Mathematics

1. Douglas R. , Hofstadter

Gödel, Escher, Bach

This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 41st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2023, the third volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Graph Transformation

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2025, held in Koblenz, Germany, during June 11-12, 2025.The 10 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions.

1. Walter Hower

Discrete Mathematics

Walter Hower was born into a farming family. After Kindergarten and primary as well as secondary school he attended the high school – and enjoyed his favourite subject Mathematics. After his military period as air force NATO soldier he studied Computer Science (including the minor Economics) – with the main focus on Artificial Intelligence – at the University of Kaiserslautern, with a really heavy pillar on Mathematics (incl. Mathematik für Informatiker II [Prof. Dr. Heinz Lüneburg]). Already at that time he thought about the need or an alternative to present this difficult material – the inspiration for this book. Under supervision of Prof. PhD Jörg Siekmann he obtained the university (master) degree "Diplom-Informatiker". Later on, he worked as research assistant under the guidance of Prof. Dr. W. Bibel and as PhD candidate in the group of Prof. Dr. Manfred Rosendahl, where he obtained the degree "Dr. rer. nat." for his doctoral thesis "On constraint satisfaction and computer-aided layout design". Immediately afterwards, Dr. Hower accepted the offer by Prof. PhD Jim Bowen to head a research group at University College Cork, National University of Ireland, where he invigorates an expert team on Constraint Processing – which finally evolved into the famous Cork Constraint Computation Centre. After a period in research labs and business companies, since more than 20 years the author now works as professor for Computer Science and Fundamentals of Mathematics; he can be reached as follows: Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, Fakultät Informatik, Poststr. 6, D-72458 Albstadt-Ebingen, [email protected]. Prof. Dr. Hower received the Teaching Prize 2006 of the state Baden-Württemberg and germany-wide the 3rd place Professor of the Year in Engineering / Computer Science in 2009. Scientific activities include: A Lattice-based Constraint Formalism, First Australian Knowledge Engineering Congress, Workshop on AI & Creativity, Melbourne, Australia, March 14/15, 1989; The Relaxation of Unsolvable CSPs – General Problem Formulation and Specific Illustration in the Scheduling Domain, IJCAI-89 Workshop on Constraint Processing, Detroit, USA, August 20, 1989; Parallel global constraint satisfaction, IJCAI-91 Workshop on Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence (PPAI-91), Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, August 24/25, 1991; Notes on complexity issues within constraint satisfaction, In IJCAI-93 Workshop on Knowledge-based Production Planning, Scheduling and Control, pp. 179–186, Chambéry, Savoie, France, August 29, 1993 (co-author); Constraint Processing – Part I/II, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, March 29/30, 1994; On an improvement of a global algorithm for the NP-complete constraint satisfaction problem, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, USA, June 21, 1996; Computational Complexity in Constraint-based Combinatorial Auctions, INFORMATIK 2008, 38. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, München, September 8–13, 2008 (co-author); On the nth doorkeeper of the pleasure garden in Fibonacci’s Liber Abbaci – Proof techniques in Discrete Mathematics on a generalization of a problem possibly from 1202, https://educ.ethz.ch/unterrichtsmaterialien/informatik/recurrence-relations.html, Zürich, Switzerland, 2008; Boolean Algebra and Probability Theory, EU Erasmus guest professor, Angers, France, November 2008; Reviewer for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK, 1996. His research interests are combinatorial optimization as well as cooperative and non-cooperative game theory. A lively insight into presentations of the author (on the identical cardinality of N with just the natural even numbers as well as on the funny Monty Hall problem) could be possible – although in German – via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeCCMOHVS3w.

1. Benoît Gaüzère

Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop on Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition, GbRPR 2025, held in Caen, France, in June 2025. The 25 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions.

Quantum Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Hemant Kumar Saini Working as an Assistant professor at Chandigarh University and finished the Ph.D. in the AdHoc Networks and M.Tech(Gold Medallist) in CSE and honoured by Governor of Rajasthan by Hon’ble Shri Kalyan Singh Ji. He is a Professional Red Hat Certified Engineer. His innovative compression research framework has been adopted by Delhi Ventures Ltd. He has published 50 articles in reputed, peer-reviewed national and international Scopus and SCI journals, 8 Books and 18 published in Scopus-indexed conferences. He is running with 3 grants from DRDO on his project based on FOSS acceleration academic curricula. Additionally, he has served as a keynote speaker and resource person for several workshops and webinars conducted in India. He has been a CSI and IEEE professional member. His research includes digital transformation technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Quantum Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Edge and Serverless computing, Cloud-native computing, and Digital Twins. He is a reviewer and TPC member of IEEE and Springer Nature Computer Science Journal. He is an Chief Editor of Journal of Scientific Research and Reports, Journal of supercomputing Springer, Guest Editor of IEEE Communication, CSI communications and edited books CRC Taylor Francis, Springer, and EBM of CCDS Journal, Jordan, IEEE Transaction of Network Dr. S B Goyal completed their Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Banasthali University, Rajasthan, INDIA, in 2012 and served many institutions in many academic and administrative positions. He has 20+ years of work experience at the national and international levels. He has peerless inquisitiveness and enthusiasm to get abreast with the latest developments in the IT field. He has good command over Industry Revolution (IR) 4.0 technologies like big data, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, Cloud Computing, etc. He was the first to introduce IR 4.0, including Blockchain technology, in the academic curriculum of Malaysian universities. He participated as a speaker in the Bloconomic 2019 event on Blockchain and the World AI Show 2021 event on AI. He has participated in many panel discussions on IR 4.0 technologies at academia and industry platforms. He is a reviewer or guest editor in many International Journals published by IEEE, Inderscience, IGI Global, and Springer. He contributes as an editor and co-editor in many Scopus books. He has been an IEEE Senior member since 2013. He has contributed to many Scopus/ SCI journals/ conferences. He holds 10+ International Patents/ copyrights from Australia, Germany, and India. He has received many academic excellence awards at the National and International levels. Dr. Goyal is the DirectorFaculty of Information Technology at City University, MALAYSIA. His current research interests are Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, the Internet of Things, Data Mining and warehousing, Method Engineering, etc. Prof. Sardar M. N. Islam (Naz) is a Victoria University,　Australia professor. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UnSri and a Distinguished Visiting Professor of AURAK 2019 – 2021, an Adjunct Professor of IT and Business at Armstrong Institute, Melbourne, and Editor-in-Chief of "International Transactions on Artificial Intelligence." 　 Professor Sardar M. N. Islam adopts a　global and humanistic approach　in his research and academic works. He has undertaken　rigorous scientific studies　of emerging issues of computer science and other different disciplines. His academic work has gained international acclaim, resulting in considerable (1) Honours and Awards, (1) many visiting or adjunct professorial appointments in different countries, (2) many appointments in editorial roles of journals, and (3) a large number of keynote speeches at international conferences in several countries. He has published 31scholarly scholarly-authored academic books and four edited books　with prestigious international publishers in different disciplines, including computer science. Each of these books makes significant scientific contributions to the literature. Prestigious publishers publish these books, and most are published in highly regarded book series. He has also published about 250　articles, including some of the leading international journal articles in his specialized research areas, including computer science. Dr. T. Ananth Kumar received a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and communication engineering from Anna University, Chennai, and a master's degree in VLSI Design from Easwari Engineering College, affiliated with Anna University. He received his Ph.D. degree in VLSI Design from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli. He became an Associate Professor at IFET College of Engineering. He has presented papers at various National and International Conferences and Journals. His fields of interest are Networks on Chips, Computer Architecture, and ASIC design. He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award at INCODS 2017. He has several patents.