Free applications journal publishes high-quality, technical contributions in machine vision research and development. Applications journals focus on the original research and practice-driven applications with relevance to information security and applications. Applications journal features coverage of all applications and engineering aspects of image-related computing, including original contributions dealing with scientific, commercial, industrial, military, and biomedical applications of machine vision. The thematic series invites papers on automated software development methods and techniques, compositional verification theories, integration architectures, flexible and dynamic composition, and automated planning mechanisms. This is a peer-reviewed international journal with a vision to provide the academic and industrial community a platform for presenting original research ideas and applications.