This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2013, held in Montpellier, France, in May 2013. The 42 revised full papers presented together with thr
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Multimedia Communications, Services and Security, MCSS 2013, held in Krakow, Poland, in June 2013.The 27 full pa
Technology, people, e-workplaces: these are the elements that fast moving organizations use to meet changing business requirements by using technology to invent new business processes, to re-align
Passivity-based Model Predictive Control for Mobile Vehicle Navigation represents a complete theoretical approach to the adoption of passivity-based model predictive control (MPC) for autonomous vehic
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference, VISIGRAPP 2012, the Joint Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), on Computer Graphics Theory an
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop on Information Security Theory and Practices: Security and Privacy of Mobile Devices in Wireless Communi
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2012, held in Seoul, Korea, in November 201
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the international competition aimed at the evaluation and assessment of Ambient Assisted Living, EvAAL 2012, which was organized in three major events
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2012, held in Shanghai, China, in September
Recommender systems are one of the recent inventions to deal with the ever-growing information overload in relation to the selection of goods and services in a global economy. Collaborative Filtering
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are rapidly developing into a mainstream, worldwide research endeavor. With so many new groups and projects, it can be difficult to identify the best ones. This book s
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia, IITM 2013, held in Allahabad, India, in March 2013.The 15
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2013, held in London, UK, in March 2013.The 20 full papers presented together w
The four-volume set LNCS 7724--7727 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2012, held in Daejeon, Korea, in November 2012
The four-volume set LNCS 7724--7727 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2012, held in Daejeon, Korea, in November 2012
ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness provides an introduction to the concept of 'connectedness', and explores how this socio-psychological term has evolved during the age of the Internet
Commanding and controlling organizations in extreme situations is a challenging task in military, intelligence, and disaster management. Such command and control must be quick, effective, and consider
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed workshop proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Medical Computer Vision, MCV 2012, held in Nice, France, October 2012 in conjunction with the
This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Pervasive Computing and the Networked World, ICPCA-SWS 2012, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in November 2012. Th
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 35th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2013, held in Moscow, Russia, in March 2013. The 55 full papers, 38 poster papers and 10 demonstrations prese
“Phonetic Search Methods for Large Databases” focuses on Keyword Spotting (KWS) within large speech databases. The brief will begin by outlining the challenges associated with Keyword Spotting within
Collecting work presented at the 9th Metaheuristics International Conference (2011), this book covers theoretical properties and performance guarantees, configuration of metaheuristic algorithms, comb
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conferenceproceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on BiomedicalEngineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2011, held in Rome, Italy,
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2011, held in Rome, Italy, in January 2011
Since the release of the first internet phone in 1995, the use of voice over internet protocol (VoIP) has grown exponentially, so that today it is an established and popular technology for real-time c
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD 2012, held in Redmond, WA, USA, in September 2012. The 42 revised ful
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Applied Parallel and Scientific Computing, PARA 2012, held in Helsinki, Finland, in June 2012. The 35 revised f
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management, S-BPM ONE 2013, held in Deggendorf, Germany, in March 20
This work focuses on central catadioptric systems, from the early step of calibration to high-level tasks such as 3D information retrieval. The book opens with a thorough introduction to the sphere ca
MotionCast for Mobile Wireless Networks provides an overview on the research for mobile ad-hoc networks regarding capacity and connectivity. Wireless ad-hoc networks are useful when there is a lack of
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th China Conference on Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks, held in Huangshan, China, in October 2012. The 70 revised full papers were carefully
Amongst the big questions about humanity from “Who am I?” to “Where am I”, there is the subject of consciousness relayed by philosophy and theology at first and then by biology, psychology, sociology
In this brief, the authors discuss recently explored spectral (sub-segmental and pitch synchronous) and prosodic (global and local features at word and syllable levels in different parts of the uttera
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering, and Knowledge Management, IC3K 20
Designing machines that can read handwriting like human beings has been an ambitious goal for more than half a century, driving talented researchers to explore diverse approaches. Obstacles have often
This book contains a collection of thoroughly refereed papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2011, held in Beijing, Chin
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications, held in Kherson, Ukraine, in June 2012. The 14 revised fu
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2011, held in Seville, Spain, in July 12011. The 13 revised full papers presented to
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference, VISIGRAPP 2011, the Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Theory and Applications (VISAPP), on Imaging Theory and Applica
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th National Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology, NCCET 2012, held in Shanghai, China, in August 2012. The 27 papers presented were
