This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in January 2015.

The 27 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 375 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics and are organized in four general topical sections on biomedical electronics and devices; bioimaging; bioinformatics models, methods and algorithms; bio-inspired systems and signal...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in November 2015.

The 25 full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 280 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development; and knowledge management and information sharing.

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in February 2016.

The 13 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 initial submissions and describe up-to-date applications of pattern recognition techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance pattern recognition methods.

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in February 2017. The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 initial submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in November 2016.The 18 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 186 submissions.