He was twelve. She was smiling. She took the cigarette out of his fingers.At twenty-nine, Willa Hayes is broke, pregnant, and one bad week from the gutter when she takes a live-in housekeeper job at the Vance estate in Greenwich, Connecticut. Her employer is a wealthy widower with a thirteen-year-old son and a smile she doesn't quite trust. The job is supposed to be temporary. Get the baby. Get on her feet. Get out.Then her employer drives...

He was twelve. She was smiling. She took the cigarette out of his fingers.At twenty-nine, Willa Hayes is broke, pregnant, and one bad week from the gutter when she takes a live-in housekeeper job at the Vance estate in Greenwich, Connecticut. Her employer is a wealthy widower with a thirteen-year-old son and a smile she doesn't quite trust. The job is supposed to be temporary. Get the baby. Get on her feet. Get out.Then her employer drives...

This 20-volume set LNCS 15842-15861 constitutes - in conjunction with the 4-volume set LNAI 15862-15865 and the 4-volume set LNBI 15866-15869 - the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2025, held in Ningbo, China, during July 26-29, 2025.The total of 1206 regular papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 4032 submissions.This year, the conference concentrated mainly on the theories and methodologies as well as the e...

The 12-volume set CCIS 2564-2575, together with the 28-volume set LNCS/LNAI/LNBI 15842-15869, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2025, held in Ningbo, China, during July 26-29, 2025.The 523 papers presented in these proceedings books were carefully reviewed and selected from 4032 submissions.This year, the conference concentrated mainly on the theories and methodologies as well as the emerging application...

This 2-volume set CCIS 2778+2779 constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Applied Intelligence, ICAI 2025, held in Nanning, China, during November 6–9, 2025.The 70 full papers presented in this proceedings were carefully selected and reviewed from 289 submissions.They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Image Processing; Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; Machine Learning; Pattern Recognition.Part II: Biomedica...

This book focuses on the design methods for reconfigurable computing processors for cryptographic algorithms. It covers the dynamic reconfiguration analysis of cryptographic algorithms, hardware architecture design, and compilation techniques for reconfigurable cryptographic processors, and also presents a case study of implementing the reconfigurable cryptographic processor “Anole” designed by the authors’ team. Moreover, it features discussions on countermeasures against physical attacks...

This book highlights the basic theories and key technologies of error compensation for industrial robots. The chapters are arranged in the order of actual applications: establishing the robot kinematic models, conducting error analysis, conducting kinematic and non-kinematic calibrations, and planning optimal sampling points. To help readers effectively apply the technologies, the book elaborates the experiments and applications in robotic drilling and milling, which further verifies the e...

This 21-volume set LNCS 16642-16662 constitutes - in conjunction with the 5-volume set LNAI 16663-16667 and the 4-volume set LNBI 16668-16671 - the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2026, held in ON, Canada, during July 22–26, 2026.The 1096 papers presented in these proceedings books were carefully reviewed and selected from 4561 submissions.This year, the conference concentrated mainly on the theories and methodologies...

This open access book constitutes - in conjunction with the 21-volume set LNCS 16642-16662, the 5-volume set LNAI 16663-16667 and the 4-volume set LNBI 16668-16671 - the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2026, held in Toronto, Canada, during July 22-26, 2026.The 49 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 4561 submissions.This year, the conference concentrated mainly on the theories and ...

This 21-volume set LNCS 16642-16662 constitutes - in conjunction with the 5-volume set LNAI 16663-16667 and the 4-volume set LNBI 16668-16671 - the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2026, held in ON, Canada, during July 22–26, 2026.The 1096 papers presented in these proceedings books were carefully reviewed and selected from 4561 submissions.This year, the conference concentrated mainly on the theories and methodologies...

This 21-volume set LNCS 16642-16662 constitutes - in conjunction with the 5-volume set LNAI 16663-16667 and the 4-volume set LNBI 16668-16671 - the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2026, held in ON, Canada, during July 22–26, 2026.The 1096 papers presented in these proceedings books were carefully reviewed and selected from 4561 submissions.This year, the conference concentrated mainly on the theories and methodologies...

This 9-volume set CCIS 3034-3042 constitutes - in conjunction with the 21-volume set LNCS 16642-16662, the 5-volume set LNAI 16663-16667 and the 4-volume set LNBI 16668-16671 - the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2026, held in ON, Canada, July 22–26, 2026.The 336 papers presented in these proceedings books were carefully reviewed and selected from 4561 submissions.These papers have been organized in the following topi...