This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of two colocated international workshops EPEW 2005 (European Performance Engineering Workshop) and WS-FM 2005 (Web Services and Formal Methods) held in V
This volume presents the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2005). This conference - ries started about 20 years ago in Berlin. Initiall
DEXA 2005, the 16th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, was held at the Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, from August 22 to 26, 2005. The success of th
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies, PaCT 2005, held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia in September 2005.The 38 revised full pape
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business, TrustBus 2005, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2005.The 32 revise
This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2005 and the 9th International Worksh
The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics. Based on the high
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, OPODIS 2004, held at Grenoble, France, in December 2004.The 30
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2005, held in Santa Barbara, California, USA in August 2005.The 33 revised full papers pre
The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2005, held in Marina del Rey, California, USA in June/July 2005.Th
The8thWorkshopontheFoundationsofGeneticAlgorithms,FOGA-8,washeld at the University of Aizu in Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan, January 5–9, 2005. This series of workshops was initiated in 1990 to encourage
This volume comprises the proceedings of the 4th Conference on Advanced - cryption Standard, ‘AES — State of the Crypto Analysis,’ which was held in Bonn, Germany, during 10–12 May 2004. The conferenc
This book presents thoroughly revised tutorial papers based on lectures given by leading researchers at the First Summer School on Reasoning Web in Msida, Malta, in July 2005. The objective is to prov
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human.Society@Internet, HSI 2005, held in Tokyo, Japan in July 2005.The 32 revised full papers and 9 revised poste
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA 2005, held in Hilton Rye Town, NY, USA, in July 2005
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2005, held in? Hong Kong, China in July/August 2005.The 33 revised full papers and 9 shor
Maluf, Davide Martinenghi, Stan Matwin, Natasha Noy, Werner Nutt, James Peters, Jean-Marc Petit, Vijay Raghavan, Jan Rauch, Gilbert Ritschard, Erik Rosenthal, Marie-Christine Rousset, Nahid Shahmehri,
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, COLT 2005, held in Bertinoro, Italy in June 2005.The 45 revised full papers together with three article
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2005, held in Porto, Portugal in June 2005.The 39 revised full pa
Testing is the primary hardware and software verification technique used by industry today. Usually, it is ad hoc, error prone, and very expensive. In recent years, however, many attempts have been ma
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, MLDM 2005, held in Leipzig, Germany, in July 2005.The 68
The 16th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching was held on Jeju Island, Korea on June 19–22, 2005. Previous meetings were held in Paris, London, Tucson, Padova, Asilomar, Helsinki, Laguna
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on E-Government, TCGOV 2005, held in Bolzano, Italy in March 2005.The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully rev
In this book, we present a collection of papers around the topic of agent com- nication. The communication between agents has been one of the major topics of research in multiagent systems. The curren
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness, LoCA 2005, held in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany in May 2005.The 26 revised full pape
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2005, held in Atlanta, GA, USA in May 2005.The 28 revised full papers,
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2
This volume, like the symposium CSP25 which gave rise to it, commemorates the semi-jubilee of Communicating Sequential Processes. 1 Tony Hoare’s paper “Communicating Sequential Processes” is today wid
On behalf of the Organizing Committee I am pleased to present the proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE). CBSE is concerned with the development of software-i
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, WWIC 2005, held in Xanthi, Greece in May 2005.The 34 revised full papers
This book presents revised full papers contributed to the Third International Digital Cities Workshop held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2003.The 25 papers presented together with an int
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 2004 International Workshop on Intuitive Human Interfaces for Organizing and Accessing Intellectual Assets, held in Dagstuhl Castl
Inconsistency arises in many areas in advanced computing. Often inconsistency is unwanted, for example in the specification for a plan or in sensor fusion in robotics; however, sometimes inconsistency
‘Network’ is a heavily overloaded term, so that ‘network analysis’ means different things to different people. Specific forms of network analysis are used in the study of diverse structures such as th
“What joy to discern the minute in in?nity, the vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!” Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705) in Ars Conjectandi (1713) We are proud to present to you the proceedings of t
Rapid technical advances in medical imaging, including its growing application to drug/gene therapy and invasive/interventional procedures, have attracted significant interest in close integration of
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, WABI 2004, held in Bergen, Norway, in September 2004.The 39 revised full papers presen
This book is devoted to computer-based modeling in cardiology, by taking an educational point of view, and by summarizing knowledge from several, commonly considered delimited areas of cardiac researc
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
It is with great pleasure that we present to you this tutorial volume entitled Validation of Stochastic Systems.ItisoneoftheresultsoftheDutch-German- lateral cooperation project “Validation of Stochas
