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This book introduces a new approach to designing E-Librarian Services. With the help of this system, users will be able to retrieve multimedia resources from digital libraries more efficiently than they would by browsing through an index or by using a...

This book presents a simple, yet complete, approach to the design and performance analysis of distributed processing algorithms and techniques suitable for IEEE 802.15.4 networks. In particular, the book focuses on the bottom two layers of the ISO/OSI...

1. Pattern and Process of Urban Growth and Sprawl.- 2.Causes and Consequences of Urban Growth and Sprawl.- 3. Sustainable Development and Smart Growth.- 4. Sustainable Development and Smart Growth.- 5. Mapping and Monitoring Urban Growth.- 6. Simulation...

The pervasive creation and consumption of content, especially visual content, is ingrained into our modern world. We're constantly consuming visual media content, in printed form and in digital form, in work and in leisure pursuits. Like our cave- man...

The First Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (HiNC1) was organized in Trondheim, in June 2003. The HiNC1 event focused on the early years of computing, that is the years from the 1940s through the 1960s, although it...

Hardware-intrinsic security is a young field dealing with secure secret key storage. By generating the secret keys from the intrinsic properties of the silicon, e.g., from intrinsic Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), no...

Due to the fast growth of the Web and the difficulties in finding desired information, efficient and effective information retrieval systems have become more important than ever, and the search engine has become an essential tool for many people.The...

Invited.- Is There Something Quantum-Like about the Human Mental Lexicon?.- Supporting for Real-World Tasks: Producing Summaries of Scientific Articles Tailored to the Citation Context.- Semantic Document Processing Using Wikipedia as a Knowledge Base.-...

The Second International Conference on Networks and Communications (NeCoM 2010), the Second International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiMoN 2010), and the Second International Conference on Web and Semantic...

Welcome to the Proceedings of ICCHP 2010! We were proud to welcome participants from more than 40 countries from all over the world to this year's ICCHP. Since the late 1980s, it has been ICCHP's mission to support and reflect...

In the last 15 years we have seen a major transformation in the world of music. - sicians use inexpensive personal computers instead of expensive recording studios to record, mix and engineer music. Musicians use the Internet to distribute their - sic...

"Future Internet" is a worldwide hot topic. The Internet has become a critical infrastructure for business development and social interactions. However, the immense growth of the Internet has resulted in additional stresses on...

Style is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of the human experience: Everyone instantly and constantly assesses people and things according to their individual styles, academics establish careers by researching musical,...

It is my pleasure to write the preface for Information Processing and Management. This book aims to bring together innovative results and new research trends in inf- mation processing, computer science and management ...

Applying Complex Event Processing and Extending Sensor Web Enablement to a Health Care Sensor Network Architecture.- Turn-Based Gesture Interaction in Mobile Devices.- A Large-Scale Wireless Network Approach for Intelligent and Automated Meter Reading of...

Session 1 - Session Chair: Nikolaos Preve.- A Closed-Form Expression for Outage Secrecy Capacity in Wireless Information-Theoretic Security.- Enhanced Access Polynomial Based Self-healing Key Distribution.- Security Flaws in an Efficient Pseudo-Random...

The First International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (ICDF2C) was held in Albany from September 30 to October 2, 2009. The field of digital for- sics is growing rapidly with implications for several fields...

This volume contains the proceedings of the third international conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI 2009) which was held at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, during December...

Agents are software processes that perceive and act in an environment, processing their perceptions to make intelligent decisions about actions to achieve their goals. Multi-agent systems have multiple agents that work in the...

Autonomics 2009.- A-OSGi: A Framework to Support the Construction of Autonomic OSGi-Based Applications.- A Network-Coding Based Event Diffusion Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks.- Expressing Adaptivity and Context Awareness in the ASSISTANT Programming...

Post-Quantum Cryptology.- Secure Parameters for SWIFFT.- FSBday.- Key Agreement Protocols.- Reusing Static Keys in Key Agreement Protocols.- A Study of Two-Party Certificateless Authenticated Key-Agreement Protocols.- Side Channel Attacks.- Fault...

QShine 2009: Session I - IP Telephony and Multimedia.- QoS Measurement-Based CAC for an IP Telephony System.- Towards Real-Time Stream Quality Prediction: Predicting Video Stream Quality from Partial Stream Information.- Risk-Aware QoP/QoS Optimization...

As future generation information technology (FGIT) becomes specialized and fr- mented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in FGIT have common threads and, because of this, advances in one discipline may be transmitted to...

As future generation information technology (FGIT) becomes specialized and fr- mented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in FGIT have common threads and, because of this, advances in one discipline may be transmitted to...

The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics. The scope of the journal ranges from...

1: Information Systems and Communications.- Volterra - Lax-Wendroff Algorithm for Modelling Sea Surface Flow Pattern from Jason-1 Satellite Altimeter Data.- Guidelines for Web Usability and Accessibility on the Nintendo Wii.- Improving Urban Land Cover...

"Logic Wins!".- Higher-Order Program Verification and Language-Based Security.- Deducibility Constraints.- Automated Security Proof for Symmetric Encryption Modes.- Noninterference with Dynamic Security Domains and Policies.- A Critique of Some...

Steganalysis for Reversible Data Hiding.- An Incremental View Maintenance Approach Using Version Store in Warehousing Environment.- The Study of Synchronization Framework among Multi-datasets.- Clustering News Articles in NewsPage.com Using NTSO.-...

This edition marks the tenth Middleware conference. The ?rst conference was held in the Lake District of England in 1998, and its genesis re?ected a growing realization that middleware systems were a unique breed of distributed...

GeoS 2009 was the third edition of the International Conference on Geospatial Semantics. It was held in Mexico City, December 3-4, 2009. Within the last years, geospatial semantics has become a prominent research ?eld in...

At the School of Information Technology, KMUTT, we believe that information te- nology is the most important driver of economy and social development. IT can - able better productivity, as well as helping us to save resources...

As communication and networking (CN) become specialized and fragmented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in CN have common threads and because of this, advances in one sub-discipline may transmit to another. The...

The 7th IFIP Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems (SEUS) followed on the success of six previous editions in Capri, Italy (2008), Santorini, Greece (2007), Gyeongju, Korea (2006),...

As security technology (ST) becomes specialized and fragmented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in ST have common threads and because of this, advances in one sub-discipline may transmit to another. The presentation...

to Semantic Knowledge Management.- Ontology Management.- Knowledge Discovery for Semantic Web.- Human Language Technologies.- OntoSTUDIO® as a Ontology Engineering Environment.- Shared Ontology for Knowledge Management.- Semantically Enhanced Search and...

A Comprehensive Survey of Nature-Inspired Routing Protocols.- From The Wisdom of the Hive to Routing in Telecommunication Networks.- A Scalability Framework for Nature-Inspired Routing Algorithms.- BeeHive in Real Networks of Linux Routers.- A Formal...

Motivation and Vision.- Fundamentals.- Analysis and Modeling.- Securing RFID Systems.- Pseudonymization Infrastructures.- Extending the RFID System Model.- Current Research.

Motivation and Basics.- QoS Measurements in IP-based Networks.- Traffic Engineering.- Signalling.- Enhanced Transport Protocols.- The EuQoS System.- Summary and Outlook.- Appendix A: Implementing Protocols on Network Simulators.- Appendix B: Network...

Mathematics Basics.- Elements of Lattice Theory.- Basics of Information Retrieval Technology.- Lattice-Based Retrieval Systems.- Boolean Retrieval.- Lattices of Subspaces and Projectors.- Vector Space Retrieval.- Fuzzy Algebra-Based Retrieval.-...

Information Access using the Guide of User Requirements.- From Linking Text to Linking Crimes: Information Retrieval, But Not As You Know It.- Modeling Retrieval and Navigation in Context.- Two Algorithms for Probabilistic Stemming.- Automated Text...

Overview.- Sensor Networks: An Overview.- Data Stream Processing.- Data Stream Processing in Sensor Networks.- Data Stream Management Techniques in Sensor Networks.- Data Stream Management Systems and Architectures.- Querying of Sensor Data.- Aggregation...

Before use, standard ERP systems such as SAP R/3 need to be customized to meet the concrete requirements of the individual enterprise. This book provides an overview of the process models, methods, and tools offered by SAP and...

This advanced textbook presents an almost complete overview of techniques for hardware verification. It covers all approaches used in existing tools, such as binary and word-level decision diagrams, symbolic methods for...

Konrad Zuse is one of the great pioneers of the computer age. He created thefirst fully automated, program controlled, freely programmable computer using binary floating-point calculation. It was operational in 1941. ...

As the first book devoted to relational data mining, this coherently written multi-author monograph provides a thorough introduction and systematic overview of the area. The first part introduces the reader to the basics and...

e-Science Applications and Systems.- Electronic Structure Calculations and Adaptation Scheme in Multi-core Computing Environments.- A Fuzzy Logic Fish School Model.- An Open Domain-Extensible Environment for Simulation-Based Scientific Investigation...