This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the three workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2011, which took place
This book constitutes the post conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation, EOMAS 2011, held in conjunction with CAiSE 2011 in Lon
?Mechanics, Models and Methods in Civil Engineering” collects leading papers dealing with actual Civil Engineering problems. The approach is in the line of the Italian-French school and therefore deep
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2011, held in Reykjavik, Island, in September 2011. The 18 revised full papers an
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, NPC 2011, held in Changsha, China, in October 2011. The 28 papers presented w
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2011, held in Hamburg, Germany, in September 2011. The 26 revised full papers pre
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Prostate Cancer Imaging, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2011, in Toronto, Canada, in September 2011. The 15 revised ful
This book gives a general picture of research-driven activities related to location and map-based services. The interdisciplinary character of the topic leads to a variety of contributions with backgr
This book provides a game theoretic model of interaction among VoIP telecommunications providers regarding their willingness to enter peering agreements with one another. The author shows that the inc
This book is a snapshot of current research in multiscale modeling, computations and applications. It covers fundamental mathematical theory, numerical algorithms as well as practical computational ad
This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 5th International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2010, held in Saarbrucken, Germany, in December 2010. As a resul
One might expect that after their identification in the 19th century, all aspects of Giffen goods would have been studied by now. This appears not to be the case. This book contains the latest insight
The theory of linear functional observers, which is the subject of this book, is increasingly becoming a popular researched topic because of the many advantages it presents in state observation and co
This book summarizes the main achievements of the EC funded 6th Framework Program project COFCLUO – Clearance of Flight Control Laws Using Optimization. This project successfully contributed to the ac
The book presents the newest results of the major world research groups working in the area of Variable Structure Systems and Sliding Mode Control (VSS/SMC). The research activity of these groups is c
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2011 held in Paderborn, Germany, July 18-20, 2011.The 23 revised
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Third Working Conference on Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET), held in Luxembourg, on September 6, 2010, as the industrial tra
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems, SERENE 2011, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in September 2011. The 13 re
Service-oriented computing is a paradigm for developing software addressing key contemporary IT challenges. The result of the SENSORIA project, this book presents a novel and comprehensive approach to
The Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore hosted a two-month research program on “Mathematical Theory and Numerical Methods for Computational Materials Simulation
Retail shelf management means cost-efficiently aligning retail operations with consumer demand. As consumers expect high product availability and low prices, and retailers are constantly increasing pr
For nonlinear dynamical systems, which represent the majority of real devices, any study of stability requires the investigation of the domain of attraction of an equilibrium point, i.e. the set of in
This volume collects the notes of the CIME course "Nonlinear PDE’s and applications" held in Cetraro (Italy) on June 23–28, 2008. It consists of four series of lectures, delivered by Stefano Bianchini
Vehicles are complex mechanical systems with strong nonlinear characteristics and which can present some uncertainties due to their dynamic parameters such as masses, inertias, suspension springs, tir
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2011, held in Limerick, Ireland, in June 2011. The 29 revised full papers presented together wi
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Applications, ASMTA 2011, held in Venice, Italyin June 2011.The
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions IPCAI 2011, held in Berlin, Germany, on June 22, 2011.The 17 p
The five-volume set LNCS 6782 - 6786 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2011, held in Santander, Spain, in June 2
The five-volume set LNCS 6782 - 6786 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2011, held in Santander, Spain, in June 2
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, CPM 2011, held in Palermi, Italy, in June 2011. The 36 revised full papers presented toge
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2011, held in Newcastle, UK, in
The increasing costs of creating and maintaining infrastructures for delivering services to consumers have led to the emergence of cloud based third party service providers renting networks, computati
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th Asia-Pacific Conference APWeb 2011 held in conjunction with the APWeb 2011 Workshops XMLDM and USD, in Beijing, China, in April 2011. The 26 full pape
This book comprises a selection of the presentations made at the “Workshop on Dynamics and Control of Micro and Nanoscale Systems” held at IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland, on the 10th and 11th of D
Information sharing is frequently promoted as a mean to improve the supply chain performance. This work shows the results of behavioral experiments, in which the participants share private information
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference, EGOV 2010, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in August/September 2010. The 36 revised full papers presented were carefu
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-conference proceedings of two consecutive International Workshops on Learning Classifier Systems that took place in Atlanta, GA, USA in July 20
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB) held in Brussels, Belgium, in June 2011.This year's conference theme "Managing Software
The three-volume set LNCS 6675, 6676 and 6677 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2011, held in Guilin, China, in May/June 2011. The total
