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The 5th International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality, MIAR 2010, was held at the China National Convention Center (CNCC), B- jing, China on September 19-20, 2010. MIAR has remained a truly international meeting, bringing together - searchers from all ?elds related to...

The 2010 edition of the European Conference on Computer Vision was held in Heraklion, Crete. The call for papers attracted an absolute record of 1,174 submissions. We describe here the selection of the accepted papers: Thirty-eight area chairs were selected coming from Europe (18),...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Congress on Mathematical Software, ICMS 2010, held in Kobe, Japan in September 2010. The 49 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. The papers are organized in topical sections on...

The BPM Conference series has established itself as the premier forum for - searchersintheareaofbusinessprocessmanagementandprocess-awareinfor- tion systems. It has a record of attracting contributions of innovative research of the highest quality related to all aspects of business process management, including theory, frameworks, methods, techniques, architectures,...

The 2010 edition of the European Conference on Computer Vision was held in Heraklion, Crete. The call for papers attracted an absolute record of 1,174 submissions. We describe here the selection of the accepted papers: Thirty-eight area chairs were selected coming from Europe (18),...

The 2010 edition of the European Conference on Computer Vision was held in Heraklion, Crete. The call for papers attracted an absolute record of 1,174 submissions. We describe here the selection of the accepted papers: ? Thirty-eight area chairs were selected coming from Europe...

Economic perspectives in network management have recently attracted a high level of attention. The Third Workshop on Economic Traffic Management (ETM 2010) was the continuation of two successful events that were held at the University of Zürich, Switzerland in 2008 and 2009. The main...

The VLDB Secure Data Management Workshop was held for the 7th time this year. The topic of data security remains an important area of research especially due to the growing proliferation of data in open environments as a result of emerging data services such...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection, RAID 2010, held in Ottawa, Canada, in September 2010. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 15 revised poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from...

Business information systems is a rapidly developing domain. There are many topicsthatdeserveattentionbuthavenotyetfoundaplaceincanonicalresearch. Workshops give researchers the possibility to share preliminary ideas, ?rst - perimental results, or to discuss research hypotheses. Discussions held during presentations strengthen the paper and prepare it for publication. From our...

Constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks that was held in Amalfi, Italy, in September 2010.Author: Juan A. GarayISBN-10: 364215316XISBN-13: 9783642153167Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2010Pages: 474Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.00lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Thisbookcontainsthearticlespresentedatthe11thInternationalConferenceon theSimulationofAdaptiveBehavior(SAB2010), whichwasheldattheMuseum d Histoire Naturelle and at the University Pierre et Marie Curie of Paris during August 25 27, 2010. On August 28, the attendees moved to Le Clos Luce the last home of Leonardo da Vinci where the 20th anniversary of the...

This volume contains the papers presented at the 13th International Wo- shop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX 2010) and the 14th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM 2010), which took place concurrently in Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) Barcelona, Spain,...

st We welcome you to the proceedings of the 21 International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications held in Bilbao. With information and database s- tems being a central topic of computer science, it was to be expected that the integ- tion of...

The design and analysis of electronic commerce systems in which agents are - ployed involves finding solutions to a large and diverse array of problems, concerning individual agent behaviors, interaction, and collective behavior. A wide variety of electronic commerce scenarios and systems, including agent...

The IDEAL conference has become a unique, established and broad interdisciplinary forum for experts, researchers and practitioners in many fields to interact with each other and with leading academics and industries in the areas of machine learning, information processing, data mining, knowledge management, bio-informatics,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Euro-Par Conference held in Ischia, Italy, in August/September 2010. The 90 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 256 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on support tools and...

The CASC Workshops are traditionally held in turn in the Commonwealth of IndependentStates(CIS)andoutsideCIS(Germanyinparticular, but, attimes, also other countries with lively CA communities). The previous CASC Wo- shop was held in Japan, and the 12th workshop was held for the ?rst time in Armenia, which...

With high hopes that the worst of the financial crisis is now behind us, our efforts looking forward must be more vigilant. Change is constant in the electronic business management landscape and we must continue to look for organizational efficiencies, competitive strength, strategic differentiation...

Since 2008, Globe has been an annual international conference on data management in grid and peer-to-peer systems. Initially, grid and peer-to-peer systems experienced significant success in scientific and file sharing applications. Today, these systems cover the management of large, distributed and heterogeneous data. These...

Data warehousing and knowledge discovery has been widely accepted as a key te- nology for enterprises and organizations to improve their abilities in data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge from data. With the exponentially growing amount of information to be...

This volume contains the accepted full papers and extended abstracts of the 5th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics held in Bu zios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 31 to September 3, 2010. The ?rstthree meetings ofthis series, which took place2002,2003, and 2004, were called...

We would like to present, with great pleasure, the first volume of a new journal, Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence (TCCI). This journal, part of the new journal subline in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, is devoted to research in computer-based...

This volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series contains the papers presented at the S+SSPR 2010 Workshops, which was the seventh occasion that SPR and SSPR workshops have been held jointly. S+SSPR 2010 was organized by TC1 and TC2, Technical...

This volume contains papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Mat- matical Methods, Models and Architectures for Computer Network Security (MMM-ACNS 2010) held in St. Petersburg, Russia, during September 8-10, 2010. The conference was organized by the Institution of the Russian Academy of...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems, CLIMA-XI, held in Lisbon, Portugal in August 2010. The 14 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The purpose of the...

JSAI (The Japanese Society for Arti?cial Intelligence) is a premier academic society that focuses on arti?cial intelligence in Japan and was established in 1986.JSAIpublishesjournalsoftheJSAIandbimonthlytransactions, andhosts 19 special interest groups. The JSAI annual conference attracts several hundred attendees each year. JSAI-isAI (JSAI International Symposia on...

The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) takes place every year, each time at a di?erent location in Europe. With its focus on the largeinterdisciplinaryareawhere linguistics, logic andcomputation converge, it has become very popular since it started in 1989, attracting large...

These are the proceedings of the tenth event of the Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM held in Berlin (www.data-mining-forum.de). For this edition the Program Committee received 175 submissions. After the pe- review process, we accepted 49 high-quality papers for oral presentation that are...

Volume XII of the Transactions on Rough Sets (TRS) includes articles that are part of a special issue on Rough Set Structuring of Knowledge. These articles are extended versions of papers accepted for presentation at the Rough Set and Knowledge Technology Conference (RSKT 2008)...

Contains a selection of papers presented at the 10th and 11th Meeting of the Association for Mathematics of Language, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA in July 2007 and in Bielefeld, Germany, in August 2009. This title reflects a range of theoretical topics relating...

While the areas of information management and management science are full of algorithmic challenges, the proliferation of data has called for the design of e?cient and e?ective algorithms and data structures for their management and processing. The International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information...

On behalf of the NDT 2010 conference, the Program Committee and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, we welcome you to the proceedings of the Second International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies' (NDT 2010). The NDT 2010 conference explored new advances in digital and...

Constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, held in Strasbourg, France, in October 2009.Author: Pierre ColletISBN-10: 3642141552ISBN-13: 9783642141553Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2010Pages: 207Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.50d

TheInternationalConferenceonInformationProcessingandManagementof- certaintyinKnowledge-BasedSystems, IPMU, isorganizedeverytwoyearswith the aim of bringing together scientists working on methods for the management of uncertainty and aggregationof information in intelligent systems. Since 1986, this conference has been providing a forum for the exchange of ideas between th theoreticiansandpractitionersworkingintheseareasandrelated?elds. The13 IPMU conference...

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Medical Biometrics, ICMB 2010, held in Hong Kong, China, in June 2010.Author: David ZhangISBN-10: 3642139221ISBN-13: 9783642139222Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2010Pages: 424Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, held in Nha Trang, Vietnam, in July 2010.Author: My T. ThaiISBN-10: 3642140300ISBN-13: 9783642140303Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2010Pages: 553Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.20d

th The 5 International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS 2010) has become a unique, established and broad interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners who are involved in developing and applying symbolic and sub-symbolic techniques aimed at the construction of highly robust and...

On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present the proce- th ings of the 11 International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2010), held in Limerick, Ireland. Since the first conference in 1999 the conference has established its place...

Today s software production is increasingly distributed. Gone are the days of one-company, one-siteprojects;mostindustrialdevelopmentsinvolveteamssplit over locations, countries, and cultures. This distribution poses new challenges, for example, how to develop the software requirements speci?cation, and how to manage the project. These challenges are formidable; many...

ICIAR 2010, the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, held in Povoa do Varzim, Portugal, June 21-23, was seventh in the ICIAR - ries of annual conferences alternating between Europe and North America. The idea oforganizingtheseconferenceswasto fosterthecollaborationandexchange between researchersand scientists in the broad...

This volume contains papers from the technical program of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), held from May 30 to June 3, 2010, in Heraklion, Greece. ESWC 2010 presented the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. ESWC 2010...

The14thPaci?c-AsiaConferenceonKnowledgeDiscoveryandData Mining was held in Hyderabad, India during June 21 24, 2010; this was the ?rst time the conference was held in India. PAKDDisamajorinternationalconferenceintheareasofdatamining (DM) and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD). It provides an international - rum for researchers and industry practitioners to share...

Thanks to scientific and technological advances in many parallel fields, medical procedures are rapidly evolving towards solutions which are less invasive and more effective. In the previous decades, information processing in diagnostic imaging provided many solutions to physicians in particular within radiology, neurology, cardiology,...

Constitutes the proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics 2010, held in Hyderabad, India, in June 2010.Author: Hsinchun ChenISBN-10: 3642136001ISBN-13: 9783642136009Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2010Pages: 183Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.40d

The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010, cont- ued the bi-annual series of top-flight international conferences on the use of advanced educational technologies that are adaptive to users or groups of users. These highly interdisciplinary conferences bring together researchers in the...

This book and its companion volume, LNCS vols. 6145 and 6146, constitute the proceedings of the International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2010) held in Beijing, the capital of China, during June 12-15, 2010. ICSI 2010 was the ?rst gathering in the world for...

This book contains the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-agent Systems (LADS 2009), which took place during September 7-9, 2009 in Turin, Italy. As in its 2007 edition, this workshop was a part of MALLOW, a...

This volumecontainsthe proceedingsof MPC2010, the 10th InternationalC- ferenceonthe MathematicsofProgramConstruction.ThebiennialMPCconf- encesaimtopromotethedevelopmentofmathematicalprinciplesandtechniques that aredemonstrablypracticalande?ective in the processof constructingc- puter programs, whether implemented in hardware or software. The focus is on techniques that combine precision with conciseness, enabling programs to be constructed by formal calculation. Within this...

Itisourpleasuretopresentthepapersacceptedforthe22ndInternationalWo- shop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing held during October 8-10 2009 in Newark Delaware, USA. Since 1986, LCPC has became a valuable venueforresearchersto reportonworkinthegeneralareaofparallelcomputing, high-performance computer architecture and compilers. LCPC 2009 continued this tradition and in particular extended the area of...