The five-volume proceedings set LNAI 16451-16456, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2025, held in Wellington, New Zealand, in November 17–21, 2025.The 197 full papers and 89 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 679 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I:Clustering, Representation Learning, and Learning ...

The sky likes to be sunny so people can have fun outside—like the boy and his grandmother as they plant seeds.It does its best to contain the clouds and rain so the boy and his grandma can have a picnic together, eating bao. Or do Tai Chi, or play mahjong in the park. But his grandma hasn’t been well lately. And the sky isn't sure it can hold the clouds back anymore…like when the ambulance comes. And then when Grandma doesn’t come home.It rains and rains, a...

The five-volume proceedings set LNAI 16451-16455, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2025, held in Wellington, New Zealand, in November 17–21, 2025.The 197 full papers and 89 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 679 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I:Clustering, Representation Learning, and Learning ...

Taking its title from Tomas Tranströmer, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang’s Grappling Hook sifts the debris of the twenty-first century for insights into identity, desire, and the everyday struggles inherent to motherhood. In doing so, she presents vivid portraits of the joys and perils of marriage, the evolving fight for social justice in a world divided by inequity, and the uncertain future that’s left for children of the digital age. Grappling Hook is an impressive display of Sarah Yi –Mei Tsiang’s ...

This book introduces readers to an evolutionary learning approach, specifically genetic programming (GP), for production scheduling. The book is divided into six parts. In Part I, it provides an introduction to production scheduling, existing solution methods, and the GP approach to production scheduling. Characteristics of production environments, problem formulations, an abstract GP framework for production scheduling, and evaluation criteria are also presented. Part II shows various way...

The five-volume proceedings set LNAI 16451-16455, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2025, held in Wellington, New Zealand, in November 17–21, 2025.The 197 full papers and 89 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 679 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I:Clustering, Representation Learning, and Learning ...

The five-volume proceedings set LNAI 16451-16455, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2025, held in Wellington, New Zealand, in November 17–21, 2025.The 197 full papers and 89 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 679 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I:Clustering, Representation Learning, and Learning ...

The five-volume proceedings set LNAI 16451-16456, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2025, held in Wellington, New Zealand, in November 17–21, 2025.The 197 full papers and 89 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 679 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I:Clustering, Representation Learning, and Learning ...

Toes have long had their place in songs, where they head off to market and enjoy roast beef, but they have been overlooked and underrepresented in children's books.That's all about to change with this rhyming board book featuring piggledy-wiggledy digits in all their delightful glory. Toesy Toes head to the beach, jump around, take a bath and delight in being one of a baby's most adorable parts. Sarah Tsiang's clever couplets will have little ones reaching...

Toes have long had their place in songs, where they head off to market and enjoy roast beef, but they have been overlooked and underrepresented in children's books.That's all about to change with this rhyming board book featuring piggledy-wiggledy digits in all their delightful glory. Toesy Toes head to the beach, jump around, take a bath and delight in being one of a baby's most adorable parts. Sarah Tsiang's clever couplets will have little ones reaching...

When Ally’s mom dies, Ally is left with no family, no friends and no future.Put into foster care at the age of fifteen, she has less than $200 to her name and nothing left to lose. When Ally meets Tate, a busking fire breather, she starts to see a new life for herself as a street performer. Ally decides to run away from her foster home, but her problems follow her. Hiding her age, sleeping on the streets and avoiding fights with other buskers, Ally discovers that t...

Riding the wrong way up a one-way street, Kenzie takes his eyes off the road and hits a pedestrian.And not just any pedestrian. It's his ex-girlfriend, Stassi. Was this a freak accident? Or something more sinister? And when the police come to talk to him, it becomes clear that everyone thinks he had a reason to hurt her. Kenzie ends up in a fight to prove his innocence, even as he begins to question it himself.This short novel is a high-interest, low-readin...