Databases Books

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...

This book presents the state-of-the-art in simulation on supercomputers. Leading researchers present results achieved on systems of the Stuttgart High Performance Computing Center in 2007. The reports cover all fields of...

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...

Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance: Shifting the Research Frontier.- An Overview of Insurance Uses of Fuzzy Logic.- Forecasting Agricultural Commodity Prices using Hybrid Neural Networks.- Nonlinear Principal Component Analysis for...

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...

Similarity-based learning methods have a great potential as an intuitive and ?exible toolbox for mining, visualization,and inspection of largedata sets. They combine simple and human-understandable principles, such as ...

Electronic voting has a young and attractive history, both in the design of basic cryptographic methods and protocols and in the application by communities who are in the vanguard of technologies. The crucial aspect of security...

In recent years, Internet-based systems and applications have become pervasive and have been the focus of many ongoing research efforts. They range from semi-structured information, to multimedia systems and applications, to...

2008wasa disastrousyear for the ?nancial servicesindustry. Likean earthquake that measured 10+ on the Richter scale, the industry and the markets were globallyseverelyshaken-many?nancialinstitutions wentbankrupt, weretaken...

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...

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-...

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...

Geometric Computing.- Abstracts of the LIX Fall Colloquium 2008: Emerging Trends in Visual Computing.- From Segmented Images to Good Quality Meshes Using Delaunay Refinement.- Information Geometry and Applications.- Discrete Curvature Flows for Surfaces...

This volume presents the proceedings of the First International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB 2009). This conference was supported by the International Society for Computers and Applications...

• 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...

APWeb and WAIM are two leading international conferences on the research, development, and applications of Web technologies, database systems, infor- tion management and software engineering, with a focus on the Asia-Paci?c -...

This volume contains the papers presented at the 8th International Conf- ence on Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Source Separation held in Paraty, Brazil, March 15-18, 2009. This year's event resulted from scienti?c...

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...

Mobile Response 2008, the Second International Workshop on Mobile Infor- tion Technology for Emergency Response, aimed at a focussed exchange on how mobile information technology can be e?ectively used to the bene?t of em-...

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

Identity-Based Encryption.- Adaptive-ID Secure Revocable Identity-Based Encryption.- An Efficient Encapsulation Scheme from Near Collision Resistant Pseudorandom Generators and Its Application to IBE-to-PKE Transformations.- Universally Anonymous IBE...

This volume contains selected papers presented at two joint German-Japanese symposia on data analysis and related elds. The articles substantially extend and further develop material presented at the two symposia organized on...

The Transactions on Computational Science journal is part of the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and is devoted to the gamut of computational science issues, from theoretical aspects to application-dependent...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 35th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2009, held in Špindleruv Mlýn, Czech Republic, in January 2009. The 49 revised full...

Social systems are among the most complex known. This poses particular problems for those who wish to understand them. The complexity often makes analytic approaches infeasible and natural language approaches inadequate for relating intricate cause and...

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...

Dynamics is what characterizes virtually all phenomenae we face in the real world, and processes that proceed in practically all kinds of inanimate and animate systems, notably social systems. For our purposes dynamics is viewed as time evolution of some...

Papers were invited based on their quality, relevance and significance, and the - ability of extending their results. Extended versions prepared by authors were subject to the traditional two-round scholarly review process, and...

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...

Today it is almost impossible to remember what life was like with no computer, no mobile phone, and no Internet for accessing information, performing tra- actions or exchanging emails and data. New technology is bringing wave...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-workshop proceedings of three international workshops held in conjunction with the 10th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2008, in Shenyang, China, in April 2008 (see...

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...

This volume contains the papers from BIOWIRE 2007, the first in a series of wo- shops on the bio-inspired design of networks, and additional papers contributed from the research area of bio-inspired computing and communication...

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...

The Second Workshop of Blended Learning (WBL 2008), as part of the 7th Inter- tional Conference on Web-Based Learning (ICWL 2008), was held in Zhejiang N- mal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China during August 20-22, 2008. WBL...

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...

The 2008 Biosurveillance and Biosecurity Workshop (BioSecure 2008) was built on the success of the two U. S. National Science Foundation-sponsored Biosurveillance Workshops. The inaugural 2006 workshop was hosted by the...

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...