How is it that one system is more effective, appealing, satisfying and/or more beautiful than another to its stakeholder community? This question drove Christopher Alexander’s fifty-year quest to expl
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Security-Enriched Urban Computing and Smart Grid, held in Daejeon, Korea, in September 2010.
The emerging, multi-disciplinary field of systems biology is devoted to the study of the relationships between various parts of a biological system, and computer modeling plays a vital role in the dri
This book focuses on defining the achievements of software engineering in the past decades and showcasing visions for the future. It features a collection of articles by some of the most prominent res
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2010, held in Larnaca, Cyprus, in October
The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer s
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th symposium of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2010, held in Padua, Italy, in September 2010 as the First International Conference on
Consumer electronics (CE) devices, providing multimedia entertainment and enabling communication, have become ubiquitous in daily life. However, consumer interaction with such equipment currently requ
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2010, held in Los Cabos, Mexico, in October 2010. The 26 long and 13 sho
This volume describes novel and state-of-the-art approaches to solvingproblems arising in the domain of embedded real-time systems. It isbased on the GI-Dagstuhl research seminar MBEERTS (Modelling-Ba
Spyware and Adware introduces detailed, organized, technical information exclusively on spyware and adware, including defensive techniques. This book not only brings together current sources of infor
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference, SecureComm 2010, held in Singapore in September 2010. The 28 revised full papers were carefully revi
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2010, held in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, in September 2010.The first
This book describes in a detailed fashion the application of hybrid intelligent systems using soft computing techniques for intelligent control and mobile robotics. Soft Computing (SC) consists of sev
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2010, held in Singapore, in September 2010.The 11 papers were carefully reviewed and selected from
Hybrid systems are models for complex physical systems and have become a widely used concept for understanding their behavior. Many applications are safety-critical, including car, railway, and air tr
Explains fault tolerance in clear terms, with concrete examples drawn from real-world settings Highly practical focus aimed at building "mission-critical" networked applications that remain secure
Encryption Mechanisms for Digital Content Distribution is an area in cryptography that is widely used in commercial productions (e.g., Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs). This book provides a comprehensive mathema
This volume draws mostly on papers presented at the TRENTO 2009 international workshop on Preferences and Decisions, jointly organized by the University of Trento and the University of Sannio at Benev
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Foundational and Practical Aspects of Resource Analysis, FOPARA 2009, held at the 16th International Symposium on
Virtually all human endeavors can be analyzed and modeled and understood through computer-aided study, and that is very much at the core of operations research, game theory, and decision science.Under
Steganography is the art and science of hiding information in inconspicuous cover data so that even the existence of a secret message is kept confidential, and steganalysis is the task of detecting se
How can we increase awareness and understanding of other cultures using interactive digital visualizations of past civilizations? In order to answer the above question, this book first examines the ne
It is a general trend in computing that computers are becoming ever smaller and ever more interconnected. Sensor networks – large networks of small, simple devices – are a logical extreme of this tre
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design, HAID 2010 held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September 2010. The 21 revised full p
Information systems and intelligent knowledge processing are playing an increasing role in business, science and technology. Recently, advanced information systems have evolved to facilitate the co-e
The creation and consumption of content, especially visual content, is ingrained into our modern world. This book contains a collection of texts centered on the evaluation of image retrieval systems.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP TC 10 Working Conference on Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems, DIPES 2010 and the 3rd IFIP TC 10 International Conference on Biol
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction, ADMI 2010, held in Toronto, Canada, in May 2010.The 15 revised full papers prese
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2010, held in Ischia, Italy, in August 2010.The papers are
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality, MIAR 2010, held in Beijing, China, in September 2010. The 60 revised full pap
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Robot World Cup and Congress on Trends in Intelligent Robotics held in Bangalore, India, in September 15-19,2010.
Important aspects of social networking analysis are covered in this work by combining experimental and theoretical research. A specific focus is devoted to emerging trends and the industry needs assoc
Knowledge Discovery demonstrates intelligent computing at its best, and is the most desirable and interesting end-product of Information Technology. To be able to discover and to extract knowledge fro
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWak 2010 held in Bilbao, Spain in August/September 2010.The 26 revise
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Digital Business, TrustBus 2010, held in Bilbao, Spain, in August 2010.The papers are organized
