9 short paper presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. They cover a range of topics such as Analysis and Detection; Prevention and Efficiency; and Privacy by Design. Chapters “A Quantile-based Watermarking Approach for Distortion Minimization”, “Choosing Wordlists for Password Guessing: An Adaptive Multi-Armed Bandit Approach” and “A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques for IoT Intrusion Detection” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Annual Conference on Cyber Security, CNCERT 2021, held in Beijing, China, in AJuly 2021. The 14 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topical sections: data security; privacy protection; anomaly detection; traffic analysis; social network security; vulnerability detection; text classification.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Conference on Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia, EGOSE 2021, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in November 2021. The 21 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions, additionally one invited paper has been included in this volume. The papers are organized in topical sections on ​digital technology and design; digital Society; digital government and economy.