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The following topics are dealt with: autonomic systems; autonomous systems; biomedical systems; health systems; computer-based tools; power system operation; communication networks; data mining; computer-aided system optimization; smart system engineering; heuristic computation models; machine vision; image processing; robotic systems; sensory systems; mechatronic systems; safety systems; security systems; smart laboratory; education systems; software intensive systems; and wireless network systems.