This interdisciplinary book explores design theories, combining research from a range of fields including architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, industrial design, software engineering, environmental psychology, geography, anthropology, and sociology. Following an extensive review of the current literature, the author reveals eight major types of theory in design processes.

This book constitutes selected papers of the Second International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, CHIRA 2018, held in Seville, Spain, in September 2018, and Third International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, CHIRA 2019, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing across different sites connected through networks has led to an evolution of data- and knowledge-management systems from centralized systems to decentralized systems enabling large-scale distributed applications providing high scalability.

This volume constitutes the revised selected papers from the three workshops collocated with the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2020, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2020.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 8th International Conference on Networked Systems, NETYS 2020, held in Marrakech, Morocco, in June 2020.*

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2019, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the themed workshops of the 6th International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2020, and of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2020, held in Hangzhou, China, in October 2020.

This book constitutes selected papers from the Second International Workshop on IoT Streams for Data-Driven Predictive Maintenance, IoT Streams 2020, and First International Workshop on IoT, Edge, and Mobile for Embedded Machine Learning, ITEM 2020, co-located with ECML/PKDD 2020 and held in September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the workshops were held online.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Conference on Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia, EGOSE 2020, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in November 2020.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2020, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in May 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Security and Internet of Things, ICCISIoT 2020, held in Agartala, India, in December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Trust, Identity, Privacy, and Security in the Digital Economy, DETIPS 2020; the First International Workshop on Dependability and Safety of Emerging Cloud and Fog Systems, DeSECSys 2020; Third International Workshop on Multimedia Privacy and Security, MPS 2020; and the Second Workshop on Security, Privacy, Organizations, and Systems Engineering, SPOSE 2020; held in Guildford, UK, in September 2020, in conjunction with the 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2020.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Dynamic Logic, DaLí 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic in October 2020. Due to COVID-19 the workshop has been held online.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Security of Industrial Control Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems, CyberICPS 2020, the Second International Workshop on Security and Privacy Requirements Engineering, SECPRE 2020, and the Third International Workshop on Attacks and Defenses for Internet-of-Things, ADIoT 2020, held in Guildford, UK, in September 2020 in conjunction with the 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2020, held in Vienna, Austria, in December 2020.*