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This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Gunter Haring on the occasion of his emerital celebration and contains invited papers by key researchers in the field of performance evaluation present
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Reuse, ICSR 2017, held in Salvador, Brazil, in May 2017.The 8 revised full papers presented together wit
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries, ISCRAM-med 2016, held in Madrid, Spain
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This book offers a timely report on key theories and applications of soft-computing. Written in honour of Professor Gaspar Mayor on his 70th birthday, it primarily focuses on areas related to his rese
