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Currently, we see a variety of tools and techniques for specifying and implementing business processes. The problem is that there are still gaps and tensions between the different disciplines needed to improve business process execution and improvement...

TheInternationalConferenceonService-OrientedComputing(ICSOC)hasbeen tracking the developments in service-oriented computing since its early stages with the ?rst conference held in Trento, Italy in 2003. Today, service-oriented...

This volume contains the proceedings of the 7th International Working Conference on Active and Programmable Networks (IWAN 2005) that was held during November 21-23, 2005, in Sophia Antipolis, Cote d' Azur, France, jointly...

Special Section on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers.- Recruiting Decay for Dynamic Power Reduction in Set-Associative Caches.- Compiler-Assisted Memory Encryption for Embedded Processors.- Branch Predictor Warmup for Sampled...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on E-Technologies, MCETECH 2009, held in Ottawa, Canada, during May 4-6, 2009. The 23 full and 4 short papers included in this...

The present volume contains the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Formal Aspects in Security and Trust (FAST 2008), held in Malaga, Spain, October 9-10, 2008. FAST is an event a?liated with the 13th European Sym-...

Ad-Hoc Networks: Sensor Networks.- Calibrating Wireless Sensor Network Simulation Models with Real-World Experiments.- Experimental Study: Link Quality and Deployment Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Aggregation Protocols for High Rate, Low Delay...

The management of telecommunications networks and services is one of the most challenging of software endeavors-partly because of the size and the distributed nature of networks; partly because of the convergence of communications techno- gies; but...

The First Future Internet Symposium was held during September 28-30, 2008 in Vienna, Austria. FIS 2008 provided a forum for leading researchersand pr- titioners to meet and discuss the wide-ranging scienti?c and technical...

A major challenge in grid computing remains the application software development for this new kind of infrastructure. Grid application programmers have to take into account several complicated aspects: distribution of data and...

• Semantic caching • Data warehousing and semantic data mining • Spatial, temporal, multimedia and multimodal semantics • Semantics in data visualization • Semantic services for mobile users • Supporting tools • Applications of...

Ever since its inception, the Web has changed the landscape of human experiences on how we interact with one another and data through service infrastructures via various computing devices. This interweaving environment is now...

Keynotes.- Life on the Treadmill.- Key Microarchitectural Innovations for Future Microprocessors.- The Challenges of Multicore: Information and Mis-Information.- Compilation Technologies.- Extracting Coarse-Grained Pipelined Parallelism Out of Sequential...

Asdataminingtechniquesandtoolsmature,theirapplicationdomainsextendto previousuncharteredterritories.The commontheme ofthe workshopsorganized along with the main 2008 Paci?c Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining...

Economics and Peer-to-Peer Networks.- A Comparison of Bilateral and Multilateral Exchanges for Peer-Assisted Content Distribution.- Auctions for Resource Allocation in Overlay Networks.- Marketing in a Random Network.- A Stochastic Epidemiological Model...

ChinacomBiz 2008 was the first international business-to-business (B2B) conference held in collaboration with the Chinacom scientific event in Hangzhou, China, on August 28. It was specifically tailored to produce more...

We welcome you to the Third Paci?c-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT 2009), sponsored by the National Institute of Informatics, MicrosoftResearch,and the Forumfor ImageInformaticsin Japan.PSIVT 2009 ...

Weareverypleasedtopresenttheproceedingsofthe4thInternationalCognitive Vision Workshop,held as part of the 6th InternationalConference on Computer Vision Systems on Santorini,Greeceduring May12-15,2008.The aim of ICVW 2008 was...

This special issue is the result of the selection and re-submission of advanced and revised versions of papers from the workshop on "Trust in Agent Societies" (11th edition), held in Estoril (Portugal) on May 10, 2008 as part...

A key driving factor for biometrics is the widespread national and international depl- ment of biometric systems that has been initiated in the past two years and is about to accelerate. While nearly all current biometric...

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the proceedings of the 13th International C- puter Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC-2008). The conference has been held annually since 1995, except for 1998, when it transitioned...

A modern information retrieval system must have the capability to find, organize and present very different manifestations of information - such as text, pictures, videos or database records - any of which may be of relevance...

Success of an organization is increasingly dependent on its capability to create an environment in order to improve productivity of knowledge work. This book focuses on the concepts, models and technologies that are used to...

We welcome you to the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2008) hosted at the University of Vienna, Austria.IWSOSprovidesanannualforumtopresentanddiscussrecentresearch ...

Computinghasbeenanenormousacceleratortoscienceandindustryalikeandit has led to an information explosion in many di?erent ?elds. The unprecedented volume of data acquired from sensors, derived by simulations and data analysis...

Welcome to the proceedings of 9th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2008) held at the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan during Dec- ber 9-13, 2008. The first PCM was held in Sydney in 2000. Since then, it...

The all pervasive web is influencing all aspects of human endeavour. In order to strengthen the description of web resources, so that they are more meaningful to both humans and machines, web semantics have been proposed. These...

This volume contains the conference proceedings of ICSOC 2008, the 6th Inter- tional Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, which took place in Sydney, A- tralia, December 1-5, 2008; it comprises research, industry and demo...

This volume contains the set of revised selected papers presented at the 21st International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2007), which was held in Estoril, Portugal, January 23-25, 2007. The conference series...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the joint International Workshops on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, TADA 2006, and on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, AMEC VIII 2006, held in Hakodate,...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Conference on Topic Map Research and Applications, TMRA 2006, held in Leipzig, Germany in October 2006. It covers headed creation and...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, focusing on Universal Access in Ambient Intelligence Environments, held in Königswinter, Germany in September 2006. It covers...

This state-of-the-art survey provides a systematic overview of the ideas and techniques of the adaptive Web and serves as a central source of information for researchers, practitioners, and students. The volume constitutes a...

Welcome to the proceedings of APCHI 2008, the 8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer-Human Interaction held in Seoul, Korea. Following the success of the preceding APCHI conferences, in Singapore (1996, 2000), Australia...

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...

Since 1981, the British National Conferences on Databases (BNCOD) have p- vided a forum for database researchers to report the latest progress and explore new ideas. Over the last 28 years, BNCOD has evolved from a ...

This book focuses on the modeling and management of spatial data in distributed systems. The authors have structured the contributions from internationally renowned researchers into four parts. The book offers researchers an...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 2006 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, PKAW 2006, held in Guilin, China in August 2006 as part of 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on...

The two volume set LNCS 4351 and LNCS 4352 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2007, held in Singapore in January 2007. Based on rigorous reviewing, the program...

Itisourgreatpleasuretopresenttheproceedingsofthe15thInternationalConf- ence on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA2008)thattookplaceonthebeautifulislandofCyprusforthe?rsttime. The conference...

This book covers the underlying science and application issues related to aggregation operators, focusing on tools used in practical applications that involve numerical information. It will thus be required reading for...

Heterogeneous object modelling is a new and quickly developing research area. This book is one of the first attempts to systematically cover the most relevant themes and problems of this new and challenging subject area...

This volume contains 20 papers selected for presentation at the Third Inter- tional Workshopon Mining Complex Data-MCD2007-held in Warsaw,Poland, September 17-21, 2007. MCD is a workshop series that started in conjunction with...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, WINE 2006, held in Patras, Greece in December 2006. It contains 32 papers that contain foundational and...

Invited Talks.- Region Analysis and a ?-Calculus with Groups.- Abstract Data Types in Computer Algebra.- What Do We Learn from Experimental Algorithmics?.- And/Or Hierarchies and Round Abstraction.- Computational Politics: Electoral Systems.- 0-1 Laws...