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Welcome to the proceedings of GCC2004 and the city of Wuhan. Grid computing has become a mainstream research area in computer science and the GCC conference has become one of the premier forums for presentation of new and exciting research in all aspectsofgridandcooperativecomputing. Theprogramcommitteeispleasedtopresent...

After the huge success of the ?rst German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES) last year in Erfurt the German Special Interest Group on Distributed Arti?cial Intelligence together with the steering committee of MATES proudly organized and conducted this international conference for the second...

This volume includes the five lecture courses given at the CIME-EMS School on "Stochastic Methods in Finance" held in Bressanone/Brixen, Italy 2003. It deals with innovative methods, mainly from stochastic analysis, that play a fundamental role in the mathematical modelling of finance and insurance:...

The volume presents innovations in data analysis and classification and gives an overview of the state of the art in these scientific fields and applications. Areas that receive considerable attention in the book are discrimination and clustering, data analysis and statistics, as well as...

WelcometotheproceedingsofPATMOS2004, thefourteenthinaseriesofint- national workshops. PATMOS 2004 was organized by the University of Patras with technical co-sponsorship from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Over the years, the PATMOS meeting has evolved into an important - ropean event, where industry and academia meet to discuss...

We were very pleased to once again extend to the delegates and, we are pleased to th say, our friends the warmest of welcomes to the 8 International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems at Wellington - stitute of Technology in Wellington,...

DEXA 2004, the 15th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, was held August 30 ? September 3, 2004, at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. The quickly growing spectrum of database applications has led to the establisment of more specialized discussion platforms (DaWaK...

The Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL) conf- ence series began in 1998 in Hong Kong, when the world started to experience information and data explosion and to demand for better, intelligent meth- ologies and techniques. It has since developed, enjoyed success in...

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2004) which was held in Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan, 25-27 August 2004. Embedded and ubiquitous computing are emerging rapidly as exciting new paradigms and disciplines to provide computing and communication...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Symposium on Neural N- works (ISNN 2004) held in Dalian, Liaoning, China during August 19-21, 2004. ISNN 2004 received over 800 submissions from authors in ?ve continents (Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania), and...

This volume contains the papers presented at the 29th Symposium on Mat- matical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2004, held in Prague, Czech Republic, August 22-27, 2004. The conference was organized by the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science (ITI) and the Department of Theoretical...

This volume represents the seventh edition of the ECOOP Workshop Reader, a compendiumofworkshopreportsfromthe17thEuropeanConferenceonObject- Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2003), held in Darmstadt, Germany, during July 21-25, 2003. The workshops were held during the ?rst two days of the conference. They cover a wide range of interesting...

The natural mission of Computational Science is to tackle all sorts of human problems and to work out intelligent automata aimed at alleviating the b- den of working out suitable tools for solving complex problems. For this reason ComputationalScience, thoughoriginatingfromtheneedtosolvethemostch- lenging problems in science...

In recent years rough set theory has attracted the attention of many researchers and practitioners all over the world, who have contributed essentially to its development and applications. Weareobservingagrowingresearchinterestinthefoundationsofroughsets, including the various logical, mathematical and philosophical aspects of rough sets. Some relationships have already...

The natural mission of Computational Science is to tackle all sorts of human problems and to work out intelligent automata aimed at alleviating the b- den of working out suitable tools for solving complex problems. For this reason ComputationalScience, thoughoriginatingfromtheneedtosolvethemostch- lenging problems in science...

Grid and cooperative computing has emerged as a new frontier of information tech- logy. It aims to share and coordinate distributed and heterogeneous network resources forbetterperformanceandfunctionalitythatcanotherwisenotbeachieved.Thisvolume contains the papers presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Grid and Coope- tive Computing, GCC 2003, which...

The Mexican International Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (MICAI) is a biennial conference established to promote research inarti?cial intelligence (AI), and cooperation among Mexican researchersand their peers worldwide. MICAI is organized by the Mexican Societyfor Arti?cial Intelligence (SMIA), in colla- ration with the AmericanAssociation for...

Consider the problem of a robot (algorithm, learning mechanism) moving along the real line attempting to locate a particular point ? . To assist the me- anism, we assume that it can communicate with an Environment ("Oracle") which guides it with information regarding the...

Arti?cialLifehascomealongway. Sincetheinceptionofthe?eldabout16years ago with a seminal workshop at the Santa Fe Institute, the ?eld has developed quickly. Itsinterdisciplinaryrootshavebeenbothablessingandacurse. Critical people would say that nothing was new in the ideas of Arti?cial Life, since many other disciplines had addressed the very same questions, though probably...

Author: Benjamin Benninghofen,Susanne Kemmerich,Michael M. RichterISBN-10: 3540185984ISBN-13: 9783540185987Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/25/1987Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.59d

Author: D. W. Davies,E. HollerISBN-10: 3540105719ISBN-13: 9783540105718Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1981Pages: 510Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.62lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.07d

Author: G. Bochmann,P. V. KleinISBN-10: 3540097236ISBN-13: 9783540097235Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1979Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.53d

Author: A. BlikleISBN-10: 3540071628ISBN-13: 9783540071624Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/02/1975Pages: 485Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.51lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.00d

The Information Security Solutions Europe Conference (ISSE) was started in 1999 by EEMA and TeleTrusT with the support of the European Commission and the German Federal Minis- try of Technology and Economics. Today the annual conference is a fixed event in every IT security...

This book presents the most important fault-tolerant distributed programming abstractions and their associated distributed algorithms, in particular in terms of reliable communication and agreement, which lie at the heart of nearly all distributed applications. These programming abstractions, distributed objects or services, allow software designers...

Details the role of modeling and computational approaches in precision medicineHighlights the progress towards precision medicineAdvances Path to CuresAuthor: Josep Bassaganya-RieraISBN-10: 3319732374ISBN-13: 9783319732374Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2018Pages: 82Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.25d

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS 2017, held in Luxembourg, in November 2017. The 5 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16...

Suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in computer scienceDemonstrates the mathematical underpinnings of modern computer science, valuable foundational knowledge for academics and researchersClass-tested over many years in various universitiesAuthor: Bernhard Steffen,Oliver Rüthing,Michael HuthISBN-10: 3319683969ISBN-13: 9783319683966Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 228Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w...

Offers the first detailed development of the conceptual theoretical framework necessary to search for DNA's first principles Shows how mathematical modeling can be applied to the study of DNA's language Proves that the results are not only aesthetically beautiful, but are also confirmed by...

Author: Mathias MunschauerISBN-10: 3319368486ISBN-13: 9783319368481Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2016Pages: 121Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.32d

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2014, held in Salamanca, Spain, in September 2014.The 60 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from about 120 submissions. These papers provided...

Numerical Modelling and Materials Characterisation for Integrated Micro Electro Mechanical Systems.- Fast and Accurate Aerial Imaging Simulation for Layout Printability Optimization.- Efficient and Rigorous 3D Model for Optical Lithography Simulation.- Application of the Two-dimensional Numerical Simulation for the Description of Semiconductor Gas Sensors.- Analysis...

Trees are a fundamental object in graph theory and combinatorics as well as a basic object for data structures and algorithms in computer science. During thelastyearsresearchrelatedto(random)treeshasbeenconstantlyincreasing and several asymptotic and probabilistic techniques have been developed in order to describe characteristics of interest of large...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art sensors technology in specific leading areas. Industrial researchers, engineers and professionals can find information on the most advanced technologies and developments, together with data processing. Further research covers specific devices and technologies that capture and distribute...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Rigorous State-Based Methods, ABZ 2025, held in Düsseldorf, Germany, during June 10-13, 2025. The 10 full papers, 4 short papers, 2 PhD Symposium papers and 5 case study papers presented in this...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Comparative Genomics, RECOMB-CG 2025, which was held in Seoul, South Korea, during April 24-25, 2025. The 21 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers...

The Grey System theory requires only a limited amount of data to estimate the behavior of an uncertain system. It has been successfully applied to industrial and social systems as well as economy and traffic management. This book details the latest advances in grey...

Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization is an expanding field of research. This book brings a collection of papers with some of the most recent advances in this field. The topic and content is currently very fashionable and has immense potential for practical applications and includes contributions...

This book looks at how groups of people work together using the information contained within virtual environments, and how to improve these systems in terms of the coordination of collaborative work. It is the first overview of practical issues involved in designing and using...

Sir Isaac Newton's philosophi Naturalis Principia Mathematica'(the Principia) contains a prose-style mixture of geometric and limit reasoning that has often been viewed as logically vague.In A Combination of Geometry Theorem Proving and Nonstandard Analysis, Jacques Fleuriot presents a formalization of Lemmas and Propositions from...

Human Error and System Design and Management contains a collection of contributions presented at an international workshop with the same name held from March 24-26, 1999 at the Technical University of Clausthal, Germany. The purpose of this workshop was to discuss the results of...

This book provides a broad sample of current information processing applications, issues and advances using evolutionary algorithms. The editors present a range of works from successful and down to earth case studies to speculative academic research. It demonstrates how evolutionary algorithms have reached the...

Activity theory is a way of describing and characterizing the structure of human - tivity of all kinds. First introduced by Russian psychologists Rubinshtein, Leontiev, and Vigotsky in the early part of the last century, activity theory has more recently gained increasing attention among...

Nowadays in the knowledge society, each member deals with a number of tasks related to knowledge management. The most often realized tasks are: decision making, knowledge integration, selection, and retrieval. In all these tasks one has to solve inconsistency of knowledge. Inconsistency is a...

This book brings together work on the emergence of communication language drawing on diverse disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology and computer science. Computational simulations of the emergence of phenomena associated with communication and language play a key role in illuminating some of the...

Network Science is the emerging field concerned with the study of large, realistic networks. This interdisciplinary endeavor, focusing on the patterns of interactions that arise between individual components of natural and engineered systems, has been applied to data sets from activities as diverse as...

Biometrics, the science of using physical traits to identify individuals, is playing an increasing role in our security-conscious society and across the globe. Biometric authentication, or bioauthentication, systems are being used to secure everything from amusement parks to bank accounts to military installations. Yet...

Microprocessors are the key component of the infrastructure of our 21st-century electronic- and digital information-based society. More than four billion are sold each year for use in 'intelligent' electronic devices; ranging from smart egg-timer through to aircraft management systems. Most of these processor devices...

The human-computer interaction field has matured much in the recent decades. This book explores the challenges and opportunities for using brain sensing in HCI, in particular for intentional brain control and for evaluation and adaptation of user interfaces.Author: Desney S. TanISBN-10: 1849962715ISBN-13: 9781849962711Publisher: SpringerLanguage:...

Historians have different views on the core identity of analogue computing. Some portray the technology solely as a precursor to digital computing, whereas others stress that analogue applications existed well after 1940. Even within contemporary sources, there is a spectrum of understanding around what...