This book constitutes the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data Security and Privacy Protection, DSPP 2024, held in Xi'an, China, during October 25-28, 2024.The 34 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 99 submissions. The DSPP 2024 conference promotes and stimulates discussion on the latest theories, algorithms, applications, and emerging topics on data security and privacy protection. It encourages the cross-fert...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2017, held in Xi'an, China, in November 2017.The 27 revised full papers presented together with 5 keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: cryptographic protocols and algorithms; digital signatures; encryption; cryptanalysis and att...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data Security and Privacy Protection, DSPP 2024, held in Xi'an, China, during October 25-28, 2024.The 34 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 99 submissions. The DSPP 2024 conference promotes and stimulates discussion on the latest theories, algorithms, applications, and emerging topics on data security and privacy protection. It encourages the cross-fert...

This volume LNCS 14252 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 25th International Conference on Information and Communications Security*, ICICS 2023, held in Tianjin, China, during November 18–20, 2023.*The 38 full papers presented together with 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 181 submissions. The conference focuses on: Symmetric-Key Cryptography; Public-Key Cryptography; Applied Cryptography; Authentication and Authorization; Pri...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data, SocialSec 2022, which took place in Xi'an, China, in October 2022.The 23 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The papers were evaluated on the basis of their significance, novelty, technical quality, as well as on their practical impact or their level of advancement of the field’s foundations. They we...

This three volume book set constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Machine Learning for Cyber Security, ML4CS 2020, held in Xi’an, China in October 2020.The 118 full papers and 40 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 360 submissions. The papers offer a wide range of the following subjects: Machine learning, security, privacy-preserving, cyber security, Adversarial machine Learning, Malware detection and analysis, Data mining,...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2022, which took place in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2022.The 21 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Cryptography; Post-Quantum Cryptography; Cryptanalysis; Blockchain; Email and Web Security; Malware; and AI Security.

Blockchain technologies, as an emerging distributed architecture and computing paradigm, have accelerated the development/application of the Cloud/GPU/Edge Computing, Artificial Intelligence, cyber physical systems, social networking, crowdsourcing and crowdsensing, 5G, trust management, and finance. The popularity and rapid development of Blockchain brings many technical and regulatory challenges for research and academic communities. This book will feature contributions from experts on t...

This three-volume set LNCS 15161, 15162 and 15163 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference, COCOON 2024, held in Shanghai, China, during August 23–25, 2024.The 90 full papers and 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 277 submissions. COCOON 2024 provided an excellent venue for researchers working in the area of algorithms, theory of computation, computational complexity, and combinatorics related to computing.

This book presents research on the challenges and potential of fungal contribution in agriculture for food substantiality. Research on fungi plays an essential role in the improvement of biotechnologies which lead global sustainable food production. Use of fungal processes and products can bring increased sustainability through more efficient use of natural resources. Fungal inoculum, introduced into soil together with seed, can promote more robust plant growth through increasing plant upt...

This book provides an introduction to the main design principles, methods, procedures, and development trends in spacecraft power systems. It is divided into nine chapters, the first of which covers the classification and main components of primary power system design and power distribution system design. In turn, Chapters 2 to 4 focus on the spacecraft power system design experience and review the latest typical design cases concerning spacecraft power systems in China. More specifically,...

With the rapid development of cloud computing, the enterprises and individuals can outsource their sensitive data into the cloud server where they can enjoy high quality data storage and computing services in a ubiquitous manner. This is known as the outsourcing computation paradigm. Recently, the problem for securely outsourcing various expensive computations or storage has attracted considerable attention in the academic community. In this book, we focus on the latest technologies and ap...