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N. Abdennahder, University of Applied Sciences, Solothurn, J. Abonyi, Pannon University, Hungary; B. Feil, Pannon University, P. Abrahamsson, VTT Technical Research Center, Finland; N. Bad- Switzerland; F. Kordon, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, Hungary doo, University of Hertfordshire, UK; T. Margaria, University of France (Eds.) Postdam, Germany; R. Messnarz, ISCN, Austria (Eds.) Cluster Analysis for Data Mining Reliable Software Technologies - and System Identification Software Process Improvement Ada-Europe 2007 14th European Conference, EuroSPI 2007, Potsdam, Germany, September 26-28, 2007, Proceedings 12th Ada-Europe Intenational Conference on Reliable Soft- ware Technologies, Geneva, Switzerland, June 25-29, 2007, This book presents new approaches to data mining Proceedings and system identification. Algorithmsthat can be used for the clustering of data have been overviewed. This book constitutes the refereed proceeding of the New techniques andtools are presented for the clus- 14th European Software Process Improvement Con- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the tering, classification, regression and visualization of- ference, EuroSPI 2007, held in Potsdam, Germany, in 12th International Conference on Reliable Software complex datasets. Special attention is given to the September 2007. The 18 revised full papers present- Technologies, Ada-Europe 2007, held in Geneva, analysis of historical process data,tailored algorithms ed together with an introductory paper were careful- Switzerland, in June 2007. The 18 revised full papers are presented for the data driven modeling of dy- ly reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The presented were carefully reviewed and selected from namical systems,determining the model order of papers are organized in topical sections on enforce- numerous submissions. The papers address all as- nonlinear input-output black box models, and the- ment, alignment, tailoring, focus on SME issues, im- pects of reliable software technologies, such as meth- segmentation of multivariate time-series. The main provement analysis and empirical studies, new av- ods and techniques for software development and methods and techniques areillustrated through sev- enues of SPI, SPI methodologies, as well as testing maintenance, software architectures, enabling tech- eral simulated and real-world applications from data and reliability. nology, software quality, critical systems, distributed mining andprocess engineering practice. The books Fields of interest systems, as well as Ada language and technology. is aimed primarily at practitioners, researches, and professionals in statistics,data mining, business intel- Software Engineering; Management of Computing Fields of interest ligence, and systems engineering, but it is also acces- and Information Systems; Computers and Society Software Engineering; Programming Techniques; sible tograduate and undergraduate students in ap- Target groups Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; plied mathematics, computer science, electricaland Researchers and professionals Computer Communication Networks; Special Pur- process engineering. Familiarity with [..] pose and Application-Based Systems; Management Type of publication Features of Computing and Information Systems Proceedings Detailed overview of the most powerful algortihms Target groups and approaches for data mining and system identifi- Researchers and professionals cation is presented Extensive references give a good Due September 2007 overview of the current state of the application of Type of publication computational intelligence in data mining and sys- 2007. XI, 225 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4764) Proceedings tem identification, and suggest further reading for Softcover additional research Numerous illustrations to facili- Due June 2007 tate the understanding of ideas and methods [..] 44,94 € ISBN 978-3-540-74765-9 Contents 2007. XIV, 247 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Classical fuzzy cluster analysis.- Visualization of the er Science, Band 4498) Softcover clustering results.- Clustering for fuzzy model identi- 48,15 € fication.- Fuzzy clustering for system identification.- ISBN 978-3-540-73229-7 Fuzzy model based classifiers.- Segmentation of multivariate time-series.

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W. Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland (Ed.) H. Abut, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA; J.H.L. C. Adams, USA; M. Boulton, BBC, Cardiff, Wales, UK; A. Clarke, Hansen, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA; K. UK; S. Collison, Agenzia, Nottingham, UK; J. Croft, World Online, Takeda, University of Nagoya, Japan (Eds.) Lawrence, KS, USA; D. Featherstone, I. Lloyd, Nationwide Building Business Information Systems Society, USA; E. Marcotte, Vertua Studios, USA; D. Rubin, FL, USA; R. Weychert, Philadelphia, PA, USA 10th International Conference, BIS 2007, Poznan, Poland, Advances for In-Vehicle and Mobile April 25-27, 2007, Proceedings Systems Web Standards Creativity

Challenges for International Standards Innovations in Web Design with XHTML, CSS, and DOM Script- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ing 10th International Conference on Business Informa- tion Systems, BIS 2007, held in Poznan, Poland in Advances for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems: Chal- April 2007. The 49 revised full papers presented to- lenges for International Standards is organized to Web Standards Creativity is the ultimate in inspira- gether with 1 keynote lecture were carefully reviewed bring together the most active scholars working on tional, high-level web design books—an innovative and selected from numerous submissions for inclu- the latest techniques, standards, and emerging de- book for the very successful but highly contested web sion in the book. Among the issues addressed are ployment on "living in the age of wireless commu- standards market. There is no attempt to teach the business process management, Web services, ontolo- nications and smart vehicular systems." The objec- basics CSS or JavaScript—competency is already as- gies, information retrieval, system design, agents and tive is to incorporate speech, dialog, video, image, ve- sumed. This book brings together 12 of the world's mobile applications, decision support, social issues, hicular sensory data, and wireless communication most talented web designers (including Andy Budd, specific MIS issues. modalities to model the total behavior of the driver Andy Clarke, Ethan Marcotte, Simon Collison, and and use that model towards personalization of the Fields of interest Ian Lloyd,) all renowned in the web design commu- vehicle to provide a more comfortable and safer driv- Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); nity, and many of them already proven authors, to ing experience. The format of this work centers on Information Systems; Information Storage and Re- share their secrets with the reader. The techniques four themes: driver and driving environment recog- trieval; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; discussed cover the full spectrum of essential web de- nition, telecommunication applications, noise reduc- Computers and Society; Management of Computing sign topics, but not run of the mill content—read- tion, and dialog in vehicles.Advances for In-Vehicle and Information Systems ers will find enough innovation inside that they will and Mobile Systems: Challenges for International keep coming back to the book again and again to Target groups Standards, is appropriate for researchers, engineers, improve their work. The book is completely stan- Researchers and professionals and professionals working in signal processing tech- dards-compliant, and up-to-date, including discus- nologies, next generation vehicle design, and net- sions of IE 7 support. And to make learning even Type of publication works for mobile platforms. more rewarding, the book is presented in glorious Proceedings full color. Features Includes new standards being developed for smart Features Due April 2007 vehicular systems Incorporates models which have An innovative book aimed at a very high-selling been tested for use in evaluating the behaviour of market area Many of the authors already have 2007. XV, 654 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- drivers proven track records in the web design market, eg er Science, Band 4439) Softcover Andy Budd, Andy Clarke, Simon Collison, Jeff Croft, Contents Aaron Gustafson, Ian Lloyd, Ethan Marcotte Full 81,32 € Experiments on Decision Fusion for Driver Recog- color, so learning is even more enjoyable ISBN 978-3-540-72034-8 nition.- Driver Recognition System Using FNN and Statistical Methods.- Driver Indentification Based Contents on Spectral Analysis of Driving Behavorial Signals.- Foreword and Introduction by Andy Budd.- Part An Artificial-Vision Based Environment Perceptin 1: Layout Magic: Semantic Structure, Dirty Pretty System.- Variable Tiem-Scale Multimedia Stream- Presentation.- Effective CSS layouts for complicated ing over 802.11 Inter-Vehicle Ad-Hoc Networks.- dynamic sites.- Multiple classes for multiple design A Configurable Distributed Speech Recognition components.- Designing for outside the box.- Part Systems.- Embedded Mobile Phone Digit-Recogni- 2: DOM Scripting Gems: Printing selective sections tion.- On the Complexity-Performance Tradeoff of of a page using CSS and DOM Scripting.- Saved by Two Active Noise Control Systems for Vehicles.- the DOM: Using transparent PNGs in all browsers.- Comparative Studies on Single-Channel De-Noising More powerful selectable lists using unordered lists.- Schemes for [..] Creating dynamic interfaces using JavaScript.- Ac- cessible Sliding Navigation.- Part 3: Traditional de- Fields of interest sign theory applied to the web: [..] Signal,Image and Speech Processing; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Communica- Fields of interest tions Engineering, Networks Programming Techniques

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R. Addy, Hartley, Kent, UK K. Ahmad, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; C. Brewster, University K. Ahmad, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; C. Brewster, University of Sheffield, UK; M. Stevenson, University of Sheffield, UK (Eds.) of Sheffield, UK; M. Stevenson, University of Sheffield, UK (Eds.) Effective IT Service Management Words and Intelligence I Words and Intelligence II To ITIL and Beyond! Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks Essays in Honor of Yorick Wilks

IT service management (ITSM) is the group of processes and functions that oil the wheels of the IT ma- Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natu- Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natu- chine. Without ITSM, every IT project and system ral Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. ral Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. would deteriorate over time until failure. ITIL is the His influence extends to many areas and includes His influence has extends to many areas of these recognized best-practice standard for ITSM, and has contributions to Machines Translation, word sense fields and includes contributions to Machine Trans- been around since the late 1980s, with ITIL version 3 disambiguation, dialogue modeling and Information lation, word sense disambiguation, dialogue mod- published just recently. However, many of today’s IT Extraction. This book celebrates the work of Yorick eling and Information Extraction. This book cele- problems have been around for just as long - Wilks in the form of a selection of his papers which brates the work of Yorick Wilks from the perspective so in order to manage IT effectively, organizations are intended to reflect the range and depth of his of his peers. It consists of original chapters each of must go beyond the ITIL framework. Rob Addy pro- work. The volume accompanies a Festschrift which which analyses an aspect of his work and links it to vides IT service managers and professionals with celebrates his contribution to the fields of Compu- current thinking in that area. His work has spanned practical guidance on delivering and managing IT tational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. The over four decades but is shown to be pertinent to re- services in an effective and efficient manner by ex- papers include early work carried out at Cambridge cent developments in language processing such as tending the ITIL approach to deliver proactive and University, descriptions of groundbreaking work on the Semantic Web. This volume forms a two-part pragmatic IT service management. His book is a can- Machine Translation and Preference Semantics as set together with Words and Intelligence I, Selected did look at the relative merits of currently accepted well as more recent works on belief modeling and Works by Yorick Wilks, by the same editors. wisdom regarding the provision of IT services, using computational semantics. The selected papers reflect the principles of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Yorick’s contribution to both practical and theoreti- Features guidance series. It describes IT service management cal aspects of automatic language processing. Celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks from the per- processes related to service [..] spective of his peers Consists of original contribu- Features tions from eminent scientists Fields of interest The papers include descriptions of groundbreak- Management of Computing and Information Sys- ing work on Machine Translation and Prefer- Contents tems; Technology Management; Software Engineer- ence Semantics The selected papers reflect Yorick With contributions by: John Barnden, Nicoletta Cal- ing; Information Systems Wilks'contribution to both practical and theoretical zolari, Gregory Grefenstette, Mark Maybury, Mako- aspects of automatic language processing to Nagao, Sergei Nirenburg, Harold Somers, Karen Target groups Sparck-Jones, John Tait, Patrick Hanks, Nancy Ide, Professionals Contents Nigel Shadbolt, and Rob Gaizauskas. Preface.- Origin of the essays.- Paper 1: Text Search- Type of publication ing with Templates.- Paper 2: Decidability and Nat- Fields of interest Professional book ural Language.- Paper 3: The Stanford Machine Computational Linguistics; Language Translation Translation and Understanding Project.- Paper 4: An and Linguistics Due September 2007 Intelligent Analyser and Understander of English.- Paper 5: A Preferential, Pattern Seeking, Semantics Target groups for Natural Language Inference.- Paper 6: Good and Academics in computer science, artificial intelli- 2007. XL, 342 p. 50 illus. Geb. Bad Arguments about Semantic Primitives.- Paper 7: gence, natural language processing Making Preferences More Active.- Paper 8: Provid- 53,45 € Type of publication ing Machine Tractable Dictionary Tools.- Paper 9: ISBN 978-3-540-73197-9 Contributed volume Belief Ascription, Metaphor and Intensional Identi- ty.- Paper 10: Stone soup and the [..] Due May 2007 Fields of interest Computational Linguistics; Artificial Intelligence 2007. XIV, 279 p. (Text, Speech and Language Technology, Band (incl. Robotics); Language Translation and Linguis- 36) Geb. tics; Semantics; Philosophy of Language 106,95 € Target groups ISBN 978-1-4020-5832-5 Scientists, researchers and graduate students

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E.M. Airoldi, D.M. Blei, S.E. Fienberg, A. Goldenberg, E.P. Xing, A.X. D. Akehurst, University of Kent, UK; R. Vogel, IHG; R. Paige, Uni- B. Akhgar, Sheffield Hallam University, UK (Ed.) Zheng (Eds.) versity of York, UK (Eds.) ICCS 2007 Statistical Network Analysis: Model Driven Architecture - Proceedings of the 15th International Workshops on Concep- Models, Issues, and New Directions Foundations and Applications tual Structures ICML 2006 Workshop on Statistical Network Analysis, Pitts- Third European Conference, ECMDA-FA 2007, Haifa, Israel, burgh, PA, USA, June 29, 2006, Revised Selected Papers June 11-15, 2007, Proceedings The 15th International Workshop on Conceptual Structures ICCS 2007 brings together numerous dis- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of cussions between international groups of researchers proceedings of the International Workshop on Sta- the Third European Conference on Model Driven from the field of Information and Communications tistical Network Analysis: Models, Issues, and New Architecture - Foundations and Applications, ECM- Technology (ICT). At ICCS 2007 some of the world’s Directions held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in June 2006 DA-FA 2007, held in Haifa, Israel in June 2007. The best minds in information technology, arts, human- as associated event of the 23th International Con- 16 revised full papers presented - 9 papers from the ities and social science will meet to explore novel ference on Machine Learning, ICML 2006. The 12 foundations track and 7 from the applications track ways that ICT can augment human intelligence. The revised full papers and 4 invited lectures present- - were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 sub- ICCS 2007 workshops include, Rough sets and da- ed together with the summary of the closing panel missions. The papers address all current issues of ta mining, Ubiquitous and collaborative computing discussion were carefully revised and selected dur- model-driven architecture, i.e. the use of models and Semantic information retrieval. These different ing two rounds of reviewing and improvement from in the specification, design, analysis, synthesis, de- workshops provide a platform for dissemination and the presentations at the workshop. The papers focus ployment, and evolution of complex software sys- exploitation of international research and develop- on probabilistic methods for network analysis, pay- tems. Foundational topics covered are metamod- ment projects and business applications ing special attention to model design and compu- eling, model transformations, reverse engineering, Contents tational issues of learning and inference. The work- testing, simulation, aspect modeling, modeling QoS From the contents: Section 1: Trust in E-Systems and shop brings together statistical network modeling re- and security, and software process modeling. The ap- the Grid Workshop.- A Contextualised Trust Model searchers from different communities to create and plication-oriented papers represent the views and ex- for Distributed Open Systems.- Evaluation of Secu- motivate novel modeling approaches, diverse appli- periences of industrial practicability in MDA, thus rity Mechanisms for Virtual Organizations.- Non- cations, and new research directions. setting requirements on the foundations and tools Repudiable and Repudiable Authentications in E- for MDA. Fields of interest Systems.- Semiotic Models of Trust and Usability for Computer Communication Networks; Probability Fields of interest Agent-managed Grid Services.- Using Trusted Com- and Statistics in Computer Science; Information Sys- Computer Systems Organization and Communica- puting in Commercial Grids.- Section 2: Quantita- tems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Stor- tion Networks; Software Engineering; Logics and tive Approaches for Knowledge Discovery and Deci- age and Retrieval; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Meanings of Programs; Management of Computing sion Support in the Post-genomic Era.- A Semantic Complexity and Information Systems Grid Infrastructure Enabling Integrated Access and Knowledge Discovery from Multilevel Data in [..] Target groups Target groups Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Fields of interest User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Type of publication Type of publication Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Artificial In- Proceedings Proceedings telligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining and Knowl- edge Discovery Due July 2007 Due May 2007 Type of publication Proceedings 2007. VIII, 197 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- 2007. X, 219 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer er Science, Band 4503) Softcover Science, Band 4530) Softcover Due August 2007 44,94 € 44,94 € ISBN 978-3-540-73132-0 ISBN 978-3-540-72900-6 2007. X, 242 p. Softcover

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S.G. Akl, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada; C.S. Calude, I.F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA; J. Albert, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, University of Auckland, New Zealand; M.J. Dinneen, University of R. Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA; USA Auckland, New Zealand; G. Rozenberg, Universiteit Leiden, The E. Ekici, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA; J. Cavalcante Netherlands; H.T. Wareham, Memorial University of Newfound- de Oliveira, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; J. McNair, land, St. John's, NL, Canada (Eds.) University of Florida, FL, USA (Eds.) Bayesian Computation with R

Unconventional Computation NETWORKING 2007. Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Wireless There has been a dramatic growth in the develop- 6th International Conference, UC 2007, Kingston, Canada, Au- ment and application of Bayesian inferential meth- gust 13-17, 2007, Proceedings Networks, Next Generation Internet ods. Some of this growth is due to the availability of powerful simulation-based algorithms to summa- 6th International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 14-18, 2007, Proceedings rize posterior distributions. There has been also a This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of growing interest in the use of the system R for statis- the 6th International Conference on Unconvention- tical analyses. R's open source nature, free availabil- al Computation, UC 2007, held in Kingston, Cana- ity, and large number of contributor packages have da, in August 2007. The 17 revised full papers pre- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of made R the software of choice for many statisticians sented together with 4 invited papers were careful- the 6th International IFIP-TC6 Networking Con- in education and industry. Bayesian Computation ly reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. ference, NETWORKING 2007, held in Atlanta, GA, with R introduces Bayesian modeling by the use of All current aspects of unconventional computation USA in May 2007. The 99 revised full papers and 30 computation using the R language. The early chap- are addressed - theory as well as experiments and poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected ters present the basic tenets of Bayesian thinking by applications. Typical topics are: natural computing from 440 submissions. The papers are organized in use of familiar one and two-parameter inferential including quantum, cellular, molecular, neural and topical sections on ad hoc and sensor networks: con- problems. Bayesian computational methods such as evolutionary computing; chaos and dynamical sys- nectivity and coverage, scheduling and resource al- Laplace's method, rejection sampling, and the SIR al- tems based computing; and various proposals for location, mobility and location awareness, routing, gorithm are illustrated in the context of a random ef- computations that go beyond the Turing model. and key management; wireless networks: mesh net- fects model. The construction and implementation works, mobility, TCP, MAC performance, as well as of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods is Fields of interest scheduling and resource allocation; next generation introduced. These simulation-based algorithms are Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Anal- internet: content distribution, QoS, topology design, [..] ysis and Problem Complexity; Computational Biolo- routing, buffer management, optical networks, TCP, gy/Bioinformatics security, and network measurement. Features Introduces Bayesian modeling by use of computation Target groups Fields of interest using the R language Researchers and professionals Computer Communication Networks; System Per- formance and Evaluation; Information Systems Ap- Contents Type of publication plications (incl.Internet); Software Engineering; An introduction to R.- Introduction to Bayesian Proceedings Communications Engineering, Networks thinking.- Single parameter models.- Multiparame- ter models.- Introduction to Bayesian computation.- Due July 2007 Target groups Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.- Hierarchical Researchers and professionals modeling.- Model comparision.- Regression models.- Gibbs sampling.- Using R to interface with Win- 2007. X, 243 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4618) Type of publication BUGS. Softcover Proceedings 48,15 € Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-73553-3 Due April 2007 Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs; Sim- ulation and Modeling; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Visualization; Optimization 2007. XXVII, 1252 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- puter Science, Band 4479) Softcover Target groups 163,71 € Instructors, students, practitioners ISBN 978-3-540-72605-0 Type of publication Graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook

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A. Aldini, ISTI - University of Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy; R. Gorrieri, R. Alhajj, H. Gao, X. Li, J. Li, O.R. Zaiane (Eds.) J. Allsopp, Australia University of Bologna, Italy (Eds.) Advanced Data Mining and Microformats Foundations of Security Analysis Applications and Design Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 Third International Conference, ADMA 2007, Harbin, China, FOSAD 2006/2007 Turtorial Lectures August 6-8, 2007 Proceedings Microformats are a method of defining and describing (X)HTML data so that is easily machine readable The increasing relevance of security to real-life appli- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the as well as human readable, making it more powerful. cations, such as electronic commerce and Internet Third International Conference on Advanced Da- This is done by simply adding special semantic infor- banking, is attested by the fast-growing number of ta Mining and Applications, ADMA 2007, held in mation to your (X)HTML via specialized class or ID research groups, events, conferences, and summer Harbin, China in August 2007. The 44 revised full names, for example—no special software is needed schools that address the study of foundations for the papers and 15 revised short papers presented togeth- to add them to your web sites. This technology is be- analysis and the design of security aspects. This book er with the abstract of 1 invited lecture were carefully coming very popular, with Microformats being uti- presents thoroughly revised versions of eight tutorial reviewed and selected from about 200 submissions. lized by large companies such as Yahoo, and support lectures given by leading researchers during two In- The papers focus on advancements in data mining being added to popular software such as Wordpress ternational Schools on Foundations of Security Anal- and peculiarities and challenges of real world appli- and TextPattern. We are proud to present the first ysis and Design, FOSAD 2006/2007, held in Berti- cations using data mining. The major theme of the book available on Microformats—inside, noted web noro, Italy, in September 2006 and September 2007. conference encompasses the innovative applications developer and long time WaSP member John All- The lectures are devoted to Foundations of Security of data mining approaches to real-world problems sop delivers a fiercely practical guide to using them, Analysis and Design. that involve large data sets, incomplete and noisy da- including how to use current and future Microfor- ta, or demand optimal solutions. mats, and how to create your own, giving developers Fields of interest all they need to take advantage of this exciting new Operating Systems; Data Encryption; Computer Fields of interest technology. Communication Networks; Management of Com- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining puting and Information Systems; Logics and Mean- and Knowledge Discovery; Software Engineering; Features ings of Programs; Programming Languages, Compil- Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; The first dedicated book available on Microformats ers, Interpreters Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Teaches how to use current and future Microfor- Health Informatics & Health Administration mats, so the book won't go out of date quickly as new Target groups Microformats are created John Allsop is a very well- Advanced students, professionals and researchers Target groups respected member of the web development commu- Researchers and professionals nity Type of publication Proceedings Type of publication Contents Proceedings Part I. introduction.- 1. Intro to ufs.- 2. State of the Due August 2007 art in ufs.- Part II. Using Microformats.- 3. HTML Due July 2007 Elements and Attributes.- 4. link based microformats.- 5. Microformats for describing relationships 2007. VII, 325 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4677) between people - XFN.- 6. Microformats for address Softcover 2007. XV, 634 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- and location.- Microformats for address information er Science, Band 4632) Softcover 51,36 € - adr.- Microformats for physical locations - geo.- 7. ISBN 978-3-540-74809-0 77,04 € Microformats for contact information - hCard.- 8. ISBN 978-3-540-73870-1 Microformats for event information - hCalendar.- 9. Microformats for reviews - hReview.- 10. Microfor- mats for resumes - hResume.- 12. microformats for classifieds - hListing.- [..]

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F. Almeida e Costa, University of Sussex, UK (Ed.) G. Almási, IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Hights, NY, G. Alonso, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; P. Dadam, Universität Ulm, USA; C. Cascaval, IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Hights, Germany; M. Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, NY, USA; P. Wu, IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Hights, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (Eds.) Advances in Artificial Life NY, USA (Eds.)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Workshop, LCPC 2006, New Orleans, LA, USA, November 2-4, 2006, Revised Papers 9th EuropeanConference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-14, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 2007. The 125 revised full papers presented were the 5th International Conference on Business Pro- carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are or- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- cess Management, BPM 2007, held in Brisbane, Aus- ganized in topical sections on conceptual articles, proceedings of the 19th International Workshop tralia, in September 2007. The 21 revised full papers, morphogenesis and development, robotics and au- on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Comput- 1 industrial paper, and 8 short papers presented were tonomous agents, evolutionary computation and ing, LCPC 2006, held in New Orleans, LA, USA in carefully reviewed and selected from 152 submis- theory, cellular automata, models of biological sys- November 2006. The 24 revised full papers presented sions. The papers are organized in topical sections tems and their applications, ant colony and swarm together with 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed on business process maturity and performance, busi- systems, evolution of communication, simulation of and selected from 49 initial submissions. The papers ness process modeling, case studies, compliance and social interactions, self-replication, artificial chem- are organized in topical sections on programming change, process configuration and execution, formal istry, and posters. models, code generation, parallelism, compilation foundations of BPM, business process mining, and techniques, data structures, register allocation, and semantic issues in BPM. Fields of interest memory management. Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computa- Fields of interest tion by Abstract Devices; User Interfaces and Hu- Fields of interest Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Sys- man Computer Interaction; Discrete Mathematics Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; tems Applications (incl.Internet); User Interfaces in Computer Science; Pattern Recognition; Bioinfor- Programming Techniques; Computation by Abstract and Human Computer Interaction; Computers and matics Devices; Computer Communication Networks; Society; Management of Computing and Informa- Arithmetic and Logic Structures; Data Structures tion Systems; Information Systems Target groups Researchers and professionals Target groups Target groups Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Type of publication Proceedings Type of publication Type of publication Proceedings Proceedings Due August 2007 Due May 2007 Due September 2007 2007. XVIII, 1215 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- puter Science, Band 4648) Softcover 2007. IX, 366 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer 2007. XIII, 418 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4714) Science, Band 4382) Softcover Softcover 118,77 € ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7 55,64 € 59,92 € ISBN 978-3-540-72520-6 ISBN 978-3-540-75182-3 8 Computer springer.com/booksellers

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A. Antoniou, University of Victoria, BC, Canada; W.-S. Lu, Universi- ISBN 978-0-387-71106-5 G. Antoniou, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece; U. Aßmann, Technical ty of Victoria, BC, Canada University Dresden, Germany; C. Baroglio, University of Turin, Italy; S. Decker, DERI and National University of Ireland, Galway; N. Henze, University of Hannover, Germany; P.-L. Patranjan, Practical Optimization Luwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany; R. Tolksdorf, FU Berlin, Germany (Eds.) Algorithms and Engineering Applications Reasoning Web

Practical Optimization: Algorithms and Engineer- Third International Summer School 2007, Dresden, Germany, ing Applications provides a hands-on treatment of September 3-7, 2007, Tutorial Lectures the subject of optimization. A comprehensive set of problems and exercises makes the book suitable for use in one or two semesters of a first-year graduate This book contains a collection of thoroughly re- course or an advanced undergraduate course. Each vised tutorial papers based on lectures given by lead- half of the book contains a full semester’s worth of ing researchers at the Second International Summer complementary yet stand-alone material. The prac- School on the Reasoning Web in Dresden, Germany, tical orientation of the topics chosen and a wealth September 3-7, 2007. The objective of the book is to of useful examples also make the book suitable for provide a coherent introduction to Semantic Web practitioners in the field. Advancements in the effi- methods and research issues with a particular fo- ciency of digital computers and the evolution of reli- cus on reasoning. The nine tutorial papers present- able software for numerical computation during the ed provide competent coverage of methods and re- past three decades have led to a rapid growth in the search issues of the Semantic Web, ontology lan- theory, methods, and algorithms of numerical op- guages and their relation to description logics, Web timization. This body of knowledge has motivated query languages, XML, RDF and Topics Maps, evo- widespread applications of optimization methods in lution and reactivity, personalization in the Seman- many disciplines, e.g., engineering, business, and sci- tic Web, rule modeling with UML, techniques in ence, and has subsequently led to problem solutions Web information extraction, employing ontologies that were considered intractable not too long ago. to ease construction of software applications, and type checking for Web rule and query languages. Features Extensively class-tested Provides a complete teach- Fields of interest ing package with MATLAB exercises and online so- Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); lutions to end-of-chapter problems Includes meth- Computer Communication Networks; Information ods of emerging interest such as semidefinite pro- Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems; Logics gramming and second-order cone programming and Meanings of Programs; Artificial Intelligence Presents a unified treatment of unconstrained and (incl. Robotics) constrained optimization Uses a practical treatment of optimization accessible to broad audience Ap- Target groups pendix includes background theory Advanced students, researchers, and professionals

Contents Type of publication The Optimization Problem.- Basic Principles.- Gen- Graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook eral Properties of Algorithms.- One-Dimensional Optimization.- Basic Multidimensional Gradient Due August 2007 Methods.- Conjugate-Direction Methods.- Quasi- Newton Methods.- Minimax Methods.- Applica- tions of Unconstrained Optimization.- Fundamen- 2007. IX, 345 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4636) tals of Constrained Optimization.- Linear Program- Softcover ming Part I: The Simplex Method.- Linear Program- 47,08 € ming Part II: Interior-Point Methods.- Quadratic ISBN 978-3-540-74613-3 and Convex Programming.- Semidefinite and Sec- ond-Order Cone Programming.- General Nonlin- ear Optimization Problems.- Applications of Con- strained Optimization.

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U. Apte, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA; U. Kar- L. Arge, M. Hoffmann, E. Welzl (Eds.) L. Arge, University of Aarhus, Denmark; C. Cachin, IBM Research, markar, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA (Eds.) Rüschlikon, Switzerland; T. Jurdzinski, Wroclaw University, Poland; A. Tarlecki, Warsaw University, Poland (Eds.) Algorithms - ESA 2007 Managing in the Information Economy 15th Annual European Symposium, Eilat, Israel, October 8-10, Automata, Languages and 2007, Proceedings Programming Current Research Issues 34th International Colloquium, ICALP 2007, Wroclaw, Poland, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the July 9-13, 2007, Proceedings 15th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, Managing in the Information Economy: Current Re- ESA 2007, held in Eilat, Israel, in October 2007 in search Issues presents the recent research directions the context of the combined conference ALGO 2007. that address the issue of management in this econ- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of The 63 revised full papers presented together with omy. The contributors include leading researchers the 34th International Colloquium on Automata, abstracts of 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed with interests in a diverse set of topics. While the Languages and Programming, ICALP 2007, held in and selected: 50 papers out of 165 submissions for volume cannot give a complete and comprehensive Wroclaw, Poland in July 2007. The 76 revised full pa- the design and analysis track and 13 out of 44 sub- picture, it can provide introductions to important pers presented together with 4 invited lectures were missions in the engineering and applications track. areas, and point to some important topics for fu- carefully reviewed and selected from 242 submis- The papers address all current subjects in algorith- ture research. Therefore the book begins with per- sions. The papers are grouped in three major tracks mics reaching from design and analysis issues of al- spectives at the level of the economy as a whole and on algorithms, automata, complexity and games, on gorithms over to real-world applications and engi- then progressively addresses industrial structure, logic, semantics, and theory of programming, and on neering of algorithms in various fields. sectors, functions (e-commerce) and business prac- security and cryptography foundations. tices. Introductions to the main sections and the pa- Fields of interest Fields of interest pers in each section are provided. The volume is or- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Nu- Theory of Computation; Software Engineering/Pro- ganized around six sections: The Information Econ- meric Computing; Discrete Mathematics in Com- gramming and Operating Systems; Discrete Mathe- omy; Structure and the Organization of the Informa- puter Science; Data Structures; Computer Commu- matics in Computer Science; Numeric Computing; tion Economy; Marketing and Ecommerce; Emerg- nication Networks; Computer Graphics Data Structures; Data Structures, Cryptology and In- ing Issues in the Information Economy; Operations formation Theory in the Information Economy; and Empirical Stud- Target groups ies of Business Practices. Please see the Table of Con- Researchers and professionals Target groups tents and [..] Researchers and professionals Type of publication Features Proceedings Type of publication The first book in a serialized publishing stream with- Proceedings in the IS2 book series. The series has been Due September 2007 modeled after two successful and unique serial publishing programs — the "Lecture Notes in Comput- Due June 2007 er Science" and the "Annals of Operations Research"; 2007. XV, 769 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- it will consist of ISSN numbered, serialized volumes er Science, Band 4698) Softcover 2007. XVII, 953 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band that will be indexed and abstracted in the ISI, SCI 4596) Softcover 89,88 € and other A/I services All volumes in this series will ISBN 978-3-540-75519-7 [..] 98,44 € ISBN 978-3-540-73419-2 Contents Introductory note.- Current research on managing in the information economy.- Size, structure, and growth of the US information economy.- Informa- tion technology and the G7 economies.- Information systems outsourcing contracts: theory and evidence.- Managing network organizations in the knowledge economy: learning from success and failure.- Under- standing sourcing as a strategic business: the risks and rewards of strategic sourcing and inter-firm al- liances in India.- Personalization and technology-enabled marketing.- The real value of B2B: from commerce towards interaction and knowledge [..]

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S. Artemov, GUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA; A. Nerode, Cornell University, Ithaka, NY, USA (Eds.)

Logical Foundations of Computer Science

International Symposium, LFCS 2007, New York, NY, USA, June 4-7, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium on Logical Foundations of Computer Science, LFCS 2007, held in New York, NY, USA in June 2007. The volume presents 36 revised refereed papers carefully selected by the program committee. All current aspects of logic in computer science are addressed, including constructive mathematics and type theory, logical foundations of programming, logical aspects of computational complexity, logic programming and constraints, automated deduction and interactive theorem proving, logical methods in protocol and program verification and in program specification and extraction, domain theory logics, logical foundations of database theory, equational logic and term rewriting, lambda and combinatory calculi, categorical logic and topological semantics, linear logic, epistemic and temporal logics, intelligent and multiple agent system logics, logics of proof and justification, nonmonotonic reasoning, logic in game theory and social [..]

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S. Asmussen, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; P.W. Glynn, J. Aspnes, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; C. Scheideler, S. Ata, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan; C.S. Hong, Kyung Hee Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Technical University of Munich, Germany; A. Arora, Ohio State University, Yongin, Korea (Eds.) University, Columbus, OH, USA; S. Madden, Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (Eds.) Stochastic Simulation: Algorithms Managing Next Generation and Analysis Distributed Computing in Sensor Networks and Services Systems 10th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Sym- posium, APNOMS 2007, Sapporo, Japan, October 10-12, 2007, Sampling-based computational methods have Third IEEE International Conference, DCOSS 2007, Santa Fe, Proceedings become a fundamental part of the numerical NM, USA, June 18-20, 2007, Proceedings toolset of practitioners and researchers across an enormous number of different applied do- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of mains and academic disciplines. This book pro- The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Man- vides a broad treatment of such sampling-based the Third International Conference on Distributed agement Symposium, APNOMS 2007, held in Sap- methods , as well as accompanying mathe- Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2007, held poro, Japan, October 10-12, 2007. The 48 revised matical analysis of the convergence properties of in Sante Fe, NM, USA in June 2007. The 27 revised full papers and 30 revised short papers presented the methods discussed . The reach of the full papers presented were carefully reviewed and se- were carefully reviewed and selected from 161 sub- ideas is illustrated by discussing a wide range of lected from 71 submissions. The papers class in three missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- applications and the models that have found wide tracks covering the areas of algorithms, applications, tions on Management of Distributed Networks, Net- usage. Given the wide range of exam- and systems, thus bridging the gap between theory work Configuration and Planning, Network Securi- ples, exercises and applications stu- and practice and between the broader field of dis- ty Management, Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks, Net- dents, practitioners and researchers in prob- tributed computing and the specific issues arising in work Monitoring, Routing and Traffic Engineering, ability, statistics, operations research, eco- sensor networks and related systems. Management of Wireless Networks and Security on nomics, finance, engineering as well as biol- Wireless Networks. ogy and chemistry and physics will find the book of Fields of interest value. Computer Communication Networks; Algorithm Fields of interest Analysis and Problem Complexity; Discrete Mathe- Computer Communication Networks; Informa- Features matics in Computer Science; Data Structures; Oper- tion Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Informa- First rigorous and comprehensive advanced book on ating Systems; Communications Engineering, Net- tion Storage and Retrieval; User Interfaces and Hu- stochastic simulation Large amount of exercises and works man Computer Interaction; Computers and Society; illustrations included Top world wide experts in area Communications Engineering, Networks Target groups Contents Researchers and professionals Target groups What this Book is about.- Part A: General Methods Researchers and professionals and Algorithms.- Generating Random Objects.- Out- Type of publication put Analysis.- Steady-State Simulation.- Variance Proceedings Type of publication Reduction Methods.- Rare Event Simulation.- Gra- Proceedings dient Estimation.- Stochastic Optimization.- Part B: Due June 2007 Algorithms for Special Models.- Numerical Integra- Due September 2007 tion.- Stochastic Differential Equations.- Gaussian Processes.- Lévy Processes.- Markov Chain Monte 2007. XIII, 417 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Band 4549) Softcover Carlo Methods.- Selected Topics and Extended Ex- 2007. XIX, 619 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Band 4773) Softcover amples.- Appendix.- Bibliography.- Index. 59,92 € ISBN 978-3-540-73089-7 77,04 € Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-75475-6 Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Statisti- cal Theory and Methods; Operation Research/Deci- sion Theory; Industrial and Production Engineering; Operations Research, Mathematical Programming; Quantitative Finance

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N. Aykin, New School, New York, NY, USA (Ed.) N. Aykin, New School, New York, NY, USA (Ed.) N. Azemard, LIRMM, Montpellier, France; L. Svensson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenborg, Sweden (Eds.) Usability and Internationalization. Usability and Internationalization. Global and Local User Interfaces HCI and Culture Integrated Circuit and System Design. Power and Timing Second International Conference on Usability and Internation- Second International Conference on Usability and Internation- alization, UI-HCII 2007, Held as Part of HCI International 2007, alization, UI-HCII 2007, held as Part of HCI International 2007, Modeling, Optimization and Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part II Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part I Simulation

17th International Workshop, PATMOS 2007, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 3-5, 2007, Proceedings This two-volume set LNCS 4559+4560 constitutes This two-volume set LNCS 4559+4560 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Internation- the refereed proceedings of the Second Internation- al Conference on Usability and Internationalization, al Conference on Usability and Internationalization, UIHCII 2007, held in Beijing, China in July 2007 in UIHCII 2007, held in Beijing, China in July 2007 in This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the the framework of the 12th International Conference the framework of the 12th International Conference 17th International Workshop on Power and Tim- on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007 with on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007 with ing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation, PAT- 8 other thematically similar conferences. The 141 8 other thematically similar conferences. The 141 MOS 2007, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in Septem- revised papers presented in the two volumes were revised papers presented in the two volumes were ber 2007. The 36 revised full papers and 19 revised carefully reviewed and selected from numerous sub- carefully reviewed and selected from numerous sub- poster papers presented together with the abstracts missions. The papers accepted for presentation thor- missions. The papers accepted for presentation thor- of 3 key notes and 2 industrial papers were carefully oughly cover the entire field of usability and interna- oughly cover the entire field of usability and interna- reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. tionalization in human-computer interaction. The 65 tionalization in human-computer interaction. The The papers are organized in topical sections on high- papers of this second volume cover global and local 76 papers of this first volume cover HCI and culture level design, low power design techniques, low power user interfaces and are organized in topical sections and are organized in topical sections on cross-cultur- analog circuits, statistical static timing analysis, pow- on designing global and local products and services, al design, internationalization and intercultural user modeling and optimization, low power routing as well as enhancing and personalizing the user expe- ability, as well as user studies. optimization, security and asynchronous design, low rience. power applications, modeling and optimization, low Fields of interest power techniques and applications, as well as design Fields of interest User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; challenges in real-life projects. User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- Fields of interest Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- age and Retrieval; Computer Communication Net- Logic Design; Processor Architectures; System Per- age and Retrieval; Computer Communication Net- works; Language Translation and Linguistics formance and Evaluation; Arithmetic and Logic works; Language Translation and Linguistics Structures; Memory Structures; Circuits and Systems Target groups Target groups Researchers and professionals Target groups Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Type of publication Type of publication Proceedings Type of publication Proceedings Proceedings Due June 2007 Due June 2007 Due August 2007 2007. XVIII, 661 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- 2007. XVIII, 576 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- puter Science, Band 4559) Softcover 2007. XIV, 583 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4644) puter Science, Band 4560) Softcover Softcover 81,32 € 72,76 € ISBN 978-3-540-73286-0 72,76 € ISBN 978-3-540-73288-4 ISBN 978-3-540-74441-2 14 Computer springer.com/booksellers

F. Azevedo, CENTRIA, FCT/UNL, Portugal; P. Barahona, CENTRIA, F. Baader (Ed.) N. Baba, Osaka Kyoiku University, Osaka, Japan; L.C. Jain, Univer- FCT/UNL, Portugal; F. Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, France; F. sity of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; H. Handa, Osaka Rossi, University of Padova, Italy (Eds.) Kyoiku University, Osaka, Japan (Eds.) Term Rewriting and Applications

Recent Advances in Constraints 18th International Conference, RTA 2007, Paris, France, June Advanced Intelligent Paradigms in 26-28, 2007, Proceedings 11th Annual ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Computer Games Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2006 Ca- parica, Portugal, June 26-28, 2006 Revised Selected and Invit- ed Papers This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Rewriting Tech- This book presents a sample of the most recent re- niques and Applications, RTA 2007, held in Paris, search concerning the application of computational France in June 2007 in conjunction with TLCA 2007, intelligence techniques and internet technology in This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and the 8th International Conference on Typed Lamb- computer games. The contents include: COMMONS extended post-proceedings of the 11th Annual da Calculi and Applications as part of RDP 2007, GAME in intelligent environment; adaptive gener- ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Solv- the 4th International Conference on Rewriting, De- ation of dilemma-based interactive narratives; coming and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP duction, and Programming. The 24 revised full pa- putational intelligence in racing games; evolution- 2006, held in Caparica, Portugal in June 2006. Be- pers and 3 systems description papers were care- ary algorithms for board game players with domain sides papers taken from the workshop, others are fully reviewed and selected from 69 initial submis- knowledge; the ChessBrain project; electronic mar- submitted in response to an open call for papers after sions and are presented together with 3 invited talks. ket games; EVE’s entropy; capturing player enjoy- the workshop. The 10 revised full papers presented The papers cover current research on all aspects of ment in computer games. together with a tutorial on hybrid algorithms were rewriting featuring applications, foundational issues, carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the Features frameworks, implementations, as well as semantics. book. The papers are organized in topical sections Contains the latest research in the area of advanced on global constraints, search and heuristics, language Fields of interest intelligent paradigms in computer games and implementation issues, and modeling. Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Log- Contents ics and Meanings of Programs; Programming Lan- Fields of interest COMMONS GAME Made More Exciting by an guages, Compilers, Interpreters; Artificial Intelli- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Program- Intelligent Utilization of Two Evolutionary Algo- gence (incl. Robotics); Symbolic and Algebraic Ma- ming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Logics rithms.- Adaptive Generation of Dilemma-based In- nipulation and Meanings of Programs; Algorithm Analysis and teractive Narratives.- Computational Intelligence in Problem Complexity; Numeric Computing; Mathe- Target groups Racing Games.- Evolutionary Algorithms for Board matical Logic and Formal Languages Researchers and professionals Game Players.- The ChessBrain Project.- Designing and developing marketing games.- EVES Entropy.- Target groups Type of publication Capturing player enjoyment in computer games. Researchers and professionals Proceedings Fields of interest Type of publication Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- Due June 2007 Proceedings neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Game Theory/Mathematical Methods Due July 2007 2007. XII, 419 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4533) Softcover Target groups Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in 2007. VIII, 185 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- 59,92 € computational intelligence and computer sciences er Science, Band 4651) Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-73447-5 44,94 € Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-73816-9 Monograph

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M. Backschat, mgm technology partners GmbH, München; B. S.E. Bailey, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, J.D. Bales, Downers Grove, IL, USA Rücker, camunda GmbH, Bad Mergentheim Department of Human Evolution, Leipzig, Germany; J.-J. Hublin, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Evolution, Leipzig, Germany (Eds.) Beginning PL/SQL Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 From Novice to Professional Grundlagen - Konzepte - Praxis Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution Beginning PL/SQL is a fast-paced and blissfully short State of the art research in dental paleoanthropology Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) ist eine serverseitige introduction to Oracle's PL/SQL language. PL/SQL is Komponententechnologie, die eine zentrale Rolle the built-in language that every Oracle developer and in der Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) database administrator simply must know. This book einnimmt. 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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book provides a unified framework that de- First International Conference on Autonomous In- scribes how genetic learning can be used to design frastructure, Management and Security, AIMS 2007, pattern recognition and learning systems. The book The emergence and widespread use of personal com- held in Oslo, Norway in June 2007. The 13 revised is unique in the sense of describing how a search puters and network technologies have seen the de- full papers presented together with 8 tutorials were technique, the genetic algorithm, can be used for pat- velopment of interest in the use of computers to sup- carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. tern classification mainly through approximating de- port cooperative work. This volume presents the The conference also incorporates a European PhD cision boundaries, and it demonstrates the effective- proceedings of the tenth European conference on Student Symposium that contributed 18 papers to ness of the genetic classifiers vis-à-vis several wide- Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). this volume that were selected from 31 submitted pa- ly used classifiers, including neural networks. It pro- This is a multidisciplinary area that embraces the pers. The papers are organized in topical sections on vides a balanced mixture of theories, algorithms and development of new technologies grounded in ac- scalable network management, inter-domain con- applications, and in particular results from the bioin- tual cooperative practices. These proceedings concepts, promises and ubiquitous management, au- formatics and Web intelligence domains. This book tain a collection of papers addressing novel interac- tonomous infrastructure and security, management will be useful to graduate students and researchers tion technologies for CSCW systems, new models models, policy interactions, security management, in computer science, electrical engineering, systems and architectures for groupware systems, studies of logic and validation, networks, and tutorials. science, and information technology, both as a text communication and coordination among mobile and reference book. Researchers and practitioners in actors, studies of cooperative work in complex set- Fields of interest industry working in system design, control, pattern tings, studies of groupware systems in actual use in Computer Communication Networks; System Per- recognition, data mining, soft computing, bioinfor- real-world settings, and theories and techniques to formance and Evaluation; Information Systems Ap- matics and Web intelligence will also benefit. support the development of cooperative applications. plications (incl.Internet); Information Storage and The papers present emerging technologies alongside Retrieval; Management of Computing and Informa- Features new methods and approaches to the development of tion Systems First book to provide a unified framework that de- this important class of applications. scribes how genetic learning can be used to design Target groups pattern recognition systems Features Researchers and professionals The work in this volume represents the best of the Contents current research and practice within CSCW. Type of publication Introduction.- Genetic Algorithms.- Supervised Proceedings Classification Using Genetic Algorithms.- Theoret- Contents ical Analysis of the GA-Classifier.- Variable String From the contents: What did I miss? Visualizing the Due June 2007 Lengths in GA-Classifier.- Chromosome Differentia- past through video traces.-Social bookmarking and tion in VGA-Classifier.- Multi-objective VGA-Clas- exploratory search.- Instrumental action: the time- sifier and Quantitative Indices.- Genetic Algorithms ly exchange of implements during surgical opera- 2007. XII, 237 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- in Clustering.- Genetic Learning in Bioinformatics.- tions.- Prior-to-request and request behaviours with- er Science, Band 4543) Softcover Genetic Algorithms and Web Intelligence.- Appen- in elderly day care: Implications for developing ser- 44,94 € dices.- References.- Index. vice robots for use in multiparty settings.- Designing ISBN 978-3-540-72985-3 family photo displays.- The Awareness Network: To Fields of interest whom should I display my actions? And, whose ac- Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelligence (incl. tions should I monitor.- "…and do it the usual way": Robotics); Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; fostering awareness of work conventions in docu- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Theory of ment-mediated collaboration.- A safe [..] Computation Fields of interest Target groups User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Academic and industrial scientists and researchers, graduate students Target groups Researchers, students and practitioners in the follow- Type of publication ing areas CSCW, HCI, ubiquitous computing Monograph and information systems.

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D. Barbosa, University of Calgary, Canada; A. Bonifati, Italian Na- L. Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; P. Fraternali, Politecnico di L. Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy; E. Di Nitto, Politecni- tional Research Council, Italy; Z. Bellahsène, University of Mon- Milano, Italy; G.-J. Houben, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium co di Milano, Milan, Italy (Eds.) pellier, France; E. Hunt, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; R. Unland, Uni- (Eds.) versity of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (Eds.) Test and Analysis of Web Services Web Engineering Database and XML Technologies 7th International Conference, ICWE 2007, Como, Italy, July 5th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2007, Vi- 16-20, 2007, Proceedings The service-oriented approach has become more and enna, Austrial, September 23-24, 2007, Proceedings more popular, now allowing highly integrated and yet heterogeneous applications. Web services are the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the natural evolution of conventional middleware tech- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Engineering, nologies to support Web-based and enterprise-lev- 5th International XML Database Symposium, XSym ICWE 2007, held in Como, Italy in July 2007. The 26 el integration. The highly dynamic characteristics 2007, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2007 in revised full papers and 13 revised short papers pre- of service-oriented applications means their valida- conjunction with the International Conference on sented together with 9 demonstration papers, 4 in- tion is a continuous process that often runs in paral- Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2007. The 8 revised dustrial papers, and 4 papers of the doctoral sympo- lel with execution. It is not possible to clearly distin- full papers together with 2 invited talks and the ex- sium, were carefully reviewed and selected from 172 guish between the predeployment validation of a sys- tended abstract of 1 panel session were carefully re- submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- tem and its use, nor is it possible to guarantee that viewed and selected from 25 submissions. Covering tions on services, metrics and quality, caching, inter- the checks passed at a certain time will be passed at a all current aspects of core database technology for faces, models, verification and testing, semantics and later time and in the actual execution environment as XML data management, XML and data integration, Web 2.0, search, application development, demon- well. Baresi and Di Nitto have put together the first and development and deployment of XML applica- strations, the industrial track, and the doctoral con- reference on all aspects of testing and validating ser- tions, the papers are organized in topical sections on sortium. vice-oriented architectures, taking into account these XPath query answering, XQuery evaluation and per- inherent intricacies. The contributions by leading formance, as well as XML updates, temporal XML Fields of interest academic and industrial research groups are struc- data and concurrency. Information Storage and Retrieval; Computer Com- tured into four parts on: static analysis to acquire in- munication Networks; Software Engineering; Infor- sight into how the [..] Fields of interest mation Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Multi- Database Management; Information Storage media Information Systems; Artificial Intelligence Features and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl. Robotics) A complete picture of what validating service-orient- (incl.Internet); Software Engineering; Computer ed architectures means today A comprehensive sur- Communication Networks; Information Systems Target groups vey of state-of-the-art approaches and tools for vali- Researchers and professionals dating service-oriented applications Detailed guide- Target groups lines for the actual validation process References and Researchers and professionals Type of publication scenarios for future research and development Proceedings Type of publication Contents Proceedings Due July 2007 Part I: Analysis: Specifiying and Monitoring Service Flows: Making Web Services Process-Aware (van Due September 2007 der Aalst, Pesic.- Analyzing Conversations: Realz- 2007. XVI, 576 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4607) ability, Synchronizability, and Verification (Bultan, Softcover Fu, Su.- WS-Engineer: A Model-Based Approach to 2007. X, 141 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4704) Engineering Web Service Compositions and Chore- Softcover 72,76 € ISBN 978-3-540-73596-0 ography (Foster, Uchitel, Magee, Kramer).- Model 44,94 € Checking with Abstraction for Web Services (Shary- ISBN 978-3-540-75287-5 gina, Kröning).- Part II: Testing: Unit Testing BPEL Compositions (Lübke).- A Model-Driven Approach to Discovery, Testing, and Monitoring of Web Ser- vices (Lohmann, Mariani, Heckel).- Web Services [..]

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In order to build a successful, Java-based applica- 4th International Workshop,HM 2007, Dortmund, Germany, tion it is important to have a clear understanding This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the October 8-9, 2007, Proceedings of the principles underlying the various financial 21st Annual Working Conference on Data and Ap- models. Those models guide the application design- plications Security held in Redondo Beach, CA, USA er in choosing the most appropriate Java data struc- in July 2007. The 18 revised full papers and 2 revised This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the tures and implementation strategy. This book de- short papers presented were carefully reviewed and 4th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuris- scribes the principles of model building in financial selected from 44 submissions. The papers are orga- tics, HM 2007, held in Dortmund, Germany, in Oc- engineering and explains those models as designs nized in topical sections on secure query evaluation, tober 2007. The 14 revised full papers presented were and working implementations for Java-based appli- location-based security/mobile security, distributed carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. cations. Throughout the book a series of packaged security issues, cryptographic-based security, tempo- The papers discuss specific aspects of hybridization classes are developed to address a wide range of fi- ral access control and usage control, as well as system of metaheuristics, hybrid metaheuristics design, de- nancial applications. Java methods are designed and security issues. velopment and testing. With increasing attention to implemented based on the most widely used mod- methodological aspects, from both the empirical and els in financial engineering and investment practice. Fields of interest theoretical sides, the papers show a representative The classes and methods are explained and designed Data Encryption; Computer Communication Net- sample of research in the field of hybrid metaheuris- in a way which allows the financial engineer com- works; Systems and Data Security; Management of tics. Some papers put special emphasis on the exper- plete flexibility. The classes can be used as off-the- Computing and Information Systems; Algorithm imental analysis and statistical assessment of results, shelf working solutions or the innovative developer Analysis and Problem Complexity; Special Purpose some are also an example of the integration of meta- can re-arrange and modify methods to create new and Application-Based Systems heuristics with mathematical programming, con- products Target groups straint satisfaction or machine learning techniques. Features Researchers and professionals Fields of interest Provides software professionals with an accessible Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- source of numerical methods or ready-to-use code Type of publication putation by Abstract Devices; Artificial Intelli- for use in business applications First book to cover Proceedings gence (incl. Robotics); Numeric Computing; Pattern the topic of Java implementations for finance/invest- Recognition ment applications Written specifically to be accessi- Due June 2007 ble to software practitioners without prior accoun- Target groups tancy/finance training 2007. X, 291 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4602) Researchers and professionals Softcover Contents Type of publication Introduction.- Interest Rate Calculations.- Bonds.- 67,41 € Proceedings Duration.- Futures.- Options.- Modelling Stock ISBN 978-3-540-73533-5 Prices.- Binomial Model.- Analytical Option Pricing Methods.- Sensitivity Measures (The 'Greeks').- In- Due September 2007 terest Rate Derivatives.- Conditional Options.-Com- plex Conditional Options.- Single Barrier Type Op- 2007. X, 201 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4771) tions.- Double Barrier Options.- Digital Options.- Softcover Special Case Barrier Options.- Other Exotics.- Ap- pendix 1.- Appendix 2. 44,94 € ISBN 978-3-540-75513-5 Fields of interest Software Engineering; Numeric Computing; Proba- bility and Statistics in Computer Science; Quantita- tive Finance; Finance /Banking; Programming Tech- niques

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I. Batyrshin, Mexican Petroleum Institute, Mexico; J. Kacprzyk, J. Becker, European Research Center for Information Systems (ER- J. Becker, European Research Center for Information Systems (ER- Polish Academy of Sciences Warszawa, Poland; L. Sheremetov, CIS), Münster, Germany; P. Delfmann, European Research Center CIS), Münster; P. Delfmann, European Research Center for Infor- Mexican Petroleum Institute, Mexico; L.A. Zadeh, University of for Information Systems (ERCIS), Münster, Germany (Eds.) mation Systems (ERCIS), Münster; T. Rieke, European Research California, Berkeley, CA, USA (Eds.) Center for Information Systems (ERCIS), Münster (Eds.) Reference Modeling Perception-based Data Mining and Effiziente Softwareentwicklung mit Efficient Information Systems Design Through Reuse of Infor- Decision Making in Economics and mation Models Referenzmodellen Finance

Reusability of information models has been dis- Ein Großteil der Kosten in Softwareentwick- lungsprojekten wird von Routineaufgaben verur- The primary goal of this book is to present to the sci- cussed in science and practice for many years. Ref- sacht, die ein geringes Maß an Kreativität erfordern. entific and management communities a selection erence models are information models that are de- Hierzu gehört insbesondere die Verwaltung von of applications using recent Soft Computing (SC) veloped with the aim of being reused for different Modellvarianten, die aufgrund der Vielfalt der An- and Computing with Words and Perceptions (CWP) but similar application scenarios. They primarily forderungen unterschiedlicher Unternehmen an models and techniques meant to solve some eco- promise time and cost savings, since parts of the ref- Software im Rahmen der Anforderungsanalyse kon- nomics and financial problems that are of utmost erence models can be reused. The topic of reference struiert und gepflegt werden müssen. Weiterhin sind importance. The book starts with a coverage of data modeling is addressed in this book from different die Überführung von fachkonzeptionellen Software- mining tools and techniques that may be of use and perspectives: Besides reference modeling languages modellen in Code sowie der kontinuierliche Abgle- significance for economic and financial analyses and that provide special modeling language concepts for ich der Software mit den Anforderungen der Kun- applications. Notably, fuzzy and natural language the development and application of reference mod- den zu diesen Aufgaben zu zählen. Im vorliegenden based approaches and solutions for a more human els, reference modeling methodologies are discussed, Band werden Methoden entwickelt, die Softwareen- consistent dealing with decision support, time series which additionally provide procedure models for the twickler durch weitgehende Automatisierung solch- analysis, forecasting, clustering, etc. are discussed. construction and application of reference models. er Routineaufgaben entlasten. Die Methoden um- The second part deals with various decision making Moreover, particular reference models are discussed fassen ein Softwaremodell-Variantenmanagement, models, particularly under probabilistic and fuzzy and evaluated. die automatisierte Überführung von Modellen in uncertainty, and their applications in solving a wide Contents Code sowie Controlling-Konzepte zur Sicherstellung array of problems including portfolio optimization, O. Thomas: Version Management for Reference der anforderungsgerechten Softwareentwicklung. option pricing, financial engineering, risk analysis Models: Design and Implementation.- J. Becker, Die Anwendbarkeit der Methoden wird durch eine etc. The selected examples could also serve as a start- P. Delfmann, R. Knackstedt: Adaptive Reference entsprechende Toolunterstützung sichergestellt. ing point or as an opening out, in the SC [..] Modeling: Integrating Configurative and Generic Features Features Adaptation Techniques for Information Models.- Weniger Routine Methoden zur Entlastung von Soft- Presents recent Soft Computing (SC) and Comput- F. Gottschalk, W.M.P. van der Aalst, M.H. Jansen- wareentwicklern Werkzeuge zur Automatisierung ing with Words and Perceptions (CWP) models and Vullers: Configurable Process Models - A Founda- Zuverlässige Controlling-Konzepte techniques aims at the scientific and management tional Approach.- T. Rieke, C. Seel: Supporting En- communities includes seleted examples terprise Systems Introduction by Controlling En- abled Configurative Reference Modeling.- F. Ahle- Contents J. Becker, P. Delfmann, T. Rieke: Referenzmod- Contents mann: RefModPM: Reference Information Model ellierung - Perspektiven für die effiziente Gestal- Data Mining.- Towards Human-Consistent Da- for Enterprise-Wide Project Planning, Controlling tung von Softwaresystemen.- P. Delfmann, A. ta-Driven Decision Support Systems via Fuzzy Lin- and Coordination in [..] Stein: Fachkonzept eines konfigurativen Referenz- guistic Data Summaries.- Moving Approximation modellierungswerkzeugs.- T. Rieke, A. Stein: Ar- Transform and Local Trend Associations in Time Se- Fields of interest chitektur eines konfigurativen Referenzmodel- ries Data Bases.- Perception Based Patterns in Time Information Systems; Information Systems Applica- lierungswerkzeugs - adapt(x).- P. Delfmann, T. 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J. Becker, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster; L. Alger- J. Becker, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster; O. Vering, B. Beliczynski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; missen, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster; T. Falk, Prof. Becker GmbH, Altenberge; A. Winkelmann, Westfälische A. Dzielinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; M. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Wilhelms-Universität Münster Iwanowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; B. Ribeiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal (Eds.) Prozessorientierte Softwareauswahl und -einführung Verwaltungsmodernisierung in Industrie und Handel Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms Prozessmanagement im Zeitalter von E-Government und New Vorgehen bei und Erfahrungen mit ERP- und Waren- Public Management wirtschaftssystemen 8th International Conference, ICANNGA 2007, Warsaw, Poland, April 11-14, 2007, Proceedings, Part I

In diesem Buch zur prozessorientierten Verwal- Die Auswahl und Einführung von Un- tungsmodernisierung wird mit der PICTURE-Meth- ternehmenssoftware in Industrie und Handel ist The two volume set LNCS 4431 and LNCS 4432 con- ode ein innovativer Ansatz vorgestellt, der IT- und komplex, und es ist schwierig, die Übersicht zu be- stitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Interna- Organisationsverantwortliche in die Lage verset- halten und alle Details zu beachten. Hunderte von tional Conference on Adaptive and Natural Com- zt, mit Hilfe von standardisierten und wiederver- Anbietern präsentieren ihre Systeme auf Messen puting Algorithms, ICANNGA 2007, held in War- wendbaren Prozessbausteinen die Prozesslandschaft und in Fachzeitschriften, so dass die Auswahl saw, Poland, in April 2007. The 178 revised full pa- einer Verwaltung so zu beschreiben, dass sich die des bestgeeigneten Systems schwer fällt. Die Au- pers presented were carefully reviewed and select- Ziele schneller, ressourcenschonender und quali- toren geben Empfehlungen zum idealen Vorge- ed from a total of 474 submissions. The 94 papers of tativ hochwertiger erreichen lassen. Basierend auf hen bei der Marktsichtung sowie bei Auswahl und the first volume are organized in topical sections on empirischen Analysen, Praxisprojekten und umfan- Einführung des Wunschsystems. Dabei gehen sie u. evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, parti- greichem Expertenfeedback zeigt das Buch, wie z.B. a. auch auf Fragen der Rechtfertigung für und die cle swarm optimization, learning, optimization and Wirtschaftlichkeitsberechnungen von IT-Projekten Kontrolle bei der Einführung neuer Software ein games, fuzzy and rough systems, just as classification und Organisationsmaßnahmen oder Reorganisa- und setzen sich mit der rechtlichen Frage von Ge- and clustering. The second volume contains 84 con- tionen von Prozessen effektiv durchgeführt werden brauchtlizenzen und der bilanziellen Bewertung von tributions related to neural networks, support vector können. Es leistet so einen wertvollen Beitrag zur Softwareeinführungen auseinander. Die einzelnen machines, biomedical signal and image processing, Verwaltungsmodernisierung in Deutschland. Kapitel bauen sachlich aufeinander auf und verschaf- biometrics, computer vision, as well as to control and fen einen hervorragenden Einblick in das Vorge- robotics. Features hen bei der Auswahl und Einführung der Software. Innovativer, neuer Ansatz zur prozessorientierten Beispiele aus namhaften Unternehmen runden die Fields of interest Verwaltungsmodernisierung Verwendung standar- Thematik ab. Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Anal- disierter Prozessbausteine Ansatz basiert auf em- ysis and Problem Complexity; Programming Tech- pirischen Analysen, Praxisprojekten und Experten- Features niques; Software Engineering; Artificial Intelligence befragungen Durchgängiges Vorgehen von der strategischen (incl. Robotics); Image Processing and Computer Vi- Entscheidung für ein neues System über die Auswahl sion Contents bis hin zur Einführung Mit Best-Practice-Beispielen Prozessorientierte Verwaltungsmodernisierung.- aus verschiedenen Unternehmen, Übersichten zu Target groups Prozessmodellierung als Instrument der Verwal- Anbietern und wertvollen Tipps Researchers and professionals tungsmodernisierung.- Prozessmodellierung mit der PICTURE-Methode.- Leitfaden zur Anwendung der Contents Type of publication PICTURE-Methode.- Die PICTURE-Anwendungs- Unternehmenssoftwareeinführung: Eine strate- Proceedings gebiete. gische Entscheidung.- Marktübersicht WWS.- Softwarequalität als Auswahlmerkmal: eine em- Due April 2007 Fields of interest pirische Untersuchung.- Systematische Auswahl Management; Information Systems; Management of von Unternehmenssoftware.- Einsatz von Werkzeu- 2007. XXV, 851 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Computing and Information Systems gen zur Softwareauswahl am Beispiel des IT- puter Science, Band 4431) Softcover Matchmakers.- Bewertung der Kosten und des Target groups Nutzens von Softwareprojekten.- Gebrauchte 94,16 € Praktiker aus den Bereichen Organisation und IT im oder neue Lizenzen?.- Vertragsgestaltung für ISBN 978-3-540-71589-4 öffentlichen Sektor in Deutschland ERP-Projekte.- Bilanzielle und steuerliche As- pekte von betriebswirtschaftlichen Softwaresys- Type of publication temen (ERP-Software).- Projektmanagement bei Professional book Softwareeinführungsprojekten.- Softwareeinführung als Anlass [..] Due May 2007 Fields of interest 2007. XX, 321 S. 75 Abb. Geb. Management; Information Systems; Marketing; En- gineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Mar- 44,95 € keting ISBN 978-3-540-71249-7 Target groups Praktiker

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B. Beliczynski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; G. Bella, Università di Catania, Italia A. Belussi, University of Verona, Italy; B. Catania, University of A. Dzielinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; M. Genova, Italy; E. Clementini, University of L'Aquila, Italy; E. Ferrari, Iwanowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; B. Ribeiro, University Insubria, Varese, Italy (Eds.) University of Coimbra, Portugal (Eds.) Formal Correctness of Security Protocols Spatial Data on the Web Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms Modeling and Management Computer network security is critical to fraud pre- 8th International Conference, ICANNGA 2007, Warsaw, vention and accountability. Network participants Poland, April 11-14, 2007, Proceedings, Part II are required to observe predefined steps called se- Spatial data is essential in a wide range of applica- curity protocols, whose proof of correctness is evi- tion domains today. While geographical applications dence that each protocol step preserves some desired remain the key target area, spatial properties are re- The two volume set LNCS 4431 and LNCS 4432 con- properties. The author investigates proofs of correct- quired in other contexts such as computer-aided de- stitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Interna- ness of realistic security protocols in a formal, intu- sign, robotics and image processing. Associated with tional Conference on Adaptive and Natural Com- itive setting. The protocols examined include Ker- these is the constantly growing number of distribut- puting Algorithms, ICANNGA 2007, held in War- beros versions, smartcard protocols, non-repudia- ed processing architectures, based on, for example, saw, Poland, in April 2007. The 178 revised full pa- tion protocols, and certified email protocols. The grid systems, sensor data networks, and personalized pers presented were carefully reviewed and select- method of analysis, the Inductive Method in the the- smart devices. Spatial Data on the Web links these ed from a total of 474 submissions. The 94 papers of orem prover Isabelle, turns out to be both powerful two research streams, focusing on the modeling and the first volume are organized in topical sections on and flexible. This research advances significant ex- management of spatial data in distributed systems. evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, parti- tensions to the method of analysis, while the findings Belussi and his coeditors have structured the contri- cle swarm optimization, learning, optimization and on the protocols analysed are novel and illuminating. butions from internationally renowned researchers games, fuzzy and rough systems, just as classification This book will benefit researchers and graduate stu- into four parts. Part I presents models for represent- and clustering. The second volume contains 84 con- dents in the fields of formal methods, information ing semistructured, multiresolution and multiscale tributions related to neural networks, support vector security, inductive methods, and networking. data; Part II deals with the integration of spatial data machines, biomedical signal and image processing, sources; Part III describes approaches to spatial data biometrics, computer vision, as well as to control and Features protection; and, finally, Part IV reports innovative robotics. First title to offer a full treatment of formal correct- applications for mobile devices. 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A. Bemporad, Università di Siena, Italy; A. Bicchi, Università di B. Berendt, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany; A. Hotho, M. Bernardo, University of Urbino, Italy; J. Hillston, University of Pisa, Italy; G. Buttazzo, RETIS LAB, AREA CNR, Pisa, Italy (Eds.) University of Kassel, Germany; D. Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute, Edinburgh, UK (Eds.) Ljubliana, Slovenia; G. Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy (Eds.) Hybrid Systems: Computation and Formal Methods for Performance Control From Web to Social Web: Evaluation Discovering and Deploying User 10th International Workshop, HSCC 2007, Pisa, Italy, April 3-5, 7th International School on Formal Methods for the Design of 2007, Proceedings and Content Profiles Computer, Communication, and Software Systems, SFM 2007, Bertinoro, Italy, May 8-June 2, 2007, Advanced Lectures Workshop on Web Mining, WebMine 2006, Berlin, Germany, September 18, 2006 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: This book presents a set of 11 papers accompanying the lectures of leading researchers given at the Computation and Control, HSCC 2007, held in Pisa, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th edition of the International School on Formal Italy in April 2007. The 44 revised full papers and 39 Workshop on Web Mining, WebMine 2006, held in Methods for the Design of Computer, Communica- revised short papers presented together with the ab- Berlin, Germany, September 18th, 2006. Topics in- tion and Software Systems, SFM 2007, held in Berti- stracts of 3 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and cluded are data mining based on analysis of bloggers noro, Italy in May/June 2007. SFM 2007 was devot- selected from 167 submissions. Among the topics ad- and tagging, web mining, XML mining and further ed to formal techniques for performance evalua- dressed are models of heterogeneous systems, com- techniques of knowledge discovery. The book is es- tion and coveres several aspects of the field, includ- putability and complexity issues, real-time comput- pecially valuable for those interested in the aspects of ing formalisms for performance modeling (Markov ing and control, embedded and resource-aware con- the Social Web (Web 2.0) and its inherent dynamic chains, queueing networks, stochastic Petri nets, and trol, control and estimation over wireless networks, and diversity of user-generated content. tools for analysis, verification, control, and design, stochastic process algebras), equivalence checking programming languages support and implementa- Fields of interest and model checking, efficient solution techniques, tion, applications, including automotive, commu- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Artificial and software performance engineering. nication networks, avionics, energy systems, trans- Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communica- Fields of interest portation networks, biology and other sciences, man- tion Networks; Database Management; Information Software Engineering; Programming Languages, ufacturing, and robotics. Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Computers and Compilers, Interpreters; Logics and Meanings of Society Fields of interest Programs; Special Purpose and Application-Based Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Target groups Systems; Computer Communication Networks Processor Architectures; Logics and Meanings of Researchers and professionals Programs; Software Engineering; Computation by Target groups Abstract Devices; Simulation and Modeling Type of publication Advanced students, researchers, and professionals Proceedings Target groups Type of publication Proceedings Researchers and professionals Due September 2007 Type of publication Due May 2007 Proceedings 2007. XI, 161 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4737) Softcover 2007. VII, 469 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Due March 2007 44,94 € er Science, Band 4486) Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-74950-9 57,78 € 2007. XVII, 797 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- puter Science, Band 4416) Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-72482-7

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M.R. Berthold, University of Konstanz, Germany; J. Shawe-Taylor, D. Berube, Suncook, NH, USA C. Bessiere, University of Montpellier, France (Ed.) University College London, UK; N. Lavrac, Jozef Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia (Eds.) Practical Ruby Gems Principles and Practice of Advances in Intelligent Data Constraint Programming - CP 2007 Analysis VII 13th International Conference, CP 2007, Providence, RI, USA, Ruby is a programming language that’s taking the September 25-29, 2007, Proceedings 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA open source world by storm. It’s similar to both Perl 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 6-8, 2007, Proceedings and Python in terms of its potential uses but books about Ruby have already overtaken both Perl and Python books in sales volume. This book describes This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Ruby Gems system, which is an enormous code the 13th International Conference on Principles and This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of library that developers can tap into in order to im- Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2007, held the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Da- prove their projects. 34 Ruby Gems are highlighted in Providence, RI, USA, in September 2007. The 51 ta Analysis, IDA 2007, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and explained in this practical hands-on book, in- revised full papers and 14 revised short papers pre- September 6-8, 2007. The 33 revised papers present- cluding Gems to speed up web applications, process sented together with 8 application papers and the ab- ed were carefully reviewed and selected from almost credit card payments, produce PDF documents, read stracts of 2 invited lectures were carefully reviewed 100 submissions. All current aspects of this interdis- and update RSS feeds, and acquire real-time shipping and selected from 165 submissions. All current issues ciplinary field are addressed; the areas covered in- prices from FedEx and UPS. of computing with constraints are addressed, rang- clude statistics, machine learning, data mining, clas- ing from methodological and foundational aspects - sification and pattern recognition, clustering, appli- Features using algorithms, environments, languages, models cations, modeling, and interactive dynamic data vi- The only book to cover Ruby Gems; exploits a gap and systems - to solving real-world problems in vari- sualization. in the market. There is no direct competition Will ous application fields. appeal to all members of the Ruby and also Rails Fields of interest webdev programming communities Continues the Fields of interest Information Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intelli- Apress line of books focusing on practical real-world Programming Techniques; Programming Languages, gence (incl. Robotics); Probability and Statistics in development with modern popular web development Compilers, Interpreters; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Computer Science; Pattern Recognition; Computer techniques Robotics); Logics and Meanings of Programs; Math- Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Informa- ematical Logic and Formal Languages; Computer tion Systems Contents Appl. in Administrative Data Processing Part I: Using RubyGems.- What is Ruby Gems.- In- Target groups stalling RubyGems.- Using a Gem in your Code.- Target groups Researchers and professionals Gem versioning.- Part II: Gem Recipes.- ActiveRe- Researchers and professionals cord.- BlueCloth.- Camping.- Cmdparse.- Eruby.- Type of publication Type of publication Proceedings Fastcgi.- Feedtools.- Fxruby.- Gnuplot.- Madeleine.- Markaby.- Mod_Ruby.- Multi.- Mongrel.- Net-Sftp.- Proceedings Net-Ssh.- Payment.- Pdf-Writer.- Podcast.- Rails.- Due August 2007 Rake.- Rmagick.- Ruby-Memcache.- Rubyzip.- Due September 2007 Ruwiki.- Salted_Login_Generator.- Sexp.- Shipping.- 2007. XIV, 380 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4723) Shorturl.- Sqlite-Ruby.- Tidy.- Turing.- Urirequire.- 2007. XV, 890 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4741) Softcover Xml-Simple.- Part III: Creating Gems.- Creating Softcover gems.- Distributing gems. 55,64 € 96,30 € ISBN 978-3-540-74824-3 Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-74969-1 Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters

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Personal Wireless Communications Statistik mit MATLAB Towards a General Theory of Logic

The 12th IFIP International Conference on Personal Wire- Anwendungsorientierte Einführung für Ingenieure und Natur- less Communications (PWC 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, wissenschaftler September 2007 Universal Logic is not a new logic, but a general theory of logics, considered as mathematical structures. Dieses Buch führt in die grundlegenden Begriffe und The name was introduced about ten years ago, but the subject is as old as the beginning of modern log- The International conference on Personal Wireless Werkzeuge der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung ein. ic: Alfred Tarski and other Polish logicians such as Communications (PWC 2007) was the twelfth con- Zentrale Begriffe und Methoden der angewandten Adolf Lindenbaum developed a general theory of ference of its series aimed at stimulating technical ex- mathematischen Statistik werden beschrieben, logics at the end of the 1920s based on consequence change between researchers, practitioners and stu- und weitergehende statistische Verfahren wie operations and logical matrices. The subject was re- dents interested in mobile computing and wireless die Varianz- und Regressionsanalyse oder nicht- vived after the flowering of thousands of new log- networks. Wireless communication faces dramatic parametrische Verfahren werden diskutiert. Mod- ics during the last thirty years: there was a need for a changes. The wireless networks are expanding rapid- erne Techniken wie die Monte-Carlo-Methode und systematic theory of logics to put some order in this ly in subscribers, capability, coverage, and applica- wichtige Anwendungsgebiete aus dem ingenieur- chaotic multiplicity. This book contains recent works tions, and costs continue to decrease. Mobile de- wissenschaftlichen Bereich werden vorgestellt. Alle on universal logic by first-class researchers from all vices are becoming ubiquitous with greatly expanded Themen werden weitestgehend unter Verwendung around the world. The book is full of new and chal- computing power and memory, improved displays, von MATLAB bearbeitet. Dies erlaubt die Diskus- lenging ideas that will guide the future of this excit- and wireless logical and personal area connectivi- sion praxisorientierter Beispiele und die grafische ing subject. It will be of interest for people who want ty. The PWC 2007 program covered a variety of re- Visualisierung. Die verwendeten MATLAB-Pro- to better understand what logic is. Tools and con- search topics that are of current interest, including gramme werden ausführlich kommentiert und dem cepts are provided here for those who want to study Ad-Hoc Networks, WiMAX, Heterogeneous Net- Leser als Begleitsoftware auf der Homepage des Au- classes of already existing logics or want to design works, Wireless Networking, QoS and Security, Sen- tors zur Verfügung gestellt. Das Buch enthält über and build new ones. sor Networks, Multicast and Signal processing. 100 Übungsaufgaben mit vollständigen Lösungen. Für die zweite Auflage wurden die Darstellung noch Features Features übersichtlicher gestaltet und die Übungsaufgaben Second, revised edition of the first collection of arti- " Most up-to-date research on Personal Wireless ergänzt. Das Buch eignet sich für Studierende aller cles around the topic of universal logic Starting point Communications" [..] of interdisciplinary research in the fields of, e.g., log- Contents Features ic, linguistic, philosophy, mathematics, computer Ad-Hoc Networks.- WiMAX.- Heterogeneous Net- Praxisorientierte Einführung in das Thema Zahlre- science works.- Wireless Networking I.- Wireless Network- iche anwendungsorientierte Beispiele Eigene Pro- Contents ing II.- Wireless Networking III.- QoS and Security.- gramme des Autors auf der Basis von MATLAB im Preface.- Universal Logic: Frameworks and Struc- Sensor Networks.- Multicast.- Signal Processing.- Internet tures.- Identity and Nature of Logical Structures.- Posters.-Author Index.- Contents Tools and Concepts for Universal Logic. Fields of interest Einführung.- Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung (Zu- Fields of interest Computer Communication Networks fall und Ereignis. Der Begriff der Wahrschein- Mathematical Logic and Foundations; Mathematical lichkeit. Axiomatische Definition der Wahrschein- Logic and Formal Languages; Arithmetic and Logic Target groups lichkeit. Stochastische Unabhängigkeit und bed- Structures Researchers and practitioners interested in mobile ingte Wahrscheinlichkeit. Zufallsvariablen und computing and wireless networks. Verteilungen. Unabhängige Zufallsvariable. Weit- Target groups ere spezifische Verteilungen und ihre Anwendun- Type of publication Graduates, postgraduates and researchers, computer gen. Grenzwertsätze.- Monte-Carlo-Simulationen.- scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, linguists Proceedings Statistische Tolerierung.- Mathematische Statistik.- Monte-Carlo-Analysen.- Statistische Prozesskon- Type of publication Due September 2007 trolle.- Lösungen zu den Übungen.- Herleitung von Proceedings Verteilungen.- Verteilungstabellen.- Begleitsoft- wareindex.- Literatur- [..] 2007. XV, 678 p. 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This book provides the reader with a balanced This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- & integrated presentation of the modelling proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on & simulation activity for both Discrete Event Fast Software Encryption, FSE 2007, held in Luxem- Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2006, held in Dynamic Systems (DEDS) & Continuous Time bourg, Luxembourg in March 2007. The 28 revised Montreal, Canada in August 2006. The 25 revised Dynamic Systems (CTDS). Unconstrained by disci- full papers presented were carefully reviewed and full papers presented together with 2 invited talks pline boundaries, this book presents the fundamen- selected from 104 submissions. The papers address were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 sub- tals necessary to understand the many important all current aspects of fast and secure primitives for missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- facets of the modeling & simulation methodolo- symmetric cryptology and they are organized in top- tions on block cipher cryptanalysis, stream cipher gy. For example, a novel project-oriented approach ical sections on hash function cryptanalysis and de- cryptanalysis, block and stream ciphers, side-channel clearly reveals the dependency of model structure sign, stream ciphers cryptanalysis, theory, block ci- attacks, efficient implementations, message authenti- & granularity on project goals. Written for stu- pher cryptanalysis, block cipher design, theory of cation codes, and hash functions. dents taking a first course in modelling & sim- stream ciphers, side channel attacks, as well as macs ulation at either the senior undergraduate & ju- and small block ciphers. Fields of interest nior graduate levels, this interdisciplinary presenta- Data Encryption; Systems and Data Security; Man- tion provides an essential foundation on the topic. Fields of interest agement of Computing and Information Systems; It is also ideally suited for self-study by profession- Data Encryption; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- als & others who require insight into the fea- Complexity; Coding and Information Theory; Dis- puter Communication Networks; Information Sys- tures & potential of this rapidly evolving prob- crete Mathematics in Computer Science tems Applications (incl.Internet) lem solving paradigm. Target groups Target groups Features Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Only textbook to give a balanced and integrated presentation of modelling and simulation activity Type of publication Type of publication for both Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDS) Proceedings Proceedings and Continuous Time Dynamic Systems (CTDS) A project-oriented approach for developing the mod- Due August 2007 Due September 2007 elling and simulation methodology Novel and contemporary approach to the stages of a modelling and 2007. XI, 467 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4593) 2007. XI, 395 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4356) simulation project Comprehensive coverage of veri- Softcover Softcover fication and [..] 64,20 € 59,92 € Contents ISBN 978-3-540-74617-1 ISBN 978-3-540-74461-0 Fundamentals.- Introduction.- The Modelling and Simulation Process.- DEDS Modelling and Simula- tion.- DEDS Stochastic Behaviour and Data Mod- elling.- A Conceptual Modelling Framework for DEDS.- DEDS simulation Model Development.- Ex- perimentation and Output Analysis.- CTDS Mod- elling and Simulation.- Modelling of Continuous Time Dynamic Systems.- Simulation with CTDS Models.- Optimization.- A1 Probability Primer.- A2 GPSS Primer.- A3 Open Desire Primer.

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Y.M.M. Bishop, Washington, DC, USA; S.E. Fienberg, Carnegie J. Biskup, University of Dortmund, Germany; J. Lopez, University J. Blanc-Talon, DGA/D4S/MRIS, Arcueil, France; W. Philips, Ghent Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; P.W. Holland, Educational of Malaga, Spain (Eds.) University, Ghent, Belgium; D. Popescu, CSIRO ICT Centre, Syd- Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, USA ney, Australia; P. Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium (Eds.) Computer Security - ESORICS 2007 Discrete Multivariate Analysis 12th European Symposium On Research In Computer Security, Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Dresden, Germany, September 24 - 26, 2007, Proceedings Vision Systems

The scientist searching for structure in large systems 9th International Conference, ACIVS 2007, Delft, The Nether- of data finds inspiration in his own discipline, sup- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the lands, August 28-31, 2007, Proceedings port from modern computing, and guidance from 12th European Symposium on Research in Comput- statistical models. Because large sets of data are likely er Security, ESORICS 2007, held in Dresden, Ger- to be complicated, and because so many approaches many in September 2007. The 39 revised full papers suggest themselves, a codification of techniques of This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the presented were carefully reviewed and selected from analysis, regarded as attractive paths rather than as 9th International Conference on Advanced Concepts 164 submissions. ESORICS is confirmed as the Euro- straitjackets, offers the scientist valuable directions for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2007, held in pean research event in computer security; it presents to try. The literature on discrete multivariate analy- Delft, The Netherlands, August 28-31, 2007. The 45 original research contributions, case studies and im- sis, although extensive, is widely scattered. This book revised full papers and 55 revised poster papers pre- plementation experiences addressing any aspect of brings that literature together in an organized way. sented were carefully reviewed and selected from computer security - in theory, mechanisms, applica- around 221 submissions. The papers are organized Features tions, or practical experience. in topical sections on noise reduction and restora- Originally published in 1974, this is a reprint of a tion, segmentation, motion estimation and tracking, Fields of interest classic, still-valuable text video processing and coding, camera calibration, im- Data Encryption; Operating Systems; Computer age registration and stereo matching, biometrics and Contents Communication Networks; Database Management; security, medical imaging, image retrieval and image Introduction.- Structural models for counted data.- Management of Computing and Information Sys- understanding, as well as classification and recogni- Maximum likelihood estimates for complete tables.- tems; Computers and Society tion. Formal goodness of fit: Summary statistics and mod- Target groups el selection.- Maximum likelihood estimation for in- Fields of interest Researchers and professionals complete tables.- Estimating the size of a closed pop- Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics; Artificial Intelli- ulation.- Models for measuring change.- Analysis of Type of publication gence (incl. Robotics) square tables: Symmetry and marginal homogene- Proceedings ity.- Model selection and assessing closeness of fit: Practical aspects.- Other methods for estimation and Target groups testing in cross-classifications.- Measures of associa- Due September 2007 Researchers and professionals tion and agreement.- Pseudo-Bayes estimates of cell Type of publication probabilites.- Sampling [..] 2007. XIV, 628 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4734) Softcover Proceedings Fields of interest Statistical Theory and Methods 77,04 € Due August 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-74834-2 Target groups 2007. XXIII, 1100 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Researchers, students puter Science, Band 4678) Softcover

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H.M. Blanken, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; J. Blazewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland; M. Block, FU Berlin A.P. de Vries, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amster- K.H. Ecker, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA; E. Pesch, Univer- dam, The Netherlands; H.E. Blok, University of Twente, Enschede, sity of Siegen, Germany; G. Schmidt, University of Saarland, The Netherlands; L. Feng, University of Twente, Enschede, The Saarbrücken, Germany; J. Weglarz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Java-Intensivkurs Netherlands (Eds.) Poznan, Poland In 14 Tagen lernen Projekte erfolgreich zu realisieren Multimedia Retrieval Handbook on Scheduling

From Theory to Applications Das Buch bietet eine verständliche, kompakte Einführung in die Softwareentwicklung mit Java. Retrieval of multimedia data is different from re- Es konzentriert sich dabei mehr auf Konzepte und trieval of structured data. A key problem in multi- Methoden als auf versionsspezifische Sprachele- This handbook covers not only in a unified approach media databases is search, and the proposed solu- mente. Ziel ist die Motivation und Ausbildung zum the most important scheduling models and meth- tions to the problem of multimedia information re- Selbststudium. Die Konzepte werden durch die Real- ods, it also put special emphasis to their relevance to trieval span a rather wide spectrum of topics outside isierung von Projekten vermittelt. Dabei setzt dieses practical situations. Many applications from industry the traditional database area, ranging from informa- Buch auf kreative, neue Beispiele und streift durch and service operations management and case studies tion retrieval and human–computer interaction to verschiedene Gebiete der Informatik, wie z.B. Al- are described. Because the book offers some prelimi- computer vision and pattern recognition. Based on gorithmik, Künstliche Intelligenz, Bildverarbeitung naries concerning basic notions from discrete math- more than 10 years of teaching experience, Blanken und Spieleentwicklung. Am Ende jedes Kapitels wer- ematics, it can also be used by beginners. As a conse- and his coeditors have assembled all the topics that den die dargestellten Konzepte kurz zusammenge- quence, the handbook is an indispensable source for should be covered in advanced undergraduate or fasst und durch praktische Aufgaben gefestigt. Die a broad audience, ranging from researchers to prac- graduate courses on multimedia retrieval and multi- im Buch gezeigten Beispiele, Lösungen der Aufgaben titioners, graduate and advanced undergraduate stu- media databases. The single chapters of this textbook und zusätzliches Material werden auf einer Webseite dents in computer science/engineering, operations explain the general architecture of multimedia infor- angeboten. research, industrial and real-time engineering, man- mation retrieval systems; various metadata languages agement science, business administration, informa- like Dublin Core, RDF, or MPEG; pattern recogni- Features tion systems, and applied mathematics curricula. tion through Markov models, unsupervised learning, Schnelle Einführung in Programmierung und die Sprache Java Vermittlung von Konzepten durch Re- and pattern clustering; various indexing approaches Features alisierung von kleinen bis großen Projekten Einfach- to audio and video streams; interaction and control; Reference book for theory and practice of scheduling er Beispielcode für komplexe Themen the protection of content and user privacy; and [..] Covers many different scheduling problems, e.g. in advanced planning, supply chain management, and Features Contents computer systems Only up-to-date textbook for multimedia informa- Tag 1: Vorbereitungen und Motivation.- Tag 2: Grundlegende Prinzipien der Programmentwick- tion retrieval Complete coverage of all media types Contents lung.- Tag 3: Programmieren mit einem einfachen Solid mathematical foundations combined with ap- Introduction.- Basics.- Definition, Analysis and Clas- Klassenkonzept.- Tag 4: Daten laden und speich- plication relevance Detailed suggestions for further sification of Scheduling Problems.- Scheduling on ern.- Tag 5: Verwendung einfacher Datenstruk- reading Additional teaching material available online One Processor.- Scheduling on Parallel Processors.- turen.- Tag 6: Debuggen und Fehlerbehandlun- Communication Delays and Multiprocessor Tasks.- Contents gen.- Tag 7: Erweitertes Klassenkonzept.- Tag 8: Scheduling in Hard Real-Time Systems.- Flow Shop Introduction.- Languages for Metadata.- Pattern Verwendung von Bibliotheken.- Tag 9: Grafische Scheduling.- Open Shop Scheduling.- Scheduling Recognition for Multimedia Content Analysis.- Benutzeroberflächen.- Tag 10: Appletprogram- in Job Shops.- Scheduling with Limited Processor Searching for Text Documents.- Image Processing.- mierung.- Tag 11: Techniken der Programmentwick- Availability.- Processor Scheduling under Resource Generative Probabilistic Models.- Speech Indexing.- lung.- Tag 12: Bildverarbeitung.- Tag 13: Methoden Constraints.- Constraint Programming and Disjunc- Semantic Video Indexing.- A Spatio-Temporal and der Künstlichen Intelligenz.- Tag 14: Entwicklung tive Scheduling.- Scheduling in Flexible Manufac- a Probabilistic Approach for Video Retrieval.- Mul- einer größeren Applikation.- Java - [..] turing Systems.- Computer Integrated Production ti-Modal Content-Based Video Retrieval.- Interac- Scheduling. tion.- Digital Rights Management.- Evaluation of Fields of interest Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Multimedia Retrieval Systems.- Index. 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F. Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal; E. Monteiro, Universi- I. Boersch, Fachhochschule Brandenburg, Brandenburg; J. Hein- A. Bondavalli, Università de Firenze, Italy; F. Brasileiro, Universi- ty of Coimbra, Portugal; S. Mascolo, Politechnic University, Bari, sohn, Fachhochschule Brandenburg, Brandenburg; R. Socher, dade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil; S. Rajsbaum, Universi- Italy; Y. Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Fachhochschule Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven, Emden dad Nacional Autónoma de México , México (Eds.) (Eds.) Wissensverarbeitung Dependable Computing Wired/Wireless Internet Eine Einführung in die Künstliche Intelligenz für Informatiker Third Latin-American Symposium, LADC 2007, Morelia, Mexi- Communications und Ingenieure co, September 26-28, 2007, Proceedings

5th International Conference, WWIC 2007, Coimbra, Portugal, May 23-25, 2007, Proceedings Moderne Methoden der Wissensverarbeitung This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the haben einen festen Platz im Studium der Infor- Third Latin-American Symposium on Dependable This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the matik erobert. Dieses Buch gibt eine Einführung Computing, LADC 2007, held in Morelia, Mexico, in 5th International Conference on Wired/Wireless In- in die wichtigsten Begriffe und Methoden der September 2007. The 14 revised full papers present- ternet Communications, WWIC 2007, held in Coim- Wissensverarbeitung. Es vermittelt verschiedene ed together with 2 invited talks, and outlines of 3 tu- bra, Portugal in May 2007. The 32 revised full papers Formalismen zur adäquaten und problembezo- torials and 2 panel sessions, were carefully reviewed presented were carefully reviewed and selected from genen Darstellung von Wissen und behandelt and selected from 37 submissions. The papers are 257 submissions. The papers are organized in topi- Problemlösungsmethoden, die es ermöglichen, aus organized in topical sections on fault-tolerant algo- cal sessions on transport layer issues, handover and Wissensbeständen neues Wissen abzuleiten. Nach rithms, software engineering of dependable systems, QoS, traffic engineering, audio/video over IP, IEEE der Darstellung von Suchverfahren und Constraint- networking and mobile computing, experimental de- 802.11 WLANs, sensor networks, protocols for ad- techniken als wichtige Problemlösungsmethoden pendability evaluation, as well as intrusion tolerance hoc and mesh networks, as well as OFDM systems. werden folgende Arten der Wissensverarbeitung and security. behandelt: Logik- und regelbasierte Verfahren, Fields of interest Begründungsverwaltung, unsicheres Wissen, Fuzzy- Fields of interest Computer Communication Networks; Information Logik, die Verarbeitung zeitlichen Wissens und Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Sys- Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Software Engi- Planungsverfahren. Die vorliegende 2., überar- tem Performance and Evaluation; Software Engi- neering; Systems and Data Security; Personal Com- beitete Auflage enthält zwei zusätzliche Kapitel neering; Logic Design; Coding and Information The- puting; Communications Engineering, Networks zu evolutionären Algorithmen und künstlichen ory; Systems and Data Security neuronalen Netzen. Das Buch richtet sich an Target groups Studierende der Informatik und der Ingenieurwis- Target groups Researchers and professionals senschaften sowie an all diejenigen, die die wichtig- Reseachers and professionals sten Konzepte und Methoden der [..] Type of publication Type of publication Proceedings Features Proceedings - mit einer Vielzahl von Beispielen und Übungsauf- Due May 2007 gaben (inkl. Lösungen) - in der 2.A. ergänzt um Due September 2007 Kapitel zu evolutionären Algorithmen und neuronalen Netzen 2007. XIV, 382 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- 2007. XIX, 239 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4746) Softcover er Science, Band 4517) Softcover Fields of interest 55,64 € Computer Science, general; Information Systems 48,15 € ISBN 978-3-540-72694-4 Applications (incl.Internet); Electronic and Comput- ISBN 978-3-540-75293-6 er Engineering

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M.M. Bonsangue, Leiden University, The Netherlands; E.B. R.H. Bordini, University of Durham, UK; M. Dastani, Utrecht Uni- D. Bosnacki, Einhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norwegen (Eds.) versity, The Netherlands; J. Dix, Clausthal University of Technol- Netherlands; S. Edelkamp, University of Dortmund, Germany ogy, Germany; A. El Fallah Seghrouchni, University of Paris VI, (Eds.) France (Eds.) Formal Methods for Open Object- Model Checking Software Based Distributed Systems Programming Multi-Agent Systems 14th International SPIN Workshop, Berlin, Germany, July 1-3, 9th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FMOODS 2007, Pa- 4th International Workshop, ProMAS 2006,, Hakodate, 2007, Proceedings phos, Cyprus, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings Japan,May 9, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- 14th International SPIN workshop on Model Check- the 9th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on ing Software, SPIN 2007, held in Berlin, Germany in Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distribut- Programming Multi-Agent Systems, ProMAS 2006, July 2007 in conjunction with the 19th International ed Systems, FMOODS 2007, held in Paphos, Cyprus held in Hakodate, Japan, in May 2006 as an associat- Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV in June 2007. The 17 revised full papers presented to- ed event of AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint 2007. The 14 revised full papers presented togeth- gether with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent er with 4 tool presentation papers and the abstracts and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are Systems. The 12 revised full papers presented togeth- of 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and select- organized in topcical sections on model checking er with 2 invited articles are organized in topical sec- ed from 39 submissions. The papers are organized rewriting logic components and services algebraic tions on uncertainty of agents, lightweight devices in topical sections on directed model checking, par- calculi specification, verification and refinenment, for business and e-commerce applications, compo- tial order reduction, program analysis, exploration and quality of service. nent-based agents for MAS simulation, dynamic log- advances, modeling and case studies, as well as tool ic programming in MAS, rule-based agents, affective Fields of interest demonstrations. agents and reinforcement agents, BDI agent frame- Computer Communication Networks; Programming works, creation, execution, mobility and commu- Fields of interest Techniques; Software Engineering; Operating Sys- nication of agents, agent-like communication, val- Software Engineering; Programming Languages, tems; Programming Languages, Compilers, Inter- idation, debugging and testing, multi-agent tech- Compilers, Interpreters; Logics and Meanings of preters; Logics and Meanings of Programs niques and issues, multi-agent programming, as well Programs Target groups as multi-agent platforms and organization. Target groups Researchers and professionals Fields of interest Researchers and professionals Type of publication Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Type of publication Proceedings Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Programming Proceedings Languages, Compilers, Interpreters Due May 2007 Due June 2007 Target groups 2007. X, 317 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Researchers and professionals 2007. X, 285 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4595) Science, Band 4468) Softcover Type of publication Softcover 72,76 € Proceedings 48,15 € ISBN 978-3-540-72919-8 ISBN 978-3-540-73369-0 Due April 2007

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M. Bowers, Hermiston, OR, USA A. Bradburne, Incrediblinc Ltd, London, UK A.R. Bradley, Stanford University, CA, USA; Z. Manna, Stanford University, CA, USA Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns Practical Rails Social Networking Sites The Calculus of Computation Decision Procedures with Applications to Verification Applying design patterns to HTML and CSS allows web developers and designers to improve their work, This book ties together the popular framework Ruby in terms of efficiency/productivity and end results, on Rails with another hot concept - social network- Computational logic is a fast-growing field with ap- so this is an essential book for anyone involved in the ing websites such as MySpace and FaceBook. Social plications in artificial intelligence, constraint solving, industry to own. As well as information on CSS and networking is a kingpin of the Web 2.0 revolution and the design and verification of software and hard- HTML best practices, this book provides the read- sweeping the Internet right now. Due to its versatili- ware systems. Written with graduate and advanced er with all the CSS and HTML design patterns they ty, using Ruby on Rails to build and maintain social undergraduate students in mind, this textbook in- need, to adapt for their own projects quickly and eas- networking sites is the perfect partnership. This book troduces computational logic from the foundations ily, along with details of exactly how each one works, will be one of the few project-based guides to Ruby of first-order logic to state-of-the-art decision pro- and how to use them most effectively. The book is on Rails - perfect for programmers that prefer the cedures for arithmetic, data structures, and combi- up to date for modern browser support, and CSS and hands-on method of learning by example. nation theories. This textbook also presents a logi- HTML specs. cal approach to engineering correct software. The in- Features Features creasing ubiquity of computers makes implementing Unique book - no other book covers Rails and social Design patterns in web design and development correct systems more important than ever. Verifica- networking to this extent Covers Ruby on Rails, one are a very hot topic Provides a complete set of CSS tion exercises develop the reader's facility in specify- of the hottest open source technologies Covers so- and HTML design patterns for readers to use in ing and verifying software using logic. The treatment cial networking, part of the Web 2.0 revolution that’s their own projects, AND explains how they work, of verification concludes with an introduction to the changing the way we use the Internet and how to use them most effectively Includes de- static analysis of software, an important component tailed information on CSS and HTML best practices of modern verification systems. For readers interest- Contents ed in learning more about computational logic, deci- Covers browser support in all the most up to date 1. Introduction to Ruby and Rails.- 2. Building a browsers sion procedures, verification, and other areas of for- Page Creation and Management System.- 3. Adding mal methods, the final [..] Users and Groups.- 4. News Management System.- 5. Contents Discussion Forums.- 6. File Uploading and Hosting.- Introduction to Semantic HTML.- Introduction to Features 7. Building a Blogging Engine.- 8. Email Newsletters CSS.- Combining HTML and CSS.- HTML Best Presents a logical approach to engineering correct and Mailing Lists.- 9. Creating Themes.- 10. Tag- Practices.- CSS Layout Best Practices.- Different Me- software as an application of computational logic ging and using Plugins.- 11. Building a Plugin to dia Best Practices.- Design Patterns Overview.- Text add polls.- 12. Mashups. Integrating with APIs.- 13. Contents and Images.- Backgrounds and Borders.- Lists.- Ta- Make it Mobile.- 14. Deploying, Performance and Propositional Logic.- First-Order Logic.- First-Order bles.- Navigation.- Layouts.- Forms.- Accessibility.- Scaling. Theories.- Induction.- Program Correctness: Me- Appendix A - Troubleshooting CSS.- Appendix B chanics.- Program Correctness: Strategies.- Quan- - Should we use XHTML?.- Appendix C - Unused Fields of interest tified Linear Arithmetic.- Quantifier-Free Linear HTML Elements.- Appendix D - Unused CSS El- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters Arithmetic.- Quantifier-Free Equality and Data ements.- Appendix E - Resources.- Appendix F - Structures.- Combining Decision Procedures.- Ar- Glossary. Target groups rays.- Invariant Generation.- Further Reading.- Ref- Intermediate Web developers and Ruby program- erences.- Index. 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M. Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK A. Branco, Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, Portugal (Ed.) W. Brenner, Universität St. Gallen, Schweiz; R. Wenger, Daimler- Chrysler AG, Sindelfingen (Eds.) Principles of Data Mining Anaphora: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications Elektronische Beschaffung Stand und Entwicklungstendenzen 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, Data Mining, the automatic extraction of implicit DAARC 2007, Lagos Portugal, March 29-30, 2007, Selected Pa- and potentially useful information from data, is in- pers creasingly used in commercial, scientific and other Der enorme Kostendruck in Industrieun- application areas. This book explains and explores ternehmen sowie der erkennbare Wan- the principal techniques of Data Mining: for classi- del der Wertschöpfungsketten hin zu fication, generation of association rules and cluster- This book constitutes revised selected papers of the Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken werden die Bedeu- ing. It is written for readers without a strong back- 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution tung der Beschaffung auf den Unternehmenser- ground in mathematics or statistics and focuses on Colloquium, DAARC 2007, held in Lagos, Portu- folg sowie die Komplexität der Beschaffungsauf- detailed examples and explanations of the al- gal in March 2007. The 13 revised full papers pre- gaben noch weiter erhöhen. Diese Herausforderung gorithms given. This should prove of value to readers sented were carefully reviewed and selected from kann nur durch den verstärkten Einsatz geeigneter, of all kinds, from those whose only use of data min- 60 initial submissions during two rounds of review- prozessorientierter Informationstechnologie bei der ing techniques will be via commercial packages right ing and improvements. The papers are organized in Beschaffung direkter Güter bewältigt werden. Dieses through to academic researchers. This book aims to topical sections on human processing and perfor- Buch bietet durch die Darstellung des State-of-the- help the general reader develop the necessary under- mance, language analysis and representation, resolu- Art und der Entwicklungstendenzen aus Sicht der standing to use commercial data mining packages tion methodology and algorithms, as well as compu- Wissenschaft sowie namhafter IT-Anbieter-, Be- discriminatingly, as well as enabling the advanced tational systems and applications. ratungs- und Industrieunternehmen erstmals einen reader to understand or contribute to future techni- Fields of interest ganzheitlichen Überblick über Strategien, Prozesse cal advances in the field. Each chapter has practical Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Language und Systeme bei der Beschaffung direkter Güter. exercises to enable readers to check their progress. A Translation and Linguistics; Data Mining and Daraus können Handlungsempfehlungen für die full glossary of technical terms [..] Knowledge Discovery; Document Preparation and konkrete Ausgestaltung in den Unternehmen gewon- Features Text Processing; Mathematical Logic and Formal nen werden. Presents the principal techniques of data mining Languages Features with particular emphasis on explaining and motivat- Target groups Ganzheitliche Darstellung des Themengebiets aus ing the techniques used Focuses on developing an Researchers and professionals Sicht von Industrieunternehmen, Unternehmens- understanding of the basic algorithms and an aware- beratungen, IT-Anbietern und der Wissenschaft Er- ness of their strengths and weaknesses Readers are Type of publication stes Standardwerk zum Themengebiet Beschaffung not required to have a strong mathematical or statis- Proceedings direkter Güter, Einblick in die Prozess- und Sys- tical background Can be used as a textbook and also temwelt namhafter Industrieunternehmen, Ausblick for self-study Due March 2007 auf zukünftige Entwicklungen Contents Contents Introduction to Data Mining.- Data for Data Min- 2007. X, 191 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Theoretische Grundlagen - Sicht der Wissenschaft.- ing.- Introduction to Classification: Naive Bayes and Science, Band 4410) Softcover Strategische Herausforderungen der Beschaffungs- Nearest Neighbour.- Using Decision Trees for Clas- funktion in Industrieunternehmen: Porsche Consult- sification.- Decision Tree Induction: Using Entropy 44,94 € ing GmbH; Arthur D. 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U. Brinkschulte, Universität Karlsruhe; T. Ungerer, Universität P. Brito, University of Porto, Portugal; P. Bertrand, ENST Bretagne, D.R. Brooks, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA Augsburg Cesson-Sévigné, France; G. Cucumel, ESG UQAM, Montréal, QC, Canada; F. De Carvalho, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil (Eds.) An Introduction to HTML and Mikrocontroller und JavaScript for Scientists and Mikroprozessoren Selected Contributions in Data Engineers Analysis and Classification

Das vorliegende Buch gibt zunächst eine Darstel- JavaScript is widely used for simple online appli- lung der grundlegenden Prinzipien der Mikrocon- cations. This book presents HTML and JavaScript troller und Mikroprozessoren. Anschließend wird This volume presents recent methodological devel- in a way that uniquely meets the needs of students detailliert der neueste Stand der Technik dieser opments in data analysis and classification. A wide in the sciences and engineering. It Hardware-Bausteine erläutert, und es werden alle range of topics is covered that includes methods for explains how to create simple client-side ap- wichtigen Entwicklungstendenzen bis hin zum ak- classification and clustering, dissimilarity analysis, plications for scientific and engineering calcula- tuellen Forschungsstand vorgestellt. Ferner wer- graph analysis, consensus methods, conceptual anal- tions. It includes many complete HTML/JavaScript den in der Praxis häufig verwendete Mikrocon- ysis of data, analysis of symbolic data, statistical mul- examples with science/engineering applications to troller und Mikroprozessoren in ihrer Funktion- tivariate methods, data mining and knowledge dis- guide the reader progressively and comprehensively sweise analysiert und zukunftsweisende Technolo- covery in databases. Besides structural and theoreti- through the subject. This book is specifically target- gien dieser Bausteine aufgezeigt. Dieses Buch ist cal results, the book presents a wide variety of applied at a technical audience-- but not one that is neces- besonders geeignet für Studierende der Informatik cations, in fields such as biology, micro-array analy- sarily familiar with a programming language,-- and oder Elektrotechnik im fortgeschrittenen Grund- sis, cyber traffic, bank fraud detection, and text anal- gives the reader a sufficient understanding of HTML studium oder zu Beginn des Hauptstudiums sowie ysis. Combining new methodological advances with and JavaScript to write their own online applications. in der Praxis stehende Fachleute der Elektrotechnik, a wide variety of real applications, this volume is cer- The exposition emphasises basic programming prin- Automatisierungstechnik und hardwarenahen In- tainly of special value for researchers and practition- ciples in a modern Web-oriented environment, mak- formatik, die mit der Planung und der Entwicklung ers, providing new analytical tools that are useful in ing it also highly suitable for an introductory pro- oder dem Einsatz von Mikrocontrollern und Mikro- theoretical research and daily practice in classifica- gramming course for non-computer science majors. prozessoren befasst sind. tion and data analysis. It is also ideal for self-study. There is supplementary Features Contents website for this book containing code examples and Neuester Stand der Technik Praxisanwendungen, Analysis of Symbolic Data.- Clustering Methods.- [..] Entwicklungen und Trends Detailliertes Grundla- Conceptual Analysis of Data.- Consensus Methods.- Features genwissen für Studium und Praxis Data Analysis, Data Mining, and KDD.- Dissimilari- ties: Structures and Indices.- Multivariate Statistics. Addresses directly the needs of engineers and scien- Contents tists by explaining just those components of HTML Grundlegende Prozessortechniken.- Be- Fields of interest and JavaScript needed to write their own online ap- fehlssatzbeispiele.- Einfache Prozessoren/Prozes- Statistical Theory and Methods; Data Mining and plications Features detailed code examples and out- sorkerne.- Beispielprozessoren.- Mikrocontroller.- Knowledge Discovery; Pattern Recognition put to guide the reader comprehensively Mikrocontroller-Komponenten.- Der 8-Bit Con- Target groups Contents troller 8051 und Varianten.- Der 8-Bit Controller Researchers in statistics and data analysis Introductory Concepts.- HTML Document Basics.- 68HC11.- Der 16/32-Bit Controller 68332.- Der HTML Tables, Forms and Lists.- Fundamentals of 32-Bit Controller StrongARM SA1100.- Signal- Type of publication the JavaScript Language.- Using Arrays in HTML/ prozessoren.- Der Hochleistungs-Signalprozessor Monograph JavaScript.- JavaScript Functions.- Glossary.- Appen- TMS320C64x.- Hochperformante Mikroprozes- dices.- Index soren.- Beispiele superskalarer Mikroprozessoren.- Due August 2007 Pentium III/IV.- Athlon.- Zukunftstechniken für Fields of interest Mikroprozessoren.- Trace Cache.- Superspekulativ.- Programming Techniques; Programming Lan- Multiskalar.- Chip-Multiprozessor. 2007. XIII, 634 p. 131 illus. (Studies in Classification, Data Analy- guages, Compilers, Interpreters; Engineering, gen- sis, and Knowledge Organization) Softcover eral; Popular Science in Mathematics/Natural Sci- Fields of interest ence/Technology; User Interfaces and Human Com- Control Structures and Microprogramming; Pro- 128,35 € puter Interaction; Information Systems Applications cessor Architectures; Performance and Reliability; ISBN 978-3-540-73558-8 (incl.Internet) Arithmetic and Logic Structures; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Electronics and Microelectronics, Target groups Instrumentation Students (undergraduates and graduates), researchers Target groups Studierende der Informatik und Elektrotechnik; Type of publication Praktiker; Fachleute der Elektrotechnik, Automa- Undergraduate textbook tisierungstechnik und der hardwarenahen Infor- matik Due July 2007 Type of publication German textbook 2007. Approx. 200 p. Also available online. Softcover

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P. Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA; A. Kobsa, Uni- N. Bshouty, Technion, Israel; C. Gentile, Universita' dell 'Insubria, Bui Minh Duc, Laval University, Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada versity of California, CA, USA; W. Nejdl, University of Hannover, Italy (Eds.) Germany (Eds.) Real-Time Object Uniform Design Learning Theory The Adaptive Web Methodology with UML 20th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, COLT 2007, San Methods and Strategies of Web Personalization Diego, CA, USA, June 13-15, 2007, Proceedings The competitiveness of organizations facing global- ization, information and communication technolo- Following the increase in of the information This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of gies relies on strategic issues such as reuse of knowl- available on the Web, the diversity of its users the 20th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, edge from past experiences to make higher quality and the complexity of Web applications, researchers COLT 2007, held in San Diego, CA, USA in June decisions, deployment of innovative, fast method- started developing adaptive Web systems that tai- 2007. The 41 revised full papers presented together ological approaches for solving problems and build- lored their appearance and behavior to each individ- with 5 articles on open problems and 2 invited lec- ing systems. Real-life systems are often multidisci- ual user or user group. Adaptive systems were de- tures were carefully reviewed and selected from a to- plinary; their development commands a 'uniform' signed for different usage contexts, exploring tal of 92 submissions. The papers cover a wide range way of object modeling in order to close the loop of different kinds of personalization. Web personaliza- of topics and are organized in topical sections on un- various interactions crossing multiple domains. One tion has evolved into a large research field attracting supervised, semisupervised and active learning, sta- part of Real Time Object Uniform Design Methodol- scientists from different communities such as hyper- tistical learning theory, inductive inference, regular- ogy with UML is targeted to be used as a basic text- text, user modeling, machine learning, natural lan- ized learning, kernel methods, SVM, online and re- book in Computer Science for teaching object mod- guage generation, information retrieval, intelligent inforcement learning, learning algorithms and limi- eling, fundamental concepts learning and system de- tutoring systems, cognitive science, and Web-based tations on learning, dimensionality reduction, other signing with thirteen UML diagrams. Another part education. This state-of-the-art survey provides a approaches, and open problems. is devoted to advanced research topics, samples and systematic overview of the ideas and techniques of case studies. They are must readings for any system the adaptive Web and serves as a central source of Fields of interest developer or any graduate student in any discipline information for researchers, practitioners, and stu- Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Anal- that needs materials and thoughts for future develop- dents. The volume constitutes a comprehensive and ysis and Problem Complexity; Mathematical Logic ments, the power of object modeling packed along a carefully planned collection of chapters, mapping out and Formal Languages; Artificial Intelligence (incl. [..] the most important areas of the adaptive [..] Robotics) Features Fields of interest Target groups Uniform modeling methodology for systems involv- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Information Researchers and professionals ing multiple domains In depth and multi level dis- Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Appli- cussion of modeling concepts, UML elements and Type of publication cations (incl.Internet); User Interfaces and Human diagrams Research topics beyond UML: SEN (Petri Proceedings Computer Interaction; Computer Communication like net) and Image Attribute Method for dynamic Networks; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) studies Effective deployment of reuse concept and Due June 2007 MDA (Model Driven Architecture). Create immedi- Target groups ately business assets with the first project Theoretical Researchers and professionals 2007. XI, 634 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer and practical at the [..] Science, Band 4539) Softcover Type of publication Contents Proceedings 77,04 € List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. 1. Introduc- ISBN 978-3-540-72925-9 tion to the world of systems, problems and solutions. Due April 2007 2. Coping with complexity. 3. UML Infrastructure: Core concepts. 4. UML Superstrucutre: Language 2007. XII, 673 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- definition and diagrams. 5. Fundamental concepts of er Science, Band 4321) Softcover the real world and their mapping into UML. 6. The Uniform concept. 7. Real time behavioral study be- 79,18 € yond UML. 8. Real time case studies. References. In- ISBN 978-3-540-72078-2 dex.

Fields of interest Circuits and Systems; Software Engineering/Pro- gramming and Operating Systems; Software Engi- neering; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instru- mentation; Programming Languages, Compilers, In- terpreters

Target groups Computer scientists, computer professionals, database modelers, system analysts in all domains, Undergraduate level: Text book for "Object Software and System Design" or UML courses (4th trimester or higher) in Computer Sciences & Software Engineering, Graduate Level: Text Book for Electri- cal Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and all other domains involved in System Design using object technology

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112,30 € B. Bukovics, Radiant Systems, Inc., Alpharetta, GA, USA H. Bunt, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; R. Muskens, Tilburg ISBN 978-1-4020-5976-6 University, The Netherlands (Eds.) Pro WF Computing Meaning Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0 Volume 3

Windows Workflow Foundation is part of a bun- dle of new products that update .NET 2.0 into .NET This book provides an in-depth view of the current 3.0. They are scheduled for release in January 2007. issues, problems and approaches in the computation WF is particularly important as it natively inte- of meaning as expressed in language. Aimed at lin- grates workflows into Visual Studio for the first time. guists, computer scientists, and logicians with an in- Workflows allow you to chart both human and code terest in the computation of meaning, this book fo- interactions as a series of flow-chart diagrams, al- cuses on two main topics in recent research in com- lowing you to see your code as a series of interact- putational semantics. The first topic is the definition ing elements that can move and change rather than and use of underspecified semantic representations, as static blocks. This book is one of the first to cov- i.e. formal structures that represent part of the mean- er this important addition to .NET, and aims to pro- ing of a linguistic object while leaving other parts un- vide the reader with a solid grounding in how work- specified. The second topic discussed is semantic an- flows are implemented, executed, maintained and notation. Annotated corpora have become an indis- customized. Given the importance of this technolo- pensable resource both for linguists and for devel- gy release, the fact that WF is a free add-on, and the opers of language and speech technology, especial- book’s broad appeal, it will be useful to almost all ex- ly when used in combination with machine learn- isting or migrating .NET 2.0 developers and should ing methods. The annotation in corpora has only see very healthy sales as WF is rapidly adopted. marginally addressed semantic information, however, since semantic annotation methodologies are Features still in their infancy. This book discusses the devel- One of the first books to be released on this innova- opment and application of such methodologies. tive new technology Comprehensively covers WF from setup through implementation to customiza- Features tion so readers are given a ‘one stop’ grounding in The long-awaited follow up to the successful first two the subject As part of .NET 3.0, Windows Workflow books on computing meaning A collection of papers Foundation is an important new technology and de- by outstanding researchers in the field of computa- mand for this title is expected to be high tional semantics

Contents Fields of interest A Quick Tour of Windows Workflow.- Activities.- Computational Linguistics; Language Translation Workflow Parameters.- Hosting and Monitoring and Linguistics; Semantics; Artificial Intelligence (in- the Workflow Runtime.- Using Workflow Services.- cl. Robotics) Event Driven Activities.- State Machine Workflows.- Exception and Error Handling.- Workflow Persis- Target groups tence.- Flow Control.- Dynamically Altering Run- Linguists, computer scientists, logicians ning Workflows.- Debugging Workflows.- Workflow Type of publication Security.- Transaction Control.- Accessing Web Ser- Contributed volume vices.- Messaging and Queuing.- Customization with Xaml-based Workflows.- Hosting the Workflow De- signer. Due August 2007

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E.B. Burger, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA H.-D. Burkhard, G. Lindemann, R. Verbrugge, L. Varga (Eds.) C. Bussler, Cisco Systems, USA; M. Castellanos, Hewlett-Packard, USA; U. Dayal, Hewlett-Packard, USA; S. Navathe, Georgia Insti- tute of Technology, USA (Eds.) Extending the Frontiers of Multi-Agent Systems and Mathematics Applications V Business Intelligence for the Real- Inquiries into proof and argumentation 5th International Central and Eastern European Conference Time Enterprises on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS 2007, Leipzig, Germany, September 25-27, 2007, Proceedings First International Workshop, BIRTE 2006, Seoul, Korea, September 11, 2006, Revised Selected Papers In the real world of research mathematics, mathematicians do not know in advance if their asser- tions are true or false. Extending the Frontiers of This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- Mathematics: Inquiries into proof and argumenta- the 5th International Central and Eastern European proceedings of the First International Workshop on tion requires students to develop a mature process Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS 2007, Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise, that will serve them throughout their professional held in Leipzig, Germany, September 25-27, 2007. BIRTE 2006, held in Seoul, Korea in September 2006 careers, either inside or outside of mathematics. Its The 29 revised full papers and 17 revised short pain conjunction with VLDB 2006, the Internation- inquiry-based approach to the foundations of math- pers presented together with an invited paper were al Conference on Very Large Data Bases. The 12 re- ematics promotes exploring proofs and other ad- carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. vised full papers presented were carefully reviewed vanced mathematical ideas through these features: - The papers cover a wide range of areas such as: scal- and selected for inclusion in the book. Focussing on Puzzles and patterns introduce the pedagogy. These ability and reconfigurability of multi agent systems; different aspects in the lifecycle of business intelli- precursors to proofs generate creativity and imag- deployment scenarios exploiting synergies of mul- gence on very large enterprise-wide operational re- ination that the author builds on later - Prove and ti agent systems and other related technologies like al-time data sets, the papers discuss the five major as- extend or disprove and salvage, a consistent format grid, web services and semantic web; applications of pects of business intelligence for the real-time enter- of the text, provides a framework for approaching multi agent systems in design and manufacturing, prise: models and concepts for real-time enterprise problems and creating mathematical proofs - Math- transport and logistics, space applications, tourism business intelligence, architectures for real-time en- ematical challenges are presented which build upon industry, e-commerce and many other application terprise business intelligence, uses cases of real-time each other, motivate analytical skills, and foster in- areas. enterprise business intelligence, applications of and teresting discussion Fields of interest technologies for the real-time enterprise business in- Features Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer telligence. The short length gives it flexibility; it can be used Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Fields of interest as either a core text or a supplementary text Its in- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); In- quiry-based, investigative in nature leads but doesn’t Target groups formation Storage and Retrieval; User Interfaces and show The text features puzzles and patterns situated Researchers and professionals Human Computer Interaction; Computers and So- at the beginning as precursors to proofs The "prove ciety; Management of Computing and Information and extend or disprove and salvage” instruction is Type of publication Systems; Information Systems repeated, thus providing a consistent framework for Proceedings approaching the problems Edward B. Burger’s [..] Target groups Researchers and professionals Contents Due September 2007 Introduction: A brief travel guide to the journey Type of publication ahead.- 1. Puzzles and patterns: A precursor to 2007. XII, 350 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4696) Proceedings proofs.-2. Bringing theorems to justice: Exposing the Softcover truth through rigorous proof.- 3. Delving into the dependable digits: Counting on counting numbers.- 55,64 € Due July 2007 4. Going around in circles: The art of modular arith- ISBN 978-3-540-75253-0 metic.- 5. The irrational side of numbers: A world 2007. IX, 157 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer of nonrepeating digits.- 6. Discovering how to func- Science, Band 4365) Softcover tion in mathematics: Moving beyond ordinary relations.- 7. Infinity: Understanding the unending.- 8. 44,94 € Recursively defined functions: The next generation.- ISBN 978-3-540-73949-4 9. Discrete thoughts of [..]

Fields of interest Mathematical Logic and Foundations; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science

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A. Butz, Technical University of Munich, Germany; B. Fisher, Si- M.V. Butz, University of Würzburg, Germany; O. Sigaud, Animat- J. Byrnes, Prometheus Inc., Newport, USA (Ed.) mon Fraser University, Surrey, Canada; A. Krüger, University of Lab, Paris, France; G. Pezzulo, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy; G. Baldas- Muenster, Germany; P. Olivier, University of Newcastle upon sarre, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy (Eds.) Tyne, UK; S. Owada, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Tokyo, Imaging for Detection and Japan (Eds.) Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Identification Smart Graphics Learning Systems

8th International Symposium, SG 2007, Kyoto, Japan, June From Brains to Individual and Social Behavior The fusion of basic ideas in mathematics, radar, 25-27, 2007, Proceedings sonar, biology, and chemistry with ongoing improvements in hardware and computation offers This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- the promise of much more sophisticated and accurate detection and identification capabilities than This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of workshop proceedings of the Third International currently exist. Coupled with the dramatic rise in the 8th International Symposium on Smart Graph- Workshop on Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive the need for surveillance in innumerable aspects of ics, SG 2007, held in Kyoto, Japan in June 2007 joint- Learning Systems, ABiALS 2006, held in Rome, Italy, our daily lives, brought about by hostile acts deemed ly with the Visual Computing / Graphics and CAD in September 2006, in association with SAB 2006, unimaginable only a few short years ago, the time is symposium, which takes place in Osaka, Japan. The the 9th International Conference on Simulation of ripe for image processing scientists in these usually 15 revised full papers and 13 revised poster papers Adaptive Behavior. The 20 revised full papers pre- diverse fields to join together in a concerted effort and demos presented were carefully reviewed and sented were carefully selected during two rounds to combat the new brands of terrorism. We envis- selected from about 80 submissions. The papers are of reviewing and improvement for inclusion in the age the proposed ASI as one important step. To en- organized in topical sections on interaction, lifelike book. The introductory chapter of this state-of-the- compass the diverse nature of the subject this volume characters and affective computing, kowledge-based art survey not only provides an overview of the con- covers three broadly defined but interrelated areas: graphics generation and interaction, visualization tributions included in this volume but also propos- I. The mathematics and computer science of auto- and graphics algorithms, as well as posters and de- es a taxonomy of how anticipatory mechanisms can matic detection and identification; II. Image process- mos. improve adaptive behavior and learning in cognitive systems. The papers are organized in topical sections ing techniques for radar and sonar; III. Detection of Fields of interest on anticipatory aspects in brains, language, and cog- anomalies in biomedical and chemical images. Computer Graphics; User Interfaces and Human nition, individual anticipatory frameworks, learning Features Computer Interaction; Image Processing and Com- predictions and anticipations, anticipatory individual Multi-disciplinary treatment of sensing Describes es- puter Vision; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); behavior, as well as anticipatory social behavior. sential technology for countering new threats Writ- Pattern Recognition Fields of interest ten by experts from academia, government and in- Target groups Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computation dustry Accessible to a broad audience of scientists, Researchers and professionals by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Analysis and Prob- engineers and mathematicians lem Complexity; Computer Appl. in Social and Be- Contents Type of publication havioral Sciences; Computers and Society; Automa- Preface. Multi-Perspective Imaging and Image In- Proceedings tion and Robotics terpretation.- Radar Imaging for Combating Terror- ism.- Optical Signatures or Buried Mines.- Chemical Due June 2007 Target groups Researchers and professionals Images of Liquids.- Sequential Detection Estimation and Noise Cancellation.- Image Fusion: A Powerful 2007. IX, 237 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Type of publication Tool for Object Identication.- Nonlinear Statistical Science, Band 4569) Softcover Proceedings Signal Processing: A Particle Filtering Approach.- Possibilities for Quantum Information Processing.- 44,94 € Multifractal Analysis of Images: New Connexions ISBN 978-3-540-73213-6 Due August 2007 Between Analysis and Geometry.- Characterization and Construction of Ideal Waveforms.- Identifica- 2007. X, 379 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4520) tion of Complex Processes Based on Analysis [..] Softcover Fields of interest 55,64 € Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Computer ISBN 978-3-540-74261-6 Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Measurement Science, Instrumentation; Applied Op- tics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices

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J. Byrnes, Prometheus Inc., Newport, USA (Ed.) H.-J. Böckenhauer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; D. Bongartz, RWTH J. Böhringer, Pfullingen; P. Bühler, Affalterbach; P. Schlaich, Seel- Aachen, Germany bach Imaging for Detection and Identification Algorithmic Aspects of Präsentieren in Schule, Studium Bioinformatics und Beruf

The fusion of basic ideas in mathematics, radar, sonar, biology, and chemistry with ongoing im- Advances in bioinformatics and systems biology re- Ob in der Ausbildung oder im Studium – das profes- provements in hardware and computation offers quire improved computational methods for analyz- sionelle Aufbereiten und Darstellen von Information the promise of much more sophisticated and accu- ing data, while progress in molecular biology is in stellt heute eine berufliche Kernkompetenz dar. In rate detection and identification capabilities than turn influencing the development of computer sci- der Arbeitswelt muss sowohl betriebsintern als auch currently exist. Coupled with the dramatic rise in ence methods. This book introduces some key prob- im Kontakt mit Kunden ständig präsentiert werden. the need for surveillance in innumerable aspects of lems in bioinformatics, discusses the models used to Hierbei ist es längst nicht mehr ausreichend, "irgend- our daily lives, brought about by hostile acts deemed formally describe these problems, and analyzes the wie" zu präsentieren. Professionelles Präsentieren unimaginable only a few short years ago, the time is algorithmic approaches used to solve them. After in- will gelernt sein! Im vorliegenden Buch erlernen ripe for image processing scientists in these usually troducing the basics of molecular biology and algo- Sie Schritt für Schritt das Erstellen professioneller diverse fields to join together in a concerted effort rithmics, Part I explains string algorithms and align- Präsentationen. Zahlreiche Checklisten helfen Ihnen to combat the new brands of terrorism. We envis- ments; Part II details the field of physical mapping bei der Vorbereitung und dienen zur Kontrolle der age the proposed ASI as one important step. To en- and DNA sequencing; and Part III examines the ap- Ergebnisse. Das Buch eignet sich ideal zum Selbst- compass the diverse nature of the subject this volume plication of algorithmics to the analysis of biologi- studium, kann aber auch als Lehrbuch im Unterricht covers three broadly defined but interrelated areas: cal data. Exciting application examples include pre- eingesetzt werden. Auf der Buchbeilagen-CD-ROM I. The mathematics and computer science of auto- dicting the spatial structure of proteins, and comput- finden Sie Präsentationssoftware und Übungsdateien matic detection and identification; II. Image processing haplotypes from genotype data. This book de- sowie Checklisten. ing techniques for radar and sonar; III. Detection of scribes topics in detail and presents formal models anomalies in biomedical and chemical images. in a mathematically precise, yet intuitive manner, Features with many figures and chapter summaries, detailed Präsentationsmedien und -techniken im Zusam- Features derivations, and examples. 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F. Capello, INRIA Futurs, France; Th. Herault, Université Paris Sud- C. Carlet, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France; B. Sunar, WPI, O. Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico; P. XI, France; J. Dongarra, University of Tennessee, TN, USA (Eds.) Worcester, MA, USA (Eds.) Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico; O. Mon- tiel Ross, CITEDI-IPN, Tijuana, Mexico; R. Sepúlveda Cruz, CITE- DI-IPN, Tijuana, Mexico; W. Pedrycz, University of Manitoba, Win- Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Arithmetic of Finite Fields nipeg, MB, Canada; J. Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, War- saw, Poland (Eds.) Machine and Message Passing First International Workshop, WAIFI 2007, Madrid, Spain, June 21-22, 2007, Proceedings Interface Theoretical Advances and 14th European PVM/MPI User's Group Meeting, Paris France, Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Soft September 30 - October 3, 2007, Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Computing First International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields, WAIFI 2007, held in Madrid, Spain in This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of June 2007. The 27 revised full papers presented were the 14th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submis- This book comprises a selection of papers from the held in Paris, France, September 30 - October 3,&nb- sions. The papers are organized in topical sections on IFSA 2007 World Congress on theoretical advances sp; 2007. The 40 revised full papers presented togeth- structures in finite fields, efficient implementation and applications of fuzzy logic and soft computing. er with abstracts of 6 invited contributions, 3 tutorial and architectures, efficient finite field arithmetic, These papers were selected from over 400 submis- papers and 6 poster papers were carefully reviewed classification and construction of mappings over fi- sions and constitute an important contribution to and selected from 68 submissions. The papers are or- nite fields, curve algebra, cryptography, codes, and the theory and applications of fuzzy logic and soft ganized in topical sections on collective communica- discrete structures. computing methodologies. Soft Computing consists tion, communication protocols, debugging and ver- of several computing paradigms, including fuzzy log- ification, fault tolerance, metacomputing and grid, Fields of interest ic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and other parallel I/O, implementation issues, object-oriented Coding and Information Theory; Data Encryption; techniques, which can be used to produce powerful message passing, limitations and extensions, perfor- Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science; Algo- intelligent systems for solving real-world problems. mance, and are completed with 6 contributions to rithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Symbolic Applications range from pattern recognition to intel- the special ParSim session on current trends in nu- and Algebraic Manipulation; Algorithms ligent control and sow the advantages of using soft merical simulation for parallel engineering environ- computing theory and methods. The papers of IFSA ments. Target groups 2007 also make a contribution to this goal. Researchers and professionals Fields of interest Features Programming Techniques; Programming Languages, Type of publication Proceedings of the IFSA World Congress 2007 held Compilers, Interpreters; Computation by Abstract Proceedings in Cancun, Mexico June 18- 21 Recent research re- Devices; Numeric Computing; Arithmetic and Logic sults in Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing Structures; Processor Architectures Due June 2007 Contents Target groups Part I Intuitionistic fuzzy sets and their applications.- Researchers and professionals 2007. XI, 355 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Part II The application of fuzzy logic and soft com- Science, Band 4547) Softcover puting in flexible quering.- Part III Philosophical Type of publication 55,64 € and Human-scientific aspects of Soft Computing.- Proceedings ISBN 978-3-540-73073-6 Part IV Search Engine and Information Processing and Retrieval.- Part V Perception Based Data Mining Due September 2007 and Decision Making.- Part VI Soft Computing in Medical Sciences .- Part VII Joint Model-Based and Data-Based Learning: The Fuzzy logic Approach.- 2007. XVI, 396 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4757) Softcover Part VIII Fuzzy /Possibilistic Optimization.- Part IX Algebraic Foundations of Soft Computing.- Part X 59,92 € Fuzzy Trees.- Part XI Soft [..] ISBN 978-3-540-75415-2 Fields of interest Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)

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L.N.d. Castro, Universidade Católica de Santos, Brazil; F.J. Von B.D.t. Cate, H.W. Zeevat (Eds.) R. Cervenka, Whitestein Technologies, Bratislava, Slovakia; I. Zuben, DCA/FEEC/Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil; H. Knidel, Nat- Trencansky, Whitestein Technologies, Bratislava, Slovakia Comp, Santos, Brazil (Eds.) Logic, Language, and Computation The Agent Modeling Language - Artificial Immune Systems 6th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation Batumi, Georgia, September 12-16, 2005, Re- AML 6th International Conference, ICARIS 2007, Santos, Brazil, Au- vised Selected Papers gust 26-29, 2007, Proceedings A Comprehensive Approach to Modeling Multi-Agent Systems

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Associa- Multi-agent systems are already a focus of studies for This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of tion of Logic, Language and Information, this book more than 25 years. Despite substantial effort of an the 6th International Conference on Artificial Im- constitutes the second volume of the FoLLI LNAI active research community, modeling of multi-agent mune Systems, ICARIS 2007, held in Santos, Brazil, subline. It represents the thoroughly refereed post- systems still lacks complete and proper definition, in August 2007. The 36 revised full papers present- proceedings of the 6th International Tbilisi Sympo- general acceptance, and practical application. Due ed were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 sub- sium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC to the vast potential of these systems e.g., to improve missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- 2005, held in Batumi, Georgia, in September 2005. the practice in software and to extent the applications on search and optimization, classification and The 19 revised full papers presented were careful- tions that can feasibly be tackled, this book tries to clustering, anomaly detection and negative selection, ly reviewed and selected from numerous presenta- provide a comprehensive modeling language - the robotics, control and electronics, modeling papers, tions at the symposium. The papers present current Agent Modeling Language (AML) - as an extension conceptual papers, as well as technical papers and research in all aspects of linguistics, logic and com- of UML 2.0, concentrating on multi-agent systems general applications. putation and address the following topics in detail: and applications. modal logic, linguistics and typology, formal prag- Fields of interest matics, linguistics and formal pragmatics, semantics Computation by Abstract Devices; Artificial Intelli- Features and pragmatics, linguistic, typology, semantics and Autonomic and autonomous computing is a fast gence (incl. Robotics); Algorithm Analysis and Prob- pragmatics, linguistics, semantics and learnability, lem Complexity; Data Mining and Knowledge Dis- growing branch of industry Public availability of information and artificial intelligence, formal prag- AML Tool for StarUML covery; Information Storage and Retrieval; Compu- matics and typology, linguistics, semantics and ty- tational Biology/Bioinformatics pology, as well as logic and linguistics. Contents Introduction.- Part I: Background Information.- Sur- Target groups Fields of interest Researchers and professionals vey on Agent-Oriented Modeling Languages.- Re- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical quirements on a MAS Modeling Language.- Part Logic and Formal Languages; Language Translation Type of publication II: Solution Summary.- The AML Approach.- Con- and Linguistics Proceedings cepts of AML.- AML Modeling Mechanisms.- Re- lated Work.- Part III: AML Specification.- Exten- Target groups sions to Standard UML Notation.- Organization of Due August 2007 Researchers and professionals the AML Specification.- Architecture.- Behaviors.- Type of publication Mental.- Ontologies.- Contexts.- UML Extension for 2007. XII, 438 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Proceedings AML.- Diagrams.- Extension of OCL.- Part IV: Final er Science, Band 4628) Softcover Remarks.- Conclusions.- Further Work. 59,92 € Due September 2007 Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-73921-0 Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Simulation 2007. XII, 281 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4363) and Modeling; Programming Languages, Compilers, Softcover Interpreters

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P. Cesar, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; K. Chorianopoulos, T. Chahed, GET/INT, France; B. Tuffin, IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France J.S. Chahl, Australian Defence Science and Technology Organ- Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany; J.F. Jensen, Medialab, (Eds.) isation, Edinburgh, SA, Australia; L.C. Jain, University of South Aalborg, The Netherlands (Eds.) Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; A. Mizutani, Odonatrix Pty Ltd, Adelaide, SA, Australia; M. Sato-Ilic, University of Tsukuba, Japan Network Control and Optimization (Eds.) Interactive TV: A Shared Experience First EuroFGI International Conference, NET-COOP 2007, Avi- 5th European Conference, EuroITV 2007, Amsterdam, the gnon, France, June 5-7, 2007, Proceedings Innovations in Intelligent Machines Netherlands, May 24-25, 2007, Proceedings - 1

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A. Chakrabarti, Infosys Technologies, Bangalore, India K.C. Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; W. M. Charikar, Princeton University, NJ, USA; K. Jansen, Univer- Wang, University of new South Wales, Australia; L. Chen, Hong sity of Kiel, Germany; O. Reingold, The Weizmann Institute Kong University, Hong Kong; C.A. Ellis, University of Colorado at of Science, Rehovot, Israel; J.D.P. Rolim, Centre Universitaire Grid Computing Security Boulder, USA; C.-H. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan; A.C. Tsoi, d'Informatique, Geneva, Switzerland (Eds.) Monash University, Australia; H. Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA; X. Lin, Y. Yang, J. Xu (Eds.) Approximation, Randomization, Grid computing is widely regarded as a technology and Combinatorial Optimization. of immense potential in both industry and academia. Advances in Web and Network Yet many enterprises are still hesitant about the im- Technologies, and Information Algorithms and Techniques plementation of an enterprise-level grid system, due Management 10th International Workshop, APPROX 2007, and 11th Inter- to the lack of consistent and widely used standards. national Workshop, RANDOM 2007, Princeton, NJ, USA, Au- Security is probably the most important concern and APWeb/WAIM 2007 International Workshops: DBMAN 2007, gust 20-22, 2007, Proceedings needs both close understanding and careful imple- WebETrends 2007, PAIS 2007 and ASWAN 2007, Huang Shan, mentation as grid computing offers unique securi- China, June 16-18, 2007, Proceedings ty challenges. Based on his research and industry experience, Chakrabarti has structured the issues per- This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings taining to grid computing security into three main of the 10th International Workshop on Approxima- This book constitutes the refereed combined pro- categories: architecture-related, infrastructure-relat- tion Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization ceedings of four international workshops held in ed, and management-related issues. He discusses all Problems, APPROX 2007 and the 11th Internation- conjunction with the joint 9th Asia-Pacific Web three categories in detail, presents existing solutions, al Workshop on Randomization and Computation, Conference, APWeb 2007, and the 8th Internation- standards, and products, and pinpoints their short- RANDOM 2007, held in Princeton, NJ, USA, in Au- al Conference on Web-Age Information Manage- comings and open questions. Together with a brief gust 2007. The 44 revised full papers presented were ment, WAIM 2007, held in Huang Shan, China in introduction into grid computing in general and un- carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. June 2007 (see LNCS 4505). The 50 revised full pa- derlying security technologies, this book offers the Topics of interest covered by the papers are design pers and 25 revised short papers presented togeth- first concise and detailed introduction to this impor- and analysis of approximation algorithms, hardness er with the abstract of 1 keynote talk were careful- tant area, targeting [..] of approximation, small space and data streaming ally reviewed and selected from a total of 266 submis- gorithms, sub-linear time algorithms, embeddings Features sions. The papers of the four workshops are very spe- and metric space methods, mathematical program- The first book that deals with grid computing securi- cific and contribute to enlarging the spectrum of the ming methods, coloring and partitioning, cuts and ty explicitly Details grid security challenges, explains more general topics treated in the APWeb 2007 and connectivity, geometric problems, game theory and possible solutions, and describes related standards WAIM 2007 main conferences. Topics addressed by applications, network design and routing, packing and products such as Xen, GSI, Globus™ Toolkit, the workshops are: Database Management and Ap- and covering, scheduling, design and analysis of ran- WS-Security, SAML, among others. Can be used for plication over Networks (DBMAN 2007), Emerging domized algorithms, randomized complexity theory, self-teaching as well as courses following the author’s Trends of Web Technologies and Applications (We- pseudorandomness and derandomization, random tutorials at grid conferences bETrends 2007), Process Aware Information Systems combinatorial structures, random walks/Markov (PAIS 2007), and Application and Security Service in chains, expander graphs and [..] Contents Web and Pervasive Environments (ASWAN 2007). 1) Introduction - 2) Overview of Security - 3) Tax- Fields of interest onomy of Grid Security Issues - 4) Grid Informa- Fields of interest Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Dis- tion Security Architecture - 5) Grid Authorization Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Informa- crete Mathematics in Computer Science; Numeric Systems - 6) Service Level Security in Grid - 7) Host tion Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Informa- Computing Level Security - 8) Grid Network Security - 9) Grid tion Storage and Retrieval; User Interfaces and Hu- Credential Management Systems - 10) Managing man Computer Interaction; Computer Communica- Target groups Trust in Grid - 11) Grid Monitoring - 12) Putting it tion Networks; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Researchers and professionals All Together - 13) Conclusion - Appendix, Bibliogra- Target groups Type of publication phy, and Index. Researchers and professionals Proceedings Fields of interest Type of publication Computer Communication Networks; Systems and Due August 2007 Proceedings Data Security; Management of Computing and In- formation Systems; Communications Engineering, Due June 2007 2007. XII, 626 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Networks; Operating Systems er Science, Band 4627) Softcover

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First International Symposium, ESCAPE 2007, Hangzhou, Chi- na, April 7-9, 2007, Revised Selected Papers Organizational semiotics offers a framework for un- Computer generated 3D animation has matured over derstanding the processes that this project work en- the years into a complex art form. Coordinating and tails, in particular the interaction between individ- presenting the character's movement in three dimen- uals and groups and between human and technol- sions to convey a specific idea to the audience re- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- ogy. The 8th session of the annual Organizational quires artistic and technical skills, and often a labou- proceedings of the First International Symposium Semiotics Workshop held in June 2005 in Toulouse rious iterative trial-and-error process to get it right. On Combinatorics, Algorithms, Probabilistic and – the French capital of aeronautics and space – test- Creating moving camera character animations in 3D Experimental Methodologies, ESCAPE 2007, held ed ideas from Organizational Semiotics against two is a multi-faceted computer graphics and comput- in Hangzhou, China in April 2007. The 46 revised issues from space projects on two illustrative cas- er vision problem. Warranting a formal representa- full papers presented were carefully reviewed and es provided by the Centre National d’Etudes Spa- tion of the moving camera, and efficient algorithms selected from 362 submissions. The papers address tiales (CNES) – the government agency responsible to help author the multitude of character poses re- practical large data processing problems with differ- for shaping and implementing France’s space poli- quired for the animation. It is also necessary to deal ent, and eventually converging, methodologies from cy in Europe – through its Technical Competency with issues pertaining to camera and character pose major important disciplines such as computer sci- Centre in Management (CCT MAN): - The manage- interpolation and visualization of the association be- ence, combinatorics, and statistics. The symposium ment of complex, highly innovative and multidisci- tween the two. The solution to this problem has to be provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers plinary projects during their early volatile phases. - efficient and elegant from the perspective of a com- across their discipline boundaries to exchange their The management of risks faced by such projects that puter scientist, and make sense and be intuitive to approaches, to search for ideas, methodologies, and may run far into the future and beyond human inter- use. 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This book focuses on three interdependent chal- Performance Logical Framework A Computer Scientist’s Guide to Cell Biology pro- lenges related to managing transitions toward sus- How to Specify, Program, and Verify Systems in Rewriting vides a "reading knowledge" of biology to those com- tainable development, namely (a) mapping sustain- Logic ing into the field from the perspective of computer ability for global knowledge e-networking, (b) ex- science-particularly from the areas of information tending the value chain of knowledge and e-net- retrieval and/or machine learning. The text explores working, and (c) engaging in explorations of new three different facets of biology: biological systems, methods and venues for further developing knowl- This monograph gives a comprehensive account of experimental methods, and language and nomencla- edge and e-networking. While each of these chal- Maude, a language and system based on rewriting ture. The author discusses what biologists are trying lenges constitutes fundamentally different types of logic. Maude and its formal tool environment can be to determine from their experiments, how various endeavors, they are highly interconnected. Jointly, used in three mutually reinforcing ways: as a declar- experimental procedures are used and how they re- they contribute to our expansion of knowledge and ative programming language, as an executable for- late to accepted concepts in computer science, and its applications in support of transitions toward sus- mal specification language, and as a formal verifi- the vocabulary necessary to read and understand tainable development. cation system. Maude is used in many institutions around the world for teaching, research, and formal current literature in biology. Researchers, profession- Features modeling and analysis of concurrent and distribut- als and computer science students will find this an New ways of looking at ‘sustainable development’ in ed systems. Many examples are used throughout the invaluable reference tool and an excellent starting integrated and wholistic terms New ways of looking book to illustrate the main ideas, features, and us- point for a more comprehensive examination of cell at the specific aspects of sustainability in some detail es of Maude. The book comes with a CD-ROM con- biology. New research methods designed and implemented, taining the complete Maude 2.3 software distribution Features with new results generated Introduction and reason- (including source code), a pdf version of this mono- Designed specifically as a guide for Computer Scien- ing of a new knowledge management system orga- graph, and the executable Maude code for all the ex- tists needing an introduction to Cell Biology Writ- nized around topics for sustainability amples in the book. ten by a Computer Scientist for Computer Scientists Contents Fields of interest Aimed at a broad audience - from researchers to stu- From the contents Preface: Sustainability Challenges Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; dents and New Imperatives.- Part I Global Knowledge e- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Contents Networking.- Part II Knowledge Value Chain for Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Introduction.- How Cells Work.- The Complexity Sustainability.- Part III New e-Strategies for Knowl- Logic and Formal Languages of Living Things.- Looking at Very Small Things.- edge and Value. Target groups Manipulation of the Very Small.- Reprogramming Fields of interest Researchers and professionals Cells.- Other Ways to Use Biology for Biological Economic Systems; Database Management; Ontol- Experiments.- Serial Analysis of Gene Expression.- ogy; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Environ- Type of publication Bioinformatics.- Where to go from here?- Index. ment, general; Political Science Graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook Fields of interest Target groups Due July 2007 Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Artificial In- Policy-makers and scholars (including students, pro- telligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Appl. in Life fessors, and researchers) Sciences; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Meth- 2007. XXII, 797 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band ods of Engineering; Theory of Computation 4350) Softcover Type of publication Target groups Contributed volume 84,53 € Researchers, professionals and computer science stu- ISBN 978-3-540-71940-3 dents of all levels Due September 2007 Type of publication 2007. XX, 484 p. (Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries, Monograph Band 11) Geb. Due July 2007 149,75 € ISBN 978-1-4020-6070-0 2007. XIV, 100 p. Softcover

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First and Second VLDB Workshops, ODBIS 2005/2006 Trond- Essays Dedicated to Jean-Pierre Jouannaud on the Occasion of heim, Norway, September 2-3, 2005 Seoul, Korea, September his 60th Birthday T-SQL is the fundamental language for database pro- 11, 2006 Post-Proceedings gramming in SQL Server 2005. All professional SQL Server users need to know it and, even more impor- Jean-Pierre Jouannaud has deeply influenced, and is tant, must understand how to use it well. The lan- This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings still influencing, research in Informatics, through the guage has grown considerably since SQL Server 2000 of the First and Second VLDB Workshop Ontolo- many important results he has produced in various and even experienced T-SQL programmers have gies-based techniques for DataBases and Informa- research fields and through the generations of schol- many new features to master. They need a conve- tion Systems, held in Trondheim, Norway, Septem- ars he has educated. He has played a leading role in nient single source of information and advice. This ber 2-3, 2005 and Seoul, Korea, September 11, 2006. field of rewriting and its technology, advancing the book provides that, clearly and comprehensively. The topics include ontology-based interoperabili- research areas of unification, rewriting and com- Both database administrators and developers will ty and schema matching, management of ontologi- pletion modulo, conditional rewriting, termination find this highly readable, detailed description of T- cal bases and links between ontologogies and knowl- proofs, modular properties, and automated proofs by SQL an eye-opening and invaluable reference for as edge. long as they work with SQL Server 2005. induction in rewrite theories. Following his strong Fields of interest interest for algebraic specification languages and Features Database Management; Data Structures; Information their efficient implementation, Jean-Pierre Jouan- Clear, comprehensive coverage of all major aspects Systems Applications (incl.Internet) naud has contributed to the design, semantics and of T-SQL Careful, detailed explanations of all new T- implementation of OBJ2 and has recently augment- SQL features Rich in examples of expert techniques Target groups ed the Maude rewriting logic system with an essen- Researchers and professionals tial feature: membership equational logic. He was a Contents member of the CNU (National University Council) Introduction.- The Role of T-SQL.- Tools of the Type of publication and a member of the CNRS national committee. He Trade.- Programming Style.- SQL 2005 for SQL 2000 Proceedings is now heading with great success the computer sci- Programmers.- SQL Flow Control/Decision State- ence laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique thus [..] ments.- User-Defined Functions.- Stored Proce- Due September 2007 dures.- Triggers.- Debugging.- T-SQL Error Han- Fields of interest dling.- Dynamic SQL.- XML.- System Metadata.- Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Log- SQLCLR Programming.- .NET Programming.- Per- 2007. VII, 153 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4623) ics and Meanings of Programs; Programming Lan- formance Enhancement.- Appendix A: T-SQL Re- Softcover guages, Compilers, Interpreters; Programming Tech- niques; Software Engineering served Words. 44,94 € ISBN 978-3-540-75473-2 Fields of interest Target groups Programming Techniques Researchers and professionals

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From Novice to Professional Everywhere Computation and Logic in the Real 24th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 24, World Glasgow, UK, July 3-5, 2007, Proceedings Beginning Ruby is a thoroughly contemporary guide Third Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2007, Siena, Italy, June 18-23, 2007, Proceedings to this powerful object-oriented language. It’s one of the only guides aimed at both the novice program- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the mer as well as experienced developers who are new 24th British National Conference on Databases, BN- to Ruby. The book starts by explaining the princi- COD 24, held in Glasgow, UK, in July 2007. The 18 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ples behind object oriented programming and with- revised full papers and 7 revised poster papers pre- Third International Conference on Computability in in a few chapters builds towards creating a genuine sented together with 2 invited contributions were Europe, CiE 2007, held in Sienna, Italy, in June 2007. Ruby application. The book then explains key Ruby carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The 50 revised full papers presented together with 36 principles, such as classes and objects; projects, mod- The papers are ogranized in topical sections on data invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected ules and libraries; and other aspects of Ruby such as applications, searching XML documents, querying from 167 submissions. Among them are papers cor- database access. In addition, Ruby on Rails is covered XML documents, XML transformation, clustering responding to 12 plenary talks and papers of 8 spe- in some depth and the book’s appendixes provide es- and security, data mining and extraction. cial sessions entitled doing without turing machines: sential and long-lasting reference information. constructivism and formal topology, approaches Fields of interest to computational learning, real computation, com- Features Database Management; Information Storage putability and mathematical structure, complexity of Thoroughly contemporary guide, featuring recent and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications algorithms and proofs, logic and new paradigms of changes and informed by developments such as Ru- (incl.Internet) computability, computational foundations of physics by on Rails. All competing books that focus on Ruby and biology, as well as a women in computability are at least 4 years old Superb companion for those Target groups workshop. using the Ruby on Rails web framework The popu- Researchers and professionals larity of Ruby and Ruby on Rails is growing by expo- Fields of interest nential leaps and bounds Type of publication Theory of Computation; Algorithm Analysis and Proceedings Problem Complexity; Mathematics of Computing; Contents Computing Methodologies; Bioinformatics; Algo- Part I – The Foundations of Ruby: Let’s Get It Due June 2007 rithms Started: Installing Ruby.- Programming =Joy: A Whistlestop Tour of Ruby.- Building Blocks: Data, Target groups Expressions, and Flow.- Developing a Basic Ruby 2007. XIII, 259 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4587) Researchers and professionals Application.- The Ruby Ecosystem.- Part II - Becom- Softcover Type of publication ing a Ruby Pro: Classes and Objects.- Projects, Mod- 48,15 € Proceedings ules, and Libraries.- Debugging and Testing.- Da- ISBN 978-3-540-73389-8 ta Access and Interaction.- Advanced Objects and Techniques.- Useful Ruby Libraries and Add-ons.- Due June 2007 Tying It Together: Developing A Bigger Ruby Appli- cation.- Part III - Taking Ruby Online: Deploying 2007. XVIII, 826 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Your Programs.- Ruby on Rails: Ruby's Killer App.- puter Science, Band 4497) Softcover The [..] 92,02 € Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-73000-2 Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters

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Back to the Future 10th International Conference, DS 2007 Sendai, Japan, Octo- ber 1-4, 2007 Proceedings Excel as Your Database shows beginning users how to manage their data using one of the world’s most Since the general public began to use the Internet in popular programs—Excel—without investing time the mid 1990s, there has been a vast amount of in- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the and money in complex databases such as Access. vestment by governments and commerce in digital 10th International Conference on Discovery Science, We’ve written and organized the book for readers communications technologies. There has also been DS 2007, held in Sendai, Japan, in October 2007, co- who know something about Excel but nothing about a fair degree of confusion and sometimes controver- located with the 18th International Conference on databases. We provide quick start solutions, step-by- sy about the purpose and effectiveness of such tech- Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2007. The 17 re- step exercises, try-it-out sections, troubleshooting, nologies, for example the proposed UK identity card vised long papers and the 10 revised regular papers and best practices solutions. system. The far-reaching implications for commerce presented together with 5 invited papers were care- Features and society of some of these decisions in invisible or fully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The Covers Excel 2007 and 2003 "When to use this tech- opaque specialist fields, however, mean they should papers cover all issues in the area of development nique" introduction for each section clarifies not just be matters of concern for every citizen. This book ar- and analysis of methods for intelligent data analysis, how to use a technique but under what realistic sce- gues: Decisions should be based on an understanding knowledge discovery and machine learning, as well narios Step-by-step "how-to" procedures Try-it exer- of the systems, technology and environment with- as their application to scientific knowledge discovery. cises based on realistic sample data in which they operate. Experts and ordinary people should work together. Technology and law are Fields of interest Contents evolving in restrictive rather than enabling ways. It Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Database Data Basics.- Define Your Data.- Enter Data.- Find aims, to stimulate an awareness of the issues and be a Management; Information Storage and Retrieval; Data.- Connect to Other Databases.- Analyze Data.- readable, challenging and informative introduction, Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Automate Repetitive Database Tasks.- Interoperate both for university students and the general reader, Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences with Data in other Databases. to processes surrounding developments [..] Target groups Fields of interest Features Researchers and professionals Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems Readable introductory guide to decision making pro- Type of publication cesses in technology and law, which have important Proceedings Target groups implications for the knowledge society Beginning to intermediate end users (such as students, home users, or professionals in small- to mid- Contents Due September 2007 level organizations) who have very little experience, Acknowledgements.- The battle of the book.- Intro- budget, or need to invest in a full-scale relational duction to decision making.- Harry Potter and the 2007. XI, 298 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4755) database management system full blooded lawyers.- Infodiversity and the sustain- Softcover ability of our digital ecology.- Canaries in the mine.- Type of publication Facts, values and agendas.- Technology is just a tool.- 51,36 € Professional book DDM in intellectual property.- Experts and ordinary ISBN 978-3-540-75487-9 people.- A modest proposal.- Notes.-References.- In- Due March 2007 dex. Fields of interest Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, Management of Computing and Information Sys- Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest tems; Legal Aspects of Computing; Computers and Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. For Jordan, Irak, Oman, Qatar, Palestine: Jordan Book Center Education; Computers and Society; Personal Com- puting; The Computing Profession

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C. Cotta, Universidad de Málaga, Spain; J. van Hemert, University R.G. Cowell, Cass Business School, London, UK; A.P. Dawid, Uni- I.D. Craig, Ecole Polytechnique and King's College, London, UK of Edinburgh, UK (Eds.) versity of Cambridge, UK; S.L. Lauritzen, University of Oxford, UK; D.J. Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge, UK Object-Oriented Programming Evolutionary Computation in Languages: Interpretation Combinatorial Optimization Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems 7th European Conference, EvoCOP 2007, Valencia, Spain, April 11-13, 2007, Proceedings Exact Computational Methods for Bayesian Networks This comprehensive examination of the main approaches to object-oriented language explains the key features of the languages in use today. Class- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Winner of the 2002 DeGroot Prize. Probabilistic ex- based, prototypes and Actor languages are all looked the 7th European Conference on Evolutionary Com- pert systems are graphical networks that support at and compared in terms of their semantic con- putation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP the modelling of uncertainty and decisions in large cepts. In providing such a wide-ranging comparison, 2007, held in Valencia, Spain in April 2007. The 21 complex domains, while retaining ease of calcula- this book provides a unique overview of the main revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed tion. Building on original research by the authors approaches to object-oriented languages. Exercis- and selected from 81 submissions. 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I.D. Craig, University College Northampton, UK P. Craiger, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA; S. E. Cramer, RWTH Aachen; U. Kamps, RWTH Aachen Shenoi, University of Tulsa, OK, USA (Eds.) Formal Refinement for Operating Grundlagen der System Kernels Advances in Digital Forensics III Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und IFIP International Conference on Digital Forensics , National Statistik Center for Forensic Science, Orlando Florida, January 28-Jan- uary 31, 2007 Ein Skript für Studierende der Informatik, der Ingenieur- und The kernel of any operating system is its most crit- Wirtschaftswissenschaften ical component. The remainder of the system de- pends upon a correctly functioning and reliable kernel for its operation. 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Both kernels are refined to the point at for Detecting Linux Kernel Module Rootkits.- Future toren stellen die wesentlichen Inhalte und Aspekte which executable code can be extracted. Apart from Trends in Authorship Attribution.- The Keyboard in kurzer und prägnanter Form dar und verzichten documenting the process, including proofs, this book Dilemma and Authorship Identification.- Factors daher bewusst auf ausführliche Motivationen und also shows how refinement of a realistically sized Affecting One-Way Hashing of CD-R Media.- Disk Beispiele sowie Aufgaben. So wird das Buch zum ide- specification can be undertaken. Drive I/O Commands and Write Blocking.- A New alen Begleiter jeder Grundvorlesung in Statistik. 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P. Crescenzi, University of Florence, Italy; G. Prencipe, University K. Crowston, Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, USA; S. Sieber, E. Csuhaj-Varjú, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, of Pisa, Italy; G. Pucci, University of Padua, Italy (Eds.) University of Navarra, Spain; E. Wynn, Intel Corporation, USA Budapest,Hungary; Z. Ésik, University of Szeged, Hungary (Eds.) (Eds.) Fun with Algorithms Fundamentals of Computation Virtuality and Virtualization 4th International Conference, FUN 2007, Castiglioncello, Italy, Theory June 3-5, 2007, Proceedings IFIP Working Groups 8.2 on Information Systems and Orga- nizations and 9.5 on Virtuality and Society, July 29-31, 2007, 16th International Symposium, FCT 2007, Budapest, Hungary, Portland, Oregon, USA August 27-30, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Fun with Al- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of gorithms, FUN 2007, held in Castiglioncello, Italy In today's rapidly changing global work environ- the 16th International Symposium Fundamentals of in June 2007, co-located with the 14th Internation- ment, all workers experience increased organization- Computation Theory, FCT 2007, held in Budapest, al Colloquium on Structural Information and Com- al complexity. Companies are functionally distribut- Hungary in August 2007. The 39 revised full papers munication Complexity (SIROCCO 2007). The 20 ed, many across the globe. Intense competition for presented together with 4 invited papers were care- revised full papers presented together with 3 invited markets and margins makes adaptiveness and inno- fully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 vation imperative. Information and communication The papers address all current topics in computa- submissions. The papers are dedicated to the use, de- technologies are pervasive and fundamental infras- tion theory such as automata and formal languages, sign, and analysis of algorithms and data structures, tructures, their use deeply integrated into work pro- design and analysis of algorithms, computational focusing on results that provide amusing, witty but cesses. Workers collaborate electronically with co- and structural complexity, semantics, logic, algebra nonetheless original and scientifically profound con- workers or with employees of other companies. New and categories in computer science, circuits and net- tributions to the area. boundaries of time, space, business unit, culture, company partnerships, and software tools are driv- works, learning theory, specification and verification, Fields of interest ing the adoption of novel organizational forms. On parallel and distributed systems, concurrency theory, Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Data a macro level, these changes have started to reshape cryptography and cryptograhic protocols, approxi- Structures; Computation by Abstract Devices; Dis- society. This book considers possible frameworks mation and randomized algorithms, computational crete Mathematics in Computer Science; Computer for understanding virtuality and virtualization; ways geometry, quantum computation and information, Graphics of analyzing virtual work in terms of work process- bio-inspired computation. es; group processes within virtual teams; the role of Fields of interest Target groups knowledge in virtual settings and other implications Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Anal- Researchers and professionals of the role of fiction in structuring virtuality. ysis and Problem Complexity; Mathematical Logic Type of publication Features and Formal Languages; Computer Graphics; Discrete Proceedings Most up-to-date look at virtuality and virtualization Mathematics in Computer Science Target groups Due May 2007 Contents Virtuality and Virtualization.- Beyond Distributed Researchers and professionals Cognition.- Conduct, Performance, and Dilemmas Type of publication 2007. X, 273 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer of Inter-organizational Virtual Organizing.- Compe- Proceedings Science, Band 4475) Softcover tency Rallying Processes in Virtual Organizations.- Coordinating Global Software Development Activ- 48,15 € Due August 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-72913-6 ities.- A Process Maturity Model for Geographical- ly Dispersed Software Sustenance Operations.- Con- ditions Enabling Effective Multiple Team Member- 2007. XIV, 508 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- ship.- Sharing Knowledge in Global Virtual Teams.- er Science, Band 4639) Softcover From Senses to Sensors.- Reframing Online Games.- The Social in the Virtual.- Virtual Patients. 68,48 € ISBN 978-3-540-74239-5 Fields of interest Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Computers and Society; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

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Digital Enterprise Technology Advances in Grid and Pervasive Logic Programming

Perspectives and Future Challenges Computing 23rd International Conference, ICLP 2007, Porto, Portugal, September 8-13, 2007, Proceedings Second International Conference, GPC 2007, Paris, France, May 2-4, 2007, Proceedings Digital engineering methods and systems are vital- ly important for performing key technical and busi- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Logic Program- ness functions of global enterprises in a distributed This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ming, ICLP 2007, held in Porto, Portugal, September and collaborative manner. The product design and Second International Conference on Grid and Per- 8-13, 2007. The 22 revised full papers together with engineering systems are gradually being developed vasive Computing, GPC 2007, held in Paris, France 2 invited talks as well as 15 poster presentations and to include a variety of tools for DfX, as well as incor- in May 2007. The 56 revised full papers and 12 re- the abstracts of 5 doctoral consortium articles were porate aspects of digital manufacturing. Digital En- vised short papers were carefully selected from 217 carefully reviewed and selected from 74 initial sub- terprise Technology: Perspectives and Future Chal- submissions during two rounds of reviewing and im- missions. The papers cover all issues of current re- lenges, an edited volume, contains accepted chap- provement. The papers address all aspects of grid search in logic programming - they are organized in ters presented at the 3rd, CIRP sponsored Interna- and pervasive computing and focus on topics such topical sections on theory, functional and constraint tional Conference in Digital Enterprise Technology as cluster computing, high performance computing, logic programming, program analysis, answer-set (DET'06), held in Setúbal, Portugal, September 2006. grid computing, semantic Web and semantic grid, programming, semantics, and applications. DET 2006 follows on the success of the two previous service-oriented computing, peer-to-peer comput- meetings held in Durham, UK and Seattle, USA, in ing, pervasive computing, mobile computing, net- 2002 and 2004 respectively. The chapters presented Fields of interest work storage, as well as grid and pervasive related Programming Techniques; Artificial Intelligence in this book are contributed by world class leaders applications. in the field. This volume includes relevant examples (incl. Robotics); Programming Languages, Compil- ers, Interpreters; Logics and Meanings of Programs; of current state-of-art in the development and use Fields of interest Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages of systems and methods for the digital modelling of Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- global development and realization processes [..] puter Communication Networks; Information Sys- Target groups tems Applications (incl.Internet); System Perfor- Researchers and professionals Features mance and Evaluation; Software Engineering; Oper- Includes advance factory design and modelling In- ating Systems Type of publication cludes physical-to-digital environment integrators Proceedings Distinguished contributors in the field Target groups Researchers and professionals Contents Due August 2007 International Committee.- Organizing Committee.- Type of publication Preface/Editorial.- Sponsors.- Keynote Papers.- Dig- Proceedings 2007. XII, 470 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4670) ital Manufacturing In The Global Era.- Global Man- Softcover ufacturing – Challenges And Solutions.- Emergent Due April 2007 Synthesis Approaches To Biological Manufacturing 64,20 € Systems.- Reconfigurable Process Plans For Respon- ISBN 978-3-540-74608-9 sive Manufacturing Systems.- Collaborative Net- 2007. XVI, 759 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- works In Industry - Trends And Foundations.- Ses- er Science, Band 4459) Softcover sion 1 Advanced Factory Design And Modeling.- 89,88 € A Logistics Framework For Coordinating Supply ISBN 978-3-540-72359-2 Chains On Unstable Markets.- Federative Factory Data Management An Approach Based Upon Service Oriented [..]

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M.J. Dainoff, Miami University, Miami, FL, USA (Ed.) W. Damm, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany; T. Danciu, San Francisco, CA, USA; L. Chirita H. Hermanns, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany (Eds.) Ergonomics and Health Aspects of The Definitive Guide to Work with Computers Computer Aided Verification JasperReports

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The Definitive Guide to SOA using AquaLogic Ser- Security is an area of increasing and grave concern vice Bus is targeted at professional software develop- to programmers. Security attacks abound, and all ers and architects that know enterprise development, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of too often the "way in" for the perpetrators is through but are new to enterprise service buses (ESB) and the 6th International Conference on Integrated For- a "hole" left by an unwary programmer. For exam- service oriented architecture (SOA) development. mal Methods, IFM 2007, held in Oxford, UK in Ju- ple, there is the case of some forty million credit card It’s the first and only practical approach to SOA us- ly 2007. The 32 revised full papers presented togeth- numbers having been exposed to hackers by a coming the high quality BEA AquaLogic Service Bus tool, er with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and pany then known as CardSystems, and hundreds and the only one written by the source, BEA Systems selected from 85 submissions. The papers address of thousands of them stolen. Forty million people AquaLogic product lead Jeff Davies. This book pro- all aspects of formal methods integration, including suddenly had their credit and finances put at risk. vides "hands-on" guide to developing SOA-driven of a process of analysis or design application of for- How were those numbers exposed? They were taken applications with ESB as central components. It also mal methods to analysis or design, extension of one in what is called a "SQL injection" attack, one made gives strategic guidance on SOA planning, web ser- method, based upon the inclusion of ideas or con- possible by a likely anonymous programmer many vice lifecycle management, administration of an ESB cepts from others, informal or semi-formal mod- levels down in the CardSystems hierarchy who sim- and security considerations. elling languages, tools, or techniques, and semantic ply was unaware of the ultimate danger inherent in integration or practical application. the code that he was writing. CardSystems suffered Features greatly from the publicity surrounding the success- First and only book on practical approach to Services Fields of interest ful attack, and no longer exists today as an indepen- Oriented Architecture (SOA) using BEA AquaLogic Logics and Meanings of Programs; Programming dent company. It was recently made public that the Service Bus tool First definitive book on AquaLogic Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Software Engi- CardSystems data breach which exposed 40 million by BEA Systems’ AquaLogic product lead The author neering; Programming Techniques credit cards in 2005 (arguably the worst cyberattack cuts through the theory and demonstrate how to Target groups of all [..] successfully use the product in practice where SOA Researchers and professionals should really count Features Type of publication Security breaches are putting programmers under Contents Proceedings pressure in regards to security as never before (why 1. Introduction.- 2. Installing and Configuring programmers will be interested) The book gives clear the Software.- 3. Why Use a Service Bus?- 4. Hello and straightforward advice to programmers, giving World Service.- 5. Message Flow Basics.- 6. A Crash Due June 2007 them the 20% that they need to achieve 90% of the Course in WSDL.- 7. Advanced Message Flows.- benefit (why they will buy) Lead author is behind 8. Advanced Messaging Topics.- 9. Reporting and 2007. IX, 660 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer the Stanford Center for Professional Development Monitoring.- 10. Error Handling.- 11. Security.- 12. Science, Band 4591) Softcover Computer Security Certification (why the author has Service Landscape.- 13. Versioning Services.- 14. Ad- credibility) ministration.- Appendix A – ALSB Actions. 81,32 € ISBN 978-3-540-73209-9 Contents Fields of interest Security Goals.- Secure Systems Design: Approaches Software Engineering/Programming and Operating and Trade-offs.- Secure Design Principles: By Exam- Systems; Programming Languages, Compilers, Inter- ple.- Exercises for Part I.- Worms and Buffer Over- preters flows.- Client-State Manipulation.- SQL Injection.- Password Security.- The Security Review Process.- Target groups Case Study: Cross-Domain Security in Web Appli- Intermediate to advanced Java and Web services de- cations.- Excercises for Part II.- Intro to Cryptog- velopers raphy.- Asymmetric Cryptography.- Key Manage- ment.- Signatures.- Using Cryptography Correctly.- Type of publication Excercies for Part III.- A. The FLI Model.- B. Finding Professional book Security Experts. Due June 2007 Fields of interest Programming Techniques Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest Target groups Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. For Jordan, Irak, All Programmers Oman, Qatar, Palestine: Jordan Book Center

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E. Dawson, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Aus- M. Daydé, France; J.M.L.M. Palma, Portugal; Á.L.G.A. Couthino, W. De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (Ed.) tralia; D.S. Wong, City University of Hong Kong, China (Eds.) Brazil; E. Pacitti, France; J. Correia Lopes, Portugal (Eds.) Advances in Smalltalk Information Security Practice and High Performance Computing for 14th International Smaltalk Conference, ISC 2006, Prague, Experience Computational Science - VECPAR Czech Republic, September 4-8, 2006, Revised Selected Papers Third International Conference, ISPEC 2007, Hong Kong, Chi- 2006 na, May 7-9, 2007, Proceedings 7th International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 10-13, 2006, Revised Selected and Invited Papers This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- proceedings of the 14th International Smalltalk Con- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ference, ISC 2006, held in Prague, Czech Republic in the Third International Information Security Prac- September 2006. The 7 revised full papers presented This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- tice and Experience Conference, ISPEC 2007, held were carefully reviewed and selected from the techni- proceedings of the 7th International Conference on in Hong Kong, China in May 2007. The 24 revised cal contributions held during the academic track of High Performance Computing for Computation- full papers presented together with 2 invited papers the conference. Being a live forum on cutting edge al Science, VECPAR 2006, held in Rio de Janeiro, were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 sub- software technologies the conference produced pa- Brazil, in June 2006. The 44 revised full papers pre- missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- pers - from foundational issues to advanced applica- sented together with 1 invited paper and 12 revised tions on cryptanalysis, signatures, network security tions - that attracted researchers and professionals workshop papers were carefully selected during two and security management, privacy and applications, from both academia and industry. rounds of reviewing and improvement for inclusion cryptographic algorithms and implementations, au- in the book. The papers are organized in topical sec- Fields of interest thentication and key management, as well as cryp- tions on Grid computing, cluster computing, nu- Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; tosystems. merical methods, large-scale simulations in Physics, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Fields of interest and computing in Biosciences. Finally this book in- Logics and Meanings of Programs Data Encryption; Computer Communication Net- cludes some of the presentations at the two associat- Target groups works; Systems and Data Security; Computers and ed workshops on Computational Grids and Clusters, Researchers and professionals Society; Management of Computing and Informa- and on High Performance Data Management in Grid Environments. tion Systems; Information Storage and Retrieval Type of publication Proceedings Target groups Fields of interest Researchers and professionals Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Theory of Computation; Computer Com- Due April 2007 Type of publication munication Networks; Mathematics of Computing Proceedings Target groups 2007. VII, 157 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Researchers and professionals er Science, Band 4406) Softcover Due April 2007 44,94 € Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-71835-2 2007. XIII, 361 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Proceedings er Science, Band 4464) Softcover Due April 2007 55,64 € ISBN 978-3-540-72159-8 2007. XXIV, 721 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- puter Science, Band 4395) Softcover

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R. De Nicola, Università di Firenze, Italy (Ed.) J. Dedecker, Unversité Paris 6, France; P. Doukhan, Unversité F. Dehne, Carleton University, Canada; J.-R. Sack, Carleton Univer- Paris 1, France; G. Lang, Agro Paris Tech, Paris, France; J.R. Leon sity, Canada; N. Zeh, Dalhousie University, Canada (Eds.) R., Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; S. Programming Languages and Louhichi, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France; C. Prieur, INSA Systems Toulouse, France Algorithms and Data Structures 10th International Workshop, WADS 2007, Halifax, Canada, 16th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2007, Held Weak Dependence: With Examples August 15-17, 2007, Proceedings as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Prac- tice of Software, ETAPS, Braga, Portugal, March 24 - April 1, and Applications 2007, Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Algorithms and This monograph is aimed at developing Doukhan/ Data Structures, WADS 2007, held in Halifax, Cana- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Louhichi's (1999) idea to measure asymptotic inde- da, in August 2005. The 54 revised full papers pre- 16th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP pendence of a random process. The authors propose sented together with 2 invited papers were careful- 2007, held in Braga, Portugal in March/April 2007 various examples of models fitting such conditions ly reviewed and selected from 142 submissions. The as part of ETAPS 2007, the European Joint Confer- such as stable Markov chains, dynamical systems or papers present original research on the theory and ences on Theory and Practice of Software. The 34 re- more complicated models, nonlinear, non-Marko- application of algorithms and data structures in all vised full papers presented together with the abstract vian, and heteroskedastic models with infinite mem- areas, including combinatorics, computational ge- of 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and select- ory. Most of the commonly used stationary mod- ometry, databases, graphics, parallel and distributed ed from 136 submissions and address fundamental els fit their conditions. The simplicity of the condi- computing. issues in the specification, analysis, and implementations is also their strength. The main existing tools tion of programming languages and systems. The pa- for an asymptotic theory are developed under weak Fields of interest pers are organized in topical sections on models and dependence. They apply the theory to nonparamet- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Data languages for Web services, verification, term rewrit- ric statistics, spectral analysis, econometrics, and re- Structures; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Sci- ing, language based security, logics and correctness sampling. The level of generality makes those tech- ence; Computer Graphics; Numeric Computing proofs, static analysis and abstract interpretation, se- niques quite robust with respect to the model. The mantic theories for object oriented languages, pro- limit theorems are sometimes sharp and always sim- Target groups cess algebraic techniques, applicative programming, ple to apply. The theory (with proofs) is developed Researchers and professionals and types for systems properties. and the authors propose to fix the notation for future applications. A large number of research papers deals Type of publication Fields of interest with the present ideas; the authors as well as numer- Proceedings Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; ous [..] Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; Due July 2007 Logics and Meanings of Programs; Data Structures Features Make it simple to read and thus the mathematical Target groups level needed is as low as possible Aimed to fix the 2007. XVI, 662 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Researchers and professionals er Science, Band 4619) Softcover notions in the area in development May be consid- Type of publication ered as an introduction to weak dependence Propose 81,32 € Proceedings models and tools for practitioners hence the sections ISBN 978-3-540-73948-7 devoted to examples are really extensive Some of the already developed applications are also quoted for Due March 2007 completeness

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H. Delfs, Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences, C. Demetrescu, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Rome, Italy (Ed.) J. Derrick, University of Sheffield , UK; J. Vain, Tallinn University of Nürnberg, Germany; H. Knebl, Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia (Eds.) Applied Sciences, Nürnberg, Germany Experimental Algorithms Formal Techniques for Networked Introduction to Cryptography 6th International Workshop, WEA 2007, Rome, Italy, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings and Distributed Systems - FORTE Principles and Applications 2007

27th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of June 27-29, 2007, Proceedings Due to the rapid growth of digital communication the 6th International Workshop on Experimental and electronic data exchange, information security and Efficient Algorithms, WEA 2007, held in Rome, has become a crucial issue in industry, business, and Italy, in June 2007. The 30 revised full papers pre- administration. Modern cryptography provides es- sented together with 3 invited talks were carefully re- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of sential techniques for securing information and pro- viewed and selected from 121 submissions. Foster- the 27th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on tecting data. In the first part, this book covers the key ing and disseminating high quality research results Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed concepts of cryptography on an undergraduate lev- focused on the experimental analysis of algorithms Systems, FORTE 2007, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in el, from encryption and digital signatures to crypto- the papers are devoted to the design, analysis, imple- September 2007 co-located with TestCom/FATES graphic protocols. Essential techniques are demon- mentation, experimental evaluation, and engineer- 2007. The 22 revised full papers presented together strated in protocols for key exchange, user identifica- ing of efficient algorithms. Among the application with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and se- tion, electronic elections and digital cash. In the sec- areas addressed are most fields applying advanced lected from 67 submissions. The papers focus on ser- ond part, more advanced topics are addressed, such algorithmic techniques, such as combinatorial op- vice oriented computing and architectures using for- as the bit security of one-way functions and compu- timization, approximation, graph theory, discrete malized and verified approaches. In addition to the tationally perfect pseudorandom bit generators. The mathematics, data mining, simulation, cryptography classical protocol specification and verification prob- security of cryptographic schemes is a central top- and security, scheduling, searching, sorting, string lems, the issues of composition of protocol functions ic. Typical examples of provably secure encryption matching, coding, networking, etc. and of algorithms for distributed systems are ad- and signature schemes and their security proofs are dressed. The papers are organized in topical sections given. Though particular attention is given to the Fields of interest on message sequence charts and SDL, concurrency, mathematical foundations, no special background in Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Data model programs, theory, verification, model check- mathematics is presumed. The [..] Structures; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Sci- ing, requirements and QoS, as well as components. ence; Numeric Computing; Computer Graphics; Al- Features gorithms Fields of interest Compact introduction on an undergraduate level to Computer Communication Networks; Software En- the foundations of public-key cryptography in the Target groups gineering; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Oper- first part No special background in mathematics is Researchers and professionals ating Systems presumed, an explanation of the necessary mathematics is given in two appendices The same exam- Type of publication Target groups ples are used throughout the book Complete proofs Proceedings Researchers and professionals are given Type of publication Due May 2007 Fields of interest Proceedings Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theo- ry; Data Encryption; Coding and Information Theo- 2007. XIII, 448 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Due June 2007 er Science, Band 4525) Softcover ry; Number Theory; Systems and Data Security 64,20 € 2007. XI, 375 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Target groups ISBN 978-3-540-72844-3 Science, Band 4574) Softcover Undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers 77,04 € Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-73195-5 Undergraduate textbook

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O. Deussen G. Dewsbury, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; J. Dobson S. Diehl, University of Trier, Germany (Eds.) Bildmanipulation Software Visualization Responsibility and Dependable Wie Computer unsere Wirklichkeit verzerren Visualizing the Structure, Behaviour, and Evolution of Soft- Systems ware

In den Printmedien sowie in Filmen und der Wer- bung begegnen uns täglich spektakuläre Bilder, This book brings together for the first time two im- Software visualization encompasses the development die täuschend echt erscheinen, die man aber per portant features of a computer system to be em- and evaluation of methods for graphically represent- Computer erzeugt hat oder nachträglich raffiniert bedded in an organisational context: responsibili- ing different aspects of software, including its struc- veränderte. Wenn Sie schon immer wissen woll- ty, meaning whether the computer system properly ture, its execution, and its evolution. Software visual- ten, wie man so etwas macht, so liefert Ihnen das supports the organisational responsibilities that peo- ization combines techniques from areas like software Buch viele interessante Antworten. An einer Rei- ple are allocated; and dependability, which means engineering, programming languages, data mining, he vergnüglicher Beispiele wird die Kunst der Bild- whether it does so in a way that people can justifiably computer graphics, information visualization and manipulation und Computergrafik erklärt. Sie trust it to perform its operation correctly. Organisa- human-computer interaction. So far, there exist on- werden sehen, wie leicht sich manchmal das Auge tional responsibility is examined from philosophical, ly anthologies and proceedings about software visu- täuschen lässt und wie genau es an anderer Stelle social and practical viewpoints, which then leads to alization. With this book, Stephan Diehl has written hinsieht. Die Visualisierung bietet ebenfalls viele a workflow design which supports those responsibil- the first textbook on software visualization. As such Möglichkeiten der Manipulation. Werden Dia- ities. The approach pays particular attention to look- it targets both students and teachers in computer sci- gramme und Schautafeln gezeichnet, so kann der ing at what happens when things go wrong and the ence. Topics covered include static program visual- Autor durch geschickte Darstellung unliebsame adjustments and workarounds that people make to ization, algorithm animation, visual debugging, as Dinge verstecken oder Entwicklungen darstellen, fulfil their responsibilities when their primary opera- well as the visualization of the evolution of software. die es eigentlich gar nicht gibt. Lernen Sie zu erken- tional tasks are unachievable or frustrated, and how The author's presentation emphasizes common prin- nen, wo man Sie hinters Licht führen will! Kann man these alternative strategies can be incorporated into ciples and provides different examples mostly taken Bildmanipulationen per Computer erkennen, ob- the workflow design. The application of the method from seminal work. In addition, each chapter is fol- wohl es das Auge nicht sieht? Erstaunlicherweise in to multi-organisational contexts is dealt with in some lowed by a list of exercises including both pen and vielen Fällen schon – im Buch werden [..] detail. paper exercises, as well as [..]

Features Features Features - vergnügliche Reise durch manipulierte Bilder und Explores the social and technical aspects of depend- Covers both static and dynamic program visualiza- digitale Wirklichkeiten - Warum wir Bildern nicht ability and responsibility tion, as well as visual debugging and software evo- mehr glauben können - Digital und täuschend echt - lution Gives many pointers to available tools (both Contents lassen Sie sich nicht hinters Licht führen! - facetten- commercial and public-domain) and original lit- Introduction: Dependability and Responsibility in reiche, fundierte und unterhaltsame Darstellung erature Augmented with a website with additional Context.- Responsibility: A Philosophical Perspec- eines Themas von großer gesellschaftlicher Trag- teaching material and examples Author is one of the tive.- Responsibility in Practice.- Complex Organisa- weite key players in this field with extensive teaching expe- tional Responsibilities: The Ladbroke Grove Rail In- rience and tutorials at major conferences Fields of interest quiry.- Responsibility Modelling: Basic Concepts.- Computer Science, general; Photography; Computer Models for Understanding Responsibilities.- Under- Contents Graphics; Popular Science, general standing Failure: The London Ambulance Service 1 Introduction.- 2 Visualization Basics.- 3 Static Pro- Disaster.- Models for Responsibility Assignment.- gram Visualization.- 4 Dynamic Program Visualiza- Target groups Casual Responsibility Models.- Modelling in Prac- tion.- 5 Visual Debugging and Testing.- 6 Visualiz- - wissenschaftlich interessierte Laien mit ver- tice. ing Software Architectures.- 7 Visualizing the Evolu- schiedenstem Hintergrund - alle (kritische) Kon- tion of Software Systems.- 8 Evaluation.- 9 Conclu- sumenten von Bildmedien - mit Fotographie, Bildern Fields of interest sions. befasste Berufsgruppen (Fotographen, Journalisten, Models and Principles; Performance and Reliability; Soziologen) Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet) Fields of interest Software Engineering; Computer Graphics; Comput- Type of publication Target groups er-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design Popular science Researchers, doctoral students Target groups Type of publication Graduate students, lecturers, professionals Due August 2007 Monograph Type of publication 2007. X, 185 S. (SAV Medientechnologie) Geb. Due April 2007 Graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook 24,95 € Due April 2007 ISBN 978-3-8274-1900-2 2007. XVI, 236 p. Geb.

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V. Diekert, Universität Stuttgart, Germany; M. Volkov, Ural State P.J. Diggle, University of Lancaster, UK; P.J. Ribeiro, Universidade T. Dimitrakos, BT; F. Martinelli, IIT-CNR; P.Y.A. Ryan, University of University, Ekaterinburg, Russia; A. Voronkov, University of Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil Newcastle, UK; S. Schneider, University of Surrey, UK (Eds.) Manchester, UK (Eds.) Model-based Geostatistics Formal Aspects in Security and Computer Science - Theory and Trust Applications Fourth International Workshop, FAST 2006, Hamilton, On- Second International Symposium on Computer Science in Rus- Geostatistics is concerned with estimation and pre- tario, Canda, August 26-27, 2006, Revised Selected Papers sia, CSR 2007, Ekaterinburg, Russia, September 3-7, 2007, Pro- diction problems for spatially continuous phenom- ceedings ena, using data obtained at a limited number of spatial locations. The name reflects its origins in mineral exploration, but the methods are now used in a wide This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- range of settings including public health and the proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the physical and environmental sciences. Model-based on Formal Aspects in Security and Trust, FAST 2006, Second International Symposium on Computer Sci- geostatistics refers to the application of general sta- held in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, August 26-27, ence in Russia, CSR 2007, held in Ekaterinburg, Rus- tistical principles of modeling and inference to geo- 2006. The 18 revised papers presented were careful- sia, September 3-7, 2007 The 35 revised papers pre- statistical problems. This volume is the first book- ly reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The sented were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 length treatment of model-based geostatistics. The papers focus of formal aspects in security and trust submissions. All major areas in computer science are authors have written an expository text, emphasizing policy models, security protocol design and analysis, addressed; the theory track deals with algorithms, statistical methods and applications rather than the formal models of trust and reputation, logics for se- protocols, and data structures; complexity and cryp- underlying mathematical theory. Analyses of datasets curity and trust, distributed trust management sys- tography; formal languages, automata and their ap- from a range of scientific contexts feature promi- tems, trust-based reasoning, digital assets protec- plications to computer science; computational mod- nently, and simulations are used to illustrate theoret- tion, data protection, privacy and ID issues, informa- els and concepts; proof theory and applications of ical results. Readers can reproduce most of the com- tion flow analysis, language-based security, security logic to computer science. The application part computational results in the book by using the authors' and trust aspects in ubiquitous computing, valida- prises programming and languages; computer archi- R-based software package, geoR, whose usage is illus- tion/analysis tools, web service security/trust/priva- tecture and hardware design; symbolic computing trated in a computation [..] cy, GRID security, security risk assessment, and case and numerical applications; application software; ar- studies. tificial intelligence and robotics. Features The first book-length treatment of model-based geo- Fields of interest Fields of interest statistics Computer Communication Networks; Data Encryp- Theory of Computation; Algorithm Analysis and tion; Operating Systems; Computers and Society; Problem Complexity; Computation by Abstract De- Contents Management of Computing and Information Sys- vices; Computing Methodologies; Mathematics of Introduction.- An Overview of Model-Based Geo- tems; Information Storage and Retrieval Computing; Bioinformatics statistics.- Gaussian Models for Geostatistical Data.- Generalized Linear Models for Geostatistical Data.- Target groups Target groups Classical Parameter Estimation.- Spatial Prediction.- Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Bayesian Inference.- Geostatistical Design. Type of publication Type of publication Fields of interest Proceedings Proceedings Math. Applications in Geosciences; Statistical Theo- ry and Methods; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Due September 2007 Due August 2007 Computer Science, Chemistry & Geosciences

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W. Duch, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland; J. A.T. Duchowski, University of Clemson, SC, USA V.D. Duffy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA (Ed.) Mandziuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland (Eds.) Eye Tracking Methodology: Theory Digital Human Modeling

Challenges for Computational and Practice First International Conference, DHM 2007, Helt as Part of HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceed- Intelligence ings Despite the availability of cheap, fast, accurate and usable eye trackers, there is little information avail- In the year 1900 at the International Congress of able on how to develop, implement and use these This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Mathematicians in Paris David Hilbert delivered systems. This 2nd edition of the successful guide First International Conference on Digital Human what is now considered the most important talk ev- contains significant additional material on the topic Modeling, DHM 2007, held in Beijing, China in Ju- er given in the history of mathematics, proposing and aims to fill that gap in the market by providing ly 2007 in the framework of the 12th International 23 major problems worth working at in the future. an accessible comprehensive introduction. Addition- Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII One hundred years later the impact of this talk is still al key features of the 2nd edition include: Techni- 2007 with 8 other thematically similar conferences. strong: some problems have been solved, new prob- cal description of new (state-of-the-art) eye tracking The 118 revised papers presented were carefully re- lems have been added, but the direction once set - technology (new chapters 9, 10, and 11); a complete viewed and selected from numerous submissions. identify the most important problems and focus on whole new Part describing experimental methodol- The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly them - is still actual. Computational Intelligence (CI) ogy including experimental design, empirical guide- cover the thematic area of digital human modeling, is used as a name to cover many existing branches of lines, and 5 case studies (new chapters 13, 14, and addressing the following major topics: shape and science, with artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems 15); survey material regarding recent research pub- movement modeling and anthropometry, building and evolutionary computation forming its core. In lications included within Part IV. 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D.M. Dunn, Magenic Technologies, Wayzata, MN, USA G. Dunphy, Ontario, Canada; A. Metwally, Ontario, Canada J. Duparc, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland; Th.A. Henzinger, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (Eds.) Pro Microsoft Speech Server 2007 Pro BizTalk 2006 Computer Science Logic Developing Speech Enabled Applications with .NET 21 International Workshop, CSL 2007, 16th Annual Conference BizTalk automates and manages business process- of the EACSL, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 11-15, 2007, es. Pro BizTalk 2006 is based on feedback from the Proceedings Speech Server can be used to voice-enable BizTalk developer community. We asked develop- many .NET applications. Because of the support ers what other books lacked and addressed those for ASP.NET Server controls, virtually existing web topics. For example, why BizTalk works the way it This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of based application can be speech enabled with rela- does is not always intuitive and this can cause serious the 21st International Workshop on Computer Sci- tive ease. Adding in telephony is slightly more com- problems when it's implemented in the workplace. ence Logic, CSL 2007, held as the 16th Annual Con- plex but those with a basic understanding of telepho- The book begins with a detailed explanation of how ference of the EACSL in Lausanne, Switzerland, in ny will find it fairly straightforward. The truth is that BizTalk works and why. It also covers performance September 2007. The 36 revised full papers presented it’s almost impossible to get away from Speech and tuning and includes scripts and code that have been together with the abstracts of 6 invited lectures were DTFM based applications. The reason is that compa- used in real business settings. carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submis- nies can save tremendous amounts of resources but sions. The papers are organized in topical sections monetary and human by automating systems with Features on logic and games, expressiveness, games and trees, Speech and Telephony. But the catch is that such ap- Written by a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer logic and deduction, lambda calculus, finite model plications need to be well constructed and need to and a Certified Solutions Developer Based on the theory, linear logic, proof theory, and game seman- work well with the users, allowing them to do things needs of the BizTalk developer community Includes tics. they otherwise wouldn’t be able to do (like get bank examples of real-world implementations account balances at 3:00 Christmas morning). Poor- Fields of interest ly designed or implemented systems, like all poorly Contents Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Artificial designed/implemented systems simply add incon- BizTalk in the Enterprise.- Running a BizTalk De- Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Logics and Meanings of venience to what users already have to do. 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J. Durand-Lose, University of Orleans, France; M. Margenstern, E. Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Ariadne Founda- M.B. Dwyer, University of Nebraska, USA; A. Lopes, University of University of Metz, France (Eds.) tion, Belgium; R. Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany; M. Wolpers, Lisbon, Portugal (Eds.) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (Eds.) Machines, Computations, and Fundamental Approaches to Universality Creating New Learning Experiences Software Engineering on a Global Scale 5th International Conference, MCU 2007, Orleans, France, 10th International Conference, FASE 2007 Held as Part of the September 10-13, 2007, Proceedings Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learn- Joint European Conference on Theory and Practice of Soft- ing, EC-TEL 2007, Crete, Greece, September 17-20, 2007, Pro- ware, ETAPS 2007 Braga, Portugal, March 24 - April 1, 2007 ceedings Proceedings

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In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview Environmental pollution by harmful anthropogenic of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several Advances in technology have enabled the collection substances and uncontrolled use of natural reserves sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems of data from scientific observations, simulations, and have become a global problem and require substan- and components. The evaluation aspects covered in- experiments at an ever-increasing pace. For the sci- tial efforts for developing and applying efficient clude speech and speaker recognition, speech synthe- entist and engineer to benefit from these enhanced measures of control, mitigation and abatement. For sis, animated talking agents, part-of-speech tagging, data collecting capabilities, it is becoming clear that achieving this goal predictions of possibly result- parsing, and natural language software like machine semi-automated data analysis techniques must be ing risks and impacts are urgently needed for future translation, information retrieval, question answer- applied to find the useful information in the data. environmental planning. The majority of environ- ing, spoken dialogue systems, data resources, and an- Computational scientific discovery methods can be mental quality models is focusing on selected isolat- notation schemes. With its broad coverage and orig- used to this end: they focus on applying computa- ed parts of the geo-system though impacts on one inal contributions this book is unique in the field of tional methods to automate scientific activities, such compartment usually also affect one or more oth- evaluation of speech and language technology. This as finding laws from observational data. In contrast er parts. There is a strong need to advance to an in- book is of particular relevance to advanced under- to mining scientific data, which focuses on build- tegral treatment of air, soil and water pollution by graduate students, PhD students, academic and in- ing highly predictive models, computational scientif- combining different models for different media. Fur- dustrial researchers, and practitioners. ic discovery puts a strong emphasis on discovering thermore it is imperative to develop and apply mod- Features knowledge represented in formalisms used by scien- ern methods of control theory to environmental risk Unique and original collection of chapters on text tists and engineers, such as numeric equations and assessment in order to support mitigation and abate- and speech systems evaluation Broad coverage of reaction pathways. This state-of-the-art survey pro- ment measures in an optimal way. The aim of the the field of text and speech systems and their evalu- vides an introduction to computational approaches NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Air, Wa- ation Includes chapters on language resources and to the discovery of scientific knowledge and gives an ter and Soil Quality Modelling for Risk and Impact standard Benefits those working in the broad area of overview of recent advances in this [..] Assessment" [..] speech and language technology evaluation Fields of interest Features Contents Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining Joint treatment of air, water and soil quality Applica- Preface.- Contributing Authors.- Introduction.- and Knowledge Discovery; Database Management; tion of control theory and environmental data assim- 1. Speech and Speaker Recognition Evaluation.- 2. Information Storage and Retrieval; Pattern Recogni- ilation Integrated environmental modelling Mod- Evaluation of Speech Synthesis.- 3. Talking Animat- tion; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics elling for security ed Interface Agents.- 4. Evaluating Part-of-Speech Target groups Contents Tagging and Parsing.- 5. General Principles of User Researchers and professionals Preface.- Risk and Emergency Modelling for Envi- Oriented Evaluation.- 6. An Overview of Evaluation ronmental Security: General Aspects.- Variational Methods in TREC Ad-Hoc Information Retrieval Type of publication Technique for Environmental Risk/Vulnerability As- and TREC Question Answering.- 7. Spoken Dialogue Proceedings sessment and Control.- Environmental Risk and As- Systems Evaluation.- 8. Linguistic Resources, Devel- sessment Modelling – Scientific Needs and Expect- opment and Evaluation.- 9. Towards International ed Advancements.- Control Theory and Environ- Standards for Language Resources.- Index. Due August 2007 mental Risk Assessment.- Air Quality Models for Risk Assessment and Emergency Preparedness – In- Fields of interest 2007. X, 327 p. 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A. Ebel, University of Cologne, Germany; T. Davitashvili, State ISBN 978-1-4020-5875-2 P. Eberhard, University of Stuttgart, Germany (Ed.) University Tbilisi, Georgia (Eds.) IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Air, Water and Soil Quality Problems in Multibody System Modelling for Risk and Impact Contacts Assessment Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Stuttgart, Ger- many, February 20–23, 2006

Environmental pollution by harmful anthropogenic substances and uncontrolled use of natural reserves The investigation of multiscale problems in multi- have become a global problem and require substan- body system contacts is a most interesting and time- tial efforts for developing and applying efficient ly topic which has been the subject of intensive re- measures of control, mitigation and abatement. For search for more than one decade. While many ques- achieving this goal predictions of possibly result- tions have been answered and the mechanically ing risks and impacts are urgently needed for future sound description and simulation is increasingly environmental planning. The majority of environ- applied in practical engineering problems, this IU- mental quality models is focussing on selected iso- TAM Symposium facilitated discussions between related parts of the geo-system though impacts on one searchers active in the field and enabled us to review compartment usually also affect one or more oth- the state-of-the-art and to identify for the years to er parts. There is a strong need to advance to an income the hot topics which require further efforts. It tegral treatment of air, soil and water pollution by was especially useful to bring together scientists from combining different models for different media. Fur- closely related but traditionally distinct fields such thermore it is imperative to develop and apply mod- as multibody system contact, molecular dynamics, fi- ern methods of control theory to environmental risk nite element contact, collision detection or the math- assessment in order to support mitigation and abate- ematics of unilateral contact. It is observed that the ment measures in an optimal way. The aim of the once clear boundaries between these fields are blur- NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Air, Wa- ring and an exchange of ideas will accelerate the deter and Soil Quality Modelling for Risk and Impact velopment with mutual benefits. Multiscale prob- Assessment" [..] lems occur very naturally in contact [..] Features Features Joint treatment of air, water and soil quality Applica- State of the art overview of this particular field Points tion of control theory and environmental data assim- to future areas of development ilation Integrated environmental modelling Mod- elling for security Fields of interest Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Com- Contents putational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Preface.- Risk and Emergency Modelling for Envi- Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- ronmental Security: General Aspects.- Variational neering; Numerical and Computational Methods in Technique for Environmental Risk/Vulnerability As- Engineering; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics sessment and Control.- Environmental Risk and As- sessment Modelling – Scientific Needs and Expect- Target groups ed Advancements.- Control Theory and Environ- Researchers and Practitioners in Mechanical Engi- mental Risk Assessment.- Air Quality Models for neering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Mathemat- Risk Assessment and Emergency Preparedness – In- ics, Materials Science and Computer Science tegration into Control Networks.- Integrated Assess- ment Modelling: Applications of the Impact Pathway Type of publication Methodology.- Advanced Air Pollution Models and Proceedings their Application to Risk and Impact Assessment.- Dispersion [..] Due April 2007 Fields of interest Environmental Computing/Environmental Mod- 2007. XX, 338 p. (IUTAM Bookseries, Band 1) Geb. elling; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality 112,30 € Control/Air Pollution; Soil Science & Conservation; ISBN 978-1-4020-5980-3 Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Con- trol / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution

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C. Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Stuttgart, Germany; R. M. Ebner, University of Würzburg, Germany; M. O'Neill, University S. Edelkamp, University of Dortmund, Germany; A. Lomuscio, Im- Dumke, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany College Dublin, Ireland; A. Ekárt, Aston University, Birmingham, perial College, London, UK (Eds.) UK; L. Vanneschi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; A.I. Espar- cia-Alcázar, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain (Eds.) Software Measurement Model Checking and Artificial

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10th European Conference, EuroGP 2007, Valencia, Spain, 4th Workshop, MoChArt IV, Riva del Garda, Italy, August 29, April 11-13, 2007, Proceedings 2006, Revised Selected and Invited Papers Our world and our society are shaped and increasingly governed by software. Since software is so ubiquitous and embedded in nearly everything we are This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- doing, we need to stay in control. We have to make the 10th European Conference on Genetic Program- proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Model Check- sure that the systems and their software are running ming, EuroGP 2007, held in Valencia, Spain in April ing and Artificial Intelligence, MoChArt IV, held in as we intend - or better. Software measurement is 2007 colocated with EvoCOP 2007. The 21 revised Riva Del Garda, Italy in August 2006, as a satellite the discipline that assures that we stay in control. plenary papers and 14 revised poster papers were event of ECAI0 2006, the 17th biannual European In this volume, Ebert and Dumke provide a com- carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. conference on Artificial Intelligence. The 8 revised prehensive introduction to software measurement. The papers address fundamental and theoretical is- full workshop papers and 3 revised post-proceedings They detail knowledge and experiences about soft- sues, along with a wide variety of papers dealing with papers presented have gone through two rounds of ware measurement in an easily understood, hands- different application areas, such as chess game play- reviewing and improvement and were carefully se- on presentation. Brief references are embedded from ing, real-time evaluation of VoIP, multi-objective lected for inclusion in the book. The workshop cov- world-renown experts such as Alain Abran, Luigi optimization, evolution of recursive sorting algo- ers all ideas, research, experiments and tools that Buglione, Manfred Bundschuh, David N. Card, Ton rithms, density estimation for inverse problem solv- relate to both MC and AI fields. The papers are or- Dekkers, Robert L. Glass, David A. Gustafson, Marek ing, image filter evolution, predicting prime num- ganized in topical sections on planning and model Leszak, Peter Liggesmeyer, Andreas Schmietendorf, bers, data mining, grammatical genetic program- checking, heuristics for real-time model checking, Harry Sneed, Charles Symons, Ruediger Zarnekow ming, layered learning, expression simplification, verification of multi-agent systems, as well as logics and Horst Zuse. Many examples and case studies neutrality and evolvability, iterated function systems, for model checking and artificial intelligence. are provided from Global 100 companies such as particle swarm optimization, or open ended evo- Alcatel-Lucent, Atos Origin, Axa, Bosch, Deloitte, Fields of interest lution. The use of Genetic Programming for sever- Deutsche Telekom, Shell, [..] Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Program- al different applications shows that the method is a ming Techniques; Software Engineering; Logics and very general problem-solving paradigm. Features Meanings of Programs; Mathematical Logic and For- Describes software measurement in theory and prac- Fields of interest mal Languages tice Introduces quantitative management and Six Programming Techniques; Computation by Abstract Sigma Presents hands-on experience from industry Target groups Devices; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complex- leaders Fully compatible to the ISO 15939 general Researchers and professionals ity; Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelligence (incl. measurement standard Reflects the new CMMI v1.2 Robotics); Computational Biology/Bioinformatics with concrete measurement samples for each process Type of publication Proceedings area Offers practical guidance for IT and software Target groups business and management Provides guidance to all Researchers and professionals relevant [..] Due August 2007 Type of publication Contents Proceedings Introduction - Making Measurement a Success - 2007. IX, 185 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Measurement Foundations - Planning the Measure- Science, Band 4428) Softcover Due April 2007 ment Process - Performing the Measurement Process 44,94 € - Introducing a Measurement Program - Size and Ef- ISBN 978-3-540-74127-5 fort Estimation - Project Management - Defect Re- 2007. XI, 382 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer moval and Quality Improvement - Measuring Soft- Science, Band 4445) Softcover ware Systems - Improving Processes and Products - Controlling for IT and Software - Measurement 55,64 € Repositories - Empirical Laws and Rules of Thumb ISBN 978-3-540-71602-0 - Communities and Internet Ressources - Glossary - Literature - Index.

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A. Edney, R. Maximo K. Elleithy, University of Bridgeport, CT, USA (Ed.) P. Elst, MMUG and MindStudio, Belgium; S. Jacobs, USA; T. Yard, Anything is Possible, Australia Pro LCS Advances and Innovations in Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0 Live Communications Server Administration Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering ActionScript 3.0 is a very popular new language for Live Communications Server is a recent release in the Flash community to learn, plus it makes ob- Microsoft’s core server suite that enables unified Advances and Innovations in Systems, Comput- ject-oriented programming mandatory, hence this communications across an office through a variety of ing Sciences and Software Engineering includes a new edition of the best selling and very highly re- devices, including phones, web conferences, and the set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts garded Object Oriented ActionScript for Flash 8 is Internet. 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G. Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany; B. Opdyke, Motoro- R.H. Enns, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; G.C. T. Enokido, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan; L. Barolli, Fukuoka la, Inc., Schaumburg, IL, USA; D.C. Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, McGuire, University College of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC, Insitute of Technology, Japan; M. Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univer- Nashville, TN,USA; F. Weil, Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL, USA Canada sity, Japan (Eds.) (Eds.) Computer Algebra Recipes Network-Based Information Model Driven Engineering Systems Languages and Systems An Advanced Guide to Scientific Modeling First International Conference, NBIS 2007, Regensburg, Ger- 10th International Conference, MoDELS 2007, Nashville, USA, many, September 3-7, 2007, Proceedings September 30 - October 5, 2007, Proceedings Modern computer algebra systems are revolutionizing the teaching and learning of mathematically intensive subjects in science and engineering, en- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of abling students to explore increasingly complex and First International Conference on Network-Based the 10th International Conference on Model Driven computationally intensive models that provide an- Information Systems, NBIS 2007, held in Regens- Engineering Languages and Systems (formerly the alytic solutions, animated numerical solutions, and burg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007 in conjunction UML series of conferences), MODELS 2007, held in complex two- and three-dimensional graphic dis- with Dexa 2007. The 55 revised full papers presented Nashville, USA, September 30 - October 5, 2007. The plays. This self-contained text benefits from a spiral were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 sub- 45 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and se- structure that regularly revisits the general topics of missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- lected from 158 initial submissions. The papers are graphics, symbolic computation, and numerical sim- tions on recommender systems, business process / organized in topical sections on Model Transforma- ulation with increasing intricacy at each turn. The design aspects, mobile commerce, security and e- tion, Modeling Constraints, Meta-Modeling, Consis- text is built around a large number of computer alge- payment, Web services computing / semantic Web, tent Models, Modeling Support, User Interface De- bra worksheets or "recipes" that have been designed e-negotiation and agent mediated systems, and issues sign, Language Definition, Modeling Methods, Ser- using MAPLE to provide tools for problem solving in Web advertising. vice and Process Modeling, Model Analysis, Mod- and to stimulate critical thinking. No prior knowl- eling Process, Aspects, New Language Features, De- edge of MAPLE is assumed. All relevant commands Fields of interest bugging Support and Statecharts. are introduced on a need-to-know basis and are in- Computer Systems Organization and Communi- dexed for easy reference. Each recipe is associated cation Networks; Computer Communication Net- Fields of interest with a scientific model or method and an interesting works; Systems and Data Security; Data Storage Software Engineering; Programming Languages, or amusing story designed to both entertain and [..] Representation; Information Systems Applications Compilers, Interpreters; Simulation and Modeling; (incl.Internet); e-business and e-commerce Management of Computing and Information Sys- Features tems Contains computer algebra worksheets or "recipes" Target groups designed using MAPLE; no prior knowledge of Researchers and professionals Target groups MAPLE is assumed; all recipes are included on the Researchers and professionals CD-ROM enclosed with the book Effective compu- Type of publication tational science text for third- and fourth-year un- Proceedings Type of publication dergraduates in mathematics, physics, engineering, Proceedings game theory, and physical chemistry Examples and Due August 2007 problems provide basis for both self-study and on- Due September 2007 line course 2007. XIII, 544 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4658) Contents Softcover 2007. XV, 698 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4735) Preface.- Introduction.- The Appetizers.- Phase- Softcover 72,76 € Plane Portraits.- The Entrees.- Linear ODE Mod- ISBN 978-3-540-74572-3 85,60 € els.- Nonlinear ODE Models.- Linear PDE Models.- ISBN 978-3-540-75208-0 Soliton Models.- The Desserts.- Diagnostic Tools for Nonlinear Dynamics.- Simulating ODE and PDE Models.

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E. Ernst, University of Aarhus, Denmark (Ed.) B.K. Ersboll, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby; K.S. Peder- F. Escolano, DCCIA, Spain; M. Vento, DIIE, Italy (Eds.) sen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Eds.) ECOOP - Object-Oriented Graph-Based Representations in Programming Image Analysis Pattern Recognition 15th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2007, Aalborg, Denmark, 21th European Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 30 - August June 10-24, 2007, Proceedings 6th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop, GbRPR 2007, Ali- 3, 2007, Proceedings cante, Spain, June 11-13, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, 21st European Conference on Object-Oriented Pro- 6th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop on Graph- SCIA 2007, held in Aalborg, Denmark in June 2007. gramming, ECOOP 2007, held in Berlin, Germany Based Representations in Pattern Recognition, GbR- The 66 revised full papers and 33 revised poster pain July/August 2007. The 25 revised full papers, pre- PR 2007, held in Alicante, Spain in June 2007. The pers presented were carefully reviewed and selected sented together with 3 invited talks were carefully re- 23 revised full papers and 14 revised poster papers from 228 submissions. The papers are organized in viewed and selected from a total of 135 final submis- presented were carefully reviewed and selected from topical sections on computer vision, 2D and 3D re- sions. The papers are organized in topical sections 54 submissions. The papers are organized in topi- construction, classification and segmentation, medi- on types, runtime implementation, empirical stud- cal sections on matching, distances and measures, cal and biological applications, appearance and shape ies, programs and predicates, language design, inher- graph-based segmentation and image processing, modeling, face detection, tracking and recognition, itance and derivation, aspects, as well as language graph-based clustering, graph representations, pyra- motion analysis, feature extraction and object recog- about language. mids, combinatorial maps and homologies, as well as nition. graph clustering, embedding and learning. Fields of interest Fields of interest Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; Fields of interest Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Comput- Recognition; Computer Graphics Logics and Meanings of Programs; Computer Com- er Vision; Computer Graphics; Discrete Mathemat- munication Networks; Management of Computing Target groups ics in Computer Science; Data Structures; Artificial and Information Systems Researchers and professionals Intelligence (incl. Robotics)

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J. Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, St Ismier, France; P. Shvaiko, Uni- L. Fahrmeir, Universität München; R. Künstler, Efringen-Kirchen; I. J. Farley, North Reading, MA, USA versity of Trento, Italy Pigeot, Universität Bremen; G. Tutz, Universität München Practical JBoss Seam Projects Ontology Matching Statistik

Der Weg zur Datenanalyse The only viable alternative to the most popular and Ontologies tend to be found everywhere. They are adopted open source and lightweight enterprise Ja- viewed as the silver bullet for many applications, va-based Spring Framework, JBoss Seam is the up Das Buch bietet eine integrierte Darstellung der such as database integration, peer-to-peer systems, and coming challenger to Spring. JBoss Seam offers deskriptiven Statistik, moderner Methoden der ex- e-commerce, semantic web services, or social net- more adherences to Java EE 5 standards than does plorativen Datenanalyse und der induktiven Statis- works. However, in open or evolving systems, such Spring, and is a key selling point to many prospec- tik, einschließlich der Regressions- und Varianz- as the semantic web, different parties would, in gen- tive Seam developers and users. The first and only analyse. Die Darstellung ist auf inhaltliche Motiva- eral, adopt different ontologies. Thus, merely using book of its kind, Practical JBoss Seam Web 2.0 De- tion, Interpretation und Verständnis der Methoden ontologies, like using XML, does not reduce hetero- velopment, is a series of practical application sce- ausgerichtet. Zahlreiche Beispiele mit realen Daten geneity: it just raises heterogeneity problems to a narios which demonstrates the nature of the new und Graphiken veranschaulichen den Text. Texther- higher level. Euzenat and Shvaiko’s book is devoted open source lightweight Java EE 5 (JSF-EJB3)-stan- vorhebungen zentraler Aspekte und Stichwörter am to ontology matching as a solution to the semantic dards based JBoss Seam framework, its efficacy and Rand erhöhen die Lesbarkeit und Übersichtlichkeit. heterogeneity problem faced by computer systems. its limitations. The scenarios/cases will be chosen Das Buch eignet sich als vorlesungsbegleitender Ontology matching aims at finding correspondences to demonstrate specific elements of the framework Text, aber auch zum Selbststudium für Studenten between semantically related entities of different (e.g., basic web application development, rich web aus den Bereichen der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwis- ontologies. These correspondences may stand for clients with AJAX, etc.). Real-world cases will be senschaften, anderen Anwendungsdisziplinen der equivalence as well as other relations, such as conse- used where possible. Statistik sowie als Einführungstext für Studenten der quence, subsumption, or disjointness, between on- Statistik. tology entities. Many different matching solutions Features First and only practical projects-based book on the have been proposed so far from various viewpoints, Features up and coming open source lightweight Java EE 5 e.g., databases, information systems, artificial [..] Umfassende Einführung in die Statistik Eingängig: JSF-EJB3-standards based framework – JBoss Seam inhaltliche Motivation, Interpretationshilfen und Features Written by enterprise Java expert luminary and au- verständliche Darstellung der Methoden An- First state-of-the-art overview of techniques applica- thor, Jim Farley Real-world applications/cases like schaulich: zahlreiche Beispiele, Grafiken und Tex- ble to database schema matching and semantic web PayPal will be used thervorhebungen applications Summarizes research from database, in- Contents formation systems, and artificial intelligence com- Contents 1. Introduction.- 2. Installation/Configuration.- 3. munities Uniquely combines theoretical foundations Einführung.- Univariate Deskription und Explo- Component Fundamentals.- 4. Structured Page- with practical application perspectives ration von Daten.- Multivariate Deskription und Ex- flow/BPM.- 5. Rich Web Applications. ploration.- Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung.- Diskrete Contents Zufallsvariablen.- Stetige Zufallsvariablen.- Mehr Part I.- The Matching Problem.- Applications.- The Fields of interest über Zufallsvariablen und Verteilungen.- Mehrdi- Matching Problem.- Part II.- Ontology Matching Programming Techniques mensionale Zufallsvariablen.- Parameterschätzung.- Techniques.- Classifications of Ontology Matching Testen von Hypothesen.- Spezielle Testprobleme.- Techniques.- Basic Techniques.- Matching Strate- Target groups Regressionsanalyse.- Varianzanalyse.- Zeitreihen.- gies.- Part III.- Systems and Evaluation.- Overview Intermediate to advanced Java and Web developers Tabellen. of Matching Systems.- Evaluation of Matching Sys- tems.- Part IV.- Representing, Explaining, and Pro- Type of publication Fields of interest Professional book cessing Alignments.- Frameworks and Formats: Rep- Economic Theory; Statistical Theory and Methods; resenting Alignments.- Explaining Alignments.- Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Fi- Due August 2007 Processing Alignments.- Part V.- Conclusions.- Ap- nance/Insurance pendix.- Bibliography. 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When the concept of open source began sponse profiles of single cells and the properties of This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- to gain mindshare in the global business community, a single gene in isolation, such techniques and ap- proceedings of the joint International Workshops decision makers faced a challenge: to convert hype proaches cannot easily address holistic issues of how on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, TADA 2006, and potential into sustainable profit and viable busi- large ensembles of neurons and genes can integrate and on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, ness models. This volume addresses this challenge information both spatially and temporally. 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B. Fernández-Manjón, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain; M.A.R. Ferreira, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA; H.K.H. J.L. Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, UK; P.-Y. Schobbens, Faculté J.M. Sánchez-Pérez, Universidad Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain; Lee, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium (Eds.) J.A. Gómez-Pulido, Universidad Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain; M.A. Vega-Rodríguez, Universidad Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain; J. Bravo-Rodríguez, Universidad Castilla - La Mancha, Ciudad Re- Multiscale Modeling Recent Trends in Algebraic al, Spain (Eds.) A Bayesian Perspective Development Techniques Computers and Education 18th International Workshop, WADT 2006, La Roche en Ar- denne, Belgium, June 1-3, 2006, Revised Selected Papers E-learning, From Theory to Practice A wide variety of processes occur on multiple scales, either naturally or as a consequence of measurement. This book contains methodology for the analysis This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- of data that arise from such multiscale processes. This book contains a selection of contributions pre- proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on The book brings together a number of recent devel- senting the latest research in the field of Computers Algebraic Development Techniques, WADT 2006, opments and makes them accessible to a wider au- in Education and, more specifically, in E-Learning. held in La Roche en Ardenne, Belgium, in June 2006. dience. Taking a Bayesian approach allows for full The topics covered range from proposals regarding The 10 revised full papers presented were careful- accounting of uncertainty, and also addresses the the newest "de facto" standards in E-Learning - such ly selected during two rounds of reviewing and im- delicate issue of uncertainty at multiple scales. The as IMS Learning Design - to the more practical as- provement. The papers focus on the algebraic ap- Bayesian approach also facilitates the use of knowl- pects of the design, i.e. implementations and the ac- proach to the specification and development of sys- edge from prior experience or data, and these meth- tual application of educational tools in real settings. tems and address topics such as formal methods ods can handle different amounts of prior knowledge The volume reflects the diverse scenario of the appli- for system development, specification languages at different scales, as often occurs in practice. cation of computers in the educational field by de- and methods, systems and techniques for reasoning about specifications, specification development sys- scribing previous experiences and addressing some Features tems, methods and techniques for concurrent, dis- of the present key issues such as Learning Manage- Stochastic models for processes that live and can tributed and mobile systems, and algebraic and co- ment Systems as well as more innovative aspects possibly be observed at different levels of resolution algebraic foundations. such as personalized or ubiquitous learning. The models in this book allow different degrees of smoothness of the stochastic processes at the dif- Features Fields of interest ferent levels of resolution The statistical analysis of A discussion of Educational Modelling Languages Logics and Meanings of Programs; Mathematical multiscale models based on the Bayesian paradigm Contains E-learning Standards Contains experiences Logic and Formal Languages; Software Engineering; in the book allow a full amount of uncertainty Con- of e-learning in real settings Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation tains implicit multiscale models implementable with Fields of interest [..] Target groups Computers and Education; Educational Technology Researchers and professionals Contents Target groups Introduction.-Models for Spatial Data.-Illustrative Type of publication Teachers and researchers involved in the field of Example.-Convolution Methods.-Wavelet Meth- Proceedings Computers in Education and more specifically in e- ods.-Overview on Explicit Multiscale Models.-Gaus- learning. sian Multiscale Models on Trees.-Hidden Markov Due April 2007 Models on Trees.-Mass Balanced Multiscale Mod- Type of publication els on Trees.-Multiscale Random Fields.-Multi- Contributed volume scale Time Series.-Change of Support Models.-Im- 2007. VII, 171 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- plicit Computationally-Linked Model Overview.- er Science, Band 4409) Softcover Due August 2007 Metropolis-Coupled Methods.-Genetic Algo- 44,94 € rithms.-Soil Permeability Estimation.-Single Photon ISBN 978-3-540-71997-7 Emission Computed Tomography Example.-Conclu- 2007. Approx. 250 p. Geb. sions.

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S. Fienberg, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J. Filipe, INSTICC/EST Setúbal, Portugal; J.-L. Ferrier, University J. Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal/INSTICC, Portugal; J. of Angers, France; J.A. Cetto, Technical University of Catalonia, Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal/INSTICC, Portugal; V. Spain; M. Carvalho, INSTICC, Setúbal, Portugal (Eds.) Pedrosa, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal/INSTICC, Portugal (Eds.) The Analysis of Cross-Classified Categorical Data Informatics in Control, Automation Web Information Systems and and Robotics II Technologies

A variety of biological and social science data come International Conferences WEBIST 2005 and WEBIST 2006, Re- in the form of cross-classified tables of counts, com- vised Selected Papers monly referred to as contingency tables. Until recent Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics II years the statistical and computational techniques is a collection of the best papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, available for the analysis of cross-classified data were This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- Automation and Robotics (ICINCO). The purpose of quite limited. This book presents some of the recent proceedings of the 1st and 2nd International Con- ICINCO was to bring together researchers, engineers work on the statistical analysis of cross-classified da- ference on Web Information Systems and Technolo- and practitioners interested in the application of in- ta using longlinear models, especially in the multidi- gies, WEBIST 2005 and 2006, held in Miami, FL, formatics to Control, Automation and Robotics. The mensional situation. USA, and Setubal, Portugal, respectively. The 30 re- research papers focused on real world applications, vised full papers presented in this volume were care- covering three main themes: Intelligent Control Sys- Features fully reviewed and selected from more than 300 sub- tems, Optimization, Robotics and Automation and Originally published in 1980, this book has sold missions overall. In addition, three keynote presen- Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control. more than 10,000 copies tations are also included. The papers address all rel- Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas evant aspects of web information systems technolo- Contents of Control, Automation and Robotics. This book will gies and applications and are grouped into four parts Introduction.- Two-dimensional tables.- Three-di- be of interest to professionals working on the con- about internet technology; web interfaces and appli- mensional tables.- Selection of a model.- Four- and trol and robotics area, especially those who need to cations; society, e-business and e-government; and e- higher-dimensional contingency tables.- Fixed mar- maintain knowledge about current trends in devel- learning. gins and logit models.- Causal analysis involving log- opment methods and applications. it and loglinear models.- Fixed and random zeroes. Contents Features Invited Papers - Part 1: Internet Technology - Part 2: Fields of interest Gives a survey of recent developments in the applica- Web Interfaces and Applications - Part 3: Society, E- Statistical Theory and Methods tion of information technologies to the robotics area Business and E-Government - Part 4: E-Learning. Target groups Contents Fields of interest Researchers, students From the contents Preface. Conference Committee. e-business and e-commerce; Information Systems; Invited Speakers. Invited Papers.- Part 1 - Intelligent Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Type of publication control systems and optimization.- Part 2 - Robotics Computer Applications Monograph and automation.- Part 3 - Signal processing, systems modeling and control.- Author Index. Target groups Due July 2007 Researchers and libraries Fields of interest Computer Science, general; Automation and Originally published by Wiley-Interscience, 2002 Type of publication Robotics; Control Structures and Microprogram- Proceedings ming 2007. XIV, 202 p. Softcover Target groups Due August 2007 42,75 € Researchers and developers in the areas of Automa- ISBN 978-0-387-72824-7 tion, Control and Robotics 2007. XIII, 422 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Process- ing, Band 1) Softcover Type of publication Proceedings 59,92 € ISBN 978-3-540-74062-9 Due March 2007

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M. Fischetti, University of Padova, Italy; D.P. Williamson, Cornell F.H.P. Fitzek, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark; M.D. Katz, W. Fokkink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands University, Ithaca, NY, USA (Eds.) VTT, Finland (Eds.) Modelling Distributed Systems Integer Programming and Cognitive Wireless Networks

Combinatorial Optimization Concepts, Methodologies and Visions Inspiring the Age of En- lightenment of Wireless Communications 12th International IPCO Conference, Ithaca, NY, USA, June A distributed system is driven by separate compo- 25-27, 2007, Proceedings nents that are executed in parallel, and protocols for such systems form a major aspect of system design In the Age of Enlightenment the German philoso- in today’s world of wireless and mobile network- pher Immanuel Kant encouraged people to use their ing. Process algebras are languages for the descrip- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of own mind as the basis for reasoning instead of fol- tion of elementary parallel systems and are used to the 12th International Conference on Integer Pro- lowing dogmatic religious rules - Sapere aude! (dare study the behavioural properties of distributed sys- gramming and Combinatorial Optimization, IPCO to know!) - Today wireless communication networks tems, but they often lack the ability to handle da- 2007, held in Ithaca, NY, USA, in June 2007. The 36 are increasingly becoming aware of the conditions ta. This textbook guides students through algebraic revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed of its their component parts and surrounding envi- specification and verification of distributed systems, and selected from over 120 submissions. Among the ronment. Cognition, a continuous process involv- and some of the most prominent formal verification topics addressed are approximation algorithms, algo- ing sensing, reasoning, understanding and reacting, techniques. The author employs µCRL as the vehi- rithmic game theory, branch and bound algorithms, can be applied to wireless networks in order to adapt cle, a language developed to combine process algebra branch and cut algorithms, computational biology, the system to the highly dynamic wireless ecosystem. and abstract data types. Chapters 2 and 3 explain the computational complexity, computational geom- The ultimate goals are to enhance the efficiency in basics of abstract data types and process algebra, and etry, cutting plane algorithms, diophantine equa- the use of radio resources as well as to improve both guide the reader through the syntax and semantics tions, geometry of numbers, graph and network al- link and network performance. This book presents of µCRL; Chap. 4 examines abstraction from internal gorithms, integer programming, matroids and sub- a detailed overview of a rapidly emerging topic in behaviour; Chap. 5 covers specifications of standard modular functions, on-line algorithms and competi- modern communications: cognitive wireless net- protocols; Chap. 6 shows how to transform protocol tive analysis, polyhedral combinatorics, randomized works. The key aspects of cognitive and cooperative specifications into labelled [..] algorithms, random graphs, scheduling theory and principles in wireless networks are discussed in this scheduling algorithms, as well as semidefinite pro- Features book. Furthermore, Cognitive Wireless Networks grams. Explains process algebra and protocol specification advocates the concept of breaking up the cellular [..] using µCRL, a language developed to combine pro- Fields of interest Features cess algebra and abstract data types Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science; Nu- Contains “hot” topics and emerging research con- meric Computing; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Contents cepts First volume mostly dealt with rather well stud- Complexity; Computer Graphics Introduction.- Abstract Data Types.- Process Alge- ied (but new) concepts This second volume focuses bra.- Hiding Internal Transitions.- Protocol Specifi- on upcoming ideas and technologies, some of them Target groups cations.- Linear Process Equations.- Verification Al- already hot topics and some of them clearly becom- Researchers and professionals gorithms on State Spaces.- Symbolic Methods.- The ing the hot topics of the future µCRL Toolset in a Nutshell.- Solutions to Exercis- Type of publication es.-References.- Index. 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E. Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy; M. Kifer, State R. Franklin, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, K. Franz, Groß-Gerau University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA; W. May, Georg- USA; A. Mills, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA (Eds.) August-Universität Göttingen, Germany (Eds.) Handbuch zum Testen von Web- The Spatial Distribution of Microbes Applikationen The Semantic Web: Research and in the Environment Applications Testverfahren, Werkzeuge, Praxistipps

4th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2007, Inns- bruck, Austria, June 3-7, 2007, Proceedings Features Web-Applikationen können von überall im Inter- Attempts to address issues of scale of microbes jux- net aufgerufen werden. Dabei ist nicht vorhersagbar, taposed with the footprint of their activities on the wie viele Personen zu welchen Zeiten mit welchen This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of landscape Includes discussion of fungi in soils and Kenntnissen und welchem Verhalten auf eine Web- the 4th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC planktonic microorganisms in water in an attempt to Site zugreifen. Bei Unternehmens-Web-Sites treiben 2007, held in Innsbruck, Austria, in June 2007. The reconcile differences in scale of those organisms to Fehler jeglicher Art Besucher unmittelbar zu Mitbe- 46 revised full papers presented together with 4 in- their activity footprint Provides a primer on quanti- werbern. Diese Umstände machen die Qualität ein- vited talks and 10 system descriptions were careful- tative methods used to evaluate scale issues and dis- er geschäftsrelevanten Web-Anwendung für ein Un- ly reviewed and selected from a total of 278 submit- tributions in an effort to allow readers to [..] ternehmen zum kritischen Erfolgsfaktor, zumal sich ted papers. The papers are organized in topical sec- die technischen Möglichkeiten des WWW laufend tions on semantic Web services, ontology learning, Contents ändern. Der Autor beschreibt die Maßnahmen, inference and mapping, case studies, social semantic Contributing Authors. Preface. Acknowledgements. welche die Qualität einer Web-Applikation sich- Web, ontologies: requirements and analysis, person- Introduction; Franklin, R.B., Mills, A.L. Statistical erstellen. Er erklärt, wie Qualität definiert und alization, foundations of the semantic Web, natural Analysis of Spatial Structure in Microbial Communi- gemessen wird und erläutert die notwendigen languages and ontologies, applications, querying and ties; Franklin, R.B., Mills, A.L. Bacterial Interactions Testverfahren und deren Unterstützung durch Web data models, as well as system descriptions. at the Microscale - Linking Habitat to Function In Testsoftware. Mit konkreten Arbeitshilfen in Form Soil; Nunan N., Young, I.M, Crawford, J.W., Ritz, Fields of interest von Checklisten erhalten Tester und Webmas- K. Spatial Distribution of Bacteria at the Microscale Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); ter das Handwerkszeug für ihre Tests. Das Buch In Soil; Dechesne, A., Pallud, C., Grundmann, G.L. Computer Communication Networks; Software En- ermöglicht Testmanagern und Projektleitern, Analysis Of Spatial Patterns Of Rhizoplane Colo- gineering; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Qualitätsrisiken richtig zu bewerten und erforder- nization; Knudsen, G.R., Dandurand, L.-M. Micro- Information Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intelli- liche Qualitätssicherungsmaßnahmen rechtzeitig zu bial Distributions And Their Potential Controlling gence (incl. Robotics) planen. Factors In Terrestrial [..] Target groups Features Fields of interest Researchers and professionals Effiziente Qualitätssicherung von Web-Anwendun- Microbial Ecology; Statistics for Engineering, gen, ein wichtiger Erfolgsfaktor für Unternehmen Type of publication Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry & Geo- Handwerkszeug für Praktiker, Planungshilfe für Proceedings sciences; Biogeosciences Manager Alle Tests im Überblick, alle Risiken im Griff Preisgünstige Testwerkzeuge und viele Check- Target groups listen Due May 2007 Graduate students and scientists in the area of microbial ecology, active investigators in general ecol- Contents 2007. XVIII, 830 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- ogy who are interested in biogeochemical process- Vorwort/Danksagung.- Zielsetzung - Was will puter Science, Band 4519) Softcover es, microbiologists who are just beginning to consid- dieses Buch, was nicht?- Qualität - Wie definiert er the environmental distribution of populations or sich Qualität?.- Dokumenten- und Content-Test.- 93,09 € communities of newly discovered organisms Oberflächentest.- Browser-Test.- Zugangstest.- Us- ISBN 978-3-540-72666-1 ability-Test.- Komponententest.- Cookie-Test.- Type of publication Link-Test.- Funktionstest.- Codeanalyse.- Testab- Contributed volume deckungsgradmessung.- Integrationstest.- "Idioten- test".- Installationstest/Deinstallationstest.- Regres- Due July 2007 sionstest.- Performance-/Lasttest.- Speicherlecktest.- Zuverlässigkeitstest.- Crash-Test.- Sicherheitstest.- Effektiver Betrieb.- Testmanagement.- Risikoanal- 2007. XII, 333 p. Geb. yse.- Index.- Quellen-/Literaturverzeichnis. 139,05 € ISBN 978-1-4020-6215-5 Fields of interest Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); In- formation Systems and Communication Service

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M. Friend, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA; N. Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; M. Lalmas, Uni- P.W. Gaffney, Bergen Software Services International AS, Norway; N.B. Goethe, National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina; versity of London, UK; A. Trotman, University of Otago, New J.C.T. Pool, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA (Eds.) V.S. Harizanov, George Washington University, Washington, DC, Zealand (Eds.) USA (Eds.) Grid-Based Problem Solving Comparative Evaluation of XML Environments Induction, Algorithmic Learning Information Retrieval Systems Theory, and Philosophy IFIP TC2/WG2.5 Working Conference on Grid-Based Problem 5th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation Solving Environments: Implications for Development and De- of XML Retrieval, INEX 2006 Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, De- ployment of Numerical Software, July 17-21, 2006, Prescott, cember 17-20, 2006 Revised and Selected Papers Arizona, USA This is the first book to collect essays from philosophers, mathematicians and computer scientists working at the exciting interface of algorithmic This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- learning theory and the epistemology of science and proceedings of the 5th International Workshop of Features inductive inference. Readable, introductory essays the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, "Most up-to-date reserach on grid-based computing" provide engaging surveys of different, complemen- INEX 2006, held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in tary, and mutually inspiring approaches to the top- December 2006. The 49 revised full papers presented Contents ic, both from a philosophical and a mathematical were carefully selected for presentation at the work- Grid-Based Image Registration.- Grid Architecture viewpoint. Building upon this base, subsequent pa- shop and went through a subsequent round of care- for Scientific Communities.- Mathematical Service pers present novel extensions of algorithmic learning ful reviewing and revision. The papers are organized Discovery.- SPRUCE: A System for Supporting Ur- theory as well as bold, new applications to tradition- in topical sections on methodology, and 7 addition- gent High Performance Computing.- Why Perfor- al issues in epistemology and the philosophy of sci- al tracks on ad-hoc, natural language processing, het- mance Models Matter for Grid Computing.- Virtu- ence. The volume is vital reading for students and re- erogeneous collection, multimedia, interactive, use al Manufacturing- A Vision for Virtual Paint Opera- searchers seeking a fresh, truth-directed approach to case, as well as document mining. tions.- the philosophy of science and induction, epistemology, logic, and statistics. Fields of interest Fields of interest Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Sys- Computer Science, general Features tems Applications (incl.Internet); Database Manage- Only book to combine philosophy essays with tech- Target groups ment nical essays on algorithmic learning theory Invalu- Researchers and practitioners of grid-based problem able for the reflective computer scientist or the math- Target groups solving. ematician/logician interested in modelling learning Researchers and professionals Deepens the argument and debate about mathemati- Type of publication cally modelling learning No-one with a serious inter- Type of publication Proceedings est in the philosophy of science can afford to ignore Proceedings this development Refracts the classical problem of Due September 2007 [..] Due August 2007 Contents 2007. X, 375 p. (IFIP International Federation for Information Pro- cessing, Band 239) Geb. 1. Introduction to the Philosophy and Mathe- 2007. XII, 554 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Band 4518) Softcover matics of Algorithmic Learning Theory; Valenti- 136,96 € na Harizanov, Norma B. Goethe & Michele 72,76 € ISBN 978-0-387-73658-7 Friend.- Part I: Technical Papers.- 2. Inductive In- ISBN 978-3-540-73887-9 ference Systems for Learning Classes of Algorith- mically Generated Sets and Structures; Valentina Harizanov.- 3. Deduction, Induction and Beyond in Parametric Logic; Eric Martin, Arun Sharma & Frank Stephan.- 4. How Simplicity Helps You Find the Truth – Without Pointing at it; Kevin T. Kelly.- 5. Induction over the Continuum; Iraj Kalantari.- Part II: Philosophy Papers.- 6. Logically Reliable In- ductive [..]

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A. Gagalowicz, INRIA Rocquencourt, Le Chesnay Cedex, France; A.I. Galushkin, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dol- M. Ganai, NEC Labs America, Princeton, NJ, USA; A. Gupta, NEC W. Philips, University of Ghent, Belgium (Eds.) goprudniy, Moskva Region, Russia Labs America, Princeton, NJ, USA

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Dr. Galushkin is to be congrat- Based Scalable Formal Verification Solutions dis- Third International Conference on Computer Vi- ulated and thanked for his completion of this monu- cusses in detail several of the latest and interesting sion/Computer Graphics collaboration techniques mental work; a book that only he could write. It is a scalable SAT-based techniques including: Hybrid involving image analysis/synthesis approaches MI- major gift to the world." Robert Hecht Nielsen, Com- SAT Solver, Customized Bounded/Unbounded Mod- RAGE 2007, held in Rocquencourt, France, in March putational Neurobiology, University of California, el Checking, Distributed Model Checking, Proofs 2007. The 55 revised full papers presented were care- San Diego "Professor Galushkin’s monograph has and Proof-based Abstraction Methods, Verification fully reviewed and selected from 198 submissions. many unique features that in totality make his work of Embedded Memory System & Multi-clock The papers cover foundational and methodological an important contribution to the literature of neural Systems, and Synthesis for Verification Paradigm. issues such as model-based imaging and analysis, networks theory. He and his publisher deserve pro- These techniques have been designed and imple- image-based modeling and 3D reconstruction, da- fuse thanks and congratulations from all who are se- mented in a verification platform Verisol (formally ta driven animation, image and video-based light- riously interested in the foundations of neural net- called DiVer) and have been used successfully in in- ing and rendering, model-based vision approaches, works theory, its evolution and current status." Lot- dustry. This book provides algorithmic details and model-based indexing and database retrieval, mod- fi Zadeh, Berkeley, Founder of Fuzziness "Profes- engineering insights into devising scalable approach- el-based object tracking in image sequences, mod- sor Galushkin, a leader in neural networks theory in es for an effective realization. It also includes the au- el-based image and shape analysis, model-based Russia, uses mathematical methods in [..] video compression techniques. Application issues thors’ practical experiences and recommendations addressed are human/computer interfaces, video- Features in verifying the large industry designs using VeriSol. games and entertainment industry, media produc- Wonderful and important book from one of the The [..] tions from and for films, broadcasts and games, post- leaders in neural network theory A major contri- Features production, computer animation, virtual effects, re- bution to the neural network literature Includes Describes SAT-based model checking approaches alistic 3D simulation, virtual [..] forewords by Lotfi Zadeh, Robert Hecht Nielsen and gives engineering details on what makes model and Sun-Ichi Amari A treasure trove that should be checking practical Techniques covered can be syner- Fields of interest mined by the thousands of researchers and practi- gistically combined into a scalabe solution Focuses Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern tioners worldwide in neural networks who have not on engineering design and not mathematics Recognition; Computer Graphics; Artificial Intelli- previously had access to the fruits of Soviet and Rus- gence (incl. Robotics); Algorithm Analysis and Prob- sian neural network research Contents lem Complexity; User Interfaces and Human Com- Design Verification Challenges.- Background.- Part puter Interaction Contents I: Basic Infrastructure.- Efficient Boolean Represen- Section 1. Neural Network Structure.- Transfer from tation.- Hybrid DPLL-Style SAT Solver.- Part II: Fal- Target groups logical basis of Boolean elements "And, Or, Not" to sification.- SAT-Based Bounded Model Checking.- Researchers and professionals the threshold logical basis.- Qualitative character- Distributed SAT-Based BMC.- Efficient Memory istics of neural networks architectures.- Optimiza- Type of publication Modeling in BMC.- BMC for Multi-Clock Systems.- tion of cross connection multi-layer neural networks Proceedings Part III: Proof Methods.- Proof by Induction.- Un- structure.- Continual neural networks.- Section 2. bounded Model Checking.- Part IV: Abstraction/Re- Optimal Models of Neural Networks.- Investigation finement.- Proof-Based Iterative Abstraction.- Part Due March 2007 of neural network input signals characteristics.- De- V: Verification Procedure.- SAT-Based Verification sign of neural network optimal models.- Analysis Framework.- Synthesis for Verification. 2007. 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Transport at the Air-Sea Interface Extending the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT to the Next Level Systems

Measurements, Models and Parametrizations 13th International SDL Forum, Paris, France, September 18-21, 2007, Proceedings Written by three world-leading experts in LEGO Mindstorms homebrew hardware, this book contains Predictions of our future climate vary greatly, with the detailed instructions for the construction of sen- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of detailed forecasts still subject to debate. One key un- sors and other extensions to the NXT. Over 15 cool the 13th International SDL Forum, SDL 2007, held certainty is caused by the lack of our present knowl- projects are explained with well-illustrated, clear, in Paris, France. The 17 revised full papers present- edge of transport processes in the air-water interface, step-by-step instructions so people with even limited ed were carefully reviewed and selected for inclu- which poses the main transfer resistance between experience in electronics can follow. sion in the book. The papers are organized in topi- the oceans and atmosphere. Modeling and predic- cal sections on Model Driven Engineering, Testing, tions of our global climate can only be improved by Features Language Extensions, Implementation and Model- gaining a more complete understanding of the mech- Advances the NXT hobbyist to the highest level ing Experience and Extensions. Thus all aspects of anisms involved in transporting energy, mass and Written by LEGO Mindstorms authorities Instruc- systems design and system design languages are ad- momentum across the phase boundary. This mono- tions are easy to follow and abundantly illustrated dressed. graph contains selected, peer-reviewed post-confer- Contents ence contributions of the International Workshop Fields of interest Introduction.- LEGO Sensors and Motors.- Con- on Transport at the Air-Sea Interface, which took Computer Systems Organization and Communica- necting to the NXT.- Passive Sensors.- 4.3V Powered place at Heidelberg University from September 6-8, tion Networks; Software Engineering; Logics and Sensors.- RCX Legacy Powered Sensors.- I2C Intelli- 2006. The workshop brought together leading scien- Meanings of Programs; Management of Computing gent NXT I/O.- NXT Output.- I2C NXT Expansion.- tists from around the world, bridged the gap between and Information Systems modeling and measurements, and sparked new ideas Software Applications.- After Market Products. for novel simulation and experimental efforts. The Target groups Fields of interest focus of the monograph is on small scale processes Researchers and professionals directly at the interface and includes the topics: - [..] Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems Type of publication Target groups Features Proceedings Supplies the readers with a unique tool for conduct- Intermediate LEGO, beginning electronics ing research in air-sea interactions Type of publication Due September 2007 Contents Professional book The Impact of Different Gas Exchange Formulations 2007. XII, 289 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4745) and Wind Speed Products on Global Air-Sea CO2 Due May 2007 Softcover Fluxes.- Turbulent Gas Flux Measurements near the Air-Water Interface in a Grid-Stirred Tank.- Quan- 51,36 € Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, ISBN 978-3-540-74983-7 titative Imaging of CO2 Transfer at an Unsheared Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest Free Surface.- Visualisation of Oxygen Concentra- Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. For Jordan, Irak, tion Fields in the Mass Boundary Layer by Fluores- Oman, Qatar, Palestine: Jordan Book Center cence Quenching.- Visualization of 2-D Divergence on the Free Surface and its Relation to Gas Transfer.- 2007. 312 p. Softcover The Air-Water Interface: Turbulence and Scalar Ex- change.- Turbulence Generation in the Wind-Driven ISBN 978-1-59059-818-4 Subsurface Water Flow.- Defining the Enhancement [..]

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D. Gaïti, Université de Technologie de Troyes, France (Ed.) J.E. Gentle, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA D. Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA; N. Ritter, University of Ham- burg, Germany; B. Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; C. Zirpins, University College London, Network Control and Engineering Matrix Algebra UK; G. Feuerlicht, Sydney University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia; M. Schoenherr, Technical University Berlin, Germany; for QoS, Security and Mobility, IV Theory, Computations, and Applications in Statistics H.R. Motahari-Nezhad, CSE, Gordon, NSW, Australia (Eds.) Fourth IFIP International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, Lannion, France, Service-Oriented Computing ICSOC November 14-18, 2005 Matrix algebra is one of the most important areas of 2006 mathematics for data analysis and for statistical theory. The first part of this book presents the relevant 4th International Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, December 4-7, This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth aspects of the theory of matrix algebra for applica- 2006, Workshop Proceedings IFIP International Conference on Network Con- tions in statistics. This part begins with the funda- trol and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobili- mental concepts of vectors and vector spaces, next ty, NETCON 2005. The conference, organized by the covers the basic algebraic properties of matrices, This book constitutes the workshops of the 4th Inter- International Federation for Information Processing, then describes the analytic properties of vectors and national Conference on Service-Oriented Comput- was held in Lannion, France from November 14-18, matrices in the multivariate calculus, and finally dis- ing, ICSOC 2006, held in Chicago, IL, USA in De- 2005. Among other topics, this volume explores Net- cusses operations on matrices in solutions of linear cember 2006. The two workshops presented were work Security, Network Policy, Quality of Service, systems and in eigenanalysis. This part is essentially carefully reviewed and selected from six submissions. Wireless Networks, Intelligent Networks, and Per- self-contained. The second part of the book begins Both ICSOC'06 workshops were held as one-day- formance Evaluation. This title would be of inter- with a consideration of various types of matrices en- workshops on December 4th 2006, i.e. the day before est to engineers and computer scientists in both aca- countered in statistics, such as projection matrices the major conference program of ICSOC'06 started. demic and professional settings. and positive definite matrices, and describes the spe- This volume contains separate descriptions of both cial properties of those matrices. The second part al- workshops as well as all high-quality paper contribu- Features so describes some of the many applications of matrix tions to these two workshops. New volume from the NETCON conference on Net- theory in statistics, including linear models, multi- work Control and Engineering for QoS, Security, variate analysis, and stochastic processes. The brief Fields of interest and Mobility coverage [..] Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Contents Features Storage and Retrieval; Software Engineering; Com- Unreduced Dynamic Complexity: Towards the Uni- This book's emphasis is on the areas of matrix anal- puters and Society; Information Systems fied Science of Intelligent Communication Networks ysis that are important for statisticians Addresses and Software.- A Token Based Key Distribution Pro- computational issues, places more emphasis on ap- Target groups tocol for Closed Group Meetings.- Fast Pre-Authen- plications that existing texts and is written in an in- Researchers and professionals tication.- End to End Quality of Service over Hetero- formal style geneous Networks (EuQoS).- A Generic Conceptual Type of publication Framework for Self-Managed Environments.- A Dis- Contents Proceedings tributed Architecture for Massively Multiplayer On- Basic Vector/Matrix Structure and Notation.-Vec- line Services with Peer-to-Peer Support.- New CAC tors and Vector Spaces.- Basic Properties of Matri- Due September 2007 Algorithm using Adaptive Modulation Control.- To- ces.- Vector/Matrix Derivatives and Integrals.- Ma- wards a Global Autonomic Management and Inte- trix Tranformations and Factorizations.- Solution gration of Heterogeneous Networks and Multimedia of Linear Systems.- Evaluation of Eigenvalues and 2007. XVI, 201 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4652) Services.- [..] Eigenvectors.- Special Matrices and Operations Use- Softcover ful in Modeling and Data Analysis.- Selected Appli- Fields of interest cations in Statistics.- Numerical Methods.- Numeri- 44,94 € Computer Systems Organization and Communica- cal Linear Algebra.- Software for Numerical Linear ISBN 978-3-540-75491-6 tion Networks Algebra.

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C. George, UNI-IIST, Macao; Z. Liu, UNU-IIST, Macao; J. Woodcock, I. Georgescu, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania O. Gervasi, University of Perugia, Italy; M. Gavrilova (Eds.) University of York, UK (Eds.) Fuzzy Choice Functions Computational Science and Its Domain Modeling and the Duration Applications - ICCSA 2007 Calculus A Revealed Preference Approach International Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August International Training School, Shanghai, China, September 26-29, 2007. Proceedings, Part III 17-21, 2007, Advanced Lectures The foundations of revealed preference theory for a competitive consumer were laid by Samuelson in 1938. Later this theory was axiomatically developed The three-volume set LNCS 4705-4707 constitutes This book presents thoroughly revised tutorial pa- by Arrow, Sen, Suzumura and other economists into the refereed proceedings of the International Confer- pers based on lectures given by leading researchers at the theory of choice functions. This book extends the ence on Computational Science and Its Applications, the International Training School on Domain Mod- theory of revealed preference to fuzzy choice func- ICCSA 2007, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Au- eling and the Duration Calculus, held in Shanghai, tions and provides applications to multicriteria deci- gust 26-29, 2007. The three volumes contain papers China, in September 2007 as an associated event of sion making problems. The main topics of revealed presenting a wealth of original research results in the ICTAC 2007, the 4th International Colloquium on preference theory (rationality, revealed preference field of computational science, from foundational Theoretical Aspects of Computing. The four tutori- and congruence axioms, consistency conditions) issues in computer science and mathematics to ad- al papers presented provide competent coverage of are treated in the framework of fuzzy choice func- vanced applications in virtually all sciences making software security, domain modeling of software en- tions. New topics, such as the degree of dominance use of computational techniques. The topics of the gineering, and duration calculus for real time sys- and similarity of vague choices, are developed. The refereed papers are structured according to the five tems - originating from lectures of leading experts in results obtained are applied to economic problems major conference themes: computational methods, these fields from Europe and Asia. Topics addressed where partial information and human subjectivity algorithms and applications high performance tech- in detail are: development of real-time systems, do- involve vague choices and vague preferences. The nical computing and networks advanced and emerg- main engineering using abstract modeling, the area book contains a number of new results achieved by ing applications geometric modelling, graphics and of duration calculus, and formal methods like lan- the author. Even though the text is reasonably self- visualization information systems and information guage description using the operational semantics contained, previous knowledge of revealed prefer- technologies. approach. ence and fuzzy set theory is helpful for the reader. [..] Fields of interest Fields of interest Features Theory of Computation; Software Engineering/Pro- Logics and Meanings of Programs; Software Engi- Latest research about Fuzzy choice funtions gramming and Operating Systems; Numeric Com- neering; Computer Communication Networks; Al- puting; Information Systems and Communication Contents gorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity Service; Simulation and Modeling; Computer Imag- Preliminaries.- Classical Revealed Preference Theo- ing, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics Target groups ry.- Fuzzy Preference Relations.- Fuzzy Choice Func- Researchers and professionals tions.- Fuzzy Revealed Preference and Consisten- Target groups cy Conditions.- General Results.- Degree of Dom- Researchers and professionals Type of publication inance.- Similarity and Rationality Indicators for Proceedings Fuzzy Choice Functions.- Applications. Type of publication Proceedings Due August 2007 Fields of interest Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- Due August 2007 neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) 2007. XI, 237 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4710) Softcover Target groups 2007. XXIV, 1205 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in puter Science, Band 4707) Softcover 40,66 € Fuzziness ISBN 978-3-540-74963-9 118,77 € Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-74482-5 Monograph

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O. Gervasi, University of Perugia, Italy; M. Gavrilova (Eds.) O. Gervasi, University of Perugia, Italy; M. Gavrilova (Eds.) M. Giacobini, University of Torino, Italy; A. Brabazon, University College Dublin, Ireland; S. Cagoni, University of Parma, Italy; G.A. Di Caro, IDSIA, Switzerland; R. Drechsler, University of Bremen, Computational Science and Its Computational Science and Its Germany; M. Farooq, Center for Advanced Studies in Engineer- ing, Pakistan; A. Fink, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg, Ger- Applications - ICCSA 2007 Applications - ICCSA 2007 many; E. Lutton, INRIA Rocquencourt, France; P. Machado, Uni- versity of Coimbra, Portugal; S. Minner, University of Mannheim, International Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August International Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August Germany; M. O'Neill, University College Dublin, Irland; J. Romero, 26-29, 2007. Proceedings, Part II 26-29, 2007. Proceedings, Part I University of A Coruna, Spain; F. Rothlauf, Johannes Gutenberg University Main, Germany; G. Squillero, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; H. Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan; A.S. Uyar, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey; S. Yang, University of Leicester, UK The three-volume set LNCS 4705-4707 constitutes The three-volume set LNCS 4705-4707 constitutes (Eds.) the refereed proceedings of the International Confer- the refereed proceedings of the International Confer- ence on Computational Science and Its Applications, ence on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2007, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Au- ICCSA 2007, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Au- Applications of Evolutionary gust 26-29, 2007. The three volumes contain papers gust 26-29, 2007. The three volumes contain papers Computing presenting a wealth of original research results in the presenting a wealth of original research results in the field of computational science, from foundational field of computational science, from foundational EvoWorkshops 2007:EvoCOMNET, EvoFIN, EvoIASP, EvoINTER- issues in computer science and mathematics to ad- issues in computer science and mathematics to ad- ACTION, EvoMUSART, EvoSTOC, and EvoTransLog, Valencia, vanced applications in virtually all sciences making vanced applications in virtually all sciences making Spain, April 11-13, 2007, Proceedings use of computational techniques. The topics of the use of computational techniques. 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Algorithms in Bioinformatics Beginning PHP and Oracle

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In the 12 years since 1994, PHP has grown from the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the pet project of Rasmus Lerdorf into one of the lead- 7th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioin- ing, if not the leading, web development languages formatics, WABI 2007, held in Philadelphia, PA, in existence. A February 2004 Netcraft survey found USA in September 2007. The 38 revised full papers that 32% of all web domains had PHP installed1, and presented together with the abstract of a keynote talk the use of PHP has only grown since. PHP’s rise to were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 sub- dominance has not escaped the notice of database missions. All current issues of algorithms in bioin- companies such as Oracle Corporation, which deems formatics are addressed, ranging from mathemati- PHP important enough to create a PHP Developer cal tools to experimental studies of approximation Center2 as part of the Oracle Technology Network. algorithms and reports on significant computation- PHP has become a key technology enabling web al analyses. Numerous biological problems are dealt access to data held in Oracle databases. Beginning with, including genetic mapping, sequence align- PHP and Oracle is an adaptation of Jason Gilmore’s ment and sequence analysis, phylogeny, compara- best-selling book, Beginning PHP and MySQL. It’s tive genomics, and protein structure. Furthermore a recognition of the growing use of PHP with com- the papers feature high-performance computing ap- mercial databases, Oracle in particular, enabling proaches to computationally hard learning and op- readers in Oracle-based shops to learn PHP on their timization problems in bioinformatics and cover chosen platform. Supplying the Oracle expertise is methods, software and dataset repositories for devel- Bob Bryla, coauthor of the Oracle Database 10g DBA opment and testing of such algorithms and their un- Handbook and many other titles. Bob’s easy-going derlying models. and [..]

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V. Gorodetsky, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Au- P. Goujon, University of Namur, Begium; S. Lavelle, P. Duquenoy, M. Grabinski, University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm, Germany tomation, Russia; C. Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, K. Kimppa, University of Turku, Finland; V. Laurent (Eds.) Australia; V. Skormin, Binghamton University, USA; L. Cao, Uni- versity of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Eds.) Management Methods and Tools The Information Society: Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Innovation, Legitimacy, Ethics and Multi-Agents and Data Mining Democracy In Honor of Professor This textbook includes the most important meth- Jacques Berleur s.j. ods and tools for managers and consultants. The au- Second International Workshop, AIS-ADM 2007, St. Peters- thor does not restrict himself to describing the scien- burg, Russia, June 3-5, 2007, Proceedings Proceedings of the Conference "Information Society: Gover- tific methods but also shows how to apply them to nance, Ethics and Social Consequences", University of Namur, real-life situations. The management tools he intro- Belgium, 22-23 May 2006 duces have been successfully tested during 20 years of experience. The various methods are described This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the and analysed in detail, and many examples illustrate Second International Workshop on Autonomous their application. Thus, the textbook gives a funda- Intelligent Systems: Agents and Data Mining, AIS- This volume honors the professional life of Jacques mental and comprehensive insight into the practice ADM 2007, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in June Berleur — known for his extensive work within the of successful management. It is clearly structured 2007. The 17 revised full papers and 6 revised short IFIP community to expose the nature of the ethical and provides essential in-depth knowledge for stu- papers presented together with 4 invited lectures dilemmas of a society increasingly reliant on com- dents as well as for managers and consultants. were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 sub- plex ICT infrastructures, to raise awareness of the missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- social challenges this poses, and to influence action Features tions on agent and data mining, agent competition compatible with the ethical values of western democ- Yet unpublished hints by an insider in management and data mining, as well as text mining, semantic racy. This volume is composed of five sections, and consulting Web, and agents. covers the following topics in detail: Technology and Democracy: Views on the IS; Ethics and Democra- Contents Fields of interest cy into the ICT; Governance of IS: From Econom- Introduction.- Business process modeling.- Balanced Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer ic Regulation to a New Social Contract; Applied Is- scorecard approach.- Controlling process.- Orga- Communication Networks; Database Management; sues: Health, Profession and Education; For an Eth- nization.- Quantitative tools.- Operation's manage- Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Sys- ical and Democratic Governance of the IS: Lessons ment. tems Applications (incl.Internet) from WSIS. Fields of interest Target groups Features Programming Techniques; Business/Management Researchers and professionals Volume celebrating the work of Jacques Berleur Science, general; Finance /Banking; Management; Comprehensive source of information on various as- Personnel Management Type of publication pects of the Information Society Proceedings Target groups Contents This book is for Scientists, students and lecturers Due May 2007 Democracy, Technology, and Information Soci- of business management at universities, colleges, eties.- From the Ethics of Technology to the Ethics academies and other institutions. As well as Man- of Knowledge Assessment.- Social Consequences of 2007. XIII, 323 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- agers, consultants and leaders in the field of industry, er Science, Band 4476) Softcover Information and Communication, Technologies and trade and banking business. the European Union: Policy Links.- Embedding Pro- 51,36 € fessional Issues within University Degree Courses.- Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-72838-2 Internet Governance: Some Thoughts After the Two Professional book WSIS.- The Information Society: What Next? Due July 2007 Fields of interest Computers and Society 2007. 270 p. Softcover Target groups Researchers and practitioners of information tech- 31,99 € nology and its effects on society ISBN 978-3-8349-0383-9

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T. Green, Oakville, ON, Canada; D. Stiller, Virginia Beach, VA, USA

Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers

Flash still remains a huge market area, and in 2007, Adobe released Flash CS3, which boasts a whole host of new features, for Flash designers to get excited about. This book is a design-slanted guide, aimed at giving aspiring Flash designers a solid grounding in the new version, as well as giving established Flash designers a clear look over the new flash CS3 features. It features real world examples throughout, presented in an accessible, friendly tutorial style.

Features No other beginner's Flash CS3 guide is specifically aimed at designers, which is the audience Adobe seem to be trying to aim Flash CS3 at, more than developers Friends of ED has a proven track record in producing quality Flash books Written by renowned Flash designers Tom Green and David Stiller

Contents The Flash Interface.- Graphics in Flash.- Symbols and Libraries.- Audio in Flash.- Text in Flash.- Ani- mation in Flash.- Video in Flash.- ActionScript Ba- sics.- Building Interfaces with the Flash UI Compo- nents.- CSS and Flash.- Dynamic Data (XML) and Flash.- Flash Mobile.- Optimization.- Publishing.

Fields of interest Programming Techniques

Target groups Beginner to intermediate aspiring Flash designers and Established Flash designers who want to get to grips with the new features of Flash 9, and Flash developers who want to improve their Flash design skills

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I. Greenberg, OH, USA C. Grosan, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj - Napoca, Romania; A. O. Grumberg, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; M. Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Huth, Imperial College London, UK (Eds.) Trondheim, Norway; H. Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Processing Osaka, Japan (Eds.) Tools and Algorithms for the Creative Coding and Computational Art Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms Construction and Analysis of Systems

Processing (http://processing.org/) is a programming 13th International Conference, TACAS 2007 Held as Part of the language and environment aimed at artists, design- Hybridization of evolutionary algorithms is getting Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Soft- ers, and other creative professionals and students ex- popular due to their capabilities in handling sever- ware, ETAPS 2007 Braga, Portugal, March 24 - April 1, 2007 ploring code art and graphics programming — the al real world problems involving complexity, noisy Proceedings same kind of audience that friends of ED’s "Flash environment, imprecision, uncertainty and vague- Math Creativity" title had. The book provides a sol- ness. This edited volume is targeted to present the id foundation in basic programming, so no previ- latest state-of-the-art methodologies in “Hybrid Evo- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ous coding experience is necessary, but enough ad- lutionary Algorithms”. This book deals with the the- 13th International Conference on Tools and Algo- vanced techniques and artistic theory are covered oretical and methodological aspects, as well as vari- rithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, for it to appeal to programmers learning art, as well ous applications to many real world problems from TACAS 2007, held in Braga, Portugal in March/April as more artistic types getting into programming. science, technology, business or commerce. This vol- 2007 as part of ETAPS 2007, the European Joint Processing has a growing user base (currently over ume comprises of 14 chapters including an intro- Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. 60,000,) there were numerous talks on it at all this ductory chapter giving the fundamental definitions The 45 revised full research papers and 9 revised year’s Flash conferences, and it is all set to hit the big and some important research challenges. Chapters tool demonstration papers presented together with time with the release of version 1.0 (it is currently were selected on the basis of fundamental ideas/con- 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected at 0.91 beta.) It is open source, so provides a free al- cepts rather than the thoroughness of techniques de- from a total of 204 submissions. The papers are or- ternative to programs such as Flash. This is going to ployed. ganized in topical sections on software verification, be the first Processing book on the market. We have probabilistic model checking and markov chains, Features links with the creators of Processing, Ben Fry and static analysis, markov chains and real-time systems, Reports recent research results on Hybrid Evolution- Casey Reas, and they are really [..] timed automata and duration calculus, assume-guar- ary Algorithms antee reasoning, biological systems, abstraction re- Features finement, message sequence charts, automata-based First Processing book on the market Processing is a Contents model checking, specification languages, security, nascent technology rapidly increasing in populari- Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms: Methodologies, software and hardware verification, decision proce- ty Links with the creators of Processing will help sell Architectures and Reviews.- Quantum-Inspired Evo- dures and theorem provers, model checking, as well the book lutionary Algorithm for Numerical Optimization.- Enhanced Evolutionary Algorithms for Multidisci- as infinite-state systems. Contents plinary Design Optimization: a Control Engineer- Fields of interest Introduction.- Section I. Foundation: Code Art.- ing Perspective.- Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms Logics and Meanings of Programs; Software Engi- Creative Coding.- Code Grammar 101.- Graph- and Clustering Search.- A Novel Hybrid Algorithm neering; Computer Communication Networks; Al- ics Programming the "fun easy" Way.- Processing for Function Optimization: Particle Swarm Assisted gorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity Language.- Section II. Drawing with Code: Lines.- Incremental Evolution Strategy.- An Efficient Near- Shapes.- Value and Color.- Section III. Animating est Neighbor Classifier.- Hybrid Genetic - Particle Target groups with Code: Motion.- Section IV. Interacting with Swarm Optimization Algorithm.- A Hybrid Genet- Researchers and professionals Code: Interactivity.- Section V. The third Dimen- ic Algorithm and Bacterial Foraging Approach for sion: 3D.- Section VI. Exploring with Code: Ad- Global [..] Type of publication vanced Motion.- Emergent Forms.- Artificial Intelli- Proceedings gence.- Section VII. Extending Processing: Core Li- Fields of interest Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- braries. Due March 2007 neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Fields of interest Programming Techniques Target groups 2007. XX, 738 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in er Science, Band 4424) Softcover Target groups computational intelligence Beginner graphic designers and fine artists 89,88 € that want to pick up processing and use it to start Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-71208-4 creating their art using code, and already experi- Monograph enced programmers who want to pick up processing fast Due September 2007

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E. Grädel, RWTH Aachen, Germany; P.G. Kolaitis, IBM Almaden N. Guelfi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; D. Buchs, Uni- M. Gunderloy, Endicott, WA , USA Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA; L. Libkin, University of Edin- versity of Geneva, Switzerland (Eds.) burgh, UK; M. Marx, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; J. Spencer, Courant Institute, New York, USA; M.Y. Vardi, Rice Painless Project Management with University, Houston, TX, USA; Y. Venema, University of Amster- Rapid Integration of Software dam, The Netherlands; S. Weinstein, University of Pennsylvania, FogBugz Philadelphia, PA, USA Engineering Techniques Third International Workshop, RISE 2006, Geneva, Switzer- Finite Model Theory and Its land, September 13-15, 2006. Revised Selected Papers Fogbugz is considered the best quality software to Applications manage a team of software developers working on a project so that individuals on the team work on one This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- part of the project (a case) while they can see the cur- proceedings of the Third International Workshop rent form of the project as a whole. The book dis- This book gives a broad overview of core topics of on Rapid Integration of Software Engineering Tech- cusses the software development life cycle from “lis- finite model theory: expressive power, descriptive niques, RISE 2006, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in tening to customer feedback” followed by bug track- complexity, and zero-one laws, together with select- September 2006. The 10 revised full papers presenting, reporting issues, collaborating test plans, main- ed applications to database theory and artificial ined together with 1 invited paper went through two tenance, use cases and real world development sce- telligence, especially constraint databases and con- rounds of reviewing and improvement and were se- narios. This book makes you think about how im- straint satisfaction problems. The final chapter pro- lected from 30 initial submissions. The papers cov- portant project management is, not just from a man- vides a concise modern introduction to modal logic, er a wide spectrum in software engineering with top- agerial perspective but also from a developer/soft- which emphasizes the continuity in spirit and tech- ics such as software and system architectures, software engineer standpoint. nique with finite model theory. This underlying spir- ware reuse, software testing, software model check- Features it involves the use of various fragments of, and hier- ing, model driven design and testing techniques, This is the only book on FogBugz While this book archies within, first order, second order, fixed point, model transformation, requirements engineering, references FogBugz, you read more about the process and infinitary logics to gain insight into phenomena lightweight or practice-oriented formal methods, rather than the specific product. You can apply the in complexity theory and combinatorics. Students of software processes and software metrics, automat- same process principles to other defect tracking solu- logic and computer science will find here the tools ed software engineering, software patterns, design tions Configuration and implementation of FogBugz necessary to embark on research in finite model the- by contract, defensive programming, software en- also discussed in detail ory, and all readers will experience the excitement of tropy and software re-factoring, extreme program- a vibrant area of application of logic to computer sci- ming, agile software development, programming Contents ence. languages, as well as software dependability and Making Project Management Work.- The FogBugz trustworthiness. Features Philosophy.- Lifecycle of a FogBugz Case.- Managing Cases.- The Three Types of Cases.- Where Do Cases An introduction to the central topics in finite-model Fields of interest Come From?- Entered via Web Interface (local/cus- theory together with par-excellence applications of Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Pro- tomer).- Entered via e-mail.- BugzScout.- Screen- finite-model theory to database theory and AI grams; Management of Computing and Information shots and attached files.- Filtering cases.- Being a Systems Contents Good FogBugz Citizen.- How devs/qa/mgt should Unifying Themes in Finite Model Theory.- On the Target groups work with FB.- Making FogBugz work for you.- Set- Expressive Power of Logics on Finite Models.- Finite Researchers and professionals ting up Users and Groups.- Setting up Projects etc.- Model Theory and Descriptive Complexity.- Logic Setting up Permissions.- All the other lists you can and Random Structures.- Embedded Finite Models Type of publication change.- Getting the Big Picture.- Tracking esti- and Constraint Databases.- A Logical Approach to Proceedings mates.- Using Due Dates.- Resolving cases.- [..] Constraint Satisfaction.- Local Variations on a Loose Fields of interest Theme: Modal Logic and Decidability.- Index Due April 2007 Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Fields of interest Systems Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Software 2007. 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G. Gutin, University of London, UK; A.P. Punnen, University of H. Göbel, Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg; H. Siemund, J.M. Haake, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany; S.F. Ochoa, Univer- New Brunswick, St. John, NB, Canada (Eds.) Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg sidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; A. Cechich, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Buenos Aires, Argentinien (Eds.) The Traveling Salesman Problem Übungsaufgaben zur Halbleiter- and Its Variations Schaltungstechnik Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use

13th Internatonal Workshop, CRIWG 2007, Bariloche, Argenti- This volume, which contains chapters written by Dieses Übungsbuch unterstützt das bereits in na, September 16-20, 2007, Proceedings reputable researchers, provides the state of the art der 2. Auflage erschienene erfolgreiche Lehrbuch in theory and algorithms for the traveling salesman "Einführung in die Halbleiter-Schaltungstechnik" problem (TSP). The book covers all important ar- von Holger Göbel. Die zahlreichen Aufgaben tragen This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the eas of study on TSP, including polyhedral theory for dazu bei, den Stoff sicher zu beherrschen und die 13th International Workshop on Groupware, CRI- symmetric and asymmetric TSP, branch and bound, methodischen Fertigkeiten zur Lösung schaltung- WG 2007, held in Bariloche, Argentina, in Septem- and branch and cut algorithms, probabilistic aspects stechnischer Probleme zu trainieren. Aufbau und ber 2007. The 17 revised full papers and 10 revised of TSP, thorough computational analysis of heuris- Layout sind eng an das Lehrbuch angelehnt. Der work-in-progress papers presented were careful- tic and metaheuristic algorithms, theoretical analysis Leser findet die bewährten Elemente wie: Kästen ly reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The of approximation algorithms, including the emerg- mit wichtigen Merksätzen, Verweise auf das Lern- papers are organized in topical sections on group ing area of domination analysis of algorithms, dis- programm S.m.i.L.E. (auf CD-ROM beigefügt), awareness and social aspects, groupware design and cussion of TSP software and variations of TSP such PSpice-Dateien zu den behandelten Schaltungen (auf development, computer supported collaborative as bottleneck TSP, generalized TSP, prize collecting CD-ROM beigefügt). Darüber hinaus werden die learning, groupware applications and studies, group TSP, maximizing TSP, orienteering problem, etc. wichtigsten Formeln als Formelsammlung zusam- negotiation and knowledge management, and group- The book is appropriate as a reference work or as a mengestellt. ware activities and evaluation. main or supplemental textbook in graduate and senior undergraduate courses and projects. Features Fields of interest Übungsbuch zum Lehrbuch "Einführung in die Hal- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Features bleiter-Schaltungstechnik" von Holger Göbel Die Computers and Education; Computers and Society; Provides the state of the art in theory and algorithms beigefügte CD-ROM enthält das interaktive Lern- Computer Communication Networks for the traveling salesman problem (TSP) Written by programm S.m.i.L.E sowie PSpice-Dateien zu den reputable researchers, covering all important areas of behandelten Schaltungen; diese können mit der Target groups study on TSP Intended for researchers, practitioners, kostenlosen Studentenversion des weit verbreiteten Researchers and professionals and academicians in mathematics, computer science, Schaltungssimulators PSpice simuliert werden and operations research Appropriate as a reference Type of publication work or as a main or supplemental textbook in grad- Contents Proceedings uate and senior undergraduate courses and projects Grundlagen der Halbleiterphysik.- Diode.- Bipo- lartransistor.- Feldeffekttransistor.- Transistor Due August 2007 Fields of interest als Verstärker.- Transistorgrundschaltungen.- Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science; Opti- Operationsverstärker.- Frequenzverhalten analoger mization; Operation Research/Decision Theory; Al- Schaltungen.- Rückkopplung in Verstärkern.- 2007. XIII, 355 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4715) gorithms Logikschaltungen. Herstellung integrierter Schaltun- Softcover gen in CMOS-Technik.- Anhang 55,64 € Target groups ISBN 978-3-540-74811-3 Researchers, practitioners, and academicians in Fields of interest mathematics, computer science, and operations re- Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation; search Computer Hardware; Circuits and Systems

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L.d. Haan, Natural Join B.V., The Netherlands; T. Koppelaars, Cen- M. Haindl, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, C. Hamer, Bordeaux, France traal Boekhuis B.V., The Netherlands Czech Republic; J. Kittler, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK; F. Roli, University of Cagliari, Italy (Eds.) Creating Mobile Games Applied Mathematics for Database Multiple Classifier Systems Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile De- Professionals vice and Cell Phone 7th International Workshop, MCS 2007, Prague, Czech Repub- lic, May 23-25, 2007, Proceedings

This book touches on an area seldom explored: Practical Java ME Game Projects with MIDP is or the mathematical underpinnings of the relational will likely be the first Java games book for the new- database. The topic is important, but far too often ig- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ly updated and now open source Java Micro Edition nored. This book is the only book to explain the un- 7th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier (ME). And it will be first and possibly only that cov- derlying math in a way that’s accessible to database Systems, MCS 2007, held in Prague, Czech Republic ers all MIDP versions 1-3. Experienced game devel- professionals. Just as importantly, if not more so, this in May 2007. The 49 revised full papers presented to- oper and hacker, Carol Hamer, presents in a clear, book goes beyond the abstract by showing readers gether with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed accessible writing and exposition with complete how to apply that math in ways that will make them and selected from more than 80 initial submissions. working examples. Online updates and discussions more productive in their jobs. What’s in this book The papers are organized in topical sections on ker- are available through her well-known blog site. From will "open the eyes" of most readers to the great pow- nel-based fusion, applications, boosting, cluster and a basic game to professional game projects, this book er, elegance, and simplicity inherent in relational graph ensembles, feature subspace ensembles, mul- has what you need to be a mobile Java game develop- database technology. tiple classifier system theory, intramodal and multi- er (and player). modal fusion of biometric experts, majority voting, Features and ensemble learning. Features Authors are widely recognized in the database world First Java games book for the newly updated and Technical review and foreword by C.J. Date, fore- Fields of interest now open source Java Micro Edition (ME) First and most world authority on relational theory Author Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Comput- only Java book to cover MIDP versions 1, 2, and the (and editor) affiliations with the Oak Table Network, er Vision; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Bio- new 3 Clear, accessible writing and exposition with and author presentations, will help promote this metrics; Computation by Abstract Devices complete working examples Online updates and dis- book and keep it in the public eye cussion available (through my blog) Target groups Contents Researchers and professionals Contents Introduction to Logic.- Some More Logic.- Set The- Getting Started.- Using MIDlets.- Using the MIDP2 Type of publication ory.- Relations and Functions.- Database and Con- Games API.- Using Threads, Tones, and Other Me- Proceedings straint Modeling.- Data Retrieval.- Data Manipula- dia.- Storing and Retrieving Data.- Adding a Profes- tion.- Constraint Implementation.- Summary and sional Look and Feel.- Communicating over a Net- Conclusions.- Appendix A Example Database.- Ap- Due May 2007 work.- Advanced Messaging with optional APIs.- Se- pendix B Mathematical Symbols.- Appendix C Defi- curing your Applications.- What's New with MIDP3. nitions and Theorems.- Appendix D References. 2007. XI, 524 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4472) Softcover Fields of interest Fields of interest Programming Techniques Data Storage Representation 68,48 € ISBN 978-3-540-72481-0 Target groups Target groups Intermediate-Advanced Java Programming and This book is a "must" for every IT professional who is Game developers involved in any way with database design, modeling, and administration, such as: Data modelers, data ar- Type of publication chitects, and data administrators, application devel- Professional book opers with data modeling responsibilities, database administrators with data modeling responsibilities, Due September 2007 IT architects, people managing teams that include any of the above roles Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, Type of publication Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. For Jordan, Irak, Professional book Oman, Qatar, Palestine: Jordan Book Center

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B. Hammer, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zeller- B.A. Hamou, Freedom, UK F.A. Hamprecht, University of Heidelberg, Germany; C. Schnörr, feld, Germany; P. Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (Eds.) University of Heidelberg, Germany; B. Jähne, University of Heidel- berg, Germany (Eds.) Practical Ruby for System Perspectives of Neural-Symbolic Administration Integration Pattern Recognition 29th DAGM Symposium, Heidelberg, Germany, September 12-14, 2007, Proceedings Ruby is a programming language that’s taking the The human brain possesses the remarkable capabil- open source world by storm. It’s similar to both Perl ity of understanding, interpreting, and producing and Python in terms of its potential uses but books language, structures, and logic. Unlike their biolog- about Ruby have already overtaken both Perl and This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ical counterparts, artificial neural networks do not Python books in sales volume. This book is the first 29th Symposium of the German Association for Pat- form such a close liaison with symbolic reasoning: to describe using Ruby for general system adminis- tern Recognition, DAGM 2007, held in Heidelberg logic-based inference mechanisms and statistical ma- tration tasks, which is a natural use of the language. Germany in September 2007. The 55 revised full pa- chine learning constitute two major and very dif- It caters to a vast reader base of administrators who pers were carefully reviewed and selected. The pa- ferent paradigms in artificial intelligence with com- are taking tentative steps toward using Ruby in this pers are organized in topical sections on image fil- plementary strengths and weaknesses. Modern ap- way, or are considering making the move and would tering, restoration and segmentation, shape analysis plication scenarios in robotics, bioinformatics, lan- like to learn more. General "Rubyists" will also find it and representation, recognition, categorization and guage processing, etc., however require both the ef- appealing. detection, computer vision and image retrieval, ma- ficiency and noise-tolerance of statistical models chine learning and statistical data analysis, biomedi- and the generalization ability and high-level mod- Features cal data analysis, motion analysis and tracking, pose elling of structural inference mechanisms. A variety The only book to describe Ruby for system adminis- recognition, stereo and structure from motion, mul- of approaches has therefore been proposed for com- tration and the only one that covers general sys ad- ti-view image and geometric processing, as well as bining the two paradigms. This carefully edited vol- min topics Will appeal both to traditional system ad- 3D view registration and surface modelling. ume contains state-of-the-art contributions in neu- ministrator audience as well as core Ruby readership ral-symbolic integration, covering “loose” coupling Continues the Apress line of books focusing on prac- Fields of interest by means of structure kernels or recursive models as tical real-world development with modern popular Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Com- well as “strong” coupling of logic and neural [..] web development techniques puter Vision; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Graphics; Algorithm Analysis and Prob- Features Contents lem Complexity Presents recent developments in neural-symbolic in- 1. What Ruby Can Do For You.- 2. Common Tasks, tegration Quick Solutions.- 3. A Practical Look at Perfor- Target groups mance.- 4. The Power of Metaprogramming.- 5. Researchers and professionals Contents Building Files the Smart Way.- 6. Object Storage Type of publication Part I Structured Data and Neural Networks Intro- and Retrieval.- 7. Working with Enterprise Data.- 8. Proceedings duction: Structured Data and Neural Networks.- Deeper Networking Issues.- 9. Data Presentation.- Kernels for Strings and Graphs.- Comparing Se- 10. Extending Ruby: A Fistful of Gems.- 11. Testing, quence Classification Algorithms for Protein Sub- Version Control and Documentation.- 12. The Fu- Due September 2007 cellular Localization.- Mining Structure-Activity Re- ture of Ruby. lations in Biological Neural Networks using Neu- 2007. XIII, 560 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4713) ron Rank.- Adaptive Contextual Processing of Struc- Fields of interest Softcover tured Data by Recursive Neural Networks: A Survey Programming Techniques of Computational Properties.- Markovian Bias of 72,76 € Neural-based Architectures With Feedback Connec- Target groups ISBN 978-3-540-74933-2 tions.- Time Series Prediction with the Self-Organiz- Beginner/Intermediate Ruby system administrators ing Map: A Review.- A Dual Interaction Perspective and System administrators for [..] Type of publication Fields of interest Professional book Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Due July 2007

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J.A. Hardy, Visionist, ON, Canada; C.J. Carneiro, Visionist, Dubai, T. Harju, University of Turku, Finland; J. Karhumäki, University of D. Harris, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK (Ed.) United Arab Emirates; H. Catlin Turku, Finland; A. Lepistö, University of Turku, Finland (Eds.) Engineering Psychology and Beginning Rails Developments in Language Theory Cognitive Ergonomics From Novice to Professional 11th International Conference, DLT 2007, Turku, Finland, July 3-6, 2007, Proceedings 7th International Conference, EPCE 2007, Held as Part of HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceed- ings Ruby on Rails has taken the world by storm. First released in the mid-2004, this open source framework This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Developments has single-handedly changed the landscape of Web This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the in Language Theory, DLT 2007, held in Turku, Fin- development. It’s both powering and defining the 7th International Conference on Engineering Psy- land in July 2007. The 32 revised full papers present- "Web 2.0" revolution on the web, providing a radi- chology and Cognitive Ergonomics, EPCE 2007, held ed together with 6 invited papers were carefully re- cal shift in the way we think about web applications. in Beijing, China in July 2007 in the framework of viewed and selected from 74 submissions. All impor- Beginning Ruby on Rails is for anybody who wish- the 12th International Conference on Human-Com- tant issues in language theory are addressed includes to join the revolution. You'll learn how all of the puter Interaction, HCII 2007 with 8 other themati- ing grammars, acceptors and transducers for words, components of the Rails framework fit together and cally similar conferences. The 95 revised papers pre- trees and graphs; algebraic theories of automata; al- how you can leverage them to create sophisticated sented were carefully reviewed and selected from nu- gorithmic, combinatorial and algebraic properties of web applications. The book features sleeves-rolled- merous submissions. The papers accepted for pre- words and languages; variable length codes; symbolic up, practical examples and walkthroughs, and you'll sentation thoroughly cover the thematic area of En- dynamics; cellular automata; polyominoes and mul- also learn the vital philosophy behind Rails. In addi- gineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, ad- tidimensional patterns; decidability questions; image tion, you’ll learn how to get up and running quick- dressing the following major topics: cognitive and manipulation and compression; efficient text algo- ly with the Ruby programming language that under- affective issues in user interface design, cognitive rithms; relationships to cryptography, concurrency, pins Rails and makes it so powerful. Specifically, Be- workload and human performance, cognitive mod- complexity theory and logic; bioinspired computig, ginning Ruby on Rails will teach you all about: Ac- eling and measuring, as well as safety critical applica- and quantum computing. tiveRecord, and how it makes working with databas- tions and systems. es a pleasure; ActionPack, and how it wires applica- Fields of interest tions together with meaningful [..] Fields of interest Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Compu- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); User Inter- tation by Abstract Devices; Logics and Meanings of Features faces and Human Computer Interaction; Simulation Programs; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Sci- Unlike standard programming books, the interactive and Modeling; Information Systems Applications ence; Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation project based approach will keep the reader engaged, (incl.Internet); Cognitive Psychology; Computers and ensures that s/he will become proficient in Ru- and Education by on Rails While the book covers the basics for be- Target groups Researchers and professionals ginners, it also offers more advanced tools, including Target groups Ajax and a detailed discussion of ActiveRecord and Type of publication Researchers and professionals and ActionPack This book focuses on the beginning Proceedings programmer. In fact, no previous programming [..] Type of publication Proceedings Contents Due June 2007 Getting Up and Running.- Introducing Due July 2007 the Rails Framework.- An Application 2007. XI, 423 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Walk-Through.- Active Record Ba- Science, Band 4588) Softcover sics.- Advanced Active Record.- Action 2007. XXIII, 879 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Controller.- Action View.- Sending 59,92 € puter Science, Band 4562) Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-73207-5 and Receiving Mail with ActionMailer.- AJAX 99,51 € and Rails.- Testing.- Extending Rails ISBN 978-3-540-73330-0 with Plugins.- Projects: Using All You’ve Learned So Far.- Appendix A – Introducing Ruby, A Programmer’s Best Friend.- Appendix B – Ruby and Rails Tools.- Appendix C – The Rails community.- Appendix D – Deployment with Capistrano.

Fields of interest Programming Techniques

Target groups Beginning programmers wishing the learn Ruby on Rails or any web based programming language

Type of publication Professional book

Due August 2007

2007. 392 p. Softcover

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J. Hassell, Monroe, NC, USA; T. Campbell, UK H. Hauser, University of Bergen, Norway; H. Hagen, Technische R. Hecht-Nielsen, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany; H. Theisel, Universität Biele- USA feld, Germany (Eds.) Windows Vista Confabulation Theory Beyond the Manual Topology-based Methods in Visualization The Mechanism of Thought

Windows Vista (once codenamed Longhorn) re- places Windows XP and will be Microsoft’s most Confabulation theory offers the first complete de- Enabling insight into large and complex datasets is a powerful client operating system to date. Security tailed explanation of the mechanism of cognition, prevalent theme in visualization research for which and file management has been greatly improved and i.e., thinking, an essential information processing ca- different approaches are pursued. Topology-based hundreds of features, including multimedia creation pability of all enbrained Earth animals (bees, octopi, methods are built on the idea of abstracting charac- tools, have been added. The Beyond the Manual se- trout, ravens, humans, et al.). Concentrating on the teristic structures such as the topological skeleton ries addresses the needs of very experienced read- human case, this book offers an hypothesis for the from the data and to construct the visualizations ac- ers. Although it is not assumed that they are familiar neuronal implementation of cognition, and explores cordingly. There are currently new demands for and with the book’s topic; it is assumed that they are very the mathematics and methods of application of its renewed interest in topology-based visualization so- familiar with similar technologies (for example, earli- mechanism. Thinking turns out to be starkly alien in lutions. This book presents 13 peer-reviewed papers er versions of the product or a competing product). comparison with all known technological approach- as written results from the 2005 workshop “Topol- The presentation of information is extremely dense es to information processing. While probably not yet ogy-Based Methods in Visualization” that was ini- and avoids introductory or basic text. The series de- scientifically testable, confabulation theory seems tiated to enable additional stimulation in this field. livers as much information in as little space as possi- consistent with the facts of neuroscience. Beyond sci- It contains a longer chapter dedicated to a survey of ble. ence, any complete detailed explanation of cognition the state-of-the-art, as well as a great deal of origi- can be investigated by applying it technologically. Features nal work by leading experts that has not been pub- Multiple experiments of this nature are described in Written for experienced Windows XP users Provides lished before, spanning both theory and applications. this book in complete detail. The results suggest that quick "walkthroughs" for all new features Complete It captures key concepts and novel ideas and serves confabulation theory can provide the universal plat- "where am I" guide for the experienced user new to as an overview of current trends in topology-based form for building intelligent machines. In short, this Vista visualization research. book explains how [..]

Contents Features Features Part 1: Getting Your Bearings: Introducing Windows Book on core topic in visualization First book on confabulation to offer a coherent, text- Vista.- Hardware Compatibility.- Installation and book style explanation of this new theory of cogni- Contents Setup.- Finding Your Way Around the Desktop.- tion Topology-Based Flow Visualization, The State of Part 2: Everyday Windows Management: Personal- the Art - Robert S. Laramee, Helwig Hauser, Lingx- ization and Customization.- User Tools.- Adminis- Contents iao Zhao, Frits H. Post.- Topology-guided Visual- tration.- The Command Line.- Part 3: Storage and Introduction.- Viewcells from IBM Almaden Insti- ization of Constrained Vector Fields - Ronald Peik- File Management: New Folder Structures.- The File tute Talk on Cognitive Computing.- The Mathemat- ert, Filip Sadlo.- Scale-Space Tracking of Critical System.- Bitlocker.- External Interfaces.- Part 4: Net- ics of Thought.- Cogent Confabulation.- Confabu- Points in 3D Vector Fields - Thomas Klein, Thomas working: Wired and Wireless.- TCP/IP.- The Inter- lation Neuroscience.- The Mechanism of Thought.- Ertl.- Feature Flow Fields in Out-of-Core Settings net.- Terminal Services.- Network Presentation (new Mechanization of Confabulation.- Biological Cogni- - Tino Weinkauf, Holger Theisel, Hans-Christian application in the Start Menu).- Part 5: Communica- tion.- Index Hege, Hans-Peter Seidel.- Sreamline Predicates as tions: Windows Internet Explorer 7.- Windows [..] Flow Topology Generalization - Tobias Salzbrunn, Fields of interest Fields of interest Gerik Scheuermann.- Topology-based versus Fea- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Neuro- Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems ture-based Flow Analysis – Challenges and an [..] sciences; Cognitive Psychology; Computational Lin- guistics; Popular Science in Mathematics/Natural Target groups Fields of interest Science/Technology; Theory of Computation Intermediate to Advanced end users and IT profes- Visualization; Computer Graphics; Topology sionals Target groups Target groups Researchers, scientists, students Type of publication Graduate students, researchers and professionals in Professional book visualization, mathematics and computer science Type of publication Monograph Type of publication Due March 2007 Proceedings Due July 2007

Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, Due June 2007 Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest 2007. X, 245 p. With 2 DVDs. Geb. Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. For Jordan, Irak, Oman, Qatar, Palestine: Jordan Book Center 2007. X, 222 p. 157 illus., 54 in color. (Mathematics and Visualiza- 74,85 € tion) Geb. ISBN 978-3-540-49603-8 2007. 504 p. Softcover 85,55 € ISBN 978-3-540-70822-3 ISBN 978-1-59059-771-2 springer.com/booksellers Computer 103

M. Heege, Germany C. Heilmann, Yahoo!, UK; M.".N. Francis, Yahoo!, UK G.T. Herman, The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA; A. Kuba, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary (Eds.) Expert C++/CLI Web Development Solutions Advances in Discrete Tomography .NET for Visual C++ Programmers Ajax, APIs, Libraries, and Hosted Services Made easy and Its Applications

Stan Lippman is one of the best-selling authors on C Building "Web 2.0"/Ajax" applications is all the rage ++ and has long been one of the major contributors right now, and there is a lot of complicated code in- Advances in Discrete Tomography and Its Ap- to its growth and standardization. He is the architect volved, but a lot of budding web developers don't re- plications is a unified presentation of new meth- C++/CLI, Microsoft's latest extension to C++. Under alize that most of the hard work is already done for ods, algorithms, and select applications that are his guidance, experienced C++ developer and train- them, and available on the Web, through JavaScript the foundations of multidimensional image recon- er – and Visual C++ MVP -- Marcus Heege, explains libraries to provide most of that Ajax/DOM Scripting struction by discrete tomographic methods. The how the core C++/CLI language elements work and, functionality out of the box, Application program- self-contained chapters, written by leading math- just as important, how Microsoft intends them to be ming interfaces (APIs,) and hosting services such ematicians, engineers, and computer scientists, used. Though written by experts, and full of sound, as Flickr and YouTube to provide all they need to present cutting-edge research and results in the expert insight and advice, this book can be read prof- easily store and retrieve their media (be it images, field. Three main areas are covered: foundations, itably by any C++ programmer. Short code examples video, or whatever.) All the developer needs to know algorithms, and practical applications. Following concisely illustrate concepts, and more elaborate ex- is enough to successfully wire together all this func- an introduction that reports the recent literature amples show how C++/CLI is best used. Even pro- tionality successfully and responsibly, and this book of the field, the book explores various mathemati- grammers new to C++/CLI, but planning to migrate shows you how. It assumes no knowledge at the start, cal and computational problems of discrete tomog- to it from another language, can use this book to un- showing how to set up an effective development en- raphy including new applications. Topics and fea- derstand core language elements crucial to planning vironment, then moving on to building up a com- tures include introduction to discrete point and migrating effectively. plete professional "Ajaxy"/"Web 2.0" site step by step, X-rays, uniqueness and additivity in discrete all using ready made functionality available on the tomography, network flow algorithms for dis- Features web, including storing, retrieving, and displaying crete tomography, convex programming and Edited by C++ legend and architect of C++/CLI, content, images and video, [..] variational methods, and applications to elec- Stan Lippman, this is the most authoritative source tron microscopy, materials science, nondestructive of expert, insider advice on C++/CLI Written by a Features testing, and diagnostic [..] Visual C++ MVP and highly experienced developer Covers a lot of increasing popular web develop- and teacher of C++/CLI, Marcus Heege, this is the ment techniques and resources—Ajax, CSS, APIs, Features clearest presentation of expert use of C++/CLI Fo- JavaScript libraries, and hosting services, and how Self-contained chapters, written by leading math- cused on the "why" as well as the "what" of C++/CLI, they can be made use of by non-programmers Shows ematicians, engineers, and computer scientists Ex- this is the richest yet most concise guide for both ex- how to build up a cutting edge web site using these plores various mathematical and computational perienced [..] techniques, from start to finish No knowledge is as- problems of discrete tomography with an empha- sumed, but a basic knowledge of general web princi- sis on new applications Applications to electron mi- Contents ples and HTML is recommended croscopy, materials science, nondestructive Why C++/CLI?.- Managed Execution.- Using Man- testing, and diagnostic medicine For a broad aged Types.- Defining Managed Types.- Parameter- Contents audience of professionals, researchers, practitioners, ized Types and Functions.- Migrating C++ Projects Stop the web - you're getting on!.- The problem with and students in [..] C++/CLI.- Integrating WinForms and WPF Visu- "rolling your own solutions".- What you need to get als in MFC Applications.- Managed / Unmanaged started.- Spolt for choice - what the web offers you.- Contents Transitions.- Assembly Startup and Runtime Initial- Retrieving and displaying content with REST and ANHA Series Preface.- Preface.- List of Contribu- ization.- Wrapping Native Libraries.- Reliable Re- Ajax.- Adding media files.- Promoting your content.- tors.- Introduction.- Part I. Foundations of Discrete source Management.- Interacting with Application Layout and navigation.- Adding special effects.- Tomography.- An Introduction to Discrete Point X- Domains.- Sandboxing Code. Where to find help when things go wrong.- Finding Rays.- Reconstruction of Q-Convex Lattice Sets.- Al- a hosting partner. gebraic Discrete Tomography.- Uniqueness and Ad- Fields of interest ditivity for n-Dimensional Binary Matrices with Re- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters Fields of interest spect to Their 1-Marginals.- Constructing (0, 1)-Ma- Programming Techniques trices with Given Line Sums and Certain Fixed Ze- Target groups ros.- Reconstruction of Binary Matrices under Intermediate/Advanced C++ programmers who Target groups Adjacency Constraints.- Part II. Discrete To- want to master the new version of C++ that su- Non-programmers wanting to develop modern, dy- mography Reconstruction Algorithms.- Decomposi- persedes Visual C++ with Managed Extensions namic, "Ajaxy"/"Web 2.0" style web sites tion Algorithms for Reconstructing Discrete Sets [..] and .NET programmers who want to learn about how l C++ interoperates with the CLI Type of publication Fields of interest Professional book Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- Type of publication neering; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Vi- Professional book Due May 2007 sualization; Applications of Mathematics; Computa- tional Science and Engineering; Fourier Analysis Due May 2007 Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, Target groups Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest Professionals, researchers, practitioners, and stu- Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. 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ISBN 978-0-8176-3614-2 J. Hertzberg, University of Osnabrück, Germany; M. Beetz, Tech- Th.N. Herzog, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Develop- nische Universität München, Germany; R. Englert, Deutsche ment, Washington, DC, USA; F.J. Scheuren, Alexandria, VA, USA; Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany (Eds.) W.E. Winkler, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC, USA

KI 2007: Advances in Artificial Data Quality and Record Linkage Intelligence Techniques

30th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2007, Osnabrück, Germany, September 10-13, 2007, Proceedings This book helps practitioners gain a deeper understanding, at an applied level, of the issues involved in improving data quality through editing, imputation, This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed pro- and record linkage. The first part of the book deals ceedings of the 30th Annual German Conference on with methods and models. Here, we focus on the Fel- Artificial Intelligence, KI 2007, held in Osnabrück, legi-Holt edit-imputation model, the Little-Rubin Germany, September 10-13, 2007. The 26 revised multiple-imputation scheme, and the Fellegi-Sunter full papers presented together with 6 invited contri- record linkage model. Brief examples are included butions and 21 posters were carefully reviewed and to show how these techniques work. In the second selected from 81 submissions. The papers are orga- part of the book, the authors present real-world case nized in topical sections on cognition and emotion, studies in which one or more of these techniques are semantic Web, analogy, natural language, reason- used. They cover a wide variety of application areas. ing, ontologies, spatio-temporal reasoning, machine These include mortgage guarantee insurance, medi- learning, spatial reasoning, robot learning, classical cal, biomedical, highway safety, and social insurance AI problems, and agents. as well as the construction of list frames and admin- Fields of interest istrative lists. Readers will find this book a mixture Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining of practical advice, mathematical rigor, management and Knowledge Discovery; Mathematical Logic and insight and philosophy. The long list of references Formal Languages; Language Translation and Lin- at the end of the book enables readers to delve more guistics deeply into the subjects [..]

Target groups Features Researchers and professionals There are no other books available addressing this subject Readers will find this book a mixture of prac- Type of publication tical advice, mathematical rigor, management insight Proceedings and philosophy The authors also discuss the software that has been developed to apply the techniques de- Due August 2007 scribed in the text Contents 2007. XV, 516 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4667) Introduction.- What is Data Quality and Why Softcover Should We Care?.- Examples of Companies Using Data to their Advantage/Disadvantage.- Properties 68,48 € of Data Quality and Metrics for Measuring it.- Ba- ISBN 978-3-540-74564-8 sic Data Quality Tools.- Mathematical Preliminaries for Specialized Data Quality Techniques.- Automatic Editing and Imputation of Survey Data--A Unified Approach to Identifying and Correcting Data Prob- lems in Sample Surveys.- Record Linkage--Method- ology.- Estimating the Parameters of Fellegi-Sunter Record Linkage Model.- Standardization and Pars- ing.- Phonetic Coding Systems for Names and/Or [..]

Fields of interest Database Management; Statistical Theory and Meth- ods; Statistics for Social Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law

Target groups Practitioners

Type of publication Monograph

Due May 2007

2007. XIII, 227 p. Softcover

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R. Heutschi, IMG St. Gallen, Schweiz J. Hightower, Intel Research Seattle, WA, USA; B. Schiele, TU E. Hild, Microsoft Technology Center, Reston, VA, USA; S. Adams, Darmstadt, Germany; Th. Strang, Institute of Communications Microsoft Corporation, Ashburn, VA, USA and Navigation German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling/ Serviceorientierte Architektur Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (Eds.) Pro SharePoint Solution Architekturprinzipien und Umsetzung in die Praxis Location- and Context-Awareness Development

Third International Symposium, LoCA 2007, Oberpfaffen- Combining .NET, SharePoint, and Office 2007 Die Fähigkeit, Innovationen im Geschäftsmodell hofen, Germany, September 20-21, 2007, Proceedings schnell und effizient in operativen Prozessen und IT-Systemen umsetzen zu können, ist in der heuti- Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies gen Wettbewerbssituation von zentraler Bedeu- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the have become increasingly popular as a collaboration tung. In vielen Unternehmen schränkt die vorhan- Third International Symposium on Location- and solution for organizations. A large reason for this is dene über Jahre gewachsene IT-Architektur die Context-Awareness, LoCA 2007, held in Oberpfaf- the seamless integration of its features into the Office Reaktionsfähigkeit auf neue Anforderungen ein. fenhofen, Germany, in September 2007. The 17 re- desktop tools. However, many developers have yet Eine serviceorientierte Architektur (SOA) ist ein vised full papers presented were carefully selected to take advantage of this platform and the power it viel versprechender Ansatz, Geschwindigkeit und during two rounds of reviewing and improvement holds to solve problems in the workplace. Our book Qualität der unternehmensweiten Applikation- from 55 submissions. The papers are organized in will take a practical problem/solution approach to sentwicklung und -integration zu erhöhen und topical sections on wifi location technology, activity common business challenges. The goal is not just to ihre Komplexität und Kosten zu senken. Das vor- and situational awareness, taxonomies, architectures, provide the reader with some interesting code sam- liegende Buch beschreibt die zentralen Prinzipien and a broader perspective, the meaning of place, ra- ples, but for them to see the Microsoft collaboration und Konzepte einer SOA und ordnet sie im The- dio issue in location technology, and new approaches platform as a set of services and our examples as pat- mengebiet Unternehmensarchitektur ein. Anhand to location estimation. terns in how they can be combined. The book’s so- von Fallstudien zeigt es konkrete Ausprägungen lutions will focus on using Visual Studio Tools for sowie Treiber und Nutzenpotenziale in der Praxis. Es Fields of interest Office to build the user interface layer. The exciting diskutiert weiter Maßnahmen zur Einführung und Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); In- thing about extending the Office desktop tools is that zeigt Ansätze für die Entwicklung und Steuerung formation Storage and Retrieval; Computer Com- business users already know how to use them. This einer SOA. munication Networks; Personal Computing; User will increase user adoption and even quicken devel- Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Com- opment time. The book’s solutions will interact with Features munications Engineering, Networks SharePoint as a service [..] Das Buch zeigt die Vorteile einer serviceorientierten Architektur bei neuen Anwendungen Fallstudien Target groups Features demonstrieren die konkreten Ausprägungen von Researchers and professionals Features emerging Office 2007 based technologies, SOA which is sure to be a hot area Business users already Type of publication know how to use Office desktop tools, increasing Contents Proceedings development actions and quickening development Einleitung.- Grundlagen.- Prinzipien serviceorien- time Written by Microsoft’s own consulting team, is tierter Architekturen.- Fallbeispiele zu SOA.- Ar- Due September 2007 the premier example-driven book for developing Of- chitekturmanagement und Servicedesign.- Zusam- fice-based applications using SharePoint and .NET menfassung und Ausblick. 2007. X, 297 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4718) Contents Fields of interest Softcover What this book is about.- Who this book is for.- Management; Information Systems; Information Technology used in the book.- Viewing SharePoint Systems Applications (incl.Internet) 51,36 € ISBN 978-3-540-75159-5 as a Service Platform.- Why build on top of the Of- Target groups fice desktop environment.- Maintaining content of Praktiker a SharePoint site collection.- Another Excel example.- Document generation tool.- Another Word ex- Type of publication ample.- Provisioning a collaboration site from a re- Professional book ceived email.- Another Outlook example.- InfoPath example.- Generating a presentation based on site content.- Human Oriented Workflow Solution.- Due July 2007 Summary Chapter.

2007. XI, 229 S. 51 Abb. (Business Engineering) Geb. Fields of interest Programming Techniques 39,95 € ISBN 978-3-540-72357-8 Target groups Intermediate-advanced SharePoint/Office developers and .NET 2.0 developers tasked with creating Of- fice-centric applications or solutions

Type of publication Professional book

Due June 2007

2007. 400 p. Softcover

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S. Hillier, DataLan Corporation, Hamden, CT, USA

Microsoft SharePoint

Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005

This detailed third edition is Scot Hillier's follow-up to his market-leading SharePoint book. The new version includes extensive updates to the previous edition, with a complete focus on SharePoint 2007 and its integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office Sys- tem, as well as new approaches for using SharePoint to improve business efficiency. Also featured are new workflow solutions for SharePoint and BizTalk, and a new chapter on building a SharePoint solution from start to finish. With this book, you’ll gain intermediate-level guidance for those who want to design and deploy business solutions based on Mi- crosoft SharePoint 2007 technologies. Hillier defines the business cases and scenarios for these technologies. He reviews the installation, configuration, and administration of business solutions based on Mi- crosoft SharePoint technologies, and provides programming instruction, guidance, and examples for custom web parts and solutions.

Features A revision to our clearly successful previous edition, timed with the Office/SP 2007 wave Scot is at the forefront of SharePoint technology and is a recognized authority Builds real business solutions, not just theoretical proofs of concept

Contents SharePoint Business Solutions.- SharePoint Product and Technologies Overview.- The Microsoft Office System.- Programming SharePoint Services.- Imple- menting Workflow.- Administration.- Office Solu- tion Accelerators.

Fields of interest Programming Techniques

Target groups Technical audience with intermediate development skills in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, administrators, and power users of Microsoft SharePoint technologies and products

Type of publication Professional book

Due March 2007

2007. 544 p. Softcover

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S. Hillier, DataLan Corporation, Hamden, CT, USA A. Hirt, Avanade, Waltham, MA, USA T.-Y. Ho, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Y.-W. Chang, Na- tional Taiwan University, Taiwan; S.-J. Chen, National Taiwan Uni- versity, Taiwan Microsoft SharePoint Pro SQL Server 2005 High

Building Office 2007 Solutions in VB 2005 Availability Full-Chip Nanometer Routing Techniques

This detailed third edition is Scot Hillier's follow-up Maintaining SQL Server 2005 high availability in a to his market-leading SharePoint book. The new ver- global information environment is the DBA’s great- At 90 nm, wires account for nearly 75% of the to- sion includes extensive updates to the previous edi- est practical challenge. Availability is as much about tal delay in a circuit. Even more insidious, however, tion, with a complete focus on SharePoint 2007 and people and process as it is about technology. This is that among nearly 40% of these nets, more than its integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office Sys- book comprehensively covers the technology, the 50% of their total net capacitance are attributed to tem, as well as new approaches for using SharePoint people, the process, and the real-world best practices the cross-coupling capacitance between neighboring to improve business efficiency. Also featured are for planning, deploying, administering, and main- signals. At this point a new design and optimization new workflow solutions for SharePoint and BizTalk, taining highly available SQL Server 2005 instances. paradigm based on real wires is required. Nanome- and a new chapter on building a SharePoint solu- With even more years as a database consultant and ter routers must prevent and correct these effects on- tion from start to finish. With this book, you’ll gain production DBA, Allan Hirt once again provides in- the-fly in order to reach timing closure. From a man- intermediate-level guidance for those who want to depth, detailed advice on what it takes to assure SQL ufacturability standpoint, nanometer routers must design and deploy business solutions based on Mi- Server high availability for businesses of any size. explicitly deal with the ever increasing design com- crosoft SharePoint 2007 technologies. Hillier defines This is not an academic text. It is not based on lab plexity, and be capable of adapting to the constraint the business cases and scenarios for these technolo- experiments but on real-world experience. A dra- requirements of timing, signal integrity, process an- gies. He reviews the installation, configuration, and matic update and revision of his best-seller on SQL tenna effect, and new interconnect architecture such administration of business solutions based on Mi- Server 2000, it gives the same sound guidance to as X-architecture. In the nanometer era, we must crosoft SharePoint technologies, and provides pro- DBAs and system administrators on how to really get look into new-generation routing technologies that gramming instruction, guidance, and examples for the job done. combine high performance and capacity with the in- custom web parts and solutions. This edition con- tegration of congestion, timing, SI prevention, and tains code samples specifically and solely in VB 2005. Features Provides comprehensive, clear, detailed coverage DFM algorithms as the best means of getting to de- Features of all major availability issues Covers both avail- sign closure quickly. In this book, we [..] A revision to our clearly successful previous edition, ability and performance, from the perspective of Features timed with the Office/SP 2007 wave Scot is at the high availability Addresses the crucial needs of en- Describes a full-chip nanometer routing techniques forefront of SharePoint technology and is a recog- terprise-class, 24x7 SQL Server 2005 implementa- A detailed description on the modern VLSI routing nized authority Builds real business solutions, not tions Tells you what SQL Server documentation and problems Multilevel optimization on routing design just theoretical proofs of concept whitepapers don’t to solve the chip complexity problem Contents Contents Contents 1. SharePoint Business Solutions.- 2 SharePoint Part 1 Ups and Downs: A High Availability Primer: List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledg- Overview, Planning, and Installation.- 3 SharePoint The Business of Availability.- Do Not Pass Go With- ments. 1. INTRODUCTION. 2. ROUTING CHAL- Fundamentals.- 4 SharePoint Shared Services.- 5 out $200.- Part 2 SQL Server Availability Technolo- LENGES FOR NANOMETER TECHNOLOGY. 3. SharePoint Content Development and Manage- gy: Failover Clustering Part 1: Windows.- Failover MULTILEVEL FULL-CHIP ROUTING. 4. MUL- ment.- 6 SharePoint Document, Form, and Record Clustering Part 2: SQL Server.- Backup.- Log Ship- TILEVEL FULL-CHIP ROUTING CONSIDER- Management.- 7 SharePoint Features and Work- ping.- Database Mirroring.- Replication.- Making ING ANTENNA EFFECT AVOIDANCE. 5. 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However, these systems are difficult to de- oder zur Lösung von Problemstellungen, bei de- Examples are implemented in J making the subject scribe and capture by succinct mathematical mod- nen nur unvollständige Informationen vorliegen more accessible to those that, although have a math- els. Accepting the need for search-based methods as (z.B. Entscheidungssysteme, Optimierungsprob- ematical background, are not pure mathematicians. a complement to established analytical techniques, leme, Analyse stochastischer Prozesse), sowie zur Basic and advanced concepts of J are introduced quickly narrowing the search for optimum perfor- Lösung kombinatorischer Probleme (Ressourcen- throughout when required to illustrate different is- mance (ordinal optimization) is more important management) oder auch bei der Entwicklung kom- sues. Topics covering Network Calculus include wide than accurately estimating the values of system per- plexer Deduktionssysteme. Dieses Lehrbuch gibt sense increasing functions, mini-plus algebra, con- formance during the process of optimization (car- eine kompakte Einführung in die Constraint-Pro- volution and arrival, departure and services curves. dinal optimization). The purpose of this book is to grammierung. Dabei werden neben allgemeinen Comprehensive examples in the application of Net- address the difficulties of the optimization of com- theoretischen Grundlagen auch Sprachen, Metho- work Calculus are given, models for simulating net- plex systems via simulation models or other compu- den und Verfahren zur Modellierung und Lösung work traffic and network systems are discussed and tation-intensive models involving possible stochastic von Constraint-Problemen vorgestellt sowie congestion control is explored. This book brings effects and discrete choices. 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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Design and specification languages are of utmost in- Second International Workshop on Self-Organizing This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of terest in the area of embedded systems and the Fo- Systems, IWSOS 2007, held in The Lake District, UK, the 18th International Conference on Algorithmic rum on Specification and Design Languages has been September 11-13, 2007. The 17 revised full papers Learning Theory, ALT 2007, held in Sendai, Japan, once again the main European event for the embed- and 5 revised short papers presented together with 2 October 1-4, 2007, colocated with the 10th Interna- ded systems and chip design community. Advances invited talks were carefully selected from more than tional Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2007. in Design and Specification Languages for Embed- 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical The 25 revised full papers presented together with ded Systems is the latest contribution to the sections on ad hoc routing, peer-to-peer networking, the abstracts of 5 invited papers were carefully re- Chip Design Languages series and it consists of se- network topology, adaptive and self-organizing net- viewed and selected from 50 submissions. The pa- lected papers presented at the Forum on Specifica- works and multicast and mobility protocols. pers are dedicated to the theoretical foundations of tions and Design Languages (FDL'06), in September machine learning; they address topics such as query 2006. FDL, an ECSI conference, is the premier Euro- Fields of interest models, on-line learning, inductive inference, algo- pean forum to present research results, exchange ex- Computer Communication Networks; Software En- rithmic forecasting, boosting, support vector ma- periences, and learn about new trends in the appli- gineering; Operating Systems; Information Systems chines, kernel methods, complexity and learning, cation of specification and design languages as well Applications (incl.Internet); Information Storage and reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning and as of associated design and modelling methods and Retrieval; Communications Engineering, Networks grammatical inference. tools for integrated circuits, embedded systems, and Target groups Fields of interest heterogeneous systems. Modelling and specification Researchers and professionals Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining concepts push the development of new methodolo- and Knowledge Discovery gies for design and verification to system level, they Type of publication thus provide the means for a model-driven design of Proceedings Target groups complex [..] Researchers and professionals Due August 2007 Features Type of publication Represents the state of the art in research and prac- Proceedings tice Identifies new research directions Highlights 2007. XI, 295 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4725) the role of specification and modelling languages Softcover Presents practical experiences with specification and Due September 2007 modelling languages 51,36 € ISBN 978-3-540-74916-5 2007. XI, 403 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4754) Contents Softcover Preface: S.A. Huss. Part I. Analog Mixed-Signal, In- troduction: C.Grimm. Part II. C / C++ Based System 59,92 € Design. Introduction: F.Oppenheimer. Part III. Prop- ISBN 978-3-540-75224-0 erty Driven Design, Introduction: D.Borrione. Part IV. UML-Based System Specification and Design, In- troduction: P.van der Putten.

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T. Ideker, UC San Diego, CA, USA; V. Bafna, UC San Diego, CA, USA J. Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia; J. Ma, Hosei J. Indulska, The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia; K. Ray- (Eds.) University, Japan; L.T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada; mond, Queensland University of Technology, QLD, Australia T. Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany; J. Cao, Hong Kong (Eds.) Polytechnic University, China (Eds.) Systems Biology and Computational Proteomics Distributed Applications and Ubiquitous Intelligence and Interoperable Systems Joint RECOMB 2006 Satellite Workshops on Systems Biology, Computing and on Computational Proteomics, San Diego, CA, USA, De- 7th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2007, Paphos, cember 1-3, 2006, Revised Selected Papers 4th International Conference, UIC 2007, Hong Kong, China, Cyprus, June 6-8, 2007, Proccedings July 11-13, 2007, Proceedings

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J.A. Jacko, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA (Ed.) J.A. Jacko, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, J.A. Jacko, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA (Ed.) Atlanta, GA, USA (Ed.) Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Design and Usability Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Applications and Services Intelligent Multimodal Interaction 12th International Conference, HCI International 2007, Bei- jing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part I 12th International Conference, HCI International 2007, Bei- Environments jing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part IV 12th International Conference, HCI International 2007, Bei- jing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part III This four-volume set LNCS 4550-4553 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International This four-volume set LNCS 4550-4553 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII This four-volume set LNCS 4550-4553 constitutes Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007, held in Beijing, china, in July 2007, jointly with the refereed proceedings of the 12th International 2007, held in Beijing, china, in July 2007, jointly with 8 other thematically similar conferences. The 513 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 8 other thematically similar conferences. The 513 revised papers presented in the four volumes were 2007, held in Beijing, china, in July 2007, jointly with revised papers presented in the four volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous sub- 8 other thematically similar conferences. The 513 carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thor- revised papers presented in the four volumes were missions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer carefully reviewed and selected from numerous sub- oughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge missions. The papers accepted for presentation thor- Interaction, addressing major advances in knowl- and effective use of computers in a variety of appli- oughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer edge and effective use of computers in a variety of cation areas. The 133 papers of this first volume are Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge application areas. The 132 papers of this fourth vol- organized in topical sections on interaction design: and effective use of computers in a variety of appli- ume are organized in topical sections business appli- theoretical issued, methods, techniques and practice; cation areas. The 113 papers of this third volume cations; learning and entertainment; health applica- usability and evaluation methods and tools; under- are organized in topical sections on multimodality tions; work and collaboration support; web-based standing users and contexts of use; and models and and conversational dialogue; adaptive, intelligent and mobile applications and services; as well as, ad- patterns in HCI. and emotional user interfaces; gesture and eye gaze vanced design and development support. recognition; and interactive TV and media. Fields of interest Fields of interest User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Fields of interest User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- age and Retrieval; Software Engineering; Logics and Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- age and Retrieval; Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Computer Communication age and Retrieval; Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Computer Communication Networks Meanings of Programs; Computer Communication Networks Networks Target groups Target groups Researchers and professionals Target groups Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Type of publication Type of publication Proceedings Type of publication Proceedings Proceedings Due July 2007 Due July 2007 Due June 2007 2007. XXIII, 1240 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- puter Science, Band 4550) Softcover 2007. XXIV, 1225 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- 2007. XXI, 1038 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- puter Science, Band 4553) Softcover puter Science, Band 4552) Softcover 121,98 € 118,77 € ISBN 978-3-540-73104-7 109,14 € ISBN 978-3-540-73109-2 ISBN 978-3-540-73108-5 118 Computer springer.com/booksellers

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This book includes thirteen chapters covering paradigms in intelligent environment presents This four-volume set LNCS 4550-4553 constitutes ing a wide area of topics in evolutionary computing the latest ideas pertaining to educational pedagogy. the refereed proceedings of the 12th International and applications including: Introduction to evolu- The following contents are included: Introduction to Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII tionary computing in system design; evolutionary the Evolution of Teaching and Learning Paradigms; 2007, held in Beijing, china, in July 2007, jointly with neuro-fuzzy systems; evolution of fuzzy controllers; Why Designers cannot be Agnostic about Pedagogy: 8 other thematically similar conferences. The 513 genetic algorithms for multi-classifier design; evo- The Influence of Constructivist Thinking in Design revised papers presented in the four volumes were lutionary grooming of traffic; evolutionary parti- of e-Learning for HE; Problem Based Learning in an carefully reviewed and selected from numerous sub- cle swarms; fuzzy logic systems using genetic algo- E-learning environment – A Case Study at Griffith missions. 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The 136 papers of this second volume ment; evolutionary game theory in wireless mesh Approach to Learning within the Middle Schooling are organized in topical sections on graphical user networks; hybrid multiobjective evolutionary algo- Paradigm; Data Mining in E-Learning; Data Min- interfaces and visualization, mobile devices and mo- rithms for the sailor assignment problem; evolution- ing of Virtual Campus Data; Authoring and Manage- bile interaction, virtual environments and 3D inter- ary techniques in hardware optimization. This book ment Tools For Adaptive Educational Hypermedia action, ubiquitous interaction, and emerging interac- will be useful to researchers in intelligent systems Systems; Technology and Pedagogy – How to Learn tive technologies. with interest in evolutionary computing, application Technique. This book is directed to teaching profes- engineers and [..] Fields of interest sionals of all disciplines. 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J. Jiang, University of California, Davis, CA, USA H. Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, C.B. Jones, Z. Liu, J. Woodcock (Eds.) China; O.F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK; Y. Pan, Georgia State Uni- versity, Atlanta, GA, USA; V.K. Prasanna, University of Southern Linear and Generalized Linear California, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Eds.) Formal Methods and Hybrid Real- Mixed Models and Their Time Systems Algorithms and Architectures for Applications Essays in Honour of Dines Bjorner and Zhou Chaochen on the Parallel Processing Occasion of Their 70th Birthdays

7th International Conference, ICA3PP 2007, Hangzhou, China, This book covers two major classes of mixed effects June 11-14, 2007, Proceedings models, linear mixed models and generalized linear This Festschrift volume, published to honour both mixed models, and it presents an up-to-date account Dines Bjørner and Zhou Chaochen on the occa- of theory and methods in analysis of these models sion of their 70th birthdays in October and Novem- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of as well as their applications in various fields. The ber 2007, includes 25 refereed papers by leading re- the 7th International Conference on Algorithms and book offers a systematic approach to inference about searchers, current and former colleagues, who con- Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2007, non-Gaussian linear mixed models. Furthermore, gregated at a celebratory symposium held in Macao, held in Hangzhou, China in June 2007. The 39 re- it has included recently developed methods, such as China, in the course of the International Colloqui- vised full papers presented together with 1 keynote mixed model diagnostics, mixed model selection, um on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC talk and 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and jackknife method in the context of mixed mod- 2007. The papers cover a broad spectrum of subjects, and selected from 176 submissions. Focussing on els. The book is aimed at students, researchers and from foundational and theoretical topics to algo- two broad areas of parallel and distributed comput- other practitioners who are interested in using mixed rithms and systems issues and to applications, coming, i.e., architectures, algorithms and networks, and models for statistical data analysis. The book is suit- prising formal methods, systems modelling, hybrid systems and applications, the papers are organized in able for a course in a M.S. program in statistics, pro- and real-time systems, specification and verification, topical sections on parallel algorithms, parallel archi- vided that the section of further results and techni- as well as interval temporal logic. Dines Bjørner is tecture, grid computing, peer-to-peer technologies, cal notes in each of the first four chapters is skipped. known for his many contributions to the theory and and advanced network technologies. If these four sections are included, the book may be practice of formal methods for software engineer- used for a course in a Ph. D. program in statistics. A Fields of interest ing with special focus on abstraction and modelling, first course in mathematical statistics, the ability to Software Engineering/Programming and Operating specification of systems and languages, and domains, use computers for [..] Systems; Computer Systems Organization and Com- requirements, and software design. He was a profes- munication Networks; Computation by Abstract De- sor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Features vices; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; in Lyngby, [..] Concentrates on two major classes of mixed effects Simulation and Modeling models, linear mixed models and generalized linear Fields of interest mixed models Offers an up-to-date account of theory Target groups Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Pro- and methods in the analysis of these models as well Researchers and professionals grams; Computer Systems Organization and Com- as their applications in various fields munication Networks; Mathematical Logic and For- Type of publication mal Languages Contents Proceedings Linear mixed models: Part I.- Linear mixed models: Target groups Part II.- Generalized linear mixed models: Part I.- Researchers and professionals Generalized linear mixed models: Part II. Due May 2007 Type of publication Fields of interest 2007. XIV, 508 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Proceedings Statistical Theory and Methods; Health Care Admin- er Science, Band 4494) Softcover istration; Numerical Analysis; Genetics and Popula- Due September 2007 tion Dynamics 68,48 € ISBN 978-3-540-72904-4 Target groups 2007. XVI, 539 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4700) Researchers, graduate students, practitioners Softcover

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C.B. Jones, Newcastle University, UK; Z. Liu, The United Nations W. Jonker, Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; B. Joshi, India University, Macao, China; J. Woodcock, University of York, UK M. Petkovic, Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The Nether- (Eds.) lands (Eds.) Pro .NET 2.0 XML Theoretical Aspects of Computing - Secure Data Management ICTAC 2007 4th VLDB Workshop, SDM 2007, Vienna, Austria, September XML is the de facto language for communication 23-24, 2007, Proceedings 4th International Colloquium, Macau, China, September both within and between distributed applications 26-28, 2007, Proceedings whether they are on the Internet or a corporate network. It owes its success to its two key strengths: a This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of highly-structured human readable format and the the Third VLDB 2007 International Workshop on fact that it can be transmitted as pure text. No mat- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Secure Data Management, SDM 2007, held in Vien- ter how disparate applications and their architec- 4th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects na, Austria, September 23-24, 2007 in conjunction tures may be almost everything can read text files of Computing, ICTAC 2007 held in Macau, China with VLDB 2007. The 11 revised full papers present- and hence can accept XML data. This gives it a great in September 2007. The 29 revised full papers pre- ed were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 sub- advantage over rival technologies such as Remot- sented together with 3 invited talks and summaries missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- ing which were previously popular but which are of 2 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected tions on Access Control, Database Security, Privacy now being replaced by XML-based solutions. This from 69 submissions. The aim of the colloquium is Protection and Positon Papers. book will be the first to provide a complete solution to bring together practitioners and researchers from to XML on the .NET 2.0 Framework including the academia, industry and government to present re- Fields of interest new .NET 3.0 extensions that are being released in search results, and exchange experience, ideas, and Database Management; Information Storage and Re- January 2007. It will provide readers with everything solutions for their problems in theoretical aspects trieval; Computer Communication Networks; Da- they need to know to take advantage of XML in every of computing such as automata theory and formal ta Encryption; Operating Systems; Management of aspect of their working lives up to and including in- languages, principles and semantics of program- Computing and Information Systems tegration using Windows Communication Founda- ming languages, software architectures and their de- tion. scription languages, software specification, refine- Target groups ment, and verification, model checking and theorem Researchers and professionals Features proving, real-time, embedded and hybrid systems, This will be the most complete book on .NET 2.0 theory of parallel, distributed, and internet-based Type of publication XML available. It will cover everything readers need (grid) computing, simulation and modeling, and ser- Proceedings to use XML effectively It will be the first book to device-oriented development. scribe how XML interacts with the Windows Com- Due September 2007 munication Foundation (part of the new .NET 3.0 Fields of interest extensions) The author is a Microsoft Certified Computation by Abstract Devices; Logics and Mean- Trainer who regularly teaches classes on XML. As ings of Programs; Mathematical Logic and Formal 2007. X, 213 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4721) such he is well practiced in providing the kind of Languages; Programming Languages, Compilers, In- Softcover clear, precise, [..] terpreters; Software Engineering; Computer Com- 44,94 € munication Networks ISBN 978-3-540-75247-9 Contents 1. Introducing XML.- 2. Manipulating XML docu- Target groups ments using Document Object Model (DOM).- 3. Researchers and professionals Manipulating XML documents using XPath data Type of publication model.- 4. Reading and writing XML documents us- Proceedings ing XmlReader and XmlWriter.- 5. Validating XML documents with Schema.- 6. Transforming XML with XSLT.- 7. XML in ADO.NET.- 8. XML serial- Due September 2007 ization.- 9. XML Web Services.- 10. XML in SQL Server 2005.- 11. Use of XML in .NET Framework.- 2007. XI, 483 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4711) 12. WCF and Web Services (if .NET 3.0 is available).- Softcover 13. Appendix A : Creating custom XML readers and writers.- 14. Appendix B: Case Study.- 15. Appendix 64,20 € C: Resources. ISBN 978-3-540-75290-5 Fields of interest Programming Techniques

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R. Jurdak, University College Dublin, Ireland V.G. Kaburlasos, Technological Educational Institution of Kavala, P. Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI, Computer and Automation Research Greece; G.X. Ritter, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Institute, Budapest, Hungary; Th. Fahringer, University of Inns- (Eds.) bruck, Austria; Z. Nemeth, MTA SZTAKI, Computer and Automa- Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor tion Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary (Eds.) Networks Computational Intelligence Based Distributed and Parallel Systems A Cross-Layer Design Perspective on Lattice Theory From Cluster to Grid Computing

Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: A Cross- The emergence of lattice theory within the field of Layer Design Perspective deals with the emerging computational intelligence (CI) is partially due to its Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Cluster design trend that transcends traditional communi- proven effectiveness in neural computation. More- to Grid Computing is an edited volume cation layers for performance gains in ad hoc and over, lattice theory has the potential to unify a num- based on DAPSYS 2006, the 6th Austrian-Hun- sensor networks. The author explores the current ber of diverse concepts and aid in the cross-fertil- garian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Sys- state of the art in cross-layer approaches for ad hoc ization of both tools and ideas within the numer- tems, which is dedicated to all aspects of distribut- and sensor networks, providing a comprehensive de- ous subfields of CI. The compilation of this eigh- ed and parallel computing. The workshop was held sign resource. The book offers a structured compar- teen-chapter book is an initiative towards prolifer- in conjunction with the 2nd Austrian Grid Sym- ison and analysis of both layered and cross-layer de- ating established knowledge in the hope to further posium in Innsbruck, Austria in September 2006. sign, providing readers with an overview of the many expand it. This edited book is a balanced synthesis Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Cluster to issues relating to ad hoc and sensor networks. The of four parts emphasizing, in turn, neural computa- Grid Computing is designed for a profes- benefits of these cross-layer approaches are exam- tion, mathematical morphology, machine learning, sional audience composed of practitioners and re- ined through three diverse case studies: a monitor- and (fuzzy) inference/logic. The articles here demon- searchers in industry. This book is also suitable for ing sensor network using Radio Frequency waves, strate how lattice theory may suggest viable alterna- advanced-level students in computer science. an ad hoc network that uses Ultra Wide Band Radio, tives in practical clustering, classification, pattern and an acoustic underwater sensor network for envi- analysis, and regression applications. Features ronmental monitoring. Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Presents selected contributions from the 6th Bian- Networks: A Cross-Layer Design Perspective is inter- Features nual Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed disciplinary in character, and should be of value to Resent results of Computational Intelligence Based and Parallel Systems, DAPSYS 2006 software engineers, hardware engineers, application on Lattice Theory Outcome of a special session held [..] during in WCCI 2006 Contents Preface.- Program Committee and Additional Re- Features Contents viewers.- Parallel and Distributed Algorithms.- Addresses the complex crosscutting issues of the Part I Neural Computation.- Part II Mathematical The Wandering Token: Congestion Avoidance of a emerging ad hoc and sensor network research field Morphology Applications.- Part III Machine Learn- Shared Resource.- A Locality Optimizing Algorithm ocus on cross-layer design approaches in ad hoc and ing Applications.- Part IV Logic and Inference. for Developing Stream Programs in Imagine.- Gran- sensor networks Adopts an integrated approach to ular SSOR Preconditioning Placed on Dynamic SMP design and optimizing performance in both ad hoc Fields of interest Clusters with Communication on the Fly.- Bulk Syn- and sensor networks Proposes and develops a unified Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- chronous Parallel ML with Exceptions.- Networking cross-layer optimization framework applicable to ad neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) and Communication.- A New Approach to MPI Col- hoc and sensor networks Goes beyond theoretical lective Communication Implementations.- Support- discussion [..] Target groups ing MPI Applications in P-GRADE Portal.- Tuned: Researchers, engineers, graduate students in compu- An Open MPI Collective Communications Compo- Contents tational intelligence, computer science nent.- Self-Healing [..] Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Opportunities and Challenges.- Part I: Layered Communica- Type of publication Fields of interest tion Approaches.- Physical Layer.- Data Monograph Operating Systems; Processor Architectures; Soft- Link Layer.- Network Layer.- Transport ware Engineering/Programming and Operating Sys- and Middleware Layers.- Application Layer.- Part Due July 2007 tems; Computer Systems Organization and Commu- II: Cross-Layer Approaches.- Cross-Layer Design.- nication Networks; Computer Communication Net- Cross-Layer Architectures.- Applied Cross-Layer 2007. XVI, 375 p. 101 illus., 19 in color. Also available online. works; Software Engineering Approaches.- Part III: Case Studies.- Optimization (Studies in Computational Intelligence, Band 67) Geb. of an RF Sensor Network.- UWB Ad Hoc Network.- Target groups Acoustic Underwater Sensor Network.- Conclud- 139,05 € Industry practitioners and researchers ing Remarks and Future Directions.- Extended Cost ISBN 978-3-540-72686-9 Function.- References.- Index. Type of publication Proceedings Fields of interest Communications Engineering, Networks; Comput- Due May 2007 er Communication Networks; Performance and Re- liability; Information Systems and Communication 2007. XII, 223 p. Geb. Service; Simulation and Modeling; Signal,Image and Speech Processing 117,65 € ISBN 978-0-387-69857-1 Target groups Researchers and graduate students interested in wireless networks

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M. Kamel, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada; A. Campilho, Uni- A. Kandel, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA; H. Bunke, Y. Kaneda, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; H. Kawamura, versity of Porto, Portugal (Eds.) Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (IAM), Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan; M. Sasai, Nagoya Uni- Bern, Switzerland; M. Last, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, versity, Nagoya, Japan (Eds.) Ben Sheva, Israel (Eds.) Image Analysis and Recognition Frontiers of Computational Science 4th International Conference, ICIAR 2007, Montreal, Canada, Applied Graph Theory in Computer August 22-24, 2007, Proceedings Proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers of Vision and Pattern Recognition Computational Science 2005

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Image Analy- This book will serve as a foundation for a variety of Computational science based on the high-level use sis and Recognition, ICIAR 2007, held in Montreal, useful applications of graph theory to computer vi- of computers has been called the third major method Canada, in August 2007. The 71 revised full papers sion, pattern recognition, and related areas. It covers in the field of scientific research, standing alongside and 44 revised poster papers presented were careful- a representative set of novel graph-theoretic meth- the conventional methods of theory and experiment. ly reviewed and selected from 261 submissions. The ods for complex computer vision and pattern recog- This books covers the wide-ranging scientific areas papers are organized in topical sections on image nition tasks. The first part of the book presents the of computational science, from basic research fields restoration and enhancement, image and video pro- application of graph theory to low-level processing such as algorithms and soft-computing to diverse ap- cessing and analysis, image segmentation, computer of digital images such as a new method for partition- plied fields targeting macro, micro, nano, genome vision, pattern recognition for image analysis, shape ing a given image into a hierarchy of homogeneous and complex systems. and matching, motion analysis, tracking, image re- areas using graph pyramids, or a study of the rela- trieval and indexing, image and video coding and en- tionship between graph theory and digital topology. Features cryption, biometrics, biomedical image analysis, and Part II presents graph-theoretic learning algorithms Proceedings of the International Symposium on applications. for high-level computer vision and pattern recogni- Frontiers of Computational Science 2005, Nagoya, tion applications, including a survey of graph based December 2005 Reports recent research by leading Fields of interest methodologies for pattern recognition and computer experts on many areas of computational science, Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern vision, a presentation of a series of computationally from nano materials, biomolecules, to fluid dynam- Recognition; Biometrics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. efficient algorithms for testing graph isomorphism ics Robotics); Computer Graphics; Algorithm Analysis and related graph matching tasks in pattern recogni- and Problem Complexity tion and a new graph distance measure to be used for Contents solving graph matching [..] From the contents Computational Methods Com- Target groups bining Large Eddy Simulation with Approximate Researchers and professionals Features Wall-Layer Models for Predicting Separated Tur- Will serve as a foundation for a variety of useful ap- bulent Near-Wall Flows.- Numerical Experimenta- Type of publication plications of the graph theory to computer vision, tion: a Third Way to Study Nature.- Recent Compu- Proceedings pattern recognition, and related areas Covers a rep- tational Developments in Quantum Conductance resentative set of novel graph-theoretic methods for and Field Emission of Carbon Nanotubes.- Energy Due August 2007 complex computer vision and pattern recognition Landscapes of Protein Self-Assembly: Lessons from tasks Native Topology-Based Models.- A Brief Introduc- tion to Krylov Space Methods for Solving Linear Sys- 2007. 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L. Kang, Y. Liu, The University of Aizu, Japan; S. Zeng, China Uni- L. Kang, Y. Liu, S. Zeng (Eds.) M.-Y. Kao, Northwestern University, Evanton, IL, USA; X.-Y. Li, Illi- versity of Geosciences, Wuhan, China (Eds.) nois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA (Eds.) Advances in Computation and Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Intelligence Algorithmic Aspects in Information Hardware and Management Second International Symposium, ISICA 2007, Wuhan, China, 7th International Conference, ICES 2007, Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007, Proceedings Third International Conference, AAIM 2007, Portland, OR, September 21-23, 2007, Proceedings USA, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings

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A. Karer, Oberrohrdorf, Schweiz N. Karssemeijer, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, N. Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New The Netherlands; B. Lelieveldt, Leiden University Medical Center, Zealand Leiden, The Netherlands (Eds.) Optimale Prozessorganisation im Evolving Connectionist Systems IT-Management Information Processing in Medical The Knowledge Engineering Approach Ein Prozessreferenzmodell für die Praxis Imaging

20th International Conference, IPMI 2007, Kerkrade, The Netherlands, July 2-6, 2007, Proceedings This second edition of Evolving Connectionist Sys- Die Optimierung der Prozessorganisation in IT- tems presents generic computational models and Unternehmungen und IT-Organisationen ist seit techniques that can be used for the development of Ende der 1990er Jahre ein Dauerbrenner. Für die This book constitutes the refeered proceedings of evolving, adaptive modelling systems, as well as new Definition der in einer IT-Organisation benötigten the 20th Interational Conference on Information trends including computational neuro-genetic mod- Prozesse liegen eine Vielzahl von Basisinformationen Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2007, held in elling and quantum information processing related vor. Wie diese Prozesse aber innerhalb einer IT-Or- Kerkrade, The Netherlands, in July 2007. The 26 re- to evolving systems. New applications, such as au- ganisation strukturiert werden, welche Schnittstellen vised full papers and 37 revised poster papers pre- tonomous robots, adaptive artificial life systems and zu berücksichtigen sind, wie die Prozesse verknüpft sented were carefully reviewed and selected from 210 adaptive decision support systems are also covered. sind, und wie sich die gesamte Prozessstruktur im submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- The models and techniques used are connection- Zusammenhang präsentiert, muss jedoch für jede tions on segmentation, cardiovascular imaging, de- ist-based and, where possible, existing connection- IT-Organisation neu erarbeitet werden. Hier set- tection and labeling, diffusion tensor imaging, regis- ist models have been used and extended. Divided in- zt das vorliegende Buch an und entwickelt auf der tration, image reconstruction, functional brain imag- to four parts the book opens with evolving processes Grundlage vieler Praxisprojekte für ein hypothetis- ing, as well as shape models and registration. in nature; looks at methods and techniques that can ches IT-Unternehmen unter Berücksichtigung von be used in evolving connectionist systems; then cov- ITIL ein detailliertes Muster eines Prozessmodells, Fields of interest ers various applications in bioinformatics and brain das als Vorlage für die eigene Konzeption verwen- Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern studies; finishing with applications for intelligent det werden kann. Kernstück des Buches ist eine Recognition; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); machines. Aimed at all those interested in develop- beigelegte Großgrafik, die rund 75 Prozesse und ihre Computer Graphics; Health Informatics & Health ing adaptive models and systems to solve challenging Verknüpfungen darstellt. Das Buch schließt damit Administration; Imaging / Radiology real world problems in computer science and [..] auch die Lücke bei der Detailsicht auf die Prozesse einer IT-Organisation. Target groups Features Researchers and professionals Includes new trends and applications that relate to Features evolving systems A fully extended, integrated ap- Besonderheit: Poster im Format 80 x 132 cm Type of publication proach to the analysis of evolving information pro- mit umfangreichem Prozesmodell einer IT-Un- Proceedings cesses at different levels ternehmung Präsentation eines in der Praxis ent- standenen Prozessmodells einer Ablauforganisation Due June 2007 Contents für eine IT-Unternehmung, das als Vorlage bzw. 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J. Katz, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; M. Yung, M. Kauers, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria; M. Kerber, M. Keating, Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA; P. Bricaud, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA (Eds.) University of Birmingham, UK; R. Miner, Design Science, Inc., St. Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA Paul, Minnesota, USA; W. Windsteiger, Johannes Kepler Universi- ty, Linz, Austria (Eds.) Applied Cryptography and Network Reuse Methodology Manual for Security Towards Mechanized Mathematical System-on-a-Chip Designs 5th International Conference, ACNS 2007, Zhuhai, China, June Assistants 5-8, 2007, Proceedings 14th Symposium, Calculemus 2007, 6th International Confer- "Reuse Methodology Manual for System-on-a-Chip ence, MKM 2007, Hagenberg, Austria, June 27-30, 2007, Pro- Designs, Third Edition" outlines a set of best prac- ceedings tices for creating reusable designs for use in an SoC This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of design methodology. These practices are based on the 5th International Conference on Applied Cryp- the authors' experience in developing reusable de- tography and Network Security, ACNS 2007, held in This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of signs, as well as the experience of design teams in Zhuhai, China, in June 2007. The 31 revised full pa- the 6th International Conference on Mathematical many companies around the world. Silicon and tool pers presented were carefully reviewed and selected Knowledge Management, MKM 2007, and the 14th technologies move so quickly that many of the de- from around 260 submissions. The papers are orga- Symposium on the Integration of Symbolic Compu- tails of design-for-reuse will undoubtedly continue nized in topical sections on signature schemes, com- tation and Mechanized Reasoning, Calculemus 2006, to evolve over time. But the fundamental aspects of puter and network security, cryptanalysis, group-ori- held in Hagenberg, Austria in June 2007 as events of the methodology described in this book have become ented security, cryptographic protocols, anonymous the RISC Summer 2007, organized by the Research widely adopted and are likely to form the founda- authentication, identity-based cryptography, securi- Institute for Symbolic Computation. The 10 revised tion of chip design for some time to come. Develop- ty in wireless, ad-hoc, and peer-to-peer networks, as full papers from 23 submissions for Calculemus 2007 ment methodology necessarily differs between sys- well as efficient implementation. and 19 revised full papers, plus abstracts of 2 invit- tem designers and processor designers, as well as be- Fields of interest ed talks, selected from 52 submissions to MKM 2007 tween DSP developers and chipset developers. How- Data Encryption; Computer Communication Net- were carefully reviewed and selected for a joint pre- ever, there is a common set of problems facing every- works; Systems and Data Security; Information Sys- sentation in the book. The papers cover different one who is designing complex chips. In response to tems Applications (incl.Internet); Computers and aspects of traditional branches in CS such as com- these problems, design teams have adopted a block- Society; Management of Computing and Informa- puter algebra and theorem proving, as well as new- based design approach that emphasizes design reuse. tion Systems ly emerging ones such as user interfaces, knowledge Reusing [..] management, and theory exploration. Thus facilitat- Target groups ing the development of integrated mechanized math- Features Researchers and professionals ematical assistants. Up to date State of the art Reuse as a solution for circuit designers A chronicle of “best practices” All Type of publication Fields of interest chapters updated and revised Generic guidelines - Proceedings Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining non tool specific Emphasis on hard IP and physical and Knowledge Discovery; Information Systems Ap- design Due May 2007 plications (incl.Internet); Database Management; Computer Communication Networks; Mathematics, Contents general 1. Introduction.- 2. The System-on-Chip Design 2007. XIII, 498 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Process.- 3. System-Level Design Issues: Rules and er Science, Band 4521) Softcover Target groups Tools.- 4. The Macro Design Process.- 5. RTL Cod- Researchers and professionals ing Guidelines.- 6. Macro Synthesis Guidelines.- 68,48 € 7. Macro Verification Guidelines.- 8. Developing ISBN 978-3-540-72737-8 Type of publication Hard Macros.- 9. Macro Deployment: Packaging Proceedings for Reuse.- 10. System Integration with Reusable Macros.- 11. System-Level Verification Issues.- 12. Due June 2007 Data and Project Management.- 13. Implementing Reuse-Based SoC Designs.- Bibliography.- Index.

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Z. Kedad, University of Versailles, France; N. Lammari, Conserva- F.J. Kelly, Atlanta, GA, USA G. Kemnitz, Technische Universität Clausthal toire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France; E. Métais, Con- servatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France; F. Meziane, Salford University, Manchester, UK; Y. Rezgui, Salford University, LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Test und Verlässlichkeit von Manchester, UK (Eds.) Programming Guide Rechnern Natural Language Processing and Information Systems LEGO Mindstorms NXT is the most popu- Auf einen Rechner – ein informationsverarbeit- lar robot on the market. James Kelly is the au- endes System aus Hardware und Software – sollte 12th International Conference on Applications of Natural Lan- guage to Information Systems, NLDB 2007, Paris, France, June thor of the most popular blog on NXT (http:// Verlass sein. Das ist eine Anforderung, die in der 27-29, 2007, Proceedings thenxtstep.blogspot.com/) with over 30,000 hits a Praxis oft nur mit sehr großem Aufwand oder in month. The NXT-G visual programming language unbefriedigendem Maße zu erfüllen ist. "Test von for the NXT robot is completely new and there are Rechnern" vermittelt einen umfassenden Überblick currently no books available on the subject. There is über die Probleme und Maßnahmen, mit denen die This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of an extremely limited amount of information in the Verlässlichkeit informationsverarbeitender Systeme the 12th International Conference on Applications HTML help files included with the software. This gesichert wird. Großer Wert wurde auf abschätzbare of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB book covers all of the basic, intermediate, and ad- Kenngrößen und anschauliche Experimente für 2007, held in Paris, France in June 2007. The 31 re- vanced programming blocks that are standard with ihre Abschätzung gelegt. Da die Systeme immer vised full papers and 10 revised short papers present- the NXT-G language suite. The book uses simple, größer werden und es immer schwieriger wird, sie ed together with 1 invited lecture were carefully re- non-technical terminology with plenty of screen- von außen ausreichend gründlich zu testen, wird viewed and selected from 110 submissions. The pa- shots and line drawings to demonstrate proper use im abschließenden Kapitel das Thema Selbsttest pers are organized in topical sections on natural lan- of all the blocks as well as basic programming tech- ausführlich behandelt. Test und Verlässlichkeit guage for database query processing, email manage- niques such as loops, If-Then statements, case state- ist ein Lehrbuch für Studierende der Fachrichtun- ment, semantic annotation, text clustering, ontolo- ments, and use of variables. gen Informatik, Informationstechnik in höheren gy engineering, natural language for information sys- Semestern. Praktiker aus den Bereichen Entwick- tem design, information retrieval systems, and natu- Features lung, Test und Qualitätssicherung werden in dem ral language processing techniques. Written by the best-selling author of LEGO Mind- Buch zahlreiche interessante Anregungen finden. storms NXT: The Mayan Adventure Written for Fields of interest kids, teachers, parents or anyone new to the NXT- Features Database Management; Computer Communication G programming language Offers easy-to-follow in- Umfassender Überblick zum und systematis- Networks; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Math- structions for all aspects of NXT-G, from basic to ad- che Heranführung an das Thema Einfache und ematical Logic and Formal Languages; Information vanced anschauliche Darstellung der Teilaspekte und Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Zusammenhänge Kurze einfache Begriffsdefinitio- Robotics) Contents nen Beispielrechnungen, Aufgaben, Musterlösungen What is A Program?.- Pseudo Code.- Hello World Target groups Display Block.- Move Block.- Record/Play Block.- Contents Researchers and professionals Sound Block.- Wires.- Logic Discussion.- Input Test und Verlässlichkeit von Rechnern.- Quan- (Touch, Sound, Light, Us, NXT Buttons, Rotation, titative Zusammenhänge.- Testauswahl und Type of publication Timer).- Wait Block.- Loop Block.- Switch Block.- prüfgerechter Entwurf.- Selbsttest.- Anhang. Professional book Stop Block.- Random.- Compare.- Range.- Logic Block.- Variable.- Text.- Math.- Keep Alive.- File Fields of interest Due June 2007 Access (Needs to Have the Program Tested).- Cali- Computer Hardware brate.- Reset Motor.- Send Message/Receive Message Target groups 2007. XIV, 442 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Block (Not Completed). er Science, Band 4592) Softcover Studierende der Informatik, Informationstech- Fields of interest nik, Technomathematik und ingenieurtechnischer 64,20 € Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems Studiengänge ISBN 978-3-540-73350-8 Target groups Type of publication Young programmers, age 10 and up, beginning to German textbook intermediate; parents and teachers who want to learn the new language for themselves or be able to assist Due March 2007 students/children with learning to properly program their robots 2007. XVI, 452 S. 244 Abb. (eXamen.press) Geb.

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A.-M. Kermarrec, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes, France; L. Bougé, IRISA/ A. Kerren, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany; A. Ebert, Univer- M. Kifer, Stony Brook University, New York, NY, USA; S. Smolka, ENS Cachan, Rennes, France; T. Priol, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes, France sity of Kaiserslautern, Germany; J. Meyer, University of California, Stony Brook University, New York, NY, USA (Eds.) CA, USA (Eds.) Introduction to Operating System Euro-Par 2007 Parallel Processing Human-Centered Visualization Design and Implementation 13th International Euro-Par Conference, Rennes ,France , Au- Environments gust 28-31, 2007, Proceedings The OSP 2 Approach GI-Dagstuhl Research Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, March 5-8, 2006, Revised Papers

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of OSP 2 is both an implementation of a modern oper- the 13th International Conference on Parallel Com- ating system and a flexible environment for generat- This tutorial book presents an augmented selection puting, Euro-Par 2007, held in Dresden, Rennes, ing implementation projects appropriate for an in- of the material presented at the GI-Dagstuhl Re- France, August 28-31, 2007. The 89 revised papers troductory course in operating system design. This search Seminar on Human-Centered Visualization presented were carefully reviewed and selected from book is an introduction to the design and implemen- Environments, HCVE 2006, held in Dagstuhl Castle, 333 submissions. The papers are organized in top- tation of operating systems using OSP 2, the next Germany in March 2006. The 8 tutorial lectures pre- ical sections on support tools and environments; generation of the highly popular OSP courseware for sented are the thoroughly cross-reviewed and revised performance prediction and evaluation; scheduling undergraduate operating system courses. Topics and versions of the summaries and findings, presented and load balancing; compilers for high performance; Features: Process and thread management; Mem- and discussed at the seminar. After an introduction parallel and distributed databases; grid and cluster ory, Resource and I/0 device management; Inter- to human-centered visualization environments the computing; peer-to-peer computing; distributed sys- process communication; Gives opportunity to prac- fundamental principles and methods in that area are tems and algorithms; parallel and distributed pro- tice these skills in a realistic operating systems pro- shown such as human-centered aspects, interacting gramming; parallel numerical algorithms; distributed gramming environment. This book contains enough with visualizations, visual representations, as well as and high-performance multimedia; theory and algo- projects for up to 3 semesters, exposing students to challenges and unsolved problems. The book is con- rithms for parallel computation; high performance many essential features of operating systems, while cluded with lectures on domain-specific visualization networks; mobile and ubiquitous computing. at the same time isolating them from low-level ma- describing geographic visualization, algorithm ani- chine-dependent concerns. Thus, even in 1 semester, Fields of interest mation, and biomedical information visualization. students can learn about page-replacement strategies Computer Systems Organization and Communica- in virtual memory management, CPU-scheduling Fields of interest tion Networks; Software Engineering/Programming strategies, disk seek-time optimization & other Image Processing and Computer Vision; Computer and Operating Systems; Theory of Computation; issues in [..] Graphics; Pattern Recognition; User Interfaces and Numeric Computing; Database Management Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence Features Target groups (incl. Robotics) Contains enough projects for up to 3 semesters Researchers and professionals These projects expose students to essential features Target groups of operating systems, whilst isolating them from low- Researchers and professionals Type of publication level machine-dependent concerns An Instructors Proceedings Type of publication Manual details how to use the OSP Project Genera- Proceedings tor and sample assignments The OSP courseware it- Due August 2007 self is available to instructors A complementary website provides support for both students and instruc- Due July 2007 tors using OSP 2 2007. XXVII, 974 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- puter Science, Band 4641) Softcover 2007. XIX, 403 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Contents 118,77 € er Science, Band 4417) Softcover Organisation of OSP 2.- Putting it All Together: An ISBN 978-3-540-74465-8 Example Session with OSP 2.- TASKS: Management 49,22 € of Tasks (a.k.a. Processes).- THREADS: Manage- ISBN 978-3-540-71948-9 ment and Scheduling of Threads.- MEMORY: Virtu- al Memory Management.- DEVICES: Scheduling of Disk Requests.- FILESYS: The File System.- PORTS: Interprocess Communication.- Resources: Resource Management.

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J.M. Kizza, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN, USA J. Kleijn, Leiden University, The Netherlands; A. Yakovlev, Univer- A. Klein, Universität Gent sity of Newcastle, UK (Eds.) Ethical and Social Issues in the Visuelle Kryptographie Information Age Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency - ICATPN 2007

28th International Conference on Applications and Theory Seit der Erfindung der Schrift hat es auch immer das Bedürfnis gegeben, Geschriebenes vor unbefugten This 3rd edition takes off where the 2nd ended to ex- of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, ICATPN 2007, Lesern zu verbergen. Die Lehre von den Geheim- amine ethical, social, and policy challenges steam- Siedlce, Poland, June 25-29, 2007, Proceedings schriften ist daher fast ebenso alt wie die Schrift ing from the emergence of cyberspace and the con- selbst. Als Wissenschaft im modernen Sinn ist die vergence of telecommunication and computing tech- Kryptographie jedoch noch sehr jung. Bei dem 1994 nologies, and the miniaturalization of computing, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of von Naor und Shamir erfundenen Verfahren der telecommunication, and information enabling de- the 28th International Conference on Applications visuellen Kryptographie wird ein Bild so auf zwei vices. New topics and features include: Provides fun- and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Con- Folien verteilt, dass auf jeder einzelnen Folie nur damental discussion of computer network security currency, ICATPN 2007, held in Siedlce, Poland, in ein zufälliges Punktmuster zu sehen ist, aber beide system design and operation to reveal vulnerable ar- June 2007. The 22 revised full papers and 3 revised Folien übereinandergelegt das geheime Bild ergeben. eas in the computer network infrastructure; intro- tool papers presented together with 5 invited papers Das Buch gibt einen Einblick in dieses aktuelle duces and explores techniques in electronic crime in- were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of Forschungsgebiet, wobei bewußt auf die sogenan- vestigation; explores biometric techniques to system 70 submissions. All current issues on research and nte höhere Mathematik verzichtet wurde. Es eignet access control. This book provides an updated dis- development in the area of Petri nets and modeling sich daher ideal als Grundlage für Proseminare und cussion of the ethical and social issues that continue of concurrent systems are addressed, in particular Mathematik-AGs der Sekundarstufe. Aufgaben mit to evolve as computing and information technologies system design and verification, analysis, synthesis, Musterlösungen helfen, das Gelesene zu vertiefen. proliferate. Students, practitioners, and professionals structure and behaviour of nets, net theory and re- who need to know about computer ethics, the legal lations, causality/partial order theory of concurren- Features aspects of computing, network security, computer cy, semantic Web, logical and algebraic calculi, sym- Guter Einblick in das aktuelle Forschungsgebiet Ideal crime investigation, and biometrics will find this an bolic net representation, tools for nets, experience re- geeignet als Grundlage für Proseminare und Math- invaluable resource that addresses the latest in [..] ports and case studies, educational issues, higher-lev- ematik-AGs der Sekundarstufe Aufgaben am Ende el net models, timed and stochastic nets, as well as eines jeden Kapitels Musterlösungen zu allen Auf- Features standardization of nets. gaben Wide-ranging survey of impact of new technologies on ethical and social issues, written specifically for Fields of interest Contents undergraduates Contains 3 new chapters: Computer Theory of Computation; Software Engineering; Dis- Einleitung.- Theorie der Kryptosysteme.- Angriff Network Crimes, Computer Crime Investigations, crete Mathematics in Computer Science; Computer und Verteidigung.- Geteilte Geheimnisse.- Täuschen and Biometrics Exercises at the ends of chapters In- Communication Networks; Processor Architectures; und Verbergen.- Von Betrügern und anderen unan- structor manual with solutions and teaching guides Operating Systems genehmen Zeitgenossen.- Von Graustufen und Far- Supplementary material on website ben.- Lösungen.- Materialien zum Buch.- Liter- Target groups aturverzeichnis.- Sachverzeichnis. Contents Researchers and professionals Introduction to Social and Ethical Computing.- Fields of interest Type of publication Morality and the Law.- Ethics, Technology and Val- Number Theory; Data Structures, Cryptology and Proceedings ue, Ethics and the Professions.- Anonymity, Securi- Information Theory; Mathematics, general ty, Privacy and Civil Liberties.- Intellectual Property Rights and Computer Technology.- Social Context of Due June 2007 Target groups Computing.- Software Issues: Risks and Liabilities.- Studierende der Mathematik und Informatik (BA Computer Crimes.- New Frontiers for Computer und Lehramt) Ethics: Artificial Intelligence, Cyberspace and Virtu- 2007. XI, 515 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4546) Softcover al Reality.- Cyberspace and Cyberethics.- Computer Type of publication Networks Crimes.- Computer Crime Investigations 68,48 € German textbook – Computer Forensics.- Biometrics.- Appendix A: ISBN 978-3-540-73093-4 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act.- [..] Due August 2007 Fields of interest Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); 2007. X, 167 S. 21 Abb. (Springer-Lehrbuch) Softcover Data Encryption; Computers and Society; User In- terfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Social 24,95 € Sciences; Philosophy of Technology ISBN 978-3-540-72361-5

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J. Kletti, MPDV Mikrolab GmbH, Mosbach, Germany (Ed.) R. Klima, Technische Universität Wien; S. Selberherr, Technische M. Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Universität Wien Saarbrücken, Germany; K. Hindriks, TU Delft, The Netherlands; M.P. Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; L. Sterling, Manufacturing Execution System - The University of Melbourne, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia (Eds.) MES Programmieren in C Cooperative Information Agents XI

C ist eine der bedeutendsten Programmiersprachen 11th International Workshop, CIA 2007, Delft, The Nether- The classical factory fades into history as production und wird heute sehr häufig eingesetzt. Die Au- lands, September 19-21, 2007, Proceedings plants today develop into modern service centers. toren haben jahrelange Erfahrung in der Program- Problems in management arise for which many com- mierung mit C, der Vermittlung von Program- panies are not yet prepared: economic efficiency of miersprachen und Programmiermethodik in das This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the modern added value is not a property of products Lehrbuch einfließen lassen. Der Leser soll nicht 11th International Workshop on Cooperative Infor- alone but of the process. Decisive potential in busi- von der Komplexität und den vielen Möglichkeiten mation Agents, CIA 2007, held in Delft, The Nether- ness now is a question of process capability, rather der Sprache C überfordert werden, sondern das lands, September 19-21, 2007. The 19 revised full pa- than production capability. Process capability in Wesentliche – die Programmiermethodik – ler- pers presented together with 4 invited papers were business requires real-time systems for optimization. nen. Was ist Programmieren? Wie werden pro- carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. Business-IT needs to be developed from telecom- grammtechnische Probleme gelöst? Wie begin- The papers are organized in topical sections on In- munications and ERP to real-time services, which nen? Diese Fragen werden ebenso behandelt wie die formation Search and Processing, Applications, Ra- are not offered by the prevailing ERP systems. To- Lösung komplexerer Aufgaben. Schrittweise wird die tional Cooperation, Interaction and Cooperation day, only modern Manufacturing Execution Systems Programmierung anhand der Sprache C erlernt und and Trust. (MES) offer real-time applications. They generate mit Beispielen und Aufgaben vertieft und wiederholt. current as well as historic mappings of production Der Sprachumfang von C wird vorgestellt und kri- Fields of interest facilities and thus they can be used as basis for opti- tisch betrachtet, um typische Fallen zu vermeiden. Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information mizations. It is important to map the supply chain Nach grundlegenden Betrachtungen und fundierter Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Data Mining in real time. Increasing complexity in production re- Behandlung der Sprache C befassen sich die letzten and Knowledge Discovery; Database Management; quires an integrated view of the production and ser- Kapitel mit Verfahren, Methoden und Problemen, Computer Communication Networks; User Inter- vice facilities: detailed scheduling, status [..] die in der Programmierung häufig anzutreffen sind. faces and Human Computer Interaction Für die Neuauflage [..] Features Target groups Today, process capability is the prerequisite for prof- Features Researchers and professionals it-yielding and customer-oriented companies How- Schwerpunkt auf Programmiermethodik Schrit- ever, this fundamental idea, that of certification stan- tweise Heranführung an komplexere Probleme Viele Type of publication dards as well, is not yet predominant in practice konstruktive Hinweise, Beispiele und Aufgaben Proceedings Shows how modern information technology (MES) Keine Vorkenntnisse von C oder anderen Program- becomes the prerequisite for process capability of the miersprachen vorausgesetzt Due September 2007 company on the basis of many practical examples Contents Contents Einführung.- Grafische Darstellungsmittel.- Die En- 2007. XI, 361 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4676) New avenues for the effective factory.- MES for pro- Softcover twicklungsumgebung.- Erste Schritte.- Variablen, cess capability.- Added value from software.- MES - Konstanten.- Numerische Datentypen.- Eingabe – the new class of IT applications.- Building an MES 55,64 € Ausgabe.- Ausdrücke.- Selektionen.- Iterationen.- system.-Integrated production management with ISBN 978-3-540-75118-2 Funktionen.- Speicherklassen.- Felder.- Zeiger.- Ze- MES.- Detailed planning and control with MES.- ichenketten.- Abgeleitete Datentypen.- Dateien.- Quality assurance with MES.- Personnel manage- Rekursive Funktionen.- Datenstrukturen.- Dynamis- ment with MES.- MES under SAP.- MES in plas- cher Speicher.- Numerik.- Fehlerbehandlung.- Ein tics processing.- Abbreviations.- Checklist.- The au- exemplarisches Software-Projekt.- Referenzen. thors.- Index. Fields of interest Fields of interest Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Software Engineering/Programming and Operat- Marketing; Computer Applications; Organiza- ing Systems; Programming Techniques; Data Struc- tion/Planning; Production/Logistics; Information tures; Numerical and Computational Methods in En- Systems; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk gineering; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instru- Target groups mentation Engineers in production and business organization Target groups Type of publication Studenten, Wissenschaftler, Techniker, Program- Professional book mierer Type of publication Due May 2007 Undergraduate textbook

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G. Knapp, Budapest University of Technology, Hungary; G. Wo- G. Knapp, Budapest University of Technology, Hungary; G. Wo- Z. Kobti, University of Windsor, ON, Canada; D. Wu, University of jtkowski, Boise State University, ID, USA; J. Zupancic, University of jtkowski, Boise State University, ID, USA; J. Zupancic, University of Windsor, ON, Canada (Eds.) Maribor, Kranj, Slovenia; S. Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland Maribor, Kranj, Slovenia; S. Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland (Eds.) (Eds.) Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Advances in Information Systems Advances in Information Systems 20th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2007, Montreal, Canada, Development Development May 28-30, 2007, Proceedings

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Canadian Society for Com- Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses putational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2007, rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the held in Montreal, Canada, in May 2007. The 46 re- professionals involved. New concepts, approaches professionals involved. New concepts, approaches vised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and techniques of systems development emerge con- and techniques of systems development emerge con- and selected from 260 submissions. The papers are stantly in this field. Progress in ISD comes from re- stantly in this field. Progress in ISD comes from re- organized in topical section on agents, bioinformat- search as well as from practice. The aim of the Con- search as well as from practice. The aim of the Con- ics, classification, constraint satisfaction, data min- ference is to provide an international forum for the ference is to provide an international forum for the ing, knowledge representation and reasoning, learn- exchange of ideas and experiences between academia exchange of ideas and experiences between academia ing, natural language, and planning. and industry, and to stimulate exploration of new so- and industry, and to stimulate exploration of new solutions. lutions. Fields of interest Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Features Features Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Target groups Information Systems Development Examines the ex- Information Systems Development Examines the ex- Researchers and professionals change of ideas between academia and industry Ex- change of ideas between academia and industry Ex- plores new solutions Meets challenges in Informa- plores new solutions Meets challenges in Informa- Type of publication tion Systems Development tion Systems Development Proceedings Contents Contents Documentation Practices in the Modern Organiza- Preserving Semantics.- Directing/enacting the IS.- Due May 2007 tion.- Enterprise Systems.- ISD Project in Practice.- Graph Theory in MDA.- Design for Database Con- ERP System through managerial processes.- BCG sistency.- Trust-related Requirements.- P2P Infor- 2007. XII, 552 p. Also available online (Lecture Notes in Computer Analysis/ERP System.- Enterprise Knowledge Base mation Sharing MAS.- Linguistic Conflicts.- Con- Science, Band 4509) Softcover Development.- Enterprise/IS Models.- Functional textual Method Integration.- Language Adaptation Decomposition with UML notation.- Data Analysis in IS Development.- Estimating Quality of Experi- 72,76 € System Design for Language Integration.- Database ence.- Socio-Technical Perspectives on Design Sci- ISBN 978-3-540-72664-7 Schema Intergration Approaches.- Customer Rela- ence.- Modeling Objects Dynamics.- Method Chunk tionship Management in Sports.- Knowledge Man- Repositories Classification.- Goal Models.- Cook- agement-oriented IS.- Upgradeable Web Services ie-Chain Based Relations.- Requirements Modeling Architecture.- Distributed Service Development in and MDA.- Industy-Academia Partnership.- Out- PANs.- SOA Paradigm with ERP Systems.- SOA- lining 'Data Track'.- E-Government and Paralingual MDK.- Internal [..] Design.- E-mail [..]

Fields of interest Fields of interest Information Systems and Communication Service; Information Systems and Communication Service; Database Management; Information Systems Appli- Database Management; Information Systems Appli- cations (incl.Internet) cations (incl.Internet)

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F. Koch, München K.-R. Koch, University of Bonn, Germany N. Kock, Texas A & M International University, Laredo, TX, USA (Ed.) IT-Projektrecht Introduction to Bayesian Statistics Information Systems Action Vertragliche Gestaltung und Steuerung von IT-Projekten, Best Practices, Haftung der Geschäftsleitung Research The Introduction to Bayesian Statistics (2nd edition) An Applied View of Emerging Concepts and Methods presents Bayes’ theorem, the estimation of unknown parameters, the determination of confidence regions IT-Projekte müssen durch Projektverträge auf and the derivation of tests of hypotheses for the un- allen Stufen gezielt gesteuert und kontrolliert wer- known parameters, in a manner that is simple, intu- Information Systems Action Research is organized den, um erfolgreich zu sein. Der Autor geht auf itive and easy to comprehend. The methods are ap- into three parts: (1) The first part focuses on the die Verantwortlichkeit des Managements für die plied to linear models, in models for a robust esti- methodological issues that arise when action re- Projektführung ein und erläutert die aktuellen Nor- mation, for prediction and filtering and in models search methods are conducted. (2) The second part mvorgaben für IT-Projekte aus ISO 20.000 und for estimating variance components and covariance provides examples of action research in practice. ITIL. Behandelt werden auch Outsourcing und ASP components. Regularization of inverse problems and (3) The third part will summarize the philosophical sowie IT-Security, gewissermaßen Dauerprojekte, pattern recognition are also covered while Bayesian foundations of action research and its application ebenso die Sanierung von Projekten und die An- networks serve for reaching decisions in systems as a methodology in Information Systems research wenderrechte bei Anbieterinsolvenz. Ausführliche with uncertainties. If analytical solutions cannot be and research programs. The book will include chap- Checklisten für CIOs und Geschäftsleitungen sollen derived, numerical algorithms are presented, such ters from Europe, Australasia, and the Americas rep- schließlich aus deren Blickwinkel die Projektkon- as the Monte Carlo integration and Markov Chain resenting different traditions and perspectives in ac- trolle erleichtern. In dieser Themenkombination Monte Carlo methods. tion research. These chapters will come from promi- gibt es am Buchmarkt gegenwärtig keine gleichartige nent scholars in the areas, who are widely recognized Darstellung. Features as authors of seminal ideas in action research. An easy to understand introduction to Bayesian Features statistics Compares traditional and Bayesian meth- Features Erfolgskontrolle auf jeder Projektstufe ITIL und ISO ods with the rules of probability presented in a logi- The book will be positioned well in the Informa- 20.000 im IT-Projektrecht IT-Projektrecht und Haf- cal way allowing an intuitive understanding of ran- tion Systems/Information Technology market. The tung der Geschäftsleitung dom variables and their probability distributions to largest consumers of IS research are businesses and Contents be formed organization that employ information technology Vertragsgestaltung für IT-Projekte – zentrale and systems to support many of their business/orga- Contents Regelungspunkte im Überblick.- Steuerung nizational functions including finance, marketing, 1 Introduction.- 2 Probability.- 3 Parameter Estima- von IT-Projekten durch Vertrag.- Stufen der order-taking, production, supply chain management, tion, Confidence Regions and Hypothesis Testing.- 4 Durchführung von IT-Projekten.- Rechte der human resources, and other services Current IS re- Linear Model.- 5 Special Models and Applications.- 6 Software-Anwender in der Insolvenz des Anbi- search is [..] Numerical Methods.- References.- Index. eters.- IT-Sicherheitsmanagement als Projekt.- Contents Leistungsstörung im Projekt.- Vertraglicher Rah- Fields of interest Contributing authors.- Foreword.- Preface.- men für typische IT-Projekte.- Rechtliche Ve- Geophysics/Geodesy; Statistics for Engineering, Methodological issues.- Action research: its nature rantwortlichkeit der Geschäftsleitung für die Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry & Geo- and validity.- The structure of power in action re- Projektdurchführung.- ITIL-Best Pracitices und ISO- sciences; Geoinformation/Cartography; Image Pro- search projects.- Action is an artifact: what action re- Normen als Prüfmaßstab.- Prüfübersichten.- Stich- cessing and Computer Vision search and design science offer to each other.- Ac- wortverzeichnis.- Literatur. tion research and design in information systems: two Target groups Fields of interest faces of a single coin.- The three threats of organiza- Students and practitioners applying Bayes statistics tional action research: their nature and related anti- Commercial Law; Computer Hardware; Software to geophysical and geodetic problems Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; dotes.- Driven by two masters, serving both: the in- Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and De- terplay of problem solving and research in informa- Type of publication tion systems action research projects.- IS action re- sign; Information Systems; Information Systems Ap- Monograph plications (incl.Internet) search in practice.- Story [..]

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J.N. Kok, Leiden University, Netherlands; J. Koronacki, Polish J.N. Kok, Leiden University, The Netherlands; J. Koronacki, Polish B. Kokinov, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria; D.C. Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; R. Lopez de Mantaras, Academy of Sciences, Warsaw; R. Lopez de Mantaras, Spanish Richardson, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA; Th.R. CCIC, IIIA, Bellaterra, Spain; S. Matwin, D. Mladenic, Jozef Stefan National Research Council (CSIC), Bellaterra; S. Matwin, University Roth-Berghofer, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany; L. Vieu, Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia; A. Skowron, Warsaw University, of Ottawa, ON, Canada; D. Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubl- CNRS,Toulouse, France and ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy (Eds.) Poland (Eds.) jana, Slovenia; A. Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland (Eds.) Modeling and Using Context Machine Learning: ECML 2007 Knowledge Discovery in Databases: 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 18th European Conference on Machine Learning, Warsaw, PKDD 2007 2007, Roskilde, Denmark, August 20-24, 2007, Proceedings Poland, September 17-21, 2007, Proceedings 11th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Warsaw, Poland, Septem- ber 17-21, 2007, Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference the 18th European Conference on Machine Learn- on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2007, ing, ECML 2007, held in Warsaw, Poland, September This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the held in Roskilde, Denmark in August 2007. The 42 17-21, 2007, jointly with PKDD 2007. The 41 revised 11th European Conference on Principles and Prac- revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed full papers and 37 revised short papers presented to- tice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, PKDD and selected from a total of 121 submissions. The pa- gether with abstracts of 4 invited talks were careful- 2007, held in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2007, pers deal with the interdisciplinary topic of modeling ly reviewed and selected from 592 abstracts submit- co-located with ECML 2007, the 18th European and using context from various points of view, rang- ted to both, ECML and PKDD. The papers present a Conference on Machine Learning. The 28 revised ing from computer science, especially artificial intel- wealth of new results in the area and address all cur- full papers and 35 revised short papers presented to- ligence and ubiquitous computing, through cogni- rent issues in machine learning. gether with abstracts of 4 invited talks were careful- tive science, linguistics, organizational sciences, phi- ly reviewed and selected from 592 papers submitted losophy, and psychology to application areas such as Fields of interest to both, ECML and PKDD. The papers present orig- medicine and law. Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Algorithm inal results on leading-edge subjects of knowledge Analysis and Problem Complexity; Mathematical discovery from conventional and complex data and Fields of interest Logic and Formal Languages; Database Management address all current issues in the area. Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Computer Appl. in So- Target groups Fields of interest cial and Behavioral Sciences; Computer Appl. in Arts Researchers and professionals Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Database and Humanities Management; Information Storage and Retrieval; Type of publication Target groups Proceedings Probability and Statistics in Computer Science; Doc- ument Preparation and Text Processing; Mathemati- Researchers and professionals cal Logic and Formal Languages Due September 2007 Type of publication Target groups Proceedings 2007. XXIV, 809 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band Researchers and professionals 4701) Softcover Due August 2007 Type of publication 93,09 € Proceedings 2007. XIV, 574 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- ISBN 978-3-540-74957-8 er Science, Band 4635) Softcover Due August 2007 72,76 € ISBN 978-3-540-74254-8 2007. XXIV, 640 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4702) Softcover

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B. Konev, University of Liverpool, UK; F. Wolter, University of Liv- R. Koop, Sogeti Nederlands BV, Diemen, The Netherlands; E. A. Koschan, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA; M. erpool, UK (Eds.) Muris, Sogeti Nederlands BV, Diemen, The Netherlands Pollefeys, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA; M. Abidi, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA (Eds.) Frontiers of Combining Systems Successfully Implementing 3D Imaging for Safety and Security 6th International Symposium, FroCoS 2007, Liverpool, UK, Microsoft Dynamics™ September 10-12, 2007. Proceedings By Using the Regatta® Approach for Microsoft Dynamics™ The past decades have seen significant improvements in 3D imaging where the related techniques This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Does the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics™ and technologies have advanced to a mature state. 6th International Symposium on Frontiers of Com- contribute to the goals of your company? Does your These exciting developments have sparked increas- bining Systems, FroCoS 2007, held in Liverpool, UK, company itself have the capacity to build a bridge ing interest in industry and academia in the chal- September 10-12, 2007. The 14 revised full papers between the Business and IT? Can your employees lenges and opportunities afforded by 3D sensing. presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The adopt a flexible attitude on all the related changes ? As a consequence, the emerging area of safety and papers are organized in topical sections on combi- And, probably even more important, is that what security related imaging incorporates these impor- nations of logics, theories, and decision procedures; they are also willing to do? If you are striving for a tant new technologies beyond the limitations of 2D constraint solving and programming; combination full-hearted yes to these questions, this is the book image processing. This is the first book that covers issues in rewriting and programming as well as in for you. Regatta Dynamics, our methodology for the the current state of the art in 3D imaging for safety logical frameworks and theorem proving systems. structured implementation of Microsoft Dynam- and security. Topics addressed in this book include Fields of interest ics™, is based on our firm belief that when you im- 3D imaging related to biometrics, face recognition, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical plement Microsoft Dynamics™ there must be a bal- surveillance, safety inspection and robotic planning Logic and Formal Languages; Programming Tech- ance between the Business and IT. The consistency for physical security analysis and public safety. 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Human Ear De- Cluster.- Appendix, Glossary, References. tection from 3D Side Face Range Images.- Part II: Safety and Security Applications. Synthetic Aper- Fields of interest ture Focusing Using Dense Camera Arrays. Dynam- Management of Computing and Information Sys- ic Pushbroom Stereo Vision for Surveillance and In- tems; Information Systems; Information Systems spection. 3D Modeling of Indoor Environments for Applications (incl.Internet); Technology Manage- a Robotic [..] ment; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Pro- cessing Fields of interest Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Target groups Graphics; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Professional software developers, consultants, Computer Graphics; Pattern Recognition; Math Ap- project managers plications in Computer Science

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R. Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia; P.R. Krish- Y. Koucheryavy, J. Harju, A. Sayenko (Eds.) T. Kovacs, University of Bristol, UK; X. Llorà, University of Illinois na, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technol- at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA; K. Takadama, Tokyo Institute ogy, Hyderabad, India; M. Mohania, IBM India Research Laborato- of Technology, Japan; P.L. Lanzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; W. ry, New Delhi, India; E. Nantajeewarawat, Thammasat University, Next Generation Teletraffic Stolzmann, Daimler Chrysler AG, Sindelfingen, Germany; S.W. Pathum Thani, Thailand (Eds.) and Wired/Wireless Advanced Wilson, Prediction Dynamics, Concord, MA, USA (Eds.) Advances in Databases: Concepts, Networking Learning Classifier Systems Systems and Applications 7th International Conference, NEW2AN 2007, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings International Workshops, IWLCS 2003-2005, Revised Selected Papers 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Ad- vanced Applications, DASFAA 2007, Bangkok, Thailand, April 9-12, 2007 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint 7th International Conference on Next Generation post-proceedings of 3 consecutive International Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Network- Workshops on Learning Classifier Systems that took This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ing, NEW2AN 2007, held in St. Petersburg, Russia place in Chicago, IL, USA in July 2003, in Seattle, the 12th International Conference on Database Sys- in September 10-14, 2007. The 39 revised full papers WA, USA in June 2004, and in Washington, DC, tems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2007, presented were carefully reviewed and selected from USA in June 2005 - all hosted by the Genetic and held in Bangkok, Thailand in April 2007. The 68 re- a total of 113 submissions. The papers are organized Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO. vised full papers and 24 revised short papers pre- in topical sections on teletraffic, traffic characteri- The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully sented together with 2 invited talks, 13 poster pa- zation and modeling, 3G/UMTS, sensor networks, reviewed and selected from the workshop contribu- pers as well as 6 industrial and demonstration pa- WLAN, QoS, MANETs, lower layer techniques, PAN tions. The papers are organized in topical sections pers were carefully reviewed and selected from 375 technologies, and TCP. submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- on knowledge representation, mechanisms, new ditions on query language and query optimization, da- Fields of interest rections, as well as application-oriented research and ta mining and knowledge discovery, clustering, out- Computer Communication Networks; System Per- tools. The topics range from theoretical analysis of lier detection, privacy preserving data mining, paral- formance and Evaluation; Information Systems Ap- mechanisms to practical consideration for successful lel and distributed databases, data warehouse, infor- plications (incl.Internet); Software Engineering; application of such techniques to everday datamin- mation retrieval, indexing and caching databases, se- Communications Engineering, Networks ing tasks. curity and integrity maintenance, image and ontol- Fields of interest ogy-based databases, sensor and scientific database Target groups Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computation applications, mobile databases, temporal and spa- Researchers and professionals by Abstract Devices; Mathematical Logic and Formal tial databases, data streams, P2P and grid-based data Languages; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery management, XML databases, XML indexing, XML Type of publication Proceedings query processing, data warehouse and data mining, Target groups query [..] Researchers and professionals Due August 2007 Fields of interest Type of publication Database Management; Data Mining and Knowledge 2007. XV, 482 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4712) Proceedings Discovery; Information Storage and Retrieval; Infor- Softcover mation Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Multi- Due March 2007 media Information Systems; User Interfaces and Hu- 64,20 € man Computer Interaction ISBN 978-3-540-74832-8 2007. XII, 345 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Target groups er Science, Band 4399) Softcover Researchers and professionals 55,64 € Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-71230-5 Proceedings

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S. Krishnamurthi, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; M. Oder- J. Krogstie, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway; A.L. Opdahl, Universi- J. Krogstie, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway; A.L. Opdahl, University of sky, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland (Eds.) ty of Bergen, Norway; S. Brinkkemper, Universiteit Utrecht, The Bergen, Norway; G. Sindre, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway (Eds.) Netherlands (Eds.) Compiler Construction Advanced Information Systems Conceptual Modelling in 16th International Conference, CC 2007, Held as Part of the Engineering Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Soft- Information Systems Engineering ware, ETAPS 2007, Braga, Portugal, March 26-30, 2007, Pro- 19th International Conference, CAiSE 2007, Trondheim, Nor- ceedings way, June 11-15, 2007, Proceedings Conceptual modeling has always been one of the cornerstones for information systems engineering as This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of it describes the general knowledge of the system in 19th International Conference on Advanced Infor- the 16th International Conference on Compiler the so-called conceptual schema. Krogstie, Opdahl mation Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2007, held in Construction, CC 2007, held in Braga, Portugal, in and Brinkkemper compiled 20 contributions from Trondheim, Norway in June 2007. The 39 revised March 2007 as part of ETAPS 2007, the European renowned researchers covering all aspects of con- full papers presented together with 1 keynote talk Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Soft- ceptual modeling on the occasion of Arne Sølvberg’s were carefully reviewed and selected from 301 sub- ware. The 15 revised full papers presented were care- 67th birthday. Many friends of this information sys- missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- fully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The tems modeling pioneer happily contributed their lat- tions on ontologies, extended enterprises, infor- papers are organized in topical sections on architec- est research results from fields like data modeling, mation integration, service-oriented architecture, ture, garbage collection and program analysis, regis- goal-oriented modeling, agent-oriented modeling, strategic alignment, requirements, process modeling, ter allocation, and program analysis. and process-oriented modeling. Overall, the contri- method engineering, novel applications, participative butions reflect the most important developments and modeling, and process-aware information systems. Fields of interest application areas of conceptual modeling in recent Logics and Meanings of Programs; Mathematical years, and they also pinpoint trends in conceptual Fields of interest Logic and Formal Languages; Software Engineering; modeling for the next decade. This wide selection Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Database Management; Information Systems Appli- corresponds to the broad spectrum of Arne’s activ- cations (incl.Internet); User Interfaces and Human ities and long-term responsibilities with the VLDB Target groups Computer Interaction; Data Mining and Knowledge Endowment, IFIP, and ERCIM. Arne was presented Researchers and professionals Discovery; Computers and Society; Information Sys- with this book at CAiSE 2007, when the event which tems Type of publication he [..] Proceedings Target groups Contents Researchers and professionals From the contents 1) From Information Algebra to Due March 2007 Enterprise Modelling and Ontologies – a Historical Type of publication Perspective on Modelling for Information Systems Proceedings 2007. XIV, 233 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- (Janis A. Bubenko jr.) - 2) Fact Oriented Modeling: er Science, Band 4420) Softcover Past, Present and Future (Terry Halpin) - 3) Data In- Due May 2007 tegration - Problems, Approaches, and Perspectives 44,94 € (Patrick Ziegler, Klaus R. Dittrich) - 4) Challenges ISBN 978-3-540-71228-2 to Conceptual Modeling (Bernhard Thalheim) - 5) 2007. XVI, 606 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Interoperable Management of Conceptual Models er Science, Band 4495) Softcover (Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre) - 6) Uniform 77,04 € and Flexible Data Management in Workflow Man- ISBN 978-3-540-72987-7 agement Systems (Johann Eder, Marek Lehmann) - 7) [..]

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W.G. Kropatsch, TU Wien, Austria; M. Kampel, TU Wien, Austria; A. C. Kruegel, Technical University of Vienna, Austria; R. Lipp- J. Krumm, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA; G.D. Abowd, Hanbury, TU Wien, Austria (Eds.) mann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA; A. Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA; A. Senevi- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia ratne, National ICT of Australia (NICTA), Eveleigh, Australia; Th. (Eds.) Strang, University of Innsbruck, Austria (Eds.) Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns Recent Advances in Intrusion UbiComp 2007: Ubiquitous 12th International Conference, CAIP 2007, Vienna, Austria, Detection Computing August 27-29, 2007, Proceedings 10th International Symposium, RAID 2007, Gold Coast, Aus- 9th International Conference, UbiComp 2007, Innsbruck, Aus- tralia, September 5-7, 2007, Proceedings tria, September 16-19, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Analy- sis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2007, held in Vien- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the na, Austria, in August 2007. The 120 revised full pa- 10th International Symposium on Recent Advances 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Com- pers presented together with 3 invited lectures were in Intrusion Detection, RAID 2007, held in Gold puting, UbiComp 2007, held in Innsbruck, Austria, carefully reviewed and selected from 251 submis- Coast, Australia in September 2007. The 17 revised in September 2007. The 29 revised full papers pre- sions. The papers are organized in topical sections full papers presented were carefully reviewed and se- sented were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 on motion detection and tracking, medical imaging, lected from 101 submissions. The papers are orga- submissions. The papers address all current issues in biometrics, colour, curves and surfaces beyond two nized in topical sections on anomaly detection, at- the area of ubiquitous, pervasive and handheld com- dimensions, reading characters, words, lines etc., tacks, system evaluation and threat assessment, mal- puting systems and their applications including top- image segmentation, shape, im age registration and ware collection and analysis, anomaly- and specifica- ics like: tools and techniques for designing, imple- matching, signal decomposition and invariants, as tion-based detection, and network intrusion detec- menting, and evaluating ubiquitous computing sys- well as features and classification. tion. tems, mobile, wireless, and ad hoc networking infrastructures for ubiquitous computing, laboratory and Fields of interest Fields of interest in situ studies of ubiquitous computing technologies Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Com- Management of Computing and Information Sys- in use, location-aware and context-based systems for puter Vision; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); tems; Computers and Society; Data Encryption; ubiquitous computing, privacy, security, and trust in Computer Graphics; Algorithm Analysis and Prob- Computer Communication Networks; Operating ubiquitous and pervasive systems. lem Complexity Systems Fields of interest Target groups Target groups Computer Communication Networks; Software En- Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals gineering; Systems and Data Security; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); User Interfaces Type of publication Type of publication and Human Computer Interaction; Computers and Proceedings Proceedings Society

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Following the classical sampling theory, the survey Quality in Software, Interaction and Value 7th International Workshop, WISA 2006, Jeju Island, Korea, statistician selects samples of people, businesses or August 28-30, 2006, Revised Selected Papers others, in order to obtain the desired information. Drawing the samples is usually done by randomly se- "Maturing Usability" provides an understanding of lecting from a list representing the target population. how current research and practice has contributed This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the In practice, this list is often not available. At best, the towards improving quality issues in software, inter- 7th International Workshop on Information Security statistician only has access to a different list, indi- action and value. Divided into three parts, ‘Quality in Applications, WISA 2006, held in Jeju Island, Korea rectly related to the targeted population. The exam- Software’ looks at how using development tools can in August 2006. The 30 revised full papers presented ple of a survey of children where the statistician on- enhance the usability of a system, and how methods were carefully selected during two rounds of review- ly has a list of adult persons is a typical case. In this and models can be integrated into the process to help ing and improvement from 146 submissions. The pa- case, the statistician first draws a sample of adults, develop effective user interfaces. ‘Quality in Interac- pers are organized in topical sections on public key and for each selected adult, the statistician then iden- tion’ addresses theoretical frameworks on the nature crypto applications and virus protection, cyber in- tifies his/her children. The survey is done from the of interactions; techniques and metrics for evaluation dication and intrusion detection, biometrics and se- latter. This is what is called indirect sampling. When interaction quality; and the transfer of concepts and curity trust management, secure software and sys- indirect sampling is used jointly with the sampling methods from research to practice. Finally, ‘Quality tems, smart cards and secure hardware, mobile secu- of clusters of persons (families, for example), many in Value’ assesses the impact that a system has in the rity, DRM, information hiding, ubiquitous comput- complications arise for the survey statistician. One of real world, focusing on increasing the value of using security, P2P security, pre-authentication for fast the complications relates to the computation of the ability practice for software development and on in- handoff in wireless mesh networks including mobile estimates from the survey. The production [..] creasing value for users. A balance between theoreti- APs. cal and empirical approaches is maintained through- Features out, and all those interested in exploring usability is- Fields of interest Parameters are estimated by not sampling the target sues in human-computer interaction will find this a Data Encryption; Systems and Data Security; Algo- population, but another population that is linked to very useful book. rithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Comput- the target one The proposed approach offers elegant er Communication Networks; Management of Com- and practical solutions Features puting and Information Systems; Special Purpose Three major perspectives of evaluating quality are and Application-Based Systems Contents addressed, quality in software, quality in interaction Introduction.- Description and use of the GWSM.- and quality in value Includes chapters on new meth- Target groups Literature review.- Properties.- Other generalisa- ods/approaches that will enhance the field of usabil- Researchers and professionals tions.- Application to longitudinal surveys.- GWSM ity and calibration.- Non-response.- GWSM and record Type of publication linkage.- Conclusion. Contents Proceedings From the contents Part 1: Tailoring Usability into Fields of interest Agile Software Development Projects (Scott Am- Due March 2007 Statistics for Social Science, Education, Public Policy, bler).- Part 2: Utility and Experience in the Evolution and Law; Statistical Theory and Methods; Population of Usability (Gitte Lindgaard and Avi Parush).- Part Economics; Quality of Life Research; Demography; 2007. XIV, 406 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- 3: The Future of Usability Evaluation: Increasing Im- Methodology of the Social Sciences er Science, Band 4298) Softcover pact on Value ( Stephanie Rosenbaum).- Conclusion: 59,92 € Target groups A Green Paper on Usability Maturation (Effie Law, ISBN 978-3-540-71092-9 Statisticians Ebba Hvannberg and Gilbert Cockton).

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R.S.T. Lee, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; S.-W. Lee, Korea University, Seoul; S.Z. Li, Chinese Academy of W.-M. Lee, Developer Learning Solutions, Singapore V. Loia, Università di Salerno, Italy (Eds.) Sciences, Beijing (Eds.) Practical .NET 2.0 Networking Computational Intelligence for Advances in Biometrics Projects Agent-based Systems International Conference, ICB 2007, Seoul, Korea, August 27-29, 2007, Proceedings In recent years there has been a huge growth in The scope of this volume is to give to the reader a mobile communication. Most laptops now come wide scenario of recent works characterized by a syn- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the equipped with wireless networking and Bluetooth ergistic combination of Soft Computing area with re- International Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2007, as standard and ever increasing numbers of people cent trends of Distributed Artificial Intelligence and held in Seoul, Korea, August 27-29, 2007. The 34 re- are spending more and more time connected to net- Ambient Intelligence. The editors present two basic vised full papers presented were carefully reviewed works (be they at home, in the office, or in their fa- motivations: the emergence of computational intel- and selected from 303 submissions. Biometric cri- vorite coffee shop). These networks are, themselves, ligence as a mature and integrated science, and the teria covered by the papers are assigned to face, fin- growing and becoming more ubiquitous. Today, the power of the agent paradigm in realizing complex gerprint, iris, speech and signature, biometric fusion network is as much a part of your computer system and distributed environments. This book explores and performance evaluation, gait, keystrokes, and as your monitor and keyboard. This book addresses these emerging areas inviting well-known authors others. In addition the results of the Face Authenti- the market demand of novice .NET programmers to whose expertise is widely recognized. cation Competition (FAC 2006) are also announced learn about, and build, networked applications – a in this volume. subject very often omitted from traditional comput- Contents er programming books and only dealt with at a high A Proposal of an Open Ubiquitous Fuzzy Comput- Fields of interest level inaccessible to the majority of the market. This ing System for Ambient Intelligence.- Agent-Con- Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Com- book rectifies that trend by bringing cutting-edge trolled Sharing of Distributed Resources in User Net- puter Vision; Computers and Society; Management technologies such as GPS communication, Bluetooth works.- Adding Intelligence to Ubiquitous Comput- of Computing and Information Systems; Computer and Radio Frequency ID (RFID) within reach of the ing Environments.- iJADE FreeWalker – An Intel- Appl. in Administrative Data Processing mass-market. The .NET 2.0 Framework and .NET ligent Ontology Agent-based Tourist Guiding Sys- 2.0 Compact Framework provide a number of APIs Target groups tem.- iJADE InfoSeeker: On Using Intelligent Con- for communicating [..] text-Aware Agents for Retrieving and Analyzing Chi- Researchers and professionals nese Web Articles.- A Third-Generation Telecare Features Type of publication System using Fuzzy Ambient Intelligence.- Interact- Network communication is one of the fastest grow- Proceedings ing Agents in a Network for in silico Modeling of ing technology areas in today’s industry The book is Nature- Inspired Smart Systems.- DigitalBeing: An aimed at beginners, in the mass-market. A neglected Ambient [..] Due August 2007 area where a great deal of interest lies Covers all major networking technologies from GPS to RFID and Fields of interest 2007. XX, 1216 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- from port-communication to sockets Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- puter Science, Band 4642) Softcover neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Contents 118,77 € Introduction to .NET 2.0 Network Programming.- Target groups ISBN 978-3-540-74548-8 Sockets Programming.- Serial Communications.- Engineers, researchers; graduate students in compu- Bluetooth Communications.- Infrared Communica- tational intelligence and computer sciences tions.- RFID.

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Embedded Software and Systems Workshops: CoreGRID 2006, UNICORE Summit 2006, Petas- cale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Dresden, Ger- In recent years meshless/meshfree methods have Third International Conference, ICESS 2007, Daegu, Korea, many, August 29-September 1, 2006, Revised Selected Papers gained a considerable attention in engineering and May 14-16, 2007, Proceedings applied mathematics. The variety of problems that are now being addressed by these techniques contin- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint ues to expand and the quality of the results obtained This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the post-proceedings of the three International Work- demonstrates the effectiveness of many of the meth- Third International Conference on on Embedded shops on Grid Middleware, CoreGrid 2006, the UNI- ods currently available. The book presents a signif- Software and Systems, ICESS 2007, held in Daegu, CORE Summit 2006, and the Workshop on Petas- icant sample of the state of the art in the field with Korea in May 2007. The 75 revised full papers pre- cale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, held methods that have reached a certain level of maturi- sented were carefully reviewed and selected from in Dresden, Germany, in August/September 2006, ty while also addressing many open issues. The book 346 submissions. The papers are organized in top- in conjunction with Euro-Par 2006, the 12th Inter- collects extended original contributions present- ical sections on embedded architecture, embedded national Conference on Parallel Computing. The ed at the first ECCOMAS Conference on Meshless hardware, embedded software, HW-SW co-design 29 revised full papers presented were carefully re- Methods held in 2005 in Lisbon. The list of contribu- and SoC, multimedia and HCI, pervasive/ubiquitous viewed and selected from a total of 50 submissions. tors reveals a mix of highly distinguished authors as computing and sensor network, power-aware com- The 16 papers presented at the CoreGRID Work- well as quite young but very active and promising re- puting, real-time systems, security and dependabili- shop on Grid Middleware focused on knowledge and searchers, thus giving the reader an interesting and ty, and wireless communication. data management on grids, grid resource manage- updated view of different mesh reduction methods ment and scheduling, as well as grid information, re- and its range of applications. The material presented Fields of interest source and workflow monitoring services. The 8 pais appropriate for researchers, engineers, physicists, Computer Communication Networks; Software En- pers presented at the UNICORE Summit 2006 show applied mathematicians and graduate [..] gineering; Operating Systems; Special Purpose and current developments and implementations of the Application-Based Systems; Processor Architectures; UNICORE middleware system, which today is used Features System Performance and Evaluation in daily production worldwide. Beyond this produc- Collects state-of-the-art research on the subject of tion usage, the UNICORE technology serves as a sol- mesh reduction techniques Valuable reference for Target groups id basis in many European and International [..] researchers interested in the field of mesh reduction Researchers and professionals techniques Aims at promoting the application of Fields of interest mesh reduction techniques to a wide variety of en- Type of publication Computer Systems Organization and Communica- gineering and science problems Covers a variety of Proceedings tion Networks; Software Engineering/Programming mesh reduction techniques -- one of the most active and Operating Systems; Theory of Computation; research areas in computational mechanics Due May 2007 Numeric Computing; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Fields of interest Structural Mechanics; Computational Math- 2007. XIX, 829 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Band 4523) Softcover Target groups ematics and Numerical Analysis; Algorithms; Researchers and professionals Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- 93,09 € neering; Numerical and Computational Methods in ISBN 978-3-540-72684-5 Type of publication Engineering Proceedings Target groups Due May 2007 Researchers in the field of meshless methods, engineers in general, applied mathematicians, physicists, and those active in computational mechanics 2007. XV, 332 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Band 4375) Softcover Type of publication Proceedings 51,36 € ISBN 978-3-540-72226-7 Due April 2007

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D. Leivant, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA; R. de R.d. Lemos, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK; C. Gacek, Newcas- K. Li, Dalian Maritime University, China; C. Jesshope, University Queiroz, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil (Eds.) tle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; A. Romanovsky, New- of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; H. Jin, Huazhong University of castle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Eds.) Science and Technology, Wuhan, China; J.-L. Gaudiot, University of California, CA, USA (Eds.) Logic, Language, Information and Computation Architecting Dependable Systems IV Network and Parallel Computing 14th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2007, Rio de Janeiro, IFIP International Conference, NPC 2007, Dalian, China, Brazil, July 2-5, 2007, Proceedings September 18-21, 2007, Proceedings As software systems become ubiquitous, the issues of dependability become more and more crucial. Giv- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the en that solutions to these issues must be considered This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Logic, Language, from the very beginning of the design process, it is IFIP International Conference on Network and Par- Information and Computation, WoLLIC 2007, held reasonable that dependability is addressed at the ar- allel Computing, NPC 2007, held in Dalian, China in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in July 2007. The 21 revised chitectural level. This book was born of an effort to in September 2007. The 53 revised full papers pre- full papers presented together with 5 invited papers bring together the research communities of software sented were carefully selected from over 600 submis- were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 sub- architectures and dependability. This state-of-the-art sions. The papers are organized in topical sections missions. The papers focus on foundations of com- survey contains 18 expanded and peer-reviewed pa- on network applications: cluster and grid computing, puting and programming, novel computation mod- pers based on the carefully selected contributions to internet computing, optical networks, peer-to-peer els and paradigms, broad notions of proof and belief, the Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems computing, ubiquitous computing, wireless comput- formal methods in software and hardware develop- (WADS 2006), organized at the 2006 International ing; network technologies: communication technol- ment; logical approach to natural language and rea- Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks ogy, network algorithms, network reliability, securi- soning; logics of programs, actions and resources; (DSN 2006), held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, in June ty, and dependability, network storage; network and foundational aspects of information organization, 2006. It also contains a number of invited papers parallel architectures: multicore design issues, net- search, flow, sharing, and protection. written by recognized experts in the area. The papers work and interconnect architecture, nontraditional processor technologies, performance modeling and Fields of interest are organized in topical sections on architectural de- evaluation, system design issues for low power and Theory of Computation; Algorithm Analysis and scription languages, architectural components and energy efficiency; as well as parallel and distributed Problem Complexity; Mathematical Logic and For- patterns, architecting distributed systems, and archi- software: data mining, parallel programming tools, mal Languages; Mathematics of Computing; Com- tectural assurances for dependability. models, languages and compilers. puting Methodologies; Algorithms Fields of interest Fields of interest Target groups Software Engineering; Operating Systems Computer Communication Networks; Algorithm Researches and professionals Target groups Analysis and Problem Complexity; Software En- Type of publication Researchers and professionals gineering; Information Systems Applications Proceedings (incl.Internet); Multimedia Information Systems; Type of publication Operating Systems Proceedings Due June 2007 Target groups Due August 2007 Researchers and professionals 2007. X, 363 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4576) Softcover Type of publication 2007. XIV, 435 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Proceedings 55,64 € er Science, Band 4615) Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-73443-7 62,06 € Due September 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-74033-9 2007. XVIII, 558 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4672) Softcover

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K. Li, Queen’s University Belfast, UK; M. Fei, Shanghai University, China; G.W. Irwin, Queen’s University Belfast, UK; S. Ma, Shanghai University, China (Eds.)

Life System Modeling and Simulation

International Conference on Life System Modeling, and Simu- lation, LSMS 2007, Shanghai, China, September 14-17, 2007. Proceedings

The two volumes LNCS 4688 and LNBI 4689 constitute the refereed proceedings of the Internation- al Conference on Life System Modeling and Sim- ulation, LSMS 2007, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2007. The 147 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 1383 submissions. The 63 papers of LNCS 4689 are organized in topical sections on modeling and simulation of societies and collective behavior, computational methods and intelligence in biomechanical systems, tissue engineering and clinical bioengineering, computational intelligence in bioinformatics and biometrics, brain stimulation, neural dynamics and neural interfacing, biological and biomedical data integration, mining and visualization, computational methods and intelligence in organism modeling and biochemical networks and regulation, computational methods and intelligence in modeling of molecular, cellular , multi-cellular behavior and design of synthetic biological systems, and others.

Fields of interest Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- putation by Abstract Devices; Data Structures; Database Management; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computational Biology/Bioinformatics

Target groups Researchers and professionals

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K. Li, Queen’s University Belfast, UK; M. Fei, Shanghai University, W.D. Li, Coventry University, UK; S.K. Ong, National University of B. Liblit, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA China; G.W. Irwin, Queen’s University Belfast, UK; S. Ma, Shanghai Singapore, Singapore; A.Y.C. Nee, National University of Singa- University, China (Eds.) pore, Singapore; C. McMahon, University of Bath, UK (Eds.) Cooperative Bug Isolation

Bio-Inspired Computational Collaborative Product Design and Winning Thesis of the 2005 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Compe- Intelligence and Applications Manufacturing Methodologies and tition

International Conference on Life System Modeling, and Simu- Applications lation, LSMS 2007, Shanghai, China, September 14-17, 2007. This monograph constitutes a thoroughly revised Proceedings and extended version of the author's PhD thesis, There have been major innovations and paradigm which was selected as the winning thesis of the 2005 shifts in product design methodologies and systems. ACM Doctoral Dissertation Competition. Ben Li- The two volumes LNCS 4688 and LNBI 4689 con- The current R and D trend is for collaborative de- blit did his PhD work at the University of Califor- stitute the refereed proceedings of the Internation- sign and manufacturing methodologies and systems. nia, Berkeley, with Alexander Aiken as thesis advis- al Conference on Life System Modeling and Sim- These allow designers to participate in global design er. This monograph reconsiders two common as- ulation, LSMS 2007, held in Shanghai, China, in chains and collaborate with each other and overseas sumptions about how we should analyze software September 2007. The 147 revised full papers were partners to pursue competitive advantages. Design- and arrives at some striking new results. This new carefully reviewed and selected from 1383 submis- ers can work closely with suppliers, manufacturing approach makes use of some of the tools that biolo- sions. The 84 papers of LNCS 4688 are organized in partners and customers across enterprise firewalls to gists and economists use to understand their compli- topical sections on advanced neural network theory, obtain valuable input. This book introduces a spec- cated systems by considering programs as statistical algorithms and application, advanced evolutionary trum of collaborative engineering issues in design processes and using statistical techniques to under- computing theory, algorithms and application, ant and manufacturing. It contains state-of-the-art chap- stand software. The centerpiece of the monograph is colonies and particle swarm optimization and appli- ters written by experts from academia and industry an algorithm for isolating multiple bugs from sparse- cation, fuzzy, neural, fuzzy-neuro hybrids and appli- and reflects the R and D work and applications of the ly sampled data taken from many thousands of pro- cation, intelligent modeling, monitoring, and control last 3-5 years. A reference for academics, senior un- gram executions. This algorithm has unique proper- of complex nonlinear systems, as well as biomedical dergraduates, graduates and practitioners in collab- ties that complement other program analysis tech- signal processing, imaging and visualization. orative design and manufacturing, concurrent engi- niques; in particular, it is potentially able to find the neering, Internet-based/intelligent design and man- root cause of any program failure without first re- Fields of interest ufacturing, CAD/PDM/CAPP/CAM, Internet appli- quiring an [..] Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- cations, product lifecycle management, supply chain, putation by Abstract Devices; Data Structures; etc. Fields of interest Database Management; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Pro- Robotics); Computational Biology/Bioinformatics Features grams; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity Introduction to a wide spectrum of collaborative en- Target groups gineering issues in design and manufacturing Writ- Target groups Researchers and professionals ten by international experts from academia and in- Researchers and professionals dustry, it reflects the most up-to-date R and D work Type of publication Type of publication and applications Proceedings Monograph Contents Due August 2007 An Adaptable Service-based Framework for Dis- Due April 2007 tributed Service Realization.- A Web-based Intelli- 2007. XIX, 805 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4688) gent Collaborative System for Engineering Design.- 2007. XV, 101 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Softcover A Shared VE for Collaborative Product Develop- er Science, Band 4440) Softcover ment in Manufacturing Enterprises.- A ‘Plug-and- 93,09 € Play’ Computing Environment for Collaborative 38,52 € ISBN 978-3-540-74768-0 Product Design and Manufacturing across an Ex- ISBN 978-3-540-71877-2 tended Enterprise.- Cooperative Design in Building Construction.- A Fine-grain and Feature-oriented Product Database for Collaborative Engineering.- A Web-based Framework for Distributed and Collab- orative Manufacturing of Engineering Parts.- Wise- ShopFloor: A [..]

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Target groups Postgraduates, researchers and application engineers studying/working in mechanical/mechatronics/manufacturing engineering

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G. Lin, University of Alberta, AB, Canada (Ed.) F.J.v.d. Linden, Philips Medical Systems, Best, The Netherlands; B. Liu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China K. Schmid, Universität Hildesheim, Germany; E. Rommes, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Computing and Combinatorics Uncertainty Theory

13th Annual International Conference, COCOON 2007, Banff, Software Product Lines in Action Canada, July 16-19, 2007, Proceedings The Best Industrial Practice in Product Line Engineering Uncertainty theory is a branch of mathematics based on normality, monotonicity, self-duality, and count- able subadditivity axioms. The goal of uncertainty The refereed proceedings of the 13th Annual Inter- theory is to study the behavior of uncertain phenom- national Computing and Combinatorics Confer- Software product lines represent perhaps the most ena such as fuzziness and randomness. The main ence, COCOON 2007, held in Banff, Canada in Ju- exciting paradigm shift in software development topics include probability theory, credibility theory, ly 2007. The 51 revised full papers presented togeth- since the advent of high-level programming lan- and chance theory. For this new edition the entire er with abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully re- guages. Nowhere else in software engineering have text has been totally rewritten. More importantly, viewed and selected from 154 submissions. The pa- we seen such breathtaking improvements in cost, the chapters on chance theory and uncertainty the- pers feature original research works in the areas of quality, time to market, and developer productivity, ory are completely new. This book provides a self- algorithms, theory of computation, computational often registering in the order-of-magnitude range. contained, comprehensive and up-to-date presenta- complexity, and combinatorics related to computing. While the underlying concepts are straightforward enough – building a family of related products or tion of uncertainty theory. The purpose is to equip Fields of interest systems by planned and careful reuse of a base of the readers with an axiomatic approach to deal with Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Dis- generalized software development assets – the devil uncertainty. Mathematicians, researchers, engineers, crete Mathematics in Computer Science; Computer can be in the details, as successful product line prac- designers, and students in the field of mathematics, Communication Networks; Data Structures; Com- tice can involve organizational change, business pro- information science, operations research, industrial puter Graphics; Algorithms cess change, and technology change. The authors engineering, computer science, artificial intelligence, ideally combine academic research results with in- and management science will find this work a stimu- Target groups dustrial real-world experiences, thus presenting a lating and useful reference. Researchers and professionals broad view on product line engineering so that both Features managers and technical specialists will benefit from Completely rewritten second edition Self contained, Type of publication reading it. After presenting a common framework comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of un- Proceedings for the description of the industrial case studies, they certainty theory Axiomatic approach to equip the [..] Due June 2007 reader to deal with uncertainty Features Contents Learn from expert experience how to do it right and 2007. XII, 570 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4598) Prerequisites.- Probability Theory.- Credibility The- how to avoid pitfalls Gain information about the Softcover ory.- Chance Theory.- Uncertainty Theory.- Supple- first steps in transitioning to or improving the prod- ments. 72,76 € uct line approach in your organization Benefit from ISBN 978-3-540-73544-1 the largest collection of experiential software prod- Fields of interest uct line reports ever gathered in one reference From Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- practitioners to practitioners – the authors worked neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Op- on many product line projects and had insight in [..] timization; Operations Research, Mathematical Pro- gramming; Probability Theory and Stochastic Pro- Contents cesses; Operation Research/Decision Theory Part I - Aspects of Software Product Line Engineer- ing: 1) The Product Line Engineering Approach. 2) Target groups Business. 3) Architecture. 4) Process. 5) Organisa- Textbook for postgraduates; reference book for tion. 6) The Family Evaluation Framework.- Part II - mathematicians, engineers, and computer scientists Experience Reports: 7) Experiences in Product Line in fuzziness Engineering. 8) Akvasmart. 9) Bosch Gasoline Sys- tems. 10) DNV Software. 11) market maker Software Type of publication AG. 12) Nokia Mobile Phones. 13) Nokia Networks. 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D. Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA; S. Fei, Southeast D. Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA; S. Fei, Southeast D. Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA; S. Fei, Southeast University, China; Z.-G. Hou, Chinese Academy of Science, China; University, China; Z.-G. Hou, Chinese Academy of Science, China; University, China; Z.-G. Hou, Chinese Academy of Science, ChinaI; H. Zhang, Northeast University Shenyang, China; C. Sun, Hohai H. Zhang, Northeast University Shenyang, China; C. Sun, Hohai H. Zhang, Northeast University Shenyang, China; C. Sun, Hohai University, China (Eds.) University, China (Eds.) University, China (Eds.)

Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2007 2007 2007

4th International Symposium on Neutral Networks, ISNN 2007 4th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2007 4th International Symposium on Neutral Networks, ISNN 2007 Nanjing, China, June 3-7, 2007. Proceedings, Part II Nanjing, China, June 3-7, 2007. Proceedings, Part III Nanjing, China, June 3-7, 2007. Proceedings, Part I

The three volume set LNCS 4491/4492/4493 con- The three volume set LNCS 4491/4492/4493 con- The three volume set LNCS 4491/4492/4493 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Interna- stitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Interna- stitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Interna- tional Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2007, tional Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2007, tional Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2007, held in Nanjing, China in June 2007. The 262 revised held in Nanjing, China in June 2007. The 262 revised held in Nanjing, China in June 2007. The 262 revised long papers and 192 revised short papers presented long papers and 192 revised short papers presented long papers and 192 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 1.975 submissions. The papers are organized in topi- 1.975 submissions. The papers are organized in topi- 1.975 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on neural fuzzy control, neural networks cal sections on neural fuzzy control, neural networks cal sections on neural fuzzy control, neural networks for control applications, adaptive dynamic program- for control applications, adaptive dynamic program- for control applications, adaptive dynamic programming and reinforcement learning, neural networks ming and reinforcement learning, neural networks ming and reinforcement learning, neural networks for nonlinear systems modeling, robotics, stability for nonlinear systems modeling, robotics, stability for nonlinear systems modeling, robotics, stability analysis of neural networks, learning and approxima- analysis of neural networks, learning and approxima- analysis of neural networks, learning and approximation, data mining and feature extraction, chaos and tion, data mining and feature extraction, chaos and tion, data mining and feature extraction, chaos and synchronization, neural fuzzy systems, training and synchronization, neural fuzzy systems, training and synchronization, neural fuzzy systems, training and learning algorithms for neural networks, neural net- learning algorithms for neural networks, neural net- learning algorithms for neural networks, neural network structures, neural networks for pattern recog- work structures, neural networks for pattern recog- work structures, neural networks for pattern recognition, SOMs, ICA/PCA, biomedical applications, nition, SOMs, ICA/PCA, biomedical applications, nition, SOMs, ICA/PCA, biomedical applications, feedforward neural networks, recurrent neural net- feedforward neural networks, recurrent neural net- feedforward neural networks, recurrent neural networks, neural networks for optimization, support works, neural networks for optimization, support works, neural networks for optimization, support vector machines, fault diagnosis/detection, [..] vector machines, fault diagnosis/detection, [..] vector machines, fault diagnosis/detection, [..]

Fields of interest Fields of interest Fields of interest Computation by Abstract Devices; Computer Com- Computation by Abstract Devices; Computer Com- Computation by Abstract Devices; Computer Com- munication Networks; Algorithm Analysis and Prob- munication Networks; Algorithm Analysis and Prob- munication Networks; Algorithm Analysis and Prob- lem Complexity; Discrete Mathematics in Computer lem Complexity; Discrete Mathematics in Computer lem Complexity; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Pat- Science; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Pat- Science; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Pat- tern Recognition tern Recognition tern Recognition

Target groups Target groups Target groups Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals

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F.G. Lobo, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal; C.F. Lima, R. Loftin H.v. Loon, Leistungs Consult GmbH, Switzerland Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal; Z. Michalewicz, Univer- sity of Adelaide, SA, Australia (Eds.) First Steps Process Assessment and ISO/IEC

Parameter Setting in Evolutionary Developing BizTalk Applications 15504 Algorithms A Reference Book

First Steps: Developing BizTalk Applications is a primer to most other introductory Biztalk books. One of the main difficulties of applying an evolution- Process Assessment and ISO/IEC 15504: A Refer- If you feel like traditional beginning books are too ary algorithm (or, as a matter of fact, any heuristic ence Book, Second Edition, provides the reader with abstract, and that you are mired in detail and miss- method) to a given problem is to decide on an ap- guidance on the emerging ISO/IEC 15504 Process ing the â€œbig picture,â€? check out this book. Itâ propriate set of parameter values. Typically these Assessment Standard. ISO/IEC 15504 standard is €™s not a reference â€" itâ€™s a jumpstart to learn- are specified before the algorithm is run and include now complete with the publication of Part 5 of the ing Biztalk. You learn about the product in a phased population size, selection rate, operator probabili- standard. Originally published in 2004 as the first approach. This way, you learn just what you need ties, not to mention the representation and the op- book dedicated to the standard, this second edition to know, when you need to know it. And the entire erators themselves. This book gives the reader a sol- of the reference book, represents an updated version book is example-based: you learn by doing. Each id perspective on the different approaches that have of practical aspects of process assessment, and covers phase provides detailed instructions for creating, de- been proposed to automate control of these parame- the new process assessment models in the standard. ploying, and testing a BizTalk project. Through the ters as well as understanding their interactions. The The standard goes beyond quality audits, to help bookâ€™s projects, you will be exposed to orches- book covers a broad area of evolutionary computa- you assess how well your organization performs. trations, pipelines, maps, schemas, messages, ports, tion, including genetic algorithms, evolution strate- This book provides guidance for readers wishing to shapes, the BizTalk Server Administration console, gies, genetic programming, estimation of distribu- understand the power and benefits of a process ap- and the Health and Activity Tracking (HAT) tool. To tion algorithms, and also discusses the issues of spe- proach and process assessment. It guides the reader quickly get ahead and quick-start your Biztalk learn- cific parameters used in parallel implementations, through the various parts of the standard in an un- ing process, this book is for you. multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, and practi- derstandable and practical manner, grounded up- cal consideration for real-world applications. It is a Fields of interest on the people-process-product model. This profes- recommended read for researchers and practitioners Programming Techniques sional book offers a separate companion guidebook: of evolutionary computation and [..] Process Assessment and Improvement: A Practical Type of publication Guide. Process [..] Features Professional book Recent advances in evolutionary algorithms Features ISO/IEC 15504 is a new international standard for Contents Due May 2007 process assessment for software and quality manage- Parameter Setting in EAs: a 30 Year Perspective.- Pa- ment systems Presents the practical aspects of pro- rameter Control in Evolutionary Algorithms.- Self- Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, cess assessments Updated information in 2nd ed. Adaptation in Evolutionary Algorithms.- Adaptive Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest Strategies for Operator Allocation.- Sequential Pa- Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. For Jordan, Irak, rameter Optimization Applied to Self-Adaptation for Oman, Qatar, Palestine: Jordan Book Center Contents Binary-Coded Evolutionary Algorithms.- Combin- -Introduction to Reference Book.- Foundation for ing Meta-EAs and Racing for Difficult EA Parame- 2007. 100 p. Softcover Success.- ISO/IEC 15504 Document Set.- Meeting ter Tuning Tasks.- Genetic Programming: Paramet- the Requirements if ISO/IEC 15504.- The Measure- ric Analysis of Structure Altering Mutation Tech- ISBN 978-1-59059-849-8 ment Framework.- Level 1-5.- Process Reference niques.- Parameter Sweeps for Exploring Parame- Models.- Process Assessment Models.- Process Life- ter Spaces of Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms.- cycle Models.- Assessor Competence and Building Adaptive Population Sizing Schemes in Genetic [..] Assessment Teams.- Assessing a Process to Capabili- ty Level 5.- SW CMM® and CMMI®.- Annix 1: ISO/ Fields of interest IEC 15504 A Short History and Harmonization.- Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- Annex 3: Glossary of Acronyms and Terms.- Index.- neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Bibliography.

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Improvement Public Key Infrastructure Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manag- er A Practical Guide 4th European PKI Workshop: Theory and Practice, EuroPKI 2007, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, June 28-30, 2007, Proceed- ings Managing Humans is a selection of the best es- Process Assessment and Improvement: A Practical says from Michael Lopp's popular website http:// Guide, 2nd ed. provides a powerful and practical ap- www.randsinrepose.com/. Lopp is one of the most proach to improving organizations through process This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the sought-after IT managers in Silicon Valley, and assessment, combined with people factors such as or- 4th European Public Key Infrastructure Workshop: draws on his experiences at Apple, Netscape, Syman- ganizational culture and team-based improvement. Theory and Practice, EuroPKI 2007, held in Palma tec, and Borland. Among his fans is the incompara- Originally published in 2004 as the first practical de Mallorca, Spain in June 2007. The 21 revised full ble Joel Spolsky (author of Joel on Software), who guide to the emerging ISO/IEC 15504 standard, this papers and 8 short papers presented were carefully first suggested this book. The book covers handling second edition presents an updated version of pro- reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The pa- conflict, managing wildly differing personality types, cess assessments and includes new risk methods. The pers address all current issues in PKI, ranging from infusing innovation into insane product schedules, book covers three major business reasons for pro- theoretical and foundational topics to applications and figuring out how to build lasting and useful en- cess assessment: setting Target Profiles, Process Ca- and regulatory issues in various contexts. gineering culture. 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I. Mandoiu, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA; A. Ze- S. Mangard, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria; E. Os- P. Manoonpong, Georg-August Universität Goettingen, Germany likovsky, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA (Eds.) wald, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria; Th. Popp, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria Neural Preprocessing and Control Bioinformatics Research and of Reactive Walking Machines Applications Power Analysis Attacks Revealing the Secrets of Smart Cards Towards Versatile Artificial Perception-Action Systems Third International Symposium,ISBRA 2007, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 7-10, 2007, Proceedings

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A.W. Marshall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, R. Martin, Cardiff University, UK; M. Sabin, Numerical Geometry J. Martí, University of Girona, Spain; J.M. Benedí, Polytechnical Canada; I. Olkin, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Ltd., Cambridge, UK; J. Winkler, The University of Sheffield, UK University of Valencia, Spain; A.M. Mendonça, University of Porto, (Eds.) Portugal; J. Serrat, University of Barcelona, Spain (Eds.) Life Distributions Mathematics of Surfaces XII Pattern Recognition and Image Structure of Nonparametric, Semiparametric, and Parametric Families 12th IMA International Conference, Sheffield, UK, September Analysis 4-6, 2007, Proceedings Third Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2007, Girona, Spain, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings, Part I For over 200 years, practitioners have been developing parametric families of probability distributions This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IMA International Conference on the Mathe- for data analysis. 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L. Mason, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; T. Drwiega, P. Massart, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France; J. Picard, Uni- F. Masulli, University of Genoa, Italy; S. Mitra, Indian Statistical Nortel, Ottawa, ON, Canada; J. Yan, Carleton University, Ottawa, versité Blaise-Pascale Clermont-Ferrand, Aubière, France (Ed.) Institute, Kolkata, India; G. Pasi, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy ON, Canada (Eds.) (Eds.) Concentration Inequalities and Managing Traffic Performance in Model Selection Applications of Fuzzy Sets Theory Converged Networks 7th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, Ecole d'Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXIII - 2003 WILF 2007, Camogli, Italy, July 7-10, 2007, Proceedings 20th International Teletraffic Congress, ITC20 2007, Ottawa, Canada, June 17-21, 2007, Proceedings

Since the impressive works of Talagrand, concen- This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of tration inequalities have been recognized as funda- the 7th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the mental tools in several domains such as geometry Applications held in Camogli, Genoa, Italy in July 10th International Teletraffic Congress, ITC 2007, of Banach spaces or random combinatorics. They 2007. The 84 revised full papers presented togeth- held in Ottawa, Canada in June 2007. The 93 re- also turn out to be essential tools to develop a non- er with 3 keynote speeches were carefully reviewed vised full papers presented together with 4 invited asymptotic theory in statistics, exactly as the central and selected from 147 submissions. The papers are talks and 3 contributed papers of a plenary session limit theorem and large deviations are known to play organized in topical sections on fuzzy set theory, were carefully reviewed and selected from numer- a central part in the asymptotic theory. An overview fuzzy information access and retrieval, fuzzy ma- ous submissions for inclusion in the book. The pa- of a non-asymptotic theory for model selection is chine learning, fuzzy architectures and systems; and pers are organized in topical sections on IPTV plan- given here and some selected applications to vari- special sessions on intuitionistic fuzzy sets and soft ning and modeling, network performance, routing, able selection, change points detection and statistical computing in image processing. WILF 2007 hosts server/switch performance, service overlay networks, learning are discussed. This volume reflects the con- four special sessions, namely the Fourth Internation- traffic source and aggregate models, performance tent of the course given by P. Massart in St. Flour in al Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods optimization in mesh networks, QoS in converged 2003. It is mostly self-contained and accessible for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIDD 2007), networks, traffic engineering, end-to-end delay in to graduate students. the Third International Workshop on Cross-Lan- converged networks, queuing models, performance guage Information Processing (CLIP 2007); Intu- of peer-to-peer networks, traffic measurements and Contents itionistic Fuzzy Sets: Recent Advances (IFS), and Soft demand forecast, impact of convergence and diver- 1. Introduction.- 2. Exponential and information in- Computing in Image Processing (CLIPS). These spe- gence forces on network performance and provision- equalities.- 3. Gaussian processes.- 4. Gaussian mod- cial sessions extend and deepen the main topics of ing, loss/blocking probability, traffic management el selection.- 5. Concentration inequalities.- 6. Maxi- WILF. in wireless networks, traffic measurements and char- mal inequalities.- 7. Density estimation via model se- acterization, network design for capacity and perfor- lection.- 8. Statistical learning.- References.- Index. Fields of interest mance, [..] Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Fields of interest Logic and Formal Languages; Computation by Ab- Fields of interest Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Statisti- stract Devices; Information Storage and Retrieval; Computer Communication Networks; System Per- cal Theory and Methods; Information and Commu- Database Management; Image Processing and Com- formance and Evaluation; Information Systems Ap- nication, Circuits puter Vision plications (incl.Internet); Software Engineering; Target groups Communications Engineering, Networks Target groups Graduate students and researchers Researchers and professionals Target groups Type of publication Researchers and professionals Type of publication Monograph Proceedings Type of publication Proceedings Due April 2007 Due June 2007 Due June 2007 2007. XIV, 337 p. (Ecole d'Eté Probabilit.Saint-Flour, Band 1896) 2007. XVIII, 693 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band Softcover 4578) Softcover 2007. XXIII, 1191 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- 53,45 € puter Science, Band 4516) Softcover 85,60 € ISBN 978-3-540-48497-4 ISBN 978-3-540-73399-7 115,56 € ISBN 978-3-540-72989-1 166 Computer springer.com/booksellers

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Wir erleben eine ständig zunehmende Informa- Dieses Buch ist [...] eine hervorragende Einführung tisierung in Beruf und Freizeit. Informations- in Kombinatorik und Graphentheorie für This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the und Kommunikationstechnologien werden un- Studienanfänger in Mathematik (und Informatik). 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and seren Alltag künftig weitaus stärker durchdringen, [...] das Buch ist wegen des ungewöhnlichen Dialogue, TSD 2007, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, als wir es uns vorstellen können. Dabei sind viele und sehr attraktiven Stiles der Darstellung be- September 3-7, 2007. The 80 revised full papers pre- Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten bereits absehbar: Smarte merkenswert. [...] Die Sprachform ist vorwiegend sented together with 4 invited papers were carefully Objekte werden stark an Bedeutung gewinnen, und die eines Gespräches mit dem Leser, der dadurch in reviewed and selected from 198 submissions. The pa- die Kommunikation mit Alltagsgegenständen wird die Gedankengänge und Überlegungen des Autors pers present a wealth of state-of-the-art research re- selbstverständlich. Die Einsatzmöglichkeiten dieser hineingeführt und hineingezogen wird. Zum Beispiel sults in the field of natural language processing with technischen Neuerungen sind praktisch unbegren- werden bei einem Beweis zuerst die Grundidee oder an emphasis on text, speech, and spoken dialogue zt. Das vorliegende Buch stellt sie ausführlich dar; die Zielsetzung genannt und erläutert, und auch ranging from theoretical and methodological issues die Autoren erläutern aber auch die Einflüsse auf im weiteren Verlauf wird immer wieder durch al- to applications in various fields and with special fo- die Gesellschaft und weisen auf Prozesse hin, die ein ternative Formulierungen das Verständnis vertieft cus on corpora, texts and transcription, speech anal- radikales Umdenken erfordern werden. oder ermöglicht. Dadurch werden im Leser adäquate ysis, recognition and synthesis, as well as their inter- Vorstellungen zu den formalen Schritten erzeugt, die twining within NL dialogue systems. Features dann wieder eigenständiges und kreatives Denken Hochaktuell und spannend. Das erste ermöglichen. Die Lektüre ist also anregend und sehr Fields of interest deutschsprachige Buch, das sich mit der Informa- motivierend! Die Aufgaben sind dagegen ziemlich Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Min- tisierung des Alltags auseinandersetzt anspruchsvoll, werden aber ausführlich erläutert. [..] ing and Knowledge Discovery; Information Stor- W. Dörfler (Klagenfurt), Internationale Mathematis- age and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications Contents che Nachrichten, 2003, Vol 57, Issue [..] (incl.Internet); Language Translation and Linguistics Pervasive Computing: connected > aware > smart.- Acht Thesen zur Informatisierung des All- Features Target groups tags.- Smarte Umgebungen: Vision, Chancen und Lebendige, anschauliche Einführung Viele Lern- Researchers and professionals Herausforderungen.- Drahtlose Sensornetze: Fenster und Arbeitshilfen Didaktisch ausgefeilt, klar und zur Realität.- Prozessoren in Prozessen: Hardware Type of publication nachvollziehbar und Dienste für allgegenwärtiges Rechnen.- Einge- Proceedings bettete Interaktion: Symbiose von Mensch und In- Contents formation.- Kleidsamer Gesundheitsassistent: Com- Aus dem Inhalt Einführung und Grundlagen.- Due August 2007 puter am Körper, im Körper.- Messen und Mana- Kombinatorisches Abzählen.- Graphen: Eine gen: Bedeutung des Ubiquitous Computing für die Einführung.- Bäume.- Graphenzeichnen in der 2007. XVII, 663 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band Wirtschaft.- Unternehmen und Märkte in einer Welt Ebene.- Zweifaches Abzählen.- Die Anzahl von auf- 4629) Softcover allgegenwärtiger Computer: Das Beispiel der Kfz- spannenden Bäumen.- Endliche projektive Ebe- Versicherer.- [..] nen.- Wahrscheinlichkeit und wahrscheinlichkeits- 81,32 € basierte Beweise.- Erzeugende Funktionen.- An- ISBN 978-3-540-74627-0 Fields of interest wendungen der Linearen Algebra.- Bibliographie.- Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); In- Lösungshinweise für ausgewählte Übungen.- Index. put/Output and Data Communications; Computer Communication Networks; Operating Systems Fields of interest Combinatorics; Mathematics of Computing Target groups Informatiker, Projektleiter, Entwickler Target groups Studierende und Dozenten der Mathematik und der Type of publication Informatik im Grundstudium Professional book

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Organizational Dynamics of Datenbanken Technology-Based Innovation: Foundations of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Diversifying the Research Agenda Das erfolgreiche Lehr- und Fachbuch führt in der Computing sechsten, überarbeiteten und erweiterten Auflage IFIP TC8 WG 8.6 International Working Conference, June 12th International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, 14-16, 2007, Manchester, UK umfassend in das Gebiet der relationalen und postre- IFSA 2007, Cancun, Mexico, Junw 18-21, 2007, Proceedings lationalen Datenbanken ein. Themenschwerpunk- te bilden: Aufgaben und Pflichten des Datenman- agements, Entitäten-Beziehungsmodell und Relatio- This volume presents papers from the 10th Working nenmodell, relationale Abfrage- und Manipulation- This book comprises a selection of papers from IFSA Conference of the IFIP WG 8.6 on the adoption and ssprachen, Schutz und Sicherheit, Systemarchitektur, 2007 on new methods and theories that contribute diffusion of information systems and technologies. Mehrbenutzerbetrieb sowie Integration von Daten to the foundations of fuzzy logic and soft comput- This book explores the dynamics of how some tech- im Web. Zudem werden verteilte, temporale, objek- ing. These papers were selected from over 400 sub- nological innovation efforts succeed while others fail. torientierte, multidimensionale, unscharfe (fuzzy) missions and constitute an important contribution The book looks to expand the research agenda, pay- und wissensbasierte Konzepte behandelt. Im Anhang to the theory and applications of fuzzy logic and soft ing special attention to the areas of theoretical per- wird mit einer Fallstudie aus der Reisebranche eine computing methodologies. Soft Computing consists spectives, methodologies, and organizational sectors. webbasierte Datenbankanwendung schrittweise en- of several computing paradigms, including fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and other Features twickelt. Neu hinzu gekommen ist ein Tutorial für techniques, which can be used to produce powerful Most current research on the transfer and diffusion die international standardisierte Structured Query intelligent systems for solving real-world problems. of information technology Language (SQL). Den Abschluß bilden ein Repetito- rium mit Verständnisfragen, eine webbasierte Work- This book is intended to be a major reference for Contents bench mit Übungsaufgaben und Musterlösungen scientists and engineers interested in applying new From the Contents Organisational Dynamics of sowie ein Glossar und ein englisch/deutsches Fach- computational and mathematical tools to achieve in- Technology-Based Innovation.- Turning the Dig- begriffsverzeichnis. telligent solution to complex problems. We consid- ital Divide into a Digital Divident.- The Diversity er that this book can also be used to get novel ideas of the Research Agenda in Organizational Dynam- Features for new lines of research, or to continue the lines of ics of Technology-Based Innovation.- Cooperative Umfassende Einführung in das Gebiet der rela- research proposed by the authors of the papers con- Models for IT Transfer in the Context of Open In- tionalen Datenbanken Avanciert zum Standardw- tained in the book. The 80 papers presented were novation.- Process Modeling Information Systems erk Praxisbezogen bis hin zum Erstellen einer Daten- carefully reviewed and selected form more than [..] Development.- User-Led Innovation in Call Center bank mit Access Mit Verständnisfragen, Übungsauf- Fields of interest Knowledge Work.- The Identity, Dynamics, and Dif- gaben und Musterlösungen Jetzt in der sechsten, Artificial Intelligence (incl. 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P. Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico; O. K. Mellouli, IHEC, Tunisia (Ed.) I. Melzer, DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico; E.G. Ramírez, Universidad la Salle, Condesa, Mexico; J. Kacprzyk, Pol- ish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; W. Pedrycz, University Symbolic and Quantitative Service-orientierte Architekturen of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (Eds.) Approaches to Reasoning with mit Web Services Uncertainty Analysis and Design of Intelligent Konzepte - Standards - Praxis Systems Using Soft Computing 9th European Conference, ECSQARU 2007, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 31 - November 2, 2007, Proceedings Techniques Service-orientierte Architektur: In aller Munde, aber was steckt dahinter? Dieses Buch demystifiziert This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the den Hype indem die grundlegenden Aspekte und This book comprises a selection of papers from IF- 9th European Conference on Symbolic and Quanti- Eigenschaften erläutert werden, die hinter SOA und SA 2007 on new methods for analysis and design of tative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, Web Services stecken. Service-orientierte Architek- hybrid intelligent systems using soft computing tech- ECSQARU 2007, held in Hammammet, Tunisia, Ok- turen mit Web Services wurde unter Beachtung der niques. Soft Computing (SC) consists of several com- tober 31 - November 2, 2007. The 78 revised full pa- Anforderungen von Architekten und Entwicklern puting paradigms, including fuzzy logic, neural net- pers presented together with 3 invited papers were geschrieben. Es bietet sowohl für IT-Experten und works, and genetic algorithms, which can be used carefully reviewed and selected from over hundret Manager als auch für Studenten eine fundierte Basis. to produce powerful hybrid intelligent systems for submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers Ziel ist es, bleibende Grundlagen zu vermitteln – es solving problems in pattern recognition, time series are organized in topical sections on Bayesian net- handelt sich daher um kein Programmierhandbuch. prediction, intelligent control, robotics and automa- works, graphical models, learning causal networks, Möchten Sie jedoch ein tiefes Verständnis dafür er- tion. Hybrid intelligent systems that combine sever- planning, causality and independence, preference langen, was eine Service-orientierten Architektur al SC techniques are needed due to the complexity modelling and decision, argumentation systems, in- ausmacht, wird Ihnen dieses Buch wertvolle „Dien- and high dimensionality of real-world problems. Hy- consistency handling, belief revision and merging, ste“ leisten. Der erste Schwerpunkt des Buches liegt brid intelligent systems can have different architec- belief functions, fuzzy models, many-valued logical auf grundlegenden Architekturüberlegungen und be- tures, which have an impact on the efficiency and ac- systems, uncertainty logics, probabilistic reasoning, trachtet organisatorische Rahmenbedingungen. Ba- curacy of these systems, for this reason it is very im- reasoning models under uncertainty, uncertainty sis für die folgenden Teile ist eine abstrakte Darstel- portant to optimize architecture design. The archi- measures, probabilistic classifiers, classification and lung einer SOA. Es folgt eine mögliche Umsetzung tectures can combine, in different ways, neural net- clustering, and industrial applications. auf Basis von Web Services. Im zweiten Teil werden works, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, to achieve die wesentlichen [..] the ultimate goal of pattern recognition, time series Fields of interest Features prediction, intelligent control, or [..] Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages - das führende Werk zu SOA - die 1. 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The Internet was designed without a clear plan for Promovieren - lohnt sich das? Wie lässt sich eine This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of handling identity, which resulted in a patchwork of Dissertation finanzieren? Wer betreut sie und wie the 27th Annual International Cryptology Confer- custom solutions springing up—all of them not long fängt man eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit überhaupt ence, CRYPTO 2007, held in Santa Barbara, CA, term solutions. With exponential increases in ma- an? Wer den Doktortitel erwerben will, findet in USA in August 2007. The 33 revised full papers pre- licious activities that pervert these systems, the In- diesem Leitfaden einen Begleiter auf einem oft- sented together with 1 invited lecture were carefully ternet clearly needs a single-sign on solution that mals schwierigen Weg. Themen sind unter an- reviewed and selected from 186 submissions. The pa- can span platforms and technologies. The concept derem: Der Wissenschaftsbetrieb, Zeitmanagement, pers address all current foundational, theoretical and of an identity metasystem was proposed (a whitepa- Kreativitätstechniken, wissenschaftliches Schreiben research aspects of cryptology, cryptography, and per on the identity metasystem can also be found on und Publizieren, Umgang mit Selbstzweifeln. Die cryptanalysis as well as advanced applications. www.identityblog.com). The identity metasystem vierte, überarbeitete und aktualisierte Auflage wurde describes a platform agnostic way of communicat- ergänzt um Informationen über das Verfassen von Fields of interest ing and validating claims of identity, and is herald- Exposees und neue Textverarbeitungsmöglichkeiten. Data Encryption; Management of Computing and ed not just on the Microsoft web site, but in places Ferner beinhaltet dieser Leitfaden ein kommen- Information Systems; Computer Communication like the cover of Linux Journal. Microsoft built their tiertes Literaturverzeichnis, ein umfangreiches, Networks; Systems and Data Security; Computers implementation, Windows CardSpace, on top of the erläutertes Verzeichnis relevanter Internetadressen and Society; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Sci- identity metasystem, and is working with key players und Arbeitsbögen zu den Themen der Kapitel. ence you’d expect – and some you might not – to make sure this is success and interoperable. The book pro- Features Target groups vides a baseline in identity, including coverage of Leitfaden zur erfolgreichen Promotion Viele prak- Researchers and professionals identity concepts, the laws of identity, and the [..] tische Tipps Arbeitsbögen, Internet-Adressen Ausführliches Literaturverzeichnis Type of publication Features Proceedings Experts predict an "Identity Big Bang" in 2007 Such a Contents "bang" will require developers to understand identity, Vorwort.- Warum promovieren?- Wer finanziert Due August 2007 why it’s important, and how to implement in brows- und wer betreut mich?- Wie finde ich ein Thema?- er and service based applications Provides all the de- Woher kommen die Ideen?- Wie werde ich den 2007. XIV, 631 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- tails, coverage, expertise, and advice necessary to get Zeitdruck los?- Was tun gegen Forscher-Frust?- er Science, Band 4622) Softcover developers started with Windows CardSpace ASAP Wie verkaufe ich meine Resultate?- Wissenschaft- stheorie.- Frauen an der Hochschule.- Promotion 77,04 € Contents außerhalb der Hochschule.- Doktorandenseminare.- ISBN 978-3-540-74142-8 1 What is Identity?.- 2 Federated Identity.- 3 The Häufig gestellte Fragen.- Wie schreibe ich meine Laws of Identity.- 4 The Identity MetaSystem.- 5 In- Dissertation?- Was kommt danach?- Kommentiertes troduction to InfoCard.- 6 Phishing and Pharming – Literaturverzeichnis.- Anhang mit Arbeitsbögen. What they are and how Infocard Helps.- 7 Infocard Scenarios (Specific References per Vertical).- 8 Intro- Fields of interest duction to Secure Token Services.- 9 Creating/Con- Computer Science, general; Chemistry/Food Science, figuring Your WebSite to Use Infocards.- 10 Using general; Mathematics, general; Physics, general; En- InfoCard with WCF Services.- Case Study 1 – Info- gineering, general card for Web Site Logon.- Case Study 2 – Infocard for Web Site Personalization.- Case Study 3 – Using Target groups Infocard with WCF in a Smart Client.- Case Study 4 Studenten und Doktoranden v.a. der Informatik, – Infocard and RSS (tentative – will [..] Mathematik, Ingenieurwissenschaften, Naturwis- senschaften Fields of interest Programming Techniques Type of publication Professional book Target groups Beginner-Intermediate Developers of .NET solutions Due July 2007 and Architects of identity solutions

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B. Meyer, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland; Y. Gurevich, Morosoft Re- P.W.J. Mielke, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; K.J. I. Miguel, W. Tuml (Eds.) search (Eds.) Berry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA Abstraction, Reformulation, and Tests and Proofs Permutation Methods Approximation First International Conference, TAP 2007 Zurich, Switzerland, A Distance Function Approach February 12-13, 2007 Revised Papers 7th International Symposium, SARA 2007, Whistler, Canada, July 18-21, 2007, Proceedings

Most commonly-used parametric and permuta- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- tion statistical tests, such as the matched-pairs t test This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the proceedings of the First International Conference on and analysis of variance, are based on non-metric 7th International Symposium on Abstraction, Re- Test and Proofs, TAP 2007, held in Zurich, Switzer- squared distance functions that have very poor ro- formulation, and Approximation, SARA 2007, held land in February 2007. The 12 revised full papers bustness characteristics. This second edition places in Whistler, Canada, in July 2007. The 26 revised presented were carefully reviewed and selected for increased emphasis on the use of alternative permu- full papers presented together with the abstracts of inclusion in the book. The papers are devoted to the tation statistical tests based on metric Euclidean dis- 3 invited papers and 13 research summaries were convergence of software proofing and testing and tance functions that have excellent robustness char- carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the feature current research work that combines ideas acteristics. These alternative permutation techniques book. All current aspects of abstraction, reformula- from both sides to foster software quality. Topics ad- provide many powerful multivariate tests includ- tion, and approximation in the context of human dressed are generation of test cases or oracles by the- ing multivariate multiple regression analyses. In ad- common-sense reasoning, problem solving, and effi- orem proving, constraint logic programming, model dition to permutation techniques described in the ciently reasoning in complex domains are addressed. checking, or symbolic execution; program proving first edition, this second edition also contains vari- Among the application fields of these techniques are with the aid of testing techniques; automatic tools; ous new permutation statistical methods and studies automated reasoning, automatic programming, cog- case studies; formal frameworks; as well as verifica- that include resampling multiple contingency table nitive modelling, constraint programming, design, tion techniques combining proofs and tests. analyses, analysis concerns involving log-linear mod- diagnosis, machine learning, model-based reason- els with small samples, an exact discrete analog of ing, planning, reasoning, scheduling, search, theo- Fields of interest Fisher’s continuous method for combining P-values rem proving, and tutoring. System Performance and Evaluation; Software Engi- that arise from small data sets, multiple dichotomous neering; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Comput- response analyses, problems regarding [..] Fields of interest er Communication Networks; Computers and Soci- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical ety Features Logic and Formal Languages; Logics and Meanings Makes a variety of powerful data analytic tools eas- of Programs Target groups ily available to practitioners New material has been Researchers and professionals added to the second edition Target groups Researchers and professionals Type of publication Contents Proceedings Introduction.- Description of MRPP.- Additional Type of publication MRPP applications.- Description of MRBP.- Regres- Proceedings Due August 2007 sion analysis, prediction, and agreement.- Good- ness-of-Fit tests.- Contingency tables.- Multisample Due July 2007 2007. IX, 217 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4454) homogeneity tests.- Selected permutation studies. Softcover Fields of interest 2007. XI, 418 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4612) 44,94 € Statistical Theory and Methods; Biometrics; Data Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-73769-8 Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Psychometrics; Health Care Administration; Monitoring/Environ- 59,92 € mental Analysis/Environmental Ecotoxicology ISBN 978-3-540-73579-3

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P. Mika, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain F. Milicchio, University Roma Tre, Roma, Italy; W.A. Gehrke, Uni- H.J. Miller, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. (Ed.) versity Roma Tre, Roma, Italy Social Networks and the Semantic Societies and Cities in the Age of Web Distributed Services with OpenAFS Instant Access for Enterprise and Education

Whether we changed the Web or the Web has We are on the verge of what many are calling the changed us is difficult to discern, even with the wis- This book shows in detail how to build enter- "second information revolution," based on ubiq- dom of hindsight. Social Networks and the Semantic prise-level secure, redundant, and highly scalable uitous access to both computing and information. Web provides two major case studies. The first case services from scratch on top of the open source Lin- Handheld communication devices will become study shows the possibilities of tracking a research ux operating system, suitable for small companies portable and even wearable remote control devices community over the Web, combining the informa- as well as big universities. The core architecture pre- for both the social and physical worlds. At the same tion obtained from the Web with other data sources, sented is based on Kerberos, LDAP, AFS, and Samba. time, access to information will likely flourish, with and analyzing the results. Social network mining It is shown how to integrate web, message related, an explosion in the volumes of data collected and from the Web plays an important role in this case data base and other services with this backbone. This distributed by these new devices - volumes of infor- study for obtaining large-scale, dynamic network da- architecture provides a Single-Sign-On solution for mation about people delivered to more and more ta beyond the possibilities of survey methods. The different client platforms and can also be employed people, in new ways. The technologies of instant second study highlights the role of the social context for clustering. Although it is implemented with De- access have potential to transform dramatically in user-generated classifications in content, such as bian GNU/Linux, the content can be applied to other our lives, cities, societies and economies much like the tagging systems known as folksonomies. Social UNIX flavors. the railroad, telephone, automobile and Internet Networks and The Semantic Web is designed for re- changed our world in the previous ages. This book searchers and advanced-level students of the seman- Features contains chapters by leading international experts tic Web and Web services, information systems, so- How to build enterprise-level secure services with who discuss issues surrounding the impact of instant cial and information sciences. This book is useful for Linux Implementation of critical services on top of a access on cities, daily lives, transportation, privacy, practitioners in industry as well. Foreword by Frank reliable, distributed secure core architecture social and economic networks, community and edu- van Harmelen, author of the Semantic Web Primer cation. Fields of interest Features Operating Systems; Software Engineering/Program- Features Valuable for practitioners developing social-seman- ming and Operating Systems; Information Systems Up-to-date and current regarding wireless infor- tic software for the Web Author provides descrip- Applications (incl.Internet) mation technologies Multidisciplinary Relevant for tions that allow the reader to not only reproduce his scholars and practitioners work but also to apply his methods in a wide range of Target groups settings Accessible to social scientists with an interest System administrators, IT-architects, Web applica- Contents in electronic data, and to information scientists with tions developers, project managers Section I. Introduction.- Section II. 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N.R. Milton, Epistemics, Strelley Hall, Nottingham, UK G.J. Minden, University of Kansas, KS, USA (Ed.) M. Mintz, Harvard, MA, USA; R. Ekendahl, Somerville, MA, USA

Knowledge Acquisition in Practice Active Networks Hardware Verification with System

A Step-by-step Guide IFIP TC6 6th International Working Conference, IWAN 2004, Verilog Lawrence, KS, USA, October 27-29, 2004, Revised Papers An Object-Oriented Framework

Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in knowledge. Leading organisations now recognise the This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- Verification is increasingly complex, and SystemVer- importance of identifying what they know, sharing proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 6th Annual Interna- ilog is one of the languages that the verification com- what they know and using what they know for max- tional Working Conference on Active Networks, munity is turning to. However, no language by itself imum benefit. Many organisations employ knowl- IWAN 2004, held in Lawrence, KS, USA in October can guarantee success without proper techniques. edge engineers to capture knowledge from experts 2004. The 14 revised full papers presented togeth- Object-oriented programming (OOP), with its focus using the principles and techniques of knowledge en- er with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and on managing complexity, is ideally suited to this task. gineering. The emphasis is on a structured approach selected from 32 submissions. The papers are orga- With this handbook—the first to focus on applying built on a sound understanding of the psychology of nized in topical sections on active networking sys- OOP to SystemVerilog—we’ll show how to man- expertise and making use of knowledge modelling tems, active networking security, active networking age complexity by using layers of abstraction and methods and the latest web technologies. Knowledge applications, mobile active networks, and active net- base classes. By adapting these techniques, you will Acquisition Projects is the first book to provide a de- working management. write more "reasonable" code, and build efficient and tailed step-by-step guide to the methods and practi- reusable verification components. Both a learning cal aspects of acquiring, modelling, storing and shar- Fields of interest tool and a reference, this handbook contains hun- ing knowledge. The reader is led through 47 steps Computer Communication Networks; Software En- dreds of real-world code snippets and three profes- from the inception of a project to its successful con- gineering; Information Storage and Retrieval; Man- sional verification-system examples. You can copy clusion. Each step is described in terms of the rea- agement of Computing and Information Systems; and paste from these examples, which are all based sons for the step, the required resources, the activi- Operating Systems; Information Systems Applica- on an open-source, vendor-neutral framework (with ties to be undertaken, and the solutions to common tions (incl.Internet) code freely available at www.trusster.com). Learn problems. In addition, each step has a checklist [..] Target groups about OOP techniques such as these: Creating class- Features Researchers and professionals es—code interfaces, factory functions, [..] Only book to present a step-by-step guide that walks Type of publication Features the reader through a knowledge acquisition project, Proceedings Focuses on Object Orientation Programming and presenting a methodology that can be used for any its applications for C++ and SystemVerilog Includes area of expertise and any type of expert Will enable open source verification framework and examples the reader to identify, capture, store and dissemi- Due March 2007 Provides explanations as to why and when certain nate expertise that is vital to an organisation in an ef- features should be used with the SystemVerilog lan- ficient and effective manner that minimises the re- 2007. VIII, 217 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- guage and syntax sources required whilst maximising the use and [..] er Science, Band 3912) Softcover Contents Contents 62,06 € Introduction.- Part I: SystemVerilog and Verification Introduction.- Overview of the Step-by-step Proce- ISBN 978-3-540-71499-6 (The Why and How).- Why SystemVerilog?- OOP dure.- Start, Scope and Plan the Project.- Initial Cap- and SystemVerilog.- A Layered Approach.- Part II: ture and Modelling.- Detailed Capture and Mod- An Open-Source Environment with SystemVerilog.- elling.- Share the Stored Knowledge.- Implementa- Teal Basics.- Truss: A Standard Verification Frame- tion Issues. work.- Truss Flow.- Truss Example.- Part III: Us- Fields of interest ing OOP for Verification (Best Practices).- Thinking Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, OOP.- Designing with OOP.- OOP Classes.- OOP Marketing; Information Systems; Systems and Infor- Connections.- Coding OOP.- Part IV: Examples mation Theory in Engineering (Putting it all Together).- Block Level Testing.- Chip Level Testing.- Things to Remember. Target groups Knowledge engineers; knowledge workers; chief Fields of interest knowledge officers; ontological engineers Circuits and Systems; Computer Hardware; Com- puter-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design; Type of publication Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Manual Electronic and Computer Engineering Target groups Due June 2007 Verification engineers

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J. Mira, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, J. Mira, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, E.R. Miranda, University of Plymouth, UK; J.A. Biles, Rochester In- Spain; J.R. Álvarez, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distan- Spain; J.R. Álvarez, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distan- stitute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA (Eds.) cia, Madrid, Spain (Eds.) cia, Madrid, Spain (Eds.) Evolutionary Computer Music Bio-inspired Modeling of Cognitive Nature Inspired Problem-Solving Tasks Methods in Knowledge Engineering

Second International Work-Conference on the Interplay Be- Second International Work-Conference on the Interplay Be- Musicians, perhaps more than any other class of tween Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2007, La tween Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2007, La artists, have always been acutely aware of the scien- Manga del Mar Menor, Spain, June 18-21, 2007, Proceedings, Manga del Mar Menor, Spain, June 18-21, 2007, Proceedings, tific developments of their time. From the discovery Part I Part II almost three thousand years ago of the direct relationship between the pitch of a note and the length of a string or pipe, to the latest computer models of human musical cognition and intelligence, musi- The two-volume set LNCS 4527 and LNCS 4528 The two-volume set LNCS 4527 and LNCS 4528 cians have always looked to science to provide new constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second and challenging ways to study and compose music. International Work-Conference on the Interplay be- International Work-Conference on the Interplay be- With the great scientific advances being made in the tween Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC tween Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC field of evolutionary biology, from new insights into 2007, held in La Manga del Mar Menor, Spain in 2007, held in La Manga del Mar Menor, Spain in the origins of humans and other species to complete June 2007. The 126 revised papers presented are the- June 2007. The 126 revised papers presented are the- mappings of the genes that control our growth and matically divided into two volumes; the first includes matically divided into two volumes; the first includes development, a new approach to the study of music all the contributions mainly related with theoretical, all the contributions mainly related with theoretical, is emerging: the evolutionary computation approach. conceptual and methodological aspects linking AI conceptual and methodological aspects linking AI This book features chapters on the interplay between and knowledge engineering with neurophysiology, and knowledge engineering with neurophysiology, Evolutionary Computation and Music by leading pi- clinics and cognition. The second volume contains clinics and cognition. The second volume contains oneers in the field. all the contributions connected with biologically in- all the contributions connected with biologically inspired methods and techniques for solving AI and spired methods and techniques for solving AI and Features knowledge engineering problems in different appli- knowledge engineering problems in different appli- Features chapters on the interplay between Evolu- cation domains. cation domains. tionary Computation and Music by leading pioneers in the field No direct competition Fields of interest Fields of interest Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Anal- Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Anal- Contents ysis and Problem Complexity; Artificial Intelligence ysis and Problem Complexity; Artificial Intelligence Foreword by David Goldberg.- Preface.- An Intro- (incl. Robotics); Image Processing and Computer (incl. Robotics); Image Processing and Computer duction to Evolutionary Computing for Musicians.- Vision; Pattern Recognition; Computational Biolo- Vision; Pattern Recognition; Computational Biolo- Evolutionary Computation for Musical Tasks.- Evo- gy/Bioinformatics gy/Bioinformatics lution in Digital Audio Technology.- Evolution in Creative Sound Design.- Experiments in Generative Target groups Target groups Musical Performance with a Genetic Algorithm.- Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Composing with Genetic Algorithms: GenDash.- Type of publication Type of publication Improvising with Genetic Algorithms: GenJam.- Proceedings Proceedings Cellular Automata Music: From Sound Synthesis to Musical Forms.- Swarming and Music.- Computa- tional Evolutionary Musicology. Due June 2007 Due June 2007 Fields of interest 2007. XXII, 630 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- 2007. XXII, 650 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Multimedia Information Systems; Artificial Intelli- puter Science, Band 4527) Softcover puter Science, Band 4528) Softcover gence (incl. Robotics); Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities; Music 81,32 € 81,32 € ISBN 978-3-540-73052-1 ISBN 978-3-540-73054-5 Target groups Researchers, graduate students, professionals

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H.B. Mitchell, Elta Systems Ltd, Ashdad, Israel M. Moodie, Glasgow, UK G. Moro, University of Bologna, Italy; S. Bergamaschi, University of Modena, Italy; S. Joseph, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA; J.-H. Morin, University of Geneva, Switzerland; A.M. Ouksel, Multi-Sensor Data Fusion Pro Apache Tomcat 6 University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA (Eds.)

An Introduction Databases, Information Systems, Every Java-based Web application developed needs and Peer-to-Peer Computing to be deployed. Period. The majority of Java-based This textbook provides a comprehensive introduc- Web applications are or need to be simple. 60-80% International Workshops, DBISP2P 2005/2006, Trondheim, tion to the theories and techniques of multi-sensor of Java developers only need simple Java Web apps Norway, August 28-29, 2006, Revised Selected Papers data fusion. It is aimed at advanced undergraduate (JSP/Servlets), the largest Java tech market and op- and first-year graduate students in electrical engi- portunity. The tool to deploy the majority of these neering and computer science, as well as researchers simple Java-based Web applications is the open and professional engineers. The book is intended to This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- source Apache Tomcat Web application server. be self-contained. No previous knowledge of mul- proceedings of the 3rd and the 4th Internation- Tomcat holds a near market share monopoly in the ti-sensor data fusion is assumed, although some fa- al Workshop on Databases, Information Systems simple Java Web app server space with approximate miliarity with the basic tools of linear algebra, cal- and Peer-to-Peer Computing, DBISP2P 2005 and 85%+ marketshare, followed by Jetty with less than culus and simple probability theory is recommend- DBISP2P 2006, held in Trondheim, Norway, in Au- 10% and maybe another or two who hold the reed. Although conceptually simple, the study of mul- gust 2005 and in Seoul, Korea, in September 2006, maining market share (Tomcat is NOT like the more ti-sensor data fusion presents challenges that are as satellite events of VLDB, the International Con- complex J2EE/Java EE Web app server like BEA We- unique within the education of the electrical engi- ference on Very Large Data Bases. The 39 revised bLogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, Apache Geronimo, neer or computer scientist. To become competent in full papers presented together with 1 invited contri- etc.). Pro Apache Tomcat 6 is looking to be first book the field the student must become familiar with tools bution were carefully selected during two rounds of (if not second to only one other) to hit very large taken from a wide range of diverse subjects includ- reviewing and improvement. According to the ses- Tomcat tech market where Tomcat book sales of late ing: neural networks, signal processing, statistical es- sions held in the two editions, the papers of DBISP2P reflect the anticipation for Tomcat 6 and the fact that timation, tracking algorithms, computer vision and 2005 are organized in topical sections on knowledge nearly all the Tomcat books in market are very dated control theory. All too often the student views mul- discovery and emergent semantics, query answer- based on [..] ti-sensor data fusion as a miscellaneous [..] ing and overlay communities, indexing, caching and Features replication techniques, complex query processing Features Could be first to market; but will be one of only two and routing, semantic overlay networks, services, Self-contained, easy accessible introduction to mul- books on the new Apache Tomcat 6 Apache Tom- agents and communities of interest. The papers of ti-sensor data fusion for graduate students and re- cat is, by far, the most widely adopted and used open DBISP2P 2006 are thematically divided into data searchers Well-organized modern approach to the- source Java-based Web application server for Java placement and searching, semantic search, query ories and techniques, includes numerous case stud- Web application deployment by developers and sys- processing and workload [..] ies that illustrate the application of techniques for tem administrators The market is now waiting in multi-sensor data fusion to real problems, providing Fields of interest anticipation for new Apache Tomcat 6 release; all hands-on knowledge The case studies cover a very Database Management; Information Storage books out now are near or out of date wide range of applications – including medical imag- and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications ing, [..] Contents (incl.Internet); Computer Communication Net- Introducing Tomcat.- Installing Tomcat.- Examining works; Software Engineering; Artificial Intelligence Contents Tomcat's Directories.- Working with Tomcat’s Con- (incl. 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S.C. Mukhopadhyay, Massey University, Palmerston, New S.J. Muller, Bernoulli Systems, Eveleigh, NSW, Australia J. Mundhenke, Berlin Zealand; G. Sen Gupta, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore (Eds.) Asymmetry: The Foundation of Wettbewerbswirkungen von Open- Autonomous Robots and Agents Information Source-Software und offenen Standards auf Softwaremärkten Robots and autonomous agents have permeated As individual needs have arisen in the fields of every aspect of human life. They are not only om- physics, electrical engineering and computational nipresent on the shop floors; they have pervaded Der Begriff "Open-Source-Software" wurde vor science, each has created its own theories of infor- our homes and are around us everywhere. Design knapp zehn Jahren geprägt und hat inzwischen eine mation to serve as conceptual instruments for ad- methodologies and implementation techniques of in- feste Position im IT-Markt erobert. Heute wird vancing developments. This book provides a coher- telligent machines are making progress in leaps and Open-Source-Software von praktisch allen im IT- ent consolidation of information theories from these bounds. Smart interaction, cooperation, and pro- Markt vertretenen Unternehmen entwickelt. In different fields. The author gives a survey of current activeness are the hallmarks of modern intelligent dem vorliegenden Buch werden folgende Fragen theories and then introduces the underlying notion machines. This book deals with the theoretical and erörtert: Wie wirkt sich die zunehmende Verbre- of symmetry, showing how information is related to methodological aspects of incorporating intelligence itung und Nutzung von Open-Source-Software und the capacity of a system to distinguish itself. A for- in "Autonomous Robots and Agents". Challenges offenen Standards auf Wettbewerb aus? Können mal methodology using group theory is employed faced in the real world to accomplish complex tasks, wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen die Vorteile and leads to the application of Burnside's Lemma to which require collaborative efforts, and methods to eines offenen Wettbewerbs und die Nutzung neuer count distinguishable states. This provides a versatile overcome them, are detailed. Several informative ar- Innovationspotenziale unterstützen? Es wird ein tool for quantifying complexity and information ca- ticles deal with navigation, localization and mapping Beitrag geleistet zum ökonomischen Verständnis pacity in any physical system. Written in an informal of mobile robots, a problem that engineers and re- der Konzepte von Open-Source-Software und offe- style, the book is accessible to all researchers in the searchers are grappling with all the time. This edited nen Standards. Theoretische Analyse und wirtschaft- fields of physics, chemistry, biology, computational volume is targeted to present the latest state-of-the- spolitische Praxis werden miteinander verbunden. science as well as many others. art methodologies in Robotics. It is a compilation of Anhand eines internationalen Vergleichs werden the extended versions of the very best papers [..] Features verschiedene nationale Open-Source-Strategien Consolidates diverse existing theories of information analysiert, bewertet und weiterer Handlungsbedarf Contents Accessible to non-specialists angezeigt mit Vorschlägen, wie Wettbewerb auf From the contents Toward Hierarchical Multi-Robot Softwaremärkten offener gestaltet werden kann. Urban Search and Rescue: Development of a ‘Moth- Contents er’ Agent.- Multi-Robot Search and Rescue: A Po- Introduction.- Information.- Information and Dis- Fields of interest tential Field Based Approach.- Probabilistic Target tinguishability.- Information and Symmetry.- Con- R & D/Technology Policy; Information Systems Search Strategy.- Localisation and Mapping with a clusion Mobile Robot Using Sparse Range Data.- Applying Target groups High-Level Understanding to Visual Localisation Fields of interest Forscher, Praktiker for Mapping.- Development of an Optical Three-Ax- Coding and Information Theory; Group Theory and Type of publication is Tactile Sensor for Object Handing Tasks in Hu- Generalizations; Information and Communication, Monograph manoid Robot Navigation System.- Clustering Meth- Circuits; Mathematical and Computational Physics; ods in Flock Traffic Navigation Based on Negoti- Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analy- ation.- Using Learned Features from 3D Data for sis Due June 2007 Robot [..] Target groups 2007. 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A.L. Murphy, FBK-IRST-SRA, Povo, Italy; J. Vitek, Purdue Universi- A. Myatt, GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, USA B. Möller, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; U. Reuter, ty, West Lafayette, IN, USA (Eds.) Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Coordination Models and Edition Uncertainty Forecasting in Languages Engineering

9th International Conference, COORDINATION 2007, Paphos, Cyprus, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings The open source NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a Java IDE project started by This book deals with uncertainty forecasting based Sun, which has gained tremendous market inter- on a fuzzy time series approach, including fuzzy random processes and artificial neural networks. A con- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of est and momentum of late, and is closing the gap sideration of data and measurement uncertainty en- the 9th International Conference on Coordination between itself and the most popular, leading open hances forecasting in a wide range of applications, Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2007, source Java IDE, Eclipse. Pro NetBeans aims to pub- particularly in the fields of engineering, environmen- held in Paphos, Cyprus, in June 2007, as one of the lish on the NetBeans Java IDE, a market that is now tal science and civil engineering. Uncertain data are federated conferences on Distributed Computing underrepresented in the marketplace, unlike the near described by means of a new incremental fuzzy rep- Techniques, DisCoTec 2007. The 17 revised full pa- saturation of Eclipse books. Specifically, this book resentation which permits a complete and accurate pers presented were carefully reviewed and select- aims to be first to market on the new NetBeans 5.5 estimation of uncertainty. The book is aimed at en- ed from 51 submissions. The subject-matter is how Java IDE, based on the relatively new Java EE 5 plat- gineers as well as professionals working in related to increase modularity, simplify reasoning, and ulti- form and J2SE 5. Intended for Java developers of fields. Descriptive, modeling and forecasting meth- mately enhance today's software development by ex- varying skill who may or may not be familiar with ods pertaining to fuzzy time series are introduced ploring the spectrum of languages, middleware, ser- Netbeans IDE or Java IDEs in general. Netbeans IDE and explained in detail. Emphasis is placed on fore- vices, and algorithms. The papers are organized in is an amazing tool for rapidly developing Java appli- casting with the aid of fuzzy random processes, such topical sections on middleware, logic programming, cations. as fuzzy ARMA processes and fuzzy white-noise pro- formal approaches, concurrency, components and Features cesses, as well as forecasting based on artificial neural services, as well as MANets. First book to market on the new NetBeans 5.5 Java networks. All numerical algorithms are comprehen- Fields of interest IDE, based on the relatively new Java EE 5 platform sively described and demonstrated by way of practi- Software Engineering; Special Purpose and Appli- and J2SE 5 NetBeans is the second leading open cal examples. cation-Based Systems; Programming Techniques; source Java IDE, second to only Eclipse currently Features Computation by Abstract Devices; Artificial Intelli- Focuses on using Netbeans as a professional soft- Fuzzy time series can be applied in many fields in gence (incl. Robotics) ware development platform. 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C. Müller (Ed.) C. Müller, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, M. Müller, University of Bonn, Germany USA (Ed.) Speaker Classification II Information Retrieval for Music and Speaker Classification I Selected Papers Motion Fundamentals, Features, and Methods

As well as conveying a message in words and sounds, A general scenario that has attracted a lot of atten- the speech signal carries information about the As well as conveying a message in words and sounds, tion for multimedia information retrieval is based speaker's own anatomy, physiology, linguistic expe- the speech signal carries information about the on the query-by-example paradigm: retrieve all doc- rience and mental state. These speaker characteris- speaker's own anatomy, physiology, linguistic experi- uments from a database containing parts or aspects tics are found in speech at all levels of description: ence and mental state. These speaker characteristics similar to a given data fragment. However, multi- from the spectral information in the sounds to the are found in speech at all levels of description: from media objects, even though they are similar from a choice of words and utterances themselves. This two the spectral information in the sounds to the choice structural or semantic viewpoint, often reveal sig- volume set, LNAI 4343 and LNAI 4441, constitutes a of words and utterances themselves. This volume nificant spatial or temporal differences. This makes state-of-the-art survey for the field of speaker classi- and its companion volume, LNAI 4441, constitute content-based multimedia retrieval a challenging re- fication. It approaches the following questions: What a state-of-the-art survey for the field of speaker clas- search field with many unsolved problems. Meinard characteristics of the speaker become manifest in his sification. They approach the following questions: Müller details concepts and algorithms for robust or her voice and speaking behavior? Which of them What characteristics of the speaker become manifest and efficient information retrieval by means of two can be inferred from analyzing the acoustic realiza- in his or her voice and speaking behavior? Which of different types of multimedia data: waveform-based tions? What can this information be used for? Which them can be inferred from analyzing the acoustic re- music data and human motion data. In Part I, he dis- methods are the most suitable for diversified prob- alizations? What can this information be used for? cusses in depth several approaches in music informa- lems in this area of research? How should the quali- Which methods are the most suitable for diversified tion retrieval, in particular general strategies as well ty of the results be evaluated? The 22 articles of the problems in this area of research? How should the as efficient algorithms for music synchronization, second volume comprise a number of selected self- quality of the results be evaluated? The 19 contribu- audio matching, and audio structure analysis. He al- contained papers on research projects in the field of tions to this volume comprise general and overview- so shows how the analysis results can be used in an speaker classification. These [..] like articles that are organized in topical sections on advanced audio player to facilitate [..] fundamentals, [..] Fields of interest Features Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Language Fields of interest First monograph specializing in music and motion Translation and Linguistics; User Interfaces and Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Language retrieval Details concepts and algorithms for ro- Human Computer Interaction; Pattern Recog- Translation and Linguistics; User Interfaces and bust and efficient information retrieval for wave- nition; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Human Computer Interaction; Pattern Recog- form-based music data and human motion data Em- Signal,Image and Speech Processing nition; Image Processing and Computer Vision; phasizes the interdisciplinary character by combin- Signal,Image and Speech Processing ing elements from information science, digital signal Target groups processing, audio engineering, musicology, and com- Researchers and professionals Target groups puter graphics Highly didactic presentation which Researchers and professionals makes each part [..] Type of publication Proceedings Type of publication Contents Proceedings 1) Introduction.- Part I: Analysis and Retrieval Tech- Due August 2007 niques for Music Data.- 2) Fundamentals on Music Due August 2007 and Audio Data - 3) Pitch- and Chroma-based Au- dio Features - 4) Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) 2007. 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W.G. Müller, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria J. Münch, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany; P. Abra- B. Mütterlein hamsson, VTT Electronics, Oulu, Finland (Eds.) Collecting Spatial Data Handbuch für die Programmierung Product-Focused Software Process mit LabVIEW Optimum Design of Experiments for Random Fields Improvement mit Studentenversion LabVIEW 8 8th International Conference, PROFES 2007, Riga, Latvia, July The book is concerned with the statistical theory 2-4, 2007, Proceedings for locating spatial sensors. It bridges the gap be- Mit dem vorliegenden Handbuch für die Program- tween spatial statistics and optimum design theo- mierung mit LabVIEW werden Sie in die systematis- ry. After introductions to those two fields the topics This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the che Software-Entwicklung mit LabVIEW eingeführt. of exploratory designs and designs for spatial trend 8th International Conference on Product Focused Das Buch gibt eine geschlossene Darstellung in die and variogram estimation are treated. Special atten- Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2007, held Programmierung mit LabVIEW, beginnend mit tion is devoted to describing new methodologies to in Riga, Latvia in July 2007. The 29 revised full pa- einer grundlegenden Einführung bis hin zur Be- cope with the problem of correlated observations. pers presented together with 4 reports on workshops handlung von Software-Konzepten, die auch die A great number of relevant references are collect- and tutorials and 4 keynote addresses were careful- Realisierung umfangreicherer Software-Projek- ed and put into a common perspective. The theo- ly reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The te ermöglichen. Es richtet sich gleichermaßen an retical investigations are accompanied by a practi- papers constitute a balanced mix of academic and Studierende an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen cal example, the redesign of an Upper-Austrian air industrial aspects; they are organized in topical sec- sowie an Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler in pollution monitoring network. A reader should be tions on global software development, software pro- der Praxis. Das Buch behandelt drei Themenbere- able to find respective theory and recommendations cess improvement, software process modeling and iche. Im ersten werden die für die Software-Entwick- on how to efficiently plan a specific purpose spatial evolution, industrial experiences, agile software de- lung wesentlichen Grundlagen aus Sicht der Infor- monitoring network. The third edition takes into velopment, software measurement, simulation and matik kurz zusammengefasst. Im zweiten erfolgt account the rapid development in the area of decision support, processes and methods. eine ausführliche Einführung in die Entwicklung- spatial statistics by including new relevant research sumgebung LabVIEW und die Programmerstellung. and references. The revised edition contains addi- Fields of interest Danach werden Strukturen und Datentypen behan- tional material on design for detecting spatial [..] Software Engineering; Management of Computing delt. Weiterhin wird auch auf die Dateieingabe und - and Information Systems; Computers and Society; ausgabe sowie auf die Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten der Features Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing Book bridges the gap between spatial statistics and Bedienoberfläche eingegangen. Im dritten Themen- optimum design theory New edition includes new Target groups bereich wird [..] relevant research and references Researchers and professionals Features Contents Type of publication - das fundierte Werk zur aktuellen Version - vom Introduction.- Fundamentals of Spatial Statistics.- Proceedings Einsteiger zum LabVIEW-Ingenieur - als Lehrbuch Fundamentals of Experimental Design.- Exploratory und Nachschlagewerk verwendbar - mit Vielzahl von Abbildungen und Beispielen - mit zweisprachigem Designs.- Designs for Spatial Trend Estimation.- De- Due June 2007 sign and Dependence.- Multipurpose Designs.- Ap- Index - Schnelleinstieg für Leser mit Vorkenntnis- pendix. sen - Machen Sie aus LabVIEW mehr als nur ein 2007. XII, 414 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4589) Messtechnik-Tool! ------Abgren- Fields of interest Softcover zung zu Jamal: fundierter, auch LabVIEW-Entwick- lung für umfangreiche [..] Regional Science; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, 59,92 € Computer Science, Chemistry & Geosciences; Math. ISBN 978-3-540-73459-8 Appl. in Environmental Science; Math. Applica- Fields of interest tions in Geosciences; Statistics for Business/Eco- Electronic and Computer Engineering; Computer nomics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance Science, general; Control Engineering

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A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan; S. M. Naor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (Ed.) N. Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; L.d. Macedo Kurihara, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; H. Nakashima, Future Mourelle, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil University Hakodate, Hakodate Hokkaido, Japan (Eds.) Advances in Cryptology - Co-Design for System Acceleration Emergent Intelligence of EUROCRYPT 2007 A Quantitative Approach Networked Agents 26th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Ap- plications of Cryptographic Techniques, Barcelona, Spain, May 20-24, 2007, Proceedings In this book, we are concerned with studying the co- design methodology, in general, and how to deter- Features mine the more suitable interface mechanism in a co- Contains the latest research on Emergent Intelli- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the design system, in particular. This will be based on gence of Networked Agents 26th Annual International Conference on the The- ory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, the characteristics of the application and those of the Contents EUROCRYPT 2007, held in Barcelona, Spain in May target architecture of the system. We provide guide- Incremental Development of Networked Intelligence 2007. The 33 revised full papers presented were care- lines to support the designer's choice of the interface in Flocking Behavior.- Emergence and Software de- fully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions. mechanism. velopment Based on a Survey of Emergence Defi- The papers address all current foundational, theo- Features nitions.- The Impact of Network Model on Perfor- retical and research aspects of cryptology, cryptogra- Written by an academic but is applicable to profes- mance of Load-balancing.- Auction-Based Resource phy, and cryptanalysis as well as advanced applica- sionals from industry Topics as co-design method- Reservation Game in Small World.- Navigational In- tions. ology and how to determine the more suitable inter- formation as Emergent Intelligence of Spontaneous- face mechanism in a co-design system are discussed ly Structuring Web Space.- From Agents to Commu- Fields of interest Will be based on the characteristics of the applica- nities: A Meta-model for Community Computing in Data Encryption; Computer Communication Net- tion and those of the target architecture of the system Multi-Agent System.- The effects of market structure works; Systems and Data Security; Algorithm Analy- sis and Problem Complexity; Discrete Mathematics on a heterogeneous evolving population of traders.- Contents in Computer Science; Management of Computing Analysis on Transport Networks of Railway, Subway List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface.- 1: introduc- and Information Systems and [..] tion.- 2: co-design methodology.- 3: The co-design system.- 4: VHDL modeling of a co-design system.- Fields of interest Target groups 5: shared memory configuration.- 6: dual-port mem- Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- Researchers and professionals ory configuration.- 7: cache memory configuration.- neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Type of publication 8: advanced topics and further research.- Appen- Target groups Proceedings dices. References. Index. Researchers, engineers, graduate students in compu- Fields of interest tational intelligence, computer science Due May 2007 Circuits and Systems; Computer Hardware; Com- Type of publication puter Systems Organization and Communication 2007. XIII, 591 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Monograph Networks; Memory Structures; Processor Architec- er Science, Band 4515) Softcover tures

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N. Nedjah, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; A. N. Nedjah, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; L.d.S. N.T. Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Coelho, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil; L.d.M. Trondheim, Norway; L.d.M. Mourelle, Universidade do Estado do Mourelle, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Eds.) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Eds.) Advanced Methods for Inconsistent Mobile Robots: The Evolutionary Knowledge Management Computational Intelligence in Approach Information Assurance and Security The need for resolution of knowledge inconsistency arises in many practical applications of comput- The design and control of autonomous intelligent er systems. This kind of inconsistency results from The global economic infrastructure is becoming in- mobile robotic systems operating in unstructured the use of various resources of knowledge in real- creasingly dependent upon information technology, changing environments includes many objective dif- izing practical tasks. These resources often are au- with computer and communication technology be- ficulties. There are several studies about the ways tonomous and use different mechanisms for pro- ing essential and vital components of Government in which, robots exhibiting some degree of autono- cessing knowledge about the same real world. This facilities, power plant systems, medical infrastruc- my, adapt themselves to fit in their environments. can lead to inconsistency. This book provides a wide tures, financial centers and military installations to The application and use of bio-inspired and intelli- snapshot of intelligent technologies for inconsisten- name a few. Finding effective ways to protect infor- gent techniques such as reinforcement learning, ar- cy resolution. Features and topics include: Knowl- mation systems, networks and sensitive data within tificial neural networks, evolutionary computation edge inconsistency resolving; consensus and con- the critical information infrastructure is challenging and so forth in the design and improvement of robot flict theories; inconsistency of knowledge – syntactic even with the most advanced technology and trained designs is an emergent research topic. Researchers and semantic; methods based on inconsistency mea- professionals. This volume provides the academic have obtained robots that display an amazing slew of sures for inconsistency processing; knowledge con- and industrial community with a medium for pre- behaviours and perform a multitude of tasks. These flict profiles; conflicts of ontologies; practical aspects senting original research and applications related to include perception of environment, planning and of applications of proposed methods. This book information assurance and security using computa- navigation in rough terrain, pushing boxes, negoti- presents state-of-the-art research, filling a void in the tional intelligence techniques. The included chap- ating an obstacle course, etc. This volume offers a literature within the field and offers researchers and ters communicate current research on information wide spectrum of sample works developed in leading graduates an invaluable source of reference on the assurance and security regarding both the theoreti- research throughout the world about evolutionary topic. cal and methodological aspects, as well as various ap- mobile robotics and demonstrates the success of the plications in solving real world information security technique in evolving efficient and capable mobile Features problems using computational intelligence. robots. Currently no other book on Inconsistent Knowledge Management Several methods based on Consensus Features Features Computing are presented as a tool for reconciling in- Presents recent advances of Computational Intelli- Everything about evolutionary computation in prac- consistency of knowledge Offers methods for pro- gence in Information Assurance and Security tice cessing inconsistent knowledge on syntactic and semantic levels, as well as for resolving inconsistency Contents Contents of ontologies Several applications of proposed meth- Cryptography and Cryptanalysis Through Computa- Part I Evolutionary Mobile Robots.- Differential ods are given tional Intelligence.- Multimedia Content Protection Evolution Approach Using Chaotic Sequences Ap- Based on Chaotic Neural Networks.- Evolutionary plied to Planning of Mobile Robot in a Static Envi- Contents Regular Substitution Boxes.- Industrial Applications ronment with Obstacles.- Evolving Modular Robots Inconsistency of Knowledge: Introduction.- Mod- Using Wavelet Packets for Gross Error Detection.- for Rough Terrain Exploration.- Evolutionary Nav- el of Knowledge on Conflict.- Consensus as a Tool Immune-inspired Algorithm for Anomaly Detec- igation of Autonomous Robots Under Varying Ter- for Conflict Solving.- Model for Knowledge Integra- tion.- How to Efficiently Process Uncertainty with- rain Conditions.- Aggregate Selection in Evolution- tion.- Processing Inconsistency on Syntactic Level.- in a Cyberinfrastructure without Sacrificing Priva- ary Robotics.-Evolving Fuzzy Classifier for Novel- Processing Inconsistency on Semantic Level.- Con- cy and Confidentiality.- Fingerprint Recognition Us- ty Detection and Landmark Recognition by Mobile sensus for Fuzzy Conflict Profiles.- Processing In- ing a Hierarchical Approach.- Smart Card Security.- Robots.- Part II Learning Mobile Robots.- Reinforce- consistency of Expert Knowledge.- Ontology Inte- Governance of Information Security: New Paradigm ment Learning for Autonomous Robotic Fish.- Mod- gration.- Application of Inconsistency Resolution of Security Management. ule-based Autonomous Learning for Mobile Robots.- Methods in Intelligent Learning Systems.- Process- A Hybrid [..] Fields of interest ing Inconsistency in Information Retrieval.- Conclu- sions. 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N.T. Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland; A. G. Nicolescu, École Polytechnique de Montréal, QC, Canada; A.A. S. Nikiel, University of Zielona Góra, Poland Grzech, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland; R.J. Howlett, Jerraya, CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France University of Brighton, UK; L.C. Jain, University of South Australia, SA, Australia (Eds.) Iterated Function Systems for Real- Global Specification and Validation Time Image Synthesis Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: of Embedded Systems Technologies and Applications Integrating Heterogeneous Components Natural phenomena can be visually described with First KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2007, Wro- fractal-geometry methods, where iterative proce- claw, Poland, May 31-June 1, 2007, Proceedings dures rather than equations are used to model ob- Global Specification and Validation of Embedded jects. With the development of better modelling al- Systems offers a deep understanding of concepts and gorithms, the efficiency of rendering, the realism of practices behind the composition of heterogeneous This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the computer-generated scenes and the interactivity of components. After the analysis of existing computa- First International Symposium on Agent and Mul- visual stimuli are reaching astonishing levels. Iterat- tion and execution models used for the specification ti-Agent Systems - Technologies and Applications, ed Function Systems for Real-Time Image Synthe- and validation of different sub-systems, the book in- KES-AMSTA 2007, held in Wroclaw, Poland in sis gives an explanation of iterated function systems troduces a systematic approach to build an execu- May/June 2007. China in November 2006. The 110 and how to use them in generation of complex ob- tion model for systems composed of heterogeneous revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and jects. Contents include: Discussion of the most pop- components. Mixed continuous/discrete and hard- selected from 464 submissions and contain 4 papers ular fractal models applied in the field of image syn- ware/software systems will be used to illustrate these from the doctoral track, and 38 papers from 3 spe- thesis. Presentation of iterated function system mod- concepts. The benefit of reading this book is to give cial sessions. The papers are organized in topical sec- els, including recent developments in IFS representa- a clear vision on the theory and practice of specifications representing the following conference tracks: tion. Exploration of algorithms for creating and mation and validation of complex modern systems. The methodological aspects of agent systems, agent-ori- nipulating fractal objects, and techniques for imple- examples give to the designers solutions applicable in ented Web applications, mobility aspects of agent menting the algorithms. Use of practical examples their daily practice. systems and ontology management, multi-agent re- to demonstrate the implementation and application source allocation, negotiating agents, agents for net- Features of IFS models. The book contains both a description work management, agent approaches to robotic sys- Offers a deep understanding of concepts and prac- text and pseudo-code samples for the convenience tems, market agents and other applications; the doc- tices behind the composition of heterogeneous com- [..] toral track; special sessions on mobile agent applica- ponents Introduces a systematic approach to build Features tion and its development, agent on networked media an execution model for systems composed of hetero- First book on identification of a class of Iterated and its applications on next-generation convergence geneous components Mixed continuous/discrete and Function Systems applied in Real-time Computer network, as well as on intelligent and secure agent hardware/software systems will be used to illustrate Graphics Includes an extension of the classical IFS for [..] these concepts. Gives a clear vision on the theory and model to n-D case and integration of fractal and vec- practice of specification and validation of complex Fields of interest tor models modern [..] Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Contents Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Data Mining Contents Introduction.- Image Models for Fractals.- Frac- and Knowledge Discovery; Computer Appl. in Ad- 1. Introduction.- 2. Heterogeneous Systems Model- tal Models for Image Synthesis – a Survey.- Iterat- ministrative Data Processing; User Interfaces and ing. Basic Concepts.- 3. Execution Models.- 4. Het- ed Function Systems – the Model.- Inverse Prob- Human Computer Interaction; Computers and Soci- erogeneous Systems Validation Based On Execution lem – the Collage Theorem.- IFS Rendering Algo- ety Models.- 5. Anatomy Of A Hardware/Software Exe- rithms.- nD Iterated Function Systems and their Ap- cution Model In Heterogeneous Systems.- 6. Anato- Target groups plications.- Conclusions, Directions for Future De- my Of A Continuous/Discrete System Execution Researchers and professionals velopment.- References.- Appendix A: Acknowledge- Model For Timed Execution Of Heterogeneous Sys- ments.- Appendix B: Abbreviations.- Appendix C: tems.- 7. Methodology For Heterogeneous Systems Type of publication Index.- Appendix D: Figure Plates. Proceedings Validation. Fields of interest Fields of interest Computer Graphics; Image Processing and Comput- Due May 2007 Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engineering er Vision (CAD, CAE) and Design; Simulation and Modeling; 2007. XXI, 1046 p. Also available online. 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AAMAS 2006 and ECAI 2006 International Workshops, COIN Processor Design provides insight into a number of JBoss Seam represents the primary counter to the 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006 Riva del Garda, Italy, Au- different flavors of processor architectures and their hot and successful Spring Framework and perhaps gust 28, 2006, Revised Selected Papers design, software tool generation, implementation, even Ruby on Rails framework. The open source and verification. After a brief introduction to proces- lightweight Java EE 5 standards based JBoss Seam sor architectures and how processor designers have framework is a part of this second wave of open sometimes failed to deliver what was expected, the source lightweight Java that’s taking place. Begin- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- authors introduce a generic flow for embedded on- ning JBoss Seam: From Novice to Professional aims proceedings of the International Workshop on Co- chip processor design and start to explore the vast to take advantage of this hot area, and aims to be first ordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms design space of on-chip processing. The types of pro- beginning book and one of maybe two books to marin Agent Systems, COIN 2006, held as two events at cessor cores covered include general purpose RISC ket in this likely lucrative area. This book gives an AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Confer- cores, traditional DSP, a VLIW approach to signal overview of Seam related JSF and EJB 3 as found in ence on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Sys- processing, processor cores that can be customized Java EE 5; provides information on the tools to make tems in Hakodate, Japan, and ECAI 2006, the 17th for specific applications, reconfigurable processors, development with Seam easier as well as a function- European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Ri- protocol processors, Java engines, and stream pro- ing in depth demo to truly learn how to use Seam; va del Garda, Italy. This volume is the second in a se- cessors. Co-processor and multi-core design ap- and gives tips and tricks to using Seam. ries focussing on issues in Coordination, Organiza- proaches that deliver application-specific perfor- tions, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent mance over and above that which is available from Features systems. The 23 papers in this volume are extended, single-core designs are also described. Aims to be first (beginning) book (or one of two) to revised versions of papers presented at the two work- market on this key emerging open source lightweight shops that were carefully selected during two rounds Features Java EE 5 standards-based JBoss Seam framework of reviewing and improvement. The papers are orga- Design and customization of embedded on-chip pro- Gives users an overview of JSF and EJB 3 as found in nized in topical sections on modelling and analyzing cessors is an essential part of SoC development ASIC Java EE 5 Provides information on the tools they can organizations, modelling and analyzing institutions, and FPGA engineers have to understand processor use to make development with Seam easier as well as normative models and issues, norm evolution and architecture and implementation Understanding a functioning in depth demo so users can truly learn dynamics, as well as autonomy, coordination and so- processor design options has become crucial for ev- how to use Seam Gives tips and tricks to using Seam cial order. ery digital design professional Contents Fields of interest Contents Background and Introduction.- Sample Applica- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Software En- Preface. List of Contributing Authors. 1. Introduc- tion.- What is Seam.- JSF.- EJB 3.- Integrating with gineering; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Pro- tion. 2 Embedded Computer Architecture Funda- Seam.- Advanced Seam.- Seam Development Tools gramming Techniques; Computer Communication mentals. 3.Beyond the Valley of the Lost Processors. and Plug-ins. Networks; Programming Languages, Compilers, In- 4. Processor Design Flow. 5. General-Purpose Em- terpreters bedded Processor Cores. 6. The DSP and It's Impact Fields of interest on Technology. 7. VLIW DSP Processor for High- Programming Techniques; Programming Languages, Target groups End Mobile Communication Applications. 8. Cus- Compilers, Interpreters Researchers and professionals tomizable Processors and Processor Customization. 9. Run-Time Reconfigurable Processors. 10. Co-pro- Target groups Type of publication Intermediate to advanced Java programmers Proceedings cessor Approach to Accelerating Multimedia Appli- cations. 11. Designing Soft-Core Processors for FP- Type of publication GAs. 12. Protocol Processor Design Issues. 13. Java Due September 2007 Professional book [..]

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J. Olhager, Linköping University, Sweden; F. Persson, Linköping N. Olivetti, Université Paul Cézanne, France (Ed.) A. Olivé, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain University, Sweden (Eds.) Automated Reasoning with Analytic Conceptual Modeling of Advances in Production Tableaux and Related Methods Information Systems Management Systems 16th International Conference, TABLEAUX 2007, Aix en International IFIP TC 5, WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Provence, France, July 3-6, 2007, Proceedings Production Management Systems (APMS 2007), September When designing an information system, conceptual 17-19, Linköping, Sweden modeling is the activity that elicits and describes the general knowledge the system needs to know. This This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the description, called the conceptual schema, is neces- 16th International Conference on Automated Rea- sary in order to develop an information system. 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The perspectives on production in the wide range of logics; from intuitionistic and explains in detail the principles of conceptual model- management systems are getting more strategic. A substructural logics to modal logics (including tem- ing independently from particular methods and lan- more integrated approach is thus called for, bring- poral and dynamic logics), from many-valued log- guages and shows how to apply them in real-world ing together the various perspectives on production ics to nonmonotonic logics, from classical first-or- projects. He covers all aspects of the engineering pro- management systems and operations strategy. This der logic to description logics. 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Software Architecture Cryptographic Hardware and Affective Computing and Intelligent

First European Conference, ECSA 2007, Madrid, Spain, Embedded Systems - CHES 2007 Interaction September 24-26, 2007, Proceedings 9th International Workshop, Vienna, Austria, Speptember Second International Conference, ACII 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, 10-13, 2007, Proceedings September 12-14, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First European Conference on Software Architec- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ture, ECSA 2007, held in Aranjuez, Spain, Septem- the 9th International Workshop on Cryptograph- Second International Conference on Affective Com- ber 24-26, 2007. The 12 revised long papers present- ic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2007, puting and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2007, held ed together with 4 short papers were carefully re- held in Vienna, Austria, September 10-13, 2007. The in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2007. The 57 reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. Topics in- 31 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and vised full papers and 4 revised short papers present- clude description languages and metamodels, archi- selected from 99 submissions. The papers are orga- ed together with the extended abstracts of 33 poster tecture-based code generation, run-time monitoring, nized in topical sections on side channels, low re- papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 151 requirements engineering, service-oriented architec- sources, hardware attacks and countermeasures, submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- tures, aspect-oriented software architectures, ontol- special purpose hardware, efficient algorithms for tions on affective facial expression and recognition, ogy-based approaches, autonomic systems, middle- embedded processors, side channels, hardware at- affective body expression and recognition, affective ware and web services. tacks and countermeasures, efficient hardware, trust- speech processing, affective text and dialogue pro- Fields of interest ed computing, side channels, hardware attacks and cessing, recognising affect using physiological mea- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating countermeasures, as well as efficient hardware. sures, computational models of emotion and theo- Systems; Software Engineering; Models and Prin- retical foundations, affective databases, annotations, Fields of interest ciples; Programming Languages, Compilers, Inter- tools and languages, affective sound and music pro- Data Encryption; Computer Communication Net- preters cessing, affective interactions: systems and applica- works; Special Purpose and Application-Based Sys- tions, as well as evaluating affective systems. Target groups tems; Logic Design; Operating Systems; Manage- Researchers and professionals ment of Computing and Information Systems Fields of interest Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Type of publication Target groups Recognition; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Proceedings Researchers and professionals Recognition and Graphics; User Interfaces and Hu- man Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence Type of publication (incl. Robotics) Due September 2007 Proceedings Target groups 2007. XVI, 340 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4758) Due August 2007 Researchers and professionals Softcover Type of publication 55,64 € 2007. XIV, 468 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4727) Proceedings ISBN 978-3-540-75131-1 Softcover 64,20 € Due August 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-74734-5 2007. XVIII, 781 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4738) Softcover

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J.-S. Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, D. Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, O. Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain; J.C. Molina, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; H.-C. Huang, National University of Kaohsi- Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong; D. Zhang, Northeastern University, CARE Technologies, S.A., Spain ung, Taiwan; L.C. Jain, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Boston, MA, USA; G. Kollios, Boston University, MA, USA (Eds.) Australia; W.-C. Fang, California Institute of Technology, Pasede- na, CA, USA (Eds.) Model-Driven Architecture in Advances in Spatial and Temporal Practice Intelligent Multimedia Data Hiding Databases A Software Production Environment Based on Conceptual New Directions 10th International Symposium, SSTD 2007, Boston, MA, USA, Modeling July 16.-18, 2007, Proceedings

This book presents the latest research in the area of Formal specification languages, object-oriented The refereed proceedings of the 10th Internation- multimedia data hiding paradigms. The book is di- methods, CASE tools, component-based software al Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, vided into four parts and an appendix. The first part production, agent-oriented, aspect-oriented ... Dur- SSTD 2007, held in Boston, MA, USA in July 2007. introduces multimedia signal processing and infor- ing the last two decades many techniques have been The 26 revised full papers were thoroughly reviewed mation hiding techniques. It includes multimedia proposed from both research and industry in or- and selected from a total of 76 submissions. The pa- representation, need for multimedia, digital water- der to generate a correct software product from a pers are classified in the following categories, each marking fundamentals and requirements of water- higher-level system specification. Nevertheless, the corresponding to a conference session: continuous marking. The second part describes the recent ad- many failures in achieving this goal have resulted in monitoring, indexing and query processing, mining, vances in multimedia signal processing. The third scepticism when facing any new proposal that offers aggregation and interpolation, semantics and model- part presents information hiding techniques includ- a "press the button, get all the code" strategy. And ing, privacy, uncertainty and approximation, streaming steganography, secret sharing and watermark- now the hype around OMG’s MDA has given a new ing data, distributed systems, and spatial networks. ing. The final part of this book includes practical push to these strategies. Oscar Pastor and Juan Car- applications of intelligent multimedia signal pro- los Molina combine a sound theoretical approach Fields of interest based on more than 10 years’ research with industri- cessing and data hiding systems. Appendix includes Database Management; Computer Applications source codes and/or executables related to the top- al strength and practical software development ex- in Geosciences; Data Mining and Knowledge perience. They present a software process based on ics in some chapters. Interested readers are invited to Discovery; Information Systems Applications use these programs. model transformation technology, thus making the (incl.Internet); Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); statement "the model is the code" – instead of the Information Systems Features common "the code is the model" – finally come true. They clearly explain which conceptual primitives Latest research into the application of advanced in- Target groups should be [..] telligent paradigms in assistive and preventive tech- Researchers and professionals nology in healthcare Features Type of publication Benefit from the exploitation of sound research Contents Proceedings Part I Fundamentals of Multimedia Signal Process- through industrial tools Learn how to build a con- ing and Information Hiding.- An Introduction to In- ceptual model integrating data, behavior, and inter- telligent Multimedia Data Hiding.- Part II Advances Due June 2007 action Adopt the industry leader's approach to using in Multimedia Signal Processing.- Digital Video MDA in real-world projects Find additional related Coding – Techniques and Standards.- Advances of 2007. X, 479 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4605) product information and tool support under http:// MPEG Scalable Video Coding Standard.- Part III Softcover www.care-t.com/index.asp Various Data Hiding Techniques.- A Bit-Level Vi- sual Secret Sharing Scheme for Multi-Secret Images 64,20 € Contents Using Rotation and Reversion Operations.- Adaptive ISBN 978-3-540-73539-7 The OO-Method and Software Production from Data Hiding Scheme for Palette Images.- GIS Water- Models.- Conceptual Modeling: About the Problem marking: Hiding Data in 2D Vector Maps.- Adaptive Space.- Conceptual Model Compilation: From the Embedding and Detection for Improved Video [..] Problem Space to the Solution Space.- Conclusions, References. Fields of interest Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of En- Fields of interest gineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Software Engineering; Information Systems Applica- Biomedical Engineering; Health Informatics & tions (incl.Internet); Computer-Aided Engineering Health Administration; Computer Applications (CAD, CAE) and Design; Simulation and Modeling; Models and Principles Target groups Researchers, engineers, graduate students in compu- Target groups tational intelligence, and healthcare Professionals, advanced undergraduate and graduate students of software engineering and information Type of publication systems Monograph Type of publication Professional book Due May 2007

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S. Patnaik, Interscience Institute of Management & Technology, C. Pautasso, IBM Zurich, Switzerland; C. Bussler, BEA Systems Inc., C. Pelachaud, J.-C. Martin, E. André, G. Chollet, K. Karpouzis, D. Bhubaneswar, India San Francisco, CA, USA (Eds.) Pelé (Eds.)

Robot Cognition and Navigation Emerging Web Services Technology Intelligent Virtual Agents

An Experiment with Mobile Robots 7th International Working Conference, IVA 2007, Paris, France, September 17-19, 2007, Proceedings This book contains initial results of innovative and sometimes controversial emerging Web services re- In this book the author employs a cybernetic view search ideas. It covers a wide spectrum of active re- of robot cognition and perception as he examines This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of search areas like Model Driven Engineering for SOA, mobile robot simulations, realizations and experi- the 7th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtu- Mobility and Services, Dynamic Web Service Dis- ments, and explains the related mathematical modal Agents, IVA 2007, held in Paris, France, Septem- covery and Composition, Service Management, and els and algorithms. Chapters are dedicated to map ber 17-19, 2007. The 19 revised full papers and 12 re- Semantic Web, just to name a few. As Web services building, path planning, navigation using genetic al- vised short papers presented together with 5 invited technology is becoming widely established in enter- gorithms, and robot programming packages. Then talks and the abstracts of 32 poster papers were care- prise computing applications, Web service research detailed chapters examine the programs required for fully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. is a very important and still very productive research robot parameter display, gripper control, sonar read- The papers are organized in topical sections on Ren- domain. This book gives a timely report on the leading display, teleoperation, autonomous navigation, dering and Analysis, Culture and Identity, Behavior ing edge of this work by collecting selected and re- image capture and 3D perception. This book will be Models, Feedback Models, Dialogues, Applications, vised papers originally presented at the Workshop useful for students and engineers building intelligent Evaluation, Gaze models and Emotions. on Emerging Web Service Technology (WEWST) robots, and researchers migrating to this field. The held in conjunction with the 4th European Confer- required source code is included in the book or avail- Fields of interest ence on Web Services (ECOWS'06) last December able online. Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); User Inter- 2006 in Zurich, Switzerland. Acting as the natural ex- faces and Human Computer Interaction; Informa- Features tension to the main ECOWS conference, the main tion Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Computers Graduates and undergraduates can have a clear and goal of the WEWST workshop is serving as a forum and Education concise understanding of the robot cognition and for providing early exposure and much needed feed- soft computing tools Researchers in this area can back to grow and [..] Target groups start developing their own program with their al- Researchers and professionals Features gorithms without wasting their time on developing Informs readers about latest innovations, develop- Type of publication front end and other elementary programs Tutors and ments and results in Web Services research Records Proceedings Professionals can use this book as their reference for the evolution of important ideas emerging in the comparing the results of various experiments Web Services field Presents advanced developments Due September 2007 Contents and visionary contributions for the future of Web Services Cybernetic View to Robot Cognition.- Map Build- 2007. 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R. Perrott, Queens University of Belfast, UK; B. Chapman, Univer- C. Peters, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy; P. Clough, University of Sheffield, J.F. Peters, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; A. sity of Houston, TX, USA; J. Subhlok, University of Houston, TX, UK; F.C. Gey, University of Cailfornia at Berkeley, CA, USA; J. Karl- Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland; I. Düntsch, Brock Uni- USA; R. Fernandes de Mello, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; L.T. gren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Stockholm, Swe- versity, St. Catharines, ON, Canada; J. Grzymala-Busse, Univer- Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada (Eds.) den; B. Magnini, FBK-irst, Trento, Italy; D.W. Oard, University of sity of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA; E. Orlowska, National Insti- Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; M. de Rijke, University of Ams- tute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland; L. Polkowski, terdam, The Netherlands; M. Stempfhuber, GESIS-IZ, Bonn, Ger- Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, High Performance Computing and many (Eds.) Poland (Eds.) Communications Evaluation of Multilingual and Transactions on Rough Sets VI Third International Conference, HPCC 2007, Houston, USA, September 26-28, 2007, Proceedings Multi-modal Information Retrieval Commemorating Life and Work of Zdislaw Pawlak, Part I 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006, Revised Select- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ed Papers The LNCS journal Transactions on Rough Sets is de- the Third International Conference on High Perfor- voted to the entire spectrum of rough sets related is- mance Computing and Communications, HPCC sues, from logical and mathematical foundations, 2007, held in Houston, USA, September 26-28, 2007. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- through all aspects of rough set theory and its ap- The 75 revised full papers presented were carefully proceedings of the 7th Workshop of the Cross-Lan- plications, such as data mining, knowledge discov- reviewed and selected from 272 submissions. The guage Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, held in Ali- ery, and intelligent information processing, to rela- papers address all current issues of parallel and dis- cante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006. The revised tions between rough sets and other approaches to tributed systems and high performance computing papers presented together with an introduction uncertainty, vagueness, and incompleteness, such as and communication as there are: networking proto- were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion fuzzy sets and theory of evidence. Volume VI of the cols, routing, and algorithms, languages and compil- in the book. The papers are organized in topical sec- Transactions on Rough Sets (TRS) commemorates ers for HPC, parallel and distributed architectures tions on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval, the life and work of Zdzislaw Pawlak (1926-2006). and algorithms, embedded systems, wireless, mobile Domain-Specifig Information Retrieval, i-CLEF, His legacy is rich and varied. Prof. Pawlak's research and pervasive computing, Web services and internet QA@CLEF, ImageCLEF, CLSR, WebCLEF and Geo- contributions have had far-reaching implications computing, peer-to-peer computing, grid and cluster CLEF. inasmuch as his works are fundamental in establish- computing, reliability, fault-tolerance, and security, ing new perspectives for scientific research in a wide performance evaluation and measurement, tools and Fields of interest spectrum of fields. This volume of the TRS presents environments for software development, distributed Information Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intelli- papers that reflect the profound influence of a num- systems and applications, database applications and gence (incl. Robotics); Information Systems Applica- ber of research initiatives by Professor Pawlak. In data mining, biological/molecular computing, col- tions (incl.Internet); Language Translation and Lin- particular, this volume introduces a number of new laborative and cooperative environments, and pro- guistics; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery advances in the foundations and applications of [..] gramming [..] Target groups Fields of interest Fields of interest Researchers and professionals Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Compu- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating tation by Abstract Devices; Artificial Intelligence (in- Systems; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complex- Type of publication cl. Robotics); Database Management; Image Process- ity; Computer Communication Networks; Mathe- Proceedings ing and Computer Vision matics of Computing; Information Systems Appli- cations (incl.Internet); Computational Mathematics Due September 2007 Target groups and Numerical Analysis Researchers and professionals

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J.F. Peters, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MN, Canada; A. K. Peters, Brightcove, Somerville, MA, USA M. Petkovic, Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The Nether- Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland; V.W. Marek, University of lands; W. Jonker, Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA; E. Orlowska, National Institute of Netherlands (Eds.) Telcommunications, Warsaw, Poland; R. Slowinski, Poznan Uni- Foundation ActionScript 3.0 versity of Technology, Poland; W. Ziarko, University of Regina, Wascana Parkway, SK, Canada (Eds.) Animation Security, Privacy and Trust in Making Things Move! Modern Data Management Transactions on Rough Sets VII

Commemorating the Life and Work of Zdzislaw Pawlak, Part II ActionScript animation (rather than tweened anima- The vision of ubiquitous computing and ambient in- tion created within the Flash IDE) is a very popular telligence describes a world of technology which is discipline for Flash developers to learn, as it allows present anywhere, anytime in the form of smart, sen- The LNCS journal Transactions on Rough Sets is for the creation of smaller, more realistic, more dy- sible devices that communicate with each other and devoted to the entire spectrum of rough sets relat- namic, animated Flash movies, with realistic physics, provide personalized services. However, associated ed issues, from logical and mathematical founda- such as gravity and collisions. This essential skill set with these benefits are concerns with respect to secu- tions, through all aspects of rough set theory and its has been learned by many Flash developers through rity issues. Open interconnected systems are much applications, such as data mining, knowledge dis- Keith Peter's best-selling ActionScript animation more vulnerable to attacks and unauthorized data covery, and intelligent information processing, to book—Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making access. Furthermore, it becomes simpler to collect, relations between rough sets and other approach- things move...... and now we've updated it to Action- store, and search personal information and endan- es to uncertainty, vagueness, and incompleteness, Script 3, Adobe's new and improved scripting lan- ger people's privacy. In the context of this menace, such as fuzzy sets and theory of evidence. Volume guage—all of the code has been updated, and some Petkovic and Jonker provide a comprehensive guide VII of the Transactions on Rough Sets (TRS) se- new techniques have been added to take advantage to data management technologies with respect to series is a sequel to volume VI of the TRS. Both vol- of ActionScript 3's new features, including including curity, privacy and trust. After the introductory part umes commemorate the life and work of Zdzislaw the display list and new event architecture. The code that offers a perspective on privacy and security is- Pawlak (1926-2006). His legacy is rich and varied. can be used with the Flash 9 IDE, Flex Builder 2, or sues in the modern digital world, the contributions Prof. Pawlak's research contributions have had far- the free Flex 2 SDK. from leading researchers are grouped into sections reaching implications inasmuch as his works have on data and system security, privacy-enhancing tech- been fundamental in establishing new perspectives Features niques, digital asset protection, and selected topics for scientific research in a wide spectrum of fields. The only definitive and authoritative book avail- on privacy and security in ambient [..] This volume of the TRS series presents papers that able on ActionScript 3 animation techniques Up- reflect the profound influence of a number of re- dated to cover ActionScript 3, and supports Flash 9, Features search initiatives by Professor Pawlak. In particular, Flex Builder 2, or the Flex SDK It's the 2nd edition Broad Introduction into Security Aspects for Mod- it introduces a [..] of a best selling ActionScript book Written by Keith ern Applications like Ambient Intelligence and Peters, author of many Flash books, and a popular Smart Devices Authors combine Academic Research Fields of interest community figure with Cutting-Edge Industrial Applications Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Compu- tation by Abstract Devices; Artificial Intelligence (in- Contents Contents cl. Robotics); Database Management; Image Process- Part I. 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D. Randall, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; R. Harper, J.-F. Raskin, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; P.S. Thiagara- F. Redmill, London, UK; T. Anderson, University of Newcastle up- Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK; M. Rouncefield, Lancaster jan, National University of Singapore (Eds.) on Tyne, UK (Eds.) University, UK Formal Modeling and Analysis of The Safety of Systems Fieldwork for Design Timed Systems Proceedings of the Fifteenth Safety-critical Systems Sympo- Theory and Practice sium, Bristol, UK, 13-15 February 2007 5th International Conference, FORMATS 2007, Salzburg, Aus- tria, October 3-5, 2007, Proceedings

This book looks at why ethnographic approaches "The Safety of Systems" contains the invited papers have been turned to in the design of computing de- presented at the fifteenth annual Safety-critical Sys- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the vices for the workplace, for the home and elsewhere. tems Symposium, held at Bristol, UK in February 5th International Conference on Formal Modeling It presents a history of ethnography, both as it was 2007. The papers included in this volume cover a and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2007, practiced before computer science picked it up and broad spectrum of important safety issues. They held in Salzburg, Austria, in October 2007. The 22 since, most especially in the CSCW and HCI do- provide a combination of industrial experience and revised full papers presented together with 3 invited mains. It examines, further, the various ethnograph- recent developments, and are presented under the talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 ic or ‘fieldwork’ frameworks currently popular, ex- headings: Interdependence of Safety and Security, submissions. The papers cover work on foundations plaining and examining what each claims and en- Demonstrating Safety, Safety Management, Trends and semantics of timed systems including timed au- tails. The focus of the book throughout is on the in Safety Case Development, Lessons in Safety As- tomata, timed Petri nets, hybrid automata, timed practical relationship between theory and practice, sessment, and High Integrity from Specification to process algebra, max-plus algebra, and probabilistic a relationship that is often misunderstood yet funda- Code. models. There are contributions on techniques, al- mental to successful design. The book is illustrated gorithms, data structures, and software tools for an- with real examples from the authors’ various experi- Features alyzing timed systems and resolving temporal con- ences in academic and commercial settings, report- Proceedings of SSS 2007 straints such as scheduling, worst-case execution ing on the use of ethnography before, during and af- time analysis, optimisation, model-checking, testing, ter design innovation and implementation. The re- Contents constraint solving, etc.; finally there are articles on sult is a book that provides the working knowledge Achieving Safety through Security Management.- applications like real-time software, hardware cir- necessary for using any kind of ethnographic ap- Towards a Unified Approach to Safety and Securi- cuits, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing proach in the design of computer technologies. ty in Automotive Systems.- Dependability-by-Con- and telecommunication. tract.- Achieving Integrated Process and Product Features Safety Arguments.- The Benefits of Electronic Safe- Fields of interest Provides a much needed overview of the field Draws ty Cases.- A Longitudinal Analysis of the Causal Fac- Logics and Meanings of Programs; Software Engi- heavily on the authors’ practical experience, provid- tors in Major Maritime Accidents in the USA and neering; Programming Languages, Compilers, Inter- ing lessons learnt Canada (1996-2006).- A Proactive Approach to En- preters; Special Purpose and Application-Based Sys- hancing Safety Culture.- Comparing and Contrasting Contents tems some of the approaches in UK and USA Safety As- Ethnography, Fieldwork and Design: Preliminary sessment Processes.- Safety Case Composition Using Target groups Remarks.- Part 1 Theoretical and Analytic Issues.- Contracts: Refinements based on Feedback from an Researchers and professionals The State of Play.- Some Perspectives.- Activity The- [..] ory, Distributed Cognition and Actor-Network The- Type of publication Fields of interest ory.- Methods for Social Investigation: Practical Is- Proceedings sues.- Ethnography and its Role in the Design Pro- Software Engineering; System Performance and cess.- Ethnography and How to do it.- Analytic Is- Evaluation Due September 2007 sues ‘what have we got?’- Commonsense and Con- text Preamble.- Organisations and Work.- Into the Target groups Home.- Conclusion.- Index.- Bibliography. 2007. X, 369 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4763) Managers in Industry, postgraduates Softcover Fields of interest Type of publication User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 55,64 € Proceedings ISBN 978-3-540-75453-4 Target groups Due March 2007 Graduates, researchers, practitioners

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Th. Reps, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA; M. Sagiv, A. Rettberg, University of Paderborn, Germany; M. Zanella, ZF M. Richter, Zühlke Engineering AG, Schlieren; M.D. Flückiger, Tel-Aviv University, Israel; J. Bauer, Technical University of Den- Lemförder GmbH, Germany; R. Domer, University of California, Berner Fachhochschule, Biel mark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark (Eds.) Irvine, CA, USA; A. Gerstlauer, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA; F. Rammig, University of Paderborn, Germany (Eds.) Usability Engineering kompakt Program Analysis and Compilation, Theory and Practice Embedded System Design: Topics, Benutzbare Software gezielt entwickeln Techniques and Trends Essays Dedicated to Reinhard Wilhelm on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday IFIP TC10 Working Conference: International Embedded Sys- Usability Engineering spielt überall dort eine Rolle, tems Symposium (IESS), May 30 - June 1, 2007, Irvine (CA), USA wo Benutzer mit interaktiven technischen Syste- men zu tun haben. Dieses Buch vermittelt einen le- Reinhard Wilhelm's career in Computer Science icht verständlichen Einstieg in die Praxis und bi- spans more than a third of a century. During this etet Ihnen das Wichtigste übersichtlich zum Nach- time, he has made numerous research contributions Over recent years, embedded systems have gained schlagen: - Die wichtigsten Methoden - Umsetzung to the areas of programming languages, compilers an enormous amount of processing power and func- im Entwicklungsprozess - Usability und Require- and compiler generators, static program analysis, tionality. Many of the formerly external compo- ments Engineering - Strategie im Unternehmen - program transformation, algorithm animation, and nents can now be integrated into a single System-on- Planung, Durchführung und Kontrolle - Checklisten, real-time systems; co-founded a company to trans- Chip. This tendency has resulted in a dramatic re- Beispiele, Denkanstöße fer some of these ideas to industry; held the Chair duction in the size and cost of embedded systems. for Programming Languages and Compiler Con- As a unique technology, the design of embedded sys- Features struction at Saarland University; and served since tems is an essential element of many innovations. - Usability Engineering kompakt bietet eine leicht its inception in 1990 as the Scientific Director of Embedded System Design: Topics, Techniques and verständliche Einführung in die Thematik und eine the International Conference and Research Cen- Trends presents the technical program of the Inter- kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Method- ter for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl. This national Embedded Systems Symposium (IESS) 2007 en und Konzepte der benutzerorientierten Produkt- Festschrift volume, published to honor Reinhard held in Irvine, California. IESS is a unique forum to und Software-Entwicklung. - Durch die Integra- Wilhelm on his 60th Birthday on June 10, 2006, in- present novel ideas, exchange timely research results, tion mit bestehenden Software Engineering Vorge- cludes 15 refereed papers by leading researchers, his and discuss the state of the art and future trends in hensmodellen und Praktiken sind die beschriebe- graduate students and research collaborators, as well the field of embedded systems. Contributors and nen Methoden direkt in der Praxis umsetzbar. - Das as current and former colleagues, who all attended participants from both industry and academia take Buch richtet sich erstmalig [..] a celebratory symposium held at Schloss Dagstuhl, active part in this symposium. The IESS conference Fields of interest Germany. 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Semantics will have an important role to play in the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IV was future development of software systems and domain 14th International Symposium on Static Analysis, developed from the fourth workshop at the Univer- specific languages, and there is a real need for an in- SAS 2007, held in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark in Au- sity of Michigan’s Center for the Study of Complex troductory book that presents the fundamental ideas gust 2007 - co-located with LOPSTR 2007, the Inter- Systems to facilitate the exchange of ideas and infor- behind these approaches; stresses their relationship national Symposium on Logic-based Program Syn- mation related to the rapidly advancing field of Ge- by formulating and proving the relevant theorems; thesis and Transformation and PLID 2007, the Inter- netic Programming (GP). Contributions from the and illustrates the applications of semantics in com- national Workshop on Programming Language In- foremost international researchers and practitioners puter science. This book investigates the relationship terference and Dependence. The 22 revised full pain the GP arena examine the similarities and differ- between the various methods and describes some of pers presented together with 2 invited lectures were ences between theoretical and empirical results on the main ideas used, illustrating these via interesting carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. real-world problems. The text explores the synergy applications. Historically important application areas The papers address all aspects of static analysis in- between theory and practice, producing a compre- are used together with some exciting potential appli- cluding abstract domains, abstract interpretation, ab- hensive view of the state of the art in GP application. cations including: Validating prototype implementa- stract testing, compiler optimisations, control flow This volume represents a watershed moment in the tions of programming languages. Verifying program analysis, data flow analysis, model checking, pro- GP field in that GP has begun to move from hand- analyses that are part of more advanced implemen- gram specialization, security analysis, theoretical crafted software used primarily in academic research, tations of programming languages. Verifying securi- analysis frameworks, type based analysis, and verifi- to an engineering methodology applied to commer- ty analyses. Verifying useful program properties in- cation systems. cial applications. It is a unique and indispensable cluding information about execution time. tool for academics, researchers and industry profes- Fields of interest sionals involved in GP, evolutionary computation, Features Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; machine learning and artificial intelligence. Provides a rigorous introduction to the main ap- Logics and Meanings of Programs; Software Engi- proaches to formal semantics of programming lan- neering; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Features guages Breaks new ground by considering the vali- Programming Techniques Discusses the hurdles faced in solving large-scale, dation of compilers, static program analysers, vali- cutting edge applications Describes promising tech- dation of security properties and techniques for esti- Target groups niques, including fitness approximation, Pareto op- mating the running time of individual programs Researchers and professionals timization, cooperative teams, solution caching, and experiment control Explores evolutionary approach- Contents Type of publication es such as financial modeling, bioinformatics, sym- List of Tables.- Preface.- Introduction.- Operational Proceedings bolic regression for system modeling, and evolution- Semantics.- More on Operational Semantics.- Prov- ary design of circuits and robot controllers ably Correct Implementation.- Denotational Seman- Due August 2007 tics.- More on Denotational Semantics.- Program Fields of interest Analysis.- More on Program Analysis.- Axiomatic Computing Methodologies; Artificial Intelligence Program Verification.- More on Axiomatic Program 2007. XI, 469 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer (incl. Robotics); Theory of Computation; Algorithm Science, Band 4634) Softcover Verification.- Further Reading .- Review of Nota- Analysis and Problem Complexity; Programming tion.- Implementation of Program Analysis.- Bibli- 64,20 € Techniques ography.- Index ISBN 978-3-540-74060-5 Target groups Fields of interest Researchers, practitioners and students of Genetic Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Programming, including industry technical staffs, Logics and Meanings of Programs technical consultants and business entrepreneurs

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A. Saad, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA, J. Sabatier, Université de Bordeaux I, Talence, France; O.P. Agraw- F.B. Sachse, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; G. See- USA; E. Avineri, University of the West of England, UK; K. Dahal, al, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA; J.A. Tenreiro mann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (Eds.) University of Bradford, UK; M. Sarfraz, King Fahad University of Machado, Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal (Eds.) Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia; R. Roy, Cranfield Universi- ty, Bredford, UK (Eds.) Functional Imaging and Modeling Advances in Fractional Calculus of the Heart Soft Computing in Industrial Theoretical Developments and Applications in Physics and Engineering 4th International Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, June Applications 7-9, 2007

Recent and Emerging Methods and Techniques In the last two decades, fractional (or non integer) This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the differentiation has played a very important role in 4th International Conference on Functional Imaging various fields such as mechanics, electricity, chem- Soft Computing admits approximate reasoning, and Modeling of the Heart, FIMH 2007, held in Salt istry, biology, economics, control theory and sig- imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth in or- Lake City, UT, USA in June 2007. The 48 revised full nal and image processing. For example, in the last der to mimic aspects of the remarkable human papers presented were carefully reviewed and select- three fields, some important considerations such capability of making decisions in real-life and ed from numerous submissions. The contributions as modelling, curve fitting, filtering, pattern recog- ambiguous environments. "Soft Computing in In- describe both experimental and computational stud- nition, edge detection, identification, stability, con- dustrial Applications" contains a collection of papers ies and cover topics such as imaging and image anal- trollability, observability and robustness are now that were presented at the 11th On-line World Con- ysis, cardiac electrophysiology, electro- and magne- linked to long-range dependence phenomena. Simi- ference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applica- tocardiography, cardiac mechanics and clinical ap- lar progress has been made in other fields listed here. tions, held in September-October 2006. This careful- plication, imaging and anatomical modeling. ly edited book provides a comprehensive overview The scope of the book is thus to present the state of of the recent advances in the industrial applications the art in the study of fractional systems and the ap- Fields of interest of soft computing and covers a wide range of appli- plication of fractional differentiation. As this volume Image Processing and Computer Vision; Simulation cation areas, including data analysis and data min- covers recent applications of fractional calculus, it and Modeling; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); ing, computer graphics, intelligent control, systems, will be of interest to engineers, scientists, and applied Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Imaging / pattern recognition, classifiers, as well as modeling mathematicians. Radiology; Cardiology optimization. The book is aimed at researchers and Features practitioners who are engaged in developing and ap- Target groups Fractional Calculus is a new growing field. Up to plying intelligent systems principles to solving re- Researchers and professionals this point, researchers, scientists, and engineers have al-world problems. It is also suitable as wider reading been reluctant to accept the fact that Fractional Cal- for science and engineering postgraduate students. Type of publication culus can be used in the analysis and design of many Proceedings Features systems of practical interests, whereas in similar applications the traditional calculus either fails or pro- contains a collection of papers that were presented Due May 2007 at the 11th On-line World Conference on Soft Com- vides poor solutions Many engineers, scientists, and puting in Industrial Applications, held in Septem- applied mathematicians are looking for [..] ber-October 2006 2007. XV, 486 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Fields of interest er Science, Band 4466) Softcover Contents Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- neering; Simulation and Modeling; Systems Theory, 68,48 € Part I: Soft Computing in Computer Graphics, Imag- ISBN 978-3-540-72906-8 ing and Vision.- Part II: Control Systems.- Part III: Control; Mathematical and Computational Physics; Pattern Recognition.- Part IV: Classification.- Part Mechanical Engineering; Electronic and Computer V: Soft Computing for Modeling, Optimization and Engineering Information Processing.- Part VI: Soft Computing in Target groups Civil Engineering and Other Applications. Engineers (from various fields), physicists, (applied) Fields of interest mathematicians working in research laboratories; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of En- design divisions of companies, university research gineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Ap- teams plications of Mathematics Type of publication Type of publication Contributed volume Proceedings Due July 2007 Due May 2007 2007. XIII, 552 p. Geb. 2007. XIV, 328 p. (Advances in Soft Computing, Band 39) Softcov- er 171,15 € ISBN 978-1-4020-6041-0 160,45 € ISBN 978-3-540-70704-2 208 Computer springer.com/booksellers

F. Saglietti, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany; N. Oster, M.-F. Sagot, Inria Rhône Alpes, Villeurbanne, France; M.E.M.T. E. Sahin, KOVAN Research Lab, Ankara, Turkey; W.M. Spears, Uni- Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (Eds.) Walter, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil (Eds.) versity of Wyoming, Laramie, USA; A.F.T. Winfield, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK (Eds.) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Advances in Bioinformatics and Security Computational Biology Swarm Robotics Second SAB 2006 International Workshop, Rome, Italy, 26th International Conference, SAFECOMP 2007, Nurmberg, Second Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2007, An- September 30-October 1, 2006 Revised Selected Papers Germany, September 18-21, 2007, Proceedings gra dos Reis, Brazil, August 29-31, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of proceedings of the Second International 26th International Conference on Computer Safe- the Second Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, Workshop on Swarm Robotics held in Rome, Italy in ty, Reliability, and Security, SAFECOMP 2007, held BSB 2007, held in Angra dos Reis, Brazil, in August September/October 2006 as a satellite event of SAB in Nuremberg, Germany, in September 2007. The 2007; co-located with IWGD 2007, the Internation- 2006, the 9th Conference on Simulation of Adaptive 33 revised full papers and 16 short papers presented al Workshop on Genomic Databases. The 13 revised Behavior. The 14 revised full papers presented were were carefully reviewed and selected from 136 sub- full papers and 6 revised extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on algo- tions on safety cases, impact of security on safety, The papers address a broad range of current topics in rithms, modelling and analysis, hardware, and evolu- fault tree analysis, safety analysis, security aspects, computationl biology and bioinformatics featuring tionary approaches. verification and validation, platform reliability, relia- original research in computer science, mathemat- bility evaluation, formal methods, static code analy- ics and statistics as well as in molecular biology, bio- Fields of interest sis, safety-related architectures. chemistry, genetics, medicine, microbiology and oth- Computation by Abstract Devices; Artificial Intelli- er life sciences. gence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Fields of interest Networks; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Com- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Fields of interest plexity Systems; Coding and Information Theory; Special Database Management; Computational Biolo- Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Logics and gy/Bioinformatics; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences; Target groups Meanings of Programs; Management of Computing Health Informatics & Health Administration; Artifi- Researchers and professionals and Information Systems cial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity Type of publication Target groups Proceedings Researchers and professionals Target groups Researchers and professionals Type of publication Due April 2007 Proceedings Type of publication Proceedings 2007. XII, 221 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Due September 2007 er Science, Band 4433) Softcover Due August 2007 44,94 € 2007. XV, 548 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4680) ISBN 978-3-540-71540-5 Softcover 2007. XII, 177 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Band 4643) Softcover 72,76 € ISBN 978-3-540-75100-7 44,94 € ISBN 978-3-540-73730-8 springer.com/booksellers Computer 209

A. Sakurai, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan; K. Hasida, National A.J. Sammes, Cranfield University, Swindon, UK; B. Jenkinson, F. Sandoval, Universidad de Málaga, Spain; A. Prieto, Universi- Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, Over, UK dad de Granada, Spain; J. Cabestany, Universitat Politècnica de Japan; K. Nitta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; M. Graña, Universidad del País Vas- (Eds.) co, San Sebastian, Spain (Eds.) Forensic Computing New Frontiers in Artificial Computational and Ambient Intelligence Intelligence In the second edition of this very successful book, JSAI 2003 and JSAI 2004 Conferences and Workshops, Niigata, Tony Sammes and Brian Jenkinson show how infor- 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Net- Japan, June 23-27, 2003, Kanazawa, Japan, May 31-June 4, mation held in computer systems can be recovered works, IWANN 2007, San Sebastián, Spain, June 20-22, 2007, 2004, Revised Selected Papers and how it may be deliberately hidden or subvert- Proceedings ed for criminal purposes. "Forensic Computing: A Practitioner's Guide" is illustrated by plenty of case studies and worked examples, and will help practi- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of tioners and students gain a clear understanding of: - post-proceedings of the 17th and 18th annual con- the 9th International Work-Conference on Artifi- how to recover information from computer systems ferences of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelli- cial Neural Networks, IWANN 2007, held in San in such a way as to ensure that its integrity cannot gence, JSAI 2003 and JSAI 2004, and colocated inter- Sebastián, Spain in June 2007. The 145 revised full be challenged and that it will be accepted as admissi- national workshops, held in Niigata, Japan in June papers presented together with 3 invited lectures ble evidence in court the principles involved in pass- 2003 and in Kanazawa, Japan, in May/June 2004 re- were carefully reviewed and selected from over 260 word protection and data encryption - the evaluation spectively. The volume starts with 5 award winning submissions. The papers are organized in themat- procedures used in circumventing these safeguards papers of the JSAI 2003 main conference that are ic sections on theoretical concepts and neurocom- - the particular legal issues associated with comput- presented along with 10 revised full workshop pa- putational formulations, inmproving models and er-generated evidence and how to ensure admissibil- pers, carefully reviewed and selected from the two learning procedures, self-organizing networks, ker- ity of such evidence. This edition is fully expanded co-located international workshops on Agent-Based nel methods, evolutionary and genetic algorithms, and updated with treatment of metadata files, NFTS Modeling (WABM 2003) and the Semantic Web evolutionary learning, fuzzy systems, neuroengineer- systems, CHS and LBA addressing, and alternate da- workshop (SWSW 2003). The volume is concluded ing and hardware implementations, data analysis, ta streams. by 8 award winning papers from the JSAI 2004 main signal processing, speech processing, images process- conference as well as 28 revised full workshop pa- Features ing, time series and prediction, robotics and plan- pers of the First International Workshop on Emer- Authors are the primary educators of senior po- ning motor control, power system applications, in- gence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication lice investigators in the UK in this field Professor ternet and web applications, biomedical applications, (EELC 2004), the International Workshop on Agent- Sammes has testified in countless criminal cases neural networks and other machine learning meth- Based Modeling (WABM 2004), and the Workshop from fraud to issues of national security; he is inter- ods in cancer research, assistive technologies and e- on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Se- nationally respected and has liaised with police glob- health, as well as other applications. mantics (LENLS 2004). ally Covers the basics of investigation of hardware Fields of interest and updated with mobile devices such as personal Fields of interest Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Anal- organisers Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Min- ysis and Problem Complexity; Artificial Intelligence ing and Knowledge Discovery; Information Stor- Contents (incl. Robotics); Image Processing and Computer age and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications Forensic Computing.- Understanding Information.- Vision; Pattern Recognition; Computational Biolo- (incl.Internet); User Interfaces and Human Comput- IT Systems Concepts.- PC Hardware and Inside the gy/Bioinformatics er Interaction; Computers and Society Box.- Disk Geometry.- The New Technology File Target groups System.- The Treatment of PCs.- The Treatment of Target groups Researchers and professionals Electronic Organisers.- Looking ahead (just a little Researchers and professionals bit more).- Appendices: Common Character Codes; Type of publication Type of publication Some Common File Format Signatures; A Typical Proceedings Proceedings Set of POST Codes; Typical BIOS Beep Codes and Error Messages; Disk Partition Table Types; Extend- Due June 2007 ed Partitions; Registers and Order Code for the INtel Due March 2007 8086; NFTS Boot Sector and BIOS Parameter Block; MFT Header and Attribute Maps; The Relationship 2007. XXVI, 1167 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- 2007. XIII, 548 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- [..] puter Science, Band 4507) Softcover er Science, Band 3609) Softcover Fields of interest 115,56 € 72,76 € Input/Output and Data Communications; Software ISBN 978-3-540-73006-4 ISBN 978-3-540-71008-0 Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Data Storage Representation; Criminal Law; Data Encryption; Computer Communication Networks

Target groups Practitioners, final year undergraduates and postgraduates, forensic scientists, legal practitioners

Type of publication Graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook

Due August 2007

Originally published in the series: Practitioner Series

2007. X, 470 p. Geb.

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D. Sauveron, Université de Limoges/CNRS, France; K. Markanton- P. Sawyer, Lancaster University, UK; B. Paech, University of Hei- P. Saxena, Synopsys, Inc. Hillsboro, OR, USA; R.S. Shelar, Intel Cor- akis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; A. Bilas, FORTH- delberg, Germany; P. Heymans, Université Notre-Dame de la poration, Hillsboro, OR, USA; S. Sapatnekar, University of Min- ICS, Heraklion, Greece; J.-J. Quisquater, UCL Crypto Group, Lou- Paix, Namur, Belgium (Eds.) nesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA vain-la-Neuve, Belgium (Eds.) Requirements Engineering: Routing Congestion in VLSI Circuits Information Security Theory and Foundation for Software Quality Practices. Smart Cards, Mobile and Estimation and Optimization 13th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2007, Trond- Ubiquitous Computing Systems heim, Norway, June 11-12, 2007, Proceedings First IFIP TC6 / WG 8.8 / WG 11.2 International Workshop, With the dramatic increases in on-chip packing den- WISTP 2007, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 9-11, 2007 sities, routing congestion has become a major prob- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the lem in chip design. The problem is especially acute 13th International Working Conference on Require- as interconnects are also the performance bottleneck in integrated circuits. The solution lies in judicious This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings ments Engineering: Foundation for Software Quali- resource management. This involves intelligent al- of the First IFIP TC6 / WG 8.8 / WG 11.2 Interna- ty, REFSQ 2007, held in Trondheim, Norway in June location of the available interconnect resources, up- tional Workshop on Information Security Theory 2007. The 27 revised full papers presented together front planning of the wire routes for even wire distri- and Practices: Smart Cards, Mobile and Ubiquitous with 1 keynote lecture were carefully reviewed and butions, and transformations that make the physical Computing Systems, WISTP 2007, held in Herak- selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in synthesis flow congestion-aware. Routing Conges- lion, Crete, Greece in May 2007. The 20 revised full the book. The papers are organized in thematic section in VLSI Circuits: Estimation and Optimization papers presented were carefully reviewed and select- tions on goal-driven requirements engineering (RE), provides the reader with a complete understanding ed from 68 submissions. The papers are organized in products and product-lines, value-based RE and the of the root causes of routing congestion in present- topical sections on mobility, hardware and cryptog- value of RE, requirements elicitation, requirements day and future VLSI circuits, available techniques raphy, privacy, cryptography schemes, smart cards, specification, industrial experience of RE, and re- for estimating and optimizing this congestion, and a and small devices. quirements quality and quality requirements. With- in these themes, the work presented spanned a range critical analysis of the accuracy and effectiveness of Fields of interest of application domains from business systems to these techniques, so that the reader may prudently Data Encryption; Systems and Data Security; Com- air traffic management, used techniques that varied choose an approach that is appropriate to their de- puter Communication Networks; Management of from ethno-methodology to formal specification and sign goals. The scope of the work includes metrics Computing and Information Systems; Computers delivered requirements for both custom systems and and optimization techniques for [..] and Society software product lines. Features Target groups Fields of interest Provides an in-depth treatment of routing conges- Researchers and professionals Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Pro- tion in VLSI circuits Comprehensively surveys the grams; Management of Computing and Information work done and points to challenges for the future Type of publication Systems; Information Systems Equips readers with the knowledge to prudently Proceedings choose an approach that is appropriate to their de- Target groups sign goals Researchers and professionals Due April 2007 Contents Type of publication Part I: The Origins of Congestion.- An Intro- 2007. XII, 255 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Proceedings duction to Routing Congestion.- Part II: The Esti- er Science, Band 4462) Softcover mation of Congestion.- Placement-Level Metrics for Due May 2007 Routing Congestion.- Synthesis-Level Metrics for 67,41 € Routing Congestion.- Part III: The Optimization of ISBN 978-3-540-72353-0 Congestion.- Congestion Optimization During In- 2007. IX, 383 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer terconnect Synthesis and Routing.- Congestion Opti- Science, Band 4542) Softcover mization During Placement.- Congestion Optimiza- 55,64 € tion During Technology Mapping and Logic Synthe- ISBN 978-3-540-73030-9 sis.- Congestion Implications of High Level Design Fields of interest Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engineer- ing (CAD, CAE) and Design; Communications Engi- neering, Networks

Target groups Digital VLSI design engineers, design methodology engineers, and CAD developers

Type of publication Monograph

Due May 2007

2007. XIV, 248 p. (Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems) Geb.

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R. Schaefer, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, A. Scharl, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria; K. Tochter- ISBN 978-1-84628-826-5 Poland mann, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria (Eds.)

Foundations of Global Genetic The Geospatial Web

Optimization How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shap- ing the Network Society

This book is devoted to the application of genetic algorithms in continuous global optimization. Some The Geospatial Web will have a profound impact of their properties and behavior are highlighted and on managing knowledge & structuring work- formally justified. Various optimization tech- flows within and across organizations, & on niques and their taxonomy are the background for the interaction between those organizations & detailed discussion. The nature of continuous genet- their target audience. This volume emphasizes the ic search is explained by studying the dynamics of applications & implications of the Geospa- probabilistic measure, which is utilized to create sub- tial Web & the role of contextual knowledge sequent populations. This approach shows that ge- in shaping the emerging network society. This netic algorithms can be used to extract some areas of book summarizes the latest research on the the search domain more effectively than to find iso- Geospatial Web’s technical foundations, describes lated local minima. The biological metaphor of such information services & collaborative tools built behavior is the whole population surviving by rapid on top of geo-browsers, & investigates the eco- exploration of new regions of feeding rather than nomic & societal impacts of geospatial applica- caring for a single individual. One group of strate- tions. The role of contextual knowledge in shaping gies that can make use of this property are two-phase the emerging network society deserves particular at- global optimization methods. In the first phase the tention. By integrating geospatial & semantic central parts of the basins of attraction are distin- technology, such contextual knowledge can be ex- guished by genetic population analysis. Afterwards, tracted automatically – for example, when process- the minimizers are found by convex [..] ing Web documents to provide automated news services. Containing chapters from renown researchers Features & practitioners, this volume will [..] Presents the foundations of global genetic optimization Features First book on subject - since integrating semantic Contents Web technology with geo-browsing platforms & Introduction.- Global optimization problems.- Ba- the emerging breed of social software often sum- sic models of genetic computations.- Asymptotic be- marised under the umbrella term ‘Web 2.0’ Clear fo- havior of the artificial genetic systems.- Adaptation cus on applied geospatial aspects Appeal to industry in genetic search.- Two-phase stochastic global opti- practice through emphasis on applied science Con- mization strategies.- Summary and perspectives of tributions from a very active research community genetic algorithms in continuous global optimiza- Foreword by Patrick J. Hogan, Program Manager of tion. NASA World Wind

Fields of interest Contents Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- From the contents Towards the Geospatial Web.- neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Infrastructure for the Geospatial Web.- Imaging on the Geospatial Web Using JPEG 2000.- What’s so Target groups Special about Spatial?- Conceptual Search.- Loca- Researchers, engineers, graduate students in compu- tion-based Web Search.- Ubiquitous Browsing of tational intelligence, evolutionary computations, ge- the World.- Spatiotemporal-Thematic Data Process- netic algorithms ing for the Semantic Web.- A Semantic Approach for Geospatial Information Extraction from Un- Type of publication structured Documents.- Enhancing RSS Feeds with Monograph Extracted Geospatial Information for further Pro- cessing and Visualization.- A Supervised Machine Due August 2007 Learning Approach to Toponym Disambiguation.- Geospatial Information [..] 2007. XII, 222 p. 44 illus. Also available online. (Studies in Compu- tational Intelligence, Band 74) Geb. Fields of interest Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); 106,95 € Models and Principles; Geoinformation/Cartogra- ISBN 978-3-540-73191-7 phy; Multimedia Information Systems; User Inter- faces and Human Computer Interaction; Informa- tion Storage and Retrieval

Target groups Researchers, practitioners, lecturers

Type of publication Contributed volume

Due June 2007

2007. XII, 282 p. 93 illus. Also available online. (Advanced Infor- mation and Knowledge Processing) Geb.

80,20 € 212 Computer springer.com/booksellers

G. Schay, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA A. Schill, Technische Universität Dresden; Th. Springer, Technis- C. Schmalenbach, IBM Deutschland GmbH, Düsseldorf che Universität Dresden Introduction to Probability with Performancemanagement Statistical Applications Verteilte Systeme für serviceorientierte Java- Grundlagen und Basistechnologien Anwendungen

Werkzeug- und Methodenunterstützung im Spannungsfeld Introduction to Probability with Statistical Appli- von Entwicklung und Betrieb cations targets non-mathematics students, under- Verteilte Systeme bilden das Rückgrat vieler indus- graduates and graduates, who do not need an ex- trieller Anwendungen.Mit der Integration von Mo- haustive treatment of the subject. While the pre- bilfunknetzen und mobilen Endgeräten erfahren sie sentation is rigorous and contains theorems and in jüngerer Zeit eine intensive Weiterentwicklung. Entwicklungsteams und Systemadministratoren sind proofs, linear algebra is largely avoided and only a Einsatzfelder wie etwa die Büroautomatisierung, die gleichermaßen für die Performance der von ihnen minimal amount of multivariable calculus is need- Fertigungssteuerung oder das www werden betreuten Anwendungen verantwortlich. Oftmals ed. Key features:Clear definitions, simplified nota- erweitert und durch neue ergänzt. Das vorliegende verwenden beide Seiten jedoch sehr unterschiedliche tion and techniques of statistical analysis, combined Buch stellt die Grundlagen Verteilter Systeme aus Methoden und Verfahren im Rahmen der Perfor- with well-chosen examples and exercises, motivate der Sicht der Rechnernetze und der verteilten Ver- manceanalyse und -optimierung. Hieraus resul- the expositionTheory and applications carefully bal- arbeitung dar. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf einer kom- tieren im Falle tatsächlicher Performanceeinbrüche ancedTopics include random phenomena -- discrete pakten Darstellung der grundlegenden Konzepte unangenehme Rechtfertigungszwänge und wenig and continuous random variables -- expectations und Technologien. Die Grundprinzipien werden zielführende Schuldzuweisungen. Das vorliegende and variance, and common probability distributions dabei stets auch durch die Diskussion aktueller En- Buch greift diese Problematik für javabasierte Ar- such as the binomial, Poisson, and normalCombi- twicklungen, etwa im Bereich der Service-orien- chitekturen auf. Ausgehend von bekannten oder natorial principles involve all four arithmetic opera- tierten Architekturen, abgerundet. Die Darstellung prognostizierten Mengengerüsten sowie fach- tions; emphasis on tree diagramsReferences to more erfolgt anhand eines durchgängig verwendeten Ein- lich motivierten Anforderungen in Bezug auf advanced concepts throughout the book, but may be satzfeldes, die Beispiele orientieren sich an gängigen Antwortzeiten werden die zu erreichenden Perfor- safely skipped, depending on the reader For students Standards und Technologien wie Java, EJB oder Web manceziele festgelegt. Aus diesen lassen sich dann in a variety of disciplines, including computer sci- Services. Sowohl Studierenden als auch Praktikern für Entwicklung und Betrieb zwar unterschiedliche, ence, [..] soll auf diesem Weg Basiswissen mit engem Bezug aber aufeinander abgestimmte und quantifizier- zur konkreten Anwendung [..] bare, Vorgaben ableiten. Das Buch führt hierzu in Features die benötigten analytischen Methoden ein und stellt Theory and applications carefully balanced Presen- Features Softwarewerkzeuge zur Erfassung und Aufbereitung tation is rigorous and contains theorems and proofs Kompakte Darstellung der Grundlagen und Tech- von Performancedaten zur Verfügung. Linear algebra is largely avoided Clear definitions, nologie Verteilter Systeme Berücksichtigt stärker simplified notation and techniques of statistical anal- gegenwärtige Entwicklungen und Technologien Ein- Features ysis Well-chosen examples and exercises heitliche und durchgängige Beispiele zur Verdeut- Erstes deutschsprachiges Buch zu Performancem- lichung der Theorie Starker Bezug zu Praxis und An- anagement Einführung in formale Methoden zur Contents wendungsfeldern Verteilter Systeme Kapazitätsplanung und Performancebewertung von Preface.- The Algebra of Events.- Combinatorial verteilten Anwendungen Überblick über praktische Problems.- Probabilities.- Random Variables.- Ex- Contents Verwendbarkeit formaler Methoden Werkzeuge zur pectation, Variance, Moments.- Some Special Distri- Einführung.- Systemarchitekturen.- Kommunika- Überwachung von Java-Applikationen und zur Anal- butions.- The Elements of Mathematical Statistics.- tion.- Transaktionen.- Sicherheit und Schutz.- yse von Performancedaten Bibliography.- Index. Verzeichnisdienste.- Softwareentwicklung und Werkzeuge.- Mobile Computing.- Zusammenfas- Fields of interest Fields of interest sung und Ausblick.- Literaturverzeichnis.- Index.- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Statis- Glossar. Systems; Computer Communication Networks; Sys- tics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, tem Performance and Evaluation Chemistry & Geosciences; Probability and Statistics Fields of interest in Computer Science; Measure and Integration; Ap- Computer Systems Organization and Communi- Target groups plications of Mathematics cation Networks; Computer Communication Net- Anwendungsarchitekten, Entwickler, Mitarbeiter works von Rechenzentren, Projektmanager Target groups Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Target groups Type of publication Computer Science, Engineering, Natural and Social Studenten, Dozenten Professional book Sciences Type of publication Due July 2007 Type of publication Undergraduate textbook Graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook 2007. XVII, 267 S. 50 Abb. (Xpert.press) Softcover Due March 2007 Due September 2007 49,95 € 2007. XIII, 368 S. 113 Abb. (eXamen.press) Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-36631-7 2007. X, 318 p. 44 illus. 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H.G. Schmidt, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; I. Crnkovic, R. Schmitz, Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart (Ed.) D.D. Schmorrow, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, USA; Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden; G.T. Heineman, L.M. Reeves, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Arlington, VA, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA; J.A. Stafford, Tufts Uni- USA (Eds.) versity, Medford, MA, USA (Eds.) Kompendium Medieninformatik

Medienpraxis Foundations of Augmented Component-Based Software Cognition Engineering Der vorliegende Band des Kompendiums Medien- Third International Conference, FAC 2007, Held as Part of HCI 10th International Symposium, CBSE 2007, Medford, MA, USA, International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceed- July 9-11, 2007, Proceedings informatik beschäftigt sich mit der Medienpraxis. ings Er behandelt Aspekte der praktischen Informatik und ihre Anwendung in der Medientechnik wie die Entwicklung von Multimedia-Anwendungen, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Grundlagen der Computergrafik sowie Theorie und This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium Praxis von Mediendatenbanken. Hinzu kommen the Third International Conference on Augment- on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE ausgewählte Anwendungen der Medieninformatik: ed Cognition, FAC 2007, held in Beijing, China, in 2007, held in Medford, MA, USA in July 2007. The Mit Content-Related-Technologien können mediale July 2007, within the framework of the 12th Inter- 19 revised full papers presented were carefully re- Informationen in besonders effizienter Weise organ- national Conference on Human-Computer Interac- viewed and selected from 89 submissions. The pa- isiert, strukturiert und an die richtigen Empfänger tion, HCII 2007, with 8 other thematically similar pers feature new trends in global software services verteilt werden. Zusammen mit dem Band "Medi- conferences. The 65 revised papers presented were and distributed systems architectures to push the ennetze" beschreibt das Kompendium Medieninfor- carefully reviewed and selected from numerous sub- limits of established and tested component-based matik die komplette Wertschöpfungskette von dig- missions. The papers are organized in two main sec- methods, tools and platforms. The papers are orga- italen Mediendaten: Erzeugung, Kodierung, Trans- tions. The first section focuses on general Augment- nized in topical sections on component-based archi- port durch drahtgebundene oder drahtlose Netze bis ed Cognition methods and techniques, including tectures and change, quality of service, runtime ver- hin zum Endnutzer. physiological and neurophysiological measures (e.g, ification and monitoring, extra-functional proper- EEG, fNIR), adaptive techniques, and sensors and ties and compositional reasoning, as well as Web ser- Features algorithms for cognitive state estimation. The sec- vices, late composition and verification. Umfassendes Lehr- und Fachbuch zur Medieninfor- ond section is devoted to the discussion of various matik Schwerpunkt bilden praktische Anwendungen Augmented Cognition applications (e.g., simulation Fields of interest und aktuelle Einsatzgebiete der Medieninformatik and training, intent-driven user interfaces, closed- Software Engineering; Programming Techniques; loop command and control systems), lessons learned Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Contents to date, and future directions in Augmented Cogni- Logics and Meanings of Programs; Computer Com- Praktische Informatik:- Computergrafik und VR.- tion-enabled HCI. munication Networks Entwicklung von Multimedia-Anwendungen.- Me- dienobjekte in Datenbanken.- Verteilte Systeme.- Fields of interest Target groups Usability und Design.- Einsatz von Markup-Lan- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Health Infor- Researchers and professionals guages.- Content-Related-Systeme.- CSCW. matics & Health Administration; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Information Systems Appli- Type of publication Fields of interest cations (incl.Internet); Data Mining and Knowledge Proceedings Information Systems and Communication Service; Discovery; Database Management Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Due June 2007 Graphics; Media Design; Computer Communication Target groups Networks Researchers and professionals

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20th International Conference, TPHOLs 2007, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 10-13, 2007, Proceedings "Verkehr ohne Leittechnik ist wie Laufen im Dunkeln", so beschreibt der Autor Schnieder den Sachverhalt zutreffend. Komplexe Verkehrsströme, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the die Personen und Güter sicher und zügig an ihr 20th International Conference on Theorem Prov- Ziel bringen sollen, sind ohne Leittechnik dem Zu- ing in Higher Order Logics, TPHOLs 2007, held in fall überlassen, nicht planbar. Verkehrsleittechnik Kaiserslautern, Germany, in September 2007. The 21 hat die Beherrschung komplexer Verkehrsströme revised full papers presented together with 5 proof auf den Netzen des Straßen- und Schienenverkehrs pearls (concise and elegant presentations of interest- mit regelnder Einflussnahme zum Ziel. Zum En- ing examples) and the abstracts of 3 invited papers twurf dieser Beeinflussung und ihrer Realisierung were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submit technischen Einrichtungen, wird eine solide missions. Among the topics of this volume are for- Grundlage für eine adäquate Modellierung der mal semantics of specification, modelling, and pro- Verkehrssysteme vermittelt. Das Verhalten der gramming languages, specification and verification Verkehrssysteme und der angepassten Steuerungs- of hardware and software, formalisation of mathe- und Sicherungsfunktionen mit Sensoren, Automa- matical theories, advances in theorem prover tech- tisierungseinrichtungen und Stellgliedern weist eine nology, as well as industrial application of theorem große Detailfülle auf. Zur Bearbeitung dieser kom- provers. plexen Thematik stehen ordnende Strukturen und Konzepte im Mittelpunkt des Buchs, die über den Fields of interest raschen Technologiewandel hinaus Gültigkeit haben. Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Logics Das Modellkonzept ermöglicht die Komposition und and Meanings of Programs; Software Engineering; die [..] Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Logic Design Features Target groups "… wie Laufen im Dunkeln"? – die solide Grund- Researchers and professionals lage für eine sichere und zuverlässige Leittechnik Für Experten: Grundlagen und nachhaltige Modelle Type of publication für das Management von Fahrzeugen im Verkehr Proceedings und Verkehrsströmen Konkrete Beispiele erläutern die Anwendung in der Praxis Einzelfahrzeug- und Due August 2007 Verkehrsflussregelungen – auch an Knotenpunkten

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P.M. Scholz, Germany G. Schryen, Aachen, Germany D. Schuler, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, San Francisco, CA, USA (Ed.) Advanced NXT Anti-Spam Measures Online Communities and Social The Da Vinci Inventions Book Analysis and Design Computing

Second International Conference, OCSC 2007, Held as Part of The popularity of NXT and the success of The Da The primary goal of this work is the methodical anal- HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Pro- ceedings Vinci Code book and movie are combined in this ysis of the potential, limitations, advantages, and fascinating book. Projects for building and program- drawbacks of anti-spam measures. These determine ming five of Leonardo’s most famous inventions are to which extent the measures can contribute to the covered in detail: the Tank, the Helicopter, the Cata- reduction of spam in the long run. The range of con- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the pult, the Flying Machine, and the Revolving Bridge. sidered anti-spam measures includes legislative, or- Second International Conference on Online Com- This book is written for serious NXT programmers ganizational, behavioral and technological ones. Fur- munities and Social Computing, OCSC 2007, held in and covers the most popular programming environ- thermore, the conceptual development and analysis Beijing, China in July 2007 in the framework of the ments available today. The book is abundantly illus- of an infrastructural email framework that features 12th International Conference on Human-Comput- trated and includes sample code and countless "best such a complementary application, is pointed out. er Interaction, HCII 2007 with 8 other thematically practices" strategies. Advanced NXT: The Da Vin- After the presentation of the technological and orga- similar conferences. The 56 revised papers presented ci Inventions Book complements Apress’ successful nizational facets, the framework is analyzed twofold: were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous line of Mindstorms books by providing advanced its theoretical effectiveness is assessed with the aid submissions. The papers accepted for presentation programming techniques in a rich historical context. of the formal model mentioned above, its storage thoroughly cover the thematic area of online com- and traffic requirements are analyzed quantitatively. munities and social computing, addressing the fol- Features The author further considers deployment issues, as lowing major topics: designing and developing on- Combines the success of NXT and The Da Vinci the framework will have to be integrated in both the line communities, as well as knowledge, collabora- Code Written for advanced programmers Covers the technological and the organizational Internet infras- tion, learning and local on-line communities. most popular and powerful programming environ- tructure. ments on the market Fields of interest Features Computers and Society; Legal Aspects of Comput- Contents Detailed overview of the technological, organisation- ing; Management of Computing and Information Introduction.- The tank (Armored Car).- The Heli- al and economic facets of spam e-mails. Insight into Systems; Personal Computing; Computer Commu- copter (Aerial Screw).- The Catapult (Ballista).- The a broad range of anti spam measures and their effec- nication Networks; Information Systems Applica- Flying Machine.- The Revolving Bridge.- Outlook.- tiveness. State of the art of spam research. tions (incl.Internet) Appendixes. Contents Target groups Fields of interest Spam and its economic significance.- Spam statis- Researchers and professionals Programming Techniques tics.- Spam categories.- Commercial advertising.- Fraud and phishing.- Hoaxes and chain e-mails.- Joe Type of publication Target groups jobs.- Malware.- Bounce messages.- Anti-spam mea- Proceedings Advanced NXT enthusiasts and Da Vinci fanatics sures.- Legislative measures.- Organizational measures.- protection of e-mail addresses.- handling of Type of publication Due July 2007 received spam e-mails.- IP blocking.- Filtering.- TCP Professional book blocking.- Authentication.- Verification.- Empiri- 2007. XVII, 520 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- cal analysis of the abuse of e-mail addresses.- Mod- puter Science, Band 4564) Softcover Due July 2007 el-driven analysis of the effectiveness of technological anti-spam measures. 68,48 € Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, ISBN 978-3-540-73256-3 Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest Fields of interest Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. For Jordan, Irak, Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); In- Oman, Qatar, Palestine: Jordan Book Center formation Systems and Communication Service; Sys- tems and Data Security; Software Engineering/Pro- 2007. 392 p. Softcover gramming and Operating Systems; Management of Computing and Information Systems ISBN 978-1-59059-843-6 Target groups Systemadministratoren, Softwareingenieure, web- master

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D. Schultz, London, UK; C. Cook A. Schuster, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Belfast, UK (Ed.) F. Schweitzer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Beginning HTML with CSS and Intelligent Computing Everywhere Brownian Agents and Active XHTML Particles

Modern Guide and Reference Collective Dynamics in the Natural and Social Sciences Intelligent Computing Everywhere reflects the current perception in various fields that modern computing applications are becoming increasingly chal- This HTML book is intended to be the cornerstone lenged in terms of complexity and intelligence. It in- "This book lays out a vision for a coherent frame- in any modern aspiring web developers library. So vestigates the relevance and relationship artificial in- work for understanding complex systems'' (from the why another HTML book? The answer is that web telligence maintains with "modern strands of com- foreword by J. Doyne Farmer). By developing the development has changed with the advent of web puting" i.e. pervasive computing and ambient intel- genuine idea of Brownian agents, the author com- standards, meaning that a lot of the old books are ligence, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, comput- bines concepts from informatics, such as multiagent now obsolete—all the code and techniques contained ing and the mind, non-classical computing and novel systems, with approaches of statistical many-particle within this book are strictly standards compliant and computing models, as well as DNA computing and physics. This way, an efficient method for computer best practice, so the reader is not taught outdated, quantum computing. Each subject is examined from simulations of complex systems is developed which bad techniques, and their web pages will work prop- two main viewpoints, the first provides a state of the is also accessible to analytical investigations and erly in most web browsers, be lean and small in file art introduction to a field such as DNA computing quantitative predictions. The book demonstrates that size, accessible to web users with disabilities, and eas- and the second investigates the subject from an arti- Brownian agent models can be successfully applied ily findable by search engines such as Google. This ficial intelligence perspective. in many different contexts, ranging from physico- book uses practical examples to show readers how chemical pattern formation, to active motion and to structure data correctly using (X)HTML, and the Features swarming in biological systems, to self-assembling of basics of styling it and laying it out using Cascading Explores some of the most exciting fields in comput- networks, evolutionary optimization, urban growth, Style Sheets (CSS,) and adding dynamic behavior to ing today including artificial intelligence, pervasive economic agglomeration and even social systems. it using JavaScript…as quickly as possible. It is also computing, autonomic computing, bioinformatics, useful to more experienced web developers—there artificial life and artificial synthetic life, DNA Com- Contents are comprehensive reference tables at the back of the puting and Quantum Computing From the contents Complex Systems and Agent book. Models.- Active Particles.- Aggregation and Physi- Contents co-Chemical Structure Formation.- Self-Organiza- Features From the contents Part I: Introduction, Philosoph- tion of Networks.- Tracks and Trail Formation in Bi- Teaches proper standards-compliant HTML, not ical Issues, and Novel Computing Models.- Intelli- ological Systems.- Movement and Trail Formation outdated techniques—a modern, up-to-date perspec- gent Computing Everywhere.- Infinitely Complex of Pedestrians.- Evolutionary Optimization Using tive on web development Includes reference sections Machines.- The Non-Classical Mind: Cognitive Sci- Brownian Searchers.- Analysis and Simulation of Ur- at the back so readers can easily look up syntax No ence and Non-Classical Computing.- A Computing ban Aggregation.- Economic Agglomeration.- Spatial previous programming experience is necessary Model Combining Artificial Neural Networks and Opinion Sructures in Social Systems. Petri Nets.- Part II: Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Contents Mechanics, and the Mind.- Quantum Mechanics and Fields of interest Introduction.- XHTML and the Web.- Getting Start- Artificial Intelligence.- Quantum Mechanics, Com- Statistical Physics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. ed.- The head.- Adding Text.- Lists.- Images.- Links.- puters and the Mind.- Part III: Brain-Computer In- Robotics); Nonlinear Dynamics, Complex Systems, Tables.- Forms.- The Basics of CSS and Layouts.- terfaces and Computational Neuroscience.- Restora- Chaos, Neural Networks; Game Theory/Mathemati- Scripting Basics.- Putting it all Together.- The Ulti- tion of Movement and Thought from Neuroelectric cal Methods; Simulation and Modeling mate HTML database.- HTML color names and val- and [..] ues.- Escape Codes.- MIME types.- CSS Reference. Target groups Fields of interest Researchers, graduate students Fields of interest Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Programming Techniques Type of publication Target groups Monograph Target groups Researchers Novice web developers wanting to get a solid Due August 2007 grounding in HTML and experienced web develop- Type of publication ers wanting a robust HTML reference to refer to Monograph 2007. XVI, 420 p. 192. illus. (Springer Series in Synergetics) Soft- cover Type of publication Due September 2007 Professional book 48,10 € 2007. X, 254 p. 40 illus. Geb. ISBN 978-3-540-73844-2 Due July 2007 80,20 € Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, ISBN 978-1-84628-942-2 Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. For Jordan, Irak, Oman, Qatar, Palestine: Jordan Book Center

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N. Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Y. Liu, H. Seidl, TU München, Germany (Ed.) R. Seising, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Shadong University, China; Y. Zhuang, Zhejiang University, Chi- na; Th.S. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (Eds.) Foundations of Software Science The Fuzzification of Systems

and Computational Structures The Genesis of Fuzzy Set Theory and its Initial Applications - Multimedia Content Analysis and Developments up to the 1970s 10th International Conference, FOSSACS 2007, Held as Part Mining of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2007, Braga, Portugal, March 24-April 1, International Workshop, MCAM 2007, Weihai, China, June 30- 2007, Proceedings In 1965 Lotfi Zadeh, a professor of electrical engi- July 1, 2007, Proceedings neering at the University of California in Berkeley, published the first of his papers on his new Fuzzy Set This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Theory. Since the 1980s this mathematical theory of This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Foundations "unsharp amounts" has been applied in many differ- the International Workshop on Multimedia Content of Software Science and Computation Structures, ent fields with great success. The word "fuzzy" has Analysis and Mining, MCAM 2007, held in Weihai, FOSSACS 2007, held in Braga, Portugal in March/ also become very well-known among non-scientists China in June/July 2007. The 46 revised papers pre- April 2007 as part of ETAPS 2007, the European thanks to extensive advertising campaigns for fuzzy- sented together with 13 invited papers were careful- Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Soft- controlled household appliances and to their promi- ly reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. The ware. The 25 revised full papers presented together nent presence in the media, first in Japan and then in papers cover a wide range of topics, including all as- with the abstract of 1 invited talk were carefully re- other countries. On the other hand, the story of how pects of multimedia in entertainment, commerce, viewed and selected from 103 submissions. The pa- Fuzzy Set Theory and its earliest applications orig- science, medicine, and public safety. Fields addressed pers cover a broad spectrum on theories and meth- inated remains largely unknown. In this book, the are multimedia analysis and applications, multime- ods to support analysis, synthesis, transformation history of Fuzzy Set Theory and the ways it was first dia search and mining, p2p streaming, and security. and verification of programs and software systems. used are incorporated into the history of 20th centu- In particular the following topics are dealt with: alge- ry science and technology. Influences from philoso- Fields of interest braic models, automata and language theory, behav- phy, system theory and cybernetics stemming from Multimedia Information Systems; Information ioral equivalences, categorical models, computation the earliest part of the 20th century are considered Storage and Retrieval; Computer Communica- processes over discrete and continuous data, infinite alongside those of communication and control theo- tion Networks; Information Systems Applications state systems computation structures, logics of pro- ry from mid-century. Today, Fuzzy [..] (incl.Internet); Image Processing and Computer Vi- grams, modal, spatial, and temporal logics, models sion; Computer Graphics of concurrent, reactive, distributed, and mobile sys- Features tems, process algebras and calculi, semantics of [..] Presenting the complete history of Fuzzy Systems Target groups Celebrating 50 years of Fuzziness Researchers and professionals Fields of interest Logics and Meanings of Programs; Mathematical Contents Type of publication Logic and Formal Languages; Computation by Ab- Beginnings of Communication Technology in the Proceedings stract Devices; Programming Languages, Compilers, 20th Century.- Logical Tolerance, Ensembles Flous Interpreters; Software Engineering and Probabilistic Metrics.- General Systems Theo- Due June 2007 ry and Cybernetics.- From Circuit Theory to System Target groups Theory.- Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Systems.- Fuzzifica- tions.- The Fuzzification of Medical Diagnostics.- 2007. XV, 513 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4577) Researchers and professionals Softcover Conclusion. Type of publication 68,48 € Proceedings Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-73416-1 Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- Due March 2007 neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Target groups 2007. XVI, 379 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Engineers, researchers, and students in Fuzziness. er Science, Band 4423) Softcover Type of publication 55,64 € Monograph ISBN 978-3-540-71388-3 Due June 2007

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F. Sgallari, University of Bologna, Italy; A. Murli, University of C. Shallahamer, Lake Oswego, OR, USA S. Sharma, New Delhi, India; K. Thomas, UK Naples "Federico II", Italy; N. Paragios, MAS, Ecole Centrale de Pairs, France (Eds.) Forecasting Oracle Performance Beginning Fedora

Scale Space and Variational From Novice to Professional Methods in Computer Vision Craig Shallahamer’s Forecasting Oracle Performance is the first, Oracle-specific book to provide database First International Conference, SSVM 2007, Ischia, Italy, May Fedora is the community-driven edition of Red Hat's 30 - June 2, 2007, Proceedings administrators with help in forecasting future perfor- world-recognized namesake operating system, used mance of new and existing database systems. Most by millions of individuals around the globe. With in- (if not all) Oracle performance optimization books creasing interest in using Linux as a desktop alter- on the market today focus on troubleshooting acute This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the native to Windows, a substantial amount of work problems such as a poorly performing report. The First International Conference on Scale Space Meth- has been put into Fedora's desktop features, and ac- other side of the coin however, lies in forecasting: ods and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, cordingly it has risen to be the third most popular Will the current hardware last the year? What hap- SSVM 2007, emanated from the joint edition of the Linux distribution according to industry standard pens when we merge the employees from a newly ac- 4th International Workshop on Variational, Geo- Distrowatch.com. Beginning Fedora is the first book quired company? Will the current system keep up metric and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision, to examine Fedora from the desktop perspective. with the demands of a new application? These are VLSM 2007 and the 6th International Conference Guiding the reader through all of the tasks Windows strategic questions that database administrators are on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vi- users have long grown accustomed to doing on a dai- expected to answer. Until now, there has been no sion, Scale-Space 2007, held in Ischia Italy in May/ ly basis, but historically find difficult to do on Lin- book to help them. Of all the problems that an Ora- June 2007. The 24 revised full papers and 55 revised ux, readers learn how to manage MP3s, videos, and cle database administrator has to worry about, those poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and photos, perform office tasks, and create an office dealing with performance often provoke the most selected from 133 submissions. The papers are orga- network. Adapted from Keir Thomas' best-selling stress, thus providing the greatest impetus for ad- nized in topical sections on scale space and features Beginning Ubuntu, and including a DVD with the ministrators to seek help in the form of books. This extraction, image enhancement and reconstruction, complete Fedora distribution, readers will learn how book shows administrators how to create a model of image segmentation and visual grouping, motion to quickly make the most of this powerful and popu- [..] analysis, optical flow, registration and tracking, 3D lar operating system. from images, scale space and feature extraction, im- Features Features age enhancement, reconstruction and texture syn- The first forecasting book specific to Oracle Written Adapted from Keir Thomas' best-selling "Beginning thesis, image segmentation and visual grouping, mo- by Craig Shallahamer, noted Oracle capacity-plan- Ubuntu: From Novice to Professional" (Bookscan tion analysis, optical flow, registration and tracking, ning expert Meshes well with the latest performance YTD: 4,365), and co-authored by Keir Thomas, this and [..] optimization trends in the Oracle community book is based on a proven format and content The Fields of interest Contents only book to cover the Fedora Linux distribution Image Processing and Computer Vision; Comput- Introduction.- 1. Foundations.- 2. Essential Perfor- from the desktop perspective, showing users how to er Graphics; Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelli- mance Forecasting.- 3. Increasing Forecast Preci- carry out everyday tasks such as playing MP3s and gence (incl. Robotics); Numeric Computing; Algo- sion.- 4. Basic Forecasting Statistics.- 5. Practical video, managing and editing photos, and performing rithm Analysis and Problem Complexity Queueing Theory.- 6. Methodically Forecasting Per- office [..] formance.- 7. Characterizing the Workload.- 8. Ratio Target groups Contents Modeling Forecasting.- 9. Linear Regression Fore- Researchers and professionals Part I. Introducing the World of Linux.- 1. Wel- casting.- 10. Scalability. come!.- 2. A History and Politics Lesson.- 3. The Re- Type of publication Fields of interest alities of Running Linux.- Part II. Installing Fedo- Proceedings System Performance and Evaluation ra.- 4. Preinstallation Steps.- 5. Installing Fedora.- 6. Solving Installation Problems.- Part III. The No- Due May 2007 Target groups Nonsense Getting Started Guide.- 7. Booting Ubun- Intermediate - advanced Oracle database administra- tu for the First Time.- 8. Getting Everything Up and Running.- 9. How to Secure Your Computer.- 10. 2007. XV, 931 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- tors, and capacity planners er Science, Band 4485) Softcover Personalizing Fedora: Getting Everything Just Right.- Type of publication 11. Ubuntu Replacements for Windows Programs.- 99,51 € Professional book 12. Managing Your Files.- Part IV. The Shell and Be- ISBN 978-3-540-72822-1 yond.- 13. Introducing the BASH [..] Due May 2007 Fields of interest Operating Systems Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest Target groups Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. 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Computer Supported Cooperative Computational Science - ICCS 2007

Work in Design III 7th International Conference, Beijing China, May 27-30, 2007, Proceedings, Part I 10th International Conference, CSCWD 2006, Nanjing, China, May 3-5, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

The four-volume set LNCS 4487-4490 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2007, proceedings of the 10th International Conference on held in Beijing, China in May 2007. More than 2400 Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, submissions were made to the main conference and CSCWD 2006, held in Nanjing, China in May 2006. its 35 topical workshops. The 80 revised full papers The 76 revised full papers presented were carefully and 11 revised short papers of the main track were reviewed and selected from about 600 submissions carefully reviewed and selected from 360 submis- during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. sions and are presented together with 624 accepted They contain expanded versions of the papers pre- workshop papers in four volumes. According to the sented at the conference and are organized in topical ICCS 2007 theme "Advancing Science and Society sections on CSCW techniques and methods, collabo- through Computation" the papers cover a large vol- rative design, collaborative manufacturing and enter- ume of topics in computational science and related prise collaboration, design methods and tools, agents areas, from multiscale physics, to wireless networks, and multi-agent systems, Web services, semantic and from graph theory to tools for program develop- Web, and grid computing, knowledge management, ment. The papers are arranged in topical sections on security and privacy in CSCW systems, workflow efficient data management, parallel monte carlo al- management, and e-learning. gorithms, simulation of multiphysics multiscale sys- Fields of interest tems, dynamic data driven application systems, com- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; puter graphics and geometric modeling, computer Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); algebra [..] Computer Communication Networks; Software En- Fields of interest gineering; Operating Systems; Computer-Aided En- Theory of Computation; Software Engineering/Pro- gineering (CAD, CAE) and Design gramming and Operating Systems; Numeric Com- Target groups puting; Information Systems and Communication Researchers and professionals Service; Simulation and Modeling; Computer Imag- ing, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics Type of publication Proceedings Target groups Researchers and professionals

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7th International Conference, Beijing China, May 27-30, 2007, 7th International Conference, Beijing China, May 27-30, 2007, 7th International Conference, Beijing China, May 27-30, 2007, Proceedings, Part IV Proceedings, Part III Proceedings, Part II

The four-volume set LNCS 4487-4490 constitutes The four-volume set LNCS 4487-4490 constitutes The four-volume set LNCS 4487-4490 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International the refereed proceedings of the 7th International the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2007, Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2007, Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2007, held in Beijing, China in May 2007. More than 2400 held in Beijing, China in May 2007. More than 2400 held in Beijing, China in May 2007. More than 2400 submissions were made to the main conference and submissions were made to the main conference and submissions were made to the main conference and its 35 topical workshops. The 80 revised full papers its 35 topical workshops. The 80 revised full papers its 35 topical workshops. The 80 revised full papers and 11 revised short papers of the main track were and 11 revised short papers of the main track were and 11 revised short papers of the main track were carefully reviewed and selected from 360 submis- carefully reviewed and selected from 360 submis- carefully reviewed and selected from 360 submissions and are presented together with 624 accepted sions and are presented together with 624 accepted sions and are presented together with 624 accepted workshop papers in four volumes. According to the workshop papers in four volumes. According to the workshop papers in four volumes. According to the ICCS 2007 theme "Advancing Science and Society ICCS 2007 theme "Advancing Science and Society ICCS 2007 theme "Advancing Science and Society through Computation" the papers cover a large vol- through Computation" the papers cover a large vol- through Computation" the papers cover a large volume of topics in computational science and related ume of topics in computational science and related ume of topics in computational science and related areas, from multiscale physics, to wireless networks, areas, from multiscale physics, to wireless networks, areas, from multiscale physics, to wireless networks, and from graph theory to tools for program develop- and from graph theory to tools for program develop- and from graph theory to tools for program development. The papers are arranged in topical sections on ment. The papers are arranged in topical sections on ment. The papers are arranged in topical sections on efficient data management, parallel monte carlo al- efficient data management, parallel monte carlo al- efficient data management, parallel monte carlo algorithms, simulation of multiphysics multiscale sys- gorithms, simulation of multiphysics multiscale sys- gorithms, simulation of multiphysics multiscale systems, dynamic data driven application systems, com- tems, dynamic data driven application systems, com- tems, dynamic data driven application systems, computer graphics and geometric modeling, computer puter graphics and geometric modeling, computer puter graphics and geometric modeling, computer algebra [..] algebra [..] algebra [..]

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Y.Q. Shi, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA I.K. Shingareva, University of Sonora, Hermosillo,Mexico; C. C.A. Shoniregun, University of East London, UK (Ed.) Lizárraga-Celaya, University of Sonora, Hermosillo,Mexico Synchronizing Internet Protocol Transactions on Data Hiding and Maple and Mathematica Security (SIPSec) Multimedia Security II A Problem Solving Approach for Mathematics

The open design of the internet has not only opened Since the mid 1990s, data hiding has been proposed This book compares the two computer algebra many new opportunities for communications, but as an enabling technology for securing multimedia programs, Maple and Mathematica used by stu- it has also opened many new avenues for attacks communication, and is now used in various appli- dents, mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. against organizational network and computing re- cations including broadcast monitoring, movie fin- Structured by presenting both systems in parallel, sources. Information security has become a major gerprinting, steganography, video indexing and re- Mathematica’s users can learn Maple quickly by concern in recent times, as more and more comput- trieval, and image authentication. Data hiding and finding the Maple equivalent to Mathematica func- ers are being connected to the global internet. With cryptographic techniques are often combined to tions, and vice versa. This student reference hand- so much data transferring over public networks, the complement each other, thus triggering the develop- book consists of core material for incorporating risk for sensitive information has increased expo- ment of a new research field of multimedia security. Maple and Mathematica as a working tool into dif- nentially, while the increase of internet hosts con- Besides, two related disciplines, steganalysis and data ferent undergraduate mathematical courses (algebra, tinually requires additional function support. Syn- forensics, are increasingly attracting researchers and geometry, calculus, complex functions, special func- chronizing Internet Protocol Security (SIPSec) focus- becoming another new research field of multimedia tions, integral transforms, mathematical equations). es on the combination of theoretical investigation security. This journal, LNCS Transactions on Data Part I describes the foundations of Maple and Math- and practical implementation, which provides an in- Hiding and Multimedia Security, aims to be a forum ematica (with equivalent problems and solutions). depth understanding of the Internet Protocol Securi- for all researchers in these emerging fields, publish- Part II describes Mathematics with Maple and Math- ty (IPSec) framework. The standard internet proto- ing both original and archival research results. This ematica by using equivalent problems. col is completely unprotected, allowing hosts to in- second issue contains five papers dealing with a wide spect or modify data in transit. This volume identi- range of topics related to multimedia security. The Features fies the security problems facing internet communi- first paper introduces Fingercasting, which allows Side by side comparisons of practical solutions cation protocols along with the risks associated with joint fingerprinting and decryption of [..] of the two computer algebra programs, Maple [..] and Mathematica First book to give a handy refer- Fields of interest ence for these popular systems Features Data Encryption; Systems and Data Security; Man- First book that includes in-depth information on agement of Computing and Information Systems; Contents IPSecs IPSecs used in this book include a number of Computers and Society; Multimedia Information From the contents:Preface.- Foundations of Maple different algorithms and protocols to provide a co- Systems; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complex- and Mathematica: Maple; Mathematica.- Mathemat- hesive security framework Includes an investigative ity ics: Maple and Mathematica: Graphics; Algebra; Ge- case study regarding the vulnerabilities that impair ometry; Calculus; Complex Functions; Special Func- IPSec and how to prevent this from occurring Target groups tions; Integral and Discrete Transforms; Mathemat- Researchers and professionals ical Equations:- References.- General Index.- Contents Maple Index.- Mathematica Index. Preface.- Introduction and Overview.- Internet Type of publication Communications Protocol.- Internet Protocol Se- Collected works Fields of interest curity (IPSec).- Implementation and Limitation of Mathematical Software; Computational Mathematics IPSec.- Synchronising Internet Protocol Security Due June 2007 and Numerical Analysis; Computational Science and (SIPS) Model.- Discussion.- Conclusions and Rec- Engineering ommendations.- Glossary.- Endnotes.- References.- Bibliography.- Index. 2007. IX, 117 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Target groups Science, Band 4499) Softcover Students, mathematicians, scientists, engineers Fields of interest 51,36 € Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-73091-0 Computer Communication Networks; Data Encryp- Graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook tion; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Computer Systems Organization and Com- Due August 2007 munication Networks

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R. Shumaker, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA (Ed.) S. Singh, Loughborough University, UK; M. Singh, Loughborough M.J. Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; G. Sal- University, UK (Eds.) vendy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA (Eds.) Virtual Reality Progress in Pattern Recognition Human Interface and the Second International Conference, ICVR 2007, Held as Part of HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Pro- Management of Information. ceedings Methods, Techniques and Tools in This book provides readers with the state-of-the- art algorithms in the area of pattern recognition as Information Design well as a presentation of the cutting edge applications This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Symposium on Human Interface 2007, Held as Part of HCI In- within the field. The book introduces recent achieve- Second International Conference on Virtual Reali- ternational 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceed- ments in the areas of theoretical pattern recogni- ty, ICVR 2007, held in Beijing, China in July 2007 in ings, Part I tion including statistical and Bayesian pattern recog- the framework of the 12th International Conference nition, structural pattern recognition, neural net- on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007 with works, classification and data mining, evolutionary 8 other thematically similar conferences. The 81 re- This two-volume set LNCS 4557 and 4558 consti- approaches to optimisation, and knowledge based vised papers presented were carefully reviewed and tutes the refereed proceedings of the Symposium on systems amongst other areas. The collection of ar- selected from numerous submissions. The papers ac- Human Interface 2007, held in Beijing, China in Ju- ticles presented is from the 2007 Workshop on Ad- cepted for presentation thoroughly cover the themat- ly 2007 in the framework of the 12th International vances in Pattern Recognition, organised in conjunc- ic area of Virtual Reality, addressing the following Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII tion with the 5th International Summer School on major topics: 3D rendering and visualization, inter- 2007 with 8 other thematically similar conferences. Pattern Recognition. An invaluable reference for reacting and navigating in virtual and augmented en- The 240 revised papers presented in the two volumes searchers, academics and postgraduate students in vironments, industrial applications of virtual reality, were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous the area of pattern recognition, this book will pro- as well as health, cultural, educational and entertain- submissions. The papers accepted for presentation vide insights and will support practitioners con- ment applications. thoroughly cover the thematic area of human inter- cerned with the state-of-the-art technology in this face and the management of information. The 115 area. Fields of interest papers of this first volume address the following ma- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interac- Features jor topics: design and evaluation methods and tech- tion; Computer Graphics; Artificial Intelligence Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Advances in niques, visualizing information, retrieval, searching, (incl. Robotics); Special Purpose and Applica- Pattern Recognition browsing and navigation, development methods and tion-Based Systems; Information Systems Applica- techniques, as well as advanced interaction technolo- tions (incl.Internet); Multimedia Information Sys- Fields of interest gies and techniques. tems Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics Fields of interest Target groups User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Researchers and professionals Target groups Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Researchers and postgraduate students Multimedia Information Systems; Data Mining and Type of publication Knowledge Discovery; Information Storage and Re- Proceedings Type of publication trieval; Computer Communication Networks Proceedings Due June 2007 Target groups Due August 2007 Researchers and professionals 2007. XXII, 762 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- puter Science, Band 4563) Softcover Type of publication 2007. X, 230 p. (Advances in Pattern Recognition) Geb. Proceedings 89,88 € 96,25 € ISBN 978-3-540-73334-8 Due June 2007 ISBN 978-1-84628-944-6

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M.J. Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; G. Sal- S. Smith, Australia; M. Still, Google, CA, USA I.Y. Song, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; J. Eder, Uni- vendy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA (Eds.) versity of Vienna, Austria; T.M. Nguyen, Vienna Universityof Tech- nology, Austrial (Eds.) Practical MythTV Human Interface and the Management of Information. Building a PVR and Media Center PC Data Warehousing and Knowledge Interacting in Information Discovery Environments MythTV is a powerful open source personal video 9th International Conference, DaWaK 2007, Regensburg, Ger- many, September 3-7, 2007, Proceedings recorder (PVR) application which runs on Linux. Symposium on Human Interface 2007, Held as Part of HCI In- Developed for several years by volunteers, it offers a ternational 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceed- ings, Part II stable and extensible platform for automating all of the things you'd expect from a PVR, and much more. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book takes a project based approach to imple- 8th International Conference on Data Warehousing menting your own MythTV setup, from selecting and Knowledge Discovery, DaWak 2007, held in Re- This two-volume set LNCS 4557 and 4558 consti- hardware right through to advanced customization. gensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007. The 44 re- tutes the refereed proceedings of the Symposium on You will learn how to record your favorite television vised full papers presented were carefully reviewed Human Interface 2007, held in Beijing, China in Ju- shows, store your DVDs for later playback, create a and selected from 150 submissions. The papers are ly 2007 in the framework of the 12th International music library out of your CD collection, and even organized in topical sections on ETL processing, Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII use your PVR to do Voice Over IP. The Definitive materialized view, multidimensional design, OLAP 2007 with 8 other thematically similar conferences. Guide to MythTV: Building a PVR and Media Cen- and multidimensional model, cubes processing, data The 240 revised papers presented in the two volumes ter PC is a book for hobbyists and technology do- warehouse applications, mining techniques, frequent were carefully reviewed and selected from numer- it-yourselfers that wish to create their own PVR or itemsets, mining data streams, ontology-based min- ous submissions. The papers accepted for presenta- media center. With this book as a guide they will be ing, clustering, advanced mining techniques, association thoroughly cover the thematic area of human able to choose the right hardware (or recycle existing tion rules, miscellaneous applications, and classifica- interface and the management of information. The hardware) and then install all the necessary software. tion. 125 papers of this second volume address the following major topics: communication and collaboration, Features Fields of interest knowledge, learning and education, mobile interac- Installing MythTV is the perfect weekend DIY Database Management; Data Mining and Knowl- tion, interacting with the world wide web and elec- project for both hobbyists and programmers. This edge Discovery; Information Systems Applications tronic services, business management and industrial is the guide they’ll need to ensure success This book (incl.Internet); Computer Communication Net- applications, as well as environment, transportation covers both the hardware and software issues that works; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Infor- and safety. must be decided up to install and run MythTV Basic mation Systems (setup, installation, recording) and advanced (VOIP, Fields of interest themes, plugins) issues are thoroughly addressed Target groups User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Researchers and professionals Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Contents Multimedia Information Systems; Data Mining and Introduction.- Project One: Getting ready for Type of publication Knowledge Discovery; Information Storage and Re- the install.- Project Two: Getting MythTV Proceedings trieval; Computer Communication Networks installed.- Project Three: Recording TV.- Project Four: Remote Control.- Project Due August 2007 Target groups Five: Advanced TV recording.- MythTV func- Researchers and professionals tionality.- Project Six: Creating your own 2007. XVI, 482 p. 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P.X.-K. Song, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada S. Spaccapietra, EPFL Zurich, Switzerland; P. Atzeni, Universitá T. Speed, University of California, CA, USA; H. Huang, University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy; F. Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, Le Ches- of California, CA, USA (Eds.) nay Cedex, France; M.-S. Hacid, Université Claude Bernard Lyon Correlated Data Analysis: Modeling, 1, Villeurbanne Cedex, France; M. Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA; J. Mylopoulos, University of Toron- Research in Computational Analytics, and Applications to, ON, Canada; B. Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; P. Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy; J. Trujillo, University of Alicante, Spain; Molecular Biology I. Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy (Eds.) 11th Annunal International Conference, RECOMB 2007, Oak- This book presents some recent developments in land, CA, USA, April 21-25, 2007, Proceedings correlated data analysis. It utilizes the class of dis- Journal on Data Semantics IX persion models as marginal components in the formulation of joint models for correlated data. This This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of enables the book to handle a broader range of data The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the 11th Annual International Conference on Re- types than those analyzed by traditional generalized the presentation of notable work that, in one way or search in Computational Molecular Biology, RE- linear models. One example is correlated angular another, addresses research and development on is- COMB 2007, held in Oakland, CA, USA in April data. This book provides a systematic treatment for sues related to data semantics. Based on the highly 2007. The 37 revised full papers presented were care- the topic of estimating functions. Under this frame- visible publication platform Lecture Notes in Com- fully reviewed and selected from just under 170 sub- work, both generalized estimating equations (GEE) puter Science, this new journal is widely disseminat- missions. As the top conference in computational and quadratic inference functions (QIF) are stud- ed and available worldwide. The scope of the journal molecular biology, RECOMB addresses all current ied as special cases. In addition to marginal models ranges from theories supporting the formal defini- issues in algorithmic, theoretical, and experimental and mixed-effects models, this book covers topics on tion of semantic content to innovative domain-spe- bioinformatics. joint regression analysis based on Gaussian copulas cific applications of semantic knowledge. The jour- and generalized state space models for longitudinal Fields of interest nal addresses researchers and advanced practition- data from long time series. Various real-world data Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Data ers working on the semantic web, interoperabili- examples, numerical illustrations and software usage Structures; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Sci- ty, mobile information services, data warehousing, tips are presented throughout the book. This book ence; Database Management; Artificial Intelligence knowledge representation and reasoning, conceptual has evolved from lecture notes on longitudinal data (incl. Robotics); Computational Biology/Bioinfor- database modeling, ontologies, and artificial intelli- analysis, and may be considered suitable [..] matics gence. Features Target groups Fields of interest New topics are featured that have not been discussed Researchers and professionals Database Management; Information Storage and Re- in other books: a unified framework of model for trieval; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Infor- clustered, longitudinal, or vector outcomes based Type of publication mation Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Com- on dispersion models A rigorous presentation of the Proceedings puter Communication Networks theory of inference functions prior to the introduction to the marginal models The means of quadratic Target groups Due April 2007 inference function (QIF) The theory of vector gener- Researchers and professionals alized linear models...and more! 2007. XVI, 550 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Type of publication er Science, Band 4453) Softcover Contents Proceedings Introduction and examples.- Dispersion models.- 72,76 € Inference functions.- Modeling correlated data.- ISBN 978-3-540-71680-8 Marginal generalized linear models.- Vector gen- Due September 2007 eralized linear models.- Mixed-effects models: likelihood-based inference.- Mixed-effects models: 2007. XV, 197 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4601) Bayesian inference.- Linear predictors.- Generalized Softcover state space models.- Generalized state space models for longitudinal binomial data.- Generalized state 57,78 € space models for longitudinal count data.- Missing ISBN 978-3-540-74982-0 data in longitudinal studies.

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J. Spolsky, New York, NY, USA F. Stajano, University of Cambridge, UK; H.J. Kim, Korea Universi- F. Stajano, University of Cambridge, UK; C. Meadows, S. Capkun, ty, Korea; J.-S. Chae, ETRI, Korea; S.-D. Kim, KETI/Ubiquitous RC, T. Moore, University of Cambridge, UK (Eds.) Korea (Eds.) Smart and Gets Things Done Security and Privacy in Ad-hoc and Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Tal- Ubiquitous Convergence Sensor Networks ent Technology 4th European Workshop, ESAS 2007, Cambridge, UK, July 2-3, First International Conference, ICUCT 2006, Jeju Island, Korea, 2007, Proceedings A "good" programmer can outproduce five, ten, and December 5-6, 2006, Revised Selected Papers sometimes more run-of-the-mill programmers. The secret to success for any software company then is This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the to hire the good programmers. But how to do that? This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- 4th European Workshop on Security and Privacy in How to recognize a good programmer? How to even proceedings of the First International Conference on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, ESAS 2007, held in define "good"? These are questions the software in- Ubiquitous Convergence Technology, ICUCT 2006, Cambridge, UK, in July 2007. The 17 revised full pa- dustry has struggled with for decades. Managers and held in Jeju Island, Korea in December, 2006. The 29 pers presented were carefully reviewed and selected others involved in hiring programmers are constant- revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote from 87 submissions. The papers present original re- ly faced with the dilemma of trying to divine tal- paper were carefully reviewed and selected during search on all aspects of security and privacy in wire- ent for programming based on their perception of a two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 640 less ad hoc and sensor networks and addressing cur- candidate’s talent for interviewing and socialization. submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- rent topics of network security, cryptography, and The result? The result is all too often the hiring of a tions on multimedia, applications, mobile, wireless, wireless networking communities. The papers are good talker rather than a good programmer. In Joel and ad-hoc networking, smart sensors and sensor organized in topical sections on device pairing, key on Hiring, Joel Spolsky draws from his experience networks, privacy and security, as well as Web-based management, location verification and location pri- both at Microsoft and running his own, success- simulation for natural systems. vacy, secure routing and forwarding, physical secu- ful software company based in New York City. Joel rity, as well as detection of compromise, and revoca- writes humorously, but seriously about his meth- Fields of interest tion. ods for sorting resumes, for finding great candidates, Computer Communication Networks; Special Pur- and for interviewing, in person and by phone. Joel’s pose and Application-Based Systems; Information Fields of interest methods are not complex, but they do get to the [..] Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Multimedia Data Encryption; Computer Communication Net- Information Systems; User Interfaces and Human works; Systems and Data Security; Algorithm Analy- Features Computer Interaction; Computers and Society sis and Problem Complexity; Management of Com- Joel Spolsky is the #1 ranked blogger in the technical puting and Information Systems; Information Sys- space, is widely quoted even in the mainstream me- Target groups tems Applications (incl.Internet) dia (for example Smart Money and the Wall Street Researchers and professionals Journal) Joel Spolsky is well-known in his field, no- Target groups tably because of his Joelonsoftware.com website He Type of publication Researchers and professionals has a large and devoted following, all his previous Proceedings books have been best sellers with back list appeal Ap- Type of publication peal will be broad. Managers will buy the book to [..] Due April 2007 Proceedings

Contents Due June 2007 Introduction.- 1: Hitting the High Notes.- 2: Find- 2007. XI, 302 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4412) Softcover ing Great Developers.- 3: A Field Guide to Develop- ers.- 4: Sorting Resumes.- 5: Phone interviews (not 2007. X, 247 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer 51,36 € Science, Band 4572) Softcover yet published, 3000 words).- 6: The Guerrilla Guide ISBN 978-3-540-71788-1 to Interviewing. 48,15 € ISBN 978-3-540-73274-7 Fields of interest Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

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T. Stapelkamp, dmbh, Köln A. Steger, ETH Zürich T. Steimle, Wetzikon, Schweiz

DVD-Produktionen Diskrete Strukturen Softwareentwicklung im Offshoring gestalten - erstellen - nutzen Band 1: Kombinatorik, Graphentheorie, Algebra Erfolgsfaktoren für die Praxis

Im Allgemeinen bezieht sich dieses Buch auf Video- Dieses Lehrbuch umfaßt einen Kanon von Themen, Der Mangel an qualifizierten Softwareentwicklern Produktionen mit Interaktion und im Besonderen der an vielen Universitäten unter dem Titel "Diskrete im deutschsprachigen Raum verschärft sich weiter. auf die Formate DVD, Blu-ray Disc und HD DVD. Strukturen" fester Bestandteil des Informatik-Grund- Die effektive Zusammenarbeit in weltweit verteil- In diesem Zusammenhang werden die Varianten studiums geworden ist. Bei der Darstellung wird ten Teams ist ein entscheidender Wettbewerbs- der DVD nicht als Datenträger, sondern als For- neben der mathematischen Exaktheit besonderer faktor. Daher wird Offshoring immer relevanter. mate vorgestellt, die jeweils eigenständige Gen- Wert darauf gelegt, auch das intuitive Verständnis Bisher haben vor allem sehr große Unternehmen res darstellen, etwa interaktives Video, Doku- zu fördern, um so das Verstehen und Einordnen des Erfahrungen mit Offshore-Softwareentwicklung mentationen, Games, Event-Shows etc. Der Autor Stoffs zu erleichtern. Unterstützt wird dies durch sammeln können. Der Autor verfolgt das Ziel, das erläutert, wie im Rahmen dieser Formate Linearität, zahlreiche Beispiele und Aufgaben, vorwiegend Thema auch kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen Nonlinearität und Interaktion für Erzählformen, aus dem Bereich der Informatik. Themen: Kombi- näher zu bringen und die Eintrittsbarrieren für für Spiele und zur Wissensvermittlung genutzt wer- natorik, Graphentheorie, Algorithmische Grund- kostengünstige Offshore-Softwareentwicklungen den können und welche technologischen Spezifika- prinzipien, Rekursionsgleichungen, Algebra. zu reduzieren. Was können diese Unternehmen aus tionen zu berücksichtigen sind. Auch wenn sich den Anfängerfehlern der First Mover lernen? Das die Betrachtung dabei auf DVD-Formate konzen- Features Buch zeigt auf, wie Unternehmen erfolgreich triert, lassen sich viele Inhalte dieses Buches auch Vorlesung nach dem Münchener Curriculum mit Offshore-Projekte umsetzen können. Es ist praxis- auf die Perspektiven von iTV, Video-PODcast- Standardcharakter Eine Vielzahl interessanter nah, enthält konkrete Fallstudien und diskutiert rel- ing und Web-TV beziehen. Auf der beigefügten Beispiele und Übungsaufgaben unterschiedlichen evante Fragestellungen in der Projektabwicklung. DVD befinden sich neben Check-Listen für DVD- Schwierigkeitsgrads Autorin ist ausgewiesene Exper- Dem Leser werden konkrete Werkzeuge vermit- Tests und zur Qualitätskontrolle u.a. auch 3,5 tin telt, mit denen er die Risiken in der Abwicklung von Stunden digital abgefilmte DVD-Ausschnitte als Offshore-Projekten reduzieren kann, ohne dass die Anschauungsmaterial. Contents Kostenvorteile verloren gehen. Mathematische Grundlagen.- Kombinatorik.- Features Graphentheorie.- Zahlentheorie und Arithmetik.- Features Standards und Spezifikationen der DVD Die DVD Analyse von Algorithmen.- Algebraische Struk- Kompakte Anleitung für die Praxis. Durchgängiges im Crossmedia Publishing Genaue Angaben über turen.- Übungsaufgaben.- Lösungen der Übungsauf- Fallbeispiel. Richtet sich auch an KMU's. Fokussiert die Umsetzung der DVD-Produktion im Sinne eines gaben. auf dem Brennpunkt Offshoring. Konkrete Hilfestel- professionellen Projektmanagements lungen mit Checklisten. Fields of interest Contents Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science; Proba- Contents Vorwort.- Was ist DVD?- Orientierungsbeiträge, bility and Statistics in Computer Science; Math Ap- Die Motivation: Warum Softwareentwicklung off- Erzählung.- Orientierungsbeiträge, Wissensvermit- plications in Computer Science shoren?- Die Kalkulation: Wie sieht der Business tlung.- Standards, Spezifikationen.- Projekte im De- Case aus?- Der Irrweg: Misstrauen ist gut, Kontrolle tail.- Projektmanagement.- Qualitätsmanagement.- Target groups ist besser.- Der richtige Ansatz: Projekmanagement Medienrecht und Verwertung.- Ausblick. Studierende der Informatik als „Reduce to the max“.- Das Fallbeispiel: Entwick- lung einer Lösung für die Reisebranche.- Best Prac- Type of publication Fields of interest tices in der Softwareentwicklung.- Grundsätzliche German textbook Media Design; Multimedia Information Systems; In- Unterschiede zwischen Softwareentwicklung intern teraction Design (Interaktionsdesign) und im Offshoring.- Projekt.- Preismodell.- Projek- Due September 2007 torganisation.- Spezifikation.- Qualitätssicherung.- Target groups Abnahmeprozedere und Testvorgehen. Kreative Professionals, Mediendesigner, Video- 2007. X, 270 S. (Springer-Lehrbuch) Softcover Filmer, Fotografen, Künstler, Produzenten Fields of interest 22,95 € Management of Computing and Information Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-46660-4 Systems; Information Systems and Communica- Professional book tion Service; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Management; Technology Manage- Due September 2007 ment

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C. Steinfield, Michigan State University, MI, USA; B.T. Pentland, A. Steland, RWTH Aachen C. Stephanidis, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece (Ed.) Michigan State University, MI, USA; M. Ackerman, University of Michigan, MI, USA; N. Contractor, University of Illinois, IL, USA (Eds.) Basiswissen Statistik Universal Access in Human-

Kompaktkurs für Anwender aus Wirtschaft, Informatik und Computer Interaction. Ambient Communities and Technologies Technik Interaction 2007 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Hu- man-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007, Held as Part of HCI Proceedings of the Third Communities and Technologies Con- Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Ingenieure und In- ference, Michigan State University 2007 International 2007, Beijing,China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceed- formatiker benötigen heutzutage profunde Ken- ings, Part II ntnisse über Modelle und Methoden der angewandten Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Statis- This book covers the relationship between informatik. Diese spielen eine entscheidende Rolle für das This three-volume set LNCS 4554-4556 constitutes tion and communication technologies (ICTs) and Verständnis und die theoretische Analyse komplex- the refereed proceedings of the 4th International communities – both physical and virtual. The chap- er Systeme wie zum Beispiel den Finanzmärkten Conference on Universal Access in Human-Com- ters deal with such subjects as online social network oder dem Datenverkehr im Internet. Die vor- puter Interaction, UAHCI 2007, held in Beijing, Chi- communities, implicit online communities, tools for liegende Kompakteinführung stellt die in anwen- na in July 2007 jointly with 8 other thematically simi- researching communities, user generated content dungsorientierten Lehrveranstaltungen üblichen lar conferences. The 341 revised papers presented in communities, communities of practice, and trust in Themen in einer modernen Form dar, die sich the three volumes were carefully reviewed and select- communities. Among the many contexts for com- insbesondere an Studienanfänger richtet. Ein ed from numerous submissions. The papers accept- munity technology applications studied in these ausführlicher mathematischer Anhang „Mathematik ed for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field chapters are businesses and professional settings, kompakt“ stellt die wichtigsten Ergebnisse aus Anal- of universal access in human-computer interaction. health care, game communities, e-government, rural ysis und linearer Algebra zum effizienten und leicht- The 115 papers of this second volume are devoted communities, low income communities and physi- en Nachschlagen zur Verfügung. to ambient interaction and are organized in topical cal neighborhoods. Collectively, they demonstrate sections on intelligent ambients, access to the physi- the dynamic and interdisciplinary nature of evolving Features cal environment, mobility and transportation, virtual communities and technologies scholarship. Kompakte und übersichtliche Darstellung Unnötige Formalismen werden vermieden Ausführlicher and augmented environments, as well as interaction Features mathematischer Anhang techniques and devices. Demonstrates the dynamic and interdisciplinary Fields of interest nature of evolving communities and technologies Contents User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; scholarship Deskriptive und explorative Statistik.- Wahrschein- lichkeitsrechnung.- Schließende Statistik.- Mathe- Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- Contents matik-kompakt. age and Retrieval; Computer Communication Net- From the contents Everything in Moderation: The works; Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings Effects of Adult Moderators in Online Youth Com- Fields of interest of Programs munities.- Introductions and Requests: Rhetorical Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Fi- Target groups Strategies that Elicit Response in Online Communi- nance/Insurance; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Researchers and professionals ties.- Rhythms of Social Interaction: Messaging with- Computer Science, Chemistry & Geosciences; Game Theory/Mathematical Methods; Appl.Mathematics/ in a Massive Online Network.- A Noun Phrase Anal- Type of publication Computational Methods of Engineering; Probability ysis Tool for Mining Online Community Conversa- Proceedings tions.- Reflections and Reactions to Social Account- and Statistics in Computer Science; Statistical Theory ing Meta-Data.- Modes of Social Science Engage- and Methods ment in Community Infrastructure Design.- Work- Due July 2007 place Connectors as Facilitators for Work.- Online Target groups and Offline Integration in Virtual Communities of Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, des 2007. XXII, 1066 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Patients [..] (Wirtschafts-)ingenieurwesens, der Informatik und puter Science, Band 4555) Softcover Wirtschaftsmathematik Fields of interest 109,14 € Information Systems and Communication Service; Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-73280-8 User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; German textbook Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences Due September 2007 Target groups ICT researchers 2007. XIV, 241 S. (Springer-Lehrbuch) Softcover

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C. Stephanidis, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece (Ed.) C. Stephanidis, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece (Ed.) C.R. Stephens, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico; M. Toussaint, TU Berlin, Germany; D. Whitley, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; P.F. Stadler, University of Universal Acess in Human Universal Access in Human- Leipzig, Germany (Eds.) Computer Interaction. Coping with Computer Interaction. Applications Diversity and Services Foundations of Genetic Algorithms

Coping with Diversity, 4th International Conference on Uni- 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Hu- 9th International Workshop, FOGA 2007, Mexico City, Mexico, versal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007, man-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007, held as Part of HCi January 8-11, 2007, Revised Selected Papers Held as Part of HCi International 2007, Beijing, China, July International 2007, Beijing,China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceed- 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part I ings, Part III This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Founda- This three-volume set LNCS 4554-4556 constitutes This three-volume set LNCS 4554-4556 constitutes tions of Genetic Algorithms, FOGA 2007, held in the refereed proceedings of the 4th International the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Mexico City, Mexico in January 2007. The 11 revised Conference on Universal Access in Human-Com- Conference on Universal Access in Human-Com- full papers presented were carefully reviewed and se- puter Interaction, UAHCI 2007, held in Beijing, Chi- puter Interaction, UAHCI 2007, held in Beijing, Chi- lected during two rounds of reviewing and improve- na in July 2007 jointly with 8 other thematically simi- na in July 2007 jointly with 8 other thematically simi- ment from 22 submissions. The papers address all lar conferences. The 341 revised papers presented in lar conferences. The 341 revised papers presented in current topics in the field of theoretical evolution- the three volumes were carefully reviewed and select- the three volumes were carefully reviewed and select- ary computation including evolution strategies, evo- ed from numerous submissions. The papers accepted ed from numerous submissions. The papers accept- lutionary programming, and genetic programming, for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of ed for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field and also depict the continuing growth in interactions Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. of universal access in human-computer interaction. with other fields such as mathematics, physics, and The 117 papers of this first volume are organized in The 109 papers of this third volume describe appli- biology. topical sections - all coping with diversity - that ad- cations and services and are organized in topical sec- dress the following major topics: designing for uni- tions on Web and media accessibility and usability, Fields of interest versal access, universal access methods, techniques universal access to information and communication, Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Anal- and tools, understanding diversity: motor, perceptu- learning and entertainment, and universal access to ysis and Problem Complexity; Artificial Intelligence al and cognitive abilities, as well as understanding di- e-services. (incl. Robotics); Computational Biology/Bioinfor- versity: age. matics; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics and Popula- Fields of interest tion Dynamics Fields of interest User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- Target groups Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- age and Retrieval; Computer Communication Net- Researchers and professionals age and Retrieval; Computer Communication Net- works; Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings works; Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Programs Type of publication of Programs Proceedings Target groups Target groups Researchers and professionals Due June 2007 Researchers and professionals Type of publication Type of publication Proceedings 2007. IX, 213 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4436) Softcover Proceedings Due June 2007 44,94 € Due June 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-73479-6 2007. XXII, 1020 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- 2007. XXII, 1054 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- puter Science, Band 4556) Softcover puter Science, Band 4554) Softcover 107,00 € 109,14 € ISBN 978-3-540-73282-2 ISBN 978-3-540-73278-5 springer.com/booksellers Computer 229

I. Stephenson, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK O. Stock, ITC-irst, Povo Trento, Italy; M. Zancanaro, ITC-irst, Povo I. Stojmenovic, R.K. Thulasiram, L.T. Yang, W. Jia, M. Guo, R.F. de Trento, Italy (Eds.) Mello (Eds.) Essential RenderMan® PEACH - Intelligent Interfaces for Parallel and Distributed Processing Museum Visits and Applications

RenderMan has long been associated with top-end 5th International Symposium, ISPA 2007, Niagara Falls, Cana- film production and is an essential tool for creating da, August 29-31, 2007, Proceedings many of the effects and images in recent animated Personal Experience with Active Cultural Heritage, films (such as Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and PEACH, is a large, interdisciplinary development The Incredibles). RenderMan is widely available and, project that explores the use of novel technologies This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the with the demand for higher quality images, is now for physical museum visits. Led by teams from ITC- 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Dis- used by computer-based artists at all levels of the irst, Trento and DFKI, Saarbrücken, the research tributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2007, graphics industry. Intended to provide a straightfor- is at the forefront of work on intelligent user inter- held in Niagara Falls, Canada, in August 2007. The ward and easy introduction to the basic techniques faces, but also covers other areas of artificial intel- 83 revised full papers presented together with 3 involved, this book provides an excellent ground- ligence, microsystems and human-computer inter- keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selecting, enabling readers to confidently move to more action. This book is structured into 13 chapters, ined from 244 submissions. The papers are organized advanced texts. This second edition includes a new cluding reports on mobile guides, infrastructure and in topical sections on algorithms and applications, chapter on global illumination, and, with plenty of user modeling, the use of stationary devices, collab- architectures and systems, datamining and databases, illustrations and hands-on examples, Ian Stephen- orative storytelling, 3D modelling, evaluation and fault tolerance and security, middleware and cooper- son: gives an overview of RenderMan, explains how usability, and future perspectives. The book editors ative computing, networks, as well as software and scenes are described, illustrates (among other things) and authors are leading experts on the underlying languages. how to create surfaces; colour; lighting; shadows; and AI technologies and their application, and no other depth of field, using RIB and the C API, introduces book has comparable technical insight and breadth. Fields of interest the techniques involved in creating shaders, applying It represents a coherent survey of the relevant tech- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- textures and using global illumination. nologies and environment, and will be of benefit to puter Communication Networks; Information Sys- AI researchers engaged with interface design, and Features tems Applications (incl.Internet); System Perfor- practitioners in the area of cultural [..] A good practical, hands-on guide to the Renderman mance and Evaluation; Software Engineering; Oper- ating Systems world Updated to include Global Illumination Features No other book has comparable technical insight and Contents Target groups breadth The book editors and authors are leading ex- Part 1: General Overview.- What is RenderMan?- Researchers and professionals perts on the underlying AI technologies and their ap- Is RenderMan for Me?- An Overview of the Ren- plication Type of publication derMan System.- What do I need?- How to use this Proceedings book.- Part 2: Geometry.- A Simple Scene.- Moving Fields of interest Things Around.- Simple Surfaces.- Color and other User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Due August 2007 Attributes of Objects.- Camera Set-up – Lighting.- Multimedia Information Systems; Artificial Intelli- The Standard Surface Types.- More Complex Sur- gence (incl. Robotics); Computer Appl. in Arts and faces – Shadows.- Motion Blur and Depth of Field.- Humanities; Library Science 2007. XX, 995 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4742) The C API.- Particles and Hair.- Part 3: Shading.- Softcover My first Shader.- Lighting Models.- Colour Ramps.- Target groups Simple Patterns.- Tiling and Repeating Patterns.- Researchers, practitioners 105,93 € Projections and Coordinate Spaces.- Painted Tex- ISBN 978-3-540-74741-3 tures.- [..] Type of publication Monograph Fields of interest Computer Graphics; Image Processing and Comput- Due April 2007 er Vision; Programming Languages, Compilers, In- terpreters; Programming Techniques 2007. XVIII, 317 p. 102 illus., 32 in color. (Cognitive Technologies) Target groups Geb. 2nd / 3rd year undergraduates, novice programmers 80,20 € Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-68754-2 Undergraduate textbook

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R. Stoyan, Zürich (Ed.) N. Streitz, Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany; A. Kameas, Com- R. Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; S. Grimm, puter Technology Institute, Patras, Greece; I. Mavrommati, Com- Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany; A. puter Technology Institute, Patras, Greece (Eds.) Abecker, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Ger- Management von Webprojekten many (Eds.)

Führung, Projektplan, Vertrag The Disappearing Computer Semantic Web Services Interaction Design, System Infrastructures and Applications for Smart Environments Concepts, Technologies, and Applications Webprojekte können hohen wirtschaftlichen Er- folg bringen, wenn sie gelingen. Dazu bedarf es vor allem eines Projektmanagements, das auf die “The-computer-as-we-know-it” will have no role in In just a few years, service-oriented architectures besonderen Anforderungen von Webaktivitäten our future everyday lives. This is the position taken (SOA) and Web services not only gained consider- abgestimmt ist. Das Handbuch unterstützt Pro- in this book which elaborates how it will be replaced able interest in computer science research, they were jektleiter und Entscheider dabei, Webprojekte für by a new generation of technologies, moving com- also taken up with unanimity by all major interna- Geschäftskunden zum Erfolg zu führen. Es stellt er- puting off the desktop and ultimately integrating it tional players in the IT industry. However, and in folgreiche Managementmethoden für Webprojek- with real world objects and everyday environments. spite of all existing standards, in most SOA appli- te vor und beschreibt eine effektive Projektkommu- Computing becomes thus an inseparable part of our cations much human intervention is still required, nikation. Fallstricke in den Projektetappen werden everyday activities while simultaneously disappear- for example to interpret the semantics of informal aufgezeigt, auch heikle Projektsituationen werden ing into the background. It becomes a ubiquitous descriptions or to harmonize incompatible data offen angesprochen. Daneben werden rechtliche utility taking on a role similar to electricity – an en- schemata. Semantic Web services combine Web ser- Rahmenbedingungen, insbesondere das Interne- abling but invisible and pervasive medium revealing vices communication technology with the intelligent trecht, behandelt. Das Autorenteam aus erfahrenen its functionality on request in an unobtrusive way processing of ontology-based metadata to achieve Managern und Fachexperten stellt außerdem Best and supporting people’s everyday activities. As mem- highly integrated enterprise application integration Practices aus Kunden- und Dienstleistersicht vor. bers of the Steering Group of the EU-funded Disap- scenarios, for service look-up, schema matching, or Das Buch richtet sich vor allem an Projektleiter und pearing Computer research initiative, the editors of protocol negotiation, for example. Rudi Studer and Entscheider auf Kunden- und Dienstleisterseite, aber this book successfully assembled a collection of 13 his team deliver a self-contained compendium about auch an Lehrende und Studierende der Fächer E- elaborate chapters and three forewords that address this exciting field, starting with the basic standards Business, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Informatik und De- the issues and challenges in this area. All authors are and technologies and also including advanced appli- sign. prominent researchers who set out investigating, de- cations in eGovernment and eHealth. The contribu- Features veloping and deploying future, [..] tions provide both the theoretical background and Erfolgreiche Managementmethoden für Webprojek- [..] Fields of interest te Notwendiges Wissen zu Kommunikationsman- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Features agement, Führungsskills und Internetrecht Mit um- Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Complete and self-contained coverage of Semantic setzbaren Best-Practice-Beispielen Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- Web Services Balance between theoretical founda- Contents age and Retrieval; Software Engineering; Computers tions and practice-oriented topics Fair and compre- Webprojekte: Das Wichtigste über Webprojek- and Society hensive survey, not committed to a specific standard te.- Von der Idee zum Projekt.- Projektplanung.- or approach Target groups Angebotserstellung und Dienstleisterauswahl.- Researchers and professionals Contents Projektsteuerung.- Tätigkeiten und Dokumente.- Introduction (R.S. Tuder, S. Grimm, A. Abecker).- Überlebenswichtiges.- Herausfordernde Projek- Type of publication Part I - Web Services Technology. 1) Towards Ser- tarten. Führen in Webprojekten: Teamführung.- Collected works vice-Oriented Architectures (S. Fischer, C. Wern- Kommunikation. Fachdisziplinen steuern: Ein- er) - 2) Architecture and Standardisation (C. Wern- leitung: Welches Web-Fachwissen brauchen Man- er, S. Fischer).- Part II - Semantic Web Technolo- ager?- Die Marke im Internet.- Design.- IT.- Recht.- Due May 2007 gy. 3) Knowledge Representation and Ontologies (S. Beispiele. Grimm, P. Hitzler, A. Abecker) - 4) Ontology De- 2007. XVIII, 304 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Fields of interest puter Science, Band 4500) Softcover velopment (G. Nagypál) - 5) Semantic Annotation Information Systems; Management (S. Handschuh).- Part III - Semantic Web Services. 48,10 € 6) Goals and Vision (C. Preist) - 7) Description (H. Target groups ISBN 978-3-540-72725-5 Lausen et. al.) - 8) Discovery (S. Grimm) - 9) Com- Projektleiter auf Kunden- und Dienstleisterseite, position (L. Henocque, M. Kleiner) - 10) [..] Entscheider in Unternehmen Fields of interest Type of publication Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Professional book Information Systems; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); e-business and e-commerce; Computer Due May 2007 Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Computer Communication Networks

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Y. Stylianou, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece; M. Faun- Th. Stützle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; M. J.S. Suri, Eigen LLC, Grass Valley, CA, USA; A.A. Farag, University dez-Zanuy, Polytechnical University of Mataro, Barcelona, Spain; Birattari, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; H.H. of Louisville, KY, USA (Eds.) A. Eposito, Università di Napoli, Caserta, Italy (Eds.) Hoos, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Eds.) Deformable Models Progress in Nonlinear Speech Processing Engineering Stochastic Local Biomedical and Clinical Applications Search Algorithms. Designing, Implementing and Analyzing In the biomedical field, biomedical imaging has This book constitutes of the major results of the EU Effective Heuristics come to be a discipline of its own, given the nature COST (European Cooperation in the field of Sci- of its applications in the understanding of the hu- entific and Technical Research) Action 277: NSP - International Workshop, SLS 2007, Brussels, Belgium, Septem- ber 6-8, 2007, Proceedings man body and medical diagnostics. The understand- Nonlinear Speech Processing - running from April ing of Deformable Models are the significant utility 2001 to June 2005. The results were presented at on biomedical imagery primarily because of its abil- the last meeting of the management committee of ity to perform efficient topology preservation and COST Action 277, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of fast shape recovery. This has dominated the binary, on September 20-23, 2005 during the Workshop on the International Workshop on Engineering Stochas- grayscale and color imaging frameworks, which the Nonlinear Speech Processing, WNSP 2005. The 13 tic Local Search Algorithms 2007, held in Brussels, eye can perceive. It has not only the ability to find revised full papers in this state-of-the-art survey were Belgium, September 6-8, 2007. The 12 revised full boundaries and surfaces that are deep seated in 2-D carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the papers presented together with 9 short papers were and 3-D volumes respectively, but also provide satis- book and are preceded with an introductory lead- carefully reviewed and selected from more than 50 factory solutions for the completion of cognitive ob- ing-in by the editors. The articles present overviews submissions. The topics include Methodological de- jects with missing boundaries. Deformable Models: of the four years research combining linear and non velopments, behavior of SLS algorithms, search space Biomedical and Clinical Applications will focus on linear approaches for processing the speech signal. analysis, algorithm performance, tuning procedures, the core mage processing techniques for biomedical The aim of this book is to provide an additional and/ AI/OR techniques and dynamic behaviour. and clinical applications. or an alternative way to the traditional approach of linear speech processing and be mainly used by the Fields of interest Features researcher working in the domain. The papers cover Data Structures; Data Storage Representation; Algo- Covers the complete spectrum of deformable models areas such as speech analysis for speech [..] rithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Probabili- - its evolution as an imagery field and its use in many ty and Statistics in Computer Science; Data Mining biomedical engineering and clinical application dis- Fields of interest and Knowledge Discovery; Information Storage and ciplines Includes level sets, PDEs, curve and surface User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Retrieval evolution and their applications in biomedical fields Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Language covering both static and motion imagery Accompa- Translation and Linguistics; Pattern Recognition; Target groups nied with a CD-ROM containing answers to chapter Image Processing and Computer Vision Researchers and professionals questions, all figures in color, and each chapter's [..]

Target groups Type of publication Contents Researchers and professionals Proceedings Level Set Methods in Medical Imaging: Approaches and Applications.- Breast Boundary Estimation Us- Type of publication Due August 2007 ing Active Deformable Models.- Application of De- Proceedings formable Models in Ultrasound Breast Imaging.- In- 2007. X, 223 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4638) ertial snake for contour detection in Ultrasonogra- Due March 2007 Softcover phy images.- MGRF Controlled Deformable Mod- els with Shape Constraints: Applications to Quantify 2007. XII, 269 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- 44,94 € Kidney Function after Implants.- Deformable Mod- er Science, Band 4391) Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-74445-0 els and Level Set for Medical Imagery.- Level Set for Medical Imagery.- Deformable Models for 3-D Ul- 48,15 € trasound Prostate Imaging.- Application of 3-D De- ISBN 978-3-540-71503-0 formable Models for Bioinformatics Imaging.- PDE and [..]

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S. Sutherland, Sutherland HDL, Inc., Tualatin, OR, USA; D. Mills, M. Südholt, École des Mines de Nantes-INRIA, France; C. Consel, T. Takagi, Future University Hakodate, Japan; T. Okamoto, NTT LCDM Engineering, Chandler, AZ, USA INRIA/LaBRI, Talence, France (Eds.) Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan; E. Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan; T. Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan (Eds.) Verilog and SystemVerilog Gotchas Object-Oriented Technology Pairing-Based Cryptography - 101 Common Coding Errors and How to Avoid Them ECOOP 2006 Workshop Reader, ECOOP 2006 Workshops, Nantes, France, July 3-7, 2006, Final Reports Pairing 2007 First International Conference, Pairing 2007, Tokyo, Japan, In programming, “Gotcha” is a well known term. A July 2-4, 2007, Proceedings gotcha is a language feature, which, if misused, caus- This book contains the final reports of 19 workshops es unexpected - and, in hardware design, potentially held during the 20th European Conference on Ob- disastrous - behavior. The purpose of this book is to ject-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2006, held in This book represents the refereed proceedings of enable engineers to write better Verilog/SystemVer- Nantes, France in July 2006. The 19 reports cover the the First International Conference on Pairing-Based ilog design and verification code, and to deliver digi- entire range of object technology and related topics. Cryptography, Pairing 2007, held in Tokyo, Japan tal designs to market more quickly. This book shows Their contents was provided by the respective work- in July 2007. The 18 revised full papers presented to- over 100 common coding mistakes that can be made shops organizers and picked out in a twofold selec- gether with 2 abstracts and 3 full papers of invited with the Verilog and SystemVerilog languages. Each tion process. Thus the reports present a coherent and talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 example explains in detail the symptoms of the error, highly representative snapshot of the major trends in submissions. The papers are organized in topcial sec- the languages rules that cover the error, and the cor- the field. tions on applications, certificateless public key en- rect coding style to avoid the error. The book helps cryption, hyperelliptic curves, implementation, cryp- Fields of interest digital design and verification engineers to recognize tographic protocols, cryptanalysis, and cryptographic Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; these common coding mistakes, and know how to algorithms. avoid them. Many of these errors are very subtle, and Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; can potentially cost hours or days of lost engineering Logics and Meanings of Programs; Computer Com- Fields of interest time trying to find and debug the errors. This book munication Networks; Management of Computing Data Encryption; Algorithm Analysis and Problem is unique because while there are many books that and Information Systems Complexity; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Sci- teach the language, and a few that try to teach coding ence; Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation Target groups style, no other book [..] Researchers and professionals Target groups Features Researchers and professionals Type of publication Includes over 100 common coding mistakes that can Proceedings be made with Verilog and SystemVerilog Explains Type of publication the symptoms of the error, the rules that cover the Proceedings error, and how to avoid the error Addresses how to Due April 2007 recognize and avoid coding errors withing Verilog Due June 2007 and SystemVerilog 2007. VIII, 157 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Band 4379) Softcover Contents 2007. XIII, 407 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4575) Softcover Introduction, What is a Gotcha?.- Declaration and 44,94 € Literal Number Gotchas.- Modeling Gotchas.- Op- ISBN 978-3-540-71772-0 59,92 € erator Gotchas.- General Programming Gotchas.- ISBN 978-3-540-73488-8 Object Oriented and Multi-Threaded Programming Gotchas.- Randomization, Coverage and Assertion Gotchas.- Tool Compatibility Gotchas.

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S. Takahashi, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; D. Sallach, Ar- H. Tang, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia; K.C. A. Tatnall, Victoria University, VIC, Australia; T. Okamoto, Univer- gonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA; J. Rouchier, GRE- Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Z. Yi, University sity of Electro-Communications, Japan; A. Visscher, University of QAM, Marseille, France (Eds.) of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China Twente, The Netherlands (Eds.)

Advancing Social Simulation Neural Networks: Computational Knowledge Management for

The First World Congress Models and Applications Educational Innovation IFIP WG 3.7 7th Conference on Information Technology in Ed- ucational Management (ITEM), Hamamatsu, Japan, July 23-26, Agent-based modeling and social simulation have Neural Networks: Computational Models and Ap- 2006 emerged as both developments of and challenges to plications covers a wealth of important theoretical the social sciences. The developments include agent- and practical issues in neural networks, including the based computational economics and investigations learning algorithms of feed-forward neural networks, This book contains selected papers presented at the of theoretical sociological concepts using formal sim- various dynamical properties of recurrent neural net- seventh Conference on Working Group 3.7 of the ulation techniques. Among the challenges are the de- works, winner-take-all networks and their applica- International Federation for Information Process- velopment of qualitative modeling techniques, im- tions in broad manifolds of computational intelli- ing. The focus of Working Group 3.7 is on ITEM: In- plementation of agent-based models to investigate gence: pattern recognition, uniform approximation, formation Technology in Educational Management. phenomena for which conventional economic, so- constrained optimization, NP-hard problems, and The event took place in Hamamatsu, Japan, and en- cial, and organizational models have no face valid- image segmentation. By presenting various compu- abled the exchange of findings and ideas between re- ity, and the application of physical modeling tech- tational models, this book is developed to provide searchers in educational management and informa- niques to social processes. Bringing together diverse readers with a quick but insightful understanding tion technology, policy-makers in the field of educa- approaches to social simulation and research agen- of the broad and rapidly growing areas in the neural tion, developers of ITEM systems, and vendors. The das, this book presents a unique collection of con- networks domain. Besides laying down fundamen- overall goal of the conference was to demonstrate tributions from the First World Congress on Social tals on artificial neural networks, this book also stud- and explore directions for developing and improving Simulation, held in 2006 in Kyoto, Japan. The work ies biologically inspired neural networks. Some typ- all types of educational institutions through ITEM. emerged from the collaboration of the Pacific Asian ical computational models are discussed, and subse- Contributions to this conference hailed from all over Association for Agent-Based Approach in Social Sys- quently applied to objection recognition, scene anal- the world. The papers in this volume investigate how tems Sciences, the North American Association for ysis and associative memory. The studies of bio-in- ITEM can support and improve educational prac- Computational Social and Organizational Science, spired models have important implications in com- tice at the level of instruction as well as at the institu- and the [..] puter [..] tional level, an analysis of the history of ITEM as a field of study and practice, results of research on how Features Features training can promote the implementation of [..] Offers topics related to social simulation and agent- Latest research on computational models and appli- based approaches in economic and social complex cations of neural networks Features systems to promote worldwide activities of the mul- "Most up-to-date volume from Working Group 3.7 Contents ti-disciplinary community on multiagent, computa- on Information Technology in Educational Manage- Introduction.- Feedforward Neural Networks and tional economics, organizational science, social dy- ment" namics, and complex systems Contributors are from Training Methods.- New Dynamical Optimal Learn- not only Japan but also from US and Europe ing for Linear Multilayer FNN.- Fundamentals of Contents Dynamic Systems.- Various Computational Mod- Ten years of ITEM Research.- Research Knowledge Fields of interest els and Applications.- Convergence Analysis of Dis- Management can be Murder.- A Supporting Sys- Simulation and Modeling; Organization/Planning; crete Time RNNs for Linear Variational Inequality tem of Informatics Education for University Fresh- Operation Research/Decision Theory; Personality & Problem.- Parameter Settings of Hop¯eld Networks men.- Supporting Teachers' Professional Develop- Social Psychology Applied to Traveling Salesman Problems.- Compet- ment Through ICT.- Communication Support Tech- itive Model for Combinatorial Optimization Prob- nologies for e-Learners.- WBT Content for Geogra- Target groups lems.- Competitive Neural Networks for Image Seg- phy and Geology using VRML.- Individual Learning Researchers, scientists mentation.- Columnar Competitive Model for Solv- Pattern Related to Intention.- Using LAMS to Link ing Multi-Traveling Salesman Problem.- Improving Learners in an E-Learning Environment.- Evaluation Type of publication Local Minima of [..] of a Web-Based Training System.- ITEM Everyday.- Monograph ITEM in Botswana and Uganda.- Collaborative E- Fields of interest Test Construction.- Three Phase Self-Reviewing Sys- Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- Due August 2007 tem. neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Fields of interest 2007. X, 360 p. Geb. Target groups Computers and Education Researchers, engineers, graduate students in compu- 96,25 € tational intelligence, neural networks ISBN 978-4-431-73150-4 Target groups Researchers and practitioners of information tech- Type of publication nology in educational management Monograph Type of publication Due March 2007 Proceedings

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J. Teich, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen; C. Haubelt, J. Teller, LEMA Université de Liège, Belgium; J.R. Lee, University T. Terano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan; H. Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen of Edinburgh, UK; C. Roussey, LIRIS UMR, Villeurbanne, France Kita, University of Kyoto, Japan; H. Deguchi, Tokyo Institute of (Eds.) Technology, Yokohama, Japan; K. Kijima, Tokyo Institute of Tech- nology, Tokyo, Japan (Eds.) Digitale Hardware/Software- Ontologies for Urban Development Systeme Agent-Based Approaches in Synthese und Optimierung Economic and Social Complex Action C21 of the European programme for Coop- Systems IV eration in the field of Scientific and Technical Re- Dieses Lehrbuch gibt eine Einführung in Ver- search (COST - http://www.cost.esf.org/) is dedi- Post Proceedings of The AESCS International Workshop 2005 fahren zum systematischen Entwurf eingebet- cated to investigating urban ontologies for an im- teter Systeme. Es handelt sich dabei um Systeme, proved communication in urban civil engineering die in einen technischen Kontext eingebettet und projects. The Action, known informally as "Town- Agent-Based Modeling/Simulation (ABM/ABS) is aus Optimalitätsgründen hinsichtlich ihrer Auf- tology", brings together a large and heterogeneous an emerging field that enables bottom-up and exper- gaben, Fähigkeiten, Schnittstellen und Einsatzgebi- grouping from across Europe, whose interests range imental analysis in social sciences such as economics, ete spezialisiert sind, was im Allgemeinen eine Re- from construction to urban tourism and from trans- management, sociology and politics. The chapters alisierung aus kooperierenden Hardware- und Soft- port infrastructure to resource visualisation. On 6-7 of this book are the selected papers from those pre- warekomponenten erfordert. Wichtige Einsatzgebi- November 2006, in Geneva, the Action convened a sented the Third International Workshop on Agent- ete sind die Automobil- und Unterhaltungselektron- successful workshop to address emerging issues in Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex ik sowie die Kommunikations- und Medizintechnik. the field. This volume presents the contributions to Systems held in Tokyo, Japan in 2005. Articles in this Alle Verfahren werden in einer einheitlichen No- that workshop, in many cases revised afterwards to book covers methodological issues, computational tation für Hard- und Software beschrieben, wobei capture some of the outcomes of discussion. Many of model/software, combination with gaming simula- die wesentlichen Inhalte von der Modellierung bis these contributions are from members of the Town- tion, and real-world applications to economic, man- hin zur Codegenerierung reichen. Auf Grund der tology group, but there are also contributions from agement/organizational and social issues. steigenden Bedeutung eingebetteter Systeme stellt other European researchers, and from researchers in dieses Buch unentbehrliches Wissen für Studierende the US. The volume represents a valuable overview Features der Informatik, Elektrotechnik, Informationstech- of major current issues in the field of urban ontolo- Offers topics related to Agent-Based Approaches in nik und Mechatronik zusammen und ist zugleich ein gies and [..] Economic and Social Complex Systems to promote wertvolles Referenz- und Nachschlagewerk sowohl worldwide activities of the multi-disciplinary com- für Forscher als auch für Entwickler eingebetteter [..] Features munity on multiagent, computational economics, or- Resent results in Ontologies in Urban Development ganizational science, social dynamics, and complex Features systems Systematische Einführung in komplexe Hard- Contents ware/Software-Systeme Zeigt die Verwandschaften Introduction.- Keynote Reflections.- Urban Planning Contents der Synthese von Hardware- und Softwarekompo- Ontologies.- Urban Morphology and Systems.- Engi- Gaming and Education.- Market and policy.- City nenten in einer einheitlichen Notation auf neering Methods for Ontologies.- Architecture and and local community.- Network.- Learning Agents.- Construction Sector. 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G. Teschl, Universität Wien; S. Teschl, Fachhochschule Technikum G. Tesler, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA; D. Durand, J. Thelin Wien Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Eds.) Foundations of Qt Development Mathematik für Informatiker Comparative Genomics

Band 2: Analysis und Statistik RECOMB 2007, International Workshop, RECOMB-CG 2007, San Diego, CA, USA, September 16-18, 2007, Procceedings Qt is one of the most influential graphical toolkits for the Linux operating system and is quickly being adopted on other platforms (Windows, Mac OS) as In diesem Lehrbuch werden die mathematischen well. As the standard for the KDE desktop environ- Grundlagen exakt und dennoch anschaulich und This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ment, it is a necessary learn for all Linux program- gut nachvollziehbar vermittelt. Sie werden durchge- the 5th RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite mers. Qt is one of the "big two" desktop develop- hend anhand zahlreicher Musterbeispiele illustriert, Workshop, RECOMB-CG 2007, held in San Diego, ments environments for Linux. As such, if a develop- durch Anwendungen in der Informatik motiviert CA, USA, in September 2007. The 14 revised full pa- er is writing an application that will be run on Linux, und durch historische Hintergründe oder Ausblicke pers presented were carefully reviewed and select- learning to develop in Qt is a must. As recent trends in angrenzende Themengebiete aufgelockert. Am ed from 18 initial submissions. The papers address a have demonstrated, The Linux Desktop is on the Ende jedes Kapitels befinden sich Kontrollfragen, broad variety of aspects and components of the field move and is now a viable alternative to Windows. As die das Verständnis testen und typische Fehler bzw. of comparative genomics, ranging from quantitative this desktop switch takes place in businesses across Missverständnisse ausräumen. Zusätzlich helfen discoveries about genome structure to algorithms for the world, more and more developers will begin de- zahlreiche Aufwärmübungen (mit vollständigem comparative inference to theorems on the complex- veloping applications with Qt. As mentioned, Qt Lösungsweg) und weiterführende Übungsaufgaben, ity of computational problems required for genome is also a viable cross platform development toolkit, das Erlernte zu festigen und praxisrelevant umzuset- comparison. with high profile applications such as Adobe Photo- zen. Dieses Lehrbuch ist daher auch sehr gut zum shop Elements, Google Earth, Perforce Visual Client, Selbststudium geeignet. Ergänzend wird in eigenen Fields of interest and Skype all being developed with Qt. Foundations Abschnitten das Computeralgebrasystem Mathemat- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Dis- of Qt Development takes the reader step by step ica vorgestellt und eingesetzt, wodurch der Lehrstoff crete Mathematics in Computer Science; Data Struc- through the complexities of Qt, laying the [..] visualisiert und somit das Verständnis erleichtert tures; Database Management; Computational Biolo- gy/Bioinformatics; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences werden kann. Features Qt is one of the two major development platforms Features Target groups for Linux The growing popularity of Linux distribu- Übungen mit vollständigem Lösungsweg Kontroll- Researchers and professionals. tions such as Ubuntu will continue to spur interest fragen am Ende eines jeden Kapitels Zum Selbst- Type of publication in Linux-specific application development Fortune studium geeignet Zahlreiche Musterbeispiele Proceedings 500 companies such as Adobe and Google and small Contents organizations alike are embracing Qt as an effective Elementare Funktionen.- Differentialrechnung I.- Due August 2007 solution for building cross-platform applications Differentialrechnung II.- Integralrechnung.- Fouri- Contents erreihen.- Differentialrechnung in mehreren Vari- 2007. XII, 193 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4751) 1. The Qt Way of C++.- 2. Qt as a Rapid Applica- ablen.- Differentialgleichungen.- Beschreibende Softcover tion Development Tool.- 3. Widgets and Layouts.- 4. Statistik und Zusammenhangsanalysen.- Elementare The Main Window.- 5. The Interview Framework.- Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung.- Stetige Wahrschein- 44,94 € 6. Creating Widgets.- 7. Drawing and Printing.- 8. lichkeitsverteilungen.- Induktive Statistik. ISBN 978-3-540-74959-2 Files, Streams and XML.- 9. Providing Help.- 10. In- Fields of interest ternationalizing and Localizing.- 11. Plug-ins.- 12. Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science Doing Things in Parallel.- 13. Databases.- 14. Net- working.- 15. Building and Deploying.- 16. Unit Target groups Testing with Qt. Studierende der Informatik an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen Fields of interest Programming Techniques Type of publication German textbook Target groups Intermediate developer/programmer

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Beginning Ubuntu Linux Grundlagen und Modelle des

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According to DistroWatch (http:// Im Zusammenhang mit IT-Governance, Sar- www.distrowatch.org), the industry standard for de- banes-Oxley Act und Basel II ist Information Life- termining Linux distribution penetration and pop- cycle Management, kurz ILM, ein Thema, das jed- ularity, Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntulinux.org) is er CIO beherrschen muss. Die Autoren fassen In- presently the #1 most popular distribution out of formation als ein Produkt auf, das einem Leben- the 100 monitored variations, beating out heavy- szyklus unterliegt. Jede Phase dieses Produktleben- weights such as Fedora and SUSE. Indeed, a huge us- szyklus erfordert andere IT-Methoden, um In- er base has assembled around this community-driv- formation kostenbewusst zu speichern sowie zu en distribution since its inception, and efforts will be- und verarbeiten. Die Autoren gehen auf die surely be bolstered as a result of the recent forma- gesetzlichen Bestimmungen ein, arbeiten die Klas- tion of the Ubuntu Foundation, backed with an ini- sifizierungskonzepte heraus und erläutern die tial funding round of $10 million and the consider- Sicherheitskonzepte und ihre Anforderungen an able resources of project founder and tech magnate Betriebsführung und Unternehmen sowie das Dis- Mark Shuttleworth. Beginning Ubuntu Linux: From aster Recovery als Bestandteil einer Security-Strate- Novice to Professional, Second Edition is the update gie. Qualitätsmanagement und Risikomanagement to the best-selling first book introducing Ubuntu werden ausführlich dargestellt. Eine Betrachtung der Linux. Adapted from Keir Thomas' best-selling Be- globalen Aspekte rundet das Buch ab. ginning SUSE Linux: From Novice to Professional (Apress, 2005), Thomas guides readers through the Features most commonly desired yet confusing concepts and Kompakte Darstellung der rechtlichen Grundlagen. tasks confronted by new Linux users. [..] Disaster Recovery wird als Bestandteil der Securi- ty-Strategie erläutert. Features Covers many of the desktop-specific tasks which Fields of interest have haunted Linux users for years, including multi- Management of Computing and Information Sys- media management, office tasks, general system ad- tems; Information Systems and Communication Ser- ministration issues, and more. This new edition is vice; Database Management; Information Systems updated to include even more information regard- Applications (incl.Internet); Management; Technol- ing hardware integration and the many evolution- ogy Management ary changes to the Ubuntu interface Includes a DVD Target groups containing the latest version of Ubuntu and hun- CIOs, IT-Manager, Storage Unternehmen, Systemar- dreds of useful [..] chitekten Contents Type of publication Part I. Introducing the World of Linux.- 1. Wel- Professional book come!.- 2. A History and Politics Lesson.- 3. The Re- alities of Running Linux.- Part II. Installing Ubun- tu,- 4. Preinstallation Steps.- 5. Installing Ubuntu.- Due June 2007 6. Solving Installation Problems.- Part III. The No- Nonsense Getting Started Guide.- 7. Booting Ubun- 2007. XVII, 395 S. 116 Abb. (Xpert.press) Geb. tu for the First Time.- 8. Getting Everything Up and Running.- 9. How to Secure Your Computer.- 49,95 € 10. Personalizing Ubuntu: Getting Everything Just ISBN 978-3-540-69079-5 Right.- 11. Ubuntu Replacements for Windows Pro- grams.- 12. Managing Your Files.- Part IV. The Shell and Beyond.- 13. Introducing the BASH [..]

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P. Van Hentenryck, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; L. Wolsey, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium (Eds.)

Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

4th International Conference, CPAIOR 2007, Brussels, Bel- gium, May 23-26, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2007, held in Brussels, Belgium in May 2007. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. Methodological and foundational issues from AI, OR, and algorithmics are presented as well as applications to the solution of combinatorial optimization problems in various fields via constraint programming.

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D.J. Veit, University of Mannheim, Germany; J. Altmann, Interna- A. Venkatesh, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA; T. Gonza- M. Verma, Altera European Technology Center, High Wycombe, tional University of Bruchsal, Germany (Eds.) lves, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India; A. Monk, Uni- UK; P. Marwedel, University of Dortmund, Germany versity of York, UK; K. Buckner, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK (Eds.) Grid Economics and Business Advanced Memory Optimization Models Home Informatics and Telematics: Techniques for Low-Power 4th International Workshop, GECON 2007, Rennes, France, Au- ICT for the Next Billion Embedded Processors gust 28, 2007, Proceedings

This volume represents the papers reviewed and ac- The design of embedded systems warrants a new This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of cepted for the HOIT2007 conference held at the In- perspective because of the following two reasons: the 4th International Workshop on Grid Economics dian Institute of Technology Madras in the city of Firstly, slow and energy inefficient memory hierar- and Business Models, GECON 2007, held in Rennes, Chennai, India in August 2007. Home Informatics chies have already become the bottleneck of the em- France, in August 2007. The 12 full papers included and Telematics: ICT for the Next Billion addresses bedded systems. It is documented in the literature in this volume were carefully selected and revised; many of the major themes of current interest in the as the memory wall problem. Secondly, the software they aim at presenting current results and innova- field, with a particular focus on community-based running on the contemporary embedded devices is tive research in the area of grid economics. The pa- technologies. This comprehensive book is divided becoming increasingly complex. It is also well under- pers are organized in topical sections on grid busi- into five different sections: Empowerment and Digi- stood that no silver bullet exists to solve the memo- ness modeling, market mechanisms for the grid, and tal Divide; ICT and Learning; ICT-Emereging Com- ry wall problem. Therefore, this book explores a col- economic grid service provisioning. The proceed- munities and Societal Issues; Home Applications and laborative approach by proposing novel memory hi- ings are rounded off by 6 project reports that give an Family Uses; ICTs in the Home- Usability and De- erarchies and software optimization techniques for overview of the current and ongoing research in grid sign Issues. the optimal utilization of these memory hierarchies. economics. Linking memory architecture design with memo- Features ry-architecture aware compilation results in fast, en- Fields of interest Most up-to-date research on computers and society ergy-efficient and timing predictable memory access- Computer Communication Networks; e-business es. The evaluation of the optimization techniques us- and e-commerce; Information Storage and Retrieval; Contents ing real-life benchmarks for a single processor sys- Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; A Set of Heuristic Measurements for Evaluating the tem, a multiprocessor system-on-chip (SoC) and for Communications Engineering, Networks; Informa- Inclusiveness of a Technology.- Intelligent Tutor- a digital signal processor system, reports significant tion Systems ing Systems using Reinforcement Learning to teach [..] Autistic Students.- Community Software Applica- Target groups tions.- Containing Family Clutter.- Usability- Key Features Researchers and professionals Factor of Future Smart Home Systems. The complete application, including data variables and code segments, is optimized Comprehensive ar- Type of publication Fields of interest chitecture-level exploration for real-life applications Proceedings Computer Science, general Demonstration of architecture-aware compilation techniques Due August 2007 Target groups Researchers and practitioners in the area of comput- Contents ers and society 1.Introduction.- 2.Related Work.- 3.Memory Aware 2007. XII, 201 p. Also avaible online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4685) Softcover Compilation and Simulation Framework.- 4.Non- Type of publication Overlayed Scratchpad Allocation Approaches for 44,94 € Proceedings Main / Scratchpad Memory Hierarchy.- 5.Non- ISBN 978-3-540-74428-3 Overlayed Scratchpad Allocation Approaches for Due September 2007 Main / Scratchpad + Cache Memory Hierarchy.- 6. Scratchpad Overlay Approaches for Main / Scratch- pad Memory Hierarchy.- 7. Data Partitioning and 2007. X, 290 p. (IFIP International Federation for Information Pro- cessing, Band 241) Geb. Loop Nest Splitting.- 8. Scratchpad Sharing Strate- gies for Multiprocess Applications.- 9. Conclu- 136,96 € sions and Future Work.- A. Theoretical Analysis for ISBN 978-0-387-73696-9 Scratchpad Sharing Strategies. - List of Figures. - List of Tables. - [..]

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J. Vince, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK D. Vohra, White Rock, BC, Canada K. Voss, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena

Vector Analysis for Computer Ruby on Rails for PHP and Java Integralgeometrie für Stereologie Graphics Developers und Bildrekonstruktion

Vector analysis is relatively young in the history of The web framework Ruby on Rails for developing Das vorliegende Buch gibt eine Einführung in die mathematics, however, in the short period of its ex- database based web applications provides a Mod- klassische Integralgeometrie und ihre praktischen istence it has become a powerful and central tool in el-View-Controller framework. The required web Anwendungen in der Stereologie und der Bildrekon- describing and solving a wide range of geometric server WEBrick is included with Ruby on Rails. The struktion. Daher wird vor allem die elementare zwei- problems, many, of which, arise in computer graph- framework is configured with the MySQL database dimensionale Integralgeometrie und ihre praktisch ics. These may be in the form of describing lines, by default, but may be configured with another bedeutsame Verallgemeinerung auf den dreidimen- surfaces and volumes, which may touch, collide, in- database. The book covers developing web applica- sionalen Fall vorgestellt. Inhaltliche Schwerpunkte tersect, or create shadows upon complex surfaces. tions with Ruby on Rails. Technologies discussed in- sind: Grundlagen der Konvexgeometrie, Integral- Vector Analysis for Computer Graphics provides a clude Ajax, directory services, and web services. A geometrie und Radon-Transformation. Zahlreiche complete introduction to vector analysis, especially comparison is made with PHP, the most commonly anschauliche Beispiele und Anwendungen zeigen within the context of computer graphics. The author used scripting language for developing web applica- die grundlegende Bedeutung des Gebietes für Bil- shows why vectors are useful and how it is possible tions. dauswertungen in der Biologie, Medizin, Petrogra- to develop analytical skills in manipulating the vector phie und Metallurgie. Jedes Kapitel enthält Aufgaben algebra. Each topic covered is placed in the context Features (mit Lösungen am Ende des Buches) die helfen, das of a practical application within computer graphics. No other ROR book compares ROR with PHP Ex- Gelernte zu vertiefen. Umfangreiche biographische The book is divided into eleven chapters covering the ample applications are provided that may be modi- Notizen zu Integralgeometern und Stereologen run- mathematical foundations of vector algebra and its fied to suit a developer’s application The book cov- den das Buch ab. Ein grundlegendes, unverzichtbares application to lines, planes, intersections, rotating ers the configuration of Ruby on Rails with differ- und einzigartiges Werk für alle, die mit stereologis- vectors, vector differentiation, projections, rendering ent databases such as MySQL, Oracle and SQL Serv- chen Methoden in der Bildrekonstruktion arbeiten. and motion. er 2005 Features Features Contents Einfache Einführung in das Fachgebiet der klassis- Approaches vector analysis from a geometric stand- Preface.- Introduction to Ruby.- Introduction to chen Integralgeometrie Sammlung weit verstreuter point, with an emphasis on applications in computer Rails.- CRUD on Rails.- Ajax on Rails.- Creating Einzelergebnisse Verbindung von Theorie mit prak- graphics PDF and Excel Reports.- XML on Rails.- PHP on tischen Anwendungen Systematischer Aufbau und Rails.- LDAP on Rails.- Web Services on Rails.- Us- Übungsaufgaben Umfangreiche Biographische Noti- Contents ing Ruby on Rails in Eclipse.- Rails Testing and Fix- zen zu Integralgeometern und Stereologen Scalars and Vectors.- Vector Representation.- tures.- Rails Production.- References.- Index. Straight Lines.- The Plane.- Reflections.- Intersec- Contents tions.- Rotating Vectors.- Vector Differentiation.- Fields of interest Konvexe Mengen.- Zweidimensionale Integralge- Projections.- Rendering.- Motion.- Appendix A: Software Engineering/Programming and Oper- ometrie.- Dreidimensionale Integralgeometrie.- Vector Algebra.- Appendix B: Vector Triple Prod- ating Systems; Information Systems Applications Radon-Integrale.- Biographische Notizen.- Lösungen uct.- References. (incl.Internet); Operating Systems der Übungsaufgaben.- Literaturverzeichnis.- Sach- wort- und Namensverzeichnis. Fields of interest Target groups Computer Graphics Web applications developers, IT-architects, project Fields of interest managers, system administrators Pattern Recognition; Geometry Target groups University/college courses at undergraduate and post Type of publication Target groups graduate level Professional book Studierende und Dozenten der Informatik, Schwer- punkt Bildverarbeitung Type of publication Due August 2007 Graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook Type of publication German textbook 2007. XV, 394 p. Softcover Due June 2007 42,75 € Due March 2007 2007. XIII, 259 p. 185 illus. Geb. ISBN 978-3-540-73144-3 2007. XI, 231 S. 50 Abb. (eXamen.press) Softcover 74,85 € ISBN 978-1-84628-803-6 19,95 € ISBN 978-3-540-37229-5 244 Computer springer.com/booksellers

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Die Programmierung für das Internet ist heute Ba- Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks have gained an sis und zugleich Motor für die Wissensgesellschaft. incredible research momentum. Computer scientists This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Das Kompendium der Web-Programmierung and engineers of all flavors are embracing the area. the 18th International Conference on Database and stellt die ganze Bandbreite der aktuellen Ansätze Sensor networks have been adopted by researchers Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2007, held in praxisorientiert vor. Neben allgemeinen Grund- from many different fields, ranging from hardware Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007. The lagen des Internets werden relevante Techniken technology to operating systems, from antenna de- 86 revised full papers presented together with 1 in- von der klassischen CGI-Programmierung und sign to databases, from information theory to net- vited paper were carefully reviewed and selected modernen Scriptsprachen wie Ruby bis hin zu den working, from graph theory to computational ge- from 267 submissions. The papers are organized J2EE-Techniken mit Servlets und JSP sowie ometry. The purpose of this monograph - outcome in topical sections on XML, data and information, einschlägige Frameworks wie Ruby on Rails of a GI-Dagstuhl Seminar held in Dagstuhl Castle datamining and data warehouses, database applica- erläutert. Ergänzende Themen sind performante in November 2005 - is to give a first overview of al- tions, WWW, bioinformatics, process automation Web-Applikationenen mit Ansätzen wie fastC- gorithmic results on wireless ad hoc and sensor net- and workflow, knowledge management and expert GI, Sicherheit, Barrierefreiheit, Content-Manage- works. Its focus is on algorithms and protocols that systems, database theory, query processing, as well as ment-Systeme und Software-Design für das Web. allow for an analysis of their efficiency and efficacy. privacy and security. Hinzu kommt eine Vielzahl von Tipps aus der Prax- Many chapters deal with distributed algorithms, in is. Ziel ist es, eine komplexe und performante Web- Fields of interest particular local and localized algorithms. Importance Anwendung wie eBay entwickeln zu können. Database Management; Information Systems Appli- is attached to topics combining both interesting as- Eine typische Beispielanwendung zieht sich konse- cations (incl.Internet); Data Mining and Knowledge pects of wireless networks and attractive algorithmic quent durch alle Techniken und macht jeden Bere- Discovery; User Interfaces and Human Computer methods. Each chapter provides a survey of some ich nachvollziehbar. Ein umfassendes Web-Ange- Interaction; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); part of the field, whilst selected results are [..] bot unter www.webkompendium.de mit getesteten Information Systems Quellcodes und weiteren Materialien [..] Fields of interest Target groups Computer Communication Networks; Software En- Features Researchers and professionals gineering; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Com- Einführung in die Programmierung für das WWW plexity; Information Storage and Retrieval; Informa- Type of publication Mit durchgehendem Anwendungsbeispiel Praxisrel- tion Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Communi- Proceedings evantes Hintergrundwissen cations Engineering, Networks Contents Target groups Due August 2007 Grundlagen und Entwicklung der Internetprogram- Advances students, researchers, and professionals mierung.- Darstellung im Web - Auszeichnungss- 2007. XXII, 907 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band pachen.- Rechnersysteme für Webangebote.- Soft- Type of publication 4653) Softcover warearchitektur für das Internet.- Der Webserver.- Monograph CGI-Programmierung.- Der CGI-Prozess.- Perl, 99,51 € PHP, Python, Ruby, ServerSideIncludes (SSI).- Ver- Due September 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-74467-2 gleich der Technologien zur serverseitigen Pro- grammierung.- Clientseitige Programmierung.- 2007. XIII, 415 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 4621) JavaScript.- Flash und ActionScript.- Gescheiterte Softcover Technik: das Applet.- Fortgeschrittene Webpro- grammierung.- Von CGI zu fastCGI.- Serverseitiges 51,36 € Java.- Frameworks.- Vergleich der Techniken zur ISBN 978-3-540-74990-5 fortgeschrittenen [..]

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Fuzzy Logic Software Process Dynamics and Computational Intelligence and

A Spectrum of Theoretical & Practical Issues Agility Security International Conference on Software Process, ICSP 2007, International Conference, CIS 2006, Guangzhou, China, Minneapolis, MN, USA, May 19-20, 2007, Proceedings November 3-6, 2006, Revised Selected Papers This book exclusively surveys the active on-going research of the current maturity of fuzzy logic over the last four decades. Many world leaders of fuzzy This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- logic have enthusiastically contributed their best re- the First International Conference on Software Pro- proceedings of the annual International Confer- search results into five theoretical, philosophical and cess, held in Minneapolis, MN, USA, in May 2007. ence on Computational Intelligence and Security, fundamental sub areas and nine distinctive appli- The event emanated from the joint International CIS 2006, held in Guangzhou, China in November cations, including two PhD dissertations from two Software Process Workshop and the Internation- 2006. The 116 revised papers presented were careful- world class universities dealing with cutting-edge al Workshop on Software Process Simulation and ly reviewed and selected from a total of 2078 initial research areas of bioinformatics and geological sci- Modeling and was colocated with 29th Internation- submissions during two rounds of revision and im- ence. Beyond the scope of survey and collection of al Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2007. provement. The papers are organized in topical sec- the book, one important spin off is the emerging and The 28 revised full papers presented together with tions on bio-inspired computing, evolutionary com- recognition of a major scientific paradigm shift from the abstracts of 2 keynote addresses were carefully putation, learning systems and multi-agents, cryp- the conventional mathematics to the mathematics reviewed and selected from 98 initial submissions. tography, information processing and intrusion de- of uncertainty, which arguably holds the key to solv- The papers are organized in topical sections on protection, systems and security, image and signal pro- ing very difficult and complex problems in biologi- cess content, process tools and metrics, process man- cessing, as well as pattern recognition. cal and social sciences alike. The book, loaded with agement, process representation, analysis and mod- historical perspective, creative thinking, critical re- eling, experience report, and simulation modeling. Fields of interest viewing, and uniquely constructed strategy for future Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information growth of this dynamic research area, is an invalu- Fields of interest Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applica- able resource for active [..] Software Engineering; Management of Computing tions (incl.Internet); Computation by Abstract De- and Information Systems; Computer Appl. in Ad- vices; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexi- Features ministrative Data Processing; Computers and Soci- ty; Management of Computing and Information Sys- Coincides with new material coming in the 40th an- ety; Programming Techniques; Technology Manage- tems niversary of fuzzy theory and technology ment Target groups Contents Target groups Researchers and professionals Why Fuzzy Logic.- On Fuzzy Set Theories.- Uni- Researchers and professionals norms Basics.- Structural Interpolation and Approxi- Type of publication mation with Fuzzy Relations: A Study in Knowledge Type of publication Proceedings Re-use.- On Fuzzy Logic and Chaos Theory – From Proceedings an Engineering Perspective.- Upper and Lower Val- Due August 2007 ues for the Level of Fuzziness in FCM.- Mathemati- Due May 2007 cal Modeling of Natural Phenomena: A Fuzzy Logic Approach.- Mathematical Fuzzy Logic in Modeling 2007. XXIII, 1118 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band of Natural Language Semantics.- Analytical Theory 2007. XI, 346 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer 4456) Softcover Science, Band 4470) Softcover of Fuzzy IF-THEN Rules with Compositional Rule of 111,28 € Inference.- Fuzzy Logic and Ontology-based Infor- 55,64 € ISBN 978-3-540-74376-7 mation Retrieval.- Real World Fuzzy Logic Applica- ISBN 978-3-540-72425-4 tions in [..]

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Target groups Researchers, engineers, graduate students in fuzziness

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R.O. Weber, M.M. Richter (Eds.) K.M. Wegrzyn-Wolska, Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Informa- M. Weske, HPI, U Potsdam, Germany tique et Genie des Telécommunications, Fontainebleau, France; P.S. Szczepaniak, Technical University of Lodz, Poland (Eds.) Case-Based Reasoning Research Business Process Management and Development Advances in Intelligent Web Concepts, Languages, Architectures 7th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR Mastering 2007 Belfast Northern Ireland, UK, August 13-16, 2007 Pro- ceedings Proceedings of the 5th Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference – Business process management is usually treated from WIC’2007, Fontainebleau, France, June 25 – 27, 2007 two different perspectives: business administration and computer science. While business administra- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the tion professionals tend to consider information tech- 7th International Conference on Case-Based Reason- Mastering and effective exploration of the web en- nology as a subordinate aspect for experts to handle, ing, ICCBR 2007, held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, vironment needs new ideas, adaptation of known by contrast computer scientists often consider busi- UK in August 2007. The 15 revised full research pa- methods as well as application of sophisticated and ness goals and organizational regulations as terms pers and 18 revised poster papers presented together robust technical implementations. Among new re- that do not deserve much thought but require the with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and se- search directions present in relation to Web applica- appropriate level of abstraction. Mathias Weske ar- lected from 64 submissions. The papers address all tions, a remarkable place is occupied by intelligent gues that the communities involved need to share a current aspects of case-based reasoning and feature methods defining the topic of soft computing. This common understanding of the principles underlying original theoretical research, applied research, and edited book includes reports from the front of di- business process management. To this end, he devel- deployed applications with practical, social, environ- verse fields of the Web: application of artificial in- ops an overall picture that describes core BPM con- mental or economic significance. telligence, design, information retrieval and inter- cepts and technologies and explains their relation- pretation, user profiling, security, engineering, etc. ships. This picture covers high-level business aspects Fields of interest The material has been presented at the 5th Atlantic like business goals, strategies, and value chains, but Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Web Intelligence Conference – AWIC’2007 held in it concentrates on process modeling techniques and Logic and Formal Languages; Information Systems Fontainbleau (France) and organized by Esigetel, process enactment platforms, taking into account the Technical University of Lodz, and Polish Academy of different stakeholders involved. After starting with a Target groups Sciences. presentation of general [..] Researchers and professionals Fields of interest Features Type of publication Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- details the complete business process lifecycle from Proceedings neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) the modeling phase to process enactment and improvement presents both traditional and advanced Due July 2007 Target groups business process management architectures, like e.g. Researchers, engineers, graduate students in soft workflow management systems and service- computing and statistics oriented architectures shows how standards like 2007. XIII, 534 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Band 4626) Softcover WfMC, SOAP, WSDL, and BPEL fit into the pic- Type of publication ture accompanying website www.bpm-book.com 68,48 € Monograph contains additional [..] ISBN 978-3-540-74138-1 Due June 2007 Contents Part I: Foundation 1) Introduction 2) Evolution of Enterprise Systems Architectures.- Part II: Business 2007. XVI, 401 p. Also available online. (Advances in Soft Com- puting, Band 43) Softcover Process Modeling 3) Business Process Modeling Foundation 4) Process Orchestrations 5) Process 160,45 € Choreographies 6) Properties of Business Processes.- ISBN 978-3-540-72574-9 Part III: Architectures and Methodologies 7) Tradi- tional BPM Architectures 8) Advanced BPM Archi- tectures 9) Business Process Methodology.- Refer- ences.- Index.

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Target groups Graduate students, advanced professionals

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2007. XIV, 368 p. 265 illus. Geb.

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A. Wiemann, San Carlos, CA, USA A.P. Wierzbicki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Tech- R. Wilhelm, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken; H. Seidl, nology, Ishikawa, Japan; Y. Nakamori, Japan Advanced Institute Technische Universität München, Garching of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan (Eds.) Standardized Functional Übersetzerbau Verification Creative Environments Virtuelle Maschinen Issues of Creativity Support for the Knowledge Civilization Age Standardized Functional Verification describes the science of functional verification that applies to any Virtuelle Maschinen sind Abstraktionen von realen digital hardware system. With a precise and compre- Rechnern. Meist sind sie in Software realisiert. hensive terminology this book describes a thorough "Creative Environments" is a follow-up on the book Häufig sind sie für eine spezielle Programmier- technical framework for achieving superior results Creative Space in the same series and by the same sprache entworfen. 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Pro- part presents computational intelligence tools for ducers and consumers of silicon IP therefore have a knowledge acquisition by machine learning and da- Fields of interest solid framework to communicate requirements and ta mining, for debating, brainstorming, for roadmap- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; to align expectations effectively and efficiently. Stan- ping and for integrated support of academic cre- Programming Techniques dardized Functional [..] ativity. 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D. Williams, PayPal, Campbell, CA, USA G.B. Williams, University of East London, UK M.A. Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany; J. Scholl, University of Washington, DC, USA; A. Grönlund, Örebro Universi- ty, Sweden (Eds.) Pro PayPal E-Commerce Online Business Security Systems Electronic Goverment

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Computers and Society; Management of Comput- proach to solving their e-commerce needs. ing and Information Systems; Legal Aspects of Com- Features puting; Computer Communication Networks; User Features Presents an Integrated Security and Risk Model Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Com- PayPal is a hugely popular payment option for e- specifically designed to address E-business security puter Appl. in Administrative Data Processing commerce Covers not just .NET but many other web gap between advanced and developing economies' programming languages Written by a PayPal em- on-line transactions New models introduced that Target groups ployee with great knowledge of the technology Only demonstrate and ensure successful secure on-line Researchers and professionals book to cover the PayPal SDK transactions for e-business across the globe Type of publication Contents Contents Proceedings Introduction.- How PayPal -Preface.- Foreword by Don Anderson, President, works.- Choosing the Right Quantum International Corporation, Founding Due August 2007 Solution.- Standard Pay- Member, Intellas Group, LLC, and Adel Elmaghraby, Pal Payments.- Using Pay- Ph.D., Chair, Department of Computer Engineer- Pal Web Services.- Post-Pay- ing and Computer Science, University of Louisville, 2007. 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S. Winter, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia; M. Duckham, C.D. Wise, WiserWays LLC, Houston, TX, USA K. Wolter, Humboldt Univevrsity Berlin, Germany (Ed.) University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia; L. Kulik, University of Mel- bourne, VIC, Australia; B. Kuipers, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA (Eds.) Foundations of Microsoft Formal Methods and Stochastic Expression Web Models for Performance Evaluation Spatial Information Theory The Basics and Beyond Fourth European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW 8th International Conference, COSIT 2007, Melbourne, Aus- 2007, Berlin, Germany, September 27-28, 2007, Proceedings tralia, September 19-23, 2007, Proceedings Microsoft's Expression Suite promises new levels of power in creating rich dynamic user experiences on This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the web, and Expression Web Designer is but one the 4th European Performance Engineering Work- the 9th International Conference on Spatial Informa- program within that suite. It is a powerful web site shop, EPEW 2007, held in Berlin, Germany, Septem- tion Theory, COSIT 2007, held in Melbourne, Aus- creation tool, allowing the user to rapidly build up ber 27-28, 2007. The 20 revised full papers present- tralia, in September 2007. The 27 revised full papers standards-compliant web pages, style them with CSS, ed were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 sub- presented were carefully reviewed and selected from add dynamic ASP.NET functionality to them, and missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- 102 submissions. The papers are organized in topi- publish them to the web, all from the safety of the tions on Markov Chains, Process Algebra, Wireless cal sections on cultural studies, semantics, similarity, same program. Enter Foundations of Expression Networks, Queueing Theory and Applications of mapping and representation, perception and cogni- Web Designer, one of the first books available on the Queueing, Benchmarking and Bounding, Grid and tion, reasoning and algorithms, navigation and land- subject. The author—expert MS trainer and MVP Peer-to-Peer Systems. marks, as well as uncertainty and imperfection. Cheryl D Wise—starts with the very basics, and then takes the reader up to advanced level through a series Fields of interest Fields of interest of practical real world exercises. Although no knowl- Software Engineering; System Performance and Data Structures; Artificial Intelligence (incl. edge is assumed, the book is carefully written to not Evaluation; Computer Communication Networks; Robotics); Computation by Abstract Devices; be patronizing, and be of use to more advanced web Logics and Meanings of Programs Database Management; Models and Principles; Phys- developers and designers wishing to make use of the Target groups ical Geography software, as well as complete beginners. Researchers and professionals Target groups Features Type of publication Researchers and professionals One of the first books on this exciting new technolo- Proceedings gy Takes the reader from novice up to advanced lev- Type of publication el, through a series of practical exercises Assumes no Proceedings previous knowledge, but doesn't patronize the reader Due September 2007

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K. Wolter, University of Chicago, IL, USA B. Xiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK; L.T. Yang, St. Y. Xiao, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA; X. Shen, Uni- Francis Xavier University, Canada; J. Ma, Hosei University, Japan; versity of Waterloo, ON, Canada; D.-Z. Du, University of Texas at C. Muller-Schloer, University of Hannover, Germany; Y. Hua, Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA (Eds.) Introduction to Variance Estimation Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China (Eds.) Wireless Network Security Autonomic and Trusted Computing We live in the information age. Statistical surveys are used every day to determine or evaluate public policy 4th International Conference, ATC 2007, Hong Kong, China, July 11-13, 2007, Proceedings and to make important business decisions. Correct Wireless networks technologies have been dramati- methods for computing the precision of the survey cally improved by the popularity of third generation data and for making inferences to the target popula- (3G) wireless networks, wireless LANs, Bluetooth, tion are absolutely essential to sound decision mak- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of and sensor networks. However, security is a major ing. Now in its second edition, Introduction to Vari- the 4th International Conference on Autonomic and concern for wide deployments of such wireless net- ance Estimation has for more than twenty years pro- Trusted Computing, ATC 2007, held in Hong Kong, works. The contributions to this volume identify var- vided the definitive account of the theory and meth- China in July 2007, co-located with UIC 2007, the ious vulnerabilities in the physical layer, the MAC ods for correct precision calculations and inference, 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intel- layer, the IP layer, the transport layer, and the appli- including examples of modern, complex surveys in ligence and Computing. The 55 revised full papers cation layer, and discuss ways to strengthen security which the methods have been used successfully. The presented together with 1 keynote lecture were care- mechanisms and services in all these layers. The top- book provides instruction on the methods that are fully reviewed and selected from 223 submissions. ics covered in this book include intrusion detection, vital to data-driven decision making in business, The papers are organized in topical sections on cryp- secure PHY/MAC/routing protocols, attacks and government, and academe. It will appeal to survey tography and signatures, autonomic computing and prevention, immunization, key management, secure statisticians and other scientists engaged in the plan- services, secure and trusted computing, autonomic group communications/multicast, secure location ning and conduct of survey research, and to those models and architectures, trusted models and sys- services, monitoring and surveillance, anonymity, analyzing survey data and charged with extracting tems, intrusion detection, access control, trusted privacy, trust establishment/management, redundan- compelling information from such data. It will ap- computing and communications, key management, cy and security, and dependable wireless networking. peal to graduate students and university [..] worm detection and data security, secured services Features and applications, as well as fault-tolerant systems. 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XVIII, 571 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band mary of methods for complex surveys. tion for Wireless LAN Roaming.- An Experimental 4610) Softcover Study on Security Protocols in WLANs.- Security Is- Fields of interest 72,76 € sues in [..] Statistical Theory and Methods; Statistics for Social ISBN 978-3-540-73546-5 Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law; Mar- Fields of interest keting; Assesment, Testing & Evaluation; Monitor- Communications Engineering, Networks; Data En- ing/Environmental Analysis/Environmental Ecotoxi- cryption; Computer Communication Networks; The cology; Demography Computer Industry; Personal Computing

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C.C. Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China; D. Zeng, J. Yao, University of Regina, Canada; P. Lingras, Saint Mary's Uni- A.L. Yuille, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; S.-C. University of Arizona, AZ, USA; M. Chau, University of Hong Kong, versity, Halifax, Canada; W.-Z. Wu, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; D. Cremers, China; K. Chang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; China; M. Szczuka, Warsaw University, Poland; N. Cercone, York University of Bonn, Germany; Y. Wang, Beijing Institute of Tech- Q. Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; X. Cheng, Chinese University, Toronto, Canada; D. Slezak, Infobright Inc., Toronto, nology, China (Eds.) Academy of Sciences, China; J. Wang, Chinese Academy of Sci- Canada (Eds.) ences, China; F.-Y. Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; H. Chen, University of Arizona, AZ, USA (Eds.) Energy Minimization Methods Rough Sets and Knowledge in Computer Vision and Pattern Intelligence and Security Technology Recognition Informatics Second International Conference, RSKT 2007, Toronto, Cana- da, May 14-16, 2007, Proceedings 6th International Conference, EMMCVPR 2007, Ezhou, China, Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2007, Chengdu, China, April August 27-29, 2007, Proceedings 11-12, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Rough Sets the 6th International Conference on Energy Mini- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the and Knowledge Technology, RSKT 2007, held in mization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Securi- Toronto, Canada in May 2007 in conjunction with Recognition, EMMCVPR 2007, held in Ezhou, Chi- ty Informatics, PAISI 2007, held in Chengdu, China the 11th International Conference on Rough Sets, na in August 2007. The 22 revised full papers and 15 in April 2007. The 18 revised full papers, 14 revised Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing, poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and short papers, and extended abstracts of 10 poster pa- RSFDGrC 2007, both as part of the Joint Rough Set selected from 140 submissions. The papers are orga- pers presented were carefully reviewed and select- Symposium, JRS 2007. The 67 revised full papers pa- nized in topical sections on algorithms, applications, ed from 159 submissions. The papers are organized pers presented together with 3 invited papers were image parsing, image processing, motion, shape, and in topical sections on crime analysis, emergency re- carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 319 three-dimensional processing. sponse and surveillance, intrusion detection, net- general submissions to the JRS 2007 symposium. The work security, data and text mining, cybercrime and papers are organized in topical sections on rough information access and security, intrusion detection, Fields of interest set foundations, multiple criteria decision analysis, Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Com- network security, terrorism informatics and crime biometrics, kansei engineering, autonomy-oriented analysis, network security and intrusion detection. puter Vision; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); computing, soft computing in bioinformatics, ubiq- Computer Graphics; Algorithm Analysis and Prob- uitous computing and networking, rough set algo- Fields of interest lem Complexity; Data Mining and Knowledge Dis- rithms, knowledge representation and reasoning, ge- Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); In- covery netic algorithms, and rough set applications. formation Storage and Retrieval; Computer Com- munication Networks; Computers and Society; Legal Target groups Fields of interest Researchers and professionals Aspects of Computing; Management of Computing Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining and Information Systems and Knowledge Discovery; Database Management; Type of publication Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Compu- Target groups Proceedings tation by Abstract Devices; Pattern Recognition Researchers and professionals Target groups Due August 2007 Type of publication Researchers and professionals Proceedings 2007. XII, 494 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Type of publication er Science, Band 4679) Softcover Due March 2007 Proceedings 68,48 € ISBN 978-3-540-74195-4 2007. XII, 330 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Due April 2007 er Science, Band 4430) Softcover

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F. Zammetti, Omnytex Technologies, Pottstown, PA, USA D. Zeng, University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA; I. Gotham, New K. Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA; K. Komat- su, Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Practical JavaScript, DOM Scripting, C. Lynch, University of California, Davis, CA, USA; M. Thurmond, Visual Languages and Applications University of California, Davis, CA, USA; D. Madigan, Rutgers Uni- and Ajax Projects versity, New Brunswick, NJ, USA; B. Lober, University of Washing- ton, Seattle, WA, USA; J. Kvach, Lexington, VA. USA; H. Chen, Uni- versity of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA (Eds.) Visual languages have long been a pursuit of effective communication between human and machine. JavaScript is hugely poplar in modern web develop- With rapid advances of the Internet and Web tech- ment, with good support in modern web browsers, Intelligence and Security nology, human-human communication through and improved development practices, leading to a lot Informatics: Biosurveillance the Web or electronic mobile devices is becoming of interest in topics such as Ajax, and DOM Script- more and more prevalent. Visual Languages and Ap- ing. This is the first pure "learn by example" book of Second NSF Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, New Brunswick, plications is a comprehensive introduction to dia- it's kind, providing 10 complete JavaScript projects NJ, USA, May 22, 2007, Proceedings grammatical visual languages. This book discusses that will save web developers countless hours of de- what visual programming languages are, and velopment time—they can learn from them and how such languages and their underlying founda- adapt for use in their own projects The projects all This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of tions can be usefully applied to other fields in com- address common needs in modern web applica- the Second NSF Workshop on Biosurveillance Sys- puter science. It also covers a broad range of con- tions, including a utility library, a validation frame- tems and Case Studies, BioSurveillance 2007, held in tents from the underlying theory of graph gram- work, a GUI widget framework, a dynamic event cal- New Brunswick, NJ, USA in May 2007, co-located mars to the applications in various domains. Point- endar application, a drag and drop shopping cart, with the 2007 IEEE International Conference on In- ers to related topics and further readings are provid- and more! Over the course of the book, we cover telligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2007). The ed as well. Visual Languages and Applications is de- JavaScript best practices, Ajax techniques, and some 17 revised full papers, 6 revised short papers present- signed as a secondary text book for advanced-lev- of the most popular JavaScript libraries, such as Pro- ed together with 1 invited talk and 2 poster papers el students in computer science and engineering. totype, Script.aculo.us, and the Yahoo YUI library. were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion This volume is also suitable for practitioners Features in the book. Bringing together infectious disease in- and researchers in industry as a professional book. JavaScript (and related topics) is a big seller now, formatics (IDI) researchers and practitioners to dis- Features and for the foreseeable future Includes 10 complete cuss selected topics directly relevant to data sharing Includes multimedia authoring and presentation JavaScript applications that serve real world needs and analysis for real-time animal and public health First publication featuring visual languages including for the reader to learn from and adapt in their own surveillance, the workshop covers a wide range of graph grammars projects Up-to-date, covering JavaScript support in backgrounds such as epidemiology, statistics, applied modern browsers, and the most popular libraries mathematics, information systems, computer science and machine learning/data mining. Contents such as Dojo, Prototype, etc Preface.- Introduction.- The Foundation - Graph Grammars.- Spatial Specification.- Multimedia Au- Contents Fields of interest thoring and Presentation.- Digital Interoperation.- Part 1: Say Hello to my Little Friend: JavaScript!.- 1: Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Software Architecture Design.- Web Engineering.- A Brief History of JavaScript.- 2: The Seven Habits Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Computer Visual Language Generation.- Conclusions and Fu- of Successful JavaScript Developers.- Part 2: The Communication Networks; Computational Biolo- ture Perspective.- Bibliography.- Appendix.- Index. projects.- 3: Hodge-Podge: Building an Extensible gy/Bioinformatics; Computers and Society; Manage- ment of Computing and Information Systems JavaScript Library.- 4: CalcTron 3000: A JavaScript Fields of interest Calculator.- 5: Expanding CalcTron to Include Unit Target groups Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Conversion Capabilities.- 6: A JavaScript Validation Researchers and professionals Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Framework.- 7: JSDigester: Taking the pain out of Graphics; Multimedia Information Systems; Soft- Client-side XML.- 8: Widget Mania: A GUI Wid- Type of publication ware Engineering; Information Systems Applications get Framework.- 9: Client-side Persistence: Work- Proceedings (incl.Internet); Software Engineering/Programming ing with Cookies and Local Shared Objects.- 10: Ajax and Operating Systems Powered Event-planner site.- 11: [..] Due May 2007 Target groups Fields of interest Professionals in industry Programming Techniques 2007. 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L.-J. Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, 144,40 € V. Zharkova, University of Bradford, UK; L.C. Jain, University of USA; J. Zhang, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA; H. Cai, ISBN 978-3-540-38281-2 South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia (Eds.) IBM China Research Laboratory, Beijing, China Artificial Intelligence in Recognition Services Computing and Classification of Astrophysical and Medical Images As the core technical foundation for the modern services science, Services Computing covers the science, technology and business models of effectively creat- This book presents innovative techniques in Recog- ing and leveraging computing technology to bridge nition and Classification of Astrophysical and Med- the gap between business and IT services. This book ical Images. The contents include: Introduction to systematically introduces the fundamentals of this pattern recognition and classification in astrophysi- new discipline based on the latest research results cal and medical images; Image standardization and in web services and Service-Oriented Architecture enhancement; Region-based methods for pattern (SOA); business consulting methodology and utili- recognition in medical and astrophysical images; ties; business process modeling, transformation, in- Advanced information processing using statistical tegration, and management; and services as software, methods; Feature recognition and classification us- software as service, and Web 2.0 for effective services ing spectral method. The book is intended for astro- delivery. Major solution architectures, technologies physicists, medical researches, engineers, research and research methods are discussed in the lifecycle students and technically aware managers in the Uni- of services innovation research. This book provides versities, Astrophysical Observatories, Medical Re- readers with new research and solution methods to search Centres working on the processing of large better create and manage business services, which is archives of astrophysical or medical digital images. the goal of Services Computing. Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang This book can be used as a text book for students of was the Chief Architect of Industrial Standards at Computing, Cybernetics, Applied Mathematics and IBM Software Group from 2004 to [..] Astrophysics.

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Z.-H. Zhou, Nanjing University, China; H. Li, Microsoft Research K. Zuse H. van Ditmarsch, University of Otago, New Zealand; W. van der Asia, Beijing, China; Q. Yang, Hong Kong University of Science Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK; B. Kooi, University of Gronin- and Technology, China (Eds.) gen, The Netherlands Der Computer - Mein Lebenswerk Advances in Knowledge Discovery Dynamic Epistemic Logic and Data Mining Konrad Zuse baute die erste vollautomatische, pro- 11th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2007, Nanjing, China, grammgesteuerte und frei programmierte, in binärer May 22-25, 2007, Proceedings Gleitpunktrechnung arbeitende Rechenanlage. Sie Dynamic Epistemic Logic is the logic of knowledge war 1941 betriebsfähig. Mit anderen Worten: Zuse change. This is not about one logical system, but baute den ersten funktionsfähigen Computer. In about a whole family of logics that allows us to spec- diesem Buch erzählt er die Geschichte seines Lebens, ify static and dynamic aspects of multi-agent sys- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the das wie kaum ein anderes mit der Geschichte der tems. This book provides various logics to support 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discov- bedeutendsten technischen Entwicklung seines such formal specifications, including proof systems. ery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2007, held in Nan- Jahrhunderts verbunden ist - einer Entwicklung, Concrete examples and epistemic puzzles enliven jing, China in May 2007. The 34 revised full papers die mit der "Abneigung" des Bauingenieurstuden- the exposition. The book also contains exercises in- and 92 revised short papers presented together with ten Zuse gegen die statischen Rechnungen begonnen cluding answers and is eminently suitable for grad- 4 keynote talks or extended abstracts thereof were hat... "Von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite ist diese uate courses in logic. A sweeping chapter-wise out- carefully reviewed and selected from 730 submis- Autobiographie eine faszinierende Lektüre, weil line of the content of this book is the following. The sions. The papers are devoted to new ideas, origi- aus jeder Zeile das persönliche Erleben des Au- chapter 'Introduction' informs the reader about the nal research results and practical development expe- tors spricht. Diese Unmittelbarkeit macht Buch history of the subject, and its relation to other dis- riences from all KDD-related areas including data und Autor sympathisch." (ntz Nachrichtentechnis- ciplines. 'Epistemic Logic' is an overview of mul- mining, machine learning, databases, statistics, da- che Zeitschrift) "...Für entspannende und erhol- ti-agent epistemic logic - the logic of knowledge - ta warehousing, data visualization, automatic scien- same Stunden, informativ und allgemeinbildend, including modal operators for groups, such as gen- tific discovery, knowledge acquisition and knowl- eigentlich genau das, was im Zusammenhang mit eral and common knowledge. 'Belief Revision' is an edge-based systems. dem Thema Computer sehr oft gefragt und verlangt overview on how to model belief revision, both in the wird... Unser Tipp: Sehr empfehlenswert"! (PAS- 'traditional' way and in a dynamic epistemic setting. Fields of interest 'Public Announcements' is a detailed [..] Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining CAL) and Knowledge Discovery; Information Storage and Features Features Retrieval; Probability and Statistics in Computer Sci- Autobiografie des Computerpioniers Konrad Zuse The first accessible reference to public announce- ence; Multimedia Information Systems; Computer Eindrucksvolle Darstellung der Anfänge des Com- ment logic Eminently suitable textbook for a grad- Appl. in Administrative Data Processing puterzeitalters uate audience Companion webpage with slides for lecturers, exams for further practice, etc. Everything Target groups Fields of interest you always wanted to know about the muddy chil- Researchers and professionals History of Computing; Computer Hardware; Soft- dren problem Many examples, exercises, and thorough completeness proofs and expressivity results Type of publication ware Engineering/Programming and Operating Sys- tems Proceedings Contents Target groups Preface.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Epistemic Logic.- 3. Be- Due April 2007 Computer-Fachleute und interessierte Laien lief Revision.- 4. Public Announcements.- 5. Epis- temic Actions.- 6. Action Models.- 7. Completeness.- 2007. XXV, 1161 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Type of publication 8. Expressivity.- A. Selected Answers to Exercises.- puter Science, Band 4426) Softcover Monograph References.- Index.

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