Self-organized, nano-scale structures appear on solid surfaces under ion beam irradiation with ion energies in the keV range. Within the last decade, surface engineering by ion beam sputtering (IBS) has become a very promising candidate for bottom-up production techniques of nano-devices. Morphologies like ripples, and regular arrays of dots, pyramids and pits as well as ultra-smooth surfaces have been obtained on a wide variety of substrates, including important semiconductor materials like Si, Ge, GaAs and InP. In spite of many substantial improvements of experimental surface...

The two-volume set LNCS 10539 and 10540 constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2017, held in Oxford, UK, in September 2017.The 37 full papers and 43 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 142 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: economics, science of success, and education; network science; news, misinformation, and collective sensemaking; opinions, behavior, and social media mining; proximity, location, mobility, and urban analytics; security, privacy, and trust;...

The two-volume set LNCS 10539 and 10540 constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2017, held in Oxford, UK, in September 2017.

The 37 full papers and 43 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected

from 142 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: economics, science of success, and education; network science; news, misinformation, and collective sensemaking; opinions, behavior, and social media mining; proximity, location, mobility, and urban analytics; security, privacy,...