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The present book includes extended and revised versions of papers presented during the 2018 International Computer Symposium (ICS 2018), held in Yunlin, Republic of China (Taiwan), on December 20-22, 2018.

The 86 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 263 submissions from 11 countries. The variety of the topics include machine learning, sensor devices and platforms, sensor networks, robotics, embedded systems, networks, operating systems, software system structures, database design and models, multimedia and multimodal retrieval, object detection, image processing, image compression, mobile and wireless security.

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Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, SoC and VLSI/EDA.- Computer Networks and Web Service/Technologies.- Digital Content, Digital Life, Human Computer Interaction and Social Media.-Image Processing, Computer Graphics and Multimedia Technologies.- Database, Data Mining, Big Data and Information Retrieval.- Parallel, Peer-to-peer, Distributed and Cloud Computing.- Information Technology Innovation, Industrial Application and Internet of Things.- Algorithms and Computation Theory.- Cryptography and Information Security.- Artificial Intelligence and Fuzzy Systems.- Software Engineering and Programming Languages.- Healthcare and Bioinformatics.

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