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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, Vol. 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 [..] 42,00 € 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, Vol. 4498) Softcover clustering results.- Clustering for fuzzy model identi- 45,00 € 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, Vol. 4439) Softcover Andy Budd, Andy Clarke, Simon Collison, Jeff Croft, Contents Aaron Gustafson, Ian Lloyd, Ethan Marcotte Full 76,00 € 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. Hardcover Bad Arguments about Semantic Primitives.- Paper 7: gence, natural language processing Making Preferences More Active.- Paper 8: Provid- 49,95 € 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, Vol. (incl. Robotics); Language Translation and Linguis- 36) Hardcover tics; Semantics; Philosophy of Language 99,95 € 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, Vol. 4503) Softcover Science, Vol. 4530) Softcover Due August 2007 42,00 € 42,00 € 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, Vol. 4618) Type of publication BUGS. Softcover Proceedings 45,00 € 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, Vol. 4479) Softcover Target groups 153,00 € 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, Vol. 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, Vol. 4632) Softcover 48,00 € - adr.- Microformats for physical locations - geo.- 7. ISBN 978-3-540-74809-0 72,00 € 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.)

9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, Business Process Management September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings Languages and Compilers for 5th International Conference, BPM 2007, Brisbane, Australia, Parallel Computing September 24-28, 2007, Proceedings

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, Vol. 4648) Softcover 2007. IX, 366 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer 2007. XIII, 418 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4714) Science, Vol. 4382) Softcover Softcover 111,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7 52,00 € 56,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-72520-6 ISBN 978-3-540-75182-3 8 Computer Science springer.com/booksellers

G. Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy; C. Carpineto, A. An, York University,Toronto, Canada; J. Stefanowski, Poznan H. Anai, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd / Crest, Japan Science & Technol- Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy; G. Romano, Fondazione University of Technology, Poland; S. Ramanna, University of ogy Agency, Kawasaki, Japan; K. Horimoto, Computational Biol- Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy (Eds.) Winnipeg, Canada; C. Butz, University of Regina, Canada; W. ogy Research Center (CBRC), Tokyo, Japan; T. Kutsia, Research In- Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; G. Wang, stitute for Symbolic Computation (RISC), Hagenbeck, Germany Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunications, P.R. Chi- (Eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval na (Eds.)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference, RSFDGrC 2007, Toronto, Cana- da, May 14-16, 2007 29th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2007, held in Rome, Italy in This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the April 2007. The 42 revised full papers and 19 revised Second International Conference on Algebraic Biol- short papers presented together with 3 keynote talks This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ogy, AB 2007, held at the Castle of Hagenberg, Aus- and 21 poster papers were carefully reviewed and se- the 11th International Conference on Rough Sets, tria in July 2007 as part of the RISC Summer 2007, lected from 220 article submissions and 72 poster pa- Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing, organized by the Research Institute for Symbolic per submissions. The papers are organized in topi- RSFDGrC 2007, held in Toronto, Canada in May Computation. The 19 revised full papers presented cal sections on theory and design, efficiency, peer- 2007 in conjunction with the Second Internation- together with 3 invited papers and 4 tutorials were to-peer networks, result merging, queries, relevance al Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Tech- carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. feedback, evaluation, classification and clustering, fil- nology, RSKT 2007, both as part of the Joint Rough The conference is the interdisciplinary forum for the tering, topic identification, expert finding, XML IR, Set Symposium, JRS 2007. The 65 revised full papers presentation of research on all aspects of applications Web IR, and multimedia IR. presented together with 4 invited papers were care- of symbolic computation (computer algebra, compu- fully reviewed and selected from a total of 319 gener- tational logic, and related methods) in biology as well Fields of interest al submissions to the JRS 2007 symposium. The pa- as other problems in biology being approached with Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Database pers are organized in topical sections on fuzzy-rough symbolic methods. Management; Information Storage and Retrieval; Ar- hybridization, fuzzy sets, soft computing in medical Fields of interest tificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Sys- image processing, soft computing in information re- Logics and Meanings of Programs; Mathematical tems Applications (incl.Internet); Multimedia Infor- trieval, clustering, text and Web mining, learning, Logic and Formal Languages; Symbolic and Algebra- mation Systems data mining and rough classifiers, granular comput- ic Manipulation; Computational Biology/Bioinfor- ing, soft computing in multimedia processing, soft matics; Software Engineering Target groups computing applications, and rough and complex Researchers and professionals concepts. Target groups Researchers and professionals Type of publication Fields of interest Proceedings Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining Type of publication and Knowledge Discovery; Database Management; Proceedings Due March 2007 Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Compu- tation by Abstract Devices; Pattern Recognition Due June 2007 2007. XIX, 759 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Vol. 4425) Softcover Target groups Researchers and professionals 2007. XIII, 379 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4545) 84,00 € Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-71494-1 Type of publication Proceedings 52,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-73432-1 Due April 2007

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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, Vol. 4636) tals of Constrained Optimization.- Linear Program- Softcover ming Part I: The Simplex Method.- Linear Program- 44,00 € 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, Vol. 4698) Softcover 2007. XVII, 953 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4596) that will be indexed and abstracted in the ISI, SCI Softcover 84,00 € and other A/I services All volumes in this series will ISBN 978-3-540-75519-7 [..] 92,00 € 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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Target groups Academics, students and business practitioners

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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, Vol. 4549) Softcover Carlo Methods.- Selected Topics and Extended Ex- 2007. XIX, 619 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Vol. 4773) Softcover amples.- Appendix.- Bibliography.- Index. 56,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-73089-7 72,00 € 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, Vol. 4559) Softcover 2007. XIV, 583 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4644) puter Science, Vol. 4560) Softcover Softcover 76,00 € 68,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-73286-0 68,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-73288-4 ISBN 978-3-540-74441-2 14 Computer Science 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, Vol. 4533) Softcover Target groups Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in 2007. VIII, 185 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- 56,00 € computational intelligence and computer sciences er Science, Vol. 4651) Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-73447-5 42,00 € Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-73816-9 Monograph

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S.E. Bailey, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, J.D. Bales, Downers Grove, IL, USA A.K. Bandara, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK; M. Burgess, Department of Human Evolution, Leipzig, Germany; J.-J. Hublin, University of Oslo, Norway (Eds.) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Evolution, Leipzig, Germany (Eds.) Beginning PL/SQL Inter-Domain Management From Novice to Professional Dental Perspectives on Human First International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security, AIMS 2007, Oslo, Norway, June Evolution 21-22, 2007, Proceedings Beginning PL/SQL is a fast-paced and blissfully short State of the art research in dental paleoanthropology introduction to Oracle's PL/SQL language. PL/SQL is the built-in language that every Oracle developer and This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the database administrator simply must know. This book First International Conference on Autonomous In- The objective of the volume is to bring together, in gets readers up-to-speed on the core of the language frastructure, Management and Security, AIMS 2007, one collection, the most innovative dental anthropo- without wasting the readers time on esoteric and sel- held in Oslo, Norway in June 2007. The 13 revised logical research as it pertains to the study of hominid dom used syntax. full papers presented together with 8 tutorials were evolution. In the past few decades both the num- carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. bers of hominin dental fossils and the sophistica- Features The conference also incorporates a European PhD tion of the techniques used to analyze them have in- Anchors the introductory end of a growing line of Student Symposium that contributed 18 papers to creased substantially. Contributions focus on dental Apress titles aimed at Oracle developers, titles that this volume that were selected from 31 submitted pa- morphometrics, growth and development, diet and include best sellers from noted authors such as Tom pers. The papers are organized in topical sections on dental evolution. The contributed chapters include Kyte, Lex de Haan, and Jonathan Lewis Shows read- scalable network management, inter-domain con- crown morphology, microstructure, microwear, sta- ers how to apply object-oriented PL/SQL to produc- cepts, promises and ubiquitous management, au- ble isotope data, recent genetic research and new tion applications. No other book on PL/SQL does tonomous infrastructure and security, management methodologies, including 3-D imaging, confocal mi- this Gives the reader practical advice on what works models, policy interactions, security management, croscopy and computer modeling. This is a Volume and what doesn’t Advises on the performance trade- logic and validation, networks, and tutorials. in The Max-Planck-Institute Subseries in Human offs [..] Evolution coordinated by Jean-Jacques Hublin, Max- Contents Fields of interest Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, De- Computer Communication Networks; System Per- partment of Human Evolution, Leipzig, Germany Introduction to PL/SQL.- Relational SQL Refresh- er.- PL/SQL is Square.- Variables and Datatypes.- formance and Evaluation; Information Systems Ap- plications (incl.Internet); Information Storage and Features Executing Statements.- Working With Cursors.- Re- Retrieval; Management of Computing and Informa- Most innovative dental anthropological research in al-World Objects.- Debugging.- Testing.- War Sto- tion Systems the study of hominid evolution ries. Target groups Contents Fields of interest Researchers and professionals Part I: Dental Evolution And Dental Morphology. Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters Part II: Dental Microstructure And Life History. Part Target groups Type of publication III: Dental Development. Part IV: Dentition And Di- Proceedings et. Beginning developers who develop applications involving Oracle, new database administrators, Fields of interest database administrators, someone that wishes to Due June 2007 Anthropology; Image Processing and Computer Vi- learn how to create stored procedures against an Or- sion; Simulation and Modeling; Dentistry; Anatomy acle database using PL/SQL 2007. XII, 237 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Vol. 4543) Softcover Target groups Type of publication Scientists and researchers in paleoanthropology, pa- Professional book 42,00 € leontology and human evolution ISBN 978-3-540-72985-3 Due September 2007 Type of publication Contributed volume Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest Due August 2007 Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. For Jordan, Irak, Oman, Qatar, Palestine: Jordan Book Center 2007. XXVI, 409 p. (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropol- ogy) Hardcover 2007. 496 p. Softcover

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S. Bandyopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India; S.K. L. Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland; I. Wagner, Tech- C. Baral, Arizona State University, Tempe, AR, USA; G. Brewka, Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India nical University of Vienna, Austria; C. Gutwin, University of University of Leipzig, Germany; J. Schlipf, University of Cincinnati, Saskatchewan, Canada; R. Harper, Microsoft Research Cam- OH, USA (Eds.) bridge, UK; K. Schmidt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Classification and Learning Using (Eds.) Genetic Algorithms Logic Programming and ECSCW 2007 Nonmonotonic Reasoning Applications in Bioinformatics and Web Intelligence Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer 9th International Conference, LPNMR 2007, Tempe, AZ, USA, Cooperative Work, Limerick, Ireland, 24-28 September 2007 May 15-17, 2007, Proceedings This book provides a unified framework that describes how genetic learning can be used to design pattern recognition and learning systems. The book The emergence and widespread use of personal com- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the is unique in the sense of describing how a search puters and network technologies have seen the de- 9th International Conference on Logic Programming technique, the genetic algorithm, can be used for pat- velopment of interest in the use of computers to sup- and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2007, held tern classification mainly through approximating de- port cooperative work. This volume presents the in Tempe, AZ, USA in May 2007. The 18 revised cision boundaries, and it demonstrates the effective- proceedings of the tenth European conference on full papers, 5 revised poster papers, and 7 system de- ness of the genetic classifiers vis-à-vis several wide- Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). scriptions presented together with 2 invited papers ly used classifiers, including neural networks. It pro- This is a multidisciplinary area that embraces the were carefully reviewed and selected for presenta- vides a balanced mixture of theories, algorithms and development of new technologies grounded in action. As a forum for exchanging ideas on declara- applications, and in particular results from the bioin- tual cooperative practices. These proceedings con- tive logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning, formatics and Web intelligence domains. This book tain a collection of papers addressing novel interac- and knowledge representation, LPNMR encompass- will be useful to graduate students and researchers tion technologies for CSCW systems, new models es theoretical studies, design and implementation of in computer science, electrical engineering, systems and architectures for groupware systems, studies of logic based programming languages and database science, and information technology, both as a text communication and coordination among mobile systems, and development of experimental systems. and reference book. 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C. Baranauskas, Unicamp, Brazil; P. Palanque, University Paul C. Baranauskas, Unicamp, Brazil; P. Palanque, University Paul D. Barbosa, University of Calgary, Canada; A. Bonifati, Italian Na- Sabatier, Toulouse III, France; J. Abascal, Universidad del País Vas- Sabatier, Toulouse III, France; J. Abascal, Universidad del País Vas- tional Research Council, Italy; Z. Bellahsène, University of Mon- co, Spain; S.D.J. Barbosa, PUC-Rio, Brazil (Eds.) co, Spain; S.D. Junqueira Barbosa, PUC-Rio, Brazil (Eds.) pellier, France; E. Hunt, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; R. Unland, Uni- versity of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (Eds.) Human-Computer Interaction - Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2007 INTERACT 2007 Database and XML Technologies 5th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2007, Vi- 11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, enna, Austrial, September 23-24, 2007, Proceedings Brazil, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings, Part II Brazil, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings, Part I

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7th International Conference, ICWE 2007, Como, Italy, July Applications in Finance and Investment 16-20, 2007, Proceedings The service-oriented approach has become more and more popular, now allowing highly integrated and yet heterogeneous applications. Web services are the In order to build a successful, Java-based applica- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the natural evolution of conventional middleware tech- tion it is important to have a clear understanding 7th International Conference on Web Engineering, nologies to support Web-based and enterprise-lev- of the principles underlying the various financial ICWE 2007, held in Como, Italy in July 2007. The 26 el integration. The highly dynamic characteristics models. Those models guide the application design- revised full papers and 13 revised short papers pre- of service-oriented applications means their valida- er in choosing the most appropriate Java data struc- sented together with 9 demonstration papers, 4 in- tion is a continuous process that often runs in paral- tures and implementation strategy. This book de- dustrial papers, and 4 papers of the doctoral sympo- lel with execution. It is not possible to clearly distin- scribes the principles of model building in financial sium, were carefully reviewed and selected from 172 guish between the predeployment validation of a sys- engineering and explains those models as designs submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- tem and its use, nor is it possible to guarantee that and working implementations for Java-based appli- tions on services, metrics and quality, caching, inter- the checks passed at a certain time will be passed at a cations. Throughout the book a series of packaged faces, models, verification and testing, semantics and later time and in the actual execution environment as classes are developed to address a wide range of fi- Web 2.0, search, application development, demon- well. Baresi and Di Nitto have put together the first nancial applications. Java methods are designed and strations, the industrial track, and the doctoral con- reference on all aspects of testing and validating ser- implemented based on the most widely used mod- sortium. vice-oriented architectures, taking into account these els in financial engineering and investment practice. inherent intricacies. The contributions by leading The classes and methods are explained and designed Fields of interest academic and industrial research groups are struc- in a way which allows the financial engineer com- Information Storage and Retrieval; Computer Com- tured into four parts on: static analysis to acquire in- plete flexibility. The classes can be used as off-the- munication Networks; Software Engineering; Infor- sight into how the [..] shelf working solutions or the innovative developer mation Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Multi- can re-arrange and modify methods to create new media Information Systems; Artificial Intelligence Features products (incl. Robotics) A complete picture of what validating service-oriented architectures means today A comprehensive sur- Features Target groups vey of state-of-the-art approaches and tools for vali- Provides software professionals with an accessible Researchers and professionals dating service-oriented applications Detailed guide- source of numerical methods or ready-to-use code lines for the actual validation process References and for use in business applications First book to cover Type of publication scenarios for future research and development the topic of Java implementations for finance/invest- Proceedings ment applications Written specifically to be accessi- Contents ble to software practitioners without prior accoun- Due July 2007 Part I: Analysis: Specifiying and Monitoring Service tancy/finance training Flows: Making Web Services Process-Aware (van der Aalst, Pesic.- Analyzing Conversations: Realz- Contents 2007. XVI, 576 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4607) ability, Synchronizability, and Verification (Bultan, Introduction.- Interest Rate Calculations.- Bonds.- Softcover Fu, Su.- WS-Engineer: A Model-Based Approach to Duration.- Futures.- Options.- Modelling Stock 68,00 € Engineering Web Service Compositions and Chore- Prices.- Binomial Model.- Analytical Option Pricing ISBN 978-3-540-73596-0 ography (Foster, Uchitel, Magee, Kramer).- Model Methods.- Sensitivity Measures (The 'Greeks').- In- Checking with Abstraction for Web Services (Shary- terest Rate Derivatives.- Conditional Options.-Com- gina, Kröning).- Part II: Testing: Unit Testing BPEL plex Conditional Options.- Single Barrier Type Op- Compositions (Lübke).- A Model-Driven Approach tions.- Double Barrier Options.- Digital Options.- to Discovery, Testing, and Monitoring of Web Ser- Special Case Barrier Options.- Other Exotics.- Ap- vices (Lohmann, Mariani, Heckel).- Web Services [..] pendix 1.- Appendix 2.

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S. Barker, King's College London, UK; G.-J. Ahn, University of Th. Bartz-Beielstein, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, R. Basili, University of Rome, Italy; M.T. Pazienza, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA (Eds.) Germany; M.J. Blesa, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Rome, Italy (Eds.) Barcelona, Spain; C. Blum, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona,. Spain; B. Naujoks, University of Dortmund, Germany; Data and Applications Security XXI A. Roli, Università di Bologna, Italia; G. Rudolph, University of AI*IA 2007: Artificial Intelligence Dortmund, Germany; M. Sampels, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 21st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Belgium (Eds.) and Human-Oriented Computing Applications Security, Redondo Beach, CA, USA, July 8-11, 2007, Proceedings 10th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelli- Hybrid Metaheuristics gence, Rome, Italy, September 10-13, 2007, Proceedings

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J. Becker, European Research Center for Information Systems (ER- B. Beliczynski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; B. Beliczynski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; CIS), Münster, Germany; P. Delfmann, European Research Center A. Dzielinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; M. A. Dzielinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; M. for Information Systems (ERCIS), Münster, Germany (Eds.) Iwanowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; B. Ribeiro, Iwanowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; B. Ribeiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal (Eds.) University of Coimbra, Portugal (Eds.) Reference Modeling Adaptive and Natural Computing Adaptive and Natural Computing Efficient Information Systems Design Through Reuse of Infor- mation Models Algorithms Algorithms

8th International Conference, ICANNGA 2007, Warsaw, 8th International Conference, ICANNGA 2007, Warsaw, Poland, April 11-14, 2007, Proceedings, Part I Poland, April 11-14, 2007, Proceedings, Part II Reusability of information models has been discussed in science and practice for many years. Ref- erence models are information models that are de- The two volume set LNCS 4431 and LNCS 4432 con- The two volume set LNCS 4431 and LNCS 4432 con- veloped with the aim of being reused for different stitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Interna- stitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Interna- but similar application scenarios. They primarily tional Conference on Adaptive and Natural Com- tional Conference on Adaptive and Natural Com- promise time and cost savings, since parts of the ref- puting Algorithms, ICANNGA 2007, held in War- puting Algorithms, ICANNGA 2007, held in War- erence models can be reused. The topic of reference saw, Poland, in April 2007. The 178 revised full pa- saw, Poland, in April 2007. The 178 revised full pa- modeling is addressed in this book from different pers presented were carefully reviewed and select- pers presented were carefully reviewed and select- perspectives: Besides reference modeling languages ed from a total of 474 submissions. The 94 papers of ed from a total of 474 submissions. The 94 papers of that provide special modeling language concepts for the first volume are organized in topical sections on the first volume are organized in topical sections on the development and application of reference mod- evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, parti- evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, parti- els, reference modeling methodologies are discussed, cle swarm optimization, learning, optimization and cle swarm optimization, learning, optimization and which additionally provide procedure models for the games, fuzzy and rough systems, just as classification games, fuzzy and rough systems, just as classification construction and application of reference models. and clustering. The second volume contains 84 con- and clustering. The second volume contains 84 con- Moreover, particular reference models are discussed tributions related to neural networks, support vector tributions related to neural networks, support vector and evaluated. machines, biomedical signal and image processing, machines, biomedical signal and image processing, biometrics, computer vision, as well as to control and biometrics, computer vision, as well as to control and Contents robotics. robotics. O. Thomas: Version Management for Reference Models: Design and Implementation.- J. Becker, Fields of interest Fields of interest P. Delfmann, R. Knackstedt: Adaptive Reference Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Anal- Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Anal- Modeling: Integrating Configurative and Generic ysis and Problem Complexity; Programming Tech- ysis and Problem Complexity; Programming Tech- Adaptation Techniques for Information Models.- niques; Software Engineering; Artificial Intelligence niques; Software Engineering; Artificial Intelligence F. Gottschalk, W.M.P. van der Aalst, M.H. Jansen- (incl. Robotics); Image Processing and Computer Vi- (incl. Robotics); Image Processing and Computer Vi- Vullers: Configurable Process Models - A Founda- sion sion tional Approach.- T. Rieke, C. Seel: Supporting En- terprise Systems Introduction by Controlling En- Target groups Target groups abled Configurative Reference Modeling.- F. Ahle- Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals mann: RefModPM: Reference Information Model for Enterprise-Wide Project Planning, Controlling Type of publication Type of publication and Coordination in [..] Proceedings Proceedings

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G. Bella, Università di Catania, Italia A. Belussi, University of Verona, Italy; B. Catania, University of A. Bemporad, Università di Siena, Italy; A. Bicchi, Università di Genova, Italy; E. Clementini, University of L'Aquila, Italy; E. Ferrari, Pisa, Italy; G. Buttazzo, RETIS LAB, AREA CNR, Pisa, Italy (Eds.) University Insubria, Varese, Italy (Eds.) Formal Correctness of Security Protocols Hybrid Systems: Computation and Spatial Data on the Web Control Modeling and Management 10th International Workshop, HSCC 2007, Pisa, Italy, April 3-5, Computer network security is critical to fraud pre- 2007, Proceedings vention and accountability. Network participants are required to observe predefined steps called se- Spatial data is essential in a wide range of application domains today. While geographical applications curity protocols, whose proof of correctness is evi- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the remain the key target area, spatial properties are re- dence that each protocol step preserves some desired 10th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: quired in other contexts such as computer-aided de- properties. The author investigates proofs of correct- Computation and Control, HSCC 2007, held in Pisa, sign, robotics and image processing. Associated with ness of realistic security protocols in a formal, intu- Italy in April 2007. The 44 revised full papers and 39 these is the constantly growing number of distribut- itive setting. The protocols examined include Ker- revised short papers presented together with the ab- ed processing architectures, based on, for example, beros versions, smartcard protocols, non-repudia- stracts of 3 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and grid systems, sensor data networks, and personalized tion protocols, and certified email protocols. The selected from 167 submissions. Among the topics ad- smart devices. Spatial Data on the Web links these method of analysis, the Inductive Method in the the- dressed are models of heterogeneous systems, com- two research streams, focusing on the modeling and orem prover Isabelle, turns out to be both powerful putability and complexity issues, real-time comput- management of spatial data in distributed systems. and flexible. This research advances significant ex- ing and control, embedded and resource-aware con- Belussi and his coeditors have structured the contri- tensions to the method of analysis, while the findings trol, control and estimation over wireless networks, butions from internationally renowned researchers on the protocols analysed are novel and illuminating. tools for analysis, verification, control, and design, into four parts. Part I presents models for represent- This book will benefit researchers and graduate stu- programming languages support and implementa- ing semistructured, multiresolution and multiscale dents in the fields of formal methods, information tion, applications, including automotive, commu- data; Part II deals with the integration of spatial data security, inductive methods, and networking. nication networks, avionics, energy systems, trans- sources; Part III describes approaches to spatial data portation networks, biology and other sciences, man- Features protection; and, finally, Part IV reports innovative ufacturing, and robotics. First title to offer a full treatment of formal correct- applications for mobile devices. The book offers re- ness of security protocols searchers in academia [..] Fields of interest Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Contents Contents Processor Architectures; Logics and Meanings of Introduction.- The Analysis of Security Protocols.- Spatial Data on the Web: Issues and Challenges Programs; Software Engineering; Computation by The Inductive Method.- Verifying the Protocol (A.Belussi, B.Catania, E.Clementini, E.Ferrari).- Abstract Devices; Simulation and Modeling Goals.- The Principle of Goal Availability.- Mod- Part I: Models for Representing Spatial Semi-struc- elling Timestamping and Verifying a Classical Pro- tured, Multi-resolution, Multi-scale Data.- Ge- Target groups tocol.- Verifying a Deployed Protocol.- Modelling oMTGM: A Graphical Data Model for Semi-struc- Researchers and professionals Agents’ Knowledge of Messages.- Verifying Another tured, Geographical, and Temporal Data (C.Combi, Deployed Protocol.- Modelling Smartcards.- Verify- S.Migliorini, B.Oliboni, A.Belussi) - Out-of-core Type of publication ing a Smartcard Protocol.- Modelling Accountabili- Multi-resolution Terrain Modeling (E.Danovaro, Proceedings ty.- Verifying Two Accountability Protocols.- Con- L.De Floriani, E.Puppo, H.Samet) - Progressive clusions.- Appendices.- References Techniques for Efficient Vector Map Data Transmis- Due March 2007 sion: An Overview (M.Bertolotto) - Model General- Fields of interest ization and Methods for Effective Query Processing Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Data and [..] 2007. 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B. Berendt, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany; A. Hotho, M. Bernardo, University of Urbino, Italy; J. Hillston, University of M.R. Berthold, University of Konstanz, Germany; J. Shawe-Taylor, University of Kassel, Germany; D. Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute, Edinburgh, UK (Eds.) University College London, UK; N. Lavrac, Jozef Stefan Institute Ljubliana, Slovenia; G. Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy (Eds.) Ljubljana, Slovenia (Eds.) Formal Methods for Performance From Web to Social Web: Evaluation Advances in Intelligent Data Discovering and Deploying User Analysis VII 7th International School on Formal Methods for the Design of and Content Profiles Computer, Communication, and Software Systems, SFM 2007, 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA Bertinoro, Italy, May 8-June 2, 2007, Advanced Lectures 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 6-8, 2007, Proceedings Workshop on Web Mining, WebMine 2006, Berlin, Germany, September 18, 2006

This book presents a set of 11 papers accompany- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ing the lectures of leading researchers given at the the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Da- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th edition of the International School on Formal ta Analysis, IDA 2007, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Workshop on Web Mining, WebMine 2006, held in Methods for the Design of Computer, Communica- September 6-8, 2007. The 33 revised papers present- Berlin, Germany, September 18th, 2006. Topics in- tion and Software Systems, SFM 2007, held in Berti- ed were carefully reviewed and selected from almost cluded are data mining based on analysis of bloggers noro, Italy in May/June 2007. SFM 2007 was devot- 100 submissions. All current aspects of this interdis- and tagging, web mining, XML mining and further ed to formal techniques for performance evalua- ciplinary field are addressed; the areas covered in- techniques of knowledge discovery. The book is es- tion and coveres several aspects of the field, includ- clude statistics, machine learning, data mining, clas- pecially valuable for those interested in the aspects of ing formalisms for performance modeling (Markov sification and pattern recognition, clustering, appli- the Social Web (Web 2.0) and its inherent dynamic chains, queueing networks, stochastic Petri nets, and cations, modeling, and interactive dynamic data vi- and diversity of user-generated content. stochastic process algebras), equivalence checking sualization. Fields of interest and model checking, efficient solution techniques, Fields of interest Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Artificial and software performance engineering. Information Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intelli- Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communica- Fields of interest gence (incl. Robotics); Probability and Statistics in tion Networks; Database Management; Information Software Engineering; Programming Languages, Computer Science; Pattern Recognition; Computer Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Computers and Compilers, Interpreters; Logics and Meanings of Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Informa- Society Programs; Special Purpose and Application-Based tion Systems Target groups Systems; Computer Communication Networks Target groups Researchers and professionals Target groups Researchers and professionals Type of publication Advanced students, researchers, and professionals Type of publication Proceedings Type of publication Proceedings Proceedings Due September 2007 Due August 2007 Due May 2007 2007. XI, 161 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4737) Softcover 2007. XIV, 380 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4723) 2007. VII, 469 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Softcover 42,00 € er Science, Vol. 4486) Softcover 52,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74950-9 54,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74824-3 ISBN 978-3-540-72482-7 24 Computer Science springer.com/booksellers

D. Berube, Suncook, NH, USA C. Bessiere, University of Montpellier, France (Ed.) R. Bestak, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic; B. Simak, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic; E. Kozlowska, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic (Eds.) Practical Ruby Gems Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2007 Personal Wireless Communications

13th International Conference, CP 2007, Providence, RI, USA, The 12th IFIP International Conference on Personal Wire- Ruby is a programming language that’s taking the September 25-29, 2007, Proceedings open source world by storm. It’s similar to both Perl less Communications (PWC 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, September 2007 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 The International conference on Personal Wireless library that developers can tap into in order to im- Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2007, held Communications (PWC 2007) was the twelfth con- prove their projects. 34 Ruby Gems are highlighted in Providence, RI, USA, in September 2007. The 51 ference of its series aimed at stimulating technical ex- and explained in this practical hands-on book, in- revised full papers and 14 revised short papers pre- change between researchers, practitioners and stu- cluding Gems to speed up web applications, process sented together with 8 application papers and the ab- dents interested in mobile computing and wireless credit card payments, produce PDF documents, read stracts of 2 invited lectures were carefully reviewed networks. Wireless communication faces dramatic and update RSS feeds, and acquire real-time shipping and selected from 165 submissions. All current issues changes. The wireless networks are expanding rapid- prices from FedEx and UPS. of computing with constraints are addressed, rang- ly in subscribers, capability, coverage, and applica- ing from methodological and foundational aspects - tions, and costs continue to decrease. Mobile de- Features using algorithms, environments, languages, models vices are becoming ubiquitous with greatly expanded The only book to cover Ruby Gems; exploits a gap and systems - to solving real-world problems in vari- computing power and memory, improved displays, in the market. There is no direct competition Will ous application fields. and wireless logical and personal area connectivi- appeal to all members of the Ruby and also Rails ty. The PWC 2007 program covered a variety of re- webdev programming communities Continues the Fields of interest search topics that are of current interest, including Apress line of books focusing on practical real-world Programming Techniques; Programming Languages, Ad-Hoc Networks, WiMAX, Heterogeneous Net- development with modern popular web development Compilers, Interpreters; Artificial Intelligence (incl. works, Wireless Networking, QoS and Security, Sen- techniques Robotics); Logics and Meanings of Programs; Math- sor Networks, Multicast and Signal processing. ematical Logic and Formal Languages; Computer Contents Appl. in Administrative Data Processing Features Part I: Using RubyGems.- What is Ruby Gems.- In- " Most up-to-date research on Personal Wireless stalling RubyGems.- Using a Gem in your Code.- Target groups Communications" Gem versioning.- Part II: Gem Recipes.- ActiveRe- Researchers and professionals cord.- BlueCloth.- Camping.- Cmdparse.- Eruby.- Contents Fastcgi.- Feedtools.- Fxruby.- Gnuplot.- Madeleine.- Type of publication Ad-Hoc Networks.- WiMAX.- Heterogeneous Net- Markaby.- Mod_Ruby.- Multi.- Mongrel.- Net-Sftp.- Proceedings works.- Wireless Networking I.- Wireless Network- Net-Ssh.- Payment.- Pdf-Writer.- Podcast.- Rails.- ing II.- Wireless Networking III.- QoS and Security.- Rake.- Rmagick.- Ruby-Memcache.- Rubyzip.- Due September 2007 Sensor Networks.- Multicast.- Signal Processing.- Ruwiki.- Salted_Login_Generator.- Sexp.- Shipping.- Posters.-Author Index.- Shorturl.- Sqlite-Ruby.- Tidy.- Turing.- Urirequire.- 2007. XV, 890 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4741) Xml-Simple.- Part III: Creating Gems.- Creating Softcover Fields of interest gems.- Distributing gems. Computer Communication Networks 90,00 € Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-74969-1 Target groups Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters Researchers and practitioners interested in mobile computing and wireless networks. Target groups Intermediate/Advanced Ruby developers, and Web/ Type of publication Rails developers Proceedings

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J.-Y. Beziau, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (Ed.) E. Biham, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; L.G. Birta, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada; G. Arbez, University A.M. Youssef, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (Eds.) of Ottawa, ON, Canada Logica Universalis Selected Areas in Cryptography Modelling and Simulation Towards a General Theory of Logic 13th International Workshop, SAC 2006, Montreal, Canada, Exploring Dynamic System Behaviour August 17-18, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

Universal Logic is not a new logic, but a general theory of logics, considered as mathematical structures. This book provides the reader with a balanced The name was introduced about ten years ago, but This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- & integrated presentation of the modelling the subject is as old as the beginning of modern log- proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on & simulation activity for both Discrete Event ic: Alfred Tarski and other Polish logicians such as Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2006, held in Dynamic Systems (DEDS) & Continuous Time Adolf Lindenbaum developed a general theory of Montreal, Canada in August 2006. The 25 revised Dynamic Systems (CTDS). Unconstrained by disci- logics at the end of the 1920s based on consequence full papers presented together with 2 invited talks pline boundaries, this book presents the fundamen- operations and logical matrices. The subject was re- were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 sub- tals necessary to understand the many important vived after the flowering of thousands of new log- missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- facets of the modeling & simulation methodolo- ics during the last thirty years: there was a need for a tions on block cipher cryptanalysis, stream cipher gy. For example, a novel project-oriented approach systematic theory of logics to put some order in this cryptanalysis, block and stream ciphers, side-channel clearly reveals the dependency of model structure chaotic multiplicity. This book contains recent works attacks, efficient implementations, message authenti- & granularity on project goals. Written for stu- on universal logic by first-class researchers from all cation codes, and hash functions. dents taking a first course in modelling & sim- around the world. The book is full of new and chal- ulation at either the senior undergraduate & ju- Fields of interest lenging ideas that will guide the future of this excit- nior graduate levels, this interdisciplinary presenta- Data Encryption; Systems and Data Security; Man- ing subject. It will be of interest for people who want tion provides an essential foundation on the topic. agement of Computing and Information Systems; to better understand what logic is. Tools and con- It is also ideally suited for self-study by profession- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- cepts are provided here for those who want to study als & others who require insight into the fea- puter Communication Networks; Information Sys- classes of already existing logics or want to design tures & potential of this rapidly evolving prob- tems Applications (incl.Internet) and build new ones. lem solving paradigm. Target groups Features Features Researchers and professionals Second, revised edition of the first collection of arti- Only textbook to give a balanced and integrated presentation of modelling and simulation activity cles around the topic of universal logic Starting point Type of publication for both Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDS) of interdisciplinary research in the fields of, e.g., log- Proceedings ic, linguistic, philosophy, mathematics, computer and Continuous Time Dynamic Systems (CTDS) A science project-oriented approach for developing the mod- Due September 2007 elling and simulation methodology Novel and con- Contents temporary approach to the stages of a modelling and Preface.- Universal Logic: Frameworks and Struc- 2007. XI, 395 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4356) simulation project Comprehensive coverage of veri- tures.- Identity and Nature of Logical Structures.- Softcover fication and [..] Tools and Concepts for Universal Logic. 56,00 € Contents Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-74461-0 Fundamentals.- Introduction.- The Modelling and Mathematical Logic and Foundations; Mathematical Simulation Process.- DEDS Modelling and Simula- Logic and Formal Languages; Arithmetic and Logic tion.- DEDS Stochastic Behaviour and Data Mod- Structures elling.- A Conceptual Modelling Framework for DEDS.- DEDS simulation Model Development.- Ex- Target groups perimentation and Output Analysis.- CTDS Mod- Graduates, postgraduates and researchers, computer elling and Simulation.- Modelling of Continuous scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, linguists Time Dynamic Systems.- Simulation with CTDS Models.- Optimization.- A1 Probability Primer.- A2 Type of publication GPSS Primer.- A3 Open Desire Primer. Proceedings Fields of interest Due April 2007 Simulation and Modeling; Computer Graphics; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of En- gineering; Computational Science and Engineering; 2007. 246 p. Softcover Economics general 49,90 € ISBN 978-3-7643-8353-4 Target groups Advanced undergraduates and graduates, lecturers

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A. Biryukov, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Ed.) Y.M.M. Bishop, Washington, DC, USA; S.E. Fienberg, Carnegie J. Biskup, University of Dortmund, Germany; J. Lopez, University Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; P.W. Holland, Educational of Malaga, Spain (Eds.) Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, USA Fast Software Encryption Computer Security - ESORICS 2007 14th International Workshop, FSE 2007, Luxembourg, Luxem- Discrete Multivariate Analysis bourg, March 26-28, 2007, Revised Selected Papers 12th European Symposium On Research In Computer Security, Dresden, Germany, September 24 - 26, 2007, Proceedings

The scientist searching for structure in large systems This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- of data finds inspiration in his own discipline, sup- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on port from modern computing, and guidance from 12th European Symposium on Research in Comput- Fast Software Encryption, FSE 2007, held in Luxem- statistical models. Because large sets of data are likely er Security, ESORICS 2007, held in Dresden, Ger- bourg, Luxembourg in March 2007. The 28 revised to be complicated, and because so many approaches many in September 2007. The 39 revised full papers full papers presented were carefully reviewed and suggest themselves, a codification of techniques of presented were carefully reviewed and selected from selected from 104 submissions. The papers address analysis, regarded as attractive paths rather than as 164 submissions. ESORICS is confirmed as the Euro- all current aspects of fast and secure primitives for straitjackets, offers the scientist valuable directions pean research event in computer security; it presents symmetric cryptology and they are organized in top- to try. The literature on discrete multivariate analy- original research contributions, case studies and im- ical sections on hash function cryptanalysis and de- sis, although extensive, is widely scattered. This book plementation experiences addressing any aspect of sign, stream ciphers cryptanalysis, theory, block ci- brings that literature together in an organized way. pher cryptanalysis, block cipher design, theory of computer security - in theory, mechanisms, applica- stream ciphers, side channel attacks, as well as macs Features tions, or practical experience. and small block ciphers. Originally published in 1974, this is a reprint of a Fields of interest classic, still-valuable text Fields of interest Data Encryption; Operating Systems; Computer Data Encryption; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Contents Communication Networks; Database Management; Complexity; Coding and Information Theory; Dis- Introduction.- Structural models for counted data.- Management of Computing and Information Sys- crete Mathematics in Computer Science Maximum likelihood estimates for complete tables.- tems; Computers and Society Formal goodness of fit: Summary statistics and mod- Target groups Target groups el selection.- Maximum likelihood estimation for in- Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals complete tables.- Estimating the size of a closed population.- Models for measuring change.- Analysis of Type of publication Type of publication square tables: Symmetry and marginal homogene- Proceedings Proceedings ity.- Model selection and assessing closeness of fit: Practical aspects.- Other methods for estimation and Due August 2007 testing in cross-classifications.- Measures of associa- Due September 2007 tion and agreement.- Pseudo-Bayes estimates of cell 2007. XI, 467 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4593) probabilites.- Sampling [..] 2007. XIV, 628 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4734) Softcover Softcover Fields of interest 60,00 € Statistical Theory and Methods 72,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74617-1 ISBN 978-3-540-74834-2 Target groups Researchers, students

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J. Blanc-Talon, DGA/D4S/MRIS, Arcueil, France; W. Philips, Ghent H.M. Blanken, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; J. Blazewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland; University, Ghent, Belgium; D. Popescu, CSIRO ICT Centre, Syd- A.P. de Vries, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amster- K.H. Ecker, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA; E. Pesch, Univer- ney, Australia; P. Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium dam, The Netherlands; H.E. Blok, University of Twente, Enschede, sity of Siegen, Germany; G. Schmidt, University of Saarland, (Eds.) The Netherlands; L. Feng, University of Twente, Enschede, The Saarbrücken, Germany; J. Weglarz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Netherlands (Eds.) Poznan, Poland Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Multimedia Retrieval Handbook on Scheduling From Theory to Applications 9th International Conference, ACIVS 2007, Delft, The Nether- lands, August 28-31, 2007, Proceedings Retrieval of multimedia data is different from retrieval of structured data. A key problem in multi- This handbook covers not only in a unified approach media databases is search, and the proposed solu- the most important scheduling models and meth- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the tions to the problem of multimedia information re- ods, it also put special emphasis to their relevance to 9th International Conference on Advanced Concepts trieval span a rather wide spectrum of topics outside practical situations. 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The papers are organized and his coeditors have assembled all the topics that quence, the handbook is an indispensable source for in topical sections on noise reduction and restora- should be covered in advanced undergraduate or a broad audience, ranging from researchers to prac- tion, segmentation, motion estimation and tracking, graduate courses on multimedia retrieval and multi- titioners, graduate and advanced undergraduate stu- video processing and coding, camera calibration, im- media databases. The single chapters of this textbook dents in computer science/engineering, operations age registration and stereo matching, biometrics and explain the general architecture of multimedia infor- research, industrial and real-time engineering, man- security, medical imaging, image retrieval and image mation retrieval systems; various metadata languages agement science, business administration, informa- understanding, as well as classification and recogni- like Dublin Core, RDF, or MPEG; pattern recognition systems, and applied mathematics curricula. tion. tion through Markov models, unsupervised learning, and pattern clustering; various indexing approaches Features Fields of interest to audio and video streams; interaction and control; Reference book for theory and practice of scheduling Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern the protection of content and user privacy; and [..] Covers many different scheduling problems, e.g. in Recognition; Computer Graphics; Artificial Intelli- advanced planning, supply chain management, and gence (incl. 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F. Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal; E. Monteiro, Universi- A. Bondavalli, Università de Firenze, Italy; F. Brasileiro, Universi- M.M. Bonsangue, Leiden University, The Netherlands; E.B. ty of Coimbra, Portugal; S. Mascolo, Politechnic University, Bari, dade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil; S. Rajsbaum, Universi- Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norwegen (Eds.) Italy; Y. Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland dad Nacional Autónoma de México , México (Eds.) (Eds.) Formal Methods for Open Object- Dependable Computing Wired/Wireless Internet Based Distributed Systems Third Latin-American Symposium, LADC 2007, Morelia, Mexi- Communications co, September 26-28, 2007, Proceedings 9th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FMOODS 2007, Pa- phos, Cyprus, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings 5th International Conference, WWIC 2007, Coimbra, Portugal, May 23-25, 2007, Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Third Latin-American Symposium on Dependable the 9th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Computing, LADC 2007, held in Morelia, Mexico, in This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distribut- September 2007. The 14 revised full papers present- 5th International Conference on Wired/Wireless In- ed Systems, FMOODS 2007, held in Paphos, Cyprus ed together with 2 invited talks, and outlines of 3 tu- ternet Communications, WWIC 2007, held in Coim- in June 2007. The 17 revised full papers presented to- torials and 2 panel sessions, were carefully reviewed bra, Portugal in May 2007. The 32 revised full papers gether with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers are presented were carefully reviewed and selected from and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on fault-tolerant algo- 257 submissions. The papers are organized in topi- organized in topcical sections on model checking rithms, software engineering of dependable systems, cal sessions on transport layer issues, handover and rewriting logic components and services algebraic networking and mobile computing, experimental de- QoS, traffic engineering, audio/video over IP, IEEE calculi specification, verification and refinenment, pendability evaluation, as well as intrusion tolerance 802.11 WLANs, sensor networks, protocols for ad- and quality of service. hoc and mesh networks, as well as OFDM systems. and security. Fields of interest Fields of interest Fields of interest Computer Communication Networks; Programming Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Sys- Computer Communication Networks; Information Techniques; Software Engineering; Operating Sys- tem Performance and Evaluation; Software Engi- Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Software Engi- tems; Programming Languages, Compilers, Inter- neering; Logic Design; Coding and Information The- neering; Systems and Data Security; Personal Com- preters; Logics and Meanings of Programs puting; Communications Engineering, Networks ory; Systems and Data Security Target groups Target groups Target groups Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Reseachers and professionals Type of publication Type of publication Type of publication Proceedings Proceedings Proceedings Due May 2007 Due May 2007 Due September 2007

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R.H. Bordini, University of Durham, UK; M. Dastani, Utrecht Uni- D. Bosnacki, Einhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The M. Bowers, Hermiston, OR, USA 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.) Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns Model Checking Software Programming Multi-Agent Systems 14th International SPIN Workshop, Berlin, Germany, July 1-3, Applying design patterns to HTML and CSS allows 4th International Workshop, ProMAS 2006,, Hakodate, 2007, Proceedings web developers and designers to improve their work, Japan,May 9, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers in terms of efficiency/productivity and end results, so this is an essential book for anyone involved in the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the industry to own. As well as information on CSS and This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- 14th International SPIN workshop on Model Check- HTML best practices, this book provides the read- proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on ing Software, SPIN 2007, held in Berlin, Germany in er with all the CSS and HTML design patterns they Programming Multi-Agent Systems, ProMAS 2006, July 2007 in conjunction with the 19th International need, to adapt for their own projects quickly and eas- held in Hakodate, Japan, in May 2006 as an associat- Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV ily, along with details of exactly how each one works, ed event of AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint 2007. The 14 revised full papers presented togeth- and how to use them most effectively. The book is Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent er with 4 tool presentation papers and the abstracts up to date for modern browser support, and CSS and Systems. The 12 revised full papers presented togeth- of 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and select- HTML specs. er with 2 invited articles are organized in topical sec- ed from 39 submissions. The papers are organized tions on uncertainty of agents, lightweight devices in topical sections on directed model checking, par- Features for business and e-commerce applications, compo- tial order reduction, program analysis, exploration Design patterns in web design and development nent-based agents for MAS simulation, dynamic log- advances, modeling and case studies, as well as tool are a very hot topic Provides a complete set of CSS ic programming in MAS, rule-based agents, affective demonstrations. and HTML design patterns for readers to use in agents and reinforcement agents, BDI agent frame- their own projects, AND explains how they work, works, creation, execution, mobility and commu- Fields of interest and how to use them most effectively Includes de- nication of agents, agent-like communication, val- Software Engineering; Programming Languages, tailed information on CSS and HTML best practices idation, debugging and testing, multi-agent tech- Compilers, Interpreters; Logics and Meanings of Covers browser support in all the most up to date niques and issues, multi-agent programming, as well Programs browsers as multi-agent platforms and organization. Target groups Contents Fields of interest Researchers and professionals Introduction to Semantic HTML.- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer CSS.- Combining HTML and CSS.- HTML Best Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Type of publication Practices.- CSS Layout Best Practices.- Different Me- Logics and Meanings of Programs; Programming Proceedings dia Best Practices.- Design Patterns Overview.- Text Languages, Compilers, Interpreters and Images.- Backgrounds and Borders.- Lists.- Ta- Due June 2007 bles.- Navigation.- Layouts.- Forms.- Accessibility.- Target groups Appendix A - Troubleshooting CSS.- Appendix B Researchers and professionals - Should we use XHTML?.- Appendix C - Unused 2007. X, 285 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4595) HTML Elements.- Appendix D - Unused CSS El- Softcover Type of publication ements.- Appendix E - Resources.- Appendix F - Proceedings 45,00 € Glossary. ISBN 978-3-540-73369-0 Due April 2007 Fields of interest Programming Techniques

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A. Bradburne, Incrediblinc Ltd, London, UK A.R. Bradley, Stanford University, CA, USA; Z. Manna, Stanford M. Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK University, CA, USA Practical Rails Social Networking Principles of Data Mining Sites The Calculus of Computation Decision Procedures with Applications to Verification Data Mining, the automatic extraction of implicit and potentially useful information from data, is in- This book ties together the popular framework Ruby creasingly used in commercial, scientific and other on Rails with another hot concept - social network- Computational logic is a fast-growing field with ap- application areas. This book explains and explores ing websites such as MySpace and FaceBook. Social plications in artificial intelligence, constraint solving, the principal techniques of Data Mining: for classi- networking is a kingpin of the Web 2.0 revolution and the design and verification of software and hard- fication, generation of association rules and cluster- sweeping the Internet right now. Due to its versatili- ware systems. Written with graduate and advanced ing. It is written for readers without a strong back- ty, using Ruby on Rails to build and maintain social undergraduate students in mind, this textbook in- ground in mathematics or statistics and focuses on networking sites is the perfect partnership. This book troduces computational logic from the foundations detailed examples and explanations of the al- will be one of the few project-based guides to Ruby of first-order logic to state-of-the-art decision pro- gorithms given. This should prove of value to readers on Rails - perfect for programmers that prefer the cedures for arithmetic, data structures, and combi- of all kinds, from those whose only use of data min- hands-on method of learning by example. nation theories. This textbook also presents a logi- ing techniques will be via commercial packages right cal approach to engineering correct software. The in- through to academic researchers. This book aims to Features creasing ubiquity of computers makes implementing help the general reader develop the necessary under- Unique book - no other book covers Rails and social correct systems more important than ever. Verifica- standing to use commercial data mining packages networking to this extent Covers Ruby on Rails, one tion exercises develop the reader's facility in specify- discriminatingly, as well as enabling the advanced of the hottest open source technologies Covers so- ing and verifying software using logic. The treatment reader to understand or contribute to future techni- cial networking, part of the Web 2.0 revolution that’s of verification concludes with an introduction to the cal advances in the field. Each chapter has practical changing the way we use the Internet static analysis of software, an important component exercises to enable readers to check their progress. A of modern verification systems. For readers interest- full glossary of technical terms [..] Contents ed in learning more about computational logic, deci- 1. Introduction to Ruby and Rails.- 2. Building a sion procedures, verification, and other areas of for- Features Page Creation and Management System.- 3. Adding mal methods, the final [..] Users and Groups.- 4. News Management System.- 5. Presents the principal techniques of data mining with particular emphasis on explaining and motivat- Discussion Forums.- 6. File Uploading and Hosting.- Features ing the techniques used Focuses on developing an 7. Building a Blogging Engine.- 8. Email Newsletters Presents a logical approach to engineering correct understanding of the basic algorithms and an aware- and Mailing Lists.- 9. Creating Themes.- 10. Tag- software as an application of computational logic ging and using Plugins.- 11. Building a Plugin to ness of their strengths and weaknesses Readers are add polls.- 12. Mashups. Integrating with APIs.- 13. Contents not required to have a strong mathematical or statis- Make it Mobile.- 14. Deploying, Performance and Propositional Logic.- First-Order Logic.- First-Order tical background Can be used as a textbook and also Scaling. Theories.- Induction.- Program Correctness: Me- for self-study chanics.- Program Correctness: Strategies.- Quan- Contents Fields of interest tified Linear Arithmetic.- Quantifier-Free Linear Introduction to Data Mining.- Data for Data Min- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters Arithmetic.- Quantifier-Free Equality and Data ing.- Introduction to Classification: Naive Bayes and Structures.- Combining Decision Procedures.- Ar- Nearest Neighbour.- Using Decision Trees for Clas- Target groups rays.- Invariant Generation.- Further Reading.- Ref- sification.- Decision Tree Induction: Using Entropy Intermediate Web developers and Ruby program- erences.- Index. mers for Attribute Selection.- Decision Tree Induction: Fields of interest Using Frequency Tables for Attribute Selection.- Type of publication Theory of Computation; Logics and Meanings of Estimating the Predictive Accuracy of a Classifier.- Professional book Programs; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Com- Continuous Attributes.- Avoiding Overfitting of De- plexity; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages cision Trees.- More about Entropy.- Inducing Mod- Due July 2007 ular Rules for Classification.- Measuring the Perfor- Target groups mance of a Classifier.- Association Rule Mining I.- Advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate Association Rule Mining II.- [..] Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, students Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest Fields of interest Publishers Pte Ltd. 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A. Branco, Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, Portugal (Ed.) P. Brito, University of Porto, Portugal; P. Bertrand, ENST Bretagne, D.R. Brooks, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA Cesson-Sévigné, France; G. Cucumel, ESG UQAM, Montréal, QC, Canada; F. De Carvalho, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Anaphora: Analysis, Algorithms and (Eds.) An Introduction to HTML and Applications JavaScript for Scientists and Selected Contributions in Data 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, Engineers DAARC 2007, Lagos Portugal, March 29-30, 2007, Selected Pa- Analysis and Classification pers JavaScript is widely used for simple online appli- This volume presents recent methodological devel- cations. This book presents HTML and JavaScript This book constitutes revised selected papers of the opments in data analysis and classification. A wide in a way that uniquely meets the needs of students 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution range of topics is covered that includes methods for in the sciences and engineering. It Colloquium, DAARC 2007, held in Lagos, Portu- classification and clustering, dissimilarity analysis, explains how to create simple client-side ap- gal in March 2007. The 13 revised full papers pre- graph analysis, consensus methods, conceptual anal- plications for scientific and engineering calcula- sented were carefully reviewed and selected from ysis of data, analysis of symbolic data, statistical mul- tions. It includes many complete HTML/JavaScript 60 initial submissions during two rounds of review- tivariate methods, data mining and knowledge dis- examples with science/engineering applications to ing and improvements. The papers are organized in covery in databases. Besides structural and theoreti- guide the reader progressively and comprehensively topical sections on human processing and perfor- cal results, the book presents a wide variety of appli- through the subject. This book is specifically target- mance, language analysis and representation, resolu- cations, in fields such as biology, micro-array analy- ed at a technical audience-- but not one that is neces- tion methodology and algorithms, as well as compu- sis, cyber traffic, bank fraud detection, and text anal- sarily familiar with a programming language,-- and tational systems and applications. ysis. Combining new methodological advances with gives the reader a sufficient understanding of HTML a wide variety of real applications, this volume is cer- and JavaScript to write their own online applications. Fields of interest tainly of special value for researchers and practition- The exposition emphasises basic programming prin- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Language ers, providing new analytical tools that are useful in ciples in a modern Web-oriented environment, mak- Translation and Linguistics; Data Mining and theoretical research and daily practice in classifica- ing it also highly suitable for an introductory pro- Knowledge Discovery; Document Preparation and tion and data analysis. gramming course for non-computer science majors. Text Processing; Mathematical Logic and Formal It is also ideal for self-study. There is supplementary Languages Contents website for this book containing code examples and Analysis of Symbolic Data.- Clustering Methods.- [..] Target groups Conceptual Analysis of Data.- Consensus Methods.- Researchers and professionals Data Analysis, Data Mining, and KDD.- Dissimilari- Features Addresses directly the needs of engineers and scien- Type of publication ties: Structures and Indices.- Multivariate Statistics. tists by explaining just those components of HTML Proceedings Fields of interest and JavaScript needed to write their own online ap- Statistical Theory and Methods; Data Mining and plications Features detailed code examples and out- Due March 2007 Knowledge Discovery; Pattern Recognition put to guide the reader comprehensively

2007. X, 191 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Target groups Contents Science, Vol. 4410) Softcover Researchers in statistics and data analysis Introductory Concepts.- HTML Document Basics.- HTML Tables, Forms and Lists.- Fundamentals of 42,00 € Type of publication the JavaScript Language.- Using Arrays in HTML/ ISBN 978-3-540-71411-8 Monograph JavaScript.- JavaScript Functions.- Glossary.- Appen- dices.- Index Due August 2007 Fields of interest Programming Techniques; Programming Lan- 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- 119,95 € ence/Technology; User Interfaces and Human Com- ISBN 978-3-540-73558-8 puter Interaction; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)

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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, Vol. 4539) Softcover Type of publication Contents Proceedings 72,00 € 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, Vol. 4321) Softcover the real world and their mapping into UML. 6. The Uniform concept. 7. Real time behavioral study be- 74,00 € yond UML. 8. Real time case studies. References. In- ISBN 978-3-540-72078-2 dex.

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104,95 € 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, Vol. 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.- 52,00 € 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, Vol. 4365) Softcover tion in mathematics: Moving beyond ordinary relations.- 7. Infinity: Understanding the unending.- 8. 42,00 € Recursively defined functions: The next generation.- ISBN 978-3-540-73949-4 9. Discrete thoughts of [..]

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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, Vol. 4569) Softcover Proceedings Signal Processing: A Particle Filtering Approach.- Possibilities for Quantum Information Processing.- 42,00 € 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, Vol. 4520) tion of Complex Processes Based on Analysis [..] Softcover Fields of interest 52,00 € 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 P.C. Cacciabue, Ispra, Italy (Ed.) Aachen, Germany Imaging for Detection and Modelling Driver Behaviour in Identification Algorithmic Aspects of Automotive Environments Bioinformatics Critical Issues in Driver Interactions with Intelligent Transport Systems The fusion of basic ideas in mathematics, radar, sonar, biology, and chemistry with ongoing im- Advances in bioinformatics and systems biology re- provements in hardware and computation offers quire improved computational methods for analyz- In the automotive environment, the paradigm of the promise of much more sophisticated and accu- ing data, while progress in molecular biology is in the joint human machine system is called the "Driv- rate detection and identification capabilities than turn influencing the development of computer sci- er-Vehicle-Environment" (DVE) model. Several currently exist. Coupled with the dramatic rise in ence methods. This book introduces some key prob- studies have pointed out the uniqueness of this do- the need for surveillance in innumerable aspects of lems in bioinformatics, discusses the models used to main, which can refer to minimum standardisation our daily lives, brought about by hostile acts deemed formally describe these problems, and analyzes the and normalisation of behaviours, contexts and tech- unimaginable only a few short years ago, the time is algorithmic approaches used to solve them. After in- nology. This book presents a general overview of var- ripe for image processing scientists in these usually troducing the basics of molecular biology and algo- ious factors that contribute to modelling human be- diverse fields to join together in a concerted effort rithmics, Part I explains string algorithms and align- haviour in a DVE. In practice, it is rare that all of to combat the new brands of terrorism. We envis- ments; Part II details the field of physical mapping these aspects have to be considered in total by a de- age the proposed ASI as one important step. To en- and DNA sequencing; and Part III examines the ap- signer or safety analyst. However, they all contribute compass the diverse nature of the subject this volume plication of algorithmics to the analysis of biologi- to creating the overall picture of the DVE model, and covers three broadly defined but interrelated areas: cal data. Exciting application examples include pre- show the scope and dimensions of the many differ- I. The mathematics and computer science of auto- dicting the spatial structure of proteins, and comput- ent interaction process that may take place and de- matic detection and identification; II. Image processing haplotypes from genotype data. This book demand modelling consideration. This long-awaited ing techniques for radar and sonar; III. Detection of scribes topics in detail and presents formal models volume written by experts in the field presents state- anomalies in biomedical and chemical images. in a mathematically precise, yet intuitive manner, of-the-art research and case studies. It will be invalu- with many figures and chapter summaries, detailed able reading for graduate students, researchers and Features derivations, and examples. It is well suited as an [..] Multi-disciplinary treatment of sensing Describes es- professional practitioners alike. sential technology for countering new threats Writ- Contents Features ten by experts from academia, government and in- Introduction.- Basics of Molecular Biology.- Basic Long-awaited, as the last best-known books contain- dustry Accessible to a broad audience of scientists, Concepts: Strings, Graphs, and Algorithms.- String ing recent results, tendencies and paradigms were engineers and mathematicians Algorithms.- Alignment Methods.- Introduction and in 1985 and 1993 An important and wide reaching Overview.- Physical Mapping.- DNA Sequencing.- tightly-edited volume involving a diverse range of Contents Shotgun Sequencing.- Finding Signals in DNA Se- disciplines where in particular human factors, be- Preface. Multi-Perspective Imaging and Image In- quences.- Genome Rearrangements.- Phylogenetic havioural modelling, ergonomics, and psychology terpretation.- Radar Imaging for Combating Terror- Trees.- Haplotyping.- Molecular Structures.- Refer- play an important role The authors are world class ism.- Optical Signatures or Buried Mines.- Chemical ences.- Index. Images of Liquids.- Sequential Detection Estimation experts in the field – this could be the authoritative and Noise Cancellation.- Image Fusion: A Powerful Fields of interest text on this topic Tool for Object Identication.- Nonlinear Statistical Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- Contents Signal Processing: A Particle Filtering Approach.- putational Biology/Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics From the contents Modeling Driver Behaviour in Possibilities for Quantum Information Processing.- EU and International Projects.- TRB Workshop on Multifractal Analysis of Images: New Connexions Target groups Driver models.- Modelling the Driver in Control.- Between Analysis and Geometry.- Characterization Graduate students, lecturers in algorithmics and From Driver Models to Modelling the Driver.- Mod- and Construction of Ideal Waveforms.- Identifica- bioinformatics elling Driver’s Risk Taking Behaviour.- Dealing with tion of Complex Processes Based on Analysis [..] Type of publication Behavioural Adaptations to Advanced Driver Sup- Fields of interest Graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook port Systems.- Towards Understanding Motivational Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Computer and Emotional Factors in Driver Behaviour.- Mod- Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Due April 2007 elling Driver Behaviour on Basis of Emotions and Measurement Science, Instrumentation; Applied Op- Feelings.- Time-related Measures for Modelling Risk tics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices in Driver Behaviour.- Situation Awareness and Driv- Original German edition published by Teubner Verlag ing.- Driver Error and Crashes.- Control Theory [..] Target groups Signal Processing engineers, scientists, mathemati- 2007. 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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, Vol. 4547) Softcover puting in flexible quering.- Part III Philosophical Type of publication 52,00 € 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, Vol. 4757) Softcover Part VIII Fuzzy /Possibilistic Optimization.- Part IX Algebraic Foundations of Soft Computing.- Part X 56,00 € 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, Vol. 4628) Softcover Remarks.- Conclusions.- Further Work. 56,00 € 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, Vol. 4363) and Modeling; Programming Languages, Compilers, Softcover Interpreters

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Interactive Television, EuroITV 2007, held in Amsterdam, The Nether- lands in May 2007. The 24 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The volume combines papers from academia and industry covering a wide range of areas such as media studies, audiovisual design, multimedia, human-computer interaction, and management. The papers are organized in topical sections on social TV systems, user studies, the future of TV, social TV evaluation, personalisation, and mobile TV.

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T. Chahed, GET/INT, France; B. Tuffin, IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France J.S. Chahl, Australian Defence Science and Technology Organ- A. Chakrabarti, Infosys Technologies, Bangalore, India (Eds.) isation, Edinburgh, SA, Australia; L.C. Jain, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; A. Mizutani, Odonatrix Pty Ltd, Adelaide, SA, Australia; M. Sato-Ilic, University of Tsukuba, Japan Grid Computing Security Network Control and Optimization (Eds.)

First EuroFGI International Conference, NET-COOP 2007, Avi- gnon, France, June 5-7, 2007, Proceedings Innovations in Intelligent Machines Grid computing is widely regarded as a technology - 1 of immense potential in both industry and academia. Yet many enterprises are still hesitant about the im- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of plementation of an enterprise-level grid system, due the First Euro-FGI International Conference on Net- to the lack of consistent and widely used standards. This book includes a collection of chapters on the work Control and Optimization, NET-COOP 2007, Security is probably the most important concern and state of art in the area of intelligent machines. This held in Avignon, France in June 2007. The 22 revised needs both close understanding and careful imple- research would provide a sound basis to make au- full papers presented together with 9 invited lectures mentation as grid computing offers unique securi- tonomous systems human-like. The contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of ty challenges. Based on his research and industry ex- include: an introduction to intelligent machines; su- 46 submissions. The papers address all current issues perience, Chakrabarti has structured the issues per- pervisory control of multiple UAVs; intelligent au- in network control and optimization, ranging from taining to grid computing security into three main tonomous UAV task allocation; UAV path planning; performance evaluation and optimization of gener- categories: architecture-related, infrastructure-relat- Dynamic path planning ; Routing in UAVS; State es- al stochastic networks to more specific targets such ed, and management-related issues. He discusses all timation of micro air vehicles; Architecture for soc- as lower-layer functionalities in mobile networks, three categories in detail, presents existing solutions, cer playing robots; Robot perception. Application routing for computational grids, game theoretic ap- standards, and products, and pinpoints their short- engineers, scientists and researchers will find this proaches to access control, cooperation, competition comings and open questions. Together with a brief book useful. and adversary capacities in diverse environments. introduction into grid computing in general and underlying security technologies, this book offers the Features Fields of interest first concise and detailed introduction to this impor- Latest research on the theory of intelligent machines Computer Communication Networks; Algorithm tant area, targeting [..] and their applications Analysis and Problem Complexity; Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; Information Sys- Features Contents The first book that deals with grid computing securi- tems Applications (incl.Internet); Special Purpose Intelligent Machines: An Introduction.- Prediction and Application-Based Systems ty explicitly Details grid security challenges, explains Operator Capacity for Supervisory Control of Multi- possible solutions, and describes related standards ple UAVs.- Team, game and Negotiation.- UAV Path Target groups and products such as Xen, GSI, Globus™ Toolkit, Planning using Evolutionary Algorithms.- Evolu- Researchers and professionals WS-Security, SAML, among others. Can be used for tion based Dynamic Path Planning for Autonomous self-teaching as well as courses following the author’s Type of publication Vehicles.- Algorithms for Routing Problems involv- tutorials at grid conferences Proceedings ing UAVs.- State Estimation of Micro Air Vehicles.- Evolutionary Design of a Control Architecture for Contents Soccer-Playing Robots.- Toward Robot Perception Due May 2007 1) Introduction - 2) Overview of Security - 3) Tax- and Future Directions. onomy of Grid Security Issues - 4) Grid Informa- tion Security Architecture - 5) Grid Authorization 2007. XIII, 305 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Fields of interest Systems - 6) Service Level Security in Grid - 7) Host er Science, Vol. 4465) Softcover Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- Level Security - 8) Grid Network Security - 9) Grid neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) 48,00 € Credential Management Systems - 10) Managing Trust in Grid - 11) Grid Monitoring - 12) Putting it ISBN 978-3-540-72708-8 Target groups All Together - 13) Conclusion - Appendix, Bibliogra- Researchers, engineers, graduate students in compu- phy, and Index. tational intelligence, computer science Fields of interest Type of publication Computer Communication Networks; Systems and Monograph Data Security; Management of Computing and In- formation Systems; Communications Engineering, Due August 2007 Networks; Operating Systems

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K.C. Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; W. M. Charikar, Princeton University, NJ, USA; K. Jansen, Univer- P.-J. Charrel, Université Toulouse 2, France; D. Galarreta, Centre Wang, University of new South Wales, Australia; L. Chen, Hong sity of Kiel, Germany; O. Reingold, The Weizmann Institute National d'Etudes Spatiales, Toulouse, France (Eds.) Kong University, Hong Kong; C.A. Ellis, University of Colorado at of Science, Rehovot, Israel; J.D.P. Rolim, Centre Universitaire 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 Project Management and Risk Center, USA; X. Lin, Y. Yang, J. Xu (Eds.) Approximation, Randomization, Management in Complex Projects Advances in Web and Network and Combinatorial Optimization. Studies in Organizational Semiotics Technologies, and Information Algorithms and Techniques

Management 10th International Workshop, APPROX 2007, and 11th Inter- Organizational semiotics offers a framework for un- national Workshop, RANDOM 2007, Princeton, NJ, USA, Au- APWeb/WAIM 2007 International Workshops: DBMAN 2007, gust 20-22, 2007, Proceedings derstanding the processes that this project work en- WebETrends 2007, PAIS 2007 and ASWAN 2007, Huang Shan, tails, in particular the interaction between individ- China, June 16-18, 2007, Proceedings uals and groups and between human and technology. The 8th session of the annual Organizational This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings Semiotics Workshop held in June 2005 in Toulouse of the 10th International Workshop on Approxima- – the French capital of aeronautics and space – test- This book constitutes the refereed combined pro- tion Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization ed ideas from Organizational Semiotics against two ceedings of four international workshops held in Problems, APPROX 2007 and the 11th Internation- issues from space projects on two illustrative cas- conjunction with the joint 9th Asia-Pacific Web al Workshop on Randomization and Computation, es provided by the Centre National d’Etudes Spa- Conference, APWeb 2007, and the 8th Internation- RANDOM 2007, held in Princeton, NJ, USA, in Au- tiales (CNES) – the government agency responsible al Conference on Web-Age Information Manage- gust 2007. The 44 revised full papers presented were for shaping and implementing France’s space poli- ment, WAIM 2007, held in Huang Shan, China in carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. cy in Europe – through its Technical Competency June 2007 (see LNCS 4505). The 50 revised full pa- Topics of interest covered by the papers are design Centre in Management (CCT MAN): - The manage- pers and 25 revised short papers presented togeth- and analysis of approximation algorithms, hardness ment of complex, highly innovative and multidisci- er with the abstract of 1 keynote talk were careful- of approximation, small space and data streaming al- plinary projects during their early volatile phases. - ly reviewed and selected from a total of 266 submis- gorithms, sub-linear time algorithms, embeddings The management of risks faced by such projects that sions. The papers of the four workshops are very spe- and metric space methods, mathematical program- may run far into the future and beyond human inter- cific and contribute to enlarging the spectrum of the ming methods, coloring and partitioning, cuts and vention. The twelve chapters of the book are the re- more general topics treated in the APWeb 2007 and connectivity, geometric problems, game theory and vised contributions of the workshop to these issues WAIM 2007 main conferences. Topics addressed by applications, network design and routing, packing along with [..] the workshops are: Database Management and Ap- and covering, scheduling, design and analysis of ran- plication over Networks (DBMAN 2007), Emerging domized algorithms, randomized complexity theory, Contents Trends of Web Technologies and Applications (We- pseudorandomness and derandomization, random Preface: Project Management and Risks Manage- bETrends 2007), Process Aware Information Systems combinatorial structures, random walks/Markov ment in Complex Projects - Studies in Organization- (PAIS 2007), and Application and Security Service in chains, expander graphs and [..] al Semiotics.- Part 1 Management of Projects in their Web and Pervasive Environments (ASWAN 2007). Early Phase. 1 Using Problem Articulation Method Fields of interest to Assist Planning and Management of Complex Fields of interest Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Dis- Projects. 2 Omissions in Managing Knowledge in In- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Informa- crete Mathematics in Computer Science; Numeric novation Processes or how to Handle Knowledge, tion Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Informa- Computing Humans and Tasks: a Semio-cognitive Approach. 3 tion Storage and Retrieval; User Interfaces and Hu- Viewpoint-centred Methodology to Design Project/ man Computer Interaction; Computer Communica- Target groups Subcontract Cooperation Policies.- Part 2 Risks tion Networks; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Researchers and professionals Management. 4 A Contribution to a Semiotic Ap- proach of Risks Management.- Part 3 Organizational Target groups Type of publication Semiotics and [..] Researchers and professionals Proceedings

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P. Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, B. Chen, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; M. Paterson, Uni- S.-H. Chen, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan; P.P. India; P. Kalra, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, versity of Warwick, Coventry, UK; G. Zhang, Zhejiang University, Wang, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; T.-W. Kuo, Aletheia India; S. Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Del- Hangzhou, China (Eds.) University, Taipei, Taiwan (Eds.) hi, India Combinatorics, Algorithms, Computational Intelligence in View-Dependent Character Probabilistic and Experimental Economics and Finance Animation Methodologies Volume II First International Symposium, ESCAPE 2007, Hangzhou, Chi- na, April 7-9, 2007, Revised Selected Papers Computer generated 3D animation has matured over the years into a complex art form. Coordinating and Computational intelligence (CI), as an alternative to presenting the character's movement in three dimen- statistical and econometric approaches, has been ap- sions to convey a specific idea to the audience re- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- plied to a wide range of economics and finance prob- quires artistic and technical skills, and often a labou- proceedings of the First International Symposium lems in recent years, for example to price forecasting rious iterative trial-and-error process to get it right. On Combinatorics, Algorithms, Probabilistic and and market efficiency. This book contains research Creating moving camera character animations in 3D Experimental Methodologies, ESCAPE 2007, held ranging from applications in financial markets and is a multi-faceted computer graphics and comput- in Hangzhou, China in April 2007. The 46 revised business administration to various economics prob- er vision problem. Warranting a formal representa- full papers presented were carefully reviewed and lems. Not only are empirical studies utilizing vari- tion of the moving camera, and efficient algorithms selected from 362 submissions. The papers address ous CI algorithms presented, but so also are theo- to help author the multitude of character poses re- practical large data processing problems with differ- retical models based on computational methods. In quired for the animation. It is also necessary to deal ent, and eventually converging, methodologies from addition to direct applications of computational in- with issues pertaining to camera and character pose major important disciplines such as computer sci- telligence, readers can also observe how these meth- interpolation and visualization of the association be- ence, combinatorics, and statistics. The symposium ods are combined with conventional analytical meth- tween the two. The solution to this problem has to be provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers ods such as statistical and econometric models to efficient and elegant from the perspective of a com- across their discipline boundaries to exchange their yield preferred results. Chen, Wang, and Kuo have puter scientist, and make sense and be intuitive to approaches, to search for ideas, methodologies, and grouped the 12 contributions following their intro- use. This well-researched book contains a large num- tool boxes, to find better, faster and more accurate ductory chapter into applications of fuzzy logic, neu- ber of example animations to explain and illustrate solutions thus fostering innovative ideas as well as to ral networks (including self-organizing maps and this versatile technique. develop research agenda of common interest. support vector machines), and evolutionary computation. All chapters were selected either by [..] Features Fields of interest Introduces view-dependent character animation and Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Pat- Contents covers all the relevant background work Includes a tern Recognition; Simulation and Modeling; Data Computational Intelligence in Economics and Fi- large number of example animations and shows how Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Computational nance: Shifting the Research Frontier.- An Overview the technique can be used to generate moving cam- Biology/Bioinformatics of Insurance Uses of Fuzzy Logic.- Forecasting Agri- era character animations as well as stylised anima- cultural Commodity Prices using Hybrid Neural tion Target groups Networks.- Nonlinear Principal Component Anal- Researchers and professionals ysis for Withdrawal from the Employment Time Contents Guarantee Fund.- Estimating Female Labor Force Introduction.- A Framework for View-Dependant Type of publication Participation through Statistical and Machine Learn- Animation.- View-Dependant Animation from Proceedings ing Methods.- An Application of Kohonen’s SOFM Sketches.- View-Dependant Animation from Mul- to the Management of Benchmarking Policies.- ti-modal Inputs.- Stylistic Reuse of View-Dependant Due September 2007 Trading Strategies Based on K-means Clustering and Animations.- Discussion and Future Directions.- Regression Models.- Comparison of Instance-Based Camera Models and Computation of the Camera Techniques for [..] 2007. 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L. Choi, Korea University, Seoul, Korea; Y. Paek, Seoul National R. Choren, PUC-Rio, Brazil; A. Garcia, Lancaster University, Lan- N. Choucri, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA; D. Mistree, F. Haghseta, T. University, Seoul, Korea; S. Cho, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA caster, UK; H. Giese, University of Paderborn, Germany; H.-f. Le- Mezher, W.R. Baker, C.I. Ortiz (Eds.) (Eds.) ung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China; C. Lucena, PUC- Rio, Brazil; A. Romanovsky, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Eds.) Mapping Sustainability Advances in Computer Systems Knowledge e-Networking and the Value Chain Architecture Software Engineering for Multi- 12th Asia-Pacific Conference, ACSAC 2007, Seoul, Korea, Au- Agent Systems V gust 23-25, 2007, Proceedings This book focuses on three interdependent chal- Research Issues and Practical Applications lenges related to managing transitions toward sustainable development, namely (a) mapping sustain- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ability for global knowledge e-networking, (b) ex- 12th Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture The papers selected for this volume present advances tending the value chain of knowledge and e-net- Conference, ACSAC 2007, held in Seoul, Korea in in software engineering approaches to develop de- working, and (c) engaging in explorations of new August 2007. The 26 revised full papers presented to- pendable high-quality multi-agent systems. These methods and venues for further developing knowl- gether with 2 keynote 8 invited lectures were careful- papers describe experiences and techniques associ- edge and e-networking. While each of these chal- ly reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The ated with large multi-agent systems in a wide vari- lenges constitutes fundamentally different types of papers encompass a wide range of topics, with much ety of problem domains. Reflecting the importance endeavors, they are highly interconnected. Jointly, emphasis in hardware and software techniques for of agent properties in today's software systems, the they contribute to our expansion of knowledge and state-of-the-art multicore and multithreaded archi- papers in this book illustrate recent developments its applications in support of transitions toward sus- tectures. in specific issues and practical experience. The 12 tainable development. thoroughly reviewed and revised full papers are or- Fields of interest ganized in topical sections on fault tolerance, excep- Features Arithmetic and Logic Structures; Input/Output and tion handling and diagnosis, security and trust, veri- New ways of looking at ‘sustainable development’ in Data Communications; Logic Design; Computer fication and validation, as well as early development integrated and wholistic terms New ways of looking Communication Networks; Processor Architectures; phases and software reuse. Some of the papers were at the specific aspects of sustainability in some detail Operating Systems initially presented at the 5th International Workshop New research methods designed and implemented, on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent with new results generated Introduction and reason- Target groups Systems, SELMAS 2006, held in Shanghai, China in ing of a new knowledge management system orga- Researchers and professionals May 2006 in association with ICSE 2006. After the nized around topics for sustainability workshop edition, it was decided to extend its scope, Type of publication and to invite several of the workshop [..] Contents Proceedings From the contents Preface: Sustainability Challenges Fields of interest and New Imperatives.- Part I Global Knowledge e- Due July 2007 Software Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Networking.- Part II Knowledge Value Chain for Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; Sustainability.- Part III New e-Strategies for Knowl- Programming Techniques; User Interfaces and Hu- edge and Value. 2007. XIII, 400 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- man Computer Interaction er Science, Vol. 4697) Softcover Fields of interest 56,00 € Target groups Economic Systems; Database Management; Ontol- ISBN 978-3-540-74308-8 Researchers and professionals ogy; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Environ- ment, general; Political Science Type of publication Proceedings Target groups Policy-makers and scholars (including students, pro- Due July 2007 fessors, and researchers) Type of publication 2007. XII, 233 p.Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Contributed volume Science, Vol. 4408) Softcover

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M. Collard (Ed.) H. Comon-Lundh, CNRS UMR, Cachan, France; C. Kirchner, INRIA C. Conati, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada; K. McCoy, & LORIA, Villers-lès-Nancy, France; H. Kirchner, INRIA & LORIA, University of Delaware, USA; G. Paliouras, NCSR, Greece (Eds.) Villers-lès-Nancy, France (Eds.) Ontologies-Based Databases and User Modeling 2007 Information Systems Rewriting, Computation and Proof 11th International Conference, UM 2007, Corfu, Greece, July First and Second VLDB Workshops, ODBIS 2005/2006 Trond- Essays Dedicated to Jean-Pierre Jouannaud on the Occasion of 25-29, 2007, Proceedings heim, Norway, September 2-3, 2005 Seoul, Korea, September his 60th Birthday 11, 2006 Post-Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Jean-Pierre Jouannaud has deeply influenced, and is 11th International Conference on User Modeling, This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings still influencing, research in Informatics, through the UM 2007, held in Corfu, Greece in July 2007. The 30 of the First and Second VLDB Workshop Ontolo- many important results he has produced in various revised full papers and 32 poster papers presented to- gies-based techniques for DataBases and Informa- research fields and through the generations of schol- gether with papers of 5 selected doctoral consortium tion Systems, held in Trondheim, Norway, Septem- ars he has educated. He has played a leading role in articles and the abstracts of 3 invited lectures were ber 2-3, 2005 and Seoul, Korea, September 11, 2006. field of rewriting and its technology, advancing the carefully reviewed and selected from 169 submis- The topics include ontology-based interoperabili- research areas of unification, rewriting and com- sions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ty and schema matching, management of ontologi- pletion modulo, conditional rewriting, termination evaluating user/student modeling techniques, data cal bases and links between ontologogies and knowl- proofs, modular properties, and automated proofs by mining and machine learning for user modeling, col- edge. induction in rewrite theories. Following his strong laborative filtering and recommender systems, cog- Fields of interest interest for algebraic specification languages and nitive modeling, user adaptation and usability, mod- Database Management; Data Structures; Information their efficient implementation, Jean-Pierre Jouan- eling affect and meta-cognition, mobile, ubiquitous Systems Applications (incl.Internet) naud has contributed to the design, semantics and and context aware user modeling, as well as intelli- implementation of OBJ2 and has recently augment- gent information retrieval, information filtering and Target groups ed the Maude rewriting logic system with an essen- content personalization. Researchers and professionals tial feature: membership equational logic. He was a member of the CNU (National University Council) Fields of interest Type of publication and a member of the CNRS national committee. He User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Proceedings is now heading with great success the computer sci- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information ence laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique thus [..] Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Simulation and Due September 2007 Modeling; Computers and Society; Computer Appl. Fields of interest in Social and Behavioral Sciences Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Log- 2007. VII, 153 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4623) ics and Meanings of Programs; Programming Lan- Target groups Softcover guages, Compilers, Interpreters; Programming Tech- Researchers and professionals niques; Software Engineering 42,00 € Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-75473-2 Target groups Proceedings Researchers and professionals Due June 2007 Type of publication Commemorative publication 2007. XVI, 487 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Vol. 4511) Softcover Due June 2007 64,00 € 2007. XVI, 273 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- ISBN 978-3-540-73077-4 er Science, Vol. 4600) Softcover

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R. Cooper, J. Kennedy (Eds.) S.B. Cooper, University of Leeds, UK; B. Löwe, University of van P.J. Cornell, Snoqualmie, WA, USA Amsterdam, The Netherlands; A. Sorbi, University of Siena, Italy (Eds.) Data Management. Data, Data Excel as Your Database Everywhere Computation and Logic in the Real 24th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 24, World Glasgow, UK, July 3-5, 2007, Proceedings Excel as Your Database shows beginning users how Third Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2007, Siena, to manage their data using one of the world’s most Italy, June 18-23, 2007, Proceedings popular programs—Excel—without investing time and money in complex databases such as Access. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the We’ve written and organized the book for readers 24th British National Conference on Databases, BN- who know something about Excel but nothing about This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the COD 24, held in Glasgow, UK, in July 2007. The 18 databases. We provide quick start solutions, step-by- Third International Conference on Computability in revised full papers and 7 revised poster papers pre- step exercises, try-it-out sections, troubleshooting, Europe, CiE 2007, held in Sienna, Italy, in June 2007. sented together with 2 invited contributions were and best practices solutions. carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The 50 revised full papers presented together with 36 The papers are ogranized in topical sections on data invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected Features applications, searching XML documents, querying from 167 submissions. Among them are papers cor- Covers Excel 2007 and 2003 "When to use this tech- XML documents, XML transformation, clustering responding to 12 plenary talks and papers of 8 spe- nique" introduction for each section clarifies not just and security, data mining and extraction. cial sessions entitled doing without turing machines: how to use a technique but under what realistic sce- constructivism and formal topology, approaches narios Step-by-step "how-to" procedures Try-it exer- Fields of interest to computational learning, real computation, com- cises based on realistic sample data Database Management; Information Storage putability and mathematical structure, complexity of and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications algorithms and proofs, logic and new paradigms of Contents (incl.Internet) computability, computational foundations of physics Data Basics.- Define Your Data.- Enter Data.- Find and biology, as well as a women in computability Data.- Connect to Other Databases.- Analyze Data.- Target groups workshop. Automate Repetitive Database Tasks.- Interoperate Researchers and professionals with Data in other Databases. Fields of interest Type of publication Theory of Computation; Algorithm Analysis and Fields of interest Proceedings Problem Complexity; Mathematics of Computing; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems Computing Methodologies; Bioinformatics; Algo- Due June 2007 rithms Target groups Beginning to intermediate end users (such as stu- Target groups dents, home users, or professionals in small- to mid- 2007. XIII, 259 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4587) Researchers and professionals level organizations) who have very little experience, Softcover budget, or need to invest in a full-scale relational Type of publication 45,00 € database management system Proceedings ISBN 978-3-540-73389-8 Type of publication Due June 2007 Professional book

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R. Corrigan, Open University, Oxford, UK V. Corruble, M. Takeda, E. Suzuki (Eds.) C. Cotta, Universidad de Málaga, Spain; J. van Hemert, University of Edinburgh, UK (Eds.) Digital Decision Making Discovery Science Evolutionary Computation in Back to the Future 10th International Conference, DS 2007 Sendai, Japan, Octo- ber 1-4, 2007 Proceedings Combinatorial Optimization 7th European Conference, EvoCOP 2007, Valencia, Spain, April Since the general public began to use the Internet in 11-13, 2007, Proceedings the mid 1990s, there has been a vast amount of in- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the vestment by governments and commerce in digital 10th International Conference on Discovery Science, communications technologies. There has also been DS 2007, held in Sendai, Japan, in October 2007, co- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of a fair degree of confusion and sometimes controver- located with the 18th International Conference on the 7th European Conference on Evolutionary Com- sy about the purpose and effectiveness of such tech- Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2007. The 17 reputation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP nologies, for example the proposed UK identity card vised long papers and the 10 revised regular papers 2007, held in Valencia, Spain in April 2007. The 21 system. The far-reaching implications for commerce presented together with 5 invited papers were care- revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and society of some of these decisions in invisible or fully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The and selected from 81 submissions. The papers cov- opaque specialist fields, however, mean they should papers cover all issues in the area of development er evolutionary algorithms as well as various oth- be matters of concern for every citizen. This book ar- and analysis of methods for intelligent data analysis, er metaheuristics, like scatter search, tabu search, gues: Decisions should be based on an understanding knowledge discovery and machine learning, as well memetic algorithms, variable neighborhood search, of the systems, technology and environment with- as their application to scientific knowledge discovery. greedy randomized adaptive search procedures, ant in which they operate. Experts and ordinary peo- colony optimization, and particle swarm optimiza- Fields of interest ple should work together. Technology and law are tion algorithms. The papers are specifically dedicated Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Database evolving in restrictive rather than enabling ways. It to the application of evolutionary computation and Management; Information Storage and Retrieval; aims, to stimulate an awareness of the issues and be a related methods to combinatorial optimization prob- Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; readable, challenging and informative introduction, lems and cover any issue of metaheuristic for com- Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences both for university students and the general reader, binatorial optimization. The papers deal with repre- to processes surrounding developments [..] Target groups sentations, heuristics, analysis of problem structures, Researchers and professionals and comparisons of algorithms. The list of stud- Features ied combinatorial optimization problems includes Readable introductory guide to decision making pro- Type of publication prominent examples like graph coloring, knapsack cesses in technology and law, which have important Proceedings [..] implications for the knowledge society Fields of interest Contents Due September 2007 Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Analy- Acknowledgements.- The battle of the book.- Intro- sis and Problem Complexity; Numeric Computing; duction to decision making.- Harry Potter and the 2007. XI, 298 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4755) Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science full blooded lawyers.- Infodiversity and the sustain- Softcover ability of our digital ecology.- Canaries in the mine.- Target groups Facts, values and agendas.- Technology is just a tool.- 48,00 € Researchers and professionals DDM in intellectual property.- Experts and ordinary ISBN 978-3-540-75487-9 people.- A modest proposal.- Notes.-References.- In- Type of publication dex. Proceedings

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R.G. Cowell, Cass Business School, London, UK; A.P. Dawid, Uni- I.D. Craig, Ecole Polytechnique and King's College, London, UK I.D. Craig, University College Northampton, UK versity of Cambridge, UK; S.L. Lauritzen, University of Oxford, UK; D.J. Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge, UK Object-Oriented Programming Formal Refinement for Operating Probabilistic Networks and Expert Languages: Interpretation System Kernels Systems

Exact Computational Methods for Bayesian Networks This comprehensive examination of the main ap- The kernel of any operating system is its most crit- proaches to object-oriented language explains the ical component. The remainder of the system de- key features of the languages in use today. Class- pends upon a correctly functioning and reliable ker- Winner of the 2002 DeGroot Prize. Probabilistic ex- based, prototypes and Actor languages are all looked nel for its operation. The purpose of this book is to pert systems are graphical networks that support at and compared in terms of their semantic con- show that the formal specification of kernels can be the modelling of uncertainty and decisions in large cepts. In providing such a wide-ranging comparison, followed by a completely formal refinement pro- complex domains, while retaining ease of calcula- this book provides a unique overview of the main cess that leads to the extraction of executable code. tion. Building on original research by the authors approaches to object-oriented languages. Exercis- The formal refinement process ensures that the code over a number of years, this book gives a thorough es of varying length, some of which can be extend- meets the specification in a precise sense. Two ker- and rigorous mathematical treatment of the under- ed into mini-projects are included at the end of each nels are specified and refined. The first is small and lying ideas, structures, and algorithms, emphasizing chapter. This book can be used as part of courses on of the kind often used in embedded and real-time those cases in which exact answers are obtainable. Comparative Programming Languages or Program- systems. It closely resembles the one modelled in our It covers both the updating of probabilistic uncer- ming Language Semantics at Second or Third Year Formal Models of Operating System Kernels. The tainty in the light of new evidence, and statistical in- Undergraduate Level. Some understanding of pro- second is a Separation Kernel, a microkernel archi- ference, about unknown probabilities or unknown gramming language concepts is required. tecture devised for cryptographic and other secure model structure, in the light of new data. The careful applications. Both kernels are refined to the point at Features attention to detail will make this work an important which executable code can be extracted. Apart from No other book on object-oriented programming has reference source for all those involved in the theory documenting the process, including proofs, this book the range in terms of languages and concepts cov- and applications of probabilistic expert systems. This also shows how refinement of a realistically sized ered Includes a full set of exercises at the end of each book was awarded the first DeGroot Prize by the In- specification can be undertaken. chapter ternational Society for Bayesian Analysis for a book Features making an important, timely, thorough, and notably Contents Contains the formal refinement of two small kernels original contribution to the [..] Introduction.- Class Fundamentals.- Prototype and Actor Languages.- Inheritance and Delegation.- Contents Features Methods.- Types I: Types and Objects.- Types II: Introduction.- Reasons for Selecting the Exam- New in paperback Winner of the DeGroot Prize Types and Objects-Alternatives.- C#.- BeCecil.- Bib- ples.- Refinement Method.- Code Production.- 2002, the only book prize in the field of statistics liography.- Index. Organisation of this Book.- Relationship to Other Contents Work.- The Simple Kernel’s Organisation.- A Sim- Fields of interest Introduction.- Logic, Uncertainty, and Probability.- ple Kernel.- Types.- Hardware.- The Process Ta- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters Building and Using Probabilistic Networks.- Graph ble.-Process Queue.- Priority Queue.- The Sched- Theory.- Markov Properties on Graphs.- Discrete uler.- Semaphores.- Semaphore Table.- Synchronous Target groups Messages.- The Clock.- Sleepers.-User Interface.- Networks.- Gaussian and Mixed Discrete-Gaussian 2nd/3rd year undergraduates in computer science Networks.- Discrete Multistage Decision Networks.- The Separation Kernel.-Basic Architecture.- Extend- ing the Architecture.- Summary.- An Overview of Learning About Probabilities.- Checking Models Type of publication the Formal Specification.- A Separation Kernel.- Ba- Against Data.- Structural Learning. Undergraduate textbook sic Types.- Hardware Issues.- Security Exits and Re- Fields of interest turn Values.- [..] Statistical Theory and Methods; Statistics for Engi- Due April 2007 neering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry & Fields of interest Geosciences; Probability Theory and Stochastic Pro- 2007. VIII, 252 p. (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science) Software Engineering/Programming and Operating cesses; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Softcover Systems

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P. Craiger, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA; S. P. Crescenzi, University of Florence, Italy; G. Prencipe, University K. Crowston, Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, USA; S. Sieber, Shenoi, University of Tulsa, OK, USA (Eds.) of Pisa, Italy; G. Pucci, University of Padua, Italy (Eds.) University of Navarra, Spain; E. Wynn, Intel Corporation, USA (Eds.) Advances in Digital Forensics III Fun with Algorithms Virtuality and Virtualization IFIP International Conference on Digital Forensics , National 4th International Conference, FUN 2007, Castiglioncello, Italy, Center for Forensic Science, Orlando Florida, January 28-Jan- June 3-5, 2007, Proceedings IFIP Working Groups 8.2 on Information Systems and Orga- uary 31, 2007 nizations and 9.5 on Virtuality and Society, July 29-31, 2007, Portland, Oregon, USA

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Fun with Al- Features gorithms, FUN 2007, held in Castiglioncello, Italy In today's rapidly changing global work environ- Most recent volume in the Advances in Digital in June 2007, co-located with the 14th Internation- ment, all workers experience increased organization- Forensics series al Colloquium on Structural Information and Com- al complexity. Companies are functionally distribut- munication Complexity (SIROCCO 2007). The 20 ed, many across the globe. Intense competition for Contents revised full papers presented together with 3 invited markets and margins makes adaptiveness and inno- Calibration Testing of Network Tap Devices.- On the papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 vation imperative. Information and communication Legality of Analyzing Telephone Call Records.- Sur- submissions. The papers are dedicated to the use, de- technologies are pervasive and fundamental infras- vey of Law Enforcement Perceptions Regarding Dig- sign, and analysis of algorithms and data structures, tructures, their use deeply integrated into work pro- ital Evidence.- Insider Threat Analysis Using Infor- focusing on results that provide amusing, witty but cesses. Workers collaborate electronically with co- mation-Centric Modeling.- An Integrated System for nonetheless original and scientifically profound con- workers or with employees of other companies. New Insider Threat Detection.- Analysis of Tools for De- tributions to the area. boundaries of time, space, business unit, culture, tecting Rootkits and Hidden Processes.- A Method company partnerships, and software tools are driv- for Detecting Linux Kernel Module Rootkits.- Future Fields of interest ing the adoption of novel organizational forms. On Trends in Authorship Attribution.- The Keyboard Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Data a macro level, these changes have started to reshape Dilemma and Authorship Identification.- Factors Structures; Computation by Abstract Devices; Dis- society. This book considers possible frameworks Affecting One-Way Hashing of CD-R Media.- Disk crete Mathematics in Computer Science; Computer for understanding virtuality and virtualization; ways Drive I/O Commands and Write Blocking.- A New Graphics of analyzing virtual work in terms of work process- [..] es; group processes within virtual teams; the role of Target groups knowledge in virtual settings and other implications Fields of interest Researchers and professionals of the role of fiction in structuring virtuality. Computer Science, general Type of publication Features Target groups Proceedings Most up-to-date look at virtuality and virtualization Researchers, faculty members and graduate students interested in digital forensics, as well as for practi- Due May 2007 Contents tioners and individuals engaged in research and de- Virtuality and Virtualization.- Beyond Distributed velopment efforts for the law enforcement and intel- Cognition.- Conduct, Performance, and Dilemmas ligence communities 2007. X, 273 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer of Inter-organizational Virtual Organizing.- Compe- Science, Vol. 4475) Softcover tency Rallying Processes in Virtual Organizations.- Type of publication Coordinating Global Software Development Activ- Proceedings 45,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-72913-6 ities.- A Process Maturity Model for Geographical- ly Dispersed Software Sustenance Operations.- Con- Due September 2007 ditions Enabling Effective Multiple Team Member- ship.- Sharing Knowledge in Global Virtual Teams.- 2007. XXI, 357 p. 242 illus. (IFIP International Federation for Infor- From Senses to Sensors.- Reframing Online Games.- mation Processing, Vol. 242) Hardcover The Social in the Virtual.- Virtual Patients.

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Theory Perspectives and Future Challenges Computing 16th International Symposium, FCT 2007, Budapest, Hungary, Second International Conference, GPC 2007, Paris, France, August 27-30, 2007, Proceedings 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 ness functions of global enterprises in a distributed This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the the 16th International Symposium Fundamentals of and collaborative manner. The product design and Second International Conference on Grid and Per- Computation Theory, FCT 2007, held in Budapest, engineering systems are gradually being developed vasive Computing, GPC 2007, held in Paris, France Hungary in August 2007. The 39 revised full papers to include a variety of tools for DfX, as well as incor- in May 2007. The 56 revised full papers and 12 represented together with 4 invited papers were care- porate aspects of digital manufacturing. Digital En- vised short papers were carefully selected from 217 fully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. terprise Technology: Perspectives and Future Chal- submissions during two rounds of reviewing and im- The papers address all current topics in computa- lenges, an edited volume, contains accepted chap- provement. The papers address all aspects of grid tion theory such as automata and formal languages, ters presented at the 3rd, CIRP sponsored Interna- and pervasive computing and focus on topics such design and analysis of algorithms, computational tional Conference in Digital Enterprise Technology as cluster computing, high performance computing, and structural complexity, semantics, logic, algebra (DET'06), held in Setúbal, Portugal, September 2006. grid computing, semantic Web and semantic grid, and categories in computer science, circuits and net- DET 2006 follows on the success of the two previous service-oriented computing, peer-to-peer comput- works, learning theory, specification and verification, meetings held in Durham, UK and Seattle, USA, in ing, pervasive computing, mobile computing, net- parallel and distributed systems, concurrency theory, 2002 and 2004 respectively. The chapters presented work storage, as well as grid and pervasive related cryptography and cryptograhic protocols, approxi- in this book are contributed by world class leaders applications. mation and randomized algorithms, computational in the field. This volume includes relevant examples geometry, quantum computation and information, of current state-of-art in the development and use Fields of interest bio-inspired computation. 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- Fields of interest tems Applications (incl.Internet); System Perfor- Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Anal- Features mance and Evaluation; Software Engineering; Oper- ysis and Problem Complexity; Mathematical Logic Includes advance factory design and modelling In- ating Systems and Formal Languages; Computer Graphics; Discrete cludes physical-to-digital environment integrators Mathematics in Computer Science Distinguished contributors in the field Target groups Researchers and professionals Target groups Contents Researchers and professionals International Committee.- Organizing Committee.- Type of publication Preface/Editorial.- Sponsors.- Keynote Papers.- Dig- Proceedings Type of publication ital Manufacturing In The Global Era.- Global Man- Proceedings ufacturing – Challenges And Solutions.- Emergent Due April 2007 Synthesis Approaches To Biological Manufacturing Due August 2007 Systems.- Reconfigurable Process Plans For Respon- 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, Vol. 4459) Softcover 2007. XIV, 508 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- sion 1 Advanced Factory Design And Modeling.- er Science, Vol. 4639) Softcover 84,00 € A Logistics Framework For Coordinating Supply ISBN 978-3-540-72359-2 64,00 € Chains On Unstable Markets.- Federative Factory ISBN 978-3-540-74239-5 Data Management An Approach Based Upon Service Oriented [..]

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V. Dahl, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; I. Niemelä, M.J. Dainoff, Miami University, Miami, FL, USA (Ed.) W. Damm, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany; Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (Eds.) H. Hermanns, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany (Eds.) Ergonomics and Health Aspects of Logic Programming Work with Computers Computer Aided Verification 23rd International Conference, ICLP 2007, Porto, Portugal, September 8-13, 2007, Proceedings International Conference, EHAWC 2007, Held as Part of HCI 19th International Conference, CAV 2007, Berlin, Germany, International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, Proceedings July 3-7, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Logic Program- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Ergonomics and Health ming, ICLP 2007, held in Porto, Portugal, September 19th International Conference on Computer Aid- Aspects of Work with Computers, EHAWC 2007, 8-13, 2007. The 22 revised full papers together with ed Verification, CAV 2007, held in Berlin, Germany held in Beijing, China in July 2007 in the frame- 2 invited talks as well as 15 poster presentations and July 2007 in conjunction with the 14th Workshop work of the 12th International Conference on Hu- the abstracts of 5 doctoral consortium articles were on Model Checking Software, SPIN 2007. The 33 re- man-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007 with 8 other carefully reviewed and selected from 74 initial sub- vised full papers presented together with 14 tool pa- thematically similar conferences. The 45 revised pa- missions. The papers cover all issues of current re- pers and 3 invited papers and 4 invited tutorials were pers presented were carefully reviewed and selected search in logic programming - they are organized in carefully reviewed and selected from 134 regular pa- from numerous submissions. The papers accepted topical sections on theory, functional and constraint per and 39 tool paper submissions. All current issues for presentation represent the breadth and diversity logic programming, program analysis, answer-set in computer aided verification and model checking of current research on the topic of ergonomic and programming, semantics, and applications. - from foundational and methodological issues rang- health aspects of work with computers and address ing to the evaluation of major tools and systems are Fields of interest the following major topics: health and well being in addressed. The papers are organized in topical sec- Programming Techniques; Artificial Intelligence the working environment, as well as ergonomics and tions on compositionality, verification process, timed (incl. Robotics); Programming Languages, Compil- design. synthesis and games, inifinite state verification, tool ers, Interpreters; Logics and Meanings of Programs; environments, shapes, concurrent programm verifi- Fields of interest Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages cation, reactive designs, parallelisation, constraints User Interfaces and Human Computer Interac- and decisions, probabilistic verification, abstraction, tion; Computer Graphics; Artificial Intelligence Target groups assume-guarantee reasoning, hybrid systems, pro- (incl. Robotics); Special Purpose and Applica- Researchers and professionals gram analysis, as well as SAT and [..] tion-Based Systems; Information Systems Applica- Type of publication tions (incl.Internet); Multimedia Information Sys- Fields of interest Proceedings tems Logics and Meanings of Programs; Software Engi- neering; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Target groups Due August 2007 Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Logic Design Researchers and professionals Target groups Type of publication 2007. XII, 470 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4670) Researchers and professionals Softcover Proceedings

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T. Danciu, San Francisco, CA, USA; L. Chirita N. Daswani, Google, San Jose, CA, USA; C. Kern, Google, Zurich, J. Davies, Cameron Park, CA, USA; A. Krishna, D. Schorow Switzerland; A. Kesavan, San Francisco, CA, USA The Definitive Guide to The Definitive Guide to SOA Foundations of Security JasperReports BEA AquaLogic Service Bus What Every Programmer Needs to Know

JasperForge.org is the open source development por- The Definitive Guide to SOA using AquaLogic Ser- tal for the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, the Security is an area of increasing and grave concern vice Bus is targeted at professional software develop- JasperSoft Business Intelligence solution that deliv- to programmers. Security attacks abound, and all ers and architects that know enterprise development, ers comprehensive tools for data access, data integra- too often the "way in" for the perpetrators is through but are new to enterprise service buses (ESB) and tion, analysis, and reporting. The Definitive Guide a "hole" left by an unwary programmer. For exam- service oriented architecture (SOA) development. to JasperReports covers the JavaOne award winning ple, there is the case of some forty million credit card It’s the first and only practical approach to SOA us- JasperReports tool at length. It is the only authorita- numbers having been exposed to hackers by a coming the high quality BEA AquaLogic Service Bus tool, tive book on JasperReports. Written by JasperForge’s pany then known as CardSystems, and hundreds and the only one written by the source, BEA Systems Teodor Danciu, Founder and Architect JasperRe- of thousands of them stolen. Forty million people AquaLogic product lead Jeff Davies. This book pro- port, this book will be endorsed by JasperForge.org suddenly had their credit and finances put at risk. vides "hands-on" guide to developing SOA-driven and JasperSoft, Inc. How were those numbers exposed? They were taken applications with ESB as central components. It also in what is called a "SQL injection" attack, one made gives strategic guidance on SOA planning, web ser- Features possible by a likely anonymous programmer many vice lifecycle management, administration of an ESB The only authoritative book on JasperReports levels down in the CardSystems hierarchy who sim- and security considerations. Written by JasperForge’s Teodor Danciu, Founder ply was unaware of the ultimate danger inherent in and Architect JasperReports Will be endorsed by the code that he was writing. CardSystems suffered Features JasperForge.org and JasperSoft, Inc greatly from the publicity surrounding the success- First and only book on practical approach to Services ful attack, and no longer exists today as an indepen- Oriented Architecture (SOA) using BEA AquaLogic Contents dent company. It was recently made public that the Service Bus tool First definitive book on AquaLogic Introduction.- Getting Started.- Working With Re- CardSystems data breach which exposed 40 million by BEA Systems’ AquaLogic product lead The author port Templates.- Filling Report Templates.- Han- credit cards in 2005 (arguably the worst cyberattack cuts through the theory and demonstrate how to dling Generated Reports.- Large Files Support (Re- of all [..] successfully use the product in practice where SOA port Virtualizer).- API Overview.- Report Tem- should really count plates.- Reporting Data.- Report Sections.- Re- Features port Elements .- Subreports.- Datasets.- Charts.- Security breaches are putting programmers under Contents Crosstabs.- Scriptlets.-Internationalization.- Report pressure in regards to security as never before (why 1. Introduction.- 2. Installing and Configuring Exporters.- Configuration Files .- Advanced Jasper- programmers will be interested) The book gives clear the Software.- 3. Why Use a Service Bus?- 4. Hello reports.- Resources. and straightforward advice to programmers, giving World Service.- 5. Message Flow Basics.- 6. A Crash them the 20% that they need to achieve 90% of the Course in WSDL.- 7. Advanced Message Flows.- Fields of interest benefit (why they will buy) Lead author is behind 8. Advanced Messaging Topics.- 9. Reporting and Programming Techniques the Stanford Center for Professional Development Monitoring.- 10. Error Handling.- 11. Security.- 12. Computer Security Certification (why the author has Service Landscape.- 13. Versioning Services.- 14. Ad- Target groups credibility) ministration.- Appendix A – ALSB Actions. Intermediate to advanced Java Programming. Contents Fields of interest Type of publication Security Goals.- Secure Systems Design: Approaches Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Professional book and Trade-offs.- Secure Design Principles: By Exam- Systems; Programming Languages, Compilers, Inter- ple.- Exercises for Part I.- Worms and Buffer Over- preters Due September 2007 flows.- Client-State Manipulation.- SQL Injection.- Password Security.- The Security Review Process.- Target groups Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, Case Study: Cross-Domain Security in Web Appli- Intermediate to advanced Java and Web services de- Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest cations.- Excercises for Part II.- Intro to Cryptog- velopers Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. For Jordan, Irak, raphy.- Asymmetric Cryptography.- Key Manage- Oman, Qatar, Palestine: Jordan Book Center ment.- Signatures.- Using Cryptography Correctly.- Type of publication Excercies for Part III.- A. 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J. Davies, Software Engineering Programme, Oxford, UK; J. Gib- M.E. Davies, Edinburgh University, UK; C.C. James, University of R. Davis, BT OneIT, British Telecommunications plc, UK; E. bons, Software Engineering Programme, Oxford, UK (Eds.) Southampton, UK; S.A. Abdallah, Queen Mary University of Lon- Brabänder, IDS Scheer AG, Germany don, UK; M.D. Plumbley, Queen Mary University of London, UK (Eds.) Integrated Formal Methods ARIS Design Platform

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7th International Conference, ICA 2007, London, UK, Septem- This practical "how-to" guide to using the ARIS De- ber 9-12, 2007, Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of sign Platform & how to use it to create real the 6th International Conference on Integrated For- business models describes the new release of ARIS mal Methods, IFM 2007, held in Oxford, UK in Ju- 7 Design Platform including ARIS Business Archi- ly 2007. The 32 revised full papers presented togeth- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the tect & ARIS Business Designer. Rob Davis has er with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and 7th International Conference on Independent Com- teamed up with Eric Brabänder of IDS Scheer to pro- selected from 85 submissions. The papers address ponent Analysis and Blind Source Separation, ICA vide practical answers to the following questions us- all aspects of formal methods integration, including 2007, held in London, UK, September 9-12, 2007. ing the new web-based ARIS Design Platform: • How of a process of analysis or design application of for- The 101 revised papers presented were carefully redo we get started with the ARIS Design Platform? • mal methods to analysis or design, extension of one viewed and selected from 149 submissions. The pa- How do we establish company-wide Business Pro- method, based upon the inclusion of ideas or con- pers are organized in topical sections on algorithms cess Management? • How do we setup a project with cepts from others, informal or semi-formal mod- and architectures, applications, medical applications, ARIS? • Which modelling methods should we use? • elling languages, tools, or techniques, and semantic speech and signal processing, theory, and visual and How do we effectively use the technical architecture integration or practical application. sensory processing. of ARIS (Servers, Databases, Objects, Web Clients, etc) Containing tips, techniques & short cuts Fields of interest Fields of interest gained from practical experience, this book show Logics and Meanings of Programs; Programming Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- how to use ARIS in an easy way, supporting smart Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Software Engi- putation by Abstract Devices; Coding and Infor- methods & smart models, & displays how neering; Programming Techniques mation Theory; Statistics and Computing/Statistics ARIS can be used as a powerful tool for BPM. This Programs; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; book is a must have guide & reference for all ex- Target groups Signal,Image and Speech Processing isting & new [..] Researchers and professionals Target groups Features Type of publication Researchers and professionals The only practical ‘How-to’ guide to both using the Proceedings ARIS Design Platform and how to use it to create re- Type of publication al business models Features ARIS 7 Design Platform, Due June 2007 Proceedings including ARIS Business Architect and ARIS Busi- ness Designer Contains tips, techniques and short 2007. IX, 660 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Due August 2007 cuts gained from practical experience Shows how to Science, Vol. 4591) Softcover use ARIS in an easy way, supporting smart methods 2007. XIX, 847 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- and models Displays how to use ARIS as a powerful 76,00 € er Science, Vol. 4666) Softcover tool for BPM ISBN 978-3-540-73209-9 90,00 € Contents ISBN 978-3-540-74493-1 An Introduction to BPM.- Introduction to the ARIS Platform.- The Basics of Process Modelling with the ARIS Design Platform.- Business Process Archi- tecture with ARIS.- Getting Started with Your First Model.- More About the ARIS Interface.- The Event- driven Process Chain.- ARIS Explorer.- ARIS De- signer.- Model Appearance.- Objects and Relation- ships.- Model Assignments and the Function Alloca- tion Diagram.- Modelling your Business Structure.- ARIS Properties and Attributes.- Definitions, Occur- rences and Copies.- Standardised Modelling with ARIS.- Roles and Responsibilities for BPM.- [..]

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A.P.D. Davison, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand E. Dawson, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Aus- M. Daydé, France; J.M.L.M. Palma, Portugal; Á.L.G.A. Couthino, tralia; D.S. Wong, City University of Hong Kong, China (Eds.) Brazil; E. Pacitti, France; J. Correia Lopes, Portugal (Eds.) Pro Java 6 3D Game Development Information Security Practice and High Performance Computing for Java 3D, JOGL, JInput and JOAL APIs Experience Computational Science - VECPAR

Third International Conference, ISPEC 2007, Hong Kong, Chi- 2006 na, May 7-9, 2007, Proceedings This book looks at the two most popular ways of us- 7th International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June ing Java SE 6 to write 3D games on PCs: Java 3D (a 10-13, 2006, Revised Selected and Invited Papers high-level scene graph API) and JOGL (a Java layer over OpenGL). Written by Java gaming expert, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Andrew Davison, this book will be first Java game the Third International Information Security Prac- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- book to market that uses the new Java (SE) 6 plat- tice and Experience Conference, ISPEC 2007, held proceedings of the 7th International Conference on form and its features including splash screens, script- in Hong Kong, China in May 2007. The 24 revised High Performance Computing for Computation- ing, and the desktop tray interface. This will be first full papers presented together with 2 invited papers al Science, VECPAR 2006, held in Rio de Janeiro, and maybe only book to market that covers Java were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 sub- Brazil, in June 2006. The 44 revised full papers pre- game development using the Java 3D API and Java missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- sented together with 1 invited paper and 12 revised for OpenGL, both critical components and libraries tions on cryptanalysis, signatures, network security workshop papers were carefully selected during two to Java-based 3D game application development. and security management, privacy and applications, rounds of reviewing and improvement for inclusion cryptographic algorithms and implementations, au- in the book. The papers are organized in topical sec- Features thentication and key management, as well as cryp- tions on Grid computing, cluster computing, nu- This is the first and only book that covers 3D games tosystems. programming on PCs using Java 3D and JOGL The merical methods, large-scale simulations in Physics, book utilizes gaming features offered by the new Ja- Fields of interest and computing in Biosciences. Finally this book in- va 6 platform, and will be the first to market on Ja- Data Encryption; Computer Communication Net- cludes some of the presentations at the two associat- va 6 game development Author, Andrew Davison, is works; Systems and Data Security; Computers and ed workshops on Computational Grids and Clusters, very well-recognized as a Java gaming developer gu- Society; Management of Computing and Informa- and on High Performance Data Management in Grid ru from his first book, Killer Game Programming in tion Systems; Information Storage and Retrieval Environments. Java and its Web site and more Target groups Fields of interest Contents Researchers and professionals Software Engineering/Programming and Operating 1. Java 3D and JOGL.- Section I. Java 3D.- Get a Life Systems; Theory of Computation; Computer Com- (in 3D).- Getting a Life with J2SE 6.- Collide with the Type of publication munication Networks; Mathematics of Computing Grabbers.- When Worlds Collide.- A Multitextured Proceedings Target groups Landscape.- Backgrounds and Overlays.- Section II. Researchers and professionals Non-standard Input Devices.- Webcam Snaps.- Nav- Due April 2007 igating a 3D Scene by Waving Your Arm.- Building Type of publication a Game Pad Controller with JInput.- The P5 Data Proceedings Glove.- Section III. JOGL.- Two JOGL Programming 2007. XIII, 361 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Vol. 4464) Softcover Approaches.- Touring the World.- Loading Models.- Due April 2007 Touring a Crowded World.- Appendix.- Digging 52,00 € Through Your Garbage with J2SE 6. ISBN 978-3-540-72159-8 2007. XXIV, 721 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Fields of interest puter Science, Vol. 4395) Softcover Programming Techniques; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters 80,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-71350-0 Target groups Intermediate Java programmers/developers and Game developers

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W. De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (Ed.) R. De Nicola, Università di Firenze, Italy (Ed.) J. Dedecker, Unversité Paris 6, France; P. Doukhan, Unversité Paris 1, France; G. Lang, Agro Paris Tech, Paris, France; J.R. Leon R., Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; S. Advances in Smalltalk Programming Languages and Louhichi, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France; C. Prieur, INSA Toulouse, France 14th International Smaltalk Conference, ISC 2006, Prague, Systems Czech Republic, September 4-8, 2006, Revised Selected Papers 16th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2007, Held Weak Dependence: With Examples as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Prac- tice of Software, ETAPS, Braga, Portugal, March 24 - April 1, and Applications This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- 2007, Proceedings proceedings of the 14th International Smalltalk Con- ference, ISC 2006, held in Prague, Czech Republic in This monograph is aimed at developing Doukhan/ September 2006. The 7 revised full papers presented This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Louhichi's (1999) idea to measure asymptotic inde- were carefully reviewed and selected from the techni- 16th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP pendence of a random process. The authors propose cal contributions held during the academic track of 2007, held in Braga, Portugal in March/April 2007 various examples of models fitting such conditions the conference. Being a live forum on cutting edge as part of ETAPS 2007, the European Joint Confer- such as stable Markov chains, dynamical systems or software technologies the conference produced pa- ences on Theory and Practice of Software. The 34 re- more complicated models, nonlinear, non-Marko- pers - from foundational issues to advanced applica- vised full papers presented together with the abstract vian, and heteroskedastic models with infinite mem- tions - that attracted researchers and professionals of 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and select- ory. Most of the commonly used stationary mod- from both academia and industry. ed from 136 submissions and address fundamental els fit their conditions. The simplicity of the condi- issues in the specification, analysis, and implementations is also their strength. The main existing tools Fields of interest tion of programming languages and systems. The pa- Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; for an asymptotic theory are developed under weak pers are organized in topical sections on models and dependence. They apply the theory to nonparamet- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; languages for Web services, verification, term rewrit- Logics and Meanings of Programs ric statistics, spectral analysis, econometrics, and re- ing, language based security, logics and correctness sampling. The level of generality makes those tech- proofs, static analysis and abstract interpretation, se- Target groups niques quite robust with respect to the model. The mantic theories for object oriented languages, pro- Researchers and professionals limit theorems are sometimes sharp and always sim- cess algebraic techniques, applicative programming, ple to apply. The theory (with proofs) is developed Type of publication and types for systems properties. and the authors propose to fix the notation for future Proceedings applications. A large number of research papers deals Fields of interest with the present ideas; the authors as well as numer- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; ous [..] Due April 2007 Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Data Structures Features 2007. VII, 157 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Make it simple to read and thus the mathematical Target groups er Science, Vol. 4406) Softcover level needed is as low as possible Aimed to fix the Researchers and professionals notions in the area in development May be consid- 42,00 € ered as an introduction to weak dependence Propose ISBN 978-3-540-71835-2 Type of publication Proceedings models and tools for practitioners hence the sections devoted to examples are really extensive Some of the already developed applications are also quoted for Due March 2007 completeness

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Fields of interest Statistical Theory and Methods

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F. Dehne, Carleton University, Canada; J.-R. Sack, Carleton Univer- H. Delfs, Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences, C. Demetrescu, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Rome, Italy (Ed.) sity, Canada; N. Zeh, Dalhousie University, Canada (Eds.) Nürnberg, Germany; H. Knebl, Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences, Nürnberg, Germany Experimental Algorithms Algorithms and Data Structures Introduction to Cryptography 6th International Workshop, WEA 2007, Rome, Italy, June 6-8, 10th International Workshop, WADS 2007, Halifax, Canada, 2007, Proceedings August 15-17, 2007, Proceedings Principles and Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Due to the rapid growth of digital communication the 6th International Workshop on Experimental the 10th International Workshop on Algorithms and and electronic data exchange, information security and Efficient Algorithms, WEA 2007, held in Rome, Data Structures, WADS 2007, held in Halifax, Cana- has become a crucial issue in industry, business, and Italy, in June 2007. The 30 revised full papers pre- da, in August 2005. The 54 revised full papers pre- administration. Modern cryptography provides es- sented together with 3 invited talks were carefully re- sented together with 2 invited papers were careful- sential techniques for securing information and pro- viewed and selected from 121 submissions. Foster- ly reviewed and selected from 142 submissions. The tecting data. In the first part, this book covers the key ing and disseminating high quality research results papers present original research on the theory and concepts of cryptography on an undergraduate lev- focused on the experimental analysis of algorithms application of algorithms and data structures in all el, from encryption and digital signatures to crypto- the papers are devoted to the design, analysis, imple- areas, including combinatorics, computational ge- graphic protocols. Essential techniques are demon- mentation, experimental evaluation, and engineer- ometry, databases, graphics, parallel and distributed strated in protocols for key exchange, user identifica- ing of efficient algorithms. Among the application computing. tion, electronic elections and digital cash. In the sec- areas addressed are most fields applying advanced ond part, more advanced topics are addressed, such algorithmic techniques, such as combinatorial op- Fields of interest as the bit security of one-way functions and compu- timization, approximation, graph theory, discrete Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Data tationally perfect pseudorandom bit generators. The mathematics, data mining, simulation, cryptography Structures; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Sci- security of cryptographic schemes is a central top- and security, scheduling, searching, sorting, string ence; Computer Graphics; Numeric Computing ic. Typical examples of provably secure encryption matching, coding, networking, etc. and signature schemes and their security proofs are Target groups given. Though particular attention is given to the Fields of interest Researchers and professionals mathematical foundations, no special background in Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Data mathematics is presumed. The [..] Structures; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Sci- Type of publication ence; Numeric Computing; Computer Graphics; Al- Proceedings Features gorithms Compact introduction on an undergraduate level to Due July 2007 the foundations of public-key cryptography in the Target groups first part No special background in mathematics is Researchers and professionals 2007. XVI, 662 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- presumed, an explanation of the necessary mathe- er Science, Vol. 4619) Softcover matics is given in two appendices The same exam- Type of publication ples are used throughout the book Complete proofs Proceedings 76,00 € are given ISBN 978-3-540-73948-7 Due May 2007 Fields of interest Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theo- ry; Data Encryption; Coding and Information Theo- 2007. XIII, 448 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Vol. 4525) Softcover ry; Number Theory; Systems and Data Security 60,00 € Target groups ISBN 978-3-540-72844-3 Undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers

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J. Derrick, University of Sheffield , UK; J. Vain, Tallinn University of G. Dewsbury, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; J. Dobson S. Diehl, University of Trier, Germany Technology, Tallinn, Estonia (Eds.) (Eds.) Software Visualization Formal Techniques for Networked Responsibility and Dependable Visualizing the Structure, Behaviour, and Evolution of Soft- and Distributed Systems - FORTE Systems ware 2007

27th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, June 27-29, 2007, Proceedings This book brings together for the first time two im- Software visualization encompasses the development portant features of a computer system to be em- and evaluation of methods for graphically represent- bedded in an organisational context: responsibili- ing different aspects of software, including its struc- ty, meaning whether the computer system properly ture, its execution, and its evolution. Software visual- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of supports the organisational responsibilities that peo- ization combines techniques from areas like software the 27th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on ple are allocated; and dependability, which means engineering, programming languages, data mining, Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed whether it does so in a way that people can justifiably computer graphics, information visualization and Systems, FORTE 2007, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in trust it to perform its operation correctly. Organisa- human-computer interaction. So far, there exist on- September 2007 co-located with TestCom/FATES tional responsibility is examined from philosophical, ly anthologies and proceedings about software visu- 2007. The 22 revised full papers presented together social and practical viewpoints, which then leads to alization. With this book, Stephan Diehl has written with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and se- a workflow design which supports those responsibil- the first textbook on software visualization. As such lected from 67 submissions. The papers focus on ser- ities. The approach pays particular attention to look- it targets both students and teachers in computer sci- vice oriented computing and architectures using for- ing at what happens when things go wrong and the ence. Topics covered include static program visual- malized and verified approaches. In addition to the adjustments and workarounds that people make to ization, algorithm animation, visual debugging, as classical protocol specification and verification prob- fulfil their responsibilities when their primary opera- well as the visualization of the evolution of software. lems, the issues of composition of protocol functions tional tasks are unachievable or frustrated, and how The author's presentation emphasizes common prin- and of algorithms for distributed systems are ad- these alternative strategies can be incorporated into ciples and provides different examples mostly taken dressed. The papers are organized in topical sections the workflow design. The application of the method from seminal work. In addition, each chapter is fol- on message sequence charts and SDL, concurrency, to multi-organisational contexts is dealt with in some lowed by a list of exercises including both pen and model programs, theory, verification, model check- detail. paper exercises, as well as [..] ing, requirements and QoS, as well as components. Features Features Fields of interest Explores the social and technical aspects of depend- Covers both static and dynamic program visualiza- Computer Communication Networks; Software En- ability and responsibility tion, as well as visual debugging and software evo- gineering; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Oper- lution Gives many pointers to available tools (both ating Systems Contents commercial and public-domain) and original lit- Introduction: Dependability and Responsibility in erature Augmented with a website with additional Target groups Context.- Responsibility: A Philosophical Perspec- teaching material and examples Author is one of the Researchers and professionals tive.- Responsibility in Practice.- Complex Organisa- key players in this field with extensive teaching expe- tional Responsibilities: The Ladbroke Grove Rail In- rience and tutorials at major conferences Type of publication quiry.- Responsibility Modelling: Basic Concepts.- Proceedings Models for Understanding Responsibilities.- Under- Contents standing Failure: The London Ambulance Service 1 Introduction.- 2 Visualization Basics.- 3 Static Pro- Due June 2007 Disaster.- Models for Responsibility Assignment.- gram Visualization.- 4 Dynamic Program Visualiza- Casual Responsibility Models.- Modelling in Prac- tion.- 5 Visual Debugging and Testing.- 6 Visualiz- 2007. XI, 375 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer tice. ing Software Architectures.- 7 Visualizing the Evolu- Science, Vol. 4574) Softcover tion of Software Systems.- 8 Evaluation.- 9 Conclu- Fields of interest sions. 72,00 € Models and Principles; Performance and Reliability; ISBN 978-3-540-73195-5 Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet) Fields of interest Software Engineering; Computer Graphics; Comput- Target groups er-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design Researchers, doctoral students Target groups Type of publication Graduate students, lecturers, professionals Monograph Type of publication Due April 2007 Graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook

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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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P.C. Diniz, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)/INESC-ID, Porto Salvo, H. Dixon, Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland G. Dong, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA; J. Pei, Simon Portugal; E. Marques, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; K. Ber- Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada tels, Delft University of Technology, CD Delft, The Netherlands; M.M. Fernandes, Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba, Brazil; Excel 2007 J.M.P. Cardoso, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal (Eds.) Sequence Data Mining Beyond the Manual Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Understanding sequence data, and the ability to uti- Books on Microsoft Excel have higher sales than lize this hidden knowledge, creates a significant im- Applications books on any other computer topic. They outsell all pact on many aspects of our society. Examples of se- books on all Open Source technologies. Excel 2007: quence data include DNA, protein, customer pur- Third International Workshop, ARC 2007, Mangaratiba, Brazil, Beyond the Manual is written for the experienced March 27-29, 2007, Proceedings chase history, web surfing history, and more. Se- Excel user who wants to learn version 2007 quickly quence Data Mining provides balanced coverage of and efficiently. Features new to Excel 2007 are em- the existing results on sequence data mining, as well phasized, as are complex features that, though avail- as pattern types and associated pattern mining meth- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of able in earlier versions of Excel, were not readily ac- ods. While there are several books on data mining the Third International Workshop on Applied Re- cessible. The narrative is fast-paced, concise, and re- and sequence data analysis, currently there are no configurable Computing, ARC 2007, held in Man- spectful of the reader’s familiarity with earlier ver- books that balance both of these topics. This profes- garatiba, Brazil, in March 2007. The 27 full papers sions of the program. sional volume fills in the gap, allowing readers to ac- and 10 short papers presented together with a late- cess state-of-the-art results in one place. Sequence Features comer contribution from ARC 2006 were thorough- Data Mining is designed for professionals working Fast-paced approach targeted at experienced Excel ly reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The in bioinformatics, genomics, web services, and fi- users Covers new features and new ways to access papers are organized in topical sections on architec- nancial data analysis. This book is also suitable for old features Uses practical examples to illustrate ad- tures, mapping techniques and tools, arithmetic, and advanced-level students in computer science and vanced features applications. bioengineering. Forward by Professor Jiawei Contents Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- Fields of interest paign. Computer Hardware; Processor Architectures; Com- What’s new in Excel 7 (WTF).- Customizing Ex- cel.- Excel Essentials.- Sorting and Filtering.- Analyz- puter Communication Networks; System Perfor- Features ing Data.- What-If Analysis.- Functions.- Charts.- mance and Evaluation; Computer System Implemen- -Unlike Dong and Pei’s version of Sequence Data Graphics.- Auditing and Security.- Getting Data tation Mining, current books do not provide thorough cov- from External Sources.- Sharepoint. erage on this topic — other books either fo- Target groups cus on general data mining, on sequence analysis, or Researchers and professionals Fields of interest Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems are restricted to results of the authors only -Includes both topics: frequent/closed sequence patterns and Type of publication similarity sequence patterns and motifs Proceedings Target groups Intermediate to advanced Excel users Contents Due March 2007 Type of publication -Forward by Professor Jiawei Professional book Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- 2007. XIV, 391 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- paign.- Preface.- Introduction.- Frequent and Closed Sequence Patterns.- Classification, Clustering, er Science, Vol. 4419) Softcover Due May 2007 Features and Distances of Sequence Data.- Sequence 56,00 € Motifs: Identifying and Characterizing Sequence ISBN 978-3-540-71430-9 Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, Families.- Mining Partial Orders from Sequences.- Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest Distinguishing Sequence Patterns.- Related Topics.- Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. For Jordan, Irak, Index.- References. Oman, Qatar, Palestine: Jordan Book Center Fields of interest 2007. 448 p. Softcover Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Information Storage and Retrieval; Database Management; Com- ISBN 978-1-59059-798-9 putational Biology/Bioinformatics; Biometrics; Com- puter Communication Networks

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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. This second edi- and applying virtual humans, medical and rehabilita- recent years CI has been extended by adding many tion is a invaluable guide for practitioners responsi- tion applications, as well as industrial and ergonomic other subdisciplines and it became quite obvious that ble for developing or implementing an eye tracking applications. this new field also requires a series of challenging system, as can also be used as a teaching text for rele- problems that will give it a sense of direction. With- vant modules on advanced undergraduate and post- Fields of interest out setting up clear goals and yardsticks to measure graduate courses. User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; progress on the way many research efforts are wast- Simulation and Modeling; Image Processing and ed. The book written by top [..] Features Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition; Artificial In- Only book to provide detailed practical advice on telligence (incl. 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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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L. Dybkjaer, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; S. Džeroski, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia; L. Todorovski, Jožef Ste- A. Ebel, University of Cologne, Germany; T. Davitashvili, State H. Hemsen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; fan Institute, Slovenia (Eds.) University Tbilisi, Georgia (Eds.) W. Minker, University of Ulm, Germany (Eds.) Computational Discovery of Air, Water and Soil Quality Evaluation of Text and Speech Scientific Knowledge Modelling for Risk and Impact Systems Introduction, Techniques, and Applications in Environmental Assessment and Life Sciences

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. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Computational Linguistics; User Interfaces and Hu- Science, Vol. 4660) Softcover tegration into Control Networks.- Integrated Assess- man Computer Interaction ment Modelling: Applications of the Impact Pathway 48,00 € Methodology.- Advanced Air Pollution Models and Target groups ISBN 978-3-540-73919-7 their Application to Risk and Impact Assessment.- Advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, Dispersion [..] academic and industrial researchers and practitioners Fields of interest Environmental Computing/Environmental Mod- Type of publication elling; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Contributed volume Optimization; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Soil Science & Conservation; Due May 2007 Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Con- trol / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution

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ISBN 978-1-4020-5876-9 A. Ebel, University of Cologne, Germany; T. Davitashvili, State ISBN 978-1-4020-5875-2 University Tbilisi, Georgia (Eds.)

Air, Water and Soil Quality Modelling for Risk and Impact Assessment

Environmental pollution by harmful anthropogenic substances and uncontrolled use of natural reserves have become a global problem and require substantial efforts for developing and applying efficient measures of control, mitigation and abatement. For achieving this goal predictions of possibly resulting risks and impacts are urgently needed for future environmental planning. The majority of environmental quality models is focussing on selected iso- lated parts of the geo-system though impacts on one compartment usually also affect one or more other parts. There is a strong need to advance to an integral treatment of air, soil and water pollution by combining different models for different media. Fur- thermore it is imperative to develop and apply modern methods of control theory to environmental risk assessment in order to support mitigation and abatement measures in an optimal way. The aim of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Air, Wa- ter and Soil Quality Modelling for Risk and Impact Assessment" [..]

Features Joint treatment of air, water and soil quality Applica- tion of control theory and environmental data assim- ilation Integrated environmental modelling Mod- elling for security

Contents Preface.- Risk and Emergency Modelling for Envi- ronmental Security: General Aspects.- Variational Technique for Environmental Risk/Vulnerability As- sessment and Control.- Environmental Risk and As- sessment Modelling – Scientific Needs and Expect- ed Advancements.- Control Theory and Environ- mental Risk Assessment.- Air Quality Models for Risk Assessment and Emergency Preparedness – In- tegration into Control Networks.- Integrated Assess- ment Modelling: Applications of the Impact Pathway Methodology.- Advanced Air Pollution Models and their Application to Risk and Impact Assessment.- Dispersion [..]

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P. Eberhard, University of Stuttgart, Germany (Ed.) C. Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Stuttgart, Germany; R. M. Ebner, University of Würzburg, Germany; M. O'Neill, University Dumke, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany College Dublin, Ireland; A. Ekárt, Aston University, Birmingham, UK; L. Vanneschi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; A.I. Espar- IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale cia-Alcázar, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain (Eds.) Problems in Multibody System Software Measurement Contacts Establish - Extract - Evaluate - Execute Genetic Programming

Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Stuttgart, Ger- 10th European Conference, EuroGP 2007, Valencia, Spain, many, February 20–23, 2006 April 11-13, 2007, Proceedings 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 The investigation of multiscale problems in multi- doing, we need to stay in control. We have to make the 10th European Conference on Genetic Program- body system contacts is a most interesting and time- sure that the systems and their software are running ming, EuroGP 2007, held in Valencia, Spain in April ly topic which has been the subject of intensive reas we intend - or better. Software measurement is 2007 colocated with EvoCOP 2007. The 21 revised search for more than one decade. While many ques- the discipline that assures that we stay in control. plenary papers and 14 revised poster papers were tions have been answered and the mechanically In this volume, Ebert and Dumke provide a com- carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. sound description and simulation is increasingly prehensive introduction to software measurement. The papers address fundamental and theoretical is- applied in practical engineering problems, this IU- They detail knowledge and experiences about soft- sues, along with a wide variety of papers dealing with TAM Symposium facilitated discussions between re- ware measurement in an easily understood, hands- different application areas, such as chess game play- searchers active in the field and enabled us to review on presentation. Brief references are embedded from ing, real-time evaluation of VoIP, multi-objective the state-of-the-art and to identify for the years to world-renown experts such as Alain Abran, Luigi optimization, evolution of recursive sorting algo- come the hot topics which require further efforts. It Buglione, Manfred Bundschuh, David N. Card, Ton rithms, density estimation for inverse problem solv- was especially useful to bring together scientists from Dekkers, Robert L. Glass, David A. Gustafson, Marek ing, image filter evolution, predicting prime num- closely related but traditionally distinct fields such Leszak, Peter Liggesmeyer, Andreas Schmietendorf, bers, data mining, grammatical genetic program- as multibody system contact, molecular dynamics, fi- Harry Sneed, Charles Symons, Ruediger Zarnekow ming, layered learning, expression simplification, nite element contact, collision detection or the math- and Horst Zuse. Many examples and case studies neutrality and evolvability, iterated function systems, ematics of unilateral contact. It is observed that the are provided from Global 100 companies such as particle swarm optimization, or open ended evo- once clear boundaries between these fields are blur- Alcatel-Lucent, Atos Origin, Axa, Bosch, Deloitte, lution. The use of Genetic Programming for sever- ring and an exchange of ideas will accelerate the de- Deutsche Telekom, Shell, [..] velopment with mutual benefits. Multiscale prob- al different applications shows that the method is a lems occur very naturally in contact [..] Features very general problem-solving paradigm. Describes software measurement in theory and prac- Fields of interest Features tice Introduces quantitative management and Six Programming Techniques; Computation by Abstract State of the art overview of this particular field Points Sigma Presents hands-on experience from industry Devices; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complex- to future areas of development leaders Fully compatible to the ISO 15939 general ity; Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelligence (incl. measurement standard Reflects the new CMMI v1.2 Robotics); Computational Biology/Bioinformatics Fields of interest with concrete measurement samples for each process Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Com- area Offers practical guidance for IT and software putational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Target groups business and management Provides guidance to all Researchers and professionals Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- relevant [..] neering; Numerical and Computational Methods in Type of publication Engineering; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Contents Proceedings Introduction - Making Measurement a Success - Target groups Measurement Foundations - Planning the Measure- Researchers and Practitioners in Mechanical Engi- ment Process - Performing the Measurement Process Due April 2007 neering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Mathemat- - Introducing a Measurement Program - Size and Ef- ics, Materials Science and Computer Science fort Estimation - Project Management - Defect Re- 2007. XI, 382 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer moval and Quality Improvement - Measuring Soft- Science, Vol. 4445) Softcover Type of publication ware Systems - Improving Processes and Products Proceedings - Controlling for IT and Software - Measurement 52,00 € Repositories - Empirical Laws and Rules of Thumb ISBN 978-3-540-71602-0 Due April 2007 - Communities and Internet Ressources - Glossary - Literature - Index. 2007. XX, 338 p. (IUTAM Bookseries, Vol. 1) Hardcover Fields of interest 104,95 € Software Engineering; Management of Computing ISBN 978-1-4020-5980-3 and Information Systems; Technology Management

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S. Edelkamp, University of Dortmund, Germany; A. Lomuscio, Im- A. Edney, R. Maximo K. Elleithy, University of Bridgeport, CT, USA (Ed.) perial College, London, UK (Eds.) Pro LCS Advances and Innovations in Model Checking and Artificial Live Communications Server Administration Systems, Computing Sciences and Intelligence Software Engineering 4th Workshop, MoChArt IV, Riva del Garda, Italy, August 29, 2006, Revised Selected and Invited Papers Live Communications Server is a recent release in Microsoft’s core server suite that enables unified Advances and Innovations in Systems, Comput- communications across an office through a variety of ing Sciences and Software Engineering includes a This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- devices, including phones, web conferences, and the set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Model Check- Internet. LCS integrates with Office, Exchange Serv- addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research ing and Artificial Intelligence, MoChArt IV, held in er, and Active Directory, making it a one-stop shop projects in the areas of Computing Sciences, Soft- Riva Del Garda, Italy in August 2006, as a satellite for a Microsoft-driven business that needs a suite of ware Engineering and Systems. Advances and Inno- event of ECAI0 2006, the 17th biannual European communications features. LCS can also tie in with vations in Systems, Computing Sciences and Soft- conference on Artificial Intelligence. The 8 revised various audio and video systems, provide secure in- ware Engineering includes selected papers form the full workshop papers and 3 revised post-proceedings stant messaging facilities, and allows users to create conference proceedings of the International Con- papers presented have gone through two rounds of on-demand teleconferences – all using SIP and VoIP ference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Soft- reviewing and improvement and were carefully se- technology. Our book, written by a freelance LCS ex- ware Engineering (SCSS 2006) which was part of lected for inclusion in the book. The workshop cov- pert and a Microsoft product manager on the LCS the International Joint Conferences on Computer, ers all ideas, research, experiments and tools that team, provides straight-forward technical informa- Information and Systems Sciences and Engineer- relate to both MC and AI fields. The papers are or- tion that only those with detailed experience in the ing (CISSE 2006). All aspects of the conference were ganized in topical sections on planning and model problems customers have experienced in deploying managed on-line; not only the reviewing, submis- checking, heuristics for real-time model checking, and managing Live Communications Server can pro- sions and registration processes; but also the actual verification of multi-agent systems, as well as logics vide. It’s practical, guided, and comprehensive. conference. Conference participants - authors, pre- for model checking and artificial intelligence. senters and attendees - only needed an internet con- Features nection and sound available on their computers in LCS has proven to be a successful core server for Mi- Fields of interest order to be able to contribute and participate in this crosoft and is gaining emphasis in the latest wave Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Program- international ground-breaking [..] ming Techniques; Software Engineering; Logics and of Office/Exchange releases Corporations are mov- Meanings of Programs; Mathematical Logic and For- ing away from traditional PBXs and into more mod- Features mal Languages ern tel solutions Well positioned to take advantage Provides a virtual forum for presentation and discus- of both of these industry transitions, with expertise sion of the state-of the-art research on computers, Target groups coming straight from the product team information and systems sciences and engineering Researchers and professionals Contents Contents Type of publication From the contents Part 1: Introduction to Live Com- Areas of Interest: Grid Computing, Internet-based Proceedings munications Server.- Part 2: Setting it Up.- Part 3: Computing Models, Resource Discovery, Program- What can it do - configuration?- Part 4: Getting the ming Models and tools, e-Science and Virtual Instru- Due August 2007 most from LCS. mentation, Biometric Authentication, Computers for People of Special Needs, Human Computer Interac- Fields of interest tion, Information and Knowledge Engineering, Al- 2007. IX, 185 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Computer Communication Networks Science, Vol. 4428) Softcover gorithms, Parallel and Distributed processing, Mod- Target groups eling and Simulation, Services and Applications, Em- 42,00 € Intermediate-advanced administrators, communica- bedded Systems and Applications, Databases, Pro- ISBN 978-3-540-74127-5 tion systems architects gramming Languages, Signal Processing Theory and Methods, Signal Processing for Communication, Sig- Type of publication nal Processing Architectures, Signal Processing [..] Professional book Fields of interest Circuits and Systems; Software Engineering Due June 2007 Target groups Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, Professors, lecturers, instructors, teachers in col- Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest leges and universities, researchers/scientists (nation- Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. 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P. Elst, MMUG and MindStudio, Belgium; S. Jacobs, USA; T. Yard, G. Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany; B. Opdyke, Motoro- R.H. Enns, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; G.C. Anything is Possible, Australia la, Inc., Schaumburg, IL, USA; D.C. Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, McGuire, University College of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC, Nashville, TN,USA; F. Weil, Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL, USA Canada (Eds.) Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0 Computer Algebra Recipes Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems An Advanced Guide to Scientific Modeling ActionScript 3.0 is a very popular new language for the Flash community to learn, plus it makes ob- 10th International Conference, MoDELS 2007, Nashville, USA, ject-oriented programming mandatory, hence this September 30 - October 5, 2007, Proceedings Modern computer algebra systems are revolution- new edition of the best selling and very highly re- izing the teaching and learning of mathematically garded Object Oriented ActionScript for Flash 8 is intensive subjects in science and engineering, en- doubly important for the community - they are now This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of abling students to explore increasingly complex and forced to adopted OOP methodologies with Action- the 10th International Conference on Model Driven computationally intensive models that provide an- Script 3.0. This book is useful to any Flash devel- Engineering Languages and Systems (formerly the alytic solutions, animated numerical solutions, and oper wanting to improve their skill in ActionScript UML series of conferences), MODELS 2007, held in complex two- and three-dimensional graphic dis- 3.0, whether they use it within Flash 9, or Flex 2. Ob- Nashville, USA, September 30 - October 5, 2007. The plays. This self-contained text benefits from a spiral ject-Oriented ActionScript 3.0 teaches the theory 45 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and se- structure that regularly revisits the general topics of and practice of object-oriented programming (OOP) lected from 158 initial submissions. The papers are graphics, symbolic computation, and numerical sim- with ActionScript 3.0, assuming no serious program- organized in topical sections on Model Transforma- ulation with increasing intricacy at each turn. The ming experience, and delivering enough techniques tion, Modeling Constraints, Meta-Modeling, Consis- text is built around a large number of computer alge- and step by step examples to keep the reader inter- tent Models, Modeling Support, User Interface De- bra worksheets or "recipes" that have been designed ested and help them succeed in their goals. sign, Language Definition, Modeling Methods, Ser- using MAPLE to provide tools for problem solving Features vice and Process Modeling, Model Analysis, Mod- and to stimulate critical thinking. No prior knowl- First book dedicated specifically to objected-orient- eling Process, Aspects, New Language Features, De- edge of MAPLE is assumed. All relevant commands ed application development using ActionScript 3.0 bugging Support and Statecharts. are introduced on a need-to-know basis and are in- New edtion of the best selling and well-respected dexed for easy reference. Each recipe is associated Fields of interest Object-Oriented ActionScript for Flash 8 Big poten- with a scientific model or method and an interesting Software Engineering; Programming Languages, tial market - ActionScript 3 makes object-oriented or amusing story designed to both entertain and [..] Compilers, Interpreters; Simulation and Modeling; methodology mandatory, so all Flash and Flex devel- Management of Computing and Information Sys- Features opers need to learn it, going forwards tems Contains computer algebra worksheets or "recipes" Contents designed using MAPLE; no prior knowledge of Target groups Part I: OOP and Actionscript.- Introduction to MAPLE is assumed; all recipes are included on the Researchers and professionals OOP.- Programming Concepts.- ActionScript 3 CD-ROM enclosed with the book Effective compu- Programming (update to AS3); Part II: Flash OOP tational science text for third- and fourth-year un- Type of publication dergraduates in mathematics, physics, engineering, Guidelines.- Planning.- Project Workflow.- Best Proceedings Practices.- Working with Eclipse (new chapter, tips game theory, and physical chemistry Examples and and tricks of coding in Eclipse); Part III. Core OOP problems provide basis for both self-study and on- Concepts.- Encapsulation.- Classes.- Inheritance.- Due September 2007 line course Polymorphism.- Interfaces.- Design Patterns (update Contents to include State pattern, etc.).- Case Study; Part IV: 2007. XV, 698 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4735) Preface.- Introduction.- The Appetizers.- Phase- Building and Extending A Dynamic Framework.- Softcover Plane Portraits.- The Entrees.- Linear ODE Mod- Framework Overview.- Manager Classes (make more els.- Nonlinear ODE Models.- Linear PDE Models.- generic, creating framework base classes).- UI [..] 80,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-75208-0 Soliton Models.- The Desserts.- Diagnostic Tools for Fields of interest Nonlinear Dynamics.- Simulating ODE and PDE Programming Techniques Models.

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T. Enokido, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan; L. Barolli, Fukuoka E. Ernst, University of Aarhus, Denmark (Ed.) Insitute of Technology, Japan; M. Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univer- sity, Japan (Eds.) ECOOP - Object-Oriented Network-Based Information Programming Systems 21th European Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 30 - August 3, 2007, Proceedings First International Conference, NBIS 2007, Regensburg, Ger- many, September 3-7, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Object-Oriented Pro- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the gramming, ECOOP 2007, held in Berlin, Germany First International Conference on Network-Based in July/August 2007. The 25 revised full papers, pre- Information Systems, NBIS 2007, held in Regens- sented together with 3 invited talks were carefully re- burg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007 in conjunction viewed and selected from a total of 135 final submis- with Dexa 2007. The 55 revised full papers presented sions. The papers are organized in topical sections were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 sub- on types, runtime implementation, empirical stud- missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- ies, programs and predicates, language design, inher- tions on recommender systems, business process / itance and derivation, aspects, as well as language design aspects, mobile commerce, security and e- about language. payment, Web services computing / semantic Web, e-negotiation and agent mediated systems, and issues Fields of interest in Web advertising. Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Fields of interest Logics and Meanings of Programs; Computer Com- Computer Systems Organization and Communi- munication Networks; Management of Computing cation Networks; Computer Communication Net- and Information Systems works; Systems and Data Security; Data Storage Representation; Information Systems Applications Target groups (incl.Internet); e-business and e-commerce Researchers and professionals

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B.K. Ersboll, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby; K.S. Peder- F. Escolano, DCCIA, Spain; M. Vento, DIIE, Italy (Eds.) J. Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, St Ismier, France; P. Shvaiko, Uni- sen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Eds.) versity of Trento, Italy Graph-Based Representations in Image Analysis Pattern Recognition Ontology Matching 15th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2007, Aalborg, Denmark, June 10-24, 2007, Proceedings 6th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop, GbRPR 2007, Ali- cante, Spain, June 11-13, 2007, Proceedings Ontologies tend to be found everywhere. They are viewed as the silver bullet for many applications, such as database integration, peer-to-peer systems, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the e-commerce, semantic web services, or social net- 15th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, 6th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop on Graph- works. However, in open or evolving systems, such SCIA 2007, held in Aalborg, Denmark in June 2007. Based Representations in Pattern Recognition, GbR- as the semantic web, different parties would, in gen- The 66 revised full papers and 33 revised poster pa- PR 2007, held in Alicante, Spain in June 2007. The eral, adopt different ontologies. Thus, merely using pers presented were carefully reviewed and selected 23 revised full papers and 14 revised poster papers ontologies, like using XML, does not reduce hetero- from 228 submissions. The papers are organized in presented were carefully reviewed and selected from geneity: it just raises heterogeneity problems to a topical sections on computer vision, 2D and 3D re- 54 submissions. The papers are organized in topi- higher level. Euzenat and Shvaiko’s book is devoted construction, classification and segmentation, medical sections on matching, distances and measures, to ontology matching as a solution to the semantic cal and biological applications, appearance and shape graph-based segmentation and image processing, heterogeneity problem faced by computer systems. modeling, face detection, tracking and recognition, graph-based clustering, graph representations, pyra- Ontology matching aims at finding correspondences motion analysis, feature extraction and object recog- mids, combinatorial maps and homologies, as well as between semantically related entities of different nition. graph clustering, embedding and learning. ontologies. These correspondences may stand for Fields of interest equivalence as well as other relations, such as conse- Fields of interest Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern quence, subsumption, or disjointness, between on- Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Comput- Recognition; Computer Graphics tology entities. Many different matching solutions er Vision; Computer Graphics; Discrete Mathemat- have been proposed so far from various viewpoints, Target groups ics in Computer Science; Data Structures; Artificial e.g., databases, information systems, artificial [..] Researchers and professionals Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Features Type of publication Target groups First state-of-the-art overview of techniques applica- Proceedings Researchers and professionals ble to database schema matching and semantic web applications Summarizes research from database, in- Type of publication Due June 2007 formation systems, and artificial intelligence com- Proceedings munities Uniquely combines theoretical foundations with practical application perspectives 2007. XVIII, 989 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Due May 2007 puter Science, Vol. 4522) Softcover Contents Part I.- The Matching Problem.- Applications.- The 99,00 € 2007. XII, 416 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Matching Problem.- Part II.- Ontology Matching ISBN 978-3-540-73039-2 er Science, Vol. 4538) Softcover Techniques.- Classifications of Ontology Matching 56,00 € Techniques.- Basic Techniques.- Matching Strate- ISBN 978-3-540-72902-0 gies.- Part III.- Systems and Evaluation.- Overview of Matching Systems.- Evaluation of Matching Sys- tems.- Part IV.- Representing, Explaining, and Pro- cessing Alignments.- Frameworks and Formats: Rep- resenting Alignments.- Explaining Alignments.- Processing Alignments.- Part V.- Conclusions.- Ap- pendix.- Bibliography.

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J. Farley, North Reading, MA, USA M. Fasli, University of Essex, Colchester, UK; O. Shehory, IBM- J. Feller, University College Cork, Ireland; B. Fitzgerald, University Haifa Research Lab, Israel (Eds.) of Limerick, Ireland; W. Scacchi, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA; A. Sillitti, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy (Eds.) Practical JBoss Seam Projects Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Automated Negotiation Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation The only viable alternative to the most popular and and Strategy Design for Electronic adopted open source and lightweight enterprise Ja- Markets IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software, June va-based Spring Framework, JBoss Seam is the up 11-14, 2007, Limerick, Ireland and coming challenger to Spring. JBoss Seam offers Automated Negotiation and Strategy Design for Electronic more adherences to Java EE 5 standards than does Markets. AAMAS 2006 Workshop, TADA/AMEC 2006, Hako- Spring, and is a key selling point to many prospec- date, Japan, May 9, 2006, Selected and Revised Papers Open source software (free software) has emerged as tive Seam developers and users. The first and only a major field of scientific inquiry across a number of book of its kind, Practical JBoss Seam Web 2.0 De- disciplines. When the concept of open source began velopment, is a series of practical application sce- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- to gain mindshare in the global business community, narios which demonstrates the nature of the new proceedings of the joint International Workshops decision makers faced a challenge: to convert hype open source lightweight Java EE 5 (JSF-EJB3)-stan- on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, TADA 2006, and potential into sustainable profit and viable busi- dards based JBoss Seam framework, its efficacy and and on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, ness models. This volume addresses this challenge its limitations. The scenarios/cases will be chosen AMEC VIII 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan, in May through presenting some of the newest, extensively to demonstrate specific elements of the framework 2006 as an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the peer-reviewed research in the area. (e.g., basic web application development, rich web 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous clients with AJAX, etc.). Real-world cases will be Agents and Multiagent Systems. The 17 revised full Features used where possible. papers presented were carefully selected from the Most up-to-date research from established conference series on Open Source Software Features presentations made at the workshop and include papers from the annual TAC tournament whose pur- First and only practical projects-based book on the Contents up and coming open source lightweight Java EE 5 pose is to stimulate research in trading agents and market mechanisms by providing a platform for Open Source Collaboration for Fostering Off-the- JSF-EJB3-standards based framework – JBoss Seam Shelf Components Selection.- Project Entity Match- Written by enterprise Java expert luminary and au- agents competing in well-defined market scenarios. The papers address a mix of both theoretical and ing across FLOSS Repositories.- Exploring the Effects thor, Jim Farley Real-world applications/cases like of Coordination and Communication Tools on the PayPal will be used practical issues in trading agent design and technologies, theoretical and empirical evaluation of strate- Efficiency of Open Source Projects using Data En- velopment Analysis.- Corporate Involvement of Li- Contents gies in complex trading scenarios as well as mecha- bre Software: Study of Presence in Debian Code over 1. Introduction.- 2. Installation/Configuration.- 3. nism design. Also covered are issues of agent-medi- Time.- OpenBQR: a framework for the assessment of Component Fundamentals.- 4. Structured Page- ated electronic commerce ranging from the design of OSS.- EDOS Distribution System: A P2P architecture flow/BPM.- 5. 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J. Feng, Warwick University, Coventry, UK; J. Jost, Max Planck In- B. Fernández-Manjón, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain; M.A.R. Ferreira, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA; H.K.H. stitute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; M. J.M. Sánchez-Pérez, Universidad Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain; Lee, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA Qian, Peking University, Beijing, China (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 Networks: From Biology to Theory al, Spain (Eds.) A Bayesian Perspective Computers and Education After over a century of research, we still do not understand the principle by which a stimulus, such as E-learning, From Theory to Practice A wide variety of processes occur on multiple scales, an odour or a sound, is represented by distributed either naturally or as a consequence of measurement. neural ensembles within the brain; by which an indi- This book contains methodology for the analysis of data that arise from such multiscale processes. vidual is developed by the control of gene networks. This book contains a selection of contributions pre- The book brings together a number of recent devel- While past studies have made detailed analysis of resenting the latest research in the field of Computers opments and makes them accessible to a wider au- sponse profiles of single cells and the properties of in Education and, more specifically, in E-Learning. dience. Taking a Bayesian approach allows for full a single gene in isolation, such techniques and ap- The topics covered range from proposals regarding accounting of uncertainty, and also addresses the proaches cannot easily address holistic issues of how the newest "de facto" standards in E-Learning - such delicate issue of uncertainty at multiple scales. The large ensembles of neurons and genes can integrate as IMS Learning Design - to the more practical as- Bayesian approach also facilitates the use of knowl- information both spatially and temporally. There is pects of the design, i.e. implementations and the ac- edge from prior experience or data, and these meth- little doubt that much of the info processing power tual application of educational tools in real settings. ods can handle different amounts of prior knowledge of the brain or a gene network resides in the activities The volume reflects the diverse scenario of the appli- at different scales, as often occurs in practice. of co-operating and competing networks of neurons cation of computers in the educational field by de- and genes and that if we unlock the principles where- scribing previous experiences and addressing some Features by info is encoded and processed within these net- of the present key issues such as Learning Manage- Stochastic models for processes that live and can works as a whole, rather than within single neurones ment Systems as well as more innovative aspects possibly be observed at different levels of resolution or genes in isolation, we may be able to understand such as personalized or ubiquitous learning. 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Our book will smoothness of the stochastic processes at the dif- contribute to the [..] Features ferent levels of resolution The statistical analysis of A discussion of Educational Modelling Languages multiscale models based on the Bayesian paradigm Features Contains E-learning Standards Contains experiences in the book allow a full amount of uncertainty Con- The first book in this rapidly evolving area, covering of e-learning in real settings mathematical theory and applications of mathemat- tains implicit multiscale models implementable with ical theory to biology A true interdisciplinary book Fields of interest [..] with contributors from biology, computer science, Computers and Education; Educational Technology Contents physics and mathematics Contributors are leading Introduction.-Models for Spatial Data.-Illustrative experts in their own fields, but with a common in- Target groups Example.-Convolution Methods.-Wavelet Meth- terest Serves as a foundation to artificial intelligence Teachers and researchers involved in the field of ods.-Overview on Explicit Multiscale Models.-Gaus- (neuroinformatics) Computers in Education and more specifically in e- learning. sian Multiscale Models on Trees.-Hidden Markov Contents Models on Trees.-Mass Balanced Multiscale Mod- Introduction.- Part I: Theory.- The Category of Type of publication els on Trees.-Multiscale Random Fields.-Multi- X-Nets.- Networks with Delays.- Dynamical Net- Contributed volume scale Time Series.-Change of Support Models.-Im- works.- Part II: Applications in Neuroscience.- Neu- plicit Computationally-Linked Model Overview.- ronal Computation Using High Order Statistics.- Due August 2007 Metropolis-Coupled Methods.-Genetic Algo- Neuronal Model of Decision Making.- Estimation rithms.-Soil Permeability Estimation.-Single Photon of Spike Train Statistics in Spontaneously Active Bi- Emission Computed Tomography Example.-Conclu- 2007. Approx. 250 p. Hardcover ological neural Networks.- Physiology and Related sions. Models of Associative Visual Processing.- Gestalt 94,95 € Fields of interest Formation in a Competitive Layered Neural Archi- ISBN 978-1-4020-4913-2 Statistical Theory and Methods; Simulation and tecture.- Part III: Applications in Bioinformatics.- Modeling; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Regulatory Signals in Genomic Sequences.- Dynam- Quantitative Geography; Econometrics ic Properties of Cell-cycle and Life-cycle networks in [..] Target groups Practitioners, researchers, graduate students Fields of interest Computer Communication Networks; Bioinformat- Type of publication ics Monograph Target groups Final year undergraduates, graduates, researchers Due August 2007

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J.L. Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, UK; P.-Y. Schobbens, Faculté S. Fienberg, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J. Filipe, INSTICC/EST Setúbal, Portugal; J.-L. Ferrier, University Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium (Eds.) of Angers, France; J.A. Cetto, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain; M. Carvalho, INSTICC, Setúbal, Portugal (Eds.) The Analysis of Cross-Classified Recent Trends in Algebraic Categorical Data Development Techniques Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics II 18th International Workshop, WADT 2006, La Roche en Ar- denne, Belgium, June 1-3, 2006, Revised Selected Papers A variety of biological and social science data come in the form of cross-classified tables of counts, commonly referred to as contingency tables. Until recent Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics II is a collection of the best papers presented at the 2nd This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- years the statistical and computational techniques International Conference on Informatics in Control, proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on available for the analysis of cross-classified data were Automation and Robotics (ICINCO). The purpose of Algebraic Development Techniques, WADT 2006, quite limited. This book presents some of the recent ICINCO was to bring together researchers, engineers held in La Roche en Ardenne, Belgium, in June 2006. work on the statistical analysis of cross-classified da- and practitioners interested in the application of in- The 10 revised full papers presented were careful- ta using longlinear models, especially in the multidi- formatics to Control, Automation and Robotics. The ly selected during two rounds of reviewing and im- mensional situation. research papers focused on real world applications, provement. The papers focus on the algebraic ap- Features covering three main themes: Intelligent Control Sys- proach to the specification and development of sys- Originally published in 1980, this book has sold tems, Optimization, Robotics and Automation and tems and address topics such as formal methods more than 10,000 copies Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control. for system development, specification languages Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas and methods, systems and techniques for reasoning Contents of Control, Automation and Robotics. This book will about specifications, specification development sys- Introduction.- Two-dimensional tables.- Three-di- be of interest to professionals working on the con- tems, methods and techniques for concurrent, dis- mensional tables.- Selection of a model.- Four- and trol and robotics area, especially those who need to tributed and mobile systems, and algebraic and co- higher-dimensional contingency tables.- Fixed mar- maintain knowledge about current trends in devel- algebraic foundations. gins and logit models.- Causal analysis involving log- opment methods and applications. it and loglinear models.- Fixed and random zeroes. Fields of interest Features Logics and Meanings of Programs; Mathematical Fields of interest Gives a survey of recent developments in the applica- Logic and Formal Languages; Software Engineering; Statistical Theory and Methods tion of information technologies to the robotics area Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation Target groups Contents Target groups Researchers, students From the contents Preface. Conference Committee. Researchers and professionals Invited Speakers. Invited Papers.- Part 1 - Intelligent Type of publication control systems and optimization.- Part 2 - Robotics Type of publication Monograph Proceedings and automation.- Part 3 - Signal processing, systems modeling and control.- Author Index. Due July 2007 Due April 2007 Fields of interest Computer Science, general; Automation and Originally published by Wiley-Interscience, 2002 2007. VII, 171 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Robotics; Control Structures and Microprogram- er Science, Vol. 4409) Softcover ming 2007. XIV, 202 p. Softcover 42,00 € Target groups ISBN 978-3-540-71997-7 39,95 € Researchers and developers in the areas of Automa- ISBN 978-0-387-72824-7 tion, Control and Robotics

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J. Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal/INSTICC, Portugal; J. M. Fischetti, University of Padova, Italy; D.P. Williamson, Cornell F.H.P. Fitzek, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark; M.D. Katz, Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal/INSTICC, Portugal; V. University, Ithaca, NY, USA (Eds.) VTT, Finland (Eds.) Pedrosa, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal/INSTICC, Portugal (Eds.) Integer Programming and Cognitive Wireless Networks Web Information Systems and Combinatorial Optimization Concepts, Methodologies and Visions Inspiring the Age of En- Technologies lightenment of Wireless Communications 12th International IPCO Conference, Ithaca, NY, USA, June International Conferences WEBIST 2005 and WEBIST 2006, Re- 25-27, 2007, Proceedings vised Selected Papers In the Age of Enlightenment the German philoso- pher Immanuel Kant encouraged people to use their This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of own mind as the basis for reasoning instead of fol- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- the 12th International Conference on Integer Pro- lowing dogmatic religious rules - Sapere aude! (dare proceedings of the 1st and 2nd International Con- gramming and Combinatorial Optimization, IPCO to know!) - Today wireless communication networks ference on Web Information Systems and Technolo- 2007, held in Ithaca, NY, USA, in June 2007. The 36 are increasingly becoming aware of the conditions gies, WEBIST 2005 and 2006, held in Miami, FL, revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed of its their component parts and surrounding envi- USA, and Setubal, Portugal, respectively. The 30 re- and selected from over 120 submissions. Among the ronment. Cognition, a continuous process involv- vised full papers presented in this volume were care- topics addressed are approximation algorithms, algo- ing sensing, reasoning, understanding and reacting, fully reviewed and selected from more than 300 sub- rithmic game theory, branch and bound algorithms, can be applied to wireless networks in order to adapt missions overall. In addition, three keynote presen- branch and cut algorithms, computational biology, the system to the highly dynamic wireless ecosystem. tations are also included. The papers address all rel- computational complexity, computational geom- The ultimate goals are to enhance the efficiency in evant aspects of web information systems technolo- etry, cutting plane algorithms, diophantine equa- the use of radio resources as well as to improve both gies and applications and are grouped into four parts tions, geometry of numbers, graph and network al- link and network performance. This book presents about internet technology; web interfaces and appli- gorithms, integer programming, matroids and sub- a detailed overview of a rapidly emerging topic in cations; society, e-business and e-government; and e- modular functions, on-line algorithms and competi- modern communications: cognitive wireless net- learning. tive analysis, polyhedral combinatorics, randomized works. The key aspects of cognitive and cooperative algorithms, random graphs, scheduling theory and principles in wireless networks are discussed in this Contents scheduling algorithms, as well as semidefinite pro- book. Furthermore, Cognitive Wireless Networks Invited Papers - Part 1: Internet Technology - Part 2: grams. Web Interfaces and Applications - Part 3: Society, E- advocates the concept of breaking up the cellular [..] Business and E-Government - Part 4: E-Learning. Fields of interest Features Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science; Nu- Contains “hot” topics and emerging research con- Fields of interest meric Computing; Algorithm Analysis and Problem cepts First volume mostly dealt with rather well stud- e-business and e-commerce; Information Systems; Complexity; Computer Graphics Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); ied (but new) concepts This second volume focuses Computer Applications Target groups on upcoming ideas and technologies, some of them Researchers and professionals already hot topics and some of them clearly becom- Target groups ing the hot topics of the future Researchers and libraries Type of publication Proceedings Contents Type of publication Part I: Introductory Chapter. Part II: Cooperative Proceedings Networks: Social, Operational and Communicational Due June 2007 Aspects. Part III: Cognitive Networks. Part IV: Mar- Due August 2007 rying Cooperation and Cognition in Wireless Net- 2007. IX, 500 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer works. Part V: Methodologies and Tools. Part VI: Vi- Science, Vol. 4513) Softcover sions, Prospects and Emerging Technologies. Index. 2007. XIII, 422 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Process- ing, Vol. 1) Softcover 64,00 € Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-72791-0 56,00 € Communications Engineering, Networks; Com- ISBN 978-3-540-74062-9 puter Communication Networks; Computer Sys- tems Organization and Communication Networks; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering

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W. Fokkink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands G. Fouche, Dallas, TX, USA; T. Nash, Cambridge Silicon Radio, E. Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy; M. Kifer, State Plano, TX, USA University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA; W. May, Georg- August-Universität Göttingen, Germany (Eds.) Modelling Distributed Systems Accelerated VB 2005 The Semantic Web: Research and Applications A distributed system is driven by separate components that are executed in parallel, and protocols for This book provides the fastest path to VB expertise 4th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2007, Inns- such systems form a major aspect of system design for programmers transitioning to VB from anoth- bruck, Austria, June 3-7, 2007, Proceedings in today’s world of wireless and mobile network- er object-oriented language. It quickly brings expe- ing. Process algebras are languages for the descrip- rienced Java, C#, and C++ programmers to a high tion of elementary parallel systems and are used to level of proficiency in VB. It also provides in-depth This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of study the behavioural properties of distributed sys- advice on the wise use of VB to exploit the power of the 4th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC tems, but they often lack the ability to handle da- the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). Fur- 2007, held in Innsbruck, Austria, in June 2007. The ta. This textbook guides students through algebraic ther, any VB programmer, at any experience level, 46 revised full papers presented together with 4 in- specification and verification of distributed systems, will find this book enlightening. It carefully describes vited talks and 10 system descriptions were careful- and some of the most prominent formal verification how VB works, discusses the most important issues ly reviewed and selected from a total of 278 submit- techniques. The author employs µCRL as the vehi- for professional VB coding, and demonstrates with ted papers. The papers are organized in topical sec- cle, a language developed to combine process algebra precise examples how to design and code effective tions on semantic Web services, ontology learning, and abstract data types. Chapters 2 and 3 explain the VB programs. Despite its depth, its succinctness and inference and mapping, case studies, social semantic basics of abstract data types and process algebra, and clarity make it appropriate for anyone familiar with Web, ontologies: requirements and analysis, person- guide the reader through the syntax and semantics any object-oriented language. Readers will rapidly alization, foundations of the semantic Web, natural of µCRL; Chap. 4 examines abstraction from internal become highly proficient in VB by learning how to languages and ontologies, applications, querying and behaviour; Chap. 5 covers specifications of standard do things the right way, right from the start. Web data models, as well as system descriptions. protocols; Chap. 6 shows how to transform protocol specifications into labelled [..] Features Rapidly brings readers to a high level of VB 2005 ex- Fields of interest Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Features pertise Provides succinct, comprehensive, in-depth Computer Communication Networks; Software En- Explains process algebra and protocol specification coverage of VB 2005 Presents advanced concepts so gineering; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; using µCRL, a language developed to combine pro- clearly even novices can understand them Information Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intelli- cess algebra and abstract data types Contents gence (incl. Robotics) Contents VB Basics.- VB and the CLR.- VB Syntax Overview.- Target groups Introduction.- Abstract Data Types.- Process Alge- Classes and Structures.- Interfaces.- Operator Over- Researchers and professionals bra.- Hiding Internal Transitions.- Protocol Specifi- loading.- Exception Handling and Exception Safe- ty.- Working with Strings.- Arrays and Collection cations.- Linear Process Equations.- Verification Al- Type of publication Types.- Generics.- Delegates, Anonymous Functions, gorithms on State Spaces.- Symbolic Methods.- The Proceedings µCRL Toolset in a Nutshell.- Solutions to Exercis- and Events.- Threading.- VB Canonical Forms. es.-References.- Index. Fields of interest Due May 2007 Fields of interest Programming Techniques Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Logics 2007. XVIII, 830 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- and Meanings of Programs; Symbolic and Algebra- Target groups puter Science, Vol. 4519) Softcover ic Manipulation; Software Engineering; Theory of Any programmers transitioning to VB and experi- Computation enced VB programmers seeking to improve program 87,00 € quality and programming technique ISBN 978-3-540-72666-1 Target groups Undergraduate and graduate computer science stu- Type of publication dents; researchers Professional book

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R. Franklin, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, M. Friend, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA; N. Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; M. Lalmas, Uni- USA; A. Mills, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA (Eds.) N.B. Goethe, National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina; versity of London, UK; A. Trotman, University of Otago, New V.S. Harizanov, George Washington University, Washington, DC, Zealand (Eds.) USA (Eds.) The Spatial Distribution of Microbes in the Environment Comparative Evaluation of XML Induction, Algorithmic Learning Information Retrieval Systems Theory, and Philosophy 5th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2006 Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, De- Features cember 17-20, 2006 Revised and Selected Papers Attempts to address issues of scale of microbes jux- This is the first book to collect essays from philoso- taposed with the footprint of their activities on the phers, mathematicians and computer scientists working at the exciting interface of algorithmic landscape Includes discussion of fungi in soils and This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- learning theory and the epistemology of science and planktonic microorganisms in water in an attempt to proceedings of the 5th International Workshop of inductive inference. Readable, introductory essays reconcile differences in scale of those organisms to the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, provide engaging surveys of different, complemen- their activity footprint Provides a primer on quanti- INEX 2006, held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in tary, and mutually inspiring approaches to the top- tative methods used to evaluate scale issues and dis- December 2006. The 49 revised full papers presented ic, both from a philosophical and a mathematical tributions in an effort to allow readers to [..] were carefully selected for presentation at the work- viewpoint. Building upon this base, subsequent pa- shop and went through a subsequent round of care- Contents pers present novel extensions of algorithmic learning ful reviewing and revision. The papers are organized Contributing Authors. Preface. Acknowledgements. theory as well as bold, new applications to tradition- in topical sections on methodology, and 7 addition- Introduction; Franklin, R.B., Mills, A.L. Statistical al issues in epistemology and the philosophy of sci- al tracks on ad-hoc, natural language processing, het- Analysis of Spatial Structure in Microbial Communi- ence. The volume is vital reading for students and re- erogeneous collection, multimedia, interactive, use ties; Franklin, R.B., Mills, A.L. Bacterial Interactions searchers seeking a fresh, truth-directed approach to case, as well as document mining. at the Microscale - Linking Habitat to Function In the philosophy of science and induction, epistemolo- Soil; Nunan N., Young, I.M, Crawford, J.W., Ritz, gy, logic, and statistics. Fields of interest K. Spatial Distribution of Bacteria at the Microscale Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Sys- Features In Soil; Dechesne, A., Pallud, C., Grundmann, G.L. tems Applications (incl.Internet); Database Manage- Only book to combine philosophy essays with tech- Analysis Of Spatial Patterns Of Rhizoplane Colo- ment nization; Knudsen, G.R., Dandurand, L.-M. Micro- nical essays on algorithmic learning theory Invalu- bial Distributions And Their Potential Controlling able for the reflective computer scientist or the math- Target groups Factors In Terrestrial [..] ematician/logician interested in modelling learning Researchers and professionals Deepens the argument and debate about mathemati- Fields of interest cally modelling learning No-one with a serious inter- Type of publication Microbial Ecology; Statistics for Engineering, est in the philosophy of science can afford to ignore Proceedings Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry & Geo- this development Refracts the classical problem of sciences; Biogeosciences [..] Due August 2007 Target groups Contents Graduate students and scientists in the area of mi- 1. Introduction to the Philosophy and Mathe- 2007. XII, 554 p. Also available online. 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P.W. Gaffney, Bergen Software Services International AS, Norway; A. Gagalowicz, INRIA Rocquencourt, Le Chesnay Cedex, France; A.I. Galushkin, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dol- J.C.T. Pool, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA (Eds.) W. Philips, University of Ghent, Belgium (Eds.) goprudniy, Moskva Region, Russia

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M. Ganai, NEC Labs America, Princeton, NJ, USA; A. Gupta, NEC V.G. Ganzha, TU München, Germany; E.W. Mayr, TU München, J. Garay, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA; A.K. Lenstra, EPFL IC LA- Labs America, Princeton, NJ, USA Germany; E.V. Vorozhtsov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosi- CAL, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; M. Mambo, University birsk, Russia (Eds.) of Tsukuba, Japan; R. Peralta, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA (Eds.) SAT-Based Scalable Formal Verification Solutions Computer Algebra in Scientific Information Security Conference Computing 10th International Conference, ISC 2007, Valparaiso, Chile, October 9-12, 2007, Proceedings 10th International Workshop, CASC 2007, Bonn, Germany, Functional verification has become an important as- September 16-20, 2007, Proceedings pect of the chip design process. Significant resources, both in industry and academia, are devoted to the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Secu- design complexity and verification endeavors. SAT- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the rity Conference, ISC 2007, held in Valparaiso, Chile, Based Scalable Formal Verification Solutions dis- 10th International Workshop on Computer Algebra October 9-12, 2007. The 28 revised full papers pre- cusses in detail several of the latest and interesting in Scientific Computing, CASC 2007, held in Bonn, sented were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 scalable SAT-based techniques including: Hybrid Germany, in September 2007. The volume is dedicat- submissions. The topics include Intrusion Detection, SAT Solver, Customized Bounded/Unbounded Mod- ed to Professor Vladimir P. Gerdt on the occasion of Digital Rights Management, Symmetric-Key Cryp- el Checking, Distributed Model Checking, Proofs his 60th birthday. The 35 revised full papers present- tography, Cryptographic Protocols and Schemes, and Proof-based Abstraction Methods, Verification ed were carefully reviewed and selected from numer- Identity-Based Schemes, Cryptanalysis, DoS Protec- of Embedded Memory System & Multi-clock ous submissions for inclusion in the book. The pa- tion, Software Obfuscation, Public-Key Cryptosys- Systems, and Synthesis for Verification Paradigm. pers cover not only various expanding applications tems, Elliptic Curves and Applications and Security These techniques have been designed and imple- of computer algebra to scientific computing but al- Issues in Databases. mented in a verification platform Verisol (formally so the computer algebra systems themselves and the called DiVer) and have been used successfully in in- CA algorithms. Topics addressed are studies in poly- Fields of interest dustry. This book provides algorithmic details and nomial and matrix algebra, quantifier elimination, engineering insights into devising scalable approach- Data Encryption; Operating Systems; Algorithm and Gröbner bases, as well as stability investigation Analysis and Problem Complexity; Computer Com- es for an effective realization. It also includes the au- of both differential equations and difference methods thors’ practical experiences and recommendations munication Networks; Special Purpose and Applica- for them. Several papers are devoted to the application-Based Systems in verifying the large industry designs using VeriSol. tion of computer algebra methods and algorithms to The [..] the derivation of new mathematical models in biolo- Target groups gy and in mathematical physics. Features Researchers and professionals Describes SAT-based model checking approaches Fields of interest Type of publication and gives engineering details on what makes model Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation; Program- Proceedings checking practical Techniques covered can be syner- ming Techniques; Discrete Mathematics in Comput- gistically combined into a scalabe solution Focuses er Science; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Com- Due September 2007 on engineering design and not mathematics plexity; Math Applications in Computer Science; Al- gorithms Contents 2007. XIII, 437 p.Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Design Verification Challenges.- Background.- Part Target groups er Science, Vol. 4779) Softcover I: Basic Infrastructure.- Efficient Boolean Represen- Researchers and professionals tation.- Hybrid DPLL-Style SAT Solver.- Part II: Fal- 56,00 € sification.- SAT-Based Bounded Model Checking.- Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-75495-4 Distributed SAT-Based BMC.- Efficient Memory Proceedings Modeling in BMC.- BMC for Multi-Clock Systems.- Part III: Proof Methods.- Proof by Induction.- Un- Due September 2007 bounded Model Checking.- Part IV: Abstraction/Re- finement.- Proof-Based Iterative Abstraction.- Part V: Verification Procedure.- SAT-Based Verification 2007. XIII, 460 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4770) Framework.- Synthesis for Verification. Softcover 60,00 € Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-75186-1 Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and De- sign; Circuits and Systems; Electronic and Computer Engineering

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C.S. Garbe, University of Heidelberg, Germany; R.A. Handler, M. Gasperi, Racine, WI, USA; P. Hurbain, France; I. Hurbain, France E. Gaudin, É. Najm, R. Reed (Eds.) Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA; B. Jähne, Uni- versity of Heidelberg, Germany (Eds.) Extreme NXT SDL 2007: Design for Dependable

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, Vol. 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- 48,00 € 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, Vol. 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- 42,00 € 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, Vol. 4710) Softcover Target groups 2007. XXIV, 1205 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in puter Science, Vol. 4707) Softcover 38,00 € Fuzziness ISBN 978-3-540-74963-9 111,00 € 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. The topics of the refereed papers are structured according to the five refereed papers are structured according to the five major conference themes: computational methods, major conference themes: computational methods, This book constitutes the refereed joint proceed- algorithms and applications high performance tech- algorithms and applications high performance tech- ings of seven workshops on evolutionary computing, nical computing and networks advanced and emerg- nical computing and networks advanced and emerg- EvoWorkshops 2007, held in Valencia, Spain in April ing applications geometric modelling, graphics and ing applications geometric modelling, graphics and 2007. The 55 revised full papers and 24 revised short visualization information systems and information visualization information systems and information papers presented were carefully reviewed and select- technologies. technologies. ed from a total of 160 submissions. In accordance with the seven workshops covered, the papers are or- Fields of interest Fields of interest ganized in topical sections on evolutionary compu- Theory of Computation; Software Engineering/Pro- Theory of Computation; Software Engineering/Pro- tation in communications, networks, and connected gramming and Operating Systems; Numeric Com- gramming and Operating Systems; Numeric Com- systems, evolutionary computation in finance and puting; Information Systems and Communication puting; Information Systems and Communication economics, evolutionary computation in image anal- Service; Simulation and Modeling; Computer Imag- Service; Simulation and Modeling; Computer Imag- ysis and signal processing, interactive evolution and ing, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics ing, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics humanized computational intelligence, evolutionary music and art, evolutionary algorithms in stochastic Target groups Target groups and dynamic environments, as well as evolutionary Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals computation in transportation and logistics. 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R. Giancarlo, University of Palermo, Italy; S. Hannenhalli, Universi- W.J. Gilmore, Columbus, OH, USA; B. Bryla, Lands’ End, ISBN 978-1-59059-770-5 tyof Pennsylvania, PA, USA (Eds.) Dodgeville, WI, USA

Algorithms in Bioinformatics Beginning PHP and Oracle

7th International Workshop, WABI 2007, Philadelphia, PA, From Novice to Professional USA, September 8-9, 2007, Proceedings

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, Vol. 4476) Softcover Information and Communication, Technologies and trade and banking business. the European Union: Policy Links.- Embedding Pro- 48,00 € 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- 29,90 € 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 I. Greenberg, OH, USA C. Grosan, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj - Napoca, Romania; A. Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; H. Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers Processing Osaka, Japan (Eds.)

Creative Coding and Computational Art Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms Flash still remains a huge market area, and in 2007, Adobe released Flash CS3, which boasts a whole host Processing (http://processing.org/) is a programming of new features, for Flash designers to get excited language and environment aimed at artists, design- Hybridization of evolutionary algorithms is getting about. This book is a design-slanted guide, aimed at ers, and other creative professionals and students ex- popular due to their capabilities in handling sever- giving aspiring Flash designers a solid grounding in ploring code art and graphics programming — the al real world problems involving complexity, noisy the new version, as well as giving established Flash same kind of audience that friends of ED’s "Flash environment, imprecision, uncertainty and vague- designers a clear look over the new flash CS3 fea- Math Creativity" title had. The book provides a sol- ness. This edited volume is targeted to present the tures. It features real world examples throughout, id foundation in basic programming, so no previ- latest state-of-the-art methodologies in “Hybrid Evo- presented in an accessible, friendly tutorial style. ous coding experience is necessary, but enough ad- lutionary Algorithms”. This book deals with the the- Features vanced techniques and artistic theory are covered oretical and methodological aspects, as well as vari- No other beginner's Flash CS3 guide is specifical- for it to appeal to programmers learning art, as well ous applications to many real world problems from ly aimed at designers, which is the audience Adobe as more artistic types getting into programming. science, technology, business or commerce. This vol- seem to be trying to aim Flash CS3 at, more than de- Processing has a growing user base (currently over ume comprises of 14 chapters including an intro- velopers Friends of ED has a proven track record in 60,000,) there were numerous talks on it at all this ductory chapter giving the fundamental definitions producing quality Flash books Written by renowned year’s Flash conferences, and it is all set to hit the big and some important research challenges. Chapters Flash designers Tom Green and David Stiller time with the release of version 1.0 (it is currently were selected on the basis of fundamental ideas/con- at 0.91 beta.) It is open source, so provides a free al- cepts rather than the thoroughness of techniques de- Contents ternative to programs such as Flash. This is going to ployed. The Flash Interface.- Graphics in Flash.- Symbols be the first Processing book on the market. We have and Libraries.- Audio in Flash.- Text in Flash.- Ani- links with the creators of Processing, Ben Fry and Features mation in Flash.- Video in Flash.- ActionScript Ba- Casey Reas, and they are really [..] Reports recent research results on Hybrid Evolution- sics.- Building Interfaces with the Flash UI Compo- ary Algorithms nents.- CSS and Flash.- Dynamic Data (XML) and Features Contents Flash.- Flash Mobile.- Optimization.- Publishing. First Processing book on the market Processing is a nascent technology rapidly increasing in populari- Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms: Methodologies, Fields of interest ty Links with the creators of Processing will help sell Architectures and Reviews.- Quantum-Inspired Evo- Programming Techniques the book lutionary Algorithm for Numerical Optimization.- Enhanced Evolutionary Algorithms for Multidisci- Target groups Contents plinary Design Optimization: a Control Engineer- Beginner to intermediate aspiring Flash designers Introduction.- Section I. Foundation: Code Art.- ing Perspective.- Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms and Established Flash designers who want to get to Creative Coding.- Code Grammar 101.- Graph- and Clustering Search.- A Novel Hybrid Algorithm grips with the new features of Flash 9, and Flash de- ics Programming the "fun easy" Way.- Processing for Function Optimization: Particle Swarm Assisted velopers who want to improve their Flash design Language.- Section II. Drawing with Code: Lines.- Incremental Evolution Strategy.- An Efficient Near- skills Shapes.- Value and Color.- Section III. Animating est Neighbor Classifier.- Hybrid Genetic - Particle with Code: Motion.- Section IV. Interacting with Swarm Optimization Algorithm.- A Hybrid Genet- Type of publication Code: Interactivity.- Section V. The third Dimen- ic Algorithm and Bacterial Foraging Approach for Professional book sion: 3D.- Section VI. Exploring with Code: Ad- Global [..] vanced Motion.- Emergent Forms.- Artificial Intelli- Due August 2007 gence.- Section VII. Extending Processing: Core Li- Fields of interest braries. Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Distribution rights for Hongkong, Taiwan, RepKor, Singapore, Fields of interest Malays, Thail, Indone, Philip, Vietn, Brunei, Myan: Transquest Programming Techniques Target groups Publishers Pte Ltd. For Israel: Com.Books Ltd. For Jordan, Irak, Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in Oman, Qatar, Palestine: Jordan Book Center Target groups computational intelligence Beginner graphic designers and fine artists 2007. 600 p. Softcover that want to pick up processing and use it to start Type of publication creating their art using code, and already experi- Monograph ISBN 978-1-59059-861-0 enced programmers who want to pick up processing fast Due September 2007

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O. Grumberg, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; M. E. Grädel, RWTH Aachen, Germany; P.G. Kolaitis, IBM Almaden N. Guelfi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; D. Buchs, Uni- Huth, Imperial College London, UK (Eds.) 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 Tools and Algorithms for the University, Houston, TX, USA; Y. Venema, University of Amster- Rapid Integration of Software dam, The Netherlands; S. Weinstein, University of Pennsylvania, Construction and Analysis of Philadelphia, PA, USA Engineering Techniques Systems Third International Workshop, RISE 2006, Geneva, Switzer- land, September 13-15, 2006. Revised Selected Papers 13th International Conference, TACAS 2007 Held as Part of the Finite Model Theory and Its Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Soft- Applications ware, ETAPS 2007 Braga, Portugal, March 24 - April 1, 2007 Proceedings This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- proceedings of the Third International Workshop This book gives a broad overview of core topics of on Rapid Integration of Software Engineering Tech- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the finite model theory: expressive power, descriptive niques, RISE 2006, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 13th International Conference on Tools and Algo- complexity, and zero-one laws, together with select- September 2006. The 10 revised full papers present- rithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, ed applications to database theory and artificial ined together with 1 invited paper went through two TACAS 2007, held in Braga, Portugal in March/April telligence, especially constraint databases and con- rounds of reviewing and improvement and were se- 2007 as part of ETAPS 2007, the European Joint straint satisfaction problems. The final chapter pro- lected from 30 initial submissions. The papers cov- Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. vides a concise modern introduction to modal logic, er a wide spectrum in software engineering with top- The 45 revised full research papers and 9 revised which emphasizes the continuity in spirit and tech- ics such as software and system architectures, soft- tool demonstration papers presented together with nique with finite model theory. This underlying spir- ware reuse, software testing, software model check- 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected it involves the use of various fragments of, and hier- ing, model driven design and testing techniques, from a total of 204 submissions. The papers are or- archies within, first order, second order, fixed point, model transformation, requirements engineering, ganized in topical sections on software verification, and infinitary logics to gain insight into phenomena lightweight or practice-oriented formal methods, probabilistic model checking and markov chains, in complexity theory and combinatorics. Students of software processes and software metrics, automat- static analysis, markov chains and real-time systems, logic and computer science will find here the tools ed software engineering, software patterns, design timed automata and duration calculus, assume-guar- necessary to embark on research in finite model the- by contract, defensive programming, software en- antee reasoning, biological systems, abstraction re- ory, and all readers will experience the excitement of tropy and software re-factoring, extreme program- finement, message sequence charts, automata-based a vibrant area of application of logic to computer sci- ming, agile software development, programming model checking, specification languages, security, ence. languages, as well as software dependability and software and hardware verification, decision proce- trustworthiness. Features dures and theorem provers, model checking, as well An introduction to the central topics in finite-model as infinite-state systems. Fields of interest theory together with par-excellence applications of Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Pro- Fields of interest finite-model theory to database theory and AI grams; Management of Computing and Information Logics and Meanings of Programs; Software Engi- Systems Contents neering; Computer Communication Networks; Al- Unifying Themes in Finite Model Theory.- On the gorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity Target groups Expressive Power of Logics on Finite Models.- Finite Researchers and professionals Target groups Model Theory and Descriptive Complexity.- Logic Researchers and professionals and Random Structures.- Embedded Finite Models Type of publication and Constraint Databases.- A Logical Approach to Proceedings Type of publication Constraint Satisfaction.- Local Variations on a Loose Proceedings Theme: Modal Logic and Decidability.- Index Due April 2007 Fields of interest Due March 2007 Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Software 2007. IX, 177p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Engineering; Computation by Abstract Devices; Log- Science, Vol. 4401) Softcover 2007. XX, 738 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- ics and Meanings of Programs; Database Manage- er Science, Vol. 4424) Softcover 42,00 € ment; Mathematical Logic and Foundations ISBN 978-3-540-71875-8 84,00 € Target groups ISBN 978-3-540-71208-4 Lecturers, graduate and undergraduate students

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M. Gunderloy, Endicott, WA , USA G. Gutin, University of London, UK; A.P. Punnen, University of J.M. Haake, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany; S.F. Ochoa, Univer- New Brunswick, St. John, NB, Canada (Eds.) sidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; A. Cechich, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Buenos Aires, Argentinien (Eds.) Painless Project Management with FogBugz The Traveling Salesman Problem and Its Variations Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use

Fogbugz is considered the best quality software to 13th Internatonal Workshop, CRIWG 2007, Bariloche, Argenti- manage a team of software developers working on a This volume, which contains chapters written by na, September 16-20, 2007, Proceedings project so that individuals on the team work on one reputable researchers, provides the state of the art part of the project (a case) while they can see the cur- in theory and algorithms for the traveling salesman rent form of the project as a whole. The book dis- problem (TSP). The book covers all important ar- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the cusses the software development life cycle from “lis- eas of study on TSP, including polyhedral theory for 13th International Workshop on Groupware, CRI- tening to customer feedback” followed by bug track- symmetric and asymmetric TSP, branch and bound, WG 2007, held in Bariloche, Argentina, in Septem- ing, reporting issues, collaborating test plans, main- and branch and cut algorithms, probabilistic aspects ber 2007. The 17 revised full papers and 10 revised tenance, use cases and real world development sce- of TSP, thorough computational analysis of heuris- work-in-progress papers presented were careful- narios. This book makes you think about how im- tic and metaheuristic algorithms, theoretical analysis ly reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The portant project management is, not just from a man- of approximation algorithms, including the emerg- papers are organized in topical sections on group agerial perspective but also from a developer/soft- ing area of domination analysis of algorithms, dis- awareness and social aspects, groupware design and ware engineer standpoint. cussion of TSP software and variations of TSP such development, computer supported collaborative as bottleneck TSP, generalized TSP, prize collecting learning, groupware applications and studies, group Features TSP, maximizing TSP, orienteering problem, etc. negotiation and knowledge management, and group- This is the only book on FogBugz While this book The book is appropriate as a reference work or as a ware activities and evaluation. references FogBugz, you read more about the process main or supplemental textbook in graduate and se- rather than the specific product. You can apply the nior undergraduate courses and projects. Fields of interest same process principles to other defect tracking solu- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; tions Configuration and implementation of FogBugz Features Computers and Education; Computers and Society; also discussed in detail Provides the state of the art in theory and algorithms Computer Communication Networks for the traveling salesman problem (TSP) Written by Contents reputable researchers, covering all important areas of Target groups Making Project Management Work.- The FogBugz study on TSP Intended for researchers, practitioners, Researchers and professionals Philosophy.- Lifecycle of a FogBugz Case.- Managing and academicians in mathematics, computer science, Cases.- The Three Types of Cases.- Where Do Cases and operations research Appropriate as a reference Type of publication Come From?- Entered via Web Interface (local/cus- work or as a main or supplemental textbook in grad- Proceedings tomer).- Entered via e-mail.- BugzScout.- Screen- uate and senior undergraduate courses and projects shots and attached files.- Filtering cases.- Being a Due August 2007 Good FogBugz Citizen.- How devs/qa/mgt should Fields of interest work with FB.- Making FogBugz work for you.- Set- Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science; Opti- ting up Users and Groups.- Setting up Projects etc.- mization; Operation Research/Decision Theory; Al- 2007. XIII, 355 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4715) Softcover Setting up Permissions.- All the other lists you can gorithms change.- Getting the Big Picture.- Tracking esti- 52,00 € Target groups mates.- Using Due Dates.- Resolving cases.- [..] ISBN 978-3-540-74811-3 Researchers, practitioners, and academicians in Fields of interest mathematics, computer science, and operations re- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating search Systems Type of publication Target groups Contributed volume Beginner/People using FogBUGZ and interested in Joel Spolsky Due May 2007

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2007. 256 p. Softcover

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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, Vol. 4472) Softcover Fields of interest Fields of interest Programming Techniques Data Storage Representation 64,00 € 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

Due July 2007 2007. 432 p. Softcover

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2007. 408 p. Hardcover

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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, Vol. 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 68,00 € 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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Beginning Rails

From Novice to Professional

Ruby on Rails has taken the world by storm. First released in the mid-2004, this open source framework has single-handedly changed the landscape of Web development. It’s both powering and defining the "Web 2.0" revolution on the web, providing a radi- cal shift in the way we think about web applications. Beginning Ruby on Rails is for anybody who wishes to join the revolution. You'll learn how all of the components of the Rails framework fit together and how you can leverage them to create sophisticated web applications. The book features sleeves-rolled- up, practical examples and walkthroughs, and you'll also learn the vital philosophy behind Rails. In addition, you’ll learn how to get up and running quickly with the Ruby programming language that under- pins Rails and makes it so powerful. Specifically, Be- ginning Ruby on Rails will teach you all about: Ac- tiveRecord, and how it makes working with databases a pleasure; ActionPack, and how it wires applications together with meaningful [..]

Features Unlike standard programming books, the interactive project based approach will keep the reader engaged, and ensures that s/he will become proficient in Ru- by on Rails While the book covers the basics for beginners, it also offers more advanced tools, including Ajax and a detailed discussion of ActiveRecord and and ActionPack This book focuses on the beginning programmer. In fact, no previous programming [..]

Contents Getting Up and Running.- Introducing the Rails Framework.- An Application Walk-Through.- Active Record Ba- sics.- Advanced Active Record.- Action Controller.- Action View.- Sending and Receiving Mail with ActionMailer.- AJAX and Rails.- Testing.- Extending Rails 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.

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

Type of publication Professional book

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2007. 392 p. Softcover

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T. Harju, University of Turku, Finland; J. Karhumäki, University of D. Harris, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK (Ed.) J. Hassell, Monroe, NC, USA; T. Campbell, UK Turku, Finland; A. Lepistö, University of Turku, Finland (Eds.) Engineering Psychology and Windows Vista Developments in Language Theory Cognitive Ergonomics Beyond the Manual 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 Windows Vista (once codenamed Longhorn) re- places Windows XP and will be Microsoft’s most This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of powerful client operating system to date. Security the 11th International Conference on Developments This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the and file management has been greatly improved and in Language Theory, DLT 2007, held in Turku, Fin- 7th International Conference on Engineering Psy- hundreds of features, including multimedia creation land in July 2007. The 32 revised full papers present- chology and Cognitive Ergonomics, EPCE 2007, held tools, have been added. The Beyond the Manual se- ed together with 6 invited papers were carefully re- in Beijing, China in July 2007 in the framework of ries addresses the needs of very experienced read- viewed and selected from 74 submissions. All impor- the 12th International Conference on Human-Com- ers. Although it is not assumed that they are familiar tant issues in language theory are addressed includ- puter Interaction, HCII 2007 with 8 other themati- with the book’s topic; it is assumed that they are very ing grammars, acceptors and transducers for words, cally similar conferences. The 95 revised papers pre- familiar with similar technologies (for example, earli- trees and graphs; algebraic theories of automata; al- sented were carefully reviewed and selected from nu- er versions of the product or a competing product). gorithmic, combinatorial and algebraic properties of merous submissions. The papers accepted for pre- The presentation of information is extremely dense words and languages; variable length codes; symbolic sentation thoroughly cover the thematic area of En- and avoids introductory or basic text. The series de- dynamics; cellular automata; polyominoes and mul- gineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, ad- livers as much information in as little space as possi- tidimensional patterns; decidability questions; image dressing the following major topics: cognitive and ble. manipulation and compression; efficient text algo- affective issues in user interface design, cognitive rithms; relationships to cryptography, concurrency, workload and human performance, cognitive mod- Features complexity theory and logic; bioinspired computig, eling and measuring, as well as safety critical applica- Written for experienced Windows XP users Provides and quantum computing. tions and systems. quick "walkthroughs" for all new features Complete "where am I" guide for the experienced user new to Fields of interest Fields of interest Vista Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Compu- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); User Inter- tation by Abstract Devices; Logics and Meanings of faces and Human Computer Interaction; Simulation Contents Programs; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Sci- and Modeling; Information Systems Applications Part 1: Getting Your Bearings: Introducing Windows ence; Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation (incl.Internet); Cognitive Psychology; Computers Vista.- Hardware Compatibility.- Installation and and Education Setup.- Finding Your Way Around the Desktop.- Target groups Part 2: Everyday Windows Management: Personal- Researchers and professionals Target groups ization and Customization.- User Tools.- Adminis- tration.- The Command Line.- Part 3: Storage and Type of publication Researchers and professionals File Management: New Folder Structures.- The File Proceedings Type of publication System.- Bitlocker.- External Interfaces.- Part 4: Net- Proceedings working: Wired and Wireless.- TCP/IP.- The Inter- Due June 2007 net.- Terminal Services.- Network Presentation (new Due July 2007 application in the Start Menu).- Part 5: Communica- 2007. XI, 423 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer tions: Windows Internet Explorer 7.- Windows [..] Science, Vol. 4588) Softcover 2007. XXIII, 879 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Fields of interest 56,00 € puter Science, Vol. 4562) Softcover Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems ISBN 978-3-540-73207-5 93,00 € Target groups ISBN 978-3-540-73330-0 Intermediate to Advanced end users and IT professionals

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2007. 504 p. Softcover

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H. Hauser, University of Bergen, Norway; H. Hagen, Technische R. Hecht-Nielsen, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, M. Heege, Germany Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany; H. Theisel, Universität Biele- USA feld, Germany (Eds.) Expert C++/CLI Confabulation Theory Topology-based Methods in .NET for Visual C++ Programmers Visualization The Mechanism of Thought

Stan Lippman is one of the best-selling authors on C Confabulation theory offers the first complete de- ++ and has long been one of the major contributors Enabling insight into large and complex datasets is a tailed explanation of the mechanism of cognition, to its growth and standardization. He is the architect prevalent theme in visualization research for which i.e., thinking, an essential information processing ca- C++/CLI, Microsoft's latest extension to C++. Under different approaches are pursued. Topology-based pability of all enbrained Earth animals (bees, octopi, his guidance, experienced C++ developer and train- methods are built on the idea of abstracting charac- trout, ravens, humans, et al.). Concentrating on the er – and Visual C++ MVP -- Marcus Heege, explains teristic structures such as the topological skeleton human case, this book offers an hypothesis for the how the core C++/CLI language elements work and, from the data and to construct the visualizations ac- neuronal implementation of cognition, and explores just as important, how Microsoft intends them to be cordingly. There are currently new demands for and the mathematics and methods of application of its used. Though written by experts, and full of sound, renewed interest in topology-based visualization so- mechanism. Thinking turns out to be starkly alien in expert insight and advice, this book can be read prof- lutions. This book presents 13 peer-reviewed papers comparison with all known technological approach- itably by any C++ programmer. Short code examples as written results from the 2005 workshop “Topol- es to information processing. While probably not yet concisely illustrate concepts, and more elaborate ex- ogy-Based Methods in Visualization” that was ini- scientifically testable, confabulation theory seems amples show how C++/CLI is best used. Even pro- tiated to enable additional stimulation in this field. consistent with the facts of neuroscience. Beyond sci- grammers new to C++/CLI, but planning to migrate It contains a longer chapter dedicated to a survey of ence, any complete detailed explanation of cognition to it from another language, can use this book to un- the state-of-the-art, as well as a great deal of origi- can be investigated by applying it technologically. derstand core language elements crucial to planning nal work by leading experts that has not been pub- Multiple experiments of this nature are described in and migrating effectively. lished before, spanning both theory and applications. this book in complete detail. 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Post.- Topology-guided Visual- Introduction.- Viewcells from IBM Almaden Insti- ization of Constrained Vector Fields - Ronald Peik- tute Talk on Cognitive Computing.- The Mathemat- Contents ert, Filip Sadlo.- Scale-Space Tracking of Critical ics of Thought.- Cogent Confabulation.- Confabu- Why C++/CLI?.- Managed Execution.- Using Man- Points in 3D Vector Fields - Thomas Klein, Thomas lation Neuroscience.- The Mechanism of Thought.- aged Types.- Defining Managed Types.- Parameter- Ertl.- Feature Flow Fields in Out-of-Core Settings Mechanization of Confabulation.- Biological Cogni- ized Types and Functions.- Migrating C++ Projects - Tino Weinkauf, Holger Theisel, Hans-Christian tion.- Index C++/CLI.- Integrating WinForms and WPF Visu- Hege, Hans-Peter Seidel.- Sreamline Predicates as als in MFC Applications.- Managed / Unmanaged Flow Topology Generalization - Tobias Salzbrunn, Fields of interest Transitions.- Assembly Startup and Runtime Initial- Gerik Scheuermann.- Topology-based versus Fea- Artificial Intelligence (incl. 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J. Hertzberg, University of Osnabrück, Germany; M. Beetz, Tech- Th.N. Herzog, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Develop- J. Hightower, Intel Research Seattle, WA, USA; B. Schiele, TU nische Universität München, Germany; R. Englert, Deutsche ment, Washington, DC, USA; F.J. Scheuren, Alexandria, VA, USA; Darmstadt, Germany; Th. Strang, Institute of Communications Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany (Eds.) W.E. Winkler, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC, USA and Navigation German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling/ Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (Eds.) KI 2007: Advances in Artificial Data Quality and Record Linkage Intelligence Techniques Location- and Context-Awareness Third International Symposium, LoCA 2007, Oberpfaffen- 30th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2007, Osnabrück, hofen, Germany, September 20-21, 2007, Proceedings 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 refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed pro- and record linkage. The first part of the book deals Third International Symposium on Location- and ceedings of the 30th Annual German Conference on with methods and models. Here, we focus on the Fel- Context-Awareness, LoCA 2007, held in Oberpfaf- Artificial Intelligence, KI 2007, held in Osnabrück, legi-Holt edit-imputation model, the Little-Rubin fenhofen, Germany, in September 2007. The 17 re- Germany, September 10-13, 2007. The 26 revised multiple-imputation scheme, and the Fellegi-Sunter vised full papers presented were carefully selected full papers presented together with 6 invited contri- record linkage model. Brief examples are included during two rounds of reviewing and improvement butions and 21 posters were carefully reviewed and to show how these techniques work. In the second from 55 submissions. The papers are organized in selected from 81 submissions. The papers are orga- part of the book, the authors present real-world case topical sections on wifi location technology, activity nized in topical sections on cognition and emotion, studies in which one or more of these techniques are and situational awareness, taxonomies, architectures, semantic Web, analogy, natural language, reason- used. They cover a wide variety of application areas. and a broader perspective, the meaning of place, ra- ing, ontologies, spatio-temporal reasoning, machine These include mortgage guarantee insurance, medi- dio issue in location technology, and new approaches learning, spatial reasoning, robot learning, classical cal, biomedical, highway safety, and social insurance to location estimation. AI problems, and agents. as well as the construction of list frames and admin- Fields of interest Fields of interest istrative lists. Readers will find this book a mixture Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); In- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining of practical advice, mathematical rigor, management formation Storage and Retrieval; Computer Com- and Knowledge Discovery; Mathematical Logic and insight and philosophy. The long list of references munication Networks; Personal Computing; User Formal Languages; Language Translation and Lin- at the end of the book enables readers to delve more Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Com- guistics deeply into the subjects [..] munications Engineering, Networks Target groups Features Target groups Researchers and professionals There are no other books available addressing this subject Readers will find this book a mixture of prac- Researchers and professionals Type of publication tical advice, mathematical rigor, management insight Type of publication Proceedings and philosophy The authors also discuss the software Proceedings that has been developed to apply the techniques de- Due August 2007 scribed in the text Due September 2007 Contents 2007. XV, 516 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4667) Introduction.- What is Data Quality and Why 2007. X, 297 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4718) Softcover Should We Care?.- Examples of Companies Using Softcover Data to their Advantage/Disadvantage.- Properties 64,00 € of Data Quality and Metrics for Measuring it.- Ba- 48,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74564-8 sic Data Quality Tools.- Mathematical Preliminaries ISBN 978-3-540-75159-5 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 [..]

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Combining .NET, SharePoint, and Office 2007 This detailed third edition is Scot Hillier's follow-up This detailed third edition is Scot Hillier's follow-up to his market-leading SharePoint book. The new ver- to his market-leading SharePoint book. The new ver- Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies sion includes extensive updates to the previous edi- sion includes extensive updates to the previous edi- have become increasingly popular as a collaboration tion, with a complete focus on SharePoint 2007 and tion, with a complete focus on SharePoint 2007 and solution for organizations. A large reason for this is its integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office Sys- its integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office Sys- the seamless integration of its features into the Office tem, as well as new approaches for using SharePoint tem, as well as new approaches for using SharePoint desktop tools. However, many developers have yet to improve business efficiency. 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SharePoint Content Development and Manage- What this book is about.- Who this book is for.- ment.- 6 SharePoint Document, Form, and Record Fields of interest Technology used in the book.- Viewing SharePoint Management.- 7 SharePoint Features and Work- Programming Techniques as a Service Platform.- Why build on top of the Of- flow.- 8 SharePoint Business Intelligence.- 9 Share- Point and Microsoft Office.- 10 Web Parts.- 11 Pro- fice desktop environment.- Maintaining content of Target groups a SharePoint site collection.- Another Excel exam- gramming SharePoint Services.- 12 SharePoint Ad- Technical audience with intermediate development ministration. ple.- Document generation tool.- Another Word ex- skills in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, administra- ample.- Provisioning a collaboration site from a re- tors, and power users of Microsoft SharePoint tech- Fields of interest ceived email.- Another Outlook example.- InfoPath nologies and products Programming Techniques example.- Generating a presentation based on site content.- Human Oriented Workflow Solution.- Type of publication Target groups Summary Chapter. 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A. Hirt, Avanade, Waltham, MA, USA T.-Y. Ho, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Y.-W. Chang, Na- Y.-C. Ho, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Q.-C. Zhao, Ts- tional Taiwan University, Taiwan; S.-J. Chen, National Taiwan Uni- inghua University, Beijing, China; Q.-S. Jia, Tsinghua University, versity, Taiwan Beijing, China Pro SQL Server 2005 High Availability Full-Chip Nanometer Routing Ordinal Optimization

Techniques Soft Optimization for Hard Problems Maintaining SQL Server 2005 high availability in a global information environment is the DBA’s greatest practical challenge. Availability is as much about At 90 nm, wires account for nearly 75% of the to- Performance evaluation of increasingly complex hu- people and process as it is about technology. This tal delay in a circuit. Even more insidious, however, man-made systems requires the use of simulation book comprehensively covers the technology, the is that among nearly 40% of these nets, more than models. However, these systems are difficult to de- people, the process, and the real-world best practices 50% of their total net capacitance are attributed to scribe and capture by succinct mathematical mod- for planning, deploying, administering, and main- the cross-coupling capacitance between neighboring els. Accepting the need for search-based methods as taining highly available SQL Server 2005 instances. signals. At this point a new design and optimization a complement to established analytical techniques, With even more years as a database consultant and paradigm based on real wires is required. Nanome- quickly narrowing the search for optimum perfor- production DBA, Allan Hirt once again provides inter routers must prevent and correct these effects on- mance (ordinal optimization) is more important depth, detailed advice on what it takes to assure SQL the-fly in order to reach timing closure. From a man- than accurately estimating the values of system per- Server high availability for businesses of any size. ufacturability standpoint, nanometer routers must formance during the process of optimization (car- This is not an academic text. It is not based on lab explicitly deal with the ever increasing design com- dinal optimization). The purpose of this book is to experiments but on real-world experience. A dra- plexity, and be capable of adapting to the constraint address the difficulties of the optimization of com- matic update and revision of his best-seller on SQL requirements of timing, signal integrity, process an- plex systems via simulation models or other compu- Server 2000, it gives the same sound guidance to tenna effect, and new interconnect architecture such tation-intensive models involving possible stochastic DBAs and system administrators on how to really get as X-architecture. In the nanometer era, we must effects and discrete choices. 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A. Holt, University of Waikato, New Zealand A. Horsch, Technische Universität München; Th.M. Deserno, Z. Horváth, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; V. Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen; H. Han- Zsók, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; A. Butter- dels, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg; H.- field, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland (Eds.) Network Performance Analysis P. Meinzer, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg; Th. Tolxdoff, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Eds.) Using the J Programming Language Implementation and Application of Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin Functional Languages

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J. Hromioviç, R. Královiç, M. Nunkesser, P. Widmayer (Eds.) B. Hrúz, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia; D.-S. Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; L. Heutte, Uni- M.C. Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA versity of Rouen, France; M. Loog, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Eds.) Stochastic Algorithms: Foundations and Applications Modeling and Control of Discrete- event Dynamic Systems Advanced Intelligent Computing 4th International Symposium, SAGA 2007, Zurich, Switzer- Theories and Applications. land, September 13-14, 2007, Proceedings with Petri Nets and Other Tools With Aspects of Contemporary Intelligent Computing Techniques

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Discrete-event dynamic systems (DEDs) permeate Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 4th International Symposium on Stochastic Algo- our world, being of great importance in modern 2007, Qingdao, China, August 21-24, 2007, Proceedings rithms: Foundations and Applications, SAGA 2007, manufacturing processes, transportation and var- held in Zurich, Switzerland, in September 2007. The ious forms of computer and communications net- 9 revised full papers and 5 invoted papers presented working. “Modeling and Control of Discrete-event This book - in conjunction with the two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected out of 31 sub- Dynamic Systems” begins with the mathematical ba- LNCS 4681 and LNAI 4682 - constitutes the refer- missions for inclusion in the book. The contributed sics required for the study of DEDs and moves on eed proceedings of the Third International Confer- papers included in this volume cover both theoretical to present various tools used in their modeling and ence on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2007, held in as well as applied aspects of stochastic computations control. Among the instruments explained are many Qingdao, China in August 2007. The intelligent com- whith a special focus on investigating the power of forms of Petri net, the sequential function chart, state puting technology includes a range of techniques randomization in algorithmics. charts, formal languages and max-plus algebra. In- such as artificial intelligence, perceptual and pattern dustrial examples illustrate the concepts and meth- recognition, evolutionary and adaptive computing, Fields of interest ods discussed. Using them, readers will be able to informatics theories and applications, computation- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- understand DEDs quickly and to master the control al neuroscience and bioscience, soft computing, case putation by Abstract Devices; Probability and Statis- methods to analyze and improve the performance of based and constrained reasoning, agents, networking tics in Computer Science; Discrete Mathematics in their systems. Final-year undergraduates and gradu- and computer supported co-operative working, hu- Computer Science; Probability Theory and Stochas- ates embarking on further courses in control, manu- man computer interface issues. ICIC theme unifies tic Processes; Algorithms facturing and process engineering, computer studies the picture of contemporary intelligent computing or operations research will find this text an invalu- techniques as an integral concept that highlights the Target groups able aid in learning about the control of this impor- trends in advanced computational intelligence and Researchers and professionals tant class of systems. bridges theoretical research with applications. Type of publication Features Fields of interest Proceedings Gives the student dedicated and in-depth coverage Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Simulation of the control of discrete-event systems using timed, and Modeling; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Due September 2007 stochastic, colored, fuzzy and adaptive Petri nets Pattern Recognition; Information Storage and Re- Coverage of widely-used Grafcet analysis tool Exam- trieval 2007. X, 167 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4665) ples, tutorial exercises and on-line solutions manual Softcover to make the subject simple to follow for students and Target groups to help tutors with class preparation Researchers and professionals 42,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74870-0 Contents Type of publication Basic Description of Discrete-event Dynamic Sys- Proceedings tems.- Graphs in Modeling DEDS.- Formal Lan- guages.- Control of DEDS.- Finite Automata.- Re- active Flow Diagrams.- Petri Net Models of DEDS.- Due August 2007 Properties of Petri Nets.- Grafcet.- Timed and High- level Petri Nets.- Statecharts.- DEDS Modeling, Con- 2007. XXVII, 1375 p. (Communications in Computer and Informa- trol and Programming.- Supervisory Control.- Job tion Science, Vol. 2) Softcover Scheduling. 123,00 € Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-74281-4 Control Engineering; Simulation and Modeling; Sys- tems Theory, Control; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Op- erations Research, Mathematical Programming

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D.-S. Huang, Cihinese Academy of Sciences, China; L. Heutte, Uni- D.-S. Huang, L. Heutte, M. Loog (Eds.) J. Huang, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA; R. versity of Rouoen, France; M. Loog, IT University of Copenhagen, Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; Z. Denmark (Eds.) Maamar, Zayed University, Dubai, United Emirates; D. Martin, SRI Advanced Intelligent Computing International, Menlo Park, CA, USA; I. Müller, Swinburne Universi- ty of Technology, Australia; S. Stoutenburg, The MITRE Corpora- Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications - tion, Colorado Springs, CO, USA; K. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon Uni- Theories and Applications With Aspects of Theoretical and versity, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Eds.) Methodological Issues Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC Service-Oriented Computing: 2007, Qingdao, China, August 21-24, 2007, Proceedings Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2007 Qingdao, China, August 21-24, 2007 Proceedings Agents, Semantics, and Engineering AAMAS 2007 International Workshop, SOCASE 2007, Honolu- This book - in conjunction with the two volumes CI- lu, HI, USA, May 14, 2007, Proceedings CS 0002 and LNCS 4681 - constitutes the refereed This book - in conjunction with the two volumes CI- proceedings of the Third International Conference CS 0002 and LNAI 4682 - constitutes the refereed on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2007, held in Qing- proceedings of the Third International Conference This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the dao, China in August 2007. The 139 revised full pa- on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2007, held in Qing- International Workshop on Service-Oriented Com- pers were carefully reviewed and selected from 2875 dao, China in August 2007. The 139 revised full pa- puting: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering, SO- submissions. The papers address all current issues pers were carefully reviewed and selected from 2875 CASE 2007, held in Honolulu, HI, USA as an associ- in the field of intelligent computing technology, in- submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- ated event of AAMAS 2007, the main international cluding theories, methodologies, and applications, tions on biological and quantum computing, intelli- conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent such as artificial intelligence, perceptual and pattern gent financial engineering, intelligent agent and web systems. The volume is rounded off with selected recognition, evolutionary and adaptive computing, applications, intelligent sensor networks, intelligent four best papers from the Service-Oriented Comput- informatics theories and applications, computation- control and automation, intelligent data fusion and ing and Agent-based Engineering Workshop, SO- al neuroscience and bioscience, soft computing, case security, natural language processing and expert sys- CABE 2006, held at AAMAS 2006. The 12 revised based and constrained reasoning, agents, networking tems, intelligent image/document retrievals, intelli- full papers presented were carefully reviewed and se- and computer supported co-operative working, hu- gent computing in bioinformatics, intelligent com- lected for inclusion in the book. The papers cover a man computer interface issues, etc. puting in signal processing, intelligent computing range of topics at the intersection of service-orient- in pattern recognition, and intelligent computing in ed computing, semantic technology and intelligent Fields of interest communication. Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical multiagent systems, such as: service description and discovery; planning, composition and negotiation; Logic and Formal Languages; Computation by Ab- Fields of interest semantic processes and service agents; as well as ap- stract Devices; Information Storage and Retrieval; Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Anal- plications. Database Management; Pattern Recognition ysis and Problem Complexity; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Image Processing and Computer Vi- Fields of interest Target groups sion; Pattern Recognition Researchers and professionals Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Database Target groups Management; Computer Communication Networks; Type of publication Researchers and professionals Proceedings Multimedia Information Systems; Artificial Intelli- Type of publication gence (incl. Robotics) Proceedings Due August 2007 Target groups Researchers and professionals 2007. XXVII, 1373 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Due August 2007 puter Science, Vol. 4682) Softcover Type of publication 2007. XXVI, 1379 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Proceedings 123,00 € puter Science, Vol. 4681) Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-74201-2 Due May 2007 123,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74170-1 2007. X, 175 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4504) Softcover

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Th.S. Huang, Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL, USA; A. Nijholt, Uni- J. Huddleston, Newark, DE, USA; R. Raghuram, Newark, DE, USA; K.-c. Hui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China; Z. Pan, versity of Twente, The Netherlands; M. Pantic, Imperial College S.F. Gilani, Newark, DE, USA; J.H. Pedersen, Newark, DE, USA; J. Zhejiang University, China; R.C.-k. Chung, The Chinese Universi- London, UK; A. Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Reid, Newark, DE, USA ty of Hong Kong, China; C.C.L. Wang, The Chinese University of Cambridge, MA, USA (Eds.) Hong Kong, China; X. Jin, Zhejiang University, China; S. Göbel, ZGDV e.V., Computer Graphics Center, Darmstadt, Germany; E.C.- Beginning VB 2005 Databases L. Li, The City University of Hong Kong, China (Eds.) Artifical Intelligence for Human From Novice to Professional Computing Technologies for E-Learning and ICMI 2006 and IJCAI 2007 International Workshops Banff, Digital Entertainment Canada, November 3, 2006 Hyderabad, India, January 6, 2007 No matter what programs people develop, there al- Revised Selceted Papers Second International Conference, Edutainment 2007, Hong ways exists a bottom line: one must know how to ac- Kong, China, June 11-13, 2007, Proceedings cess and manipulate data. VB 2005 and ADO.NET together offer developers simple solutions for solv- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- ing some previously complex data access problems, proceedings of two events discussing AI for Hu- but technique and efficiency are still required. This This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the man Computing; one Special Session during the book, written by a veteran author with decades of ex- Second International Conference on E-learning and Eighth International ACM Conference on Multi- perience in the field of database access and manipu- Games, Edutainment 2007, held in Hong Kong, Chi- modal Interfaces (ICMI 2006), held in Banff, Cana- lations, walks new readers through the intricacies of na, in June 2007. The 90 revised full papers present- da, in November 2006 and a Workshop organized in developing data-driven solutions using VB 2005 and ed together with the abstract of the keynote speech- conjunction with the 20th International Joint Con- ADO.NET 2.0. Helpful for those new to the .NET 2.0 es were carefully reviewed and selected from a total ference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), held technologies or new to data access and manipulation of 393 submissions. The papers cover a wide range in Hyderabad, India, in January 2007. A large num- in general, this book surely gives these developers a of topics and are organized in topical sections on vir- ber of the contributions in this state-of-the-art sur- thorough but easy-to-understand introduction to VB tual and augmented reality in game and education, vey are updated and extended versions of the papers 2005 databases. The book even includes a preview of virtual characters in games and education, e-learning presented during these two events. In order to obtain the emerging LINQ query technology. platforms and tools, geometry in games and virtual a more complete overview of research efforts in the reality, vision, imaging and video technology, as well field of human computing, a number of additional Features as collaborative and distributed environments. invited contributions are included in this book on Revision of a successful title with Apress that still AI for human computing. The 17 revised papers pre- sells to this day Includes tighter focus on newer .NET Fields of interest sented were carefully selected from numerous sub- technologies, as well as LINQ, creating higher com- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; missions to and presentations made at the two events mercial appeal Provides complete coverage of all Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information and include invited articles to round off coverage of fundamental aspects of developing with VB 2005 and Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Multimedia In- all relevant topics of the emerging topic. The papers ADO.NET 2.0 formation Systems; Computer Graphics; Computers are [..] and Education Contents Fields of interest Getting Our Tools.- Getting to Know Our Tools.- Target groups Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); User Inter- Introducing SQL.- Introducing ADO.NET.- Intro- Researchers and professionals faces and Human Computer Interaction; Comput- ducing Connections.- Introducing Commands.- In- Type of publication er Graphics; Pattern Recognition; Image Processing troducing Data Readers.- Introducing Datasets, and Proceedings and Computer Vision Data Adapters.- Introducing Data Binding.- Under- standing Tables and Relationships.- Learning More Target groups about Queries.- Using Stored Procedures.- Handling Due June 2007 Researchers and professionals Exceptions.- Using Transactions.- Working with ADO.NET Events.- Working with Text and Binary 2007. XVIII, 974 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Type of publication Data.- Using XML.- Introducing LINQ. puter Science, Vol. 4469) Softcover Proceedings Fields of interest 96,00 € Due May 2007 Programming Techniques ISBN 978-3-540-73010-1 Target groups 2007. XVI, 359 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Beginner to intermediate VB 2005 programmers er Science, Vol. 4451) Softcover dealing with ADO.NET, and ADO.NET developers looking to build VB 2005 skills 50,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-72346-2 Type of publication Professional book

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S.A. Huss, T.U. Darmstadt, Germany (Ed.)

Advances in Design and Specification Languages for Embedded Systems

Selected Contributions from FDL’06

Design and specification languages are of utmost interest in the area of embedded systems and the Fo- rum on Specification and Design Languages has been once again the main European event for the embedded systems and chip design community. Advances in Design and Specification Languages for Embed- ded Systems is the latest contribution to the Chip Design Languages series and it consists of selected papers presented at the Forum on Specifica- tions and Design Languages (FDL'06), in September 2006. FDL, an ECSI conference, is the premier Euro- pean forum to present research results, exchange experiences, and learn about new trends in the application of specification and design languages as well as of associated design and modelling methods and tools for integrated circuits, embedded systems, and heterogeneous systems. Modelling and specification concepts push the development of new methodologies for design and verification to system level, they thus provide the means for a model-driven design of complex [..]

Features Represents the state of the art in research and practice Identifies new research directions Highlights the role of specification and modelling languages Presents practical experiences with specification and modelling languages

Contents Preface: S.A. Huss. Part I. Analog Mixed-Signal, In- troduction: C.Grimm. Part II. C / C++ Based System Design. Introduction: F.Oppenheimer. Part III. Prop- erty Driven Design, Introduction: D.Borrione. Part IV. UML-Based System Specification and Design, In- troduction: P.van der Putten.

Fields of interest Circuits and Systems; Special Purpose and Applica- tion-Based Systems; Programming Languages, Com- pilers, Interpreters; Computer System Implementa- tion

Target groups Graduate level students and engineers in the area of system design formal languages; researchers in embedded systems design, modelling languages and verification; practitioners in IT- and automotive industry

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2007. X, 358 p. Hardcover

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D. Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK; R.H. Katz, University of M. Hutter, Australian National University, Australia; R.A. Servedio, B. Hämmerli, Hochschule Technik und Architektur Luzern; R. California, Berkeley, CA, USA (Eds.) Columbia University, USA; E. Takimoto, Tohoku University, Japan Sommer, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, (Eds.) USA (Eds.) Self-Organizing Systems Algorithmic Learning Theory Detection of Intrusions and Second International Workshop, IWSOS 2007, The Lake Dis- trict, UK, September 11-13, 2007, Proceedings 18th International Conference, ALT 2007, Sendai, Japan, Octo- Malware, and Vulnerability ber 1-4, 2007, Proceedings Assessment

4th International Conference, DIMVA 2007 Lucerne, Switzer- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the land, July 12-13, 2007 Proceedings Second International Workshop on Self-Organizing This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Systems, IWSOS 2007, held in The Lake District, UK, the 18th International Conference on Algorithmic September 11-13, 2007. The 17 revised full papers Learning Theory, ALT 2007, held in Sendai, Japan, and 5 revised short papers presented together with 2 October 1-4, 2007, colocated with the 10th Interna- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the invited talks were carefully selected from more than tional Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2007. 4th International Conference on Detection of Intru- 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical The 25 revised full papers presented together with sions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, sections on ad hoc routing, peer-to-peer networking, the abstracts of 5 invited papers were carefully re- DIMVA 2007, held in Lucerne, Switzerland in July network topology, adaptive and self-organizing net- viewed and selected from 50 submissions. The pa- 2007. The 14 revised full papers presented were care- works and multicast and mobility protocols. pers are dedicated to the theoretical foundations of fully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The machine learning; they address topics such as query papers are organized in topical sections on Web se- Fields of interest models, on-line learning, inductive inference, algo- curity, intrusion detection, traffic analysis, network Computer Communication Networks; Software En- rithmic forecasting, boosting, support vector ma- security, and host security. gineering; Operating Systems; Information Systems chines, kernel methods, complexity and learning, Applications (incl.Internet); Information Storage and reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning and Fields of interest Retrieval; Communications Engineering, Networks grammatical inference. Data Encryption; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Computer Communication Target groups Fields of interest Networks; Systems and Data Security; Computers Researchers and professionals Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining and Society and Knowledge Discovery Type of publication Target groups Proceedings Target groups Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Type of publication Due August 2007 Type of publication Proceedings Proceedings 2007. XI, 295 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4725) Due July 2007 Softcover Due September 2007 48,00 € 2007. X, 251 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4579) ISBN 978-3-540-74916-5 2007. XI, 403 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4754) Softcover Softcover 45,00 € 56,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-73613-4 ISBN 978-3-540-75224-0 springer.com/booksellers Computer Science 107

W. Härdle, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; Z. Hlávka, W. Härdle, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; L. Simar, T. Ideker, UC San Diego, CA, USA; V. Bafna, UC San Diego, CA, USA Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (Eds.)

Multivariate Statistics: Applied Multivariate Statistical Systems Biology and

Exercises and Solutions Analysis Computational Proteomics Joint RECOMB 2006 Satellite Workshops on Systems Biology, and on Computational Proteomics, San Diego, CA, USA, De- The authors present tools and concepts of multivari- Most of the observable phenomena in the empiri- cember 1-3, 2006, Revised Selected Papers ate data analysis by means of exercises and their so- cal sciences are of a multivariate nature.In financial lutions. The first part is devoted to graphical tech- studies, assets in stock markets are observed simul- niques. The second part deals with multivariate ran- taneously and their joint development is analyzed This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- dom variables and presents the derivation of estima- to better understand general tendencies and to track proceedings of two joint RECOMB 2006 satellite tors and tests for various practical situations. The indices. In medicine recorded observations of sub- events - the Second Annual Workshop on Systems last part introduces a wide variety of exercises in ap- jects in different locations are the basis of reliable di- Biology, RSB 2006, and the First Biennial Workshop plied multivariate data analysis. The book demon- agnoses and medication. In quantitative marketing on Computational Proteomics, RCP 2006, held in strates the application of simple calculus and basic consumer preferences are collected in order to con- San Diego, CA, USA in December 2006. The 9 re- multivariate methods in real life situations. It construct models of consumer behavior. The underlying vised full papers presented were carefully reviewed tains altogether 234 solved exercises which can as- theoretical structure of these and many other quanti- and selected from around 50 submissions to both sist a university teacher in setting up a modern mul- tative studies of applied sciences is multivariate. Fo- events. The papers of the Systems Biology meeting tivariate analysis course. All computer-based exer- cussing on applications this book presents the tools cover various aspects of systems biology, including cises are available in the R or XploRe languages. The and concepts of multivariate data analysis in a way integration of genome-wide microarray, proteomic, corresponding libraries are downloadable from the that is understandable for non-mathematicians and and metabolomic data, inference and comparison of Springer link web pages and from the author’s home practitioners who face statistical data analysis. In this biological networks, and model testing through de- pages. second edition a wider scope of methods and appli- sign of experiments. The Computational Proteomics cations of multivariate statistical analysis is intro- meeting focused on on computational mass spec- Features duced. All quantlets have been translated into the R trometry. The papers explore the use of this technol- Considers techniques like Conjoint Measurement and Matlab language and [..] ogy in various proteomic applications, such as pro- Analyses, Applications to Finance, Projection Pur- tein identification and quantification in specific cel- Features suit and SIR techniques that are not found typically lular environments, structural genomics, networks of Wide scope of methods and applications Quantlets in multivariate textbooks Data sets discussed in the protein interaction, and post-translational modifica- in R and Matlab available online Many examples and book can be downloaded and analyzed by every sta- tions. tistical package Online version powered by XploRe exercises allows immediate calculation of formulae Fields of interest Contents Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Dis- I Descriptive Techniques: Comparison of Batches.- II Contents crete Mathematics in Computer Science; Data Struc- Multivariate Random Variables: A Short Excursion Comparison of Batches.- A Short Excursion Into tures; Database Management; Computational Biolo- into Matrix Algebra; Moving to Higher Dimensions; Matrix Algebra.- Moving to Higher Dimensions.- gy/Bioinformatics; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences Multivariate Distributions.- Theory of The Multinor- Multivariate Distributions; Theory of the Multinor- mal.- Theory of Estimation.- Hypothesis Testing.- mal; Theory of Estimation; Hypothesis Testing.- III Target groups Decomposition of Data Matrices by Factors.- Princi- Multivariate Techniques: Decomposition of Data Researchers and professionals pal Components Analysis.- Factor Analysis.- Cluster Matrices by Factors; Principal Components Analy- Analysis.- Discriminate Analysis.- Correspondence sis; Factor Analysis; Cluster Analysis; Discriminant Type of publication Analysis.- Canonical Correlation Analysis.- Multi- Analysis.- Correspondence Analysis.- Canonical Proceedings dimensional Scaling.- Conjoint Measurement Anal- Correlation Analysis.- Multidimensional Scaling.- ysis.- Applications in Finance.- Highly Interactive, Conjoint Measurement Analysis.- Application in Fi- Due July 2007 Computationally Intensive Techniques. nance.- Computationally Intensive Techniques.- [..]

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J. Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia; J. Ma, Hosei J. Indulska, The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia; K. Ray- Interface21, B. Smeets, S. Ladd 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.) Building Spring 2 Enterprise Distributed Applications and Applications Ubiquitous Intelligence and Interoperable Systems Computing 7th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2007, Paphos, The open source agile lightweight Spring (meta) 4th International Conference, UIC 2007, Hong Kong, China, Cyprus, June 6-8, 2007, Proccedings Framework 2.x is by far the leading innovative force July 11-13, 2007, Proceedings and “lightning rod” that’s driving today’s Java industry. Spring has time and time again proven it- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of self in real-world highly scalable enterprise settings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on such as banks and other financial institutions. These the 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous In- Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, institutions, along with grid and other tradition- telligence and Computing, UIC 2007, held in Hong DAIS 2007, held in Paphos, Cyprus in June 2007. al Java vendors that supports them, are looking at Kong, China in July 2007, co-located with ATC 2007, The DAIS conference was held as a joint event in Spring first, and have all but forgotten Java EE/J2EE. the 4th International Conference on Autonomic and federation with the 9th IFIP WG 6.1 Internation- Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications by Inter- Trusted Computing. The 119 revised full papers pre- al Conference on Formal Methods for Open Ob- face21/Spring Foundation team members by lets the sented together with 1 keynote paper and 1 invited ject-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS 2007) and reader experience a real-world scalable agile enter- paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 463 the 9th International Conference on Coordination prise Java-based application being built from the submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- Models and Languages (Coordination 2007). The 24 ground up using the latest as available in the latest tions on smart objects and embedded systems, smart revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed Spring 2.x. spaces/environments/services, ad-hoc and intelligent and selected from 97 submissions. The papers ad- networks, sensor networks, pervasive communica- dress current research in context-awareness, adap- Features tion and mobile systems, context-aware applications tation, mobility, distributed applications and peer- This book will be one of the first two books on and systems, service oriented middleware and appli- to-peer computing, all of which relate to the sustain- Spring 2 Only authoritative Spring 2 authored book, cations, intelligent computing: models and services, ability of distributed applications and integrated sys- written by team members of Interface21, the group as well as security, safety and privacy. tems. The papers are organized in topical sections on that lead the Spring Foundation and its growing context-awareness, distributed applications, adapta- community Unique, practical focused approach for Fields of interest tion, peer-to-peer, and mobility. the reader to get the job done now Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Computer Communication Networks; Systems and Fields of interest Contents Data Security; User Interfaces and Human Comput- Software Engineering; Computer Communication A gentle introduction to the Spring framework.- er Interaction; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Networks; Programming Techniques; Programming Introduction to the application context.- More Computers and Society Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Operating Sys- on the application context.- Data access: JDBC.- tems; Logics and Meanings of Programs Data access: ORM tools.- Transaction manage- Target groups ment.-3-tier application design.- Introduction to Researchers and professionals Target groups Spring MVC.- Working with forms.- Spring MVC Researchers and professionals integration.-Spring Web Flow.- AOP: basic con- Type of publication cepts.-Testing. Proceedings Type of publication Proceedings Fields of interest Due June 2007 Programming Techniques Due May 2007 Target groups 2007. XXIII, 1257 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. Intermediate to advanced Java Programming 4611) Softcover 2007. XI, 337 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4531) Softcover Type of publication 114,00 € Professional book ISBN 978-3-540-73548-9 68,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-72881-8 Due September 2007

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Y. Ioannidis, University of Athens, Greece; B. Novikov, University T. Ishida, S.R. Fussell, P.T.J.M. Vossen (Eds.) J.A. Jacko, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA (Ed.) of St-Petersburg, Russia; B. Rachev, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria (Eds.) Intercultural Collaboration Human-Computer Interaction.

Advances in Databases and First International Workshop, IWIC 2007 Kyoto, Japan, January Interaction Design and Usability 25-26, 2007 Invited and Selected Papers Information Systems 12th International Conference, HCI International 2007, Bei- jing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part I 11th East European Conference, ADBIS 2007, Varna, Bulgaria, September 29-October 3, 2007, Proceedings This book presents 29 revised invited and selected lectures given by top-researchers at the First Inter- This four-volume set LNCS 4550-4553 constitutes national Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, the refereed proceedings of the 12th International IWIC 2007, held in Kyoto, Japan in January 2007. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII Intercultural collaboration, from both technical and the 11th East European Conference on Advances in 2007, held in Beijing, china, in July 2007, jointly with socio-cultural perspectives was the main theme of Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2007, 8 other thematically similar conferences. The 513 the workshop. This state-of-the-art survey increas- held in Varna, Bulgaria, in September/October 2007. revised papers presented in the four volumes were es mutual understanding in our multicultural world The 23 revised papers presented together with 3 in- carefully reviewed and selected from numerous sub- by featuring collaboration support (such as natural vited lectures were carefully reviewed and se- missions. The papers accepted for presentation thor- language processing, Web, and Internet technolo- lected from 77 submissions. The papers address cur- oughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer gies), social psychological analyses of intercultur- rent research on database theory, development of ad- Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge al interaction, and case studies from field workers. vanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced ap- and effective use of computers in a variety of appli- The papers are categorized into topical areas on on- plications and are organized in topical sections on cation areas. The 133 papers of this first volume are tology for language resources and services, develop- activity modeling, classification, design, object-ori- organized in topical sections on interaction design: ing language resources and services, connecting lan- ented systems, indexing, clustering and OLAP, mov- theoretical issued, methods, techniques and practice; guage resources and services, tools for intercultural ing objects, query processing, DB architectures and usability and evaluation methods and tools; under- collaboration, emotions in intercultural collabora- streams, XML and databases, as well as distributed standing users and contexts of use; and models and tion, analysis of intercultural collaboration, and actu- systems. patterns in HCI. al fields of intercultural collaboration. Fields of interest Fields of interest Fields of interest Database Management; Information Storage and Re- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; trieval; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; In- Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- Information Storage and Retrieval; Multimedia In- formation Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Mul- age and Retrieval; Software Engineering; Logics and formation Systems; Language Translation and Lin- timedia Information Systems; Information Systems Meanings of Programs; Computer Communication guistics; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Networks Target groups Sciences; Computers and Society Researchers and professionals Target groups Target groups Researchers and professionals Type of publication Researchers and professionals Proceedings Type of publication Type of publication Proceedings Due September 2007 Proceedings Due July 2007 Due August 2007 2007. XIII, 377 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4690) Softcover 2007. XXIII, 1240 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- 2007. XIII, 395 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- puter Science, Vol. 4550) Softcover 52,00 € er Science, Vol. 4568) Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-75184-7 114,00 € 54,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-73104-7 ISBN 978-3-540-73999-9 110 Computer Science springer.com/booksellers

J.A. Jacko, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 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.) Atlanta, GA, USA (Ed.)

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This four-volume set LNCS 4550-4553 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International This four-volume set LNCS 4550-4553 constitutes This four-volume set LNCS 4550-4553 constitutes Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII the refereed proceedings of the 12th International the refereed proceedings of the 12th International 2007, held in Beijing, china, in July 2007, jointly with Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 8 other thematically similar conferences. The 513 2007, held in Beijing, china, in July 2007, jointly with 2007, held in Beijing, china, in July 2007, jointly with revised papers presented in the four volumes were 8 other thematically similar conferences. The 513 8 other thematically similar conferences. The 513 carefully reviewed and selected from numerous sub- revised papers presented in the four volumes were revised papers presented in the four volumes were missions. The papers accepted for presentation thor- carefully reviewed and selected from numerous sub- carefully reviewed and selected from numerous sub- oughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer missions. The papers accepted for presentation thor- missions. The papers accepted for presentation thor- Interaction, addressing major advances in knowl- oughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer oughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer edge and effective use of computers in a variety of Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge application areas. The 132 papers of this fourth vol- and effective use of computers in a variety of appli- and effective use of computers in a variety of appli- ume are organized in topical sections business application areas. The 113 papers of this third volume cation areas. The 136 papers of this second volume cations; learning and entertainment; health applica- are organized in topical sections on multimodality are organized in topical sections on graphical user tions; work and collaboration support; web-based and conversational dialogue; adaptive, intelligent interfaces and visualization, mobile devices and mo- and mobile applications and services; as well as, ad- and emotional user interfaces; gesture and eye gaze bile interaction, virtual environments and 3D inter- vanced design and development support. recognition; and interactive TV and media. action, ubiquitous interaction, and emerging interac- Fields of interest tive technologies. Fields of interest User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Fields of interest Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; age and Retrieval; Software Engineering; Logics and age and Retrieval; Software Engineering; Logics and Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- Meanings of Programs; Computer Communication Meanings of Programs; Computer Communication age and Retrieval; Software Engineering; Logics and Networks Networks Meanings of Programs; Computer Communication Target groups Networks Target groups Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Target groups Type of publication Researchers and professionals Type of publication Proceedings Proceedings Type of publication Proceedings Due July 2007 Due June 2007 Due June 2007 2007. XXIV, 1225 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- 2007. XXI, 1038 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- puter Science, Vol. 4553) Softcover puter Science, Vol. 4552) Softcover 2007. XXIII, 1253 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- 111,00 € puter Science, Vol. 4551) Softcover 102,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-73109-2 ISBN 978-3-540-73108-5 114,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-73106-1 springer.com/booksellers Computer Science 111

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F.V. Jensen, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark; Th.D. Nielsen, J. Jiang, University of California, Davis, CA, USA H. Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark 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.) Bayesian Networks and Decision Mixed Models and Their Graphs Applications Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing

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C.B. Jones, Z. Liu, J. Woodcock (Eds.) C.B. Jones, Newcastle University, UK; Z. Liu, The United Nations W. Jonker, Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; University, Macao, China; J. Woodcock, University of York, UK M. Petkovic, Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The Nether- (Eds.) lands (Eds.) Formal Methods and Hybrid Real- Time Systems Theoretical Aspects of Computing - Secure Data Management

Essays in Honour of Dines Bjorner and Zhou Chaochen on the ICTAC 2007 4th VLDB Workshop, SDM 2007, Vienna, Austria, September Occasion of Their 70th Birthdays 23-24, 2007, Proceedings 4th International Colloquium, Macau, China, September 26-28, 2007, Proceedings

This Festschrift volume, published to honour both This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Dines Bjørner and Zhou Chaochen on the occa- the Third VLDB 2007 International Workshop on This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the sion of their 70th birthdays in October and Novem- Secure Data Management, SDM 2007, held in Vien- 4th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects ber 2007, includes 25 refereed papers by leading re- na, Austria, September 23-24, 2007 in conjunction of Computing, ICTAC 2007 held in Macau, China searchers, current and former colleagues, who con- with VLDB 2007. The 11 revised full papers present- in September 2007. The 29 revised full papers pre- gregated at a celebratory symposium held in Macao, ed were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 sub- sented together with 3 invited talks and summaries China, in the course of the International Colloqui- missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- of 2 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected um on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC tions on Access Control, Database Security, Privacy from 69 submissions. The aim of the colloquium is 2007. The papers cover a broad spectrum of subjects, Protection and Positon Papers. from foundational and theoretical topics to algo- to bring together practitioners and researchers from rithms and systems issues and to applications, com- academia, industry and government to present re- Fields of interest prising formal methods, systems modelling, hybrid search results, and exchange experience, ideas, and Database Management; Information Storage and Re- and real-time systems, specification and verification, solutions for their problems in theoretical aspects trieval; Computer Communication Networks; Da- as well as interval temporal logic. Dines Bjørner is of computing such as automata theory and formal ta Encryption; Operating Systems; Management of known for his many contributions to the theory and languages, principles and semantics of program- Computing and Information Systems practice of formal methods for software engineer- ming languages, software architectures and their de- ing with special focus on abstraction and modelling, scription languages, software specification, refine- Target groups specification of systems and languages, and domains, ment, and verification, model checking and theorem Researchers and professionals requirements, and software design. He was a profes- proving, real-time, embedded and hybrid systems, sor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) theory of parallel, distributed, and internet-based Type of publication in Lyngby, [..] (grid) computing, simulation and modeling, and ser- Proceedings vice-oriented development. Fields of interest Due September 2007 Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Pro- Fields of interest grams; Computer Systems Organization and Com- Computation by Abstract Devices; Logics and Mean- munication Networks; Mathematical Logic and For- ings of Programs; Mathematical Logic and Formal 2007. X, 213 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4721) Softcover mal Languages Languages; Programming Languages, Compilers, In- terpreters; Software Engineering; Computer Com- 42,00 € munication Networks Target groups ISBN 978-3-540-75247-9 Researchers and professionals Target groups Type of publication Researchers and professionals Proceedings Type of publication Proceedings Due September 2007

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Pro .NET 2.0 XML Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

A Cross-Layer Design Perspective XML is the de facto language for communication both within and between distributed applications whether they are on the Internet or a corporate network. It owes its success to its two key strengths: a Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: A Cross- highly-structured human readable format and the Layer Design Perspective deals with the emerging fact that it can be transmitted as pure text. No mat- design trend that transcends traditional communi- ter how disparate applications and their architec- cation layers for performance gains in ad hoc and tures may be almost everything can read text files sensor networks. The author explores the current and hence can accept XML data. This gives it a great state of the art in cross-layer approaches for ad hoc advantage over rival technologies such as Remot- and sensor networks, providing a comprehensive de- ing which were previously popular but which are sign resource. The book offers a structured compar- now being replaced by XML-based solutions. This ison and analysis of both layered and cross-layer de- book will be the first to provide a complete solution sign, providing readers with an overview of the many to XML on the .NET 2.0 Framework including the issues relating to ad hoc and sensor networks. The new .NET 3.0 extensions that are being released in benefits of these cross-layer approaches are exam- January 2007. It will provide readers with everything ined through three diverse case studies: a monitor- they need to know to take advantage of XML in every ing sensor network using Radio Frequency waves, aspect of their working lives up to and including in- an ad hoc network that uses Ultra Wide Band Radio, tegration using Windows Communication Founda- and an acoustic underwater sensor network for envi- tion. ronmental monitoring. Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: A Cross-Layer Design Perspective is inter- Features disciplinary in character, and should be of value to This will be the most complete book on .NET 2.0 software engineers, hardware engineers, application XML available. It will cover everything readers need [..] to use XML effectively It will be the first book to describe how XML interacts with the Windows Com- Features munication Foundation (part of the new .NET 3.0 Addresses the complex crosscutting issues of the extensions) The author is a Microsoft Certified emerging ad hoc and sensor network research field Trainer who regularly teaches classes on XML. As ocus on cross-layer design approaches in ad hoc and such he is well practiced in providing the kind of sensor networks Adopts an integrated approach to clear, precise, [..] design and optimizing performance in both ad hoc and sensor networks Proposes and develops a unified Contents cross-layer optimization framework applicable to ad 1. Introducing XML.- 2. Manipulating XML docu- hoc and sensor networks Goes beyond theoretical ments using Document Object Model (DOM).- 3. discussion [..] Manipulating XML documents using XPath data model.- 4. Reading and writing XML documents us- Contents ing XmlReader and XmlWriter.- 5. Validating XML Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Opportunities documents with Schema.- 6. Transforming XML and Challenges.- Part I: Layered Communica- with XSLT.- 7. XML in ADO.NET.- 8. XML serial- tion Approaches.- Physical Layer.- Data ization.- 9. XML Web Services.- 10. XML in SQL Link Layer.- Network Layer.- Transport Server 2005.- 11. Use of XML in .NET Framework.- and Middleware Layers.- Application Layer.- Part 12. WCF and Web Services (if .NET 3.0 is available).- II: Cross-Layer Approaches.- Cross-Layer Design.- 13. Appendix A : Creating custom XML readers and Cross-Layer Architectures.- Applied Cross-Layer writers.- 14. Appendix B: Case Study.- 15. Appendix Approaches.- Part III: Case Studies.- Optimization C: Resources. of an RF Sensor Network.- UWB Ad Hoc Network.- Acoustic Underwater Sensor Network.- Conclud- Fields of interest ing Remarks and Future Directions.- Extended Cost Programming Techniques Function.- References.- Index.

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V.G. Kaburlasos, Technological Educational Institution of Kavala, P. Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI, Computer and Automation Research M. Kamel, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada; A. Campilho, Uni- Greece; G.X. Ritter, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Institute, Budapest, Hungary; Th. Fahringer, University of Inns- versity of Porto, Portugal (Eds.) (Eds.) bruck, Austria; Z. Nemeth, MTA SZTAKI, Computer and Automa- tion Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary (Eds.) Image Analysis and Recognition Computational Intelligence Based Distributed and Parallel Systems 4th International Conference, ICIAR 2007, Montreal, Canada, on Lattice Theory August 22-24, 2007, Proceedings From Cluster to Grid Computing

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This book will serve as a foundation for a variety of useful applications of graph theory to computer vision, pattern recognition, and related areas. It covers a representative set of novel graph-theoretic methods for complex computer vision and pattern recognition tasks. The first part of the book presents the application of graph theory to low-level processing of digital images such as a new method for partitioning a given image into a hierarchy of homogeneous areas using graph pyramids, or a study of the relationship between graph theory and digital topology. Part II presents graph-theoretic learning algorithms for high-level computer vision and pattern recognition applications, including a survey of graph based methodologies for pattern recognition and computer vision, a presentation of a series of computationally efficient algorithms for testing graph isomorphism and related graph matching tasks in pattern recognition and a new graph distance measure to be used for solving graph matching [..]

Features Will serve as a foundation for a variety of useful applications of the graph theory to computer vision, pattern recognition, and related areas Covers a representative set of novel graph-theoretic methods for complex computer vision and pattern recognition tasks

Contents Part I: Applied Graph Theory for Low Level Image Processing and Segmentation.- Multi-resolution Im- age Segmentations in Graph Pyramids.- A Graphi- cal Model Framework for Image Segmentation.- Dig- ital Topologies on Graphs.- Part II: Graph Similari- ty, Matching, and Learning for High Level Comput- er Vision and Pattern Recognition.- How and Why Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Appli- cations Use Graphs.- Efficient Algorithms on Trees and Graphs with Unique Node Labels.- A Gener- ic Graph Distance Measure Based on Multivalent Matchings.- Learning from Supervised Graphs.- Part III: Special [..]

Fields of interest Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)

Target groups Researchers, engineers, graduate students in computational intelligence, pattern recognition, and computer vision

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Due March 2007

2007. X, 265 p. Also available online. (Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 52) Hardcover

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Y. Kaneda, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; H. Kawamura, L. Kang, Y. Liu, The University of Aizu, Japan; S. Zeng, China Uni- L. Kang, Y. Liu, S. Zeng (Eds.) Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan; M. Sasai, Nagoya Uni- versity of Geosciences, Wuhan, China (Eds.) versity, Nagoya, Japan (Eds.) Advances in Computation and Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Intelligence Frontiers of Computational Science Hardware Proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers of Second International Symposium, ISICA 2007, Wuhan, China, Computational Science 2005 7th International Conference, ICES 2007, Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007, Proceedings September 21-23, 2007, Proceedings

Computational science based on the high-level use This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the of computers has been called the third major method Second International Symposium on Intelli- 7th International Conference on Evolvable Systems, in the field of scientific research, standing alongside gence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2007, ICES 2007, held in Wuhan, China, in September the conventional methods of theory and experiment. held in Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007. The 2007. The 41 revised full papers presented were care- This books covers the wide-ranging scientific areas 71 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and fully reviewed and selected from 123 submissions. of computational science, from basic research fields selected from nearly 1000 submissions. The topics The papers are organized in topical sections on digi- such as algorithms and soft-computing to diverse ap- include Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary tal hardware evolution, analog hardware evolution, plied fields targeting macro, micro, nano, genome learning, Neural Networks, Swarms, Pattern Recog- bio-inspired systems, mechanical hardware evolu- and complex systems. nition, Data Mining and others. tion, evolutionary design, evolutionary algorithms in Features hardware design, and hardware implementation of Fields of interest Proceedings of the International Symposium on evolutionary algorithms. Models and Principles; Data Mining and Knowledge Frontiers of Computational Science 2005, Nagoya, Discovery; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Fields of interest December 2005 Reports recent research by leading Simulation and Modeling; Computer Imaging, Vi- Computation by Abstract Devices; Logic Design; Ar- experts on many areas of computational science, sion, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Computa- tificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Simulation and from nano materials, biomolecules, to fluid dynam- tional Biology/Bioinformatics Modeling; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; ics Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and De- Target groups Contents sign Researchers and professionals From the contents Computational Methods Com- Target groups Type of publication bining Large Eddy Simulation with Approximate Researchers and professionals Proceedings Wall-Layer Models for Predicting Separated Tur- bulent Near-Wall Flows.- Numerical Experimenta- Type of publication Due August 2007 tion: a Third Way to Study Nature.- Recent Compu- Proceedings tational Developments in Quantum Conductance and Field Emission of Carbon Nanotubes.- Energy 2007. XVII, 663 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4683) Landscapes of Protein Self-Assembly: Lessons from Due August 2007 Softcover Native Topology-Based Models.- A Brief Introduc- tion to Krylov Space Methods for Solving Linear Sys- 2007. XIV, 446 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4684) 76,00 € tems.- Recent Developments in DNS and Modeling Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-74580-8 of Rotating Wall-Turbulent Shear Flows with Heat Transfer.- Contribution of [..] 60,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74625-6 Fields of interest Numerical and Computational Methods in Engi- neering; Computing Milieux; Simulation and Model- ing; Bioinformatics; Nonlinear Dynamics, Complex Systems, Chaos, Neural Networks

Target groups Researchers, engineers and graduate students in Computational Science and Engineering, including Computational Biophysics, Computational Material Science, and Computational Fluid and Thermal En- gineering

Type of publication Proceedings

Due March 2007

2007. XXV, 361 p. 157 illus. Hardcover

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M.-Y. Kao, Northwestern University, Evanton, IL, USA; X.-Y. Li, Illi- N. Karssemeijer, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, N. Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New nois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA (Eds.) The Netherlands; B. Lelieveldt, Leiden University Medical Center, Zealand Leiden, The Netherlands (Eds.) Algorithmic Aspects in Information Evolving Connectionist Systems and Management Information Processing in Medical Imaging The Knowledge Engineering Approach Third International Conference, AAIM 2007, Portland, OR, USA, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings 20th International Conference, IPMI 2007, Kerkrade, The Netherlands, July 2-6, 2007, Proceedings This second edition of Evolving Connectionist Sys- tems presents generic computational models and This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the techniques that can be used for the development of Third International Conference on Algorithmic As- This book constitutes the refeered proceedings of evolving, adaptive modelling systems, as well as new pects in Information and Management, AAIM 2007, the 20th Interational Conference on Information trends including computational neuro-genetic mod- held in Portland, OR, USA in June 2007. The 39 re- Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2007, held in elling and quantum information processing related vised full papers presented together with abstracts Kerkrade, The Netherlands, in July 2007. The 26 re- to evolving systems. New applications, such as au- of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and select- vised full papers and 37 revised poster papers pre- tonomous robots, adaptive artificial life systems and ed from 120 submissions. The papers are organized sented were carefully reviewed and selected from 210 adaptive decision support systems are also covered. in topical sections on graph algorithms, combina- submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- The models and techniques used are connection- torics, scheduling, graph theory, network algorithms, tions on segmentation, cardiovascular imaging, de- ist-based and, where possible, existing connection- game theory, option theory, computational geome- tection and labeling, diffusion tensor imaging, regis- ist models have been used and extended. Divided in- try, graph theory and combinatorics, as well as net- tration, image reconstruction, functional brain imag- to four parts the book opens with evolving processes works and data. ing, as well as shape models and registration. in nature; looks at methods and techniques that can be used in evolving connectionist systems; then cov- Fields of interest Fields of interest ers various applications in bioinformatics and brain Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Data Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern studies; finishing with applications for intelligent Structures; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Sci- Recognition; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); machines. Aimed at all those interested in develop- ence; Numeric Computing; Probability and Statistics Computer Graphics; Health Informatics & Health ing adaptive models and systems to solve challenging in Computer Science; Management Administration; Imaging / Radiology real world problems in computer science and [..]

Target groups Target groups Features Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Includes new trends and applications that relate to evolving systems A fully extended, integrated ap- Type of publication Type of publication proach to the analysis of evolving information pro- Proceedings Proceedings cesses at different levels

Due May 2007 Due June 2007 Contents From the contents Part 1 Evolving Connectionist Systems: Methods and Techniques – Introduction: 2007. XII, 428 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- 2007. XX, 777 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Evolving Information Processes and Evolving Intelli- er Science, Vol. 4584) Softcover er Science, Vol. 4508) Softcover gence – Feature selection, Model Creation and Mod- 56,00 € 84,00 € el Validation: Statistical Learning Approaches – Un- ISBN 978-3-540-72868-9 ISBN 978-3-540-73272-3 supervised Learning: Clustering and Vector Quanti- sation – Supervised Learning in Connectionist Sys- tems – Recurrent Neural Networks. Finite Automa- ta. Spiking Neural Networks – Neuro-Fuzzy Infer- ence Systems – Evolutionary Computation for Model and Feature Optimisation - Evolving Integrated Mul- ti-modal Systems – Part II Inspiration from-, and [..]

Fields of interest Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Software Engi- neering; Simulation and Modeling; Pattern Recogni- tion; Bioinformatics; Control Engineering

Target groups Researchers, postgraduates, MSc students in computer science and engineering

Type of publication Monograph

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2007. XXII, 458 p. 185 illus. Softcover

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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, Vol. 4521) Softcover Target groups Tools.- 4. The Macro Design Process.- 5. RTL Cod- Researchers and professionals ing Guidelines.- 6. Macro Synthesis Guidelines.- 64,00 € 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.

2007. XIII, 407 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Fields of interest er Science, Vol. 4573) Softcover Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engineering 56,00 € (CAD, CAE) and Design; Electronic and Computer ISBN 978-3-540-73083-5 Engineering; Computer Hardware Target groups Researchers, scientists

Type of publication Contributed volume

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2007. 330 p. Softcover

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Z. Kedad, University of Versailles, France; N. Lammari, Conserva- F.J. Kelly, Atlanta, GA, USA A.-M. Kermarrec, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes, France; L. Bougé, IRISA/ toire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France; E. Métais, Con- ENS Cachan, Rennes, France; T. Priol, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes, France servatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France; F. Meziane, (Eds.) Salford University, Manchester, UK; Y. Rezgui, Salford University, LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Manchester, UK (Eds.) Programming Guide Euro-Par 2007 Parallel Processing

Natural Language Processing and 13th International Euro-Par Conference, Rennes ,France , Au- gust 28-31, 2007, Proceedings Information Systems LEGO Mindstorms NXT is the most popular robot on the market. James Kelly is the au- 12th International Conference on Applications of Natural Lan- thor of the most popular blog on NXT (http:// guage to Information Systems, NLDB 2007, Paris, France, June This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 27-29, 2007, Proceedings thenxtstep.blogspot.com/) with over 30,000 hits a month. The NXT-G visual programming language the 13th International Conference on Parallel Com- for the NXT robot is completely new and there are puting, Euro-Par 2007, held in Dresden, Rennes, currently no books available on the subject. There is France, August 28-31, 2007. The 89 revised papers This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of an extremely limited amount of information in the presented were carefully reviewed and selected from the 12th International Conference on Applications HTML help files included with the software. This 333 submissions. The papers are organized in top- of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB book covers all of the basic, intermediate, and ad- ical sections on support tools and environments; 2007, held in Paris, France in June 2007. The 31 re- vanced programming blocks that are standard with performance prediction and evaluation; scheduling vised full papers and 10 revised short papers present- the NXT-G language suite. The book uses simple, and load balancing; compilers for high performance; ed together with 1 invited lecture were carefully re- non-technical terminology with plenty of screen- parallel and distributed databases; grid and cluster viewed and selected from 110 submissions. The pa- shots and line drawings to demonstrate proper use computing; peer-to-peer computing; distributed sys- pers are organized in topical sections on natural lan- of all the blocks as well as basic programming tech- tems and algorithms; parallel and distributed pro- guage for database query processing, email manage- niques such as loops, If-Then statements, case state- gramming; parallel numerical algorithms; distributed ment, semantic annotation, text clustering, ontolo- ments, and use of variables. and high-performance multimedia; theory and algo- gy engineering, natural language for information sys- rithms for parallel computation; high performance tem design, information retrieval systems, and natu- Features networks; mobile and ubiquitous computing. ral language processing techniques. Written by the best-selling author of LEGO Mind- storms NXT: The Mayan Adventure Written for Fields of interest Fields of interest kids, teachers, parents or anyone new to the NXT- Computer Systems Organization and Communica- Database Management; Computer Communication G programming language Offers easy-to-follow in- tion Networks; Software Engineering/Programming Networks; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Math- structions for all aspects of NXT-G, from basic to ad- and Operating Systems; Theory of Computation; ematical Logic and Formal Languages; Information vanced Numeric Computing; Database Management Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Contents Target groups What is A Program?.- Pseudo Code.- Hello World Researchers and professionals Target groups Display Block.- Move Block.- Record/Play Block.- Type of publication Researchers and professionals Sound Block.- Wires.- Logic Discussion.- Input Proceedings (Touch, Sound, Light, Us, NXT Buttons, Rotation, Type of publication Timer).- Wait Block.- Loop Block.- Switch Block.- Professional book Stop Block.- Random.- Compare.- Range.- Logic Due August 2007 Block.- Variable.- Text.- Math.- Keep Alive.- File Due June 2007 Access (Needs to Have the Program Tested).- Cali- 2007. XXVII, 974 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- brate.- Reset Motor.- Send Message/Receive Message puter Science, Vol. 4641) Softcover 2007. XIV, 442 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Block (Not Completed). er Science, Vol. 4592) Softcover 111,00 € Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-74465-8 60,00 € Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems ISBN 978-3-540-73350-8 Target groups Young programmers, age 10 and up, beginning to intermediate; parents and teachers who want to learn the new language for themselves or be able to assist students/children with learning to properly program their robots

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2007. 216 p. Softcover

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A. Kerren, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany; A. Ebert, Univer- M. Kifer, Stony Brook University, New York, NY, USA; S. Smolka, J.M. Kizza, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN, USA sity of Kaiserslautern, Germany; J. Meyer, University of California, Stony Brook University, New York, NY, USA CA, USA (Eds.) Ethical and Social Issues in the Introduction to Operating System Information Age Human-Centered Visualization Design and Implementation Environments The OSP 2 Approach GI-Dagstuhl Research Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, This 3rd edition takes off where the 2nd ended to ex- March 5-8, 2006, Revised Papers amine ethical, social, and policy challenges steam- ing from the emergence of cyberspace and the con- OSP 2 is both an implementation of a modern oper- vergence of telecommunication and computing tech- ating system and a flexible environment for generat- nologies, and the miniaturalization of computing, This tutorial book presents an augmented selection ing implementation projects appropriate for an in- telecommunication, and information enabling de- of the material presented at the GI-Dagstuhl Re- troductory course in operating system design. This vices. New topics and features include: Provides fun- search Seminar on Human-Centered Visualization book is an introduction to the design and implemen- damental discussion of computer network security Environments, HCVE 2006, held in Dagstuhl Castle, tation of operating systems using OSP 2, the next system design and operation to reveal vulnerable ar- Germany in March 2006. The 8 tutorial lectures pre- generation of the highly popular OSP courseware for eas in the computer network infrastructure; intro- sented are the thoroughly cross-reviewed and revised undergraduate operating system courses. Topics and duces and explores techniques in electronic crime in- versions of the summaries and findings, presented Features: Process and thread management; Mem- vestigation; explores biometric techniques to system and discussed at the seminar. After an introduction ory, Resource and I/0 device management; Inter- access control. This book provides an updated dis- to human-centered visualization environments the process communication; Gives opportunity to prac- cussion of the ethical and social issues that continue fundamental principles and methods in that area are tice these skills in a realistic operating systems pro- to evolve as computing and information technologies shown such as human-centered aspects, interacting gramming environment. This book contains enough proliferate. Students, practitioners, and professionals with visualizations, visual representations, as well as projects for up to 3 semesters, exposing students to who need to know about computer ethics, the legal challenges and unsolved problems. The book is con- many essential features of operating systems, while aspects of computing, network security, computer cluded with lectures on domain-specific visualization at the same time isolating them from low-level ma- crime investigation, and biometrics will find this an describing geographic visualization, algorithm ani- chine-dependent concerns. Thus, even in 1 semester, invaluable resource that addresses the latest in [..] mation, and biomedical information visualization. students can learn about page-replacement strategies in virtual memory management, CPU-scheduling Fields of interest Features strategies, disk seek-time optimization & other Image Processing and Computer Vision; Computer Wide-ranging survey of impact of new technologies issues in [..] Graphics; Pattern Recognition; User Interfaces and on ethical and social issues, written specifically for undergraduates Contains 3 new chapters: Computer Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence Features Network Crimes, Computer Crime Investigations, (incl. Robotics) Contains enough projects for up to 3 semesters and Biometrics Exercises at the ends of chapters In- These projects expose students to essential features Target groups structor manual with solutions and teaching guides of operating systems, whilst isolating them from low- Researchers and professionals Supplementary material on website level machine-dependent concerns An Instructors Type of publication Manual details how to use the OSP Project Genera- Contents Proceedings tor and sample assignments The OSP courseware it- Introduction to Social and Ethical Computing.- self is available to instructors A complementary web- Morality and the Law.- Ethics, Technology and Val- site provides support for both students and instruc- Due July 2007 ue, Ethics and the Professions.- Anonymity, Securi- tors using OSP 2 ty, Privacy and Civil Liberties.- Intellectual Property Rights and Computer Technology.- Social Context of Contents 2007. XIX, 403 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Computing.- Software Issues: Risks and Liabilities.- er Science, Vol. 4417) Softcover Organisation of OSP 2.- Putting it All Together: An Computer Crimes.- New Frontiers for Computer Example Session with OSP 2.- TASKS: Management Ethics: Artificial Intelligence, Cyberspace and Virtu- 46,00 € of Tasks (a.k.a. Processes).- THREADS: Manage- al Reality.- Cyberspace and Cyberethics.- Computer ISBN 978-3-540-71948-9 ment and Scheduling of Threads.- MEMORY: Virtu- Networks Crimes.- Computer Crime Investigations al Memory Management.- DEVICES: Scheduling of – Computer Forensics.- Biometrics.- Appendix A: Disk Requests.- FILESYS: The File System.- PORTS: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act.- [..] Interprocess Communication.- Resources: Resource Management. Fields of interest Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Fields of interest Data Encryption; Computers and Society; User In- Operating Systems terfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Social Target groups Sciences; Philosophy of Technology Undergraduate students Target groups Type of publication Undergraduates Undergraduate textbook Type of publication Undergraduate textbook Due August 2007 Due August 2007 2007. XII, 172 p. Also available online. (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science) Softcover 2007. XVII, 439 p. 17 illus. (Texts in Computer Science) Hardcover 29,95 € ISBN 978-1-84628-842-5 46,95 € ISBN 978-1-84628-658-2 122 Computer Science springer.com/booksellers

J. Kleijn, Leiden University, The Netherlands; A. Yakovlev, Univer- J. Kletti, MPDV Mikrolab GmbH, Mosbach, Germany (Ed.) M. Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, sity of Newcastle, UK (Eds.) 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.) Petri Nets and Other Models of MES Concurrency - ICATPN 2007 Cooperative Information Agents XI

28th International Conference on Applications and Theory 11th International Workshop, CIA 2007, Delft, The Nether- of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, ICATPN 2007, The classical factory fades into history as production lands, September 19-21, 2007, Proceedings Siedlce, Poland, June 25-29, 2007, Proceedings plants today develop into modern service centers. Problems in management arise for which many companies are not yet prepared: economic efficiency of This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of modern added value is not a property of products 11th International Workshop on Cooperative Infor- the 28th International Conference on Applications alone but of the process. Decisive potential in busi- mation Agents, CIA 2007, held in Delft, The Nether- and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Con- ness now is a question of process capability, rather lands, September 19-21, 2007. The 19 revised full pa- currency, ICATPN 2007, held in Siedlce, Poland, in than production capability. Process capability in pers presented together with 4 invited papers were June 2007. The 22 revised full papers and 3 revised business requires real-time systems for optimization. carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. tool papers presented together with 5 invited papers Business-IT needs to be developed from telecom- The papers are organized in topical sections on In- were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of munications and ERP to real-time services, which formation Search and Processing, Applications, Ra- 70 submissions. All current issues on research and are not offered by the prevailing ERP systems. To- tional Cooperation, Interaction and Cooperation development in the area of Petri nets and modeling day, only modern Manufacturing Execution Systems and Trust. of concurrent systems are addressed, in particular (MES) offer real-time applications. They generate system design and verification, analysis, synthesis, current as well as historic mappings of production Fields of interest structure and behaviour of nets, net theory and re- facilities and thus they can be used as basis for opti- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information lations, causality/partial order theory of concurren- mizations. It is important to map the supply chain Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Data Mining cy, semantic Web, logical and algebraic calculi, sym- in real time. Increasing complexity in production re- and Knowledge Discovery; Database Management; bolic net representation, tools for nets, experience requires an integrated view of the production and ser- Computer Communication Networks; User Inter- ports and case studies, educational issues, higher-lev- vice facilities: detailed scheduling, status [..] faces and Human Computer Interaction el net models, timed and stochastic nets, as well as standardization of nets. Features Target groups Today, process capability is the prerequisite for prof- Researchers and professionals Fields of interest it-yielding and customer-oriented companies How- Theory of Computation; Software Engineering; Dis- ever, this fundamental idea, that of certification stan- Type of publication crete Mathematics in Computer Science; Computer dards as well, is not yet predominant in practice Proceedings Communication Networks; Processor Architectures; Shows how modern information technology (MES) becomes the prerequisite for process capability of the Operating Systems Due September 2007 company on the basis of many practical examples Target groups Researchers and professionals Contents 2007. XI, 361 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4676) New avenues for the effective factory.- MES for pro- Softcover Type of publication cess capability.- Added value from software.- MES - Proceedings the new class of IT applications.- Building an MES 52,00 € system.-Integrated production management with ISBN 978-3-540-75118-2 Due June 2007 MES.- Detailed planning and control with MES.- Quality assurance with MES.- Personnel management with MES.- MES under SAP.- MES in plas- 2007. XI, 515 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer tics processing.- Abbreviations.- Checklist.- The au- Science, Vol. 4546) Softcover thors.- Index. 64,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-73093-4 Fields of interest Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Computer Applications; Organiza- tion/Planning; Production/Logistics; Information Systems; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk

Target groups Engineers in production and business organization

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2007. XII, 272 p. 100 illus. Hardcover

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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, Vol. 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- 68,00 € 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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K.-R. Koch, University of Bonn, Germany N. Kock, Texas A & M International University, Laredo, TX, USA J.N. Kok, Leiden University, Netherlands; J. Koronacki, Polish (Ed.) Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; R. Lopez de Mantaras, CCIC, IIIA, Bellaterra, Spain; S. Matwin, D. Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Introduction to Bayesian Statistics Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia; A. Skowron, Warsaw University, Information Systems Action Poland (Eds.) Research Machine Learning: ECML 2007 The Introduction to Bayesian Statistics (2nd edition) An Applied View of Emerging Concepts and Methods presents Bayes’ theorem, the estimation of unknown 18th European Conference on Machine Learning, Warsaw, parameters, the determination of confidence regions Poland, September 17-21, 2007, Proceedings and the derivation of tests of hypotheses for the unknown parameters, in a manner that is simple, intu- Information Systems Action Research is organized itive and easy to comprehend. The methods are ap- into three parts: (1) The first part focuses on the plied to linear models, in models for a robust esti- methodological issues that arise when action re- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of mation, for prediction and filtering and in models search methods are conducted. (2) The second part the 18th European Conference on Machine Learn- for estimating variance components and covariance provides examples of action research in practice. ing, ECML 2007, held in Warsaw, Poland, September components. Regularization of inverse problems and (3) The third part will summarize the philosophical 17-21, 2007, jointly with PKDD 2007. The 41 revised pattern recognition are also covered while Bayesian foundations of action research and its application full papers and 37 revised short papers presented to- networks serve for reaching decisions in systems as a methodology in Information Systems research gether with abstracts of 4 invited talks were careful- with uncertainties. If analytical solutions cannot be and research programs. The book will include chap- ly reviewed and selected from 592 abstracts submit- derived, numerical algorithms are presented, such ters from Europe, Australasia, and the Americas rep- ted to both, ECML and PKDD. The papers present a as the Monte Carlo integration and Markov Chain resenting different traditions and perspectives in ac- wealth of new results in the area and address all cur- Monte Carlo methods. tion research. These chapters will come from promi- rent issues in machine learning. nent scholars in the areas, who are widely recognized Features as authors of seminal ideas in action research. Fields of interest An easy to understand introduction to Bayesian Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Algorithm statistics Compares traditional and Bayesian meth- Features Analysis and Problem Complexity; Mathematical ods with the rules of probability presented in a logi- The book will be positioned well in the Informa- Logic and Formal Languages; Database Management cal way allowing an intuitive understanding of ran- tion Systems/Information Technology market. The dom variables and their probability distributions to largest consumers of IS research are businesses and Target groups be formed organization that employ information technology Researchers and professionals and systems to support many of their business/orga- Contents nizational functions including finance, marketing, Type of publication 1 Introduction.- 2 Probability.- 3 Parameter Estima- order-taking, production, supply chain management, Proceedings tion, Confidence Regions and Hypothesis Testing.- 4 human resources, and other services Current IS re- Linear Model.- 5 Special Models and Applications.- 6 search is [..] Due September 2007 Numerical Methods.- References.- Index. Contents 2007. XXIV, 809 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4701) Fields of interest Contributing authors.- Foreword.- Preface.- Softcover Geophysics/Geodesy; Statistics for Engineering, Methodological issues.- Action research: its nature Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry & Geo- and validity.- The structure of power in action re- 87,00 € sciences; Geoinformation/Cartography; Image Pro- search projects.- Action is an artifact: what action re- ISBN 978-3-540-74957-8 cessing and Computer Vision search and design science offer to each other.- Ac- tion research and design in information systems: two Target groups faces of a single coin.- The three threats of organiza- Students and practitioners applying Bayes statistics tional action research: their nature and related anti- to geophysical and geodetic problems dotes.- Driven by two masters, serving both: the interplay of problem solving and research in informa- Type of publication tion systems action research projects.- IS action re- Monograph search in practice.- Story [..]

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J.N. Kok, Leiden University, The Netherlands; J. Koronacki, Polish B. Kokinov, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria; D.C. B. Konev, University of Liverpool, UK; F. Wolter, University of Liv- Academy of Sciences, Warsaw; R. Lopez de Mantaras, Spanish Richardson, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA; Th.R. erpool, UK (Eds.) National Research Council (CSIC), Bellaterra; S. Matwin, University Roth-Berghofer, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany; L. Vieu, of Ottawa, ON, Canada; D. Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubl- CNRS,Toulouse, France and ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy (Eds.) jana, Slovenia; A. Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland (Eds.) Frontiers of Combining Systems

Modeling and Using Context 6th International Symposium, FroCoS 2007, Liverpool, UK, Knowledge Discovery in Databases: September 10-12, 2007. Proceedings 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT PKDD 2007 2007, Roskilde, Denmark, August 20-24, 2007, Proceedings

11th European Conference on Principles and Practice of This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Warsaw, Poland, Septem- ber 17-21, 2007, Proceedings 6th International Symposium on Frontiers of Com- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the bining Systems, FroCoS 2007, held in Liverpool, UK, 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference September 10-12, 2007. The 14 revised full papers on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2007, presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the held in Roskilde, Denmark in August 2007. The 42 papers are organized in topical sections on combi- 11th European Conference on Principles and Prac- revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed nations of logics, theories, and decision procedures; tice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, PKDD and selected from a total of 121 submissions. The pa- constraint solving and programming; combination 2007, held in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2007, pers deal with the interdisciplinary topic of modeling issues in rewriting and programming as well as in co-located with ECML 2007, the 18th European and using context from various points of view, rang- logical frameworks and theorem proving systems. Conference on Machine Learning. The 28 revised ing from computer science, especially artificial intel- full papers and 35 revised short papers presented to- ligence and ubiquitous computing, through cogni- Fields of interest gether with abstracts of 4 invited talks were careful- tive science, linguistics, organizational sciences, phi- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical ly reviewed and selected from 592 papers submitted losophy, and psychology to application areas such as Logic and Formal Languages; Programming Tech- to both, ECML and PKDD. The papers present orig- medicine and law. niques; Software Engineering inal results on leading-edge subjects of knowledge discovery from conventional and complex data and Fields of interest Target groups address all current issues in the area. Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Researchers and professionals Logic and Formal Languages; Computer Appl. in So- Fields of interest cial and Behavioral Sciences; Computer Appl. in Arts Type of publication Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Database and Humanities Proceedings Management; Information Storage and Retrieval; Probability and Statistics in Computer Science; Doc- Target groups Due August 2007 ument Preparation and Text Processing; Mathemati- Researchers and professionals cal Logic and Formal Languages Type of publication 2007. X, 283 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4720) Softcover Target groups Proceedings Researchers and professionals 45,00 € Due August 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-74620-1 Type of publication Proceedings 2007. XIV, 574 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Vol. 4635) Softcover Due August 2007 68,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74254-8 2007. XXIV, 640 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4702) Softcover

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R. Koop, Sogeti Nederlands BV, Diemen, The Netherlands; E. A. Koschan, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA; M. R. Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia; P.R. Krish- Muris, Sogeti Nederlands BV, Diemen, The Netherlands Pollefeys, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA; M. na, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technol- Abidi, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA (Eds.) ogy, Hyderabad, India; M. Mohania, IBM India Research Laborato- ry, New Delhi, India; E. Nantajeewarawat, Thammasat University, Successfully Implementing Pathum Thani, Thailand (Eds.) Microsoft Dynamics™ 3D Imaging for Safety and Security Advances in Databases: Concepts, By Using the Regatta® Approach for Microsoft Dynamics™ Systems and Applications The past decades have seen significant improvements in 3D imaging where the related techniques 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Ad- Does the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics™ and technologies have advanced to a mature state. vanced Applications, DASFAA 2007, Bangkok, Thailand, April contribute to the goals of your company? Does your These exciting developments have sparked increas- 9-12, 2007 Proceedings company itself have the capacity to build a bridge ing interest in industry and academia in the chal- between the Business and IT? Can your employees lenges and opportunities afforded by 3D sensing. As a consequence, the emerging area of safety and adopt a flexible attitude on all the related changes ? This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of security related imaging incorporates these impor- And, probably even more important, is that what the 12th International Conference on Database Sys- tant new technologies beyond the limitations of 2D they are also willing to do? If you are striving for a tems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2007, image processing. This is the first book that covers full-hearted yes to these questions, this is the book held in Bangkok, Thailand in April 2007. The 68 re- the current state of the art in 3D imaging for safety for you. Regatta Dynamics, our methodology for the vised full papers and 24 revised short papers pre- and security. Topics addressed in this book include structured implementation of Microsoft Dynam- sented together with 2 invited talks, 13 poster pa- 3D imaging related to biometrics, face recognition, ics™, is based on our firm belief that when you im- pers as well as 6 industrial and demonstration pa- surveillance, safety inspection and robotic planning plement Microsoft Dynamics™ there must be a bal- pers were carefully reviewed and selected from 375 for physical security analysis and public safety. The ance between the Business and IT. The consistency submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- book presents thoroughly revised versions of lectures and cohesion between the different underlying work tions on query language and query optimization, da- given by leading researchers during the 'Workshop streams are hereby of overriding importance for the ta mining and knowledge discovery, clustering, out- on Advanced 3D Imaging for Safety and Security' in ultimate result. In this book, we answer the questions lier detection, privacy preserving data mining, paral- conjunction with the International Conference on mentioned above and describe pragmatically the full lel and distributed databases, data warehouse, infor- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition CVPR implementation process from A to Z. Emphasis is mation retrieval, indexing and caching databases, se- 2005 [..] placed on the organizational component of the im- curity and integrity maintenance, image and ontol- plementation process and the cohesion with func- ogy-based databases, sensor and scientific database tional [..] Features First book covering state of the art in the emerg- applications, mobile databases, temporal and spatial databases, data streams, P2P and grid-based data Features ing area of 3D imaging for safety and security Top- management, XML databases, XML indexing, XML Learn from SOGETI, a Microsoft Gold Partner, how ics addressed include Biometrics, Face recognition, query processing, data warehouse and data mining, to implement Microsoft Dynamics™ Combine Prod- Surveillance, Safety Inspection Book instructs the query [..] uct Knowledge about Microsoft Dynamics™ with reader beyond the standard of image processing Knowledge about the SOGETI Regatta® Implementa- Fields of interest tion Process Contents From the contents Part I: Biometrics. 3D Assisted Database Management; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Information Storage and Retrieval; Infor- Contents Face recognition: A survey. A survey on 3D mation Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Multi- Part I - Background and Theory: 1) Implementing Modeling of Human Faces and Face Recognition.- media Information Systems; User Interfaces and Hu- Microsoft Dynamics - 2) The Regatta for Dynamics Automatic 3D Face Registration without Initializa- man Computer Interaction Model.- Part II - Regatta for Dynamics in Practice: tion. A Genetic Algorithm Based Approach for 3D Face Recognition.- Story of Cinderella: Biometrics 3) Model Process Cluster - 4) Map Process Cluster - Target groups and Isometry-invariant Distances. Human Ear De- 5) Customize Process Cluster - 6) Integrate Process Researchers and professionals Cluster.- Appendix, Glossary, References. tection from 3D Side Face Range Images.- Part II: Safety and Security Applications. Synthetic Aper- Type of publication Fields of interest ture Focusing Using Dense Camera Arrays. Dynam- Proceedings 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 Due March 2007 Applications (incl.Internet); Technology Manage- a Robotic [..] ment; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Pro- cessing Fields of interest 2007. XXI, 1126 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and puter Science, Vol. 4443) Softcover Target groups Graphics; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Professional software developers, consultants, Computer Graphics; Pattern Recognition; Math Ap- 104,00 € project managers plications in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-540-71702-7

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Y. Koucheryavy, J. Harju, A. Sayenko (Eds.) T. Kovacs, University of Bristol, UK; X. Llorà, University of Illinois L. Kovács, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA; K. Takadama, Tokyo Institute N. Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; C. Meghini, Con- of Technology, Japan; P.L. Lanzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; W. siglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Pisa. Italy (Eds.) Next Generation Teletraffic Stolzmann, Daimler Chrysler AG, Sindelfingen, Germany; S.W. Wilson, Prediction Dynamics, Concord, MA, USA (Eds.) and Wired/Wireless Advanced Research and Advanced Technology Networking Learning Classifier Systems for Digital Libraries 7th International Conference, NEW2AN 2007, St. Petersburg, 11th European Conference, ECDL 2007, Budapest, Hungary, Russia, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings International Workshops, IWLCS 2003-2005, Revised Selected Papers September 16-21, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 7th International Conference on Next Generation post-proceedings of 3 consecutive International the 11th European Conference on Research and Ad- Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Network- Workshops on Learning Classifier Systems that took vanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2007, ing, NEW2AN 2007, held in St. Petersburg, Russia place in Chicago, IL, USA in July 2003, in Seattle, held in Budapest, Hungary, in September 2007. The in September 10-14, 2007. The 39 revised full papers WA, USA in June 2004, and in Washington, DC, 36 revised full papers presented together with the ex- presented were carefully reviewed and selected from USA in June 2005 - all hosted by the Genetic and tended abstracts of 36 revised poster, demo papers a total of 113 submissions. The papers are organized Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO. and 2 panel descriptions were carefully re- in topical sections on teletraffic, traffic characteri- The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully viewed and selected from a total of 153 submissions. zation and modeling, 3G/UMTS, sensor networks, reviewed and selected from the workshop contribu- The papers are organized in topical sections on on- WLAN, QoS, MANETs, lower layer techniques, PAN tions. The papers are organized in topical sections tologies, digital libraries and the web, models, multi- technologies, and TCP. on knowledge representation, mechanisms, new di- media and multilingual DLs, grid and peer-to-peer, preservation, user interfaces, document linking, in- Fields of interest rections, as well as application-oriented research and formation retrieval, personal information manage- Computer Communication Networks; System Per- tools. The topics range from theoretical analysis of ment, new DL applications, and user studies. formance and Evaluation; Information Systems Ap- mechanisms to practical consideration for successful application of such techniques to everday datamin- plications (incl.Internet); Software Engineering; Fields of interest ing tasks. Communications Engineering, Networks Information Storage and Retrieval; Database Management; Information Systems Applications Target groups Fields of interest (incl.Internet); Multimedia Information Systems; Researchers and professionals Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computation by Abstract Devices; Mathematical Logic and Formal User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Type of publication Languages; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Document Preparation and Text Processing Proceedings Target groups Target groups Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Due August 2007 Type of publication Type of publication 2007. XV, 482 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4712) Proceedings Proceedings Softcover Due March 2007 Due September 2007 60,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74832-8 2007. XII, 345 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- 2007. XVII, 585 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4675) er Science, Vol. 4399) Softcover Softcover

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E. Kranakis, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada; J. Opatrny, A. Krause, Johnstown, PA, USA S. Krishnamurthi, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; M. Oder- Concordia University, Montreal, OC, Canada (Eds.) sky, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland (Eds.) Foundations of GTK+ Development Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Compiler Construction

Networks 16th International Conference, CC 2007, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Soft- 6th International Conference, ADHOC-NOW 2007, Morelia, There are only two mainstream solutions for building the graphical interface of Linux-based desktop ware, ETAPS 2007, Braga, Portugal, March 26-30, 2007, Pro- Mexico, September 24-26, 2007, Proceedings ceedings applications, and GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) is one of them. As the standard for the GNOME and XFCE desktop environments, it is a necessary technology This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the for all Linux programmers. Foundations of GTK+ This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 6th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks Development guides the reader through the com- the 16th International Conference on Compiler and Wireless, ADHOC-NOW 2007, held in More- plexities of GTK+, laying the groundwork that al- Construction, CC 2007, held in Braga, Portugal, in lia, Mexico, in September 2007. The 21 revised full lows the reader to make the leap from novice to pro- March 2007 as part of ETAPS 2007, the European papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 fessional. Beginning with an overview of key top- Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Soft- submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- ics such as widget choice, placement, and behavior, ware. The 15 revised full papers presented were care- tions on routing, topology control, security and pri- readers move on to learn about advanced issues such fully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The vacy, protocols, as well as quality of service and per- as custom widget creation. Replete with real-world papers are organized in topical sections on architec- formance. examples, the developer can quickly take advantages ture, garbage collection and program analysis, regis- of the concepts presented within to begin building ter allocation, and program analysis. Fields of interest his own projects. Computer Communication Networks; Software Fields of interest Engineering; Information Systems Applications Features Logics and Meanings of Programs; Mathematical (incl.Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval; Increasingly eyed as a viable alternative to Windows, Logic and Formal Languages; Software Engineering; Computers and Society; Communications Engineer- companies and open source initiatives alike are busy Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) ing, Networks vying for dominance in key application areas. In order to succeed, these developers will require profi- Target groups Target groups ciency in GTK+, and this book helps them achieve Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals that necessary level of knowledge This book is replete with real-world examples based on the author's pro- Type of publication Type of publication Proceedings Proceedings found expertise and experience in this area GTK+ [..] Contents Due March 2007 Due September 2007 Introduction.- Getting Started.- Your First GTK+ Application.- Container Widgets.- Simple User In- 2007. XIV, 233 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- 2007. X, 285 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4686) teraction.- Dialogs.- Using GLib.- The GtkTextView er Science, Vol. 4420) Softcover Softcover Widget.- The GtkTreeView Widget.- Menus and Toolbars.- Using Glade and libglade.- Creating Cus- 42,00 € 45,00 € tom Widgets.- Putting It All Together.- Appendix A: ISBN 978-3-540-71228-2 ISBN 978-3-540-74822-9 Widget Gallery.

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J. Krogstie, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway; A.L. Opdahl, Universi- J. Krogstie, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway; A.L. Opdahl, University of W.G. Kropatsch, TU Wien, Austria; M. Kampel, TU Wien, Austria; A. ty of Bergen, Norway; S. Brinkkemper, Universiteit Utrecht, The Bergen, Norway; G. Sindre, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway (Eds.) Hanbury, TU Wien, Austria (Eds.) Netherlands (Eds.) Advanced Information Systems Computer Analysis of Images and Conceptual Modelling in Engineering Patterns Information Systems Engineering 19th International Conference, CAiSE 2007, Trondheim, Nor- 12th International Conference, CAIP 2007, Vienna, Austria, way, June 11-15, 2007, Proceedings August 27-29, 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 the it describes the general knowledge of the system in 19th International Conference on Advanced Infor- 12th International Conference on Computer Analy- the so-called conceptual schema. Krogstie, Opdahl mation Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2007, held in sis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2007, held in Vien- and Brinkkemper compiled 20 contributions from Trondheim, Norway in June 2007. The 39 revised na, Austria, in August 2007. The 120 revised full pa- renowned researchers covering all aspects of con- full papers presented together with 1 keynote talk pers presented together with 3 invited lectures were ceptual modeling on the occasion of Arne Sølvberg’s were carefully reviewed and selected from 301 sub- carefully reviewed and selected from 251 submis- 67th birthday. Many friends of this information sys- missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- sions. The papers are organized in topical sections tems modeling pioneer happily contributed their lat- tions on ontologies, extended enterprises, infor- on motion detection and tracking, medical imaging, est research results from fields like data modeling, mation integration, service-oriented architecture, biometrics, colour, curves and surfaces beyond two goal-oriented modeling, agent-oriented modeling, strategic alignment, requirements, process modeling, dimensions, reading characters, words, lines etc., and process-oriented modeling. Overall, the contri- method engineering, novel applications, participative image segmentation, shape, im age registration and butions reflect the most important developments and modeling, and process-aware information systems. matching, signal decomposition and invariants, as application areas of conceptual modeling in recent well as features and classification. years, and they also pinpoint trends in conceptual Fields of interest modeling for the next decade. This wide selection Database Management; Information Systems Appli- Fields of interest corresponds to the broad spectrum of Arne’s activ- cations (incl.Internet); User Interfaces and Human Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Com- ities and long-term responsibilities with the VLDB Computer Interaction; Data Mining and Knowledge puter Vision; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Endowment, IFIP, and ERCIM. Arne was presented Discovery; Computers and Society; Information Sys- Computer Graphics; Algorithm Analysis and Prob- with this book at CAiSE 2007, when the event which tems lem Complexity he [..] Target groups Target groups Contents Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals From the contents 1) From Information Algebra to Enterprise Modelling and Ontologies – a Historical Type of publication Type of publication Perspective on Modelling for Information Systems Proceedings Proceedings (Janis A. Bubenko jr.) - 2) Fact Oriented Modeling: Past, Present and Future (Terry Halpin) - 3) Data In- Due May 2007 Due August 2007 tegration - Problems, Approaches, and Perspectives (Patrick Ziegler, Klaus R. Dittrich) - 4) Challenges to Conceptual Modeling (Bernhard Thalheim) - 5) 2007. XVI, 606 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- 2007. XX, 1006 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Interoperable Management of Conceptual Models er Science, Vol. 4495) Softcover puter Science, Vol. 4673) Softcover (Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre) - 6) Uniform 72,00 € 99,00 € and Flexible Data Management in Workflow Man- ISBN 978-3-540-72987-7 ISBN 978-3-540-74271-5 agement Systems (Johann Eder, Marek Lehmann) - 7) [..]

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C. Kruegel, Technical University of Vienna, Austria; R. Lipp- J. Krumm, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA; G.D. Abowd, M. Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; J.F. mann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA; A. Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA; A. Senevi- Peters, University of Manitoba, Canada; H. Rybinski, Warsaw Uni- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia ratne, National ICT of Australia (NICTA), Eveleigh, Australia; Th. versity of Technology, Poland; A. Skowron, Warsaw University, (Eds.) Strang, University of Innsbruck, Austria (Eds.) Poland (Eds.)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Recent Advances 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Com- International Conference on Rough Sets and Emerg- in Intrusion Detection, RAID 2007, held in Gold puting, UbiComp 2007, held in Innsbruck, Austria, ing Intelligent Systems Paradigms, RSEISP 2007, Coast, Australia in September 2007. The 17 revised in September 2007. The 29 revised full papers pre- held in Warsaw, Poland in June 2007 - dedicated to full papers presented were carefully reviewed and se- sented were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 the memory of Professor Zdzislaw Pawlak. The 73 lected from 101 submissions. The papers are orga- submissions. The papers address all current issues in revised full papers papers presented together with nized in topical sections on anomaly detection, at- the area of ubiquitous, pervasive and handheld com- 2 keynote lectures and 11 invited papers were care- tacks, system evaluation and threat assessment, mal- puting systems and their applications including top- fully reviewed and selected from numerous submis- ware collection and analysis, anomaly- and specifica- ics like: tools and techniques for designing, imple- sions. The papers are organized in topical sections on tion-based detection, and network intrusion detec- menting, and evaluating ubiquitous computing sys- foundations of rough sets, foundations and application. tems, mobile, wireless, and ad hoc networking infras- tions of fuzzy sets, granular computing, algorithmic tructures for ubiquitous computing, laboratory and aspects of rough sets, rough set applications, rough/ Fields of interest in situ studies of ubiquitous computing technologies fuzzy approach, information systems and rough Management of Computing and Information Sys- in use, location-aware and context-based systems for sets, data and text mining, machine learning, hybrid tems; Computers and Society; Data Encryption; ubiquitous computing, privacy, security, and trust in methods and applications, multiagent systems, ap- Computer Communication Networks; Operating ubiquitous and pervasive systems. plications in bioinformatics and medicine, multime- Systems dia applications, as well as web reasoning and human Fields of interest problem solving. Target groups Computer Communication Networks; Software En- Researchers and professionals gineering; Systems and Data Security; Information Fields of interest Systems Applications (incl.Internet); User Interfaces Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathemati- Type of publication and Human Computer Interaction; Computers and cal Logic and Formal Languages; Data Mining and Proceedings Society Knowledge Discovery; Database Management; Com- putation by Abstract Devices; Pattern Recognition Due August 2007 Target groups Researchers and professionals Target groups Researchers and professionals 2007. XII, 338 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Type of publication er Science, Vol. 4637) Softcover Proceedings Type of publication 48,00 € Proceedings ISBN 978-3-540-74319-4 Due September 2007 Due June 2007 2007. XIX, 520 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4717) Softcover 2007. XIX, 836 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4585) Softcover 64,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74852-6 87,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-73450-5 springer.com/booksellers Computer Science 131

B. Krämer, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany; K.-J. Lin, University L. Kucera, A. Kucera (Eds.) D. Kuhn, Littleton, CO, USA; S. Alapati, Flower Mound, TX, USA; A. of California, USA; P. Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University, Nanda, Danbury, CT, USA USA (Eds.) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2007 RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database Service-Oriented Computing - 11g ICSOC 2007 32nd International Symposium, MFCS 2007 Ceský Krumlov, Czech Republic, August 26-31, 2007, Proceedings A Problem-Solution Approach Fifth International Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 17-20, 2007, Proceedings

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Pervasive Computing RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World

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This book constitutes the 10th official archival pub- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the lication devoted to RoboCup. It documents the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Comput- achievements presented at the RoboCup 2006 Inter- ing, PERVASIVE 2007, held in Toronto, Canada in national Symposium, held in Bremen, Germany, in May 2007. The 21 revised full papers presented were June 2006, in conjunction with the RoboCup Com- carefully reviewed and selected from 132 submis- petition. The 22 revised full papers and 36 revised sions. The papers are organized in topical sections poster papers presented together with 2 award-win- on reaching out, context and its application, security ning papers went through two rounds of review- and privacy, understanding use, sensing, as well as ing and improvement, and were carefully selected finding and positioning. from 143 submissions. The book provides a valuable source of reference and inspiration for R and D Fields of interest professionals active or interested in robotics or dis- Computer Communication Networks; Special Pur- tributed intelligence, and is mandatory reading for pose and Application-Based Systems; Systems and the rapidly growing RoboCup community. Data Security; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval; Fields of interest Computers and Society Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Target groups User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Researchers and professionals Image Processing and Computer Vision; Automa- tion and Robotics Type of publication Proceedings Target groups Researchers and professionals Due April 2007 Type of publication Proceedings 2007. XIII, 369 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Vol. 4480) Softcover Due August 2007 52,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-72036-2 2007. XIII, 566 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Vol. 4434) Softcover

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C. Lambrinoudakis, University of Aegean, Samos, Greece; G. Per- L. Langit, Aliso Viejo, CA, USA P. Lavallée, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada nul, Universität Regensburg, Germany; A.M. Tjoa, Vienna Univer- sity of Technology, Austria (Eds.) Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Indirect Sampling Trust, Privacy and Security in Business Intelligence Digital Business Following the classical sampling theory, the survey statistician selects samples of people, businesses or 4th International Conference, TrustBus 2007, Regensburg, Business Intelligence (BI) is the fastest-growing seg- others, in order to obtain the desired information. Germany, September 3-7, 2007, Proceedings ment of Information Technology. Every business Drawing the samples is usually done by randomly se- needs to effectively employ BI to stay competitive, lecting from a list representing the target population. and every IT professional needs to master BI to stay In practice, this list is often not available. At best, the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the employed. This book is the quickest path to seeing statistician only has access to a different list, indi- 4thInternational Conference on Trust and Privacy the BI forest as a whole as well as understanding the rectly related to the targeted population. The exam- in Digital Business, TrustBus 2007, held in Regens- trees within it. It is essential reading for all who work ple of a survey of children where the statistician on- burg, Germany, in September 2007 in conjunction with SQL Server 2005. Foundations of SQL Server ly has a list of adult persons is a typical case. In this with DEXA 2007. The 28 revised full papers present- 2005 Business Intelligence is written by a noted ex- case, the statistician first draws a sample of adults, ed were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 sub- pert from a practical perspective. It is designed for and for each selected adult, the statistician then iden- missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- all users of any of the tools in SQL Server 2005’s ex- tifies his/her children. The survey is done from the tions on privacy and identity management, security traordinarily rich BI product suite. Developers, end- latter. This is what is called indirect sampling. When and risk management, security requirements and de- users, and even managers will find this an enlighten- indirect sampling is used jointly with the sampling velopment, privacy enhancing technologies and pri- ing guide to the power and promise of SQL Server of clusters of persons (families, for example), many vacy management, access control models, trust and 2005 BI. complications arise for the survey statistician. One of reputation, security protocols, and security and pri- the complications relates to the computation of the vacy in mobile environments. Features The most concise yet comprehensive introduction estimates from the survey. The production [..] Fields of interest to SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence A practical Features Computers and Society; Management of Computing guide, by a noted BI expert, to building real-world BI Parameters are estimated by not sampling the target and Information Systems; Data Encryption; Com- solutions Essential reading for developers, users, and population, but another population that is linked to puter Communication Networks; Systems and Data managers at any level of BI experience the target one The proposed approach offers elegant Security; Information Systems Contents and practical solutions Target groups Chapter 1 Making the Business Case for BI.- Chap- Contents Researchers and professionals ter 2 OLAP Modeling.- Chapter 3 Data Sourcing and Introduction.- Description and use of the GWSM.- Preparation.- Chapter 4 Basic Cube Design.- Chap- Literature review.- Properties.- Other generalisa- Type of publication ter 5 ETL: Basics.- Chapter 6 Intermediate Cube De- tions.- Application to longitudinal surveys.- GWSM Proceedings sign.- Chapter 7 Advanced Cube Design.- Chapter and calibration.- Non-response.- GWSM and record 8 ETL: Staging and Loading.- Chapter 9 Reporting linkage.- Conclusion. Due August 2007 Clients.- Chapter 10 Moving from Development to Production.- Chapter 11 Introduction to MDX.- Fields of interest Chapter 12 Introduction to Data Mining.- Chapter Statistics for Social Science, Education, Public Policy, 2007. XIII, 291 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4657) 13 Future Directions. Softcover and Law; Statistical Theory and Methods; Population Economics; Quality of Life Research; Demography; Fields of interest 48,00 € Methodology of the Social Sciences ISBN 978-3-540-74408-5 Programming Techniques Target groups Target groups Statisticians All developers and end-users doing BI with SQL Server 2005 and BI managers and project leaders Type of publication Monograph Type of publication Professional book Due May 2007 Due May 2007 2007. XVI, 256 p. (Springer Series in Statistics) Hardcover

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E. Law, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; E. Hvannberg, University of Ice- J.-K. Lee, Hannam University, Daejeon, Korea; O. Yi, Kookmin Uni- R.S.T. Lee, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; land, Reykjavik, Iceland; G. Cockton, University of Sunderland, UK versity, Seoul, Korea; M. Yung, Columbia University, New York, V. Loia, Università di Salerno, Italy (Eds.) (Eds.) USA (Eds.) Computational Intelligence for Maturing Usability Information Security Applications Agent-based Systems Quality in Software, Interaction and Value 7th International Workshop, WISA 2006, Jeju Island, Korea, August 28-30, 2006, Revised Selected Papers The scope of this volume is to give to the reader a "Maturing Usability" provides an understanding of wide scenario of recent works characterized by a syn- how current research and practice has contributed This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ergistic combination of Soft Computing area with re- towards improving quality issues in software, inter- 7th International Workshop on Information Security cent trends of Distributed Artificial Intelligence and action and value. Divided into three parts, ‘Quality in Applications, WISA 2006, held in Jeju Island, Korea Ambient Intelligence. The editors present two basic Software’ looks at how using development tools can in August 2006. The 30 revised full papers presented motivations: the emergence of computational intel- enhance the usability of a system, and how methods were carefully selected during two rounds of review- ligence as a mature and integrated science, and the and models can be integrated into the process to help ing and improvement from 146 submissions. The pa- power of the agent paradigm in realizing complex develop effective user interfaces. ‘Quality in Interac- pers are organized in topical sections on public key and distributed environments. This book explores tion’ addresses theoretical frameworks on the nature crypto applications and virus protection, cyber in- these emerging areas inviting well-known authors of interactions; techniques and metrics for evaluation dication and intrusion detection, biometrics and se- whose expertise is widely recognized. interaction quality; and the transfer of concepts and curity trust management, secure software and sys- methods from research to practice. Finally, ‘Quality tems, smart cards and secure hardware, mobile secu- Contents in Value’ assesses the impact that a system has in the rity, DRM, information hiding, ubiquitous comput- A Proposal of an Open Ubiquitous Fuzzy Comput- real world, focusing on increasing the value of using security, P2P security, pre-authentication for fast ing System for Ambient Intelligence.- Agent-Con- ability practice for software development and on in- handoff in wireless mesh networks including mobile trolled Sharing of Distributed Resources in User Net- creasing value for users. A balance between theoreti- APs. works.- Adding Intelligence to Ubiquitous Comput- cal and empirical approaches is maintained through- ing Environments.- iJADE FreeWalker – An Intel- out, and all those interested in exploring usability is- Fields of interest ligent Ontology Agent-based Tourist Guiding Sys- sues in human-computer interaction will find this a Data Encryption; Systems and Data Security; Algo- tem.- iJADE InfoSeeker: On Using Intelligent Con- very useful book. rithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Comput- text-Aware Agents for Retrieving and Analyzing Chi- er Communication Networks; Management of Com- nese Web Articles.- A Third-Generation Telecare Features puting and Information Systems; Special Purpose System using Fuzzy Ambient Intelligence.- Interact- Three major perspectives of evaluating quality are and Application-Based Systems ing Agents in a Network for in silico Modeling of addressed, quality in software, quality in interaction Nature- Inspired Smart Systems.- DigitalBeing: An and quality in value Includes chapters on new meth- Target groups Ambient [..] ods/approaches that will enhance the field of usabil- Researchers and professionals ity Fields of interest Type of publication Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- Contents Proceedings neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. 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S.-W. Lee, Korea University, Seoul; S.Z. Li, Chinese Academy of W.-M. Lee, Developer Learning Solutions, Singapore Y.-H. Lee, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; H.-N. Sciences, Beijing (Eds.) Kim, Embedded S/W Research Division 161, Daejeon, Korea; J. Kim, Pohang University, Korea; Y. Park, Yeungnam Universi- Practical .NET 2.0 Networking ty, Gyeongbuk, Korea; L.T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Advances in Biometrics Antigonish, Canada; S.W. Kim, Yeungnam University, Gyeongbuk, Projects Korea (Eds.) International Conference, ICB 2007, Seoul, Korea, August 27-29, 2007, Proceedings Embedded Software and Systems In recent years there has been a huge growth in mobile communication. Most laptops now come Third International Conference, ICESS 2007, Daegu, Korea, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the equipped with wireless networking and Bluetooth May 14-16, 2007, Proceedings International Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2007, as standard and ever increasing numbers of people held in Seoul, Korea, August 27-29, 2007. The 34 re- are spending more and more time connected to net- vised full papers presented were carefully reviewed works (be they at home, in the office, or in their fa- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the and selected from 303 submissions. Biometric cri- vorite coffee shop). These networks are, themselves, Third International Conference on on Embedded teria covered by the papers are assigned to face, fin- growing and becoming more ubiquitous. Today, the Software and Systems, ICESS 2007, held in Daegu, gerprint, iris, speech and signature, biometric fusion network is as much a part of your computer system Korea in May 2007. The 75 revised full papers pre- and performance evaluation, gait, keystrokes, and as your monitor and keyboard. This book addresses sented were carefully reviewed and selected from others. In addition the results of the Face Authenti- the market demand of novice .NET programmers to 346 submissions. The papers are organized in top- cation Competition (FAC 2006) are also announced learn about, and build, networked applications – a ical sections on embedded architecture, embedded in this volume. subject very often omitted from traditional comput- hardware, embedded software, HW-SW co-design er programming books and only dealt with at a high Fields of interest and SoC, multimedia and HCI, pervasive/ubiquitous level inaccessible to the majority of the market. This computing and sensor network, power-aware com- Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Com- book rectifies that trend by bringing cutting-edge puter Vision; Computers and Society; Management puting, real-time systems, security and dependabili- technologies such as GPS communication, Bluetooth ty, and wireless communication. of Computing and Information Systems; Computer and Radio Frequency ID (RFID) within reach of the Appl. in Administrative Data Processing mass-market. The .NET 2.0 Framework and .NET Fields of interest 2.0 Compact Framework provide a number of APIs Target groups Computer Communication Networks; Software En- for communicating [..] Researchers and professionals gineering; Operating Systems; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Processor Architectures; Features Type of publication System Performance and Evaluation Network communication is one of the fastest grow- Proceedings ing technology areas in today’s industry The book is Target groups aimed at beginners, in the mass-market. A neglected Researchers and professionals Due August 2007 area where a great deal of interest lies Covers all major networking technologies from GPS to RFID and Type of publication 2007. XX, 1216 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- from port-communication to sockets Proceedings puter Science, Vol. 4642) Softcover Contents Due May 2007 111,00 € Introduction to .NET 2.0 Network Programming.- ISBN 978-3-540-74548-8 Sockets Programming.- Serial Communications.- Bluetooth Communications.- Infrared Communica- 2007. XIX, 829 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- tions.- RFID. er Science, Vol. 4523) Softcover 87,00 € Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-72684-5 Programming Techniques

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W. Lehner, TU Dresden, Germany; N. Meyer, Poznan Supercom- V.M.A. Leitao, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal; C.J.S. D. Leivant, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA; R. de puting and Networking Center, Poland; A. Streit, Forschungszen- Alves, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal; C.A. Duarte, Queiroz, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil (Eds.) trum Jülich, Germany; C. Stewart, Indiana University, Blooming- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA (Eds.) ton, IN, USA (Eds.) Logic, Language, Information and Advances in Meshfree Techniques Euro-Par 2006: Parallel Processing Computation

Workshops: CoreGRID 2006, UNICORE Summit 2006, Petas- 14th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2-5, 2007, Proceedings cale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Dresden, Ger- In recent years meshless/meshfree methods have many, August 29-September 1, 2006, Revised Selected Papers gained a considerable attention in engineering and applied mathematics. The variety of problems that are now being addressed by these techniques contin- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint ues to expand and the quality of the results obtained 14th International Workshop on Logic, Language, post-proceedings of the three International Work- demonstrates the effectiveness of many of the meth- Information and Computation, WoLLIC 2007, held shops on Grid Middleware, CoreGrid 2006, the UNI- ods currently available. The book presents a signif- in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in July 2007. The 21 revised CORE Summit 2006, and the Workshop on Petas- icant sample of the state of the art in the field with full papers presented together with 5 invited papers cale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, held methods that have reached a certain level of maturi- were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 sub- in Dresden, Germany, in August/September 2006, ty while also addressing many open issues. The book missions. The papers focus on foundations of com- in conjunction with Euro-Par 2006, the 12th Inter- collects extended original contributions present- puting and programming, novel computation mod- national Conference on Parallel Computing. The ed at the first ECCOMAS Conference on Meshless els and paradigms, broad notions of proof and belief, 29 revised full papers presented were carefully re- Methods held in 2005 in Lisbon. The list of contribu- formal methods in software and hardware develop- viewed and selected from a total of 50 submissions. tors reveals a mix of highly distinguished authors as ment; logical approach to natural language and rea- The 16 papers presented at the CoreGRID Work- well as quite young but very active and promising re- soning; logics of programs, actions and resources; shop on Grid Middleware focused on knowledge and searchers, thus giving the reader an interesting and foundational aspects of information organization, data management on grids, grid resource manage- updated view of different mesh reduction methods search, flow, sharing, and protection. ment and scheduling, as well as grid information, re- and its range of applications. The material presented source and workflow monitoring services. The 8 pais appropriate for researchers, engineers, physicists, Fields of interest pers presented at the UNICORE Summit 2006 show applied mathematicians and graduate [..] Theory of Computation; Algorithm Analysis and current developments and implementations of the Problem Complexity; Mathematical Logic and For- UNICORE middleware system, which today is used Features mal Languages; Mathematics of Computing; Com- in daily production worldwide. Beyond this produc- Collects state-of-the-art research on the subject of puting Methodologies; Algorithms 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 techniques Aims at promoting the application of Researches and professionals 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 Numeric Computing; Data Mining and Knowledge Due June 2007 Discovery Fields of interest Structural Mechanics; Computational Math- 2007. X, 363 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4576) Target groups ematics and Numerical Analysis; Algorithms; Softcover Researchers and professionals Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- neering; Numerical and Computational Methods in 52,00 € Type of publication Engineering ISBN 978-3-540-73443-7 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, Vol. 4375) Softcover Type of publication Proceedings 48,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-72226-7 Due April 2007

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Architecting Dependable Systems IV

As software systems become ubiquitous, the issues of dependability become more and more crucial. Giv- en that solutions to these issues must be considered from the very beginning of the design process, it is reasonable that dependability is addressed at the architectural level. This book was born of an effort to bring together the research communities of software architectures and dependability. This state-of-the-art survey contains 18 expanded and peer-reviewed papers based on the carefully selected contributions to the Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS 2006), organized at the 2006 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2006), held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, in June 2006. It also contains a number of invited papers written by recognized experts in the area. The papers are organized in topical sections on architectural description languages, architectural components and patterns, architecting distributed systems, and architectural assurances for dependability.

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K. Li, Dalian Maritime University, China; C. Jesshope, University K. Li, Queen’s University Belfast, UK; M. Fei, Shanghai University, K. Li, Queen’s University Belfast, UK; M. Fei, Shanghai University, of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; H. Jin, Huazhong University of China; G.W. Irwin, Queen’s University Belfast, UK; S. Ma, Shanghai China; G.W. Irwin, Queen’s University Belfast, UK; S. Ma, Shanghai Science and Technology, Wuhan, China; J.-L. Gaudiot, University University, China (Eds.) University, China (Eds.) of California, CA, USA (Eds.) Life System Modeling and Bio-Inspired Computational Network and Parallel Computing Simulation Intelligence and Applications IFIP International Conference, NPC 2007, Dalian, China, September 18-21, 2007, Proceedings International Conference on Life System Modeling, and Simu- International Conference on Life System Modeling, and Simu- lation, LSMS 2007, Shanghai, China, September 14-17, 2007. lation, LSMS 2007, Shanghai, China, September 14-17, 2007. Proceedings Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Network and Par- The two volumes LNCS 4688 and LNBI 4689 con- The two volumes LNCS 4688 and LNBI 4689 con- allel Computing, NPC 2007, held in Dalian, China stitute the refereed proceedings of the Internation- stitute the refereed proceedings of the Internation- in September 2007. The 53 revised full papers pre- al Conference on Life System Modeling and Sim- al Conference on Life System Modeling and Sim- sented were carefully selected from over 600 submis- ulation, LSMS 2007, held in Shanghai, China, in ulation, LSMS 2007, held in Shanghai, China, in sions. The papers are organized in topical sections September 2007. The 147 revised full papers were September 2007. The 147 revised full papers were on network applications: cluster and grid computing, carefully reviewed and selected from 1383 submis- carefully reviewed and selected from 1383 submis- internet computing, optical networks, peer-to-peer sions. The 63 papers of LNCS 4689 are organized in sions. The 84 papers of LNCS 4688 are organized in computing, ubiquitous computing, wireless comput- topical sections on modeling and simulation of soci- topical sections on advanced neural network theory, ing; network technologies: communication technol- eties and collective behavior, computational methods algorithms and application, advanced evolutionary ogy, network algorithms, network reliability, securi- and intelligence in biomechanical systems, tissue en- computing theory, algorithms and application, ant ty, and dependability, network storage; network and gineering and clinical bioengineering, computational colonies and particle swarm optimization and appli- parallel architectures: multicore design issues, net- intelligence in bioinformatics and biometrics, brain cation, fuzzy, neural, fuzzy-neuro hybrids and appli- work and interconnect architecture, nontraditional stimulation, neural dynamics and neural interfacing, cation, intelligent modeling, monitoring, and control processor technologies, performance modeling and biological and biomedical data integration, mining of complex nonlinear systems, as well as biomedical evaluation, system design issues for low power and and visualization, computational methods and intel- signal processing, imaging and visualization. energy efficiency; as well as parallel and distributed ligence in organism modeling and biochemical net- software: data mining, parallel programming tools, works and regulation, computational methods and Fields of interest models, languages and compilers. intelligence in modeling of molecular, cellular , mul- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- putation by Abstract Devices; Data Structures; Fields of interest ti-cellular behavior and design of synthetic biological Database Management; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Computer Communication Networks; Algorithm systems, and others. Robotics); Computational Biology/Bioinformatics Analysis and Problem Complexity; Software En- Fields of interest gineering; Information Systems Applications Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- Target groups (incl.Internet); Multimedia Information Systems; putation by Abstract Devices; Data Structures; Researchers and professionals Operating Systems Database Management; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computational Biology/Bioinformatics Type of publication Target groups Proceedings Researchers and professionals Target groups Type of publication Researchers and professionals Due August 2007 Proceedings Type of publication Proceedings 2007. XIX, 805 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4688) Due September 2007 Softcover Due August 2007 87,00 € 2007. XVIII, 558 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4672) ISBN 978-3-540-74768-0 Softcover 2007. XIX, 561 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4689) 93,00 € Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-74783-3 68,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74770-3 springer.com/booksellers Computer Science 139

W.D. Li, Coventry University, UK; S.K. Ong, National University of B. Liblit, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA G. Lin, University of Alberta, AB, Canada (Ed.) Singapore, Singapore; A.Y.C. Nee, National University of Singa- pore, Singapore; C. McMahon, University of Bath, UK (Eds.) Cooperative Bug Isolation Computing and Combinatorics

Collaborative Product Design and Winning Thesis of the 2005 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Compe- 13th Annual International Conference, COCOON 2007, Banff, Manufacturing Methodologies and tition Canada, July 16-19, 2007, Proceedings Applications This monograph constitutes a thoroughly revised The refereed proceedings of the 13th Annual Inter- and extended version of the author's PhD thesis, national Computing and Combinatorics Confer- There have been major innovations and paradigm which was selected as the winning thesis of the 2005 ence, COCOON 2007, held in Banff, Canada in Ju- shifts in product design methodologies and systems. ACM Doctoral Dissertation Competition. Ben Li- ly 2007. The 51 revised full papers presented togeth- The current R and D trend is for collaborative de- blit did his PhD work at the University of Califor- er with abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully re- sign and manufacturing methodologies and systems. nia, Berkeley, with Alexander Aiken as thesis advis- viewed and selected from 154 submissions. The pa- These allow designers to participate in global design er. This monograph reconsiders two common as- pers feature original research works in the areas of chains and collaborate with each other and overseas sumptions about how we should analyze software algorithms, theory of computation, computational partners to pursue competitive advantages. Design- and arrives at some striking new results. This new complexity, and combinatorics related to computing. ers can work closely with suppliers, manufacturing approach makes use of some of the tools that biolo- partners and customers across enterprise firewalls to gists and economists use to understand their compli- Fields of interest obtain valuable input. This book introduces a spec- cated systems by considering programs as statistical Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Dis- trum of collaborative engineering issues in design processes and using statistical techniques to under- crete Mathematics in Computer Science; Computer and manufacturing. It contains state-of-the-art chap- stand software. The centerpiece of the monograph is Communication Networks; Data Structures; Com- ters written by experts from academia and industry an algorithm for isolating multiple bugs from sparse- puter Graphics; Algorithms and reflects the R and D work and applications of the ly sampled data taken from many thousands of pro- Target groups last 3-5 years. A reference for academics, senior un- gram executions. This algorithm has unique proper- Researchers and professionals dergraduates, graduates and practitioners in collab- ties that complement other program analysis techniques; in particular, it is potentially able to find the orative design and manufacturing, concurrent engi- Type of publication root cause of any program failure without first re- neering, Internet-based/intelligent design and man- Proceedings ufacturing, CAD/PDM/CAPP/CAM, Internet appli- quiring an [..] cations, product lifecycle management, supply chain, etc. Fields of interest Due June 2007 Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Pro- Features grams; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity 2007. XII, 570 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4598) Introduction to a wide spectrum of collaborative en- Softcover gineering issues in design and manufacturing Writ- Target groups ten by international experts from academia and in- Researchers and professionals 68,00 € dustry, it reflects the most up-to-date R and D work ISBN 978-3-540-73544-1 Type of publication and applications Monograph Contents An Adaptable Service-based Framework for Dis- Due April 2007 tributed Service Realization.- A Web-based Intelli- gent Collaborative System for Engineering Design.- 2007. XV, 101 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- A Shared VE for Collaborative Product Develop- er Science, Vol. 4440) Softcover ment in Manufacturing Enterprises.- A ‘Plug-and- Play’ Computing Environment for Collaborative 36,00 € 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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F.J.v.d. Linden, Philips Medical Systems, Best, The Netherlands; B. Liu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China D. Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA; S. Fei, Southeast K. Schmid, Universität Hildesheim, Germany; E. Rommes, Philips University, China; Z.-G. Hou, Chinese Academy of Science, China; Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands H. Zhang, Northeast University Shenyang, China; C. Sun, Hohai Uncertainty Theory University, China (Eds.) Software Product Lines in Action Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN The Best Industrial Practice in Product Line Engineering Uncertainty theory is a branch of mathematics based 2007 on normality, monotonicity, self-duality, and count- able subadditivity axioms. The goal of uncertainty 4th International Symposium on Neutral Networks, ISNN 2007 Software product lines represent perhaps the most theory is to study the behavior of uncertain phenom- Nanjing, China, June 3-7, 2007. Proceedings, Part II exciting paradigm shift in software development ena such as fuzziness and randomness. The main since the advent of high-level programming lan- topics include probability theory, credibility theory, and chance theory. For this new edition the entire guages. Nowhere else in software engineering have The three volume set LNCS 4491/4492/4493 context has been totally rewritten. More importantly, we seen such breathtaking improvements in cost, stitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Interna- the chapters on chance theory and uncertainty the- quality, time to market, and developer productivity, tional Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2007, ory are completely new. This book provides a self- often registering in the order-of-magnitude range. held in Nanjing, China in June 2007. The 262 revised contained, comprehensive and up-to-date presenta- While the underlying concepts are straightforward long papers and 192 revised short papers presented tion of uncertainty theory. The purpose is to equip enough – building a family of related products or were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of the readers with an axiomatic approach to deal with systems by planned and careful reuse of a base of 1.975 submissions. The papers are organized in topi- uncertainty. Mathematicians, researchers, engineers, generalized software development assets – the devil cal sections on neural fuzzy control, neural networks designers, and students in the field of mathematics, can be in the details, as successful product line prac- for control applications, adaptive dynamic program- information science, operations research, industrial tice can involve organizational change, business pro- ming and reinforcement learning, neural networks engineering, computer science, artificial intelligence, cess change, and technology change. The authors for nonlinear systems modeling, robotics, stability and management science will find this work a stimu- ideally combine academic research results with in- analysis of neural networks, learning and approxima- lating and useful reference. dustrial real-world experiences, thus presenting a tion, data mining and feature extraction, chaos and broad view on product line engineering so that both Features synchronization, neural fuzzy systems, training and managers and technical specialists will benefit from Completely rewritten second edition Self contained, learning algorithms for neural networks, neural net- reading it. After presenting a common framework comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of un- work structures, neural networks for pattern recog- for the description of the industrial case studies, they certainty theory Axiomatic approach to equip the nition, SOMs, ICA/PCA, biomedical applications, [..] reader to deal with uncertainty feedforward neural networks, recurrent neural networks, neural networks for optimization, support Features Contents vector machines, fault diagnosis/detection, [..] Learn from expert experience how to do it right and Prerequisites.- Probability Theory.- Credibility The- how to avoid pitfalls Gain information about the ory.- Chance Theory.- Uncertainty Theory.- Supple- Fields of interest first steps in transitioning to or improving the prod- ments. Computation by Abstract Devices; Computer Com- uct line approach in your organization Benefit from munication Networks; Algorithm Analysis and Prob- the largest collection of experiential software prod- Fields of interest lem Complexity; Discrete Mathematics in Computer uct line reports ever gathered in one reference From Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- Science; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Pat- practitioners to practitioners – the authors worked neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Op- tern Recognition on many product line projects and had insight in [..] timization; Operations Research, Mathematical Pro- gramming; Probability Theory and Stochastic Pro- Target groups Contents cesses; Operation Research/Decision Theory Researchers and professionals Part I - Aspects of Software Product Line Engineer- ing: 1) The Product Line Engineering Approach. 2) Target groups Type of publication Business. 3) Architecture. 4) Process. 5) Organisa- Textbook for postgraduates; reference book for Proceedings tion. 6) The Family Evaluation Framework.- Part II - mathematicians, engineers, and computer scientists Experience Reports: 7) Experiences in Product Line in fuzziness Due May 2007 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. 2007. XXVII, 1321 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Monograph puter Science, Vol. 4492) Softcover 14) Philips Consumer Electronics Software for Tele- visions. 15) Philips Medical Systems. 16) Siemens Due August 2007 120,00 € Medical Solutions. 17) Telvent.- Part III - Conclu- ISBN 978-3-540-72392-9 sions: 18) Analysis. 19) Starting with [..] 2007. X, 255 p. 10 illus. (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Fields of interest Vol. 154) Hardcover Software Engineering; Information Systems; Tech- nology Management; Information Systems Applica- 99,95 € tions (incl.Internet); Management of Computing and ISBN 978-3-540-73164-1 Information Systems

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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 F.G. Lobo, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal; C.F. Lima, University, China; Z.-G. Hou, Chinese Academy of Science, China; University, China; Z.-G. Hou, Chinese Academy of Science, ChinaI; Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal; Z. Michalewicz, Univer- H. Zhang, Northeast University Shenyang, China; C. Sun, Hohai H. Zhang, Northeast University Shenyang, China; C. Sun, Hohai sity of Adelaide, SA, Australia (Eds.) University, China (Eds.) University, China (Eds.) Parameter Setting in Evolutionary Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN Algorithms 2007 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 III Nanjing, China, June 3-7, 2007. Proceedings, Part I One of the main difficulties of applying an evolutionary algorithm (or, as a matter of fact, any heuristic method) to a given problem is to decide on an ap- The three volume set LNCS 4491/4492/4493 con- The three volume set LNCS 4491/4492/4493 con- propriate set of parameter values. Typically these stitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Interna- stitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Interna- are specified before the algorithm is run and include tional Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2007, tional Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2007, population size, selection rate, operator probabili- held in Nanjing, China in June 2007. The 262 revised held in Nanjing, China in June 2007. The 262 revised ties, not to mention the representation and the op- long papers and 192 revised short papers presented long papers and 192 revised short papers presented erators themselves. This book gives the reader a sol- were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of id perspective on the different approaches that have 1.975 submissions. The papers are organized in topi- 1.975 submissions. The papers are organized in topi- been proposed to automate control of these parame- cal sections on neural fuzzy control, neural networks cal sections on neural fuzzy control, neural networks ters as well as understanding their interactions. The for control applications, adaptive dynamic program- for control applications, adaptive dynamic program- book covers a broad area of evolutionary computa- ming and reinforcement learning, neural networks ming and reinforcement learning, neural networks tion, including genetic algorithms, evolution strate- for nonlinear systems modeling, robotics, stability for nonlinear systems modeling, robotics, stability gies, genetic programming, estimation of distribu- analysis of neural networks, learning and approxima- analysis of neural networks, learning and approximation algorithms, and also discusses the issues of spe- tion, data mining and feature extraction, chaos and tion, data mining and feature extraction, chaos and cific parameters used in parallel implementations, synchronization, neural fuzzy systems, training and synchronization, neural fuzzy systems, training and multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, and practi- learning algorithms for neural networks, neural net- learning algorithms for neural networks, neural net- cal consideration for real-world applications. It is a work structures, neural networks for pattern recog- work structures, neural networks for pattern recog- recommended read for researchers and practitioners nition, SOMs, ICA/PCA, biomedical applications, nition, SOMs, ICA/PCA, biomedical applications, of evolutionary computation and [..] feedforward neural networks, recurrent neural net- feedforward neural networks, recurrent neural net- Features works, neural networks for optimization, support works, neural networks for optimization, support Recent advances in evolutionary algorithms vector machines, fault diagnosis/detection, [..] vector machines, fault diagnosis/detection, [..] Contents Fields of interest Fields of interest Parameter Setting in EAs: a 30 Year Perspective.- Pa- Computation by Abstract Devices; Computer Com- Computation by Abstract Devices; Computer Com- rameter Control in Evolutionary Algorithms.- Self- munication Networks; Algorithm Analysis and Prob- munication Networks; Algorithm Analysis and Prob- Adaptation in Evolutionary Algorithms.- Adaptive lem Complexity; Discrete Mathematics in Computer lem Complexity; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Strategies for Operator Allocation.- Sequential Pa- Science; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Pat- Science; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Pat- rameter Optimization Applied to Self-Adaptation for tern Recognition tern Recognition Binary-Coded Evolutionary Algorithms.- Combin- Target groups Target groups ing Meta-EAs and Racing for Difficult EA Parame- Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals ter Tuning Tasks.- Genetic Programming: Paramet- ric Analysis of Structure Altering Mutation Tech- Type of publication Type of publication niques.- Parameter Sweeps for Exploring Parame- Proceedings Proceedings ter Spaces of Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms.- Adaptive Population Sizing Schemes in Genetic [..] Due May 2007 Due May 2007 Fields of interest Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- 2007. XXVI, 1215 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- 2007. LIV, 1365 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. 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First Steps Process Assessment and ISO/IEC Process Assessment and

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First Steps: Developing BizTalk Applications is a primer to most other introductory Biztalk books. Process Assessment and ISO/IEC 15504: A Refer- Process Assessment and Improvement: A Practical If you feel like traditional beginning books are too ence Book, Second Edition, provides the reader with Guide, 2nd ed. provides a powerful and practical ap- abstract, and that you are mired in detail and miss- guidance on the emerging ISO/IEC 15504 Process proach to improving organizations through process ing the â€œbig picture,â€? check out this book. Itâ Assessment Standard. ISO/IEC 15504 standard is assessment, combined with people factors such as or- €™s not a reference â€" itâ€™s a jumpstart to learn- now complete with the publication of Part 5 of the ganizational culture and team-based improvement. ing Biztalk. You learn about the product in a phased standard. Originally published in 2004 as the first Originally published in 2004 as the first practical approach. 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Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Fields of interest Systems; Programming Techniques; Software Engi- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; neering; The Computer Industry Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Programming Techniques; Software Engi- Target groups neering; Computer Science, general; The Computer Professionals, including managers of software firms Industry and IT departments, researchers, quality assurance professionals and assessors using process assessment Target groups methods Professionals, practitioners in industry and researchers Type of publication Monograph Type of publication Monograph Due July 2007 Due July 2007 Originally published as volume 775 in the series: The Kluwer In- ternational Series in Engineering and Computer Science Originally published as volume 776 in series: The Kluwer Interna- tional Series in Engineering and Computer Science 2007. XVI, 297 p. 53 illus. 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J. Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain; P. Samarati, University of M. Lopp, Apple Computer, Los Gatos, CA, USA P. Lukowicz, University of Passau, Germany; L. Thiele, ETH Zurich, Milan, Italy; J.L. Ferrer, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain Switzerland; G. Tröster, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Eds.) (Eds.) Managing Humans Architecture of Computing Systems Public Key Infrastructure Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manag- er - ARCS 2007 4th European PKI Workshop: Theory and Practice, EuroPKI 2007, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, June 28-30, 2007, Proceed- 20th International Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, March ings 12-15, 2007, Proceedings Managing Humans is a selection of the best essays from Michael Lopp's popular website http:// www.randsinrepose.com/. Lopp is one of the most This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of sought-after IT managers in Silicon Valley, and 4th European Public Key Infrastructure Workshop: the 20th International Conference on Architecture draws on his experiences at Apple, Netscape, Syman- Theory and Practice, EuroPKI 2007, held in Palma of Computing Systems, ARCS 2007, held in Zurich, tec, and Borland. Among his fans is the incompara- de Mallorca, Spain in June 2007. The 21 revised full Switzerland in March 2007. The 20 revised full pa- ble Joel Spolsky (author of Joel on Software), who papers and 8 short papers presented were carefully pers presented together with 1 invited paper were first suggested this book. The book covers handling reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The pa- carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. conflict, managing wildly differing personality types, pers address all current issues in PKI, ranging from The papers cover a broad range of research topics infusing innovation into insane product schedules, theoretical and foundational topics to applications related to basic technology, architecture, and appli- and figuring out how to build lasting and useful en- and regulatory issues in various contexts. cation of computing systems with a strong focus on gineering culture. The essays are biting, hilarious, system aspects of pervasive computing and self orga- Fields of interest and always informative. nization techniques in both organic and autonomic Data Encryption; Algorithm Analysis and Prob- computing. Features lem Complexity; Information Storage and Retrieval; Specific insight into the software development pro- Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Fields of interest cess from inside name brand companies such as Ap- Computers and Society; Management of Computing Computer Communication Networks; Computer ple, Netscape, Borland, and Symantec Conversa- and Information Systems System Implementation; Operating Systems; Soft- tion-style writing with a distinct lack of Manage- ware Engineering; Information Systems Applications Target groups mentese Variety of different approaches for creating (incl.Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval Researchers and professionals innovative, happy development teams Target groups Type of publication Contents Researchers and professionals Proceedings Taking Time to Think.- Agenda Detection.- Avoid- ing the Fez.- Incrementalists and Completions.- The Type of publication Big QA Freak-Out.- Inwards, Outwards, and Holis- Proceedings Due June 2007 tics.- Secret Titles.- Deconstruction Managers, Pt. 1.- Deconstruction Managers, Pt. 2.- Deconstruc- Due March 2007 2007. XI, 375 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4582) tion Managers, Pt. 3.- Deconstruction Managers, Pt. Softcover 4.- Reinventing the Hallway.- Subtlety, Subterfuge, and Silence.- Saying No.- Organics and Mechanics.- 2007. X, 297 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer 52,00 € Mandate Dissection.- Messy Thinking.- 1.0.- The Science, Vol. 4415) Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-73407-9 Soak. 48,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-71267-1 Fields of interest Programming Techniques

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Y. Luo, University of Balearic Islands, Spain (Ed.) J. López-Fidalgo, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, B. Ma, University of Western Ontario, Canada; K. Zhang, Universi- Spain; J.M. Rodríguez-Díaz, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain; B. ty of Western Ontario, Canada (Eds.) Torsney, University of Glasgow, UK (Eds.) Cooperative Design, Visualization, Combinatorial Pattern Matching and Engineering mODa 8 - Advances in Model- 18th Annual Symposium, CPM 2007, London, Canada, July 4th International Conference, CDVE 2007, Shanghai,China, Oriented Design and Analysis 9-11, 2007, Proceedings September 16-20, 2007 Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop in Model-Ori- ented Design and Analysis held in Almagro, Spain, June 4-8, 2007 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern 4th International Conference on Cooperative De- Matching, CPM 2007, held in London, Canada in Ju- sign, Visualization, and Engineering, CDVE 2007, The volume contains the proceedings of the 8th ly 2007. The 32 revised full papers presented togeth- held in Shanghai, China, September 16-20, 2007. The Workshop on Model-Oriented Design and Analysis. er with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and papers presented were carefully reviewed and select- This book offers leading and pioneering work on op- selected from 64 submissions. The papers are orga- ed from numerous submissions. The papers cover timal experimental designs, both from a mathemat- nized in topical sections on algorithmic techniques, all current issues in cooperative design, visualiza- ical/statistical point of view and with regard to real approximate pattern matching, data compression, tion, and engineering, ranging from theoretical and applications. Scientists from all over the world, from computational biology, pattern analysis, suffix arrays methodological topics to various systems and frame- Eastern and Western Europe, the USA, Latin-Ameri- and trees, as well as algorithmic techniques. works to applications in a variety of fields. ca, Asia and Africa, have contributed to this volume. Fields of interest Fields of interest Primary topics are designs for nonlinear models and Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Pat- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; applications to experimental medicine. tern Recognition; Document Preparation and Text Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Features Processing; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Computer Communication Networks; Software En- Very latest results in optimal experimental designs Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Data Struc- gineering; Operating Systems Contributors from all over the world tures Target groups Fields of interest Target groups Researchers and professionals Statistical Theory and Methods; Statistics for Life Researchers and professionals Type of publication Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences; Game The- Type of publication Proceedings ory/Mathematical Methods; Statistics for Busi- ness/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance Proceedings Due September 2007 Target groups Due June 2007 Scientists in the fields of statistics, especially medical 2007. XIII, 431 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4674) statistics and optimization 2007. XII, 366 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4580) Softcover Softcover Type of publication 56,00 € Proceedings 52,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74779-6 ISBN 978-3-540-73436-9 Due May 2007

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L. Ma, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; M. Rauterberg, TU Z. Ma, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; P. Marchal, IMEC, Leuven, Bel- Due July 2007 Eindhoven, The Netherlands; R. Nakatsu, Kwansei Gakuin Univer- gium; D.P. Scarpazza, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; P. Yang, Sam- sity, Japan (Eds.) sung Electronics, Yongin, Korea; C. Wong, Philips Research, Eind- hoven, The Netherlands; J.I. Gómez, Universidad Complutense 2007. 230 p. Hardcover de Madrid, Spain; S. Himpe, ICOS Vision Systems NV, Leuven, Bel- Entertainment Computing - ICEC gium; C. Ykman-Couvreur, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; F. Catthoor, 89,95 € 2007 IMEC, Leuven, Belgium ISBN 978-1-4020-6328-2 6th International Conference, Shanghai, China, September Systematic Methodology for Real- 15-17, 2007, Proceedings Time Cost-Effective Mapping of Dynamic Concurrent Task- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Based Systems on Heterogenous the 6th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2007, held in Shanghai, China, in Platforms September 2007, under the auspices of IFIP. The 48 revised full papers and 16 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous This material is mainly based on research at IMEC submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers and its international university network partners in are organized in topical sections on augmented, vir- this area in the period 1997-2006. In order to deal tual and mixed reality, computer games, image pro- with the concurrent and dynamic behaviors in an en- cessing, mesh and modeling, digital storytelling and ergy-performance optimal way, we have adopted a interactive systems, sound, music and creative en- hierarchical system model (i.e., the gray-box mod- vironments, video processing, rendering, computer el) that can both exhibit the sufficient detail of the animation and networks, game based interfaces, as applications for design-time analysis and hide un- well as robots and cyber pets. necessary detail for a low-overhead run-time management. We have also developed a well-balanced Fields of interest design-time/run-time combined task scheduling User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; methodology to explore the trade-off space at de- Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); sign-time and efficiently handle the system adapta- Multimedia Information Systems; Artificial Intelli- tions at run-time. Moreover, we have identified the gence (incl. Robotics); Computer Graphics; Comput- connection between task-level memory/communica- er Appl. in Arts and Humanities tion management and task scheduling and illustrat- Target groups ed how to perform the task-level memory/commu- Researchers and professionals nication management in order to obtain the design constraints that enable the this connection. A fast ap- Type of publication proach is also shown to estimate at the system-level, Proceedings the energy and [..] Features Due August 2007 The first addressing the low-power design by doing system-level trade-offs of (dynamic concurrent) task 2007. XXX, 480 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4740) scheduling which does not fully depend on Softcover Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) or Dynamic Pow- er management (DPM) Highlights a set of solid sys- 88,00 € tem synthesis techniques that have been part- ISBN 978-3-540-74872-4 ly verified with realistic demonstrators and that are also supported in our prototype tools Togeth- er with the [..]

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A. Machanic, Somerville, MA, USA; H. Komelis, L. Rubbelke L. Magnani, University of Pavia, Italy; P. Li, Sun Yat-sen University, L. Maicher, University of Leipzig, Germany; A. Sigel, University of Guangzhou, China (Eds.) Cologne, Germany; L.M. Garshol, Ontopia, Norway (Eds.) Expert SQL Server 2005 Development Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Technology, and Medicine Maps

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R. Maier, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria K. Makki, University of Toledo, OH, USA; P. Reiher, University of M. Malek, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany; M. Reitenspieß, California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; K. Makki, Florida International Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Munich, Germany; A.v. Moorsel, University, Miami, FL, USA; N. Pissinou, Florida International Uni- Newcastle University, UK (Eds.) Knowledge Management Systems versity, Miami, FL, USA; S. Makki, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (Eds.) Information and Communication Technologies for Knowledge Service Availability Management Mobile and Wireless Network 4th International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2007, Security and Privacy Durham, NH, USA, May 21-22, 2007, Proceedings Information and knowledge have profoundly trans- formed businesses, organizations and society. Knowledge management promises concepts and in- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Mobile and Wireless Network Security and Privacy struments that help organizations to provide an envi- 4th International Service Availability Symposium, analyzes important security and privacy problems in ronment supportive of knowledge creation, sharing ISAS 2007, held in Durham, NH, USA in May 2007. the realms of wireless networks and mobile comput- and application. Information and communication The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully ing. The material includes a report to the National technologies are often regarded as the enabler for the reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The pa- Science Foundation of the United States which will effective and especially efficient implementation of pers are organized in topical sections on middleware, be used by program managers for the foundation in knowledge management. 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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies, PaCT 2007, held in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia in September 2007 - in conjunction with the the Russian-Taiwan symposium on Methods and Tools of Parallel Programming of Multicomputers. The 37 revised full papers and 24 revised poster papers presented together with 2 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on models and languages, applications, techniques for parallel programming supporting, cellular automata, as well as methods and tools of parallel programming of multicomputers.

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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

Power analysis attacks allow the extraction of se- This book presents biologically inspired walking ma- cret information from smart cards. Smart cards are chines interacting with their physical environment. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of used in many applications including banking, mo- It describes how the designs of the morphology and the Third International Symposium on Bioinformat- bile communications, pay TV, and electronic sig- the behavior control of walking machines can bene- ics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2007, held in natures. In all these applications, the security of the fit from biological studies. The purpose of this book Atlanta, GA, USA in May 2007. The 55 revised full smart cards is of crucial importance. Power Analy- is to develop a modular structure of neural control papers presented together with 3 invited talks were sis Attacks: Revealing the Secrets of Smart Cards is generating different reactive behaviors of the phys- carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 146 the first comprehensive treatment of power analysis ical walking machines, to analyze the neural mech- submissions. The papers cover a wide range of top- attacks and countermeasures. Based on the princi- anisms underlying the reactive behaviors, and to ics, including clustering and classification, gene ex- ple that the only way to defend against power analy- demonstrate the sensor fusion technique leading to pression analysis, gene networks, genome analysis, sis attacks is to understand them, this book explains smooth switching between appropriate behaviors, motif finding, pathways, protein structure predic- how power analysis attacks work. Using many exam- like obstacle avoidance and sound tropism. The au- tion, protein domain interactions, phylogenetics, and ples, it discusses simple and differential power anal- thor offers an example of artificial perception-ac- software tools. ysis as well as advanced techniques like template at- tion systems and emphasizes the close relationship between biological studies, computational neuro- Fields of interest tacks. Furthermore, the authors provide an extensive science and engineering. The book will be of interest Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Computa- discussion of countermeasures like shuffling, mask- to researchers, engineers and students in the fields tion by Abstract Devices; Pattern Recognition; Data ing, and DPA-resistant logic styles. By analyz- of robotics, biologically inspired mechatronics, elec- Mining and Knowledge Discovery ing the pros and cons of the different countermeasures, this volume allows practitioners to decide how tronics engineering, control, and artificial intelli- Target groups to protect smart cards. gence. Researchers and professionals Features Features Type of publication The first comprehensive discussion of power analysis Offers an example of artificial perception-action sys- Proceedings attacks on smart cards Examples and case studies il- tems emphasizing the close relationship between bi- lustrate the various attacks, from simple to differen- ological studies, computational neuroscience and engineering Due April 2007 tial power-analysis attacks Detailed descriptions and comparisons of the effectiveness of different counter- Contents measures Includes background information on VLSI Introduction.- Biologically Inspired Perception-Ac- 2007. XV, 653 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- design, cryptography and statistics er Science, Vol. 4463) Softcover tion Systems.- Neural Concepts and Modelling.- Contents Physical Sensors and Walking Machine Platforms.- 76,00 € Foreword by Paul Kocher.- Preface.- Introduction.- Artificial Perception-Action Systems.- Performance ISBN 978-3-540-72030-0 Cryptographic Devices.- Power Consumption.- Sta- of Artificial Perception-Action Systems.- Conclu- tistical Characteristics of Power Traces.- Simple sions.- App. A - Description of the Reactive Walking Power Analysis.- Differential Power Analysis.- Hid- Machines.- Symbols and Acronyms.- References.- ing.- Attacks on Hiding.- Masking.- Attacks Index on Masking.- Conclusions.- Appendices.- Index. Fields of interest Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Automation Fields of interest and Robotics; Neurosciences; Control Structures Systems and Data Security; Data Encryption; Da- and Microprogramming; Simulation and Modeling; ta Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Signal,Image and Speech Processing Computer Communication Networks; Electronic Target groups and Computer Engineering; Electronics and Micro- Researchers, practitioners, graduate students electronics, Instrumentation Type of publication Target groups Monograph Practitioners, researchers and advanced-level students in computer science Due May 2007 Type of publication Monograph 2007. XVI, 185 p. 142 illus. (Cognitive Technologies) Hardcover

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S. Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland; E. Bruno, E. Marchiori, VU University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; J.H. M. Marchiori, UNIPD and UTILABS, Padua, Italy; J.Z. Pan, The Uni- University of Geneva, Switzerland; A. Nürnberger, University of Moore, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon; J.C. Ra- versity of Aberdeen, UK; C. de Sainte Marie, ILOG S.A., Valbonne, Magdeburg, Germany; M. Detyniecki, Laboratoire d'Informatique japakse, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Eds.) France (Eds.) de Paris VI, France (Eds.) Evolutionary Computation, Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Adaptive Multimedia Machine Learning and Data Mining Retrieval:User, Context, and First International Conference, RR 2007, Innsbruck, Austria, in Bioinformatics June 7-8, 2007, Proceedings Feedback 5th European Conference, EvoBIO 2007, Valencia, Spain, April 4th International Workshop, AMR 2006, Geneva, Switzerland, 11-13, 2007, Proceedings July, 27-28, 2006, Revised Selected Papers This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Reason- ing and Rule Systems, RR 2007, held in Innsbruck, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Austria in June 2007 as a merger of the three previ- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- 5th European Conference on Evolutionary Compu- ously separate events: International Workshop on proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on tation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioin- Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR 2006, held in formatics, EvoBIO 2007, held in Valencia, Spain in (PPSWR), the International Conference on Rules Geneva, Switzerland in July 2006. The 18 revised April 2007, colocated with the Evo* 2007 events. The and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web full papers presented together with 2 invited papers 28 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and (RuleML), and the International Workshop on Rea- were carefully selected during two rounds of review- selected from 60 submissions. Bringing experts in soning on the Web (RoW). The 14 revised full pa- ing and improvement. Also included are two invit- computer science together with experts in bioinfor- pers, 15 revised short papers presented together with ed contributions that have been intended to open on matics and the biological sciences resulted in contri- 7 poster papers were carefully reviewed and select- less-addressed topics in the community, as it is the butions on fundamental and theoretical issues, along ed from over 60 submissions. The papers address all case for music information retrieval and distributed with a wide variety of papers dealing with different current topics in Web reasoning and rule systems information retrieval. The papers are organized in applications areas, such as biomarker discovery, cell such as acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowl- topical sections on ontology-based retrieval and an- simulation and modeling, ecological modeling, flux- edge extraction, design and analysis of reasoning lan- notation, ranking and similarity measurements, mu- omics, gene networks, biotechnology, metabolomics, guages, implemented tools and systems, standard- sic information retrieval, visual modelling, adaptive microarray analysis, phylogenetics, protein interac- ization, ontology usability, ontology languages and retrieval, structuring multimedia, as well as user inte- tions, proteomics, sequence analysis and alignment, their relationships, rules and ontologies, reasoning gration and profiling. as well as systems biology with uncertainty, reasoning with constraints, rule languages and [..] Fields of interest Fields of interest Information Storage and Retrieval; Multimedia In- Programming Techniques; Computation by Abstract Fields of interest formation Systems; Information Systems Applica- Devices; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complex- Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); tions (incl.Internet); Image Processing and Comput- ity; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Pattern Information Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intelli- er Vision; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Recognition; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) gence (incl. Robotics); Logics and Meanings of Pro- grams; Multimedia Information Systems; Software Target groups Target groups Engineering Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Target groups Type of publication Type of publication Researchers and professionals Proceedings Proceedings Type of publication Due March 2007 Due April 2007 Proceedings

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V. Marik, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic,; J.-M. Marin, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France; C.P. Robert, Uni- J. Marques de Sá, University of Porto, Portugal; L.A. Alexandre, V. Vyatkin, University of Auckland, New Zealand; A.W. Colombo, versité Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal; W. Duch, Nicolaus Schneider Electric GmbH, Seligenstadt, Germany (Eds.) Copernicus University, Torun, Poland; D. Mandic, Imperial Col- lege, London, UK (Eds.) Bayesian Core: A Practical Approach Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems to Computational Bayesian for Manufacturing Artificial Neural Networks -- ICANN Statistics 2007 Third International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2007, Regens- 17th International Conference, Porto, Portugal, September burg, Germany, September 3-5, 2007, Proceedings 9-13, 2007, Proceedings, Part I This Bayesian modeling book is intended for practitioners and applied statisticians looking for a self- contained entry to computational Bayesian statistics. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Focusing on standard statistical models and backed This two volume set LNCS 4668 and LNCS 4669 Third International Conference on Industrial Appli- up by discussed real datasets available from the book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th In- cations of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, Holo- website, it provides an operational methodology for ternational Conference on Artificial Neural Net- MAS 2007, held in Regensburg, Germany, September conducting Bayesian inference, rather than focusing works, ICANN 2007, held in Porto, Portugal, in 3 - 5, 2007. The 39 revised full papers presented were on its theoretical justifications. Special attention is September 2007. The 197 revised full papers present- carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. paid to the derivation of prior distributions in each ed were carefully reviewed and selected from 376 The papers are organized in topical sections on the- case and specific reference solutions are given for submissions. The 98 papers of the first volume are oretical and methodological issues, algorithms and each of the models. 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J. Marques de Sá, University of Porto, Portugal; L.A. Alexandre, J.P. Marques de Sá, Universidade do Porto, Portugal J. Marques-Silva, University of Southampton, UK; K.A. Sakallah, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal; W. Duch, Nicolaus University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (Eds.) Copernicus University, Torun, Poland; D. Mandic, Imperial Col- lege, London, UK (Eds.) Applied Statistics Using SPSS, STATISTICA, MATLAB and R Theory and Applications of Artificial Neural Networks -- ICANN Satisfiability Testing - SAT 2007 2007 10th International Conference, SAT 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, This practical reference provides a comprehensive May 28-31, 2007, Proceedings 17th International Conference, Porto, Portugal, September introduction and tutorial on the main statistical 9-13, 2007, Proceedings, Part II analysis topics, demonstrating their solution with the most common software package. Intended for This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the anyone needing to apply statistical analysis to a large 10th International Conference on Theory and Ap- This two volume set LNCS 4668 and LNCS 4669 variety of science and enigineering problems, the plications of Satisfiability Testing, SAT 2007, held in constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th In- book explains and shows how to use SPSS, MATLAB, Lisbon, Portugal in May 2007. The 22 revised full pa- ternational Conference on Artificial Neural Net- STATISTICA and R for analysis such as data de- pers presented together with 12 revised short papers works, ICANN 2007, held in Porto, Portugal, in scription, statistical inference, classification and represented together with 2 invited talks were carefully September 2007. The 197 revised full papers present- gression, factor analysis, survival data and direction- selected from 74 submissions. All current research is- ed were carefully reviewed and selected from 376 al statistics. It concisely explains key concepts and sues in propositional and quantified Boolean formu- submissions. The second volume contains 99 contri- methods, illustrated by practical examples using rela satisfiability testing are covered. The papers are or- butions related to computational neuroscience, neu- al data, and includes a CD-ROM with software tools ganized in topical sections on encodings, max-SAT rocognitive studies, applications in biomedicine and and data sets. Readers learn which software tools to and pseudo-boolean, structure, local search, QBF, bioinformatics, pattern recognition, data clustering, apply and gain insights into the comparative capa- complete algorithms, proofs and cores, as well as ap- self-organization, text mining and internet applica- bilities of the primary software packages. Major implications. tions, signal and times series processing, vision and provements of the second edition are the inclusion image processing, robotics, control, real world appli- of the R language, a new section on bootstrap esti- Fields of interest cations, independent component analysis, graphs, mation methods and an improved treatment of tree Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Algo- emotion and attention: empirical findings and neural classifiers as well as extra examples and exercises. rithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Operating models, as well as understanding and creating cogni- Systems; Numeric Computing; Artificial Intelligence tive systems. Features (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Logic and Founda- Wide coverage of Statistical topics and methods Ap- tions Fields of interest plication to real life data and problems in various Computation by Abstract Devices; Artificial Intelli- fields Guidance on how to use STATISTICA, SPSS, Target groups gence (incl. Robotics); Pattern Recognition; Informa- MATLAB and R in statistical analysis applications Ressearchers and professionals tion Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Database Including CD-ROM with datasets (sources: engi- Management; Neurosciences neering, medicine, biology, geology) and tools Type of publication Proceedings Target groups Contents Researchers and professionals Introduction.- Presenting and Summarising the Da- Due May 2007 ta.- Estimating Data Parameters.- Parametric Tests Type of publication of Hypotheses.- Non-Parametric Tests of Hypothe- Proceedings ses.- Statistical Classification.- Data Regression.- Da- 2007. XI, 384 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer ta Structure Analysis.- Survival Analysis .- Direction- Science, Vol. 4501) Softcover Due August 2007 al Data.- Appendix A - Short Survey on Probability 52,00 € Theory.- Appendix B – Distributions.- Appendix C - ISBN 978-3-540-72787-3 Point Estimation.- Appendix D – Tables.- Appendix 2007. XXXI, 990 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- puter Science, Vol. 4669) Softcover E – Datasets.- Appendix F – Tools.

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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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An all-encompass- papers presented together with 3 invited talks were aspects of mathematics to engineering and computing view is taken for the purpose of identifying rela- carefully reviewed and selected from 328 submis- er science, especially in domains such as computer tionships, origins and structures of the various fam- sions. The papers are organized in topical sections aided design, computer vision, and computer graph- ilies. A unified methodological approach for the in- on pattern recognition, human language technolo- ics. The papers cover a range of ideas from underly- troduction of parameters into families is developed, gy, special architectures and industrial applications, ing theoretical tools to industrial uses of surfaces. Re- and the properties that the parameters imbue a dis- motion analysis, image analysis, biomedical applica- search is reported on theoretical aspects of surfaces tribution are clarified. These results provide essential tions, shape and texture analysis, 3D, as well as image including topology, parameterization, differential tools for intelligent choice of models for data analy- coding and processing. sis. Many of the results given are new and have not geometry, and conformal geometry, and also more previously appeared in print. This book provides a practical topics such as geometric tolerances, com- Fields of interest comprehensive reference for anyone working with puting shape from shading, and medial axes for in- Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern nonnegative data. dustrial applications. Other specific areas of interest Recognition; Document Preparation and Text Pro- include subdivision schemes, solutions of differential cessing; Artificial Intelligence (incl. 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The two-volume set LNCS 4477 and 4478 constitutes This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the the refereed proceedings of the Third Iberian Con- 10th International Teletraffic Congress, ITC 2007, ference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analy- The increasing environmental problems demand in- held in Ottawa, Canada in June 2007. The 93 re- sis, IbPRIA 2007, held in Girona, Spain in June 2007. terdisciplinary approaches where engineers, natural vised full papers presented together with 4 invited The 48 revised full papers and 108 revised poster scientists, economists and computer scientists work talks and 3 contributed papers of a plenary session papers presented together with 3 invited talks were together. Information technology has become sig- were carefully reviewed and selected from numer- carefully reviewed and selected from 328 submis- nificant to all scientific groups and fields involved ous submissions for inclusion in the book. The pa- sions. The papers are organized in topical sections in environmental engineering covering the topics: pers are organized in topical sections on IPTV plan- on pattern recognition, human language technolo- Modeling and simulation, information systems, for- ning and modeling, network performance, routing, gy, special architectures and industrial applications, mal methods and data processing techniques, tools server/switch performance, service overlay networks, motion analysis, image analysis, biomedical applica- and measurement techniques. Economists approach- traffic source and aggregate models, performance tions, shape and texture analysis, 3D, as well as image es for environmental policy and management. This optimization in mesh networks, QoS in converged coding and processing. book publishes the proceedings of the ITEE 07 con- networks, traffic engineering, end-to-end delay in ference, where new concepts as well as practical ap- converged networks, queuing models, performance Fields of interest plications and experiences in the field of environ- of peer-to-peer networks, traffic measurements and Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern mental engineering have been presented and dis- demand forecast, impact of convergence and diver- Recognition; Document Preparation and Text Pro- cussed. gence forces on network performance and provision- cessing; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Com- ing, loss/blocking probability, traffic management Features puter Graphics in wireless networks, traffic measurements and char- Presents new concepts as well as practical applica- acterization, network design for capacity and perfor- tions and experiences in the field of environmental Target groups mance, [..] Researchers and professionals engineering Fields of interest Contents Type of publication Computer Communication Networks; System Per- Keynotes.- Air Pollution.- Corporate Sustainability Proceedings formance and Evaluation; Information Systems Ap- Reporting.- Decentralized Energy Management Sys- plications (incl.Internet); Software Engineering; tems.- Environmental Information Systems.- Envi- Due May 2007 Communications Engineering, Networks ronmental Policy and Management.- Environmental Risk Assessment. Life Cycle Assessment.- Spatial Ap- Target groups 2007. XXVII, 657 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- plications.- Water Pollution.- Workshop: Corporate Researchers and professionals puter Science, Vol. 4478) Softcover Environmental Management Information Systems. 76,00 € Type of publication Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-72848-1 Proceedings Environmental Computing/Environmental Mod- elling; Environmental Management Due June 2007 Target groups Environmental engineers, computer scientists and 2007. XXIII, 1191 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- economists puter Science, Vol. 4516) Softcover

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P. Massart, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France; J. Picard, Uni- F. Masulli, University of Genoa, Italy; S. Mitra, Indian Statistical V. Matoušek, University of Pilsen, Czech Republic; P. Mautner versité Blaise-Pascale Clermont-Ferrand, Aubière, France (Ed.) Institute, Kolkata, India; G. Pasi, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy (Eds.) (Eds.) Concentration Inequalities and Text, Speech and Dialogue Applications of Fuzzy Sets Theory Model Selection 10th International Conference, TSD 2007, Pilsen, Czech Re- 7th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, public, September 3-7, 2007, Proceedings Ecole d'Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXIII - 2003 WILF 2007, Camogli, Italy, July 7-10, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Since the impressive works of Talagrand, concen- This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and tration inequalities have been recognized as funda- the 7th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Dialogue, TSD 2007, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, mental tools in several domains such as geometry Applications held in Camogli, Genoa, Italy in July September 3-7, 2007. The 80 revised full papers pre- of Banach spaces or random combinatorics. They 2007. The 84 revised full papers presented togeth- sented together with 4 invited papers were carefully also turn out to be essential tools to develop a non- er with 3 keynote speeches were carefully reviewed reviewed and selected from 198 submissions. The pa- asymptotic theory in statistics, exactly as the central and selected from 147 submissions. The papers are pers present a wealth of state-of-the-art research re- limit theorem and large deviations are known to play organized in topical sections on fuzzy set theory, sults in the field of natural language processing with a central part in the asymptotic theory. An overview fuzzy information access and retrieval, fuzzy ma- an emphasis on text, speech, and spoken dialogue of a non-asymptotic theory for model selection is chine learning, fuzzy architectures and systems; and ranging from theoretical and methodological issues given here and some selected applications to vari- special sessions on intuitionistic fuzzy sets and soft to applications in various fields and with special fo- able selection, change points detection and statistical computing in image processing. WILF 2007 hosts cus on corpora, texts and transcription, speech anal- learning are discussed. This volume reflects the con- four special sessions, namely the Fourth Internation- ysis, recognition and synthesis, as well as their inter- tent of the course given by P. Massart in St. Flour in al Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods twining within NL dialogue systems. 2003. It is mostly self-contained and accessible for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIDD 2007), to graduate students. the Third International Workshop on Cross-Lan- Fields of interest guage Information Processing (CLIP 2007); Intu- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Min- Contents itionistic Fuzzy Sets: Recent Advances (IFS), and Soft ing and Knowledge Discovery; Information Stor- 1. Introduction.- 2. Exponential and information in- Computing in Image Processing (CLIPS). These spe- age and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications equalities.- 3. Gaussian processes.- 4. Gaussian mod- cial sessions extend and deepen the main topics of (incl.Internet); Language Translation and Linguistics el selection.- 5. Concentration inequalities.- 6. Maxi- WILF. mal inequalities.- 7. Density estimation via model se- Target groups lection.- 8. Statistical learning.- References.- Index. Fields of interest Researchers and professionals Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Fields of interest Logic and Formal Languages; Computation by Ab- Type of publication Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Statisti- stract Devices; Information Storage and Retrieval; Proceedings cal Theory and Methods; Information and Commu- Database Management; Image Processing and Com- nication, Circuits puter Vision Due August 2007 Target groups Target groups Graduate students and researchers Researchers and professionals 2007. XVII, 663 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4629) Softcover Type of publication Type of publication Monograph 76,00 € Proceedings ISBN 978-3-540-74627-0 Due April 2007 Due June 2007

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This book comprises a selection of papers from IF- This volume presents papers from the 10th Working This book comprises a selection of papers from IFSA SA 2007 on new methods for analysis and design of Conference of the IFIP WG 8.6 on the adoption and 2007 on new methods and theories that contribute hybrid intelligent systems using soft computing tech- diffusion of information systems and technologies. to the foundations of fuzzy logic and soft comput- niques. Soft Computing (SC) consists of several com- This book explores the dynamics of how some tech- ing. These papers were selected from over 400 sub- puting paradigms, including fuzzy logic, neural net- nological innovation efforts succeed while others fail. missions and constitute an important contribution works, and genetic algorithms, which can be used The book looks to expand the research agenda, pay- to the theory and applications of fuzzy logic and soft to produce powerful hybrid intelligent systems for ing special attention to the areas of theoretical per- computing methodologies. Soft Computing consists solving problems in pattern recognition, time series spectives, methodologies, and organizational sectors. of several computing paradigms, including fuzzy log- prediction, intelligent control, robotics and automa- ic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and other tion. Hybrid intelligent systems that combine sever- Features techniques, which can be used to produce powerful al SC techniques are needed due to the complexity Most current research on the transfer and diffusion intelligent systems for solving real-world problems. and high dimensionality of real-world problems. Hy- of information technology This book is intended to be a major reference for brid intelligent systems can have different architec- Contents scientists and engineers interested in applying new tures, which have an impact on the efficiency and ac- From the Contents Organisational Dynamics of computational and mathematical tools to achieve in- curacy of these systems, for this reason it is very im- Technology-Based Innovation.- Turning the Dig- telligent solution to complex problems. We consid- portant to optimize architecture design. The archi- ital Divide into a Digital Divident.- The Diversity er that this book can also be used to get novel ideas tectures can combine, in different ways, neural net- of the Research Agenda in Organizational Dynam- for new lines of research, or to continue the lines of works, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, to achieve ics of Technology-Based Innovation.- Cooperative research proposed by the authors of the papers con- the ultimate goal of pattern recognition, time series Models for IT Transfer in the Context of Open In- tained in the book. The 80 papers presented were prediction, intelligent control, or [..] novation.- Process Modeling Information Systems carefully reviewed and selected form more than [..] Features Development.- User-Led Innovation in Call Center Fields of interest Proceedings of the IFSA World Congress 2007 held Knowledge Work.- The Identity, Dynamics, and Dif- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathemati- in Cancun, Mexico June 18- 21 Recent research re- fusion of MIS.- Measuring Process Innovations and cal Logic and Formal Languages; Database Manage- sults in Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing Improvements.- The Impact of Methods and Tech- ment; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Pro- niques on Outcomes from Agile Software Develop- cessing; Information Systems Contents ment Projects.- Make [..] Part I Type-2 Fuzzy Logic: Theory and Applications.- Target groups Part II Fuzzy Clustering: Theory and Applications.- Fields of interest Researchers and professionals Part III Intelligent Identification and Control .- Part Management of Computing and Information IV Time Series Prediction.- Part V Pattern Recogni- Systems; Information Systems Applications Type of publication tion.- Part VI Evolutionary Computation.- Part VII (incl.Internet); Information Systems and Communi- Proceedings Fuzzy Modeling.- Part VIII Intelligent Manufactur- cation Service ing and Scheduling.- Part IX Intelligent Agents.- Part Target groups Due June 2007 X Neural Networks Theory.- Part XI Robotics.- Part Researchers and practitioners in the transfer and dif- XII Fuzzy Logic Applications. fusion of information technology 2007. XIX, 830 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Fields of interest er Science, Vol. 4529) Softcover Type of publication Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of En- Proceedings 86,00 € gineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Ap- ISBN 978-3-540-72917-4 plications of Mathematics Due June 2007 Target groups Researchers, engineers, graduate students in soft 2007. XVIIII, 534 p. (IFIP International Federation for Information computing and statistics Processing, Vol. 235) Hardcover Type of publication 174,00 € Monograph ISBN 978-0-387-72803-2 Due June 2007

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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, Vol. 4454) homogeneity tests.- Selected permutation studies. Softcover Fields of interest 2007. XI, 418 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4612) 42,00 € Statistical Theory and Methods; Biometrics; Data Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-73769-8 Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Psychometrics; Health Care Administration; Monitoring/Environ- 56,00 € 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

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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, Vol. 3912) Softcover Contents Contents 58,00 € 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, Vol. 4527) Softcover puter Science, Vol. 4528) Softcover gence (incl. Robotics); Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities; Music 76,00 € 76,00 € 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. 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9th International Conference, COORDINATION 2007, Paphos, Robots and autonomous agents have permeated As individual needs have arisen in the fields of Cyprus, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings every aspect of human life. They are not only om- physics, electrical engineering and computational nipresent on the shop floors; they have pervaded science, each has created its own theories of infor- our homes and are around us everywhere. Design mation to serve as conceptual instruments for ad- methodologies and implementation techniques of in- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of vancing developments. This book provides a coher- telligent machines are making progress in leaps and the 9th International Conference on Coordination ent consolidation of information theories from these bounds. Smart interaction, cooperation, and pro- Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2007, different fields. The author gives a survey of current activeness are the hallmarks of modern intelligent held in Paphos, Cyprus, in June 2007, as one of the theories and then introduces the underlying notion machines. This book deals with the theoretical and federated conferences on Distributed Computing of symmetry, showing how information is related to methodological aspects of incorporating intelligence Techniques, DisCoTec 2007. The 17 revised full pa- the capacity of a system to distinguish itself. A for- in "Autonomous Robots and Agents". Challenges pers presented were carefully reviewed and select- mal methodology using group theory is employed faced in the real world to accomplish complex tasks, ed from 51 submissions. The subject-matter is how and leads to the application of Burnside's Lemma to which require collaborative efforts, and methods to to increase modularity, simplify reasoning, and ulti- count distinguishable states. This provides a versatile overcome them, are detailed. Several informative ar- mately enhance today's software development by ex- tool for quantifying complexity and information ca- ticles deal with navigation, localization and mapping ploring the spectrum of languages, middleware, ser- pacity in any physical system. Written in an informal of mobile robots, a problem that engineers and re- vices, and algorithms. The papers are organized in style, the book is accessible to all researchers in the searchers are grappling with all the time. This edited topical sections on middleware, logic programming, fields of physics, chemistry, biology, computational volume is targeted to present the latest state-of-the- formal approaches, concurrency, components and science as well as many others. art methodologies in Robotics. It is a compilation of services, as well as MANets. the extended versions of the very best papers [..] Features Fields of interest Consolidates diverse existing theories of information Contents Software Engineering; Special Purpose and Appli- Accessible to non-specialists From the contents Toward Hierarchical Multi-Robot cation-Based Systems; Programming Techniques; Computation by Abstract Devices; Artificial Intelli- Urban Search and Rescue: Development of a ‘Moth- Contents gence (incl. Robotics) er’ Agent.- Multi-Robot Search and Rescue: A Po- Introduction.- Information.- Information and Dis- tential Field Based Approach.- Probabilistic Target tinguishability.- Information and Symmetry.- Con- Target groups Search Strategy.- Localisation and Mapping with a clusion Mobile Robot Using Sparse Range Data.- Applying Researchers and professionals High-Level Understanding to Visual Localisation Fields of interest Type of publication for Mapping.- Development of an Optical Three-Ax- Coding and Information Theory; Group Theory and Proceedings is Tactile Sensor for Object Handing Tasks in Hu- Generalizations; Information and Communication, manoid Robot Navigation System.- Clustering Meth- Circuits; Mathematical and Computational Physics; Due May 2007 ods in Flock Traffic Navigation Based on Negoti- Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analy- ation.- Using Learned Features from 3D Data for sis Robot [..] 2007. X, 325 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Target groups Science, Vol. 4467) Softcover Fields of interest Natural scientists, computer scientists, engineers, Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- mathematicians 48,00 € neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) ISBN 978-3-540-72793-4 Type of publication Target groups Monograph Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in robotics, automation and computer science Due May 2007 Type of publication Monograph 2007. VIII, 165 p. 33 illus. (The Frontiers Collection) Hardcover

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A. Myatt, GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, USA B. Möller, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; U. Reuter, C. Müller (Ed.) Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Speaker Classification II Edition Uncertainty Forecasting in Engineering Selected Papers

The open source NetBeans Integrated Development As well as conveying a message in words and sounds, Environment (IDE) is a Java IDE project started by This book deals with uncertainty forecasting based the speech signal carries information about the Sun, which has gained tremendous market inter- on a fuzzy time series approach, including fuzzy ran- speaker's own anatomy, physiology, linguistic expe- est and momentum of late, and is closing the gap dom processes and artificial neural networks. A con- rience and mental state. These speaker characteris- between itself and the most popular, leading open sideration of data and measurement uncertainty en- tics are found in speech at all levels of description: source Java IDE, Eclipse. Pro NetBeans aims to pub- hances forecasting in a wide range of applications, from the spectral information in the sounds to the lish on the NetBeans Java IDE, a market that is now particularly in the fields of engineering, environmen- choice of words and utterances themselves. This two underrepresented in the marketplace, unlike the near tal science and civil engineering. Uncertain data are volume set, LNAI 4343 and LNAI 4441, constitutes a saturation of Eclipse books. Specifically, this book described by means of a new incremental fuzzy rep- state-of-the-art survey for the field of speaker classi- aims to be first to market on the new NetBeans 5.5 resentation which permits a complete and accurate fication. It approaches the following questions: What Java IDE, based on the relatively new Java EE 5 plat- estimation of uncertainty. The book is aimed at en- characteristics of the speaker become manifest in his form and J2SE 5. Intended for Java developers of gineers as well as professionals working in related or her voice and speaking behavior? Which of them varying skill who may or may not be familiar with fields. Descriptive, modeling and forecasting meth- can be inferred from analyzing the acoustic realiza- Netbeans IDE or Java IDEs in general. Netbeans IDE ods pertaining to fuzzy time series are introduced tions? What can this information be used for? Which is an amazing tool for rapidly developing Java appli- and explained in detail. Emphasis is placed on fore- methods are the most suitable for diversified prob- cations. casting with the aid of fuzzy random processes, such lems in this area of research? How should the quali- as fuzzy ARMA processes and fuzzy white-noise pro- ty of the results be evaluated? The 22 articles of the Features cesses, as well as forecasting based on artificial neural second volume comprise a number of selected self- First book to market on the new NetBeans 5.5 Java networks. All numerical algorithms are comprehen- contained papers on research projects in the field of IDE, based on the relatively new Java EE 5 platform sively described and demonstrated by way of practi- speaker classification. These [..] and J2SE 5 NetBeans is the second leading open cal examples. source Java IDE, second to only Eclipse currently Fields of interest Focuses on using Netbeans as a professional soft- Features Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Language ware development platform. It discusses real life case Fuzzy time series can be applied in many fields in Translation and Linguistics; User Interfaces and studies and directly relates the material to topics the engineering like environmental engineering or civil Human Computer Interaction; Pattern Recog- reader can quickly understand Provides step by step engineering Two simulation-based important fore- nition; Image Processing and Computer Vision; [..] casting strategies are explained: forecasting based on Signal,Image and Speech Processing fuzzy-ARMA-processes or fuzzy-white-noise-pro- Contents cesses and forecasting based on fuzzy artificial neural Target groups Preface.- Part 1: Creating and Managing Java networks A complete new description of uncertain Researchers and professionals projects: Integrated Development Environments.- data as incremental fuzzy data is given Downloading, Installing, Customizing.- Creating a Type of publication Java Project.- Creating a Java Web Project.- Creat- Contents Proceedings ing a Java Enterprise Project.- Creating a Java Web Introduction.- Mathematical Description of Uncer- Services Project.- Creating a Java GUI Project.- Cre- tain Data.- Analysis of Time Series Comprised of Due August 2007 ating a J2ME Project.- Creating a Service Oriented Uncertain Data.- Forecasting of Time Series with Architecture Application (5.5 Preview).- Creating a Uncertain Data.- Uncertain Forecasting in Engineer- Java Project Using UML (5.5 Preview).- Part 2: The ing and Environmental Science.- References.- Index. 2007. 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C. Müller, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, M. Müller, University of Bonn, Germany W.G. Müller, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria USA (Ed.) Information Retrieval for Music and Collecting Spatial Data Speaker Classification I Motion Optimum Design of Experiments for Random Fields Fundamentals, Features, and Methods

A general scenario that has attracted a lot of atten- The book is concerned with the statistical theory As well as conveying a message in words and sounds, tion for multimedia information retrieval is based for locating spatial sensors. It bridges the gap be- the speech signal carries information about the on the query-by-example paradigm: retrieve all doc- tween spatial statistics and optimum design theo- speaker's own anatomy, physiology, linguistic experi- uments from a database containing parts or aspects ry. After introductions to those two fields the topics ence and mental state. These speaker characteristics similar to a given data fragment. However, multi- of exploratory designs and designs for spatial trend are found in speech at all levels of description: from media objects, even though they are similar from a and variogram estimation are treated. Special atten- the spectral information in the sounds to the choice structural or semantic viewpoint, often reveal sig- tion is devoted to describing new methodologies to of words and utterances themselves. This volume nificant spatial or temporal differences. This makes cope with the problem of correlated observations. and its companion volume, LNAI 4441, constitute content-based multimedia retrieval a challenging re- A great number of relevant references are collect- a state-of-the-art survey for the field of speaker clas- search field with many unsolved problems. Meinard ed and put into a common perspective. The theo- sification. They approach the following questions: Müller details concepts and algorithms for robust retical investigations are accompanied by a practi- What characteristics of the speaker become manifest and efficient information retrieval by means of two cal example, the redesign of an Upper-Austrian air in his or her voice and speaking behavior? Which of different types of multimedia data: waveform-based pollution monitoring network. A reader should be them can be inferred from analyzing the acoustic re- music data and human motion data. In Part I, he dis- able to find respective theory and recommendations alizations? What can this information be used for? cusses in depth several approaches in music informa- on how to efficiently plan a specific purpose spatial Which methods are the most suitable for diversified tion retrieval, in particular general strategies as well monitoring network. The third edition takes into problems in this area of research? How should the as efficient algorithms for music synchronization, account the rapid development in the area of quality of the results be evaluated? The 19 contribu- audio matching, and audio structure analysis. He al- spatial statistics by including new relevant research tions to this volume comprise general and overview- so shows how the analysis results can be used in an and references. The revised edition contains addi- like articles that are organized in topical sections on advanced audio player to facilitate [..] tional material on design for detecting spatial [..] fundamentals, [..] Features Features Fields of interest First monograph specializing in music and motion Book bridges the gap between spatial statistics and Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Language retrieval Details concepts and algorithms for ro- optimum design theory New edition includes new Translation and Linguistics; User Interfaces and bust and efficient information retrieval for wave- relevant research and references Human Computer Interaction; Pattern Recog- form-based music data and human motion data Em- nition; Image Processing and Computer Vision; phasizes the interdisciplinary character by combin- Contents Signal,Image and Speech Processing ing elements from information science, digital signal Introduction.- Fundamentals of Spatial Statistics.- processing, audio engineering, musicology, and com- Fundamentals of Experimental Design.- Exploratory Target groups puter graphics Highly didactic presentation which Designs.- Designs for Spatial Trend Estimation.- De- Researchers and professionals makes each part [..] sign and Dependence.- Multipurpose Designs.- Ap- pendix. Type of publication Contents Proceedings 1) Introduction.- Part I: Analysis and Retrieval Tech- Fields of interest niques for Music Data.- 2) Fundamentals on Music Regional Science; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Due August 2007 and Audio Data - 3) Pitch- and Chroma-based Au- Computer Science, Chemistry & Geosciences; Math. dio Features - 4) Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) Appl. in Environmental Science; Math. Applica- - 5) Music Synchronization - 6) Audio Matching - tions in Geosciences; Statistics for Business/Eco- 2007. X, 355 p. Also available online. 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J. Münch, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany; P. Abra- A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan; S. M. Naor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (Ed.) hamsson, VTT Electronics, Oulu, Finland (Eds.) Kurihara, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; H. Nakashima, Future University Hakodate, Hakodate Hokkaido, Japan (Eds.) Advances in Cryptology - Product-Focused Software Process EUROCRYPT 2007 Improvement Emergent Intelligence of Networked Agents 26th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Ap- 8th International Conference, PROFES 2007, Riga, Latvia, July plications of Cryptographic Techniques, Barcelona, Spain, May 2-4, 2007, Proceedings 20-24, 2007, Proceedings

Features This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Contains the latest research on Emergent Intelli- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Product Focused gence of Networked Agents 26th Annual International Conference on the The- Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2007, held ory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, in Riga, Latvia in July 2007. The 29 revised full pa- Contents EUROCRYPT 2007, held in Barcelona, Spain in May pers presented together with 4 reports on workshops Incremental Development of Networked Intelligence 2007. The 33 revised full papers presented were care- and tutorials and 4 keynote addresses were careful- in Flocking Behavior.- Emergence and Software de- fully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions. ly reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The velopment Based on a Survey of Emergence Defi- The papers address all current foundational, theo- papers constitute a balanced mix of academic and nitions.- The Impact of Network Model on Perfor- retical and research aspects of cryptology, cryptogra- industrial aspects; they are organized in topical sec- mance of Load-balancing.- Auction-Based Resource phy, and cryptanalysis as well as advanced applications on global software development, software pro- Reservation Game in Small World.- Navigational In- tions. cess improvement, software process modeling and formation as Emergent Intelligence of Spontaneous- evolution, industrial experiences, agile software de- ly Structuring Web Space.- From Agents to Commu- Fields of interest velopment, software measurement, simulation and nities: A Meta-model for Community Computing in Data Encryption; Computer Communication Net- decision support, processes and methods. Multi-Agent System.- The effects of market structure works; Systems and Data Security; Algorithm Analy- on a heterogeneous evolving population of traders.- sis and Problem Complexity; Discrete Mathematics Fields of interest Analysis on Transport Networks of Railway, Subway in Computer Science; Management of Computing Software Engineering; Management of Computing and [..] and Information Systems and Information Systems; Computers and Society; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing Fields of interest Target groups Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- Researchers and professionals Target groups neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Researchers and professionals Type of publication Target groups Proceedings Type of publication Researchers, engineers, graduate students in compu- Proceedings tational intelligence, computer science Due May 2007

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N. Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; L.d. Macedo N. Nedjah, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; A. N. Nedjah, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; L.d.S. Mourelle, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 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.) Co-Design for System Acceleration Mobile Robots: The Evolutionary A Quantitative Approach Computational Intelligence in Approach Information Assurance and Security

In this book, we are concerned with studying the co- design methodology, in general, and how to deter- The design and control of autonomous intelligent The global economic infrastructure is becoming in- mine the more suitable interface mechanism in a co- mobile robotic systems operating in unstructured creasingly dependent upon information technology, design system, in particular. This will be based on changing environments includes many objective dif- with computer and communication technology be- the characteristics of the application and those of the ficulties. There are several studies about the ways ing essential and vital components of Government target architecture of the system. We provide guide- in which, robots exhibiting some degree of autono- facilities, power plant systems, medical infrastruc- lines to support the designer's choice of the interface my, adapt themselves to fit in their environments. tures, financial centers and military installations to mechanism. The application and use of bio-inspired and intelli- name a few. Finding effective ways to protect infor- gent techniques such as reinforcement learning, ar- Features mation systems, networks and sensitive data within tificial neural networks, evolutionary computation Written by an academic but is applicable to profes- the critical information infrastructure is challenging and so forth in the design and improvement of robot sionals from industry Topics as co-design method- even with the most advanced technology and trained designs is an emergent research topic. Researchers ology and how to determine the more suitable inter- professionals. This volume provides the academic have obtained robots that display an amazing slew of face mechanism in a co-design system are discussed and industrial community with a medium for pre- behaviours and perform a multitude of tasks. These Will be based on the characteristics of the applica- senting original research and applications related to include perception of environment, planning and tion and those of the target architecture of the system information assurance and security using computa- navigation in rough terrain, pushing boxes, negoti- tional intelligence techniques. The included chap- ating an obstacle course, etc. This volume offers a Contents ters communicate current research on information wide spectrum of sample works developed in leading List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface.- 1: introduc- assurance and security regarding both the theoreti- research throughout the world about evolutionary tion.- 2: co-design methodology.- 3: The co-design cal and methodological aspects, as well as various ap- mobile robotics and demonstrates the success of the system.- 4: VHDL modeling of a co-design system.- plications in solving real world information security technique in evolving efficient and capable mobile 5: shared memory configuration.- 6: dual-port mem- problems using computational intelligence. robots. ory configuration.- 7: cache memory configuration.- 8: advanced topics and further research.- Appen- Features Features dices. References. Index. Presents recent advances of Computational Intelli- Everything about evolutionary computation in prac- gence in Information Assurance and Security tice Fields of interest Circuits and Systems; Computer Hardware; Com- Contents Contents puter Systems Organization and Communication Cryptography and Cryptanalysis Through Computa- Part I Evolutionary Mobile Robots.- Differential Networks; Memory Structures; Processor Architec- tional Intelligence.- Multimedia Content Protection Evolution Approach Using Chaotic Sequences Ap- tures Based on Chaotic Neural Networks.- Evolutionary plied to Planning of Mobile Robot in a Static Envi- Regular Substitution Boxes.- Industrial Applications ronment with Obstacles.- Evolving Modular Robots Target groups Using Wavelet Packets for Gross Error Detection.- for Rough Terrain Exploration.- Evolutionary Nav- Engineers, graduate students and researchers in the Immune-inspired Algorithm for Anomaly Detec- igation of Autonomous Robots Under Varying Ter- areas of System-on-Chip, System Architecture and tion.- How to Efficiently Process Uncertainty with- rain Conditions.- Aggregate Selection in Evolution- Embedded Systems in a Cyberinfrastructure without Sacrificing Priva- ary Robotics.-Evolving Fuzzy Classifier for Novel- cy and Confidentiality.- Fingerprint Recognition Us- ty Detection and Landmark Recognition by Mobile Type of publication ing a Hierarchical Approach.- Smart Card Security.- Robots.- Part II Learning Mobile Robots.- Reinforce- Monograph Governance of Information Security: New Paradigm ment Learning for Autonomous Robotic Fish.- Mod- of Security Management. ule-based Autonomous Learning for Mobile Robots.- Due April 2007 A Hybrid [..] Fields of interest Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- Fields of interest 2007. 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N.T. Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland N.T. Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland; A. G. Nicolescu, École Polytechnique de Montréal, QC, Canada; A.A. 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, Advanced Methods for Inconsistent SA, Australia (Eds.) Knowledge Management Global Specification and Validation Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: of Embedded Systems Technologies and Applications Integrating Heterogeneous Components The need for resolution of knowledge inconsistency arises in many practical applications of comput- First KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2007, Wro- claw, Poland, May 31-June 1, 2007, Proceedings er systems. This kind of inconsistency results from Global Specification and Validation of Embedded the use of various resources of knowledge in real- Systems offers a deep understanding of concepts and izing practical tasks. These resources often are au- practices behind the composition of heterogeneous tonomous and use different mechanisms for pro- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the components. After the analysis of existing computa- cessing knowledge about the same real world. This First International Symposium on Agent and Mul- tion and execution models used for the specification can lead to inconsistency. This book provides a wide ti-Agent Systems - Technologies and Applications, and validation of different sub-systems, the book in- snapshot of intelligent technologies for inconsisten- KES-AMSTA 2007, held in Wroclaw, Poland in troduces a systematic approach to build an execu- cy resolution. Features and topics include: Knowl- May/June 2007. China in November 2006. The 110 tion model for systems composed of heterogeneous edge inconsistency resolving; consensus and con- revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and components. Mixed continuous/discrete and hard- flict theories; inconsistency of knowledge – syntactic selected from 464 submissions and contain 4 papers ware/software systems will be used to illustrate these and semantic; methods based on inconsistency mea- from the doctoral track, and 38 papers from 3 spe- concepts. The benefit of reading this book is to give sures for inconsistency processing; knowledge con- cial sessions. The papers are organized in topical sec- a clear vision on the theory and practice of specifica- flict profiles; conflicts of ontologies; practical aspects tions representing the following conference tracks: tion and validation of complex modern systems. The of applications of proposed methods. This book methodological aspects of agent systems, agent-ori- examples give to the designers solutions applicable in presents state-of-the-art research, filling a void in the ented Web applications, mobility aspects of agent their daily practice. literature within the field and offers researchers and systems and ontology management, multi-agent re- graduates an invaluable source of reference on the source allocation, negotiating agents, agents for net- Features topic. work management, agent approaches to robotic sys- Offers a deep understanding of concepts and prac- tems, market agents and other applications; the doc- tices behind the composition of heterogeneous com- Features toral track; special sessions on mobile agent applica- ponents Introduces a systematic approach to build Currently no other book on Inconsistent Knowledge tion and its development, agent on networked media an execution model for systems composed of hetero- Management Several methods based on Consensus and its applications on next-generation convergence geneous components Mixed continuous/discrete and Computing are presented as a tool for reconciling in- network, as well as on intelligent and secure agent hardware/software systems will be used to illustrate consistency of knowledge Offers methods for pro- for [..] these concepts. Gives a clear vision on the theory and cessing inconsistent knowledge on syntactic and se- practice of specification and validation of complex mantic levels, as well as for resolving inconsistency Fields of interest modern [..] of ontologies Several applications of proposed meth- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information ods are given Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Data Mining Contents and Knowledge Discovery; Computer Appl. in Ad- 1. Introduction.- 2. Heterogeneous Systems Model- Contents ministrative Data Processing; User Interfaces and ing. Basic Concepts.- 3. Execution Models.- 4. Het- Inconsistency of Knowledge: Introduction.- Mod- Human Computer Interaction; Computers and Soci- erogeneous Systems Validation Based On Execution el of Knowledge on Conflict.- Consensus as a Tool ety Models.- 5. Anatomy Of A Hardware/Software Exe- for Conflict Solving.- Model for Knowledge Integra- cution Model In Heterogeneous Systems.- 6. Anato- tion.- Processing Inconsistency on Syntactic Level.- Target groups my Of A Continuous/Discrete System Execution Processing Inconsistency on Semantic Level.- Con- Researchers and professionals Model For Timed Execution Of Heterogeneous Sys- sensus for Fuzzy Conflict Profiles.- Processing In- tems.- 7. Methodology For Heterogeneous Systems consistency of Expert Knowledge.- Ontology Inte- Type of publication Validation. gration.- Application of Inconsistency Resolution Proceedings Methods in Intelligent Learning Systems.- Process- Fields of interest ing Inconsistency in Information Retrieval.- Conclu- Due May 2007 Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engineering sions. (CAD, CAE) and Design; Simulation and Modeling; Theory of Computation; Special Purpose and Appli- Fields of interest 2007. XXI, 1046 p. Also available online. 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S. Nikiel, University of Zielona Góra, Poland P. Noriega, J. Vázquez-Salceda, G. Boella, O. Boissier, V. Dignum, J. Nurmi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland (Ed.) N. Fornara, E. Matson (Eds.) Iterated Function Systems for Real- Processor Design Time Image Synthesis Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs Systems II

Natural phenomena can be visually described with AAMAS 2006 and ECAI 2006 International Workshops, COIN Processor Design provides insight into a number of fractal-geometry methods, where iterative proce- 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006 Riva del Garda, Italy, Au- different flavors of processor architectures and their dures rather than equations are used to model ob- gust 28, 2006, Revised Selected Papers design, software tool generation, implementation, jects. With the development of better modelling al- and verification. After a brief introduction to proces- gorithms, the efficiency of rendering, the realism of sor architectures and how processor designers have computer-generated scenes and the interactivity of sometimes failed to deliver what was expected, the This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- visual stimuli are reaching astonishing levels. Iterat- authors introduce a generic flow for embedded on- proceedings of the International Workshop on Co- ed Function Systems for Real-Time Image Synthe- chip processor design and start to explore the vast ordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms sis gives an explanation of iterated function systems design space of on-chip processing. The types of pro- in Agent Systems, COIN 2006, held as two events at and how to use them in generation of complex ob- cessor cores covered include general purpose RISC AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Confer- jects. Contents include: Discussion of the most pop- cores, traditional DSP, a VLIW approach to signal ence on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Sys- ular fractal models applied in the field of image syn- processing, processor cores that can be customized tems in Hakodate, Japan, and ECAI 2006, the 17th thesis. Presentation of iterated function system mod- for specific applications, reconfigurable processors, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Ri- els, including recent developments in IFS representa- protocol processors, Java engines, and stream pro- va del Garda, Italy. This volume is the second in a se- tion. Exploration of algorithms for creating and ma- cessors. Co-processor and multi-core design ap- ries focussing on issues in Coordination, Organiza- nipulating fractal objects, and techniques for imple- proaches that deliver application-specific perfor- tions, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent menting the algorithms. Use of practical examples mance over and above that which is available from systems. The 23 papers in this volume are extended, to demonstrate the implementation and application single-core designs are also described. revised versions of papers presented at the two work- of IFS models. The book contains both a description shops that were carefully selected during two rounds text and pseudo-code samples for the convenience Features of reviewing and improvement. The papers are orga- [..] Design and customization of embedded on-chip pro- nized in topical sections on modelling and analyzing cessors is an essential part of SoC development ASIC Features organizations, modelling and analyzing institutions, and FPGA engineers have to understand processor First book on identification of a class of Iterated normative models and issues, norm evolution and architecture and implementation Understanding Function Systems applied in Real-time Computer dynamics, as well as autonomy, coordination and so- processor design options has become crucial for ev- Graphics Includes an extension of the classical IFS cial order. ery digital design professional model to n-D case and integration of fractal and vec- Fields of interest tor models Contents Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Software En- Preface. List of Contributing Authors. 1. Introduc- Contents gineering; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Pro- tion. 2 Embedded Computer Architecture Funda- Introduction.- Image Models for Fractals.- Frac- gramming Techniques; Computer Communication mentals. 3.Beyond the Valley of the Lost Processors. tal Models for Image Synthesis – a Survey.- Iterat- Networks; Programming Languages, Compilers, In- 4. Processor Design Flow. 5. General-Purpose Em- ed Function Systems – the Model.- Inverse Prob- terpreters bedded Processor Cores. 6. The DSP and It's Impact lem – the Collage Theorem.- IFS Rendering Algo- on Technology. 7. VLIW DSP Processor for High- Target groups rithms.- nD Iterated Function Systems and their Ap- End Mobile Communication Applications. 8. Cus- Researchers and professionals plications.- Conclusions, Directions for Future De- tomizable Processors and Processor Customization. velopment.- References.- Appendix A: Acknowledge- Type of publication 9. Run-Time Reconfigurable Processors. 10. Co-pro- ments.- Appendix B: Abbreviations.- Appendix C: Proceedings cessor Approach to Accelerating Multimedia Appli- Index.- Appendix D: Figure Plates. cations. 11. Designing Soft-Core Processors for FP- GAs. 12. Protocol Processor Design Issues. 13. Java Due September 2007 Fields of interest [..] Computer Graphics; Image Processing and Comput- er Vision 2007. XI, 373 p. 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J.F. Nusairat, Hilliard, OH, USA M. O'Boyle, University of Edinburgh, UK; F. Bodin, IRISA, Rennes, R. Obermaisser, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria; France; M. Cintra, University of Edinburgh, UK; S.A. McKee, Cor- Y. Nah, Dankook University, Seoul, Korea; P. Puschner, Vienna nell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (Eds.) University of Technology, Vienna, Austria; F.J. Rammig, University Beginning JBoss Seam of Paderborn, Germany (Eds.)

From Novice to Professional Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Software Technologies for Compilers I Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems JBoss Seam represents the primary counter to the 5th IFIP WG 10.2 International Workshop, SEUS 2007, Santori- hot and successful Spring Framework and perhaps ni Island, Greece, May 7-8, 2007, Revised Papers even Ruby on Rails framework. The open source lightweight Java EE 5 standards based JBoss Seam Transactions on HiPEAC is a new journal which framework is a part of this second wave of open aims at the timely dissemination of research contri- source lightweight Java that’s taking place. Begin- butions in computer architecture and compilation This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- ning JBoss Seam: From Novice to Professional aims methods for high-performance embedded computer proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 10.2 International to take advantage of this hot area, and aims to be first systems. Recognizing the convergence of embedded Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Em- beginning book and one of maybe two books to mar- and general-purpose computer systems, this jour- bedded and Ubiquitous Systems, SEUS 2007, held ket in this likely lucrative area. This book gives an nal publishes original research on systems targeted on Santorini Island, Greece, in May 2007 in conjunc- overview of Seam related JSF and EJB 3 as found in at specific computing tasks as well as systems with tion with ISORC 2007, the 10th IEEE International Java EE 5; provides information on the tools to make broad application bases. The scope of the journal Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented development with Seam easier as well as a function- therefore covers all aspects of computer architecture, Real-time Distributed Computing. The 31 revised ing in depth demo to truly learn how to use Seam; code generation and compiler optimization methods full papers and 4 revised short papers presented were and gives tips and tricks to using Seam. of interest to researchers and practitioners designing carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submis- future embedded systems. This inaugural issue con- sions. The papers are organized in topical sections Features tains 21 papers - headed by an article by Sir Maurice on ubiquitous computing frameworks, safety-critical Aims to be first (beginning) book (or one of two) to Wilkes, who provides a perspective on the exciting systems, validation of embedded and ubiquitous sys- market on this key emerging open source lightweight evolution of computers to the present day. Reflect- tems, ubiquitous computing applications, schedul- Java EE 5 standards-based JBoss Seam framework ing on the evolution in computer architecture over ing and non functional properties, self-organization Gives users an overview of JSF and EJB 3 as found in the last decades, he also provides his outlook on the and reconfiguration, service discovery and develop- Java EE 5 Provides information on the tools they can forces that will be important for developments over ment platform, wireless networks, middleware archi- use to make development with Seam easier as well as the next decade. The second regular paper [..] tectures and virtualization, and environment interac- a functioning in depth demo so users can truly learn tion. how to use Seam Gives tips and tricks to using Seam Fields of interest Arithmetic and Logic Structures; Processor Archi- Fields of interest Contents tectures; Input/Output and Data Communications; Computer Communication Networks; Special Pur- Background and Introduction.- Sample Applica- Logic Design; Computer Communication Networks; pose and Application-Based Systems; Information tion.- What is Seam.- JSF.- EJB 3.- Integrating with Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Seam.- Advanced Seam.- Seam Development Tools Storage and Retrieval; User Interfaces and Human and Plug-ins. Target groups Computer Interaction; Management of Computing Researchers and professionals and Information Systems Fields of interest Programming Techniques; Programming Languages, Type of publication Target groups Compilers, Interpreters Proceedings Researchers and professionals

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S.H. Oda, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan (Ed.) T. Okadome, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Cooperation, T. Okamoto, NTT, Japan; X. Wang, Tsinghua University, China Japan; T. Yamazaki, National Institute of Information and Com- (Eds.) munications Technology, Japan; M. Mokhtari, Institut National Developments on Experimental des Télécommunications, France (Eds.) Economics Public Key Cryptography - PKC 2007 Pervasive Computing for Quality of 10th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Pub- New Approaches to Solving Real-world Problems lic-Key Cryptography, Beijing, China, April 16-20, 2007, Pro- Life Enhancement ceedings

5th International Conference On Smart Homes and Health This volume on experimental economics offers Telematics, ICOST 2007, Nara, Japan, June 21-23, 2007, Pro- both new research grounds and a bird’s eye view ceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the on the field. In the first part, leading experimen- 10th International Conference on Practice and The- tal economists, among them Vernon S. Smith and ory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2007, held in Daniel Friedman, give inspiring insights into their This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Beijing, China in April 2007. The 29 revised full pa- view on the general development of this field. In the 5th International Conference On Smart Homes and pers presented together with 2 invited lectures were second part, selected short papers by researchers and Health Telematics, ICOST 2007, held in Nara, carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submis- from various disciplines present new ideas and con- Japan in June 2007. The 25 revised full papers pre- sions. The papers are organized in topical sections cepts to solving problems in the real world. This sented were carefully reviewed and selected from a on signatures, cryptanalysis, protocols, multivariate multidisciplinary book is of particular interest to ex- total of 81 submissions. The papers address current cryptosystems, encryption, number theoretic tech- perimental economists and researchers from disci- research in augmented environments with the abili- niques, and public-key infrastructure. plines such as psychology, engineering and comput- ty to consolidate embedded computers, information er science who are interested in experimental ap- appliances, micro/nano systems, and multi-modal Fields of interest proaches in their fields. sensors to offer people unprecedented levels of access Data Encryption; Algorithm Analysis and Problem to information and assistance from information and Complexity; Computer Communication Networks; Fields of interest communication technology. The papers present the Computers and Society; Management of Computing Game Theory/Mathematical Methods; Computer latest approaches and technical solutions in the area and Information Systems Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences of smart homes, health telematics, and emerging en- Target groups abling technologies. Target groups Researchers and professionals Researchers in economics, experimental psychology, Fields of interest engineering, and computer science Type of publication Computer Communication Networks; Special Pur- Proceedings Type of publication pose and Application-Based Systems; Information Contributed volume Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Computer Appl. in Social Due March 2007 and Behavioral Sciences; Computers and Society Due June 2007 2007. XIII, 491 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Target groups er Science, Vol. 4450) Softcover 2007. XII, 262 p. 64 illus. (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathe- Researchers and professionals matical Systems, Vol. 590) Softcover 64,00 € Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-71676-1 64,95 € Proceedings ISBN 978-3-540-68659-0 Due June 2007

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H.G. Okuno, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; M. Ali, Texas State J. Olhager, Linköping University, Sweden; F. Persson, Linköping N. Olivetti, Université Paul Cézanne, France (Ed.) University, San Marcos, TX, USA (Eds.) University, Sweden (Eds.) Automated Reasoning with Analytic New Trends in Applied Artificial Advances in Production Tableaux and Related Methods Intelligence Management Systems 16th International Conference, TABLEAUX 2007, Aix en 20th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering, and International IFIP TC 5, WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Provence, France, July 3-6, 2007, Proceedings Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems. IEA/AIE Production Management Systems (APMS 2007), September 2007, Kyoto, Japan, June 26-29, 2007, Proceedings 17-19, Linköping, Sweden

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Automated Rea- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the The competitive environment is becoming increas- soning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, 20th International Conference on Industrial and En- ingly more complex and intense. In order to cope, TABLEAUX 2007, held in Aix en Provence, France gineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and business decisions related to various areas have to in July 2007. The 14 revised research papers present- Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2007, held in Kyoto, Japan become more interrelated. Firms need to couple ed together with 2 system descriptions as well as 3 in June 2007. The 116 revised full papers presented their operations strategies to the marketing strate- invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected together with 2 invited contributions were careful- gies to best support the competition of their products from 43 submissions. The papers cover many topics ly reviewed and selected from 462 submissions. The in the marketplace. The perspectives on production in the wide range of logics; from intuitionistic and papers are organized in topical sections on text pro- management systems are getting more strategic. A substructural logics to modal logics (including tem- cessing, fuzzy system applications, vision, real-world more integrated approach is thus called for, bring- poral and dynamic logics), from many-valued log- interaction, genetic algorithm robotics, fuzzy logic, ing together the various perspectives on production ics to nonmonotonic logics, from classical first-or- manufacturing, data mining, neural network, con- management systems and operations strategy. This der logic to description logics. Some contributions straint satisfaction, machine learning chance discov- relationship is important in any type of operation, are focused on decision procedures, others on ef- ery and social network, education, speech, e-com- perhaps more so in supply chains, production net- ficient reasoning, as well as on implementation of merce, heuristic search application system, agent- works and global operations. This book brings to- theorem provers. A few papers explore applications based system, and other applications. gether some of the latest thinking by leading experts such as model-checking, verification, or knowledge from around the world on integrating systems and engineering. Finally some contributions make use of Fields of interest strategies in production management and related is- tableaux as a tool for theoretical investigation of log- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computa- sues that are relevant for making production into a ics. tion by Abstract Devices; Pattern Recognition; Soft- competitive resource for the firm. This book is com- ware Engineering; Information Systems Applications posed of five parts, each focused on a specific theme: Fields of interest (incl.Internet); User Interfaces and Human Comput- [..] Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical er Interaction Logic and Formal Languages; Programming Tech- Features niques; Software Engineering Target groups " Most up-to-date research on production manage- Researchers and professionals ment systems" Target groups Researchers and professionals Type of publication Contents Proceedings Supply Chain Redesign Employing Advanced Plan- Type of publication ning Systems.- Extended Service Integration: To- Proceedings Due June 2007 wards "Manufacturing" SLA.- Consortium Building in Enterprise Networks to Design Innovative Prod- Due June 2007 ucts.- Global Supply Chain Control: A Conceptual 2007. XXI, 1194 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- puter Science, Vol. 4570) Softcover Framework for the Global Control Center (GCC).- Fast and Reliable Order Management Design using a 2007. X, 245 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4548) Softcover 108,00 € Qualitative Approach.- An Integral Model for Map- ISBN 978-3-540-73322-5 ping Variant Production in Supply Chains.- Cooper- 45,00 € ation of Lean Enterprises- Techniques used for Lean ISBN 978-3-540-73098-9 Supply Chain.-From Toyota Production System to Lean Retailing: Lessons from Seven-Eleven Japan.-

Fields of interest Computer Communication Networks

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A. Olivé, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain F. Oquendo (Ed.) P. Paillier, Gemalto, FR; I. Verbauwhede, KUL, Belgium (Eds.)

Conceptual Modeling of Software Architecture Cryptographic Hardware and

Information Systems First European Conference, ECSA 2007, Madrid, Spain, Embedded Systems - CHES 2007 September 24-26, 2007, Proceedings 9th International Workshop, Vienna, Austria, Speptember 10-13, 2007, Proceedings When designing an information system, conceptual modeling is the activity that elicits and describes the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the general knowledge the system needs to know. This First European Conference on Software Architec- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of description, called the conceptual schema, is neces- ture, ECSA 2007, held in Aranjuez, Spain, Septem- the 9th International Workshop on Cryptograph- sary in order to develop an information system. Re- ber 24-26, 2007. The 12 revised long papers present- ic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2007, cently, many researchers and professionals share a ed together with 4 short papers were carefully re- held in Vienna, Austria, September 10-13, 2007. The vision in which the conceptual schema becomes the viewed and selected from 62 submissions. Topics in- 31 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and only important description to be created, as the sys- clude description languages and metamodels, archi- selected from 99 submissions. The papers are orga- tem implementation will be automatically construct- tecture-based code generation, run-time monitoring, nized in topical sections on side channels, low reed from its schema – this is e.g. the basic idea behind requirements engineering, service-oriented architec- sources, hardware attacks and countermeasures, OMG’s Model Driven Architecture. Olivé’s textbook tures, aspect-oriented software architectures, ontol- special purpose hardware, efficient algorithms for explains in detail the principles of conceptual model- ogy-based approaches, autonomic systems, middle- embedded processors, side channels, hardware ating independently from particular methods and lan- ware and web services. tacks and countermeasures, efficient hardware, trust- guages and shows how to apply them in real-world ed computing, side channels, hardware attacks and projects. He covers all aspects of the engineering pro- Fields of interest countermeasures, as well as efficient hardware. cess from structural modeling over behavioral mod- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Software Engineering; Models and Prin- eling to meta-modeling, and completes the presen- Fields of interest ciples; Programming Languages, Compilers, Inter- tation with an extensive case study based on the os- Data Encryption; Computer Communication Net- preters Commerce system, an online store-management works; Special Purpose and Application-Based Sys- software program freely available under the GNU [..] Target groups tems; Logic Design; Operating Systems; Manage- ment of Computing and Information Systems Features Researchers and professionals Explains the principles of conceptual modeling inde- Type of publication Target groups pendently from particular methods and languages Researchers and professionals Presents the principles with the detail required to Proceedings correctly apply them in real projects Explains the for- Type of publication mal bases of conceptual schemas through the exten- Due September 2007 Proceedings sive use of intuitive ideas and examples Details the use of the standard UML/OCL as a particular con- 2007. XVI, 340 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4758) Due August 2007 ceptual modeling language Provides exercises for Softcover readers [..] 52,00 € 2007. XIV, 468 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4727) Contents ISBN 978-3-540-75131-1 Softcover 1. Introduction to Conceptual Modeling of Informa- 60,00 € tion Systems.- Part I: Structural Modeling.- 2. Enti- ISBN 978-3-540-74734-5 ty Types - 3. Relationship Types - 4. Cardinality constraints - 5. Particular Kinds of Relationship Types - 6. Reification - 7. Generic Relationship Types - 8. Derived Types - 9. Integrity Constraints - 10. Tax- onomies.- Part II: Behavioral Modeling.- 11. Domain Events - 12. Action Request Events - 13. State Tran- sition Diagrams - 14. Statecharts - 15. Use Cases.- Part III: Building Conceptual Schemas.- 16. A Case Study.- Part IV: Metamodeling.- 17. Metamodeling - 18. MOF and XMI.

Fields of interest Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Models and Principles; Software Engineering

Target groups Students, lecturers, advanced professionals

Type of publication Graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook

Due August 2007

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A. Paiva, R. Prada, R.W. Picard (Eds.) J.-S. Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, D. Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; H.-C. Huang, National University of Kaohsi- Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong; D. Zhang, Northeastern University, ung, Taiwan; L.C. Jain, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Boston, MA, USA; G. Kollios, Boston University, MA, USA (Eds.) Affective Computing and Intelligent Australia; W.-C. Fang, California Institute of Technology, Pasede- na, CA, USA (Eds.) Interaction Advances in Spatial and Temporal Second International Conference, ACII 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, Intelligent Multimedia Data Hiding Databases September 12-14, 2007, Proceedings New Directions 10th International Symposium, SSTD 2007, Boston, MA, USA, July 16.-18, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Affective Com- This book presents the latest research in the area of The refereed proceedings of the 10th Internation- puting and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2007, held multimedia data hiding paradigms. The book is di- al Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2007. The 57 re- vided into four parts and an appendix. The first part SSTD 2007, held in Boston, MA, USA in July 2007. vised full papers and 4 revised short papers present- introduces multimedia signal processing and infor- The 26 revised full papers were thoroughly reviewed ed together with the extended abstracts of 33 poster mation hiding techniques. It includes multimedia and selected from a total of 76 submissions. The pa- papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 151 representation, need for multimedia, digital water- pers are classified in the following categories, each submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- marking fundamentals and requirements of water- corresponding to a conference session: continuous tions on affective facial expression and recognition, marking. The second part describes the recent ad- monitoring, indexing and query processing, mining, affective body expression and recognition, affective vances in multimedia signal processing. The third aggregation and interpolation, semantics and model- speech processing, affective text and dialogue pro- part presents information hiding techniques including, privacy, uncertainty and approximation, stream- cessing, recognising affect using physiological mea- ing steganography, secret sharing and watermarking data, distributed systems, and spatial networks. sures, computational models of emotion and theo- ing. The final part of this book includes practical retical foundations, affective databases, annotations, applications of intelligent multimedia signal pro- Fields of interest tools and languages, affective sound and music processing and data hiding systems. Appendix includes Database Management; Computer Applications cessing, affective interactions: systems and applica- source codes and/or executables related to the top- in Geosciences; Data Mining and Knowledge tions, as well as evaluating affective systems. ics in some chapters. Interested readers are invited to Discovery; Information Systems Applications use these programs. Fields of interest (incl.Internet); Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Systems Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Features Recognition; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Latest research into the application of advanced in- Target groups Recognition and Graphics; User Interfaces and Hu- telligent paradigms in assistive and preventive tech- Researchers and professionals man Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence nology in healthcare (incl. Robotics) Type of publication Contents Proceedings Target groups Part I Fundamentals of Multimedia Signal Process- Researchers and professionals ing and Information Hiding.- An Introduction to In- telligent Multimedia Data Hiding.- Part II Advances Due June 2007 Type of publication in Multimedia Signal Processing.- Digital Video Proceedings Coding – Techniques and Standards.- Advances of 2007. X, 479 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4605) MPEG Scalable Video Coding Standard.- Part III Softcover Due August 2007 Various Data Hiding Techniques.- A Bit-Level Vi- sual Secret Sharing Scheme for Multi-Secret Images 60,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-73539-7 2007. XVIII, 781 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4738) Using Rotation and Reversion Operations.- Adaptive Softcover Data Hiding Scheme for Palette Images.- GIS Water- marking: Hiding Data in 2D Vector Maps.- Adaptive 84,00 € Embedding and Detection for Improved Video [..] ISBN 978-3-540-74888-5 Fields of interest Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of En- gineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Biomedical Engineering; Health Informatics & Health Administration; Computer Applications

Target groups Researchers, engineers, graduate students in computational intelligence, and healthcare

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O. Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain; J.C. Molina, S. Patnaik, Interscience Institute of Management & Technology, C. Pautasso, IBM Zurich, Switzerland; C. Bussler, BEA Systems Inc., CARE Technologies, S.A., Spain Bhubaneswar, India San Francisco, CA, USA (Eds.)

Model-Driven Architecture in Robot Cognition and Navigation Emerging Web Services Technology

Practice An Experiment with Mobile Robots A Software Production Environment Based on Conceptual Modeling 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 search areas like Model Driven Engineering for SOA, mobile robot simulations, realizations and experi- Formal specification languages, object-oriented Mobility and Services, Dynamic Web Service Dis- ments, and explains the related mathematical mod- methods, CASE tools, component-based software covery and Composition, Service Management, and els and algorithms. Chapters are dedicated to map production, agent-oriented, aspect-oriented ... Dur- Semantic Web, just to name a few. As Web services building, path planning, navigation using genetic al- ing the last two decades many techniques have been technology is becoming widely established in enter- gorithms, and robot programming packages. Then proposed from both research and industry in or- prise computing applications, Web service research detailed chapters examine the programs required for der to generate a correct software product from a is a very important and still very productive research robot parameter display, gripper control, sonar read- higher-level system specification. Nevertheless, the domain. This book gives a timely report on the leading display, teleoperation, autonomous navigation, many failures in achieving this goal have resulted in ing edge of this work by collecting selected and re- image capture and 3D perception. This book will be scepticism when facing any new proposal that offers vised papers originally presented at the Workshop useful for students and engineers building intelligent a "press the button, get all the code" strategy. And on Emerging Web Service Technology (WEWST) robots, and researchers migrating to this field. The now the hype around OMG’s MDA has given a new held in conjunction with the 4th European Confer- required source code is included in the book or avail- push to these strategies. Oscar Pastor and Juan Car- ence on Web Services (ECOWS'06) last December able online. los Molina combine a sound theoretical approach 2006 in Zurich, Switzerland. Acting as the natural ex- based on more than 10 years’ research with industri- Features tension to the main ECOWS conference, the main al strength and practical software development ex- Graduates and undergraduates can have a clear and goal of the WEWST workshop is serving as a forum perience. They present a software process based on concise understanding of the robot cognition and for providing early exposure and much needed feed- model transformation technology, thus making the soft computing tools Researchers in this area can back to grow and [..] statement "the model is the code" – instead of the start developing their own program with their al- common "the code is the model" – finally come true. Features gorithms without wasting their time on developing They clearly explain which conceptual primitives Informs readers about latest innovations, develop- front end and other elementary programs Tutors and should be [..] ments and results in Web Services research Records Professionals can use this book as their reference for the evolution of important ideas emerging in the comparing the results of various experiments Features Web Services field Presents advanced developments Benefit from the exploitation of sound research Contents and visionary contributions for the future of Web through industrial tools Learn how to build a con- Cybernetic View to Robot Cognition.- Map Build- Services ceptual model integrating data, behavior, and inter- ing.- Path Planning.- Navigation Using Genetic Al- action Adopt the industry leader's approach to using Contents gorithms.- Robot Programming Packages.- Robot MDA in real-world projects Find additional related BPEL-Mora: Lightweight Embeddable Extensible Parameter Display.- Program for BotSpeak.- Gripper product information and tool support under http:// BPEL Engine.- A Cross-Layer Approach to Control Program.- Program for Sonar Deading Dis- www.care-t.com/index.asp Performance Monitoring of Web Services.- Employ- play.- Program for Wandering within Workspace.- ing Intelligent Agents to Automate SLA Creation.- A Program for Tele-Operation.- A Complete Program Contents flexible approach to service management-related ser- for Autonomous Navigation.- Imaging Geometry.- The OO-Method and Software Production from vice description in SOAs.- Model Centric Approach Image Capture Program.- Building 3D Perception by Models.- Conceptual Modeling: About the Problem of Web Services Composition.- Model Driven De- Kalman Filter.- Program for 3D Perception.- Percep- Space.- Conceptual Model Compilation: From the sign of Web Service Operations using Web Engineer- tion of Non-Planner Surfaces.- Intelligent Garbage Problem Space to the Solution Space.- Conclusions, ing Practices.- A Logic based Approach for Service Collection.- References.- Index. References. Discovery with Composition Support.- Mobile and Dynamic Web Services.- Software Metrics for the Ef- Fields of interest Fields of interest Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Simulation ficient Execution of Mobile Services.- Dynamically Software Engineering; Information Systems Applica- Adapting [..] tions (incl.Internet); Computer-Aided Engineering and Modeling; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Image Processing and (CAD, CAE) and Design; Simulation and Modeling; Fields of interest Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition; Signal,Image Models and Principles Computer Communication Networks; Comput- and Speech Processing er Systems Organization and Communication Target groups Target groups Networks; Information Systems Applications Professionals, advanced undergraduate and gradu- (incl.Internet) ate students of software engineering and information Graduates and undergraduates, lecturers, researchers systems Type of publication Target groups Graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook Researchers and graduate students in computer sci- Type of publication ence studying service oriented architectures and Professional book Web Services technologies, curious industrial profes- Due July 2007 sionals that look beyond the current state of technol- Due June 2007 ogy 2007. XV, 288 p. 95 illus. (Cognitive Technologies) Hardcover Type of publication 2007. XVI, 302 p. 48 Illus. Hardcover 59,95 € Collected works 44,95 € ISBN 978-3-540-23446-3 ISBN 978-3-540-71867-3 Due July 2007

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C. Pelachaud, J.-C. Martin, E. André, G. Chollet, K. Karpouzis, D. A. Pelc, University of Quebec, Canada (Ed.) P. Perner, IBAI Institut, Leipzig, Germany (Ed.) Pelé (Eds.) Distributed Computing Machine Learning and Data Mining Intelligent Virtual Agents 21st International Symposium, DISC 2007, Lemesos, Cyprus, in Pattern Recognition 7th International Working Conference, IVA 2007, Paris, France, September 24-26, 2007, Proceedings September 17-19, 2007, Proceedings 5th International Conference, MLDM 2007, Leipzig, Germany, July 18-20, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Distributed This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the the 7th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtu- Computing, DISC 2007, held in Lemesos, Cyprus, in 5th International Conference on Machine Learning al Agents, IVA 2007, held in Paris, France, Septem- September 2007. The 32 revised full papers, selected and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, MLDM ber 17-19, 2007. The 19 revised full papers and 12 re- from 100 submissions, are presented together with 2007, held in Leipzig, Germany, in July 2007. The 66 vised short papers presented together with 5 invited abstracts of 3 invited papers and 9 brief announce- revised full papers presented together with 1 invited talks and the abstracts of 32 poster papers were care- ments of ongoing works; all of them were carefully talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 258 fully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. selected for inclusion in the book. The papers cov- submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- The papers are organized in topical sections on Ren- er all current issues in distributed computing - theo- tions on classification; feature selection, extraction dering and Analysis, Culture and Identity, Behavior ry, design, analysis, implementation, and application and dimensionality reduction; clustering; support Models, Feedback Models, Dialogues, Applications, of distributed systems and networks - ranging from vector machines; transductive inference; association Evaluation, Gaze models and Emotions. foundational and theoretical topics to algorithms rule mining; mining spam, newsgroups, blogs; intru- and systems issues and to applications in various sion detection and networks; frequent and common Fields of interest fields. This volume concludes with a section devoted item set mining; mining marketing data; structural Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); User Inter- to the 20th anniversary of the DISC conferences that data mining; image mining; medical, biological, and faces and Human Computer Interaction; Informa- took place during DISC 2006, held in Stockholm, environmental data mining; as well as text and docu- tion Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Computers Sweden, in September 2006. and Education ment mining. Fields of interest Fields of interest Target groups Computer Communication Networks; Algorithm Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathemati- Researchers and professionals Analysis and Problem Complexity; Programming cal Logic and Formal Languages; Database Manage- Techniques; Computation by Abstract Devices; Op- Type of publication ment; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Pat- erating Systems Proceedings tern Recognition; Image Processing and Computer Target groups Vision Due September 2007 Researchers and professionals Target groups Type of publication Researchers and professionals 2007. XV, 425 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4722) Proceedings Softcover Type of publication Proceedings 56,00 € Due September 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-74996-7 Due July 2007 2007. XVI, 510 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4731) Softcover 2007. XIV, 913 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4571) 64,00 € Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-75141-0 92,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-73498-7 178 Computer Science springer.com/booksellers

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7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006, Revised Select- 7th Industrial Conference on Data Mining, ICDM This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ed Papers 2007, held in Leipzig, Germany in July 2007. The 25 the Third International Conference on High Perfor- revised full papers presented together with 1 invited mance Computing and Communications, HPCC paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 2007, held in Houston, USA, September 26-28, 2007. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- The 75 revised full papers presented were carefully proceedings of the 7th Workshop of the Cross-Lan- tions on aspects of classification and prediction, clus- reviewed and selected from 272 submissions. The guage Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, held in Ali- tering, web mining, data mining in medicine, appli- papers address all current issues of parallel and dis- cante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006. The revised cations of data mining, time series and frequent pat- tributed systems and high performance computing papers presented together with an introduction tern mining, and association rule mining. and communication as there are: networking proto- were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion cols, routing, and algorithms, languages and compil- in the book. The papers are organized in topical sec- Fields of interest ers for HPC, parallel and distributed architectures tions on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval, Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Comput- and algorithms, embedded systems, wireless, mobile Domain-Specifig Information Retrieval, i-CLEF, er Vision; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; and pervasive computing, Web services and internet QA@CLEF, ImageCLEF, CLSR, WebCLEF and Geo- Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); computing, peer-to-peer computing, grid and cluster CLEF. Database Management; Artificial Intelligence (incl. computing, reliability, fault-tolerance, and security, Robotics) performance evaluation and measurement, tools and Fields of interest environments for software development, distributed Target groups Information Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intelli- systems and applications, database applications and Researchers and professionals gence (incl. Robotics); Information Systems Applica- data mining, biological/molecular computing, col- tions (incl.Internet); Language Translation and Lin- Type of publication laborative and cooperative environments, and pro- guistics; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Proceedings gramming [..] Target groups Fields of interest Researchers and professionals Due July 2007 Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complex- Type of publication 2007. XI, 353 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4597) ity; Computer Communication Networks; Mathe- Proceedings Softcover matics of Computing; Information Systems Appli- cations (incl.Internet); Computational Mathematics Due September 2007 52,00 € and Numerical Analysis ISBN 978-3-540-73434-5 Target groups 2007. XXIV, 998 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4730) Researchers and professionals Softcover

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J.F. Peters, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; A. J.F. Peters, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MN, Canada; A. K. Peters, Brightcove, Somerville, MA, USA Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland; I. Düntsch, Brock Uni- Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland; V.W. Marek, University of versity, St. Catharines, ON, Canada; J. Grzymala-Busse, Univer- Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA; E. Orlowska, National Institute of sity of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA; E. Orlowska, National Insti- Telcommunications, Warsaw, Poland; R. Slowinski, Poznan Uni- Foundation ActionScript 3.0 tute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland; L. Polkowski, versity of Technology, Poland; W. Ziarko, University of Regina, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Wascana Parkway, SK, Canada (Eds.) Animation Poland (Eds.) Making Things Move! Transactions on Rough Sets VII Transactions on Rough Sets VI Commemorating the Life and Work of Zdzislaw Pawlak, Part II Commemorating Life and Work of Zdislaw Pawlak, Part I ActionScript animation (rather than tweened animation created within the Flash IDE) is a very popular discipline for Flash developers to learn, as it allows The LNCS journal Transactions on Rough Sets is for the creation of smaller, more realistic, more dy- The LNCS journal Transactions on Rough Sets is de- devoted to the entire spectrum of rough sets relat- namic, animated Flash movies, with realistic physics, voted to the entire spectrum of rough sets related is- ed issues, from logical and mathematical founda- such as gravity and collisions. This essential skill set sues, from logical and mathematical foundations, tions, through all aspects of rough set theory and its has been learned by many Flash developers through through all aspects of rough set theory and its ap- applications, such as data mining, knowledge dis- Keith Peter's best-selling ActionScript animation plications, such as data mining, knowledge discov- covery, and intelligent information processing, to book—Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making ery, and intelligent information processing, to rela- relations between rough sets and other approach- things move...... and now we've updated it to Action- tions between rough sets and other approaches to es to uncertainty, vagueness, and incompleteness, Script 3, Adobe's new and improved scripting lan- uncertainty, vagueness, and incompleteness, such as such as fuzzy sets and theory of evidence. Volume guage—all of the code has been updated, and some fuzzy sets and theory of evidence. Volume VI of the VII of the Transactions on Rough Sets (TRS) se- new techniques have been added to take advantage Transactions on Rough Sets (TRS) commemorates ries is a sequel to volume VI of the TRS. Both vol- of ActionScript 3's new features, including including the life and work of Zdzislaw Pawlak (1926-2006). umes commemorate the life and work of Zdzislaw the display list and new event architecture. The code His legacy is rich and varied. Prof. Pawlak's research Pawlak (1926-2006). His legacy is rich and varied. can be used with the Flash 9 IDE, Flex Builder 2, or contributions have had far-reaching implications Prof. Pawlak's research contributions have had far- the free Flex 2 SDK. inasmuch as his works are fundamental in establish- reaching implications inasmuch as his works have ing new perspectives for scientific research in a wide been fundamental in establishing new perspectives Features spectrum of fields. This volume of the TRS presents for scientific research in a wide spectrum of fields. The only definitive and authoritative book avail- papers that reflect the profound influence of a num- This volume of the TRS series presents papers that able on ActionScript 3 animation techniques Up- ber of research initiatives by Professor Pawlak. In reflect the profound influence of a number of re- dated to cover ActionScript 3, and supports Flash 9, particular, this volume introduces a number of new search initiatives by Professor Pawlak. In particular, Flex Builder 2, or the Flex SDK It's the 2nd edition advances in the foundations and applications of [..] it introduces a [..] of a best selling ActionScript book Written by Keith Peters, author of many Flash books, and a popular Fields of interest Fields of interest community figure Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Compu- Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Compu- tation by Abstract Devices; Artificial Intelligence (in- tation by Abstract Devices; Artificial Intelligence (in- Contents cl. Robotics); Database Management; Image Process- cl. Robotics); Database Management; Image Process- Part I. ActionScripted Animation Basics: Basic An- ing and Computer Vision ing and Computer Vision imation Concepts.- ActionScript Basics for Anima- tion.- Trigonometry.- Rendering Techniques.- Part Target groups Target groups II. 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M. Petkovic, Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The Nether- A. Petrenko, CRIM, Canada; M. Veanes, Mircosoft Research, USA; P. Petta, Medizinische Universität Wien, Austria; J.P. Müller, lands; W. Jonker, Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The J. Tretmans, Embedded Systems Institute, The Netherlands; W. Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany; M. Klusch, DFKI, Netherlands (Eds.) Grieskamp, Microsoft Research, USA (Eds.) Saarbrücken, Germany; M. Georgeff, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia (Eds.) Security, Privacy and Trust in Testing of Software and Modern Data Management Communicating Systems Multiagent System Technologies 5th German Conference, MATES 2007, Leipzig, Germany, 19th IFIP TC 6/WG 6.1 International Conference, TestCom September 24-26, 2007, Proceedings 2007, 7th International Workshop, FATES 2007, Tallin, Estonia, The vision of ubiquitous computing and ambient in- June 26-29, 2007, Proceedings telligence describes a world of technology which is present anywhere, anytime in the form of smart, sen- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th German Conference on Multiagent Systems sible devices that communicate with each other and This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Technologies, MATES 2007, held in Leipzig, Ger- provide personalized services. However, associated 19th IFIP TC 6/WG 6.1 International Conference many, in September 2007, co-located with Ne- with these benefits are concerns with respect to secu- on Testing Communicating Systems, TestCom 2007, tObjectDays (NODe 2007). The 17 revised full pa- rity issues. Open interconnected systems are much and the 7th International Workshop on Formal Ap- pers presented were carefully reviewed and selected more vulnerable to attacks and unauthorized data proaches to Testing of Software, FATES 2007, held in from 27 submissions. The papers are organized in access. Furthermore, it becomes simpler to collect, Tallinn, Estonia in June 2007. The 24 revised full pa- topical sections on engineering multi-agent systems, store, and search personal information and endan- pers presented together with 1 invited talk were care- multi-agent planning and learning, multi-agent com- ger people's privacy. In the context of this menace, fully reviewed and selected from initially 61 submis- munication, interaction, and coordination, mul- Petkovic and Jonker provide a comprehensive guide sions to both events. The papers address all current ti-agent resource allocation, multi-agent planning to data management technologies with respect to se- issues in testing communicating systems and formal and simulation, as well as trust and reputation. curity, privacy and trust. After the introductory part approaches in testing of software, ranging from clas- that offers a perspective on privacy and security is- sical telecommunication issues to general software sues in the modern digital world, the contributions Fields of interest testing. They were presented in 8 multipart sessions Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer from leading researchers are grouped into sections coverering automata-based testing, practical expe- on data and system security, privacy-enhancing tech- Communication Networks; Software Engineering; riences, system testing, modular systems, and test Programming Techniques; Computer Appl. in Ad- niques, digital asset protection, and selected topics quality. on privacy and security in ambient [..] ministrative Data Processing; Computer Appl. in So- cial and Behavioral Sciences Fields of interest Features Software Engineering; Computer Communication Broad Introduction into Security Aspects for Mod- Target groups Networks; Programming Languages, Compilers, In- Researchers and professionals ern Applications like Ambient Intelligence and terpreters; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Man- Smart Devices Authors combine Academic Research agement of Computing and Information Systems; Type of publication with Cutting-Edge Industrial Applications Communications Engineering, Networks Proceedings Contents Target groups Part I: Introduction.- Ambient Intelligence - Priva- Researchers and professionals Due September 2007 cy and Security Issues in an Ambient World - Leg- islation background for the Security and Privacy Type of publication 2007. 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F. Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Ed.) H. Pham, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, R. Pickering, Avanade, St. Germain-en-Laye, France NJ, USA (Ed.) Automated Deduction - CADE-21 Foundations of F# Springer Handbook of Engineering 21st International Conference on Automated Deduction, Bre- men, Germany, July 17-20, 2007, Proceedings Statistics Functional programming (FP) is the future of .NET programming and F# is much, much more than just an FP language. Every professional .NET program- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of In today’s global and highly competitive environ- mer needs to learn about FP, and there’s no better the 21st International Conference on Automated De- ment, continuous improvement in the processes and way to do it than by learning F#—and no easier way duction, CADE-21, held in Bremen, Germany, in Ju- products of any field of engineering is essential for to learn F# than from this book. Those already famil- ly 2007. The 28 revised full papers and 6 system de- survival. Many organisations have shown that the iar with FP will find F# the language they’ve always scriptions presented were carefully reviewed and se- first step to continuous improvement is to integrate dreamed of. All .NET programmers will find F# an lected from 64 submissions. All current aspects of the widespread use of statistics and basic data analy- exciting real-world alternative to C# and Visual Ba- automated deduction are addressed, ranging from sis into the manufacturing development process as sic. This is the first book to bring F# to the world. theoretical and methodological issues to presenta- well as into the day-to-day business decisions tak- It is likely to have many imitators but few competition and evaluation of theorem provers and logical en in regard to engineering processes. The Springer tors. Written by F# evangelist, Rob Pickering, and reasoning systems. The papers are organized in top- Handbook of Engineering Statistics gathers together tech reviewed by F#’s inventor, Don Syme, it is an el- ical sections on higher-order logic, description log- the full range of statistical techniques required by en- egant, comprehensive introduction to all aspects of ic, intuitionistic logic, satisfiability modulo theories, gineers from all fields to gain sensible statistical feed- the language and an incisive guide to using F# for re- induction, rewriting, and polymorphism, first-order back on how their processes or products are func- al-world professional development. F# is the future logic, model checking and verification, termination, tioning and to give them realistic predictions of how of programming (not just on .NET), and the future as well as tableaux and first-order systems. these could be improved. Featuring: Contributions from leading experts in statistics and their applica- is now. Fields of interest tion to engineering from industrial control to aca- Features Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical demic medicine and financial risk management giv- The first book on F#, by a world-recognized author- Logic and Formal Languages; Logics and Meanings ing all-round authoritative coverage. Wide-ranging ity on the language Comprehensive and detailed, of Programs; Software Engineering selection of statistical [..] yet clear and concise Important reading for all .NET Target groups Contents professionals Suitable for readers at any level of ex- Researchers and professionals Part A: Fundamental Statistics and Its Applications perience Statistical Reliability with Applications.-Weibull Dis- Contents Type of publication tributions and Their Applications.-Characteriza- Introduction.- Obtaining, Installing, and Using F#.- Proceedings tions of Probability Distributions.-Two-Dimension- Functional Programming.- Imperative Program- al Failure Modelling.-Prediction Intervals for Re- ming.- Object-Oriented Programming.- User In- Due July 2007 liability Growth Models with Small Sample Sizes.- terfaces.- Relational Databases.- Distributed Appli- Promotional Warranty Policies: Analysis and Per- cations.- Support for Creating Languages in F#.- spectives.-Stationary Marked Point Processes.-Mod- 2007. XII, 522 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4603) Differences between F# and OCaml.- The F# Tool eling and Analyzing Yield, Burn-in and Reliability Softcover Suite.- Advanced Interoperation and Compatibility. for Semiconductor Manufacturing: Overview.- Part 64,00 € B: Process Monitoring and Improvement Statistical Fields of interest ISBN 978-3-540-73594-6 Methods for Quality and Productivity [..] Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters

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J. Pieprzyk, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia; H. S. Polovina, Sheffield Hallam University, UK; R. Hill, Sheffield Hal- D. Poo, National University of Singapore; D. Kiong, National Uni- Ghodosi, James Cook University, Townsville, OLD, Australia; E. lam University, UK; U. Priss, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK versity of Singapore; S. Ashok, National University of Singapore Dawson, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, (Eds.) Australia (Eds.) Object-Oriented Programming and Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Java Information Security and Privacy Architectures for Smart 12th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2007, Townsville, Aus- Applications tralia, July 2-4, 2007, Proceedings 15th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS Object-Oriented Programming and Java presents 2007, Sheffield, UK, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings two important topics in contemporary software development: object-oriented programming and Ja- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the va. This book takes a different teaching approach 12th Australasian Conference on Information Secu- from most available literature, it begins with the de- rity and Privacy, ACISP 2007, held in Townsville, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the scription of real-world object interaction scenar- Australia in July 2007. The 33 revised full papers pre- 15th International Conference on Conceptual Struc- ios and explains how they can be translated, represented were carefully reviewed and selected from 132 tures, ICCS 2007, held in Sheffield, UK in July 2007. sented and executed using object-oriented program- submissions. The papers are organized in topical sec- The 28 revised full papers and 13 revised short pa- ming paradigm. Principally, Java is an object-orient- tions on stream ciphers, hashing, biometrics, secret pers presented together with 4 invited papers and ed programming language. By establishing a solid sharing, cryptanalysis, public key cryptography, au- 1 introductory talk were carefully reviewed and se- foundation in the understanding of object-orient- thentication, e-commerce, and security. lected from about 60 submissions. A special focus is ed programming concepts and their applications, given to application of conceptual structures in busi- the book provides readers with the pre-requisites for Fields of interest ness and technological settings; other papers cover writing proper object-oriented programs using Java. Data Encryption; Management of Computing and research into conceptual structures, which is sup- Object-Oriented Programming and Java covers the Information Systems; Systems and Data Security; ported by mathematical and computational theory, latest in Java technologies and is suitable for under- Computer Communication Networks; Coding and including formal concept analysis, algorithm design graduate or postgraduate courses on object-orient- Information Theory; Algorithm Analysis and Prob- and graph theory, and a variety of software tools. The ed technology, and in particular, using Java as a pro- lem Complexity papers are organized in topical sections on concep- gramming language for creating object-oriented pro- tual graphs, formal concept analysis, and conceptual grams. Target groups structures. Researchers and professionals Features Fields of interest Teaches Java and object-oriented programming in a Type of publication Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Discrete Proceedings systematic fundamentals-first approach Includes the Mathematics in Computer Science; Mathematical latest in Java technology Logic and Formal Languages; Algorithm Analysis Due June 2007 and Problem Complexity; Information Systems Ap- Contents plications (incl.Internet) Introduction.- Object, Class Message and Method.- 2007. XIV, 476 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4586) A Quick Tour of Java.- Implementation in Java.- Softcover Target groups Classification, Generalization and Specialization.- Researchers and professionals Inheritance.- Polymorphism.- Modularity.- Excep- 60,00 € tion Handling.- Input and Output Operations.- Net- Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-73457-4 working and Multi-Threading.- Generics and Col- Proceedings lections Framework.- Graphical Interfaces and Win- dows.- Applets and Loaders.- Java Servlets.- Object Due July 2007 Serialization and Remote Method Invocation.- Java Database Connectivity.- Index. 2007. XII, 514 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4604) Softcover Fields of interest Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; 64,00 € Programming Techniques; Software Engineering ISBN 978-3-540-73680-6 Target groups Undergraduates studying object-oriented programming

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V. Popovich, Laboratory of Object Oriented Geoinformation Sys- D. Potop-Butucaru, INRIA Rocquencourt, France; S.A. Edwards, K. Potts, R. Sable, Copley, OH, USA; N. Smith, M. Fredborg, C. tems, St. Petersburg, Russia; M. Schrenk, Central European Insti- Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; G. Berry, Esterel Tech- Lindley, Boise, ID, USA tute of Technology, Schwechat, Austria; K.V. Korolenko, NUWC, nologies, Villeneuve Loubet, France Newport, RI, USA (Eds.) Textpattern Solutions Compiling Esterel Information Fusion and Geographic PHP-Based Content Management Made Easy Information Systems

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D. Powers, London, UK C. Pozrikidis, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA H. Prade, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France; V.S. Subrah- manian, University of Maryland, Collgege Park, MD, USA (Eds.) The Essential Guide to Introduction to C++ Programming Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and Graphics Scalable Uncertainty Management and PHP First International Conference, SUM 2007, Washington, DC, USA, October 10-12, 2007, Proceedings C++ has grown rapidly in response to the practical need for a programming language that is able to ef- Dreamweaver is a huge selling product with over ficiently handle composite and diverse data types. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 3 million users worldwide, and the new version, Today, C++ dominates the commercial market and the First International Conference on Scalable Un- Dreamweaver CS3, promises to be just as popular, is favored among application developers. 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Networks and Services Communication Complexity First Annual International Workshop, FAW 2007, Lanzhou, Chi- na, August 1-3, 2007, Proceedings 13th Open European Summer School and IFIP TC6.6 Work- 14th International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2007, Castiglioncello, shop, EUNICE 2007, Enschede, The Netherlands, July 18-20, Italy, June 5-8, 2007, Proceedings 2007, Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Annual International Frontiers of Algorith- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the mics Workshop, FAW 2007, held in Lanzhou, China This volume presents carefully revised texts of se- 14th International Colloquium on Structural Infor- in August 2007. The 33 revised full papers presented lected lectures given at the 13th EUNICE Open Eu- mation and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 sub- ropean Summer School and the proceedings of the 2007, held in Castiglioncello, Italy in June 2007. The missions. The papers were selected for 9 special focus conjoint IFIP TC6.6 Workshop on Dependable and 23 revised full papers presented together with 4 invit- tracks in the areas of bioinformatics, discrete struc- Adaptable Networks and Services, EUNICE 2007, ed talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 tures, geometric information processing and com- held at the University of Twente in Enschede, The submissions. The papers address issues such as dis- munication, games and incentive analysis, graph al- Netherlands, in July 2007. The 17 revised full papers tributed computing, high-speed networks, intercon- gorithms, internet algorithms and protocols, param- presented were carefully reviewed and selected from nection networks, mobile computing, optical com- eterized algorithms, design and analysis of heuristics, numerous submissions. The papers are organized in puting, parallel computing, sensor networks, wire- approximate and online algorithms, and algorithms topical sections on middleware and supportive ser- less networks, and autonomous robots. The papers in medical applications. vices, context-awareness, voice over IP, user behav- are organized in topical sections on graph explo- ior, security and legal aspects, performance aspects, ration, fault tolerance, distributed algorithms and da- Fields of interest and novel architectures. ta structures, location problems, wireless networks, Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Dis- fault tolerance, as well as parallel computing and self- crete Mathematics in Computer Science; Numeric Fields of interest ish routing. Computer Communication Networks; Special Pur- Computing; Computer Graphics; Computational Bi- ology/Bioinformatics; Algorithms pose and Application-Based Systems; Information Fields of interest Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- Target groups Storage and Retrieval; User Interfaces and Human puter Communication Networks; Discrete Mathe- Researchers and professionals Computer Interaction; Computers and Society matics in Computer Science; Data Structures; Algo- rithms Type of publication Target groups Proceedings Researchers and professionals Target groups Researchers and professionals Type of publication Due July 2007 Proceedings Type of publication Proceedings 2007. XI, 348 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Due July 2007 Science, Vol. 4613) Softcover Due June 2007 52,00 € 2007. XIV, 149 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4606) ISBN 978-3-540-73813-8 Softcover 2007. XI, 342 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4474) Softcover 42,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-73529-8 52,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-72918-1 186 Computer Science springer.com/booksellers

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Grids are a crucial enabling technology for scientific and industrial development. Peer-to Peer Comput- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- ing, Grid, distributed storage technologies, emerg- 8th International Conference on Electronic Com- proceedings of the 16th International Symposium ing web service technologies, and other types of net- merce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2007, held in on Logic Based Program Synthesis and Transforma- worked distributed computing, have provided new Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007 in con- tion, LOPSTR 2006, held in Venice, Italy in July 2006 paradigms exploiting distributed resources. Grids junction with Dexa 2007. The 22 revised full papers in conjunction with ICALP 2006, PPDP 2006, and are revolutionizing computing as profoundly as e- presented were carefully reviewed and selected from CSFW 2006. The 14 revised full papers presented to- mail and the web. Towards Next Generation Grids 67 submissions. The papers are organized in topical gether with 2 invited talks were carefully selected and is the fifth volume of the CoreGRID series. Orga- sections on recommender systems, business process / revised from 41 submissions during two rounds of nized jointly with the Euro-Par 2007 conference, The design aspects, mobile commerce, security and e- reviewing and improvement. The papers are orga- CoreGRID Symposium intends to become the pre- payment, Web services computing / semantic Web, nized in topical sections on tools for program devel- miere European event on Grid Computing. The aim e-negotiation and agent mediated systems, and issues opment, partial evaluation and program transforma- of this symposium is to strengthen and advance sci- in Web advertising. tion, security and synthesis, debugging and testing, entific and technological excellence in the area of as well as termination and analysis. Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing. It is organized by Fields of interest Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); the CoreGRID Network of Excellence funded by the Fields of interest Computers and Society; Computer Appl. in Admin- European Union under the sixth Framework Pro- Logics and Meanings of Programs; Programming istrative Data Processing; e-business and e-com- gramme. CoreGRID aims at building a virtual Eu- Techniques; Mathematical Logic and Formal Lan- merce; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; In- ropean-wide Research Laboratory in Grid and P2P guages; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) technologies and involves 41 partners from 19 coun- formation Systems tries gathering 300 [..] Target groups Target groups Researchers and professionals Features Researchers and professionals Includes all aspects of Grid Computing including Type of publication Type of publication service infrastructure Brings together distinguished Proceedings Proceedings leaders in research and industry within Grid Com- puting from the global community Due March 2007 Due August 2007 Contents 2007. VIII, 237 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Foreword.- Service Level Agreement and Quality of 2007. XIII, 229 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4655) er Science, Vol. 4407) Softcover Service.- Trust, Security and Virtual Organization.- Softcover Programming with Software Components.- Com- 42,00 € munication and Networking.- Jobs, Information and 42,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-71409-5 Resources Management.- Workflow Management.- ISBN 978-3-540-74562-4 Data Management. Author Index.

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J.C.- Rajapakse, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; J. Ralyté, University of Geneva, Switzerland; S. Brinkkemper, S. Ramesh, GM R&D, India Science Lab, Bangalore, India; P. Sam- B. Schmidt, University of New South Wales Asia, Singapore; G. Utrecht University, The Netherlands; B. Henderson-Sellers, Uni- path, GM R&D, India Science Lab, Bangalore, India (Eds.) Volkert, Kent State University, New Philadelphia, OH, USA (Eds.) versity of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Eds.) Next Generation Design and Pattern Recognition in Situational Method Engineering: Verification Methodologies for Bioinformatics Fundamentals and Experiences Distributed Embedded Control Second IAPR International Workshop, PRIB 2007, Singapore, Proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, 12-14 Systems October 1-2, 2007, Proceedings September 2007, Geneva, Switzerland Proceedings of the GM R&D Workshop

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of This book contains the papers from the IFIP Work- the International Workshop on Pattern Recognition ing Group 8.1 conference on Situational Method En- This volume is the proceedings of the workshop in Bioinformatics, PRIB 2007, held in Singapore in gineering. Over the last decade, Method Engineer- “Next Generation Design and Verification Method- October 2007. The 38 revised full papers presented ing, defined as the engineering discipline to design, ologies for Distributed Embedded Control Systems” were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 sub- construct and adapt methods, including supportive organised by General Motors R&D, India Sci- missions. The papers discuss the applications of pat- tools, has emerged as the research and application ence Lab. The workshop was held on January 5-6 tern recognition methods in the field of bioinformat- area for using methods for systems development. 2007 at the NIAS auditorium, IISc campus, Banga- ics to solve problems in life sciences. The papers are lore, India. This workshop is the first of its kind to be organized in 6 topical parts on sequence analysis, Features organised by an automotive major to bring together prediction of protein structure, interaction and local- Most up-to-date research on situational method en- the leaders in the field of embedded systems devel- ization, gene expression analysis, pathway analysis, gineering opment to present state-of-the-art work, and to dis- medical informatics, and bioimaging. cuss future strategies for addressing the increasing Contents complexity of embedded control systems. The work- Domain-Specific Modeling: The Killer App for Fields of interest shop consisted of invited talks given by leading ex- Method Engineering?.- Multi-Grounded Action Re- Database Management; Artificial Intelligence (incl. perts and researchers from academic and industri- search in Method Engineering: The MMC Case.- Robotics); Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; al organizations. The workshop covered all areas of Reuse Mechanisms in Situational Method Engineer- Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Probability embedded systems development and in particular: ing.- Partial Evaluation in Meta Modelin.- Compo- and Statistics in Computer Science; Health Informat- Formal specification and verification of distributed, nen-based Situational Methods: A framework for un- ics & Health Administration heterogeneous, embedded systems Formal seman- derstanding SME.- Situational Method Quality.- A tics of modeling languages Model-based specification Target groups Look at Misuse Cases for Safety Concern.- Defining and testing Formal approach to component based [..] Researchers and professionals a Scope for COTS Selection Methods. Features Type of publication Fields of interest Contains recent research results Contributions from Proceedings Computer Science, general top researchers from industry and academia Focused Target groups on distributed embedded systems Due September 2007 Researchers and practitioners of situational method Contents engineering 2007. XVIII, 410 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4774) Preface. Acknowledgements. An Abstraction Tech- Softcover Type of publication nique for Real-Time Verification; E.M.Clarke, Proceedings F.Lerda, M.Talupur. SCADE: Synchronous 56,00 € Design and Validation of Embedded Control ISBN 978-3-540-75285-1 Software; G.Berry. Model-Based Develop- Due September 2007 ment of Embedded Systems: The SysWeaver Ap- proach; R.Rajkumar. Verification and Integration of 2007. XII, 368 p. (IFIP International Federation for Information Real-Time Control Software; R.Alur. Merge Algo- Processing, Vol. 244) Hardcover rithms for Intelligent Vehicles; G.Raravi, V.Shingde, K.Ramamritham, J.Bharadia. All Those Duration 128,00 € Calculi: An Integrated Approach; P.K.Pandya. ISBN 978-0-387-73946-5 Adding Time to Scenarios; P.Chandrasekaran, M.Mukund. Using System-Level Timing Analysis [..]

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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, Vol. 4763) Managers in Industry, postgraduates Softcover Fields of interest Type of publication User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 52,00 € Proceedings ISBN 978-3-540-75453-4 Target groups Due March 2007 Graduates, researchers, practitioners

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M.W.P. Reid, Belfast, Northern Ireland R.-D. Reiss, University of Siegen, Germany; M. Thomas, University Th. Reps, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA; M. Sagiv, of Siegen, Germany Tel-Aviv University, Israel; J. Bauer, Technical University of Den- mark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark (Eds.) Pro Access 2007 Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values Program Analysis and Compilation, Theory and Practice Like all the Office 2007 applications, Access 2007 has with Applications to Insurance, Finance, Hydrology and Other changed radically, both for the users and the devel- Fields Essays Dedicated to Reinhard Wilhelm on the Occasion of His opers. Given the complexity and power of Access 60th Birthday 2007, however, the effect of these changes may throw up a slight hurdle to previous Access users and developers. 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Many of the formerly external compo- and illustrates the applications of semantics in com- national Workshop on Programming Language In- nents can now be integrated into a single System-on- puter science. This book investigates the relationship terference and Dependence. The 22 revised full pa- Chip. This tendency has resulted in a dramatic re- between the various methods and describes some of pers presented together with 2 invited lectures were duction in the size and cost of embedded systems. the main ideas used, illustrating these via interesting carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. As a unique technology, the design of embedded sys- applications. Historically important application areas The papers address all aspects of static analysis in- tems is an essential element of many innovations. are used together with some exciting potential appli- cluding abstract domains, abstract interpretation, ab- Embedded System Design: Topics, Techniques and cations including: Validating prototype implementa- stract testing, compiler optimisations, control flow Trends presents the technical program of the Inter- tions of programming languages. Verifying program analysis, data flow analysis, model checking, pro- national Embedded Systems Symposium (IESS) 2007 analyses that are part of more advanced implemen- gram specialization, security analysis, theoretical held in Irvine, California. IESS is a unique forum to tations of programming languages. Verifying securi- analysis frameworks, type based analysis, and verifi- present novel ideas, exchange timely research results, ty analyses. 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S. Ronchi Della Rocca, University of Turin, Italy (Ed.) A. Saad, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA, J. Sabatier, Université de Bordeaux I, Talence, France; O.P. Agraw- USA; E. Avineri, University of the West of England, UK; K. Dahal, al, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA; J.A. Tenreiro University of Bradford, UK; M. Sarfraz, King Fahad University of Machado, Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal (Eds.) Typed Lambda Calculi and Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia; R. Roy, Cranfield Universi- ty, Bredford, UK (Eds.) Applications Advances in Fractional Calculus

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Recent and Emerging Methods and Techniques This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of In the last two decades, fractional (or non integer) the 8th International Conference on Typed Lamb- differentiation has played a very important role in da Calculi and Applications, TLCA 2007, held in Soft Computing admits approximate reasoning, various fields such as mechanics, electricity, chem- Paris, France in June 2007 in conjunction with RTA imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth in or- istry, biology, economics, control theory and sig- 2007, the 18th International Conference on Rewrit- der to mimic aspects of the remarkable human nal and image processing. For example, in the last ing Techniques and Applications as part of RDP capability of making decisions in real-life and three fields, some important considerations such 2007, the 4th International Conference on Rewrit- ambiguous environments. "Soft Computing in In- as modelling, curve fitting, filtering, pattern recog- ing, Deduction, and Programming. The 25 revised dustrial Applications" contains a collection of papers nition, edge detection, identification, stability, con- full papers presented together with 2 invited talks that were presented at the 11th On-line World Con- trollability, observability and robustness are now were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 sub- ference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applica- linked to long-range dependence phenomena. Simi- missions. The papers present original research re- tions, held in September-October 2006. This careful- lar progress has been made in other fields listed here. sults that are broadly relevant to the theory and ap- ly edited book provides a comprehensive overview The scope of the book is thus to present the state of plications of typed calculi and address a wide variety of the recent advances in the industrial applications the art in the study of fractional systems and the ap- of topics such as proof-theory, semantics, implemen- of soft computing and covers a wide range of appli- plication of fractional differentiation. As this volume tation, types, and programming. cation areas, including data analysis and data min- covers recent applications of fractional calculus, it will be of interest to engineers, scientists, and applied Fields of interest ing, computer graphics, intelligent control, systems, mathematicians. Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Log- pattern recognition, classifiers, as well as modeling optimization. The book is aimed at researchers and ics and Meanings of Programs; Programming Tech- Features practitioners who are engaged in developing and ap- niques; Programming Languages, Compilers, Inter- Fractional Calculus is a new growing field. Up to plying intelligent systems principles to solving re- preters 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- Target groups for science and engineering postgraduate students. culus can be used in the analysis and design of many Researchers and professionals Features systems of practical interests, whereas in similar ap- Type of publication contains a collection of papers that were presented plications the traditional calculus either fails or pro- Proceedings 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 Due June 2007 Fields of interest Contents Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- 2007. X, 397 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Part I: Soft Computing in Computer Graphics, Imag- neering; Simulation and Modeling; Systems Theory, Science, Vol. 4583) Softcover 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 56,00 € V: Soft Computing for Modeling, Optimization and Engineering ISBN 978-3-540-73227-3 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. Hardcover 2007. XIV, 328 p. (Advances in Soft Computing, Vol. 39) Softcover 159,95 € 149,95 € ISBN 978-1-4020-6041-0 ISBN 978-3-540-70704-2 springer.com/booksellers Computer Science 193

F.B. Sachse, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; G. See- F. Saglietti, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany; N. Oster, M.-F. Sagot, Inria Rhône Alpes, Villeurbanne, France; M.E.M.T. mann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (Eds.) Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (Eds.) Walter, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil (Eds.)

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Forensic Computing Swarm Robotics New Frontiers in Artificial Second SAB 2006 International Workshop, Rome, Italy, Intelligence September 30-October 1, 2006 Revised Selected Papers 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- Japan, June 23-27, 2003, Kanazawa, Japan, May 31-June 4, mation held in computer systems can be recovered This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- 2004, Revised Selected Papers and how it may be deliberately hidden or subvert- proceedings of the Second International ed for criminal purposes. "Forensic Computing: A Workshop on Swarm Robotics held in Rome, Italy in Practitioner's Guide" is illustrated by plenty of case studies and worked examples, and will help practi- September/October 2006 as a satellite event of SAB This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint tioners and students gain a clear understanding of: - 2006, the 9th Conference on Simulation of Adaptive post-proceedings of the 17th and 18th annual con- how to recover information from computer systems Behavior. The 14 revised full papers presented were ferences of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelli- in such a way as to ensure that its integrity cannot carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. gence, JSAI 2003 and JSAI 2004, and colocated inter- be challenged and that it will be accepted as admissi- The papers are organized in topical sections on algo- national workshops, held in Niigata, Japan in June ble evidence in court the principles involved in pass- rithms, modelling and analysis, hardware, and evolu- 2003 and in Kanazawa, Japan, in May/June 2004 re- word protection and data encryption - the evaluation tionary approaches. spectively. 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F. Sandoval, Universidad de Málaga, Spain; A. Prieto, Universi- D. Sauveron, Université de Limoges/CNRS, France; K. Markanton- P. Sawyer, Lancaster University, UK; B. Paech, University of Hei- dad de Granada, Spain; J. Cabestany, Universitat Politècnica de akis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; A. Bilas, FORTH- delberg, Germany; P. Heymans, Université Notre-Dame de la Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; M. Graña, Universidad del País Vas- ICS, Heraklion, Greece; J.-J. Quisquater, UCL Crypto Group, Lou- Paix, Namur, Belgium (Eds.) co, San Sebastian, Spain (Eds.) vain-la-Neuve, Belgium (Eds.) Requirements Engineering: Computational and Ambient Information Security Theory and Foundation for Software Quality Intelligence Practices. Smart Cards, Mobile and 13th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2007, Trond- 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Net- Ubiquitous Computing Systems heim, Norway, June 11-12, 2007, Proceedings works, IWANN 2007, San Sebastián, Spain, June 20-22, 2007, Proceedings First IFIP TC6 / WG 8.8 / WG 11.2 International Workshop, WISTP 2007, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 9-11, 2007 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Working Conference on Require- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings ments Engineering: Foundation for Software Quali- the 9th International Work-Conference on Artifi- of the First IFIP TC6 / WG 8.8 / WG 11.2 Interna- ty, REFSQ 2007, held in Trondheim, Norway in June cial Neural Networks, IWANN 2007, held in San tional Workshop on Information Security Theory 2007. The 27 revised full papers presented together Sebastián, Spain in June 2007. The 145 revised full and Practices: Smart Cards, Mobile and Ubiquitous with 1 keynote lecture were carefully reviewed and papers presented together with 3 invited lectures Computing Systems, WISTP 2007, held in Herak- selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in were carefully reviewed and selected from over 260 lion, Crete, Greece in May 2007. The 20 revised full the book. The papers are organized in thematic sec- submissions. The papers are organized in themat- papers presented were carefully reviewed and select- tions on goal-driven requirements engineering (RE), ic sections on theoretical concepts and neurocom- ed from 68 submissions. The papers are organized in products and product-lines, value-based RE and the putational formulations, inmproving models and topical sections on mobility, hardware and cryptog- value of RE, requirements elicitation, requirements learning procedures, self-organizing networks, ker- raphy, privacy, cryptography schemes, smart cards, specification, industrial experience of RE, and re- nel methods, evolutionary and genetic algorithms, and small devices. quirements quality and quality requirements. With- evolutionary learning, fuzzy systems, neuroengineer- in these themes, the work presented spanned a range ing and hardware implementations, data analysis, Fields of interest of application domains from business systems to signal processing, speech processing, images process- Data Encryption; Systems and Data Security; Com- air traffic management, used techniques that varied ing, time series and prediction, robotics and plan- puter Communication Networks; Management of from ethno-methodology to formal specification and ning motor control, power system applications, in- Computing and Information Systems; Computers delivered requirements for both custom systems and ternet and web applications, biomedical applications, and Society software product lines. neural networks and other machine learning methods in cancer research, assistive technologies and e- Target groups Fields of interest health, as well as other applications. Researchers and professionals Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Pro- grams; Management of Computing and Information Fields of interest Type of publication Systems; Information Systems Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Anal- Proceedings ysis and Problem Complexity; Artificial Intelligence Target groups (incl. Robotics); Image Processing and Computer Due April 2007 Researchers and professionals Vision; Pattern Recognition; Computational Biolo- gy/Bioinformatics Type of publication 2007. XII, 255 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Proceedings Target groups er Science, Vol. 4462) Softcover Researchers and professionals 63,00 € Due May 2007 Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-72353-0 Proceedings 2007. IX, 383 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4542) Softcover

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P. Saxena, Synopsys, Inc. Hillsboro, OR, USA; R.S. Shelar, Intel Cor- R. Schaefer, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, A. Scharl, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria; K. Tochter- poration, Hillsboro, OR, USA; S. Sapatnekar, University of Min- Poland mann, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria (Eds.) nesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Foundations of Global Genetic The Geospatial Web Routing Congestion in VLSI Circuits Optimization How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shap- Estimation and Optimization ing the Network Society

This book is devoted to the application of genetic al- With the dramatic increases in on-chip packing den- gorithms in continuous global optimization. Some The Geospatial Web will have a profound impact sities, routing congestion has become a major prob- of their properties and behavior are highlighted and on managing knowledge & structuring work- lem in chip design. The problem is especially acute formally justified. Various optimization tech- flows within and across organizations, & on as interconnects are also the performance bottleneck niques and their taxonomy are the background for the interaction between those organizations & in integrated circuits. The solution lies in judicious detailed discussion. The nature of continuous genet- their target audience. This volume emphasizes the resource management. This involves intelligent al- ic search is explained by studying the dynamics of applications & implications of the Geospa- location of the available interconnect resources, up- probabilistic measure, which is utilized to create sub- tial Web & the role of contextual knowledge front planning of the wire routes for even wire distri- sequent populations. This approach shows that ge- in shaping the emerging network society. This butions, and transformations that make the physical netic algorithms can be used to extract some areas of book summarizes the latest research on the synthesis flow congestion-aware. Routing Conges- the search domain more effectively than to find iso- Geospatial Web’s technical foundations, describes tion in VLSI Circuits: Estimation and Optimization lated local minima. The biological metaphor of such information services & collaborative tools built provides the reader with a complete understanding behavior is the whole population surviving by rapid on top of geo-browsers, & investigates the eco- of the root causes of routing congestion in present- exploration of new regions of feeding rather than nomic & societal impacts of geospatial applica- day and future VLSI circuits, available techniques caring for a single individual. One group of strate- tions. The role of contextual knowledge in shaping for estimating and optimizing this congestion, and a gies that can make use of this property are two-phase the emerging network society deserves particular at- critical analysis of the accuracy and effectiveness of global optimization methods. In the first phase the tention. By integrating geospatial & semantic these techniques, so that the reader may prudently central parts of the basins of attraction are distin- technology, such contextual knowledge can be ex- choose an approach that is appropriate to their de- guished by genetic population analysis. Afterwards, tracted automatically – for example, when process- sign goals. The scope of the work includes metrics the minimizers are found by convex [..] ing Web documents to provide automated news ser- and optimization techniques for [..] vices. Containing chapters from renown researchers Features & practitioners, this volume will [..] Features Presents the foundations of global genetic optimiza- Provides an in-depth treatment of routing congestion Features tion in VLSI circuits Comprehensively surveys the First book on subject - since integrating semantic work done and points to challenges for the future Contents Web technology with geo-browsing platforms & Equips readers with the knowledge to prudently Introduction.- Global optimization problems.- Ba- the emerging breed of social software often sum- choose an approach that is appropriate to their de- sic models of genetic computations.- Asymptotic be- marised under the umbrella term ‘Web 2.0’ Clear fo- sign goals 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- Contents mization strategies.- Summary and perspectives of tributions from a very active research community Part I: The Origins of Congestion.- An Intro- genetic algorithms in continuous global optimiza- Foreword by Patrick J. Hogan, Program Manager of duction to Routing Congestion.- Part II: The Esti- tion. NASA World Wind mation of Congestion.- Placement-Level Metrics for Routing Congestion.- Synthesis-Level Metrics for Fields of interest Contents Routing Congestion.- Part III: The Optimization of Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- From the contents Towards the Geospatial Web.- Congestion.- Congestion Optimization During In- neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Infrastructure for the Geospatial Web.- Imaging on terconnect Synthesis and Routing.- Congestion Opti- the Geospatial Web Using JPEG 2000.- What’s so mization During Placement.- Congestion Optimiza- Target groups Special about Spatial?- Conceptual Search.- Loca- tion During Technology Mapping and Logic Synthe- Researchers, engineers, graduate students in compu- tion-based Web Search.- Ubiquitous Browsing of sis.- Congestion Implications of High Level Design tational intelligence, evolutionary computations, ge- the World.- Spatiotemporal-Thematic Data Process- netic algorithms ing for the Semantic Web.- A Semantic Approach Fields of interest for Geospatial Information Extraction from Un- Type of publication Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engineer- structured Documents.- Enhancing RSS Feeds with Monograph ing (CAD, CAE) and Design; Communications Engi- Extracted Geospatial Information for further Pro- neering, Networks cessing and Visualization.- A Supervised Machine Due August 2007 Learning Approach to Toponym Disambiguation.- Target groups Geospatial Information [..] Digital VLSI design engineers, design methodology 2007. 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ISBN 978-1-84628-826-5 G. Schay, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA H.G. Schmidt, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; I. Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden; G.T. Heineman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA; J.A. Stafford, Tufts Uni- Introduction to Probability with versity, Medford, MA, USA (Eds.) Statistical Applications Component-Based Software Engineering Introduction to Probability with Statistical Appli- cations targets non-mathematics students, under- 10th International Symposium, CBSE 2007, Medford, MA, USA, July 9-11, 2007, Proceedings graduates and graduates, who do not need an ex- haustive treatment of the subject. While the presentation is rigorous and contains theorems and proofs, linear algebra is largely avoided and only a This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of minimal amount of multivariable calculus is need- the 10th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium ed. Key features:Clear definitions, simplified nota- on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE tion and techniques of statistical analysis, combined 2007, held in Medford, MA, USA in July 2007. The with well-chosen examples and exercises, motivate 19 revised full papers presented were carefully re- the expositionTheory and applications carefully bal- viewed and selected from 89 submissions. The pa- ancedTopics include random phenomena -- discrete pers feature new trends in global software services and continuous random variables -- expectations and distributed systems architectures to push the and variance, and common probability distributions limits of established and tested component-based such as the binomial, Poisson, and normalCombi- methods, tools and platforms. The papers are orga- natorial principles involve all four arithmetic opera- nized in topical sections on component-based archi- tions; emphasis on tree diagramsReferences to more tectures and change, quality of service, runtime ver- advanced concepts throughout the book, but may be ification and monitoring, extra-functional proper- safely skipped, depending on the reader For students ties and compositional reasoning, as well as Web ser- in a variety of disciplines, including computer sci- vices, late composition and verification. ence, [..] Fields of interest Features Software Engineering; Programming Techniques; Theory and applications carefully balanced Presen- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; tation is rigorous and contains theorems and proofs Logics and Meanings of Programs; Computer Com- Linear algebra is largely avoided Clear definitions, munication Networks simplified notation and techniques of statistical analysis Well-chosen examples and exercises Target groups Researchers and professionals Contents Preface.- The Algebra of Events.- Combinatorial Type of publication Problems.- Probabilities.- Random Variables.- Ex- Proceedings pectation, Variance, Moments.- Some Special Distri- butions.- The Elements of Mathematical Statistics.- Due June 2007 Bibliography.- Index.

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D.D. Schmorrow, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, USA; K. Schneider, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany; J. Brandt, TU Kaiser- P.M. Scholz, Germany L.M. Reeves, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Arlington, VA, slautern, Germany (Eds.) USA (Eds.) Advanced NXT Theorem Proving in Higher Order Foundations of Augmented Logics The Da Vinci Inventions Book Cognition 20th International Conference, TPHOLs 2007, Kaiserslautern, Third International Conference, FAC 2007, Held as Part of HCI Germany, September 10-13, 2007, Proceedings The popularity of NXT and the success of The Da International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceed- ings Vinci Code book and movie are combined in this fascinating book. Projects for building and program- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ming five of Leonardo’s most famous inventions are 20th International Conference on Theorem Prov- covered in detail: the Tank, the Helicopter, the Cata- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ing in Higher Order Logics, TPHOLs 2007, held in pult, the Flying Machine, and the Revolving Bridge. the Third International Conference on Augment- Kaiserslautern, Germany, in September 2007. The 21 This book is written for serious NXT programmers ed Cognition, FAC 2007, held in Beijing, China, in revised full papers presented together with 5 proof and covers the most popular programming environ- July 2007, within the framework of the 12th Inter- pearls (concise and elegant presentations of interest- ments available today. The book is abundantly illus- national Conference on Human-Computer Interac- ing examples) and the abstracts of 3 invited papers trated and includes sample code and countless "best tion, HCII 2007, with 8 other thematically similar were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 sub- practices" strategies. Advanced NXT: The Da Vin- conferences. The 65 revised papers presented were missions. Among the topics of this volume are for- ci Inventions Book complements Apress’ successful carefully reviewed and selected from numerous sub- mal semantics of specification, modelling, and pro- line of Mindstorms books by providing advanced missions. The papers are organized in two main sec- gramming languages, specification and verification programming techniques in a rich historical context. tions. The first section focuses on general Augment- of hardware and software, formalisation of mathe- ed Cognition methods and techniques, including matical theories, advances in theorem prover tech- Features physiological and neurophysiological measures (e.g, nology, as well as industrial application of theorem Combines the success of NXT and The Da Vinci EEG, fNIR), adaptive techniques, and sensors and provers. Code Written for advanced programmers Covers the algorithms for cognitive state estimation. The sec- most popular and powerful programming environ- ond section is devoted to the discussion of various Fields of interest ments on the market Augmented Cognition applications (e.g., simulation Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Logics and training, intent-driven user interfaces, closed- and Meanings of Programs; Software Engineering; Contents loop command and control systems), lessons learned Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Logic Design Introduction.- The tank (Armored Car).- The Heli- to date, and future directions in Augmented Cogni- copter (Aerial Screw).- The Catapult (Ballista).- The tion-enabled HCI. Target groups Flying Machine.- The Revolving Bridge.- Outlook.- Researchers and professionals Appendixes. Fields of interest Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Health Infor- Type of publication Fields of interest matics & Health Administration; Image Processing Proceedings Programming Techniques and Computer Vision; Information Systems Appli- Target groups cations (incl.Internet); Data Mining and Knowledge Due August 2007 Discovery; Database Management Advanced NXT enthusiasts and Da Vinci fanatics

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The primary goal of this work is the methodical analysis of the potential, limitations, advantages, and drawbacks of anti-spam measures. These determine to which extent the measures can contribute to the reduction of spam in the long run. The range of considered anti-spam measures includes legislative, organizational, behavioral and technological ones. Fur- thermore, the conceptual development and analysis of an infrastructural email framework that features such a complementary application, is pointed out. After the presentation of the technological and organizational facets, the framework is analyzed twofold: its theoretical effectiveness is assessed with the aid of the formal model mentioned above, its storage and traffic requirements are analyzed quantitatively. The author further considers deployment issues, as the framework will have to be integrated in both the technological and the organizational Internet infrastructure.

Features Detailed overview of the technological, organisational and economic facets of spam e-mails. Insight into a broad range of anti spam measures and their effectiveness. State of the art of spam research.

Contents Spam and its economic significance.- Spam statistics.- Spam categories.- Commercial advertising.- Fraud and phishing.- Hoaxes and chain e-mails.- Joe jobs.- Malware.- Bounce messages.- Anti-spam measures.- Legislative measures.- Organizational measures.- protection of e-mail addresses.- handling of received spam e-mails.- IP blocking.- Filtering.- TCP blocking.- Authentication.- Verification.- Empiri- cal analysis of the abuse of e-mail addresses.- Mod- el-driven analysis of the effectiveness of technological anti-spam measures.

Fields of interest Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); In- formation Systems and Communication Service; Sys- tems and Data Security; Software Engineering/Pro- gramming and Operating Systems; Management of Computing and Information Systems

Target groups System administrators, software engineers, web-master

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D. Schuler, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, San D. Schultz, London, UK; C. Cook A. Schuster, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Belfast, UK (Ed.) Francisco, CA, USA (Ed.) Beginning HTML with CSS and Intelligent Computing Everywhere Online Communities and Social XHTML Computing Modern Guide and Reference Second International Conference, OCSC 2007, Held as Part of Intelligent Computing Everywhere reflects the cur- HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Pro- rent perception in various fields that modern com- ceedings puting applications are becoming increasingly chal- This HTML book is intended to be the cornerstone lenged in terms of complexity and intelligence. It in- in any modern aspiring web developers library. So vestigates the relevance and relationship artificial in- why another HTML book? The answer is that web telligence maintains with "modern strands of com- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the development has changed with the advent of web puting" i.e. pervasive computing and ambient intel- Second International Conference on Online Com- standards, meaning that a lot of the old books are ligence, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, comput- munities and Social Computing, OCSC 2007, held in now obsolete—all the code and techniques contained ing and the mind, non-classical computing and novel Beijing, China in July 2007 in the framework of the within this book are strictly standards compliant and computing models, as well as DNA computing and 12th International Conference on Human-Comput- best practice, so the reader is not taught outdated, quantum computing. Each subject is examined from er Interaction, HCII 2007 with 8 other thematically bad techniques, and their web pages will work prop- two main viewpoints, the first provides a state of the similar conferences. The 56 revised papers presented erly in most web browsers, be lean and small in file art introduction to a field such as DNA computing were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous size, accessible to web users with disabilities, and eas- and the second investigates the subject from an arti- submissions. The papers accepted for presentation ily findable by search engines such as Google. This ficial intelligence perspective. thoroughly cover the thematic area of online com- book uses practical examples to show readers how munities and social computing, addressing the fol- to structure data correctly using (X)HTML, and the Features lowing major topics: designing and developing on- basics of styling it and laying it out using Cascading Explores some of the most exciting fields in comput- line communities, as well as knowledge, collabora- Style Sheets (CSS,) and adding dynamic behavior to ing today including artificial intelligence, pervasive tion, learning and local on-line communities. it using JavaScript…as quickly as possible. It is also computing, autonomic computing, bioinformatics, artificial life and artificial synthetic life, DNA Com- Fields of interest useful to more experienced web developers—there puting and Quantum Computing Computers and Society; Legal Aspects of Comput- are comprehensive reference tables at the back of the book. ing; Management of Computing and Information Contents Systems; Personal Computing; Computer Commu- Features From the contents Part I: Introduction, Philosoph- nication Networks; Information Systems Applica- Teaches proper standards-compliant HTML, not ical Issues, and Novel Computing Models.- Intelli- tions (incl.Internet) outdated techniques—a modern, up-to-date perspec- gent Computing Everywhere.- Infinitely Complex Machines.- The Non-Classical Mind: Cognitive Sci- Target groups tive on web development Includes reference sections ence and Non-Classical Computing.- A Computing Researchers and professionals at the back so readers can easily look up syntax No previous programming experience is necessary Model Combining Artificial Neural Networks and Type of publication Petri Nets.- Part II: Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Proceedings Contents Mechanics, and the Mind.- Quantum Mechanics and Introduction.- XHTML and the Web.- Getting Start- Artificial Intelligence.- Quantum Mechanics, Com- ed.- The head.- Adding Text.- Lists.- Images.- Links.- puters and the Mind.- Part III: Brain-Computer In- Due July 2007 Tables.- Forms.- The Basics of CSS and Layouts.- terfaces and Computational Neuroscience.- Restora- Scripting Basics.- Putting it all Together.- The Ulti- tion of Movement and Thought from Neuroelectric 2007. XVII, 520 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- mate HTML database.- HTML color names and val- and [..] puter Science, Vol. 4564) Softcover ues.- Escape Codes.- MIME types.- CSS Reference. Fields of interest 64,00 € Fields of interest Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) ISBN 978-3-540-73256-3 Programming Techniques Target groups Target groups Researchers Novice web developers wanting to get a solid grounding in HTML and experienced web develop- Type of publication ers wanting a robust HTML reference to refer to Monograph

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F. Schweitzer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland N. Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Y. Liu, H. Seidl, TU München, Germany (Ed.) Shadong University, China; Y. Zhuang, Zhejiang University, Chi- na; Th.S. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Brownian Agents and Active (Eds.) Foundations of Software Science Particles and Computational Structures Multimedia Content Analysis and Collective Dynamics in the Natural and Social Sciences 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 "This book lays out a vision for a coherent frame- July 1, 2007, Proceedings work for understanding complex systems'' (from the foreword by J. Doyne Farmer). By developing the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of genuine idea of Brownian agents, the author com- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Foundations bines concepts from informatics, such as multiagent the International Workshop on Multimedia Content of Software Science and Computation Structures, systems, with approaches of statistical many-particle Analysis and Mining, MCAM 2007, held in Weihai, FOSSACS 2007, held in Braga, Portugal in March/ physics. This way, an efficient method for computer China in June/July 2007. The 46 revised papers pre- April 2007 as part of ETAPS 2007, the European simulations of complex systems is developed which sented together with 13 invited papers were careful- Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Soft- is also accessible to analytical investigations and ly reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. The ware. The 25 revised full papers presented together quantitative predictions. The book demonstrates that papers cover a wide range of topics, including all as- with the abstract of 1 invited talk were carefully re- Brownian agent models can be successfully applied pects of multimedia in entertainment, commerce, viewed and selected from 103 submissions. The pain many different contexts, ranging from physico- science, medicine, and public safety. Fields addressed pers cover a broad spectrum on theories and meth- chemical pattern formation, to active motion and are multimedia analysis and applications, multime- ods to support analysis, synthesis, transformation swarming in biological systems, to self-assembling of dia search and mining, p2p streaming, and security. and verification of programs and software systems. networks, evolutionary optimization, urban growth, In particular the following topics are dealt with: alge- economic agglomeration and even social systems. Fields of interest braic models, automata and language theory, behav- Multimedia Information Systems; Information Contents ioral equivalences, categorical models, computation Storage and Retrieval; Computer Communica- From the contents Complex Systems and Agent processes over discrete and continuous data, infinite tion Networks; Information Systems Applications Models.- Active Particles.- Aggregation and Physi- state systems computation structures, logics of pro- (incl.Internet); Image Processing and Computer Vi- co-Chemical Structure Formation.- Self-Organiza- grams, modal, spatial, and temporal logics, models sion; Computer Graphics tion of Networks.- Tracks and Trail Formation in Bi- of concurrent, reactive, distributed, and mobile systems, process algebras and calculi, semantics of [..] ological Systems.- Movement and Trail Formation Target groups of Pedestrians.- Evolutionary Optimization Using Researchers and professionals Fields of interest Brownian Searchers.- Analysis and Simulation of Ur- Logics and Meanings of Programs; Mathematical ban Aggregation.- Economic Agglomeration.- Spatial Type of publication Logic and Formal Languages; Computation by Ab- Opinion Sructures in Social Systems. Proceedings stract Devices; Programming Languages, Compilers, Fields of interest Interpreters; Software Engineering Due June 2007 Statistical Physics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Target groups Robotics); Nonlinear Dynamics, Complex Systems, Researchers and professionals Chaos, Neural Networks; Game Theory/Mathemati- 2007. XV, 513 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4577) Softcover cal Methods; Simulation and Modeling Type of publication Proceedings Target groups 64,00 € Researchers, graduate students ISBN 978-3-540-73416-1 Due March 2007 Type of publication Monograph 2007. XVI, 379 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- er Science, Vol. 4423) Softcover Due August 2007 52,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-71388-3 2007. XVI, 420 p. 192. illus. (Springer Series in Synergetics) Soft- cover

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R. Seising, Medical University of Vienna, Austria F. Sgallari, University of Bologna, Italy; A. Murli, University of C. Shallahamer, Lake Oswego, OR, USA Naples "Federico II", Italy; N. Paragios, MAS, Ecole Centrale de Pairs, France (Eds.) The Fuzzification of Systems Forecasting Oracle Performance

The Genesis of Fuzzy Set Theory and its Initial Applications - Scale Space and Variational Developments up to the 1970s Methods in Computer Vision Craig Shallahamer’s Forecasting Oracle Performance First International Conference, SSVM 2007, Ischia, Italy, May is the first, Oracle-specific book to provide database administrators with help in forecasting future perfor- In 1965 Lotfi Zadeh, a professor of electrical engi- 30 - June 2, 2007, Proceedings mance of new and existing database systems. Most neering at the University of California in Berkeley, (if not all) Oracle performance optimization books published the first of his papers on his new Fuzzy Set on the market today focus on troubleshooting acute Theory. Since the 1980s this mathematical theory of This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the problems such as a poorly performing report. The "unsharp amounts" has been applied in many differ- First International Conference on Scale Space Meth- other side of the coin however, lies in forecasting: ent fields with great success. The word "fuzzy" has ods and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, Will the current hardware last the year? What hap- also become very well-known among non-scientists SSVM 2007, emanated from the joint edition of the pens when we merge the employees from a newly ac- thanks to extensive advertising campaigns for fuzzy- 4th International Workshop on Variational, Geo- quired company? Will the current system keep up controlled household appliances and to their promi- metric and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision, with the demands of a new application? These are nent presence in the media, first in Japan and then in VLSM 2007 and the 6th International Conference strategic questions that database administrators are other countries. On the other hand, the story of how on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vi- expected to answer. Until now, there has been no Fuzzy Set Theory and its earliest applications orig- sion, Scale-Space 2007, held in Ischia Italy in May/ book to help them. Of all the problems that an Ora- inated remains largely unknown. In this book, the June 2007. The 24 revised full papers and 55 revised cle database administrator has to worry about, those history of Fuzzy Set Theory and the ways it was first poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and dealing with performance often provoke the most used are incorporated into the history of 20th centu- selected from 133 submissions. The papers are orga- stress, thus providing the greatest impetus for ad- ry science and technology. Influences from philoso- nized in topical sections on scale space and features ministrators to seek help in the form of books. This phy, system theory and cybernetics stemming from extraction, image enhancement and reconstruction, book shows administrators how to create a model of the earliest part of the 20th century are considered image segmentation and visual grouping, motion [..] alongside those of communication and control theo- analysis, optical flow, registration and tracking, 3D ry from mid-century. Today, Fuzzy [..] from images, scale space and feature extraction, im- Features age enhancement, reconstruction and texture syn- The first forecasting book specific to Oracle Written Features thesis, image segmentation and visual grouping, mo- by Craig Shallahamer, noted Oracle capacity-plan- Presenting the complete history of Fuzzy Systems tion analysis, optical flow, registration and tracking, ning expert Meshes well with the latest performance Celebrating 50 years of Fuzziness and [..] optimization trends in the Oracle community Contents Fields of interest Contents Beginnings of Communication Technology in the Image Processing and Computer Vision; Comput- Introduction.- 1. Foundations.- 2. Essential Perfor- 20th Century.- Logical Tolerance, Ensembles Flous er Graphics; Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelli- mance Forecasting.- 3. Increasing Forecast Preci- and Probabilistic Metrics.- General Systems Theo- gence (incl. Robotics); Numeric Computing; Algo- sion.- 4. Basic Forecasting Statistics.- 5. Practical ry and Cybernetics.- From Circuit Theory to System rithm Analysis and Problem Complexity Queueing Theory.- 6. Methodically Forecasting Per- Theory.- Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Systems.- Fuzzifica- formance.- 7. Characterizing the Workload.- 8. Ratio tions.- The Fuzzification of Medical Diagnostics.- Target groups Modeling Forecasting.- 9. Linear Regression Fore- Conclusion. Researchers and professionals casting.- 10. Scalability. Fields of interest Type of publication Fields of interest Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- Proceedings System Performance and Evaluation neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Due May 2007 Target groups Target groups Intermediate - advanced Oracle database administra- Engineers, researchers, and students in Fuzziness. 2007. XV, 931 p. Also available online. 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Work in Design III 7th International Conference, Beijing China, May 27-30, 2007, Fedora is the community-driven edition of Red Hat's Proceedings, Part I 10th International Conference, CSCWD 2006, Nanjing, China, world-recognized namesake operating system, used May 3-5, 2006, Revised Selected Papers by millions of individuals around the globe. With increasing interest in using Linux as a desktop alter- The four-volume set LNCS 4487-4490 constitutes native to Windows, a substantial amount of work the refereed proceedings of the 7th International has been put into Fedora's desktop features, and ac- This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2007, cordingly it has risen to be the third most popular proceedings of the 10th International Conference on held in Beijing, China in May 2007. More than 2400 Linux distribution according to industry standard Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, submissions were made to the main conference and Distrowatch.com. Beginning Fedora is the first book CSCWD 2006, held in Nanjing, China in May 2006. its 35 topical workshops. The 80 revised full papers to examine Fedora from the desktop perspective. The 76 revised full papers presented were carefully and 11 revised short papers of the main track were Guiding the reader through all of the tasks Windows reviewed and selected from about 600 submissions carefully reviewed and selected from 360 submis- users have long grown accustomed to doing on a dai- during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. sions and are presented together with 624 accepted ly basis, but historically find difficult to do on Lin- They contain expanded versions of the papers pre- workshop papers in four volumes. According to the ux, readers learn how to manage MP3s, videos, and sented at the conference and are organized in topical ICCS 2007 theme "Advancing Science and Society photos, perform office tasks, and create an office sections on CSCW techniques and methods, collabo- through Computation" the papers cover a large vol- network. Adapted from Keir Thomas' best-selling rative design, collaborative manufacturing and enter- ume of topics in computational science and related Beginning Ubuntu, and including a DVD with the prise collaboration, design methods and tools, agents areas, from multiscale physics, to wireless networks, complete Fedora distribution, readers will learn how and multi-agent systems, Web services, semantic and from graph theory to tools for program develop- to quickly make the most of this powerful and popu- Web, and grid computing, knowledge management, ment. The papers are arranged in topical sections on lar operating system. security and privacy in CSCW systems, workflow efficient data management, parallel monte carlo al- management, and e-learning. Features gorithms, simulation of multiphysics multiscale sys- Adapted from Keir Thomas' best-selling "Beginning Fields of interest tems, dynamic data driven application systems, com- Ubuntu: From Novice to Professional" (Bookscan User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; puter graphics and geometric modeling, computer YTD: 4,365), and co-authored by Keir Thomas, this Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); algebra [..] book is based on a proven format and content The Computer Communication Networks; Software En- Fields of interest only book to cover the Fedora Linux distribution gineering; Operating Systems; Computer-Aided En- Theory of Computation; Software Engineering/Pro- from the desktop perspective, showing users how to gineering (CAD, CAE) and Design gramming and Operating Systems; Numeric Com- carry out everyday tasks such as playing MP3s and puting; Information Systems and Communication video, managing and editing photos, and performing Target groups Service; Simulation and Modeling; Computer Imag- office [..] Researchers and professionals ing, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics Contents Type of publication Target groups Part I. Introducing the World of Linux.- 1. Wel- Proceedings Researchers and professionals come!.- 2. A History and Politics Lesson.- 3. The Re- alities of Running Linux.- Part II. Installing Fedo- Due June 2007 Type of publication ra.- 4. Preinstallation Steps.- 5. Installing Fedora.- Proceedings 6. Solving Installation Problems.- Part III. The No- 2007. XV, 763 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Nonsense Getting Started Guide.- 7. Booting Ubun- er Science, Vol. 4402) Softcover Due May 2007 tu for the First Time.- 8. Getting Everything Up and Running.- 9. How to Secure Your Computer.- 10. 84,00 € Personalizing Fedora: Getting Everything Just Right.- ISBN 978-3-540-72862-7 2007. LXXXI, 1275 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in 11. Ubuntu Replacements for Windows Programs.- Computer Science, Vol. 4487) Softcover 12. Managing Your Files.- Part IV. The Shell and Be- 118,00 € yond.- 13. Introducing the BASH [..] ISBN 978-3-540-72583-1 Fields of interest Operating Systems

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Y. Shi, Chinese Academyof Sciences, China; G.D.v. Albada, Uni- Y. Shi, Chinese Academyof Sciences, China; G.D.v. Albada, Uni- Y. Shi, Chinese Academyof Sciences, China; G.D.v. Albada, Uni- versity of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; J. Dongarra, University versity of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; J. Dongarra, University versity of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; J. Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; P.M.A. Sloot, University of Amster- of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; P.M.A. Sloot, University of Amster- of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; P.M.A. Sloot, University of Amster- dam, The Netherlands (Eds.) dam, The Netherlands (Eds.) dam, The Netherlands (Eds.)

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

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2007. XXXVII, 1211 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in 2007. XXXVII, 1257 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in 2007. XXXV, 1251 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Computer Science, Vol. 4490) Softcover Computer Science, Vol. 4489) Softcover puter Science, Vol. 4488) Softcover

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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, Vol. 4499) Softcover Students, mathematicians, scientists, engineers Fields of interest 48,00 € 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

Target groups 2007. XIII, 263 p. Softcover Academic researchers and advanced-level students 39,95 € ISBN 978-3-211-73264-9 Type of publication Monograph

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2007. XXII, 223 p. (Advances in Information Security, Vol. 34) Hardcover

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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, Vol. 4563) Softcover Type of publication 2007. X, 230 p. (Advances in Pattern Recognition) Hardcover Proceedings 84,00 € 89,95 € 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. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4654) theme.- Project Seven: A remote front end.- Softcover Type of publication Project Eight: DVD playback.- Project Proceedings Nine: Other plugins.- Project Ten: Expand- 60,00 € ing your MythTV Box.- Project Eleven: Myth- ISBN 978-3-540-74552-5 Due June 2007 Web.- Project Twelve: Importing video.- Project Thirteen: A jabber Onscreen Dis- 2007. XXIII, 1162 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- play.- Project [..] puter Science, Vol. 4558) Softcover Fields of interest 110,00 € Programming Techniques ISBN 978-3-540-73353-9 Target groups Beginning/Intermediate Hobbyist/Tech Con- sumer

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2007. 384 p. Softcover

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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, Vol. 4453) Softcover Contents Proceedings Introduction and examples.- Dispersion models.- 68,00 € 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, Vol. 4601) Bayesian inference.- Linear predictors.- Generalized Softcover state space models.- Generalized state space models for longitudinal binomial data.- Generalized state 54,00 € space models for longitudinal count data.- Missing ISBN 978-3-540-74982-0 data in longitudinal studies.

Fields of interest Statistical Theory and Methods

Target groups Grad students, researchers

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Due August 2007

2007. XV, 346 p. (Springer Series in Statistics) Hardcover

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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, Vol. 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 48,00 € Science, Vol. 4572) Softcover yet published, 3000 words).- 6: The Guerrilla Guide ISBN 978-3-540-71788-1 to Interviewing. 45,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-73274-7 Fields of interest Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

Target groups Joel on Software readers, Hiring managers on software development and other engineering teams, In- ternet/Software entrepreneurs building teams, Re- cruiters and HR professionals at high tech companies

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C. Steinfield, Michigan State University, MI, USA; B.T. Pentland, C. Stephanidis, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece (Ed.) 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.) Universal Access in Human- Universal Acess in Human Computer Interaction. Ambient Computer Interaction. Coping with Communities and Technologies Interaction Diversity 2007 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Hu- Coping with Diversity, 4th International Conference on Uni- Proceedings of the Third Communities and Technologies Con- man-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007, Held as Part of HCI versal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007, ference, Michigan State University 2007 International 2007, Beijing,China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceed- Held as Part of HCi International 2007, Beijing, China, July ings, Part II 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part I

This book covers the relationship between informa- This three-volume set LNCS 4554-4556 constitutes This three-volume set LNCS 4554-4556 constitutes tion and communication technologies (ICTs) and the refereed proceedings of the 4th International the refereed proceedings of the 4th International communities – both physical and virtual. The chap- Conference on Universal Access in Human-Com- Conference on Universal Access in Human-Com- ters deal with such subjects as online social network puter Interaction, UAHCI 2007, held in Beijing, Chi- puter Interaction, UAHCI 2007, held in Beijing, Chi- communities, implicit online communities, tools for na in July 2007 jointly with 8 other thematically simi- na in July 2007 jointly with 8 other thematically simi- researching communities, user generated content lar conferences. The 341 revised papers presented in lar conferences. The 341 revised papers presented in communities, communities of practice, and trust in the three volumes were carefully reviewed and select- the three volumes were carefully reviewed and select- communities. Among the many contexts for com- ed from numerous submissions. The papers accepted from numerous submissions. The papers accepted munity technology applications studied in these ed for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of chapters are businesses and professional settings, of universal access in human-computer interaction. Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. health care, game communities, e-government, rural The 115 papers of this second volume are devoted The 117 papers of this first volume are organized in communities, low income communities and physi- to ambient interaction and are organized in topical topical sections - all coping with diversity - that ad- cal neighborhoods. Collectively, they demonstrate sections on intelligent ambients, access to the physi- dress the following major topics: designing for uni- the dynamic and interdisciplinary nature of evolving cal environment, mobility and transportation, virtual versal access, universal access methods, techniques communities and technologies scholarship. and augmented environments, as well as interaction and tools, understanding diversity: motor, perceptu- Features techniques and devices. al and cognitive abilities, as well as understanding di- Demonstrates the dynamic and interdisciplinary versity: age. Fields of interest nature of evolving communities and technologies User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Fields of interest scholarship Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Contents age and Retrieval; Computer Communication Net- Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- From the contents Everything in Moderation: The works; Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings age and Retrieval; Computer Communication Net- Effects of Adult Moderators in Online Youth Com- of Programs works; Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings munities.- Introductions and Requests: Rhetorical of Programs Target groups Strategies that Elicit Response in Online Communi- Researchers and professionals Target groups ties.- Rhythms of Social Interaction: Messaging with- Researchers and professionals in a Massive Online Network.- A Noun Phrase Anal- Type of publication ysis Tool for Mining Online Community Conversa- Proceedings Type of publication tions.- Reflections and Reactions to Social Account- Proceedings ing Meta-Data.- Modes of Social Science Engage- ment in Community Infrastructure Design.- Work- Due July 2007 place Connectors as Facilitators for Work.- Online Due June 2007 and Offline Integration in Virtual Communities of 2007. XXII, 1066 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- Patients [..] puter Science, Vol. 4555) Softcover 2007. XXII, 1054 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Com- puter Science, Vol. 4554) Softcover Fields of interest 102,00 € Information Systems and Communication Service; ISBN 978-3-540-73280-8 102,00 € User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; ISBN 978-3-540-73278-5 Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences

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C. Stephanidis, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece (Ed.) C.R. Stephens, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, I. Stephenson, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK Mexico; M. Toussaint, TU Berlin, Germany; D. Whitley, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; P.F. Stadler, University of Universal Access in Human- Leipzig, Germany (Eds.) Essential RenderMan® Computer Interaction. Applications and Services Foundations of Genetic Algorithms RenderMan has long been associated with top-end 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Hu- 9th International Workshop, FOGA 2007, Mexico City, Mexico, film production and is an essential tool for creating January 8-11, 2007, Revised Selected Papers man-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007, held as Part of HCi many of the effects and images in recent animated International 2007, Beijing,China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceed- films (such as Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and ings, Part III The Incredibles). RenderMan is widely available and, This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- with the demand for higher quality images, is now proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Founda- used by computer-based artists at all levels of the This three-volume set LNCS 4554-4556 constitutes tions of Genetic Algorithms, FOGA 2007, held in graphics industry. Intended to provide a straightfor- the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Mexico City, Mexico in January 2007. The 11 revised ward and easy introduction to the basic techniques Conference on Universal Access in Human-Com- full papers presented were carefully reviewed and se- involved, this book provides an excellent ground- puter Interaction, UAHCI 2007, held in Beijing, Chi- lected during two rounds of reviewing and improve- ing, enabling readers to confidently move to more na in July 2007 jointly with 8 other thematically simi- ment from 22 submissions. The papers address all advanced texts. This second edition includes a new lar conferences. The 341 revised papers presented in current topics in the field of theoretical evolution- chapter on global illumination, and, with plenty of the three volumes were carefully reviewed and select- ary computation including evolution strategies, evo- illustrations and hands-on examples, Ian Stephen- ed from numerous submissions. The papers accept- lutionary programming, and genetic programming, son: gives an overview of RenderMan, explains how ed for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field and also depict the continuing growth in interactions scenes are described, illustrates (among other things) of universal access in human-computer interaction. with other fields such as mathematics, physics, and how to create surfaces; colour; lighting; shadows; and The 109 papers of this third volume describe appli- biology. depth of field, using RIB and the C API, introduces cations and services and are organized in topical sec- the techniques involved in creating shaders, applying tions on Web and media accessibility and usability, Fields of interest textures and using global illumination. universal access to information and communication, Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Anal- learning and entertainment, and universal access to ysis and Problem Complexity; Artificial Intelligence Features e-services. (incl. Robotics); Computational Biology/Bioinfor- A good practical, hands-on guide to the Renderman matics; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics and Popula- world Updated to include Global Illumination Fields of interest tion Dynamics User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Contents Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- Target groups Part 1: General Overview.- What is RenderMan?- age and Retrieval; Computer Communication Net- Researchers and professionals Is RenderMan for Me?- An Overview of the Ren- works; Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings derMan System.- What do I need?- How to use this of Programs Type of publication book.- Part 2: Geometry.- A Simple Scene.- Moving Proceedings Things Around.- Simple Surfaces.- Color and other Target groups Attributes of Objects.- Camera Set-up – Lighting.- Researchers and professionals Due June 2007 The Standard Surface Types.- More Complex Sur- faces – Shadows.- Motion Blur and Depth of Field.- Type of publication The C API.- Particles and Hair.- Part 3: Shading.- Proceedings 2007. IX, 213 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4436) Softcover My first Shader.- Lighting Models.- Colour Ramps.- Simple Patterns.- Tiling and Repeating Patterns.- Due June 2007 42,00 € Projections and Coordinate Spaces.- Painted Tex- ISBN 978-3-540-73479-6 tures.- [..]

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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 N. Streitz, Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany; A. Kameas, Com- Trento, Italy (Eds.) Mello (Eds.) puter Technology Institute, Patras, Greece; I. Mavrommati, Com- puter Technology Institute, Patras, Greece (Eds.) PEACH - Intelligent Interfaces for Parallel and Distributed Processing Museum Visits and Applications The Disappearing Computer Interaction Design, System Infrastructures and Applications 5th International Symposium, ISPA 2007, Niagara Falls, Cana- for Smart Environments da, August 29-31, 2007, Proceedings Personal Experience with Active Cultural Heritage, PEACH, is a large, interdisciplinary development project that explores the use of novel technologies “The-computer-as-we-know-it” will have no role in This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the for physical museum visits. Led by teams from ITC- our future everyday lives. This is the position taken 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Dis- irst, Trento and DFKI, Saarbrücken, the research in this book which elaborates how it will be replaced tributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2007, is at the forefront of work on intelligent user inter- by a new generation of technologies, moving com- held in Niagara Falls, Canada, in August 2007. The faces, but also covers other areas of artificial intel- puting off the desktop and ultimately integrating it 83 revised full papers presented together with 3 ligence, microsystems and human-computer inter- with real world objects and everyday environments. keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and select- action. This book is structured into 13 chapters, in- Computing becomes thus an inseparable part of our ed from 244 submissions. The papers are organized cluding reports on mobile guides, infrastructure and everyday activities while simultaneously disappear- in topical sections on algorithms and applications, user modeling, the use of stationary devices, collab- ing into the background. It becomes a ubiquitous architectures and systems, datamining and databases, orative storytelling, 3D modelling, evaluation and utility taking on a role similar to electricity – an en- fault tolerance and security, middleware and cooper- usability, and future perspectives. The book editors abling but invisible and pervasive medium revealing ative computing, networks, as well as software and and authors are leading experts on the underlying its functionality on request in an unobtrusive way languages. AI technologies and their application, and no other and supporting people’s everyday activities. As mem- book has comparable technical insight and breadth. Fields of interest bers of the Steering Group of the EU-funded Disap- It represents a coherent survey of the relevant tech- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- pearing Computer research initiative, the editors of nologies and environment, and will be of benefit to puter Communication Networks; Information Sys- this book successfully assembled a collection of 13 AI researchers engaged with interface design, and tems Applications (incl.Internet); System Perfor- elaborate chapters and three forewords that address practitioners in the area of cultural [..] mance and Evaluation; Software Engineering; Oper- the issues and challenges in this area. All authors are ating Systems prominent researchers who set out investigating, de- Features veloping and deploying future, [..] No other book has comparable technical insight and Target groups breadth The book editors and authors are leading ex- Researchers and professionals Fields of interest perts on the underlying AI technologies and their ap- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; plication Type of publication Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Proceedings Multimedia Information Systems; Information Stor- Fields of interest age and Retrieval; Software Engineering; Computers User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; and Society Due August 2007 Multimedia Information Systems; Artificial Intelli- gence (incl. Robotics); Computer Appl. in Arts and Target groups Humanities; Library Science 2007. XX, 995 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4742) Researchers and professionals Softcover Target groups Type of publication Researchers, practitioners 99,00 € Collected works ISBN 978-3-540-74741-3 Type of publication Due May 2007 Monograph

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R. Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; S. Grimm, Y. Stylianou, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece; M. Faun- Th. Stützle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; M. Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany; A. dez-Zanuy, Polytechnical University of Mataro, Barcelona, Spain; Birattari, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; H.H. Abecker, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Ger- A. Eposito, Università di Napoli, Caserta, Italy (Eds.) Hoos, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada many (Eds.) (Eds.) Progress in Nonlinear Speech Semantic Web Services Processing Engineering Stochastic Local Concepts, Technologies, and Applications Search Algorithms. Designing, Implementing and Analyzing This book constitutes of the major results of the EU Effective Heuristics In just a few years, service-oriented architectures COST (European Cooperation in the field of Sci- (SOA) and Web services not only gained consider- entific and Technical Research) Action 277: NSP - International Workshop, SLS 2007, Brussels, Belgium, Septem- able interest in computer science research, they were Nonlinear Speech Processing - running from April ber 6-8, 2007, Proceedings also taken up with unanimity by all major interna- 2001 to June 2005. The results were presented at tional players in the IT industry. However, and in the last meeting of the management committee of spite of all existing standards, in most SOA appli- COST Action 277, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of cations much human intervention is still required, on September 20-23, 2005 during the Workshop on the International Workshop on Engineering Stochas- for example to interpret the semantics of informal Nonlinear Speech Processing, WNSP 2005. The 13 tic Local Search Algorithms 2007, held in Brussels, descriptions or to harmonize incompatible data revised full papers in this state-of-the-art survey were Belgium, September 6-8, 2007. The 12 revised full schemata. Semantic Web services combine Web ser- carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the papers presented together with 9 short papers were vices communication technology with the intelligent book and are preceded with an introductory lead- carefully reviewed and selected from more than 50 processing of ontology-based metadata to achieve ing-in by the editors. The articles present overviews submissions. The topics include Methodological de- highly integrated enterprise application integration of the four years research combining linear and non velopments, behavior of SLS algorithms, search space scenarios, for service look-up, schema matching, or linear approaches for processing the speech signal. analysis, algorithm performance, tuning procedures, protocol negotiation, for example. Rudi Studer and The aim of this book is to provide an additional and/ AI/OR techniques and dynamic behaviour. his team deliver a self-contained compendium about or an alternative way to the traditional approach of this exciting field, starting with the basic standards linear speech processing and be mainly used by the Fields of interest and technologies and also including advanced appli- researcher working in the domain. The papers cover Data Structures; Data Storage Representation; Algo- cations in eGovernment and eHealth. The contribu- areas such as speech analysis for speech [..] rithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Probabili- tions provide both the theoretical background and ty and Statistics in Computer Science; Data Mining [..] Fields of interest and Knowledge Discovery; Information Storage and User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Retrieval Features Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Language Complete and self-contained coverage of Semantic Translation and Linguistics; Pattern Recognition; Target groups Web Services Balance between theoretical founda- Image Processing and Computer Vision Researchers and professionals tions and practice-oriented topics Fair and comprehensive survey, not committed to a specific standard Target groups Type of publication or approach Researchers and professionals Proceedings

Contents Type of publication Due August 2007 Introduction (R.S. Tuder, S. Grimm, A. Abecker).- Proceedings Part I - Web Services Technology. 1) Towards Ser- vice-Oriented Architectures (S. Fischer, C. Wern- 2007. X, 223 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4638) Due March 2007 Softcover er) - 2) Architecture and Standardisation (C. Wern- er, S. Fischer).- Part II - Semantic Web Technolo- 2007. XII, 269 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- 42,00 € gy. 3) Knowledge Representation and Ontologies (S. er Science, Vol. 4391) Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-74445-0 Grimm, P. Hitzler, A. Abecker) - 4) Ontology De- velopment (G. Nagypál) - 5) Semantic Annotation 45,00 € (S. Handschuh).- Part III - Semantic Web Services. ISBN 978-3-540-71503-0 6) Goals and Vision (C. Preist) - 7) Description (H. Lausen et. al.) - 8) Discovery (S. Grimm) - 9) Com- position (L. Henocque, M. Kleiner) - 10) [..]

Fields of interest Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Systems; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); e-business and e-commerce; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Computer Communication Networks

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J.S. Suri, Eigen LLC, Grass Valley, CA, USA; A.A. Farag, University S. Sutherland, Sutherland HDL, Inc., Tualatin, OR, USA; D. Mills, M. Südholt, École des Mines de Nantes-INRIA, France; C. Consel, of Louisville, KY, USA (Eds.) LCDM Engineering, Chandler, AZ, USA INRIA/LaBRI, Talence, France (Eds.)

Deformable Models Verilog and SystemVerilog Gotchas Object-Oriented Technology

Biomedical and Clinical Applications 101 Common Coding Errors and How to Avoid Them ECOOP 2006 Workshop Reader, ECOOP 2006 Workshops, Nantes, France, July 3-7, 2006, Final Reports

In the biomedical field, biomedical imaging has In programming, “Gotcha” is a well known term. A come to be a discipline of its own, given the nature gotcha is a language feature, which, if misused, caus- This book contains the final reports of 19 workshops of its applications in the understanding of the hu- es unexpected - and, in hardware design, potentially held during the 20th European Conference on Ob- man body and medical diagnostics. The understand- disastrous - behavior. The purpose of this book is to ject-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2006, held in ing of Deformable Models are the significant utility enable engineers to write better Verilog/SystemVer- Nantes, France in July 2006. The 19 reports cover the on biomedical imagery primarily because of its abil- ilog design and verification code, and to deliver digi- entire range of object technology and related topics. ity to perform efficient topology preservation and tal designs to market more quickly. This book shows Their contents was provided by the respective work- fast shape recovery. This has dominated the binary, over 100 common coding mistakes that can be made shops organizers and picked out in a twofold selec- grayscale and color imaging frameworks, which the with the Verilog and SystemVerilog languages. Each tion process. Thus the reports present a coherent and eye can perceive. It has not only the ability to find example explains in detail the symptoms of the error, highly representative snapshot of the major trends in boundaries and surfaces that are deep seated in 2-D the languages rules that cover the error, and the cor- the field. and 3-D volumes respectively, but also provide satis- rect coding style to avoid the error. The book helps factory solutions for the completion of cognitive ob- digital design and verification engineers to recognize Fields of interest jects with missing boundaries. Deformable Models: these common coding mistakes, and know how to Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; Biomedical and Clinical Applications will focus on avoid them. Many of these errors are very subtle, and Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; the core mage processing techniques for biomedical can potentially cost hours or days of lost engineering Logics and Meanings of Programs; Computer Com- and clinical applications. time trying to find and debug the errors. This book munication Networks; Management of Computing is unique because while there are many books that and Information Systems Features teach the language, and a few that try to teach coding Target groups Covers the complete spectrum of deformable models style, no other book [..] - its evolution as an imagery field and its use in many Researchers and professionals biomedical engineering and clinical application dis- Features Type of publication ciplines Includes level sets, PDEs, curve and surface Includes over 100 common coding mistakes that can Proceedings evolution and their applications in biomedical fields be made with Verilog and SystemVerilog Explains covering both static and motion imagery Accompa- the symptoms of the error, the rules that cover the nied with a CD-ROM containing answers to chapter error, and how to avoid the error Addresses how to Due April 2007 questions, all figures in color, and each chapter's [..] recognize and avoid coding errors withing Verilog and SystemVerilog 2007. VIII, 157 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Contents er Science, Vol. 4379) Softcover Level Set Methods in Medical Imaging: Approaches Contents and Applications.- Breast Boundary Estimation Us- Introduction, What is a Gotcha?.- Declaration and 42,00 € ing Active Deformable Models.- Application of De- Literal Number Gotchas.- Modeling Gotchas.- Op- ISBN 978-3-540-71772-0 formable Models in Ultrasound Breast Imaging.- In- erator Gotchas.- General Programming Gotchas.- ertial snake for contour detection in Ultrasonogra- Object Oriented and Multi-Threaded Programming phy images.- MGRF Controlled Deformable Mod- Gotchas.- Randomization, Coverage and Assertion els with Shape Constraints: Applications to Quantify Gotchas.- Tool Compatibility Gotchas. Kidney Function after Implants.- Deformable Mod- els and Level Set for Medical Imagery.- Level Set for Fields of interest Medical Imagery.- Deformable Models for 3-D Ul- Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engineering trasound Prostate Imaging.- Application of 3-D De- (CAD, CAE) and Design; Computer Hardware; Elec- formable Models for Bioinformatics Imaging.- PDE tronic and Computer Engineering and [..] Target groups Fields of interest Digital design engineers Biomedical Engineering; Models and Principles Type of publication Target groups Professional book Graduate students, researchers and educators involved in imaging sciences, biomedical engineering, Due June 2007 applied mathematics, algorithmic developers, computer vision, signal processing, computer graphics 2007. XXII, 218 p. Hardcover and multimedia in general 76,95 € Type of publication ISBN 978-0-387-71714-2 Contributed volume

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T. Takagi, Future University Hakodate, Japan; T. Okamoto, NTT S. Takahashi, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; D. Sallach, Ar- H. Tang, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia; K.C. Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan; E. Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, gonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA; J. Rouchier, GRE- Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Z. Yi, University Japan; T. Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan (Eds.) QAM, Marseille, France (Eds.) of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

Pairing-Based Cryptography - Advancing Social Simulation Neural Networks: Computational

Pairing 2007 The First World Congress Models and Applications First International Conference, Pairing 2007, Tokyo, Japan, July 2-4, 2007, Proceedings Agent-based modeling and social simulation have Neural Networks: Computational Models and Ap- emerged as both developments of and challenges to plications covers a wealth of important theoretical and practical issues in neural networks, including the This book represents the refereed proceedings of the social sciences. The developments include agent- learning algorithms of feed-forward neural networks, the First International Conference on Pairing-Based based computational economics and investigations various dynamical properties of recurrent neural net- Cryptography, Pairing 2007, held in Tokyo, Japan of theoretical sociological concepts using formal sim- works, winner-take-all networks and their applica- in July 2007. The 18 revised full papers presented to- ulation techniques. Among the challenges are the de- tions in broad manifolds of computational intelli- gether with 2 abstracts and 3 full papers of invited velopment of qualitative modeling techniques, im- gence: pattern recognition, uniform approximation, talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 plementation of agent-based models to investigate constrained optimization, NP-hard problems, and submissions. The papers are organized in topcial sec- phenomena for which conventional economic, so- image segmentation. By presenting various compu- tions on applications, certificateless public key en- cial, and organizational models have no face valid- tational models, this book is developed to provide cryption, hyperelliptic curves, implementation, cryp- ity, and the application of physical modeling tech- readers with a quick but insightful understanding tographic protocols, cryptanalysis, and cryptographic niques to social processes. Bringing together diverse of the broad and rapidly growing areas in the neural algorithms. approaches to social simulation and research agendas, this book presents a unique collection of con- networks domain. Besides laying down fundamen- Fields of interest tributions from the First World Congress on Social tals on artificial neural networks, this book also stud- Data Encryption; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Simulation, held in 2006 in Kyoto, Japan. The work ies biologically inspired neural networks. Some typ- Complexity; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Sci- emerged from the collaboration of the Pacific Asian ical computational models are discussed, and subse- ence; Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation Association for Agent-Based Approach in Social Sys- quently applied to objection recognition, scene anal- tems Sciences, the North American Association for ysis and associative memory. The studies of bio-in- Target groups Computational Social and Organizational Science, spired models have important implications in com- Researchers and professionals and the [..] puter [..]

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A. Tatnall, Victoria University, VIC, Australia; T. Okamoto, Univer- J. Teller, LEMA Université de Liège, Belgium; J.R. Lee, University T. Terano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan; H. sity of Electro-Communications, Japan; A. Visscher, University of of Edinburgh, UK; C. Roussey, LIRIS UMR, Villeurbanne, France Kita, University of Kyoto, Japan; H. Deguchi, Tokyo Institute of Twente, The Netherlands (Eds.) (Eds.) Technology, Yokohama, Japan; K. Kijima, Tokyo Institute of Tech- nology, Tokyo, Japan (Eds.) Knowledge Management for Ontologies for Urban Development Educational Innovation Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex IFIP WG 3.7 7th Conference on Information Technology in Ed- ucational Management (ITEM), Hamamatsu, Japan, July 23-26, Action C21 of the European programme for Coop- Systems IV 2006 eration in the field of Scientific and Technical Re- search (COST - http://www.cost.esf.org/) is dedi- Post Proceedings of The AESCS International Workshop 2005 cated to investigating urban ontologies for an improved communication in urban civil engineering This book contains selected papers presented at the projects. The Action, known informally as "Town- Agent-Based Modeling/Simulation (ABM/ABS) is seventh Conference on Working Group 3.7 of the tology", brings together a large and heterogeneous an emerging field that enables bottom-up and exper- International Federation for Information Process- grouping from across Europe, whose interests range imental analysis in social sciences such as economics, ing. The focus of Working Group 3.7 is on ITEM: In- from construction to urban tourism and from trans- management, sociology and politics. The chapters formation Technology in Educational Management. port infrastructure to resource visualisation. On 6-7 of this book are the selected papers from those pre- The event took place in Hamamatsu, Japan, and en- November 2006, in Geneva, the Action convened a sented the Third International Workshop on Agent- abled the exchange of findings and ideas between re- successful workshop to address emerging issues in Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex searchers in educational management and informa- the field. This volume presents the contributions to Systems held in Tokyo, Japan in 2005. Articles in this tion technology, policy-makers in the field of educa- that workshop, in many cases revised afterwards to book covers methodological issues, computational tion, developers of ITEM systems, and vendors. The capture some of the outcomes of discussion. Many of model/software, combination with gaming simula- overall goal of the conference was to demonstrate these contributions are from members of the Town- tion, and real-world applications to economic, man- and explore directions for developing and improving tology group, but there are also contributions from agement/organizational and social issues. all types of educational institutions through ITEM. other European researchers, and from researchers in Contributions to this conference hailed from all over the US. The volume represents a valuable overview Features the world. The papers in this volume investigate how of major current issues in the field of urban ontolo- Offers topics related to Agent-Based Approaches in ITEM can support and improve educational prac- gies and [..] Economic and Social Complex Systems to promote tice at the level of instruction as well as at the institu- worldwide activities of the multi-disciplinary com- tional level, an analysis of the history of ITEM as a Features munity on multiagent, computational economics, or- field of study and practice, results of research on how Resent results in Ontologies in Urban Development ganizational science, social dynamics, and complex training can promote the implementation of [..] systems Contents Features Introduction.- Keynote Reflections.- Urban Planning Contents "Most up-to-date volume from Working Group 3.7 Ontologies.- Urban Morphology and Systems.- Engi- Gaming and Education.- Market and policy.- City on Information Technology in Educational Manage- neering Methods for Ontologies.- Architecture and and local community.- Network.- Learning Agents.- ment" Construction Sector. Methodology and tools.

Contents Fields of interest Fields of interest Ten years of ITEM Research.- Research Knowledge Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- Simulation and Modeling; Organization/Planning; Management can be Murder.- A Supporting Sys- neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Operation Research/Decision Theory tem of Informatics Education for University Fresh- men.- Supporting Teachers' Professional Develop- Target groups Target groups ment Through ICT.- Communication Support Tech- Researchers, engineers, graduate students in compu- Researchers, scientists nologies for e-Learners.- WBT Content for Geogra- tational intelligence, computer science, urban devel- phy and Geology using VRML.- Individual Learning opment Type of publication Pattern Related to Intention.- Using LAMS to Link Proceedings Learners in an E-Learning Environment.- Evaluation Type of publication Monograph of a Web-Based Training System.- ITEM Everyday.- Due April 2007 ITEM in Botswana and Uganda.- Collaborative E- Test Construction.- Three Phase Self-Reviewing Sys- Due June 2007 tem. 2007. IX, 206 p. 99 illus. (Springer Series on Agent Based Social Systems, Vol. 3) Hardcover Fields of interest 2007. VIII, 211 p. 86 illus. (Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 61) Hardcover 79,95 € Computers and Education ISBN 978-4-431-71306-7 99,95 € Target groups ISBN 978-3-540-71975-5 Researchers and practitioners of information technology in educational management

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G. Tesler, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA; D. Durand, J. Thelin K. Thomas, UK Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Eds.) Foundations of Qt Development Beginning Ubuntu Linux Comparative Genomics From Novice to Professional 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 According to DistroWatch (http:// adopted on other platforms (Windows, Mac OS) as www.distrowatch.org), the industry standard for de- well. As the standard for the KDE desktop environ- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of termining Linux distribution penetration and pop- ment, it is a necessary learn for all Linux program- the 5th RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite ularity, Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntulinux.org) is mers. Qt is one of the "big two" desktop develop- Workshop, RECOMB-CG 2007, held in San Diego, presently the #1 most popular distribution out of ments environments for Linux. As such, if a develop- CA, USA, in September 2007. The 14 revised full pa- the 100 monitored variations, beating out heavy- er is writing an application that will be run on Linux, pers presented were carefully reviewed and select- weights such as Fedora and SUSE. Indeed, a huge us- learning to develop in Qt is a must. As recent trends ed from 18 initial submissions. The papers address a er base has assembled around this community-driv- have demonstrated, The Linux Desktop is on the broad variety of aspects and components of the field en distribution since its inception, and efforts will move and is now a viable alternative to Windows. As of comparative genomics, ranging from quantitative surely be bolstered as a result of the recent forma- this desktop switch takes place in businesses across discoveries about genome structure to algorithms for tion of the Ubuntu Foundation, backed with an ini- the world, more and more developers will begin de- comparative inference to theorems on the complex- tial funding round of $10 million and the consider- veloping applications with Qt. As mentioned, Qt ity of computational problems required for genome able resources of project founder and tech magnate is also a viable cross platform development toolkit, comparison. Mark Shuttleworth. Beginning Ubuntu Linux: From with high profile applications such as Adobe Photo- Novice to Professional, Second Edition is the update Fields of interest shop Elements, Google Earth, Perforce Visual Client, to the best-selling first book introducing Ubuntu Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Dis- and Skype all being developed with Qt. Foundations Linux. Adapted from Keir Thomas' best-selling Be- crete Mathematics in Computer Science; Data Struc- of Qt Development takes the reader step by step ginning SUSE Linux: From Novice to Professional tures; Database Management; Computational Biolo- through the complexities of Qt, laying the [..] (Apress, 2005), Thomas guides readers through the gy/Bioinformatics; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences Features most commonly desired yet confusing concepts and Target groups Qt is one of the two major development platforms tasks confronted by new Linux users. [..] Researchers and professionals. for Linux The growing popularity of Linux distribu- Features tions such as Ubuntu will continue to spur interest Covers many of the desktop-specific tasks which Type of publication in Linux-specific application development Fortune have haunted Linux users for years, including multi- Proceedings 500 companies such as Adobe and Google and small media management, office tasks, general system ad- organizations alike are embracing Qt as an effective ministration issues, and more. This new edition is solution for building cross-platform applications Due August 2007 updated to include even more information regard- Contents ing hardware integration and the many evolution- 2007. XII, 193 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4751) 1. The Qt Way of C++.- 2. Qt as a Rapid Applica- ary changes to the Ubuntu interface Includes a DVD Softcover tion Development Tool.- 3. Widgets and Layouts.- 4. containing the latest version of Ubuntu and hundreds of useful [..] 42,00 € The Main Window.- 5. The Interview Framework.- 6. Creating Widgets.- 7. Drawing and Printing.- 8. ISBN 978-3-540-74959-2 Contents Files, Streams and XML.- 9. Providing Help.- 10. In- Part I. Introducing the World of Linux.- 1. Wel- ternationalizing and Localizing.- 11. Plug-ins.- 12. come!.- 2. A History and Politics Lesson.- 3. The Re- Doing Things in Parallel.- 13. Databases.- 14. Net- alities of Running Linux.- Part II. Installing Ubun- working.- 15. Building and Deploying.- 16. Unit tu,- 4. Preinstallation Steps.- 5. Installing Ubuntu.- Testing with Qt. 6. Solving Installation Problems.- Part III. The No- Fields of interest Nonsense Getting Started Guide.- 7. Booting Ubun- Programming Techniques tu for the First Time.- 8. Getting Everything Up and Running.- 9. How to Secure Your Computer.- Target groups 10. 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The Nature of Statistical Evidence Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking - ISPA 2007 Workshops The purpose of this book is to discuss whether statistical methods make sense. That is a fair question, at ISPA 2007 International Workshops, SSDSN, UPWN, WISH, the heart of the statistician-client relationship, but SGC, ParDMCom, HiPCoMB, and IST-AWSN, Niagara Falls, put so boldly it may arouse anger. The many books Canada, August, 28-September 1, 2007, Proceedings entitled something like Foundations of Statistics avoid controversy by merely describing the various methods without explaining why certain conclusions This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings may be drawn from certain data. But we statisticians of seven international workshops held in conjunc- need a better answer then just shouting a little loud- tion with the 5th International Symposium on Par- er. To avoid a duel, we prejudge the issue and ask allel and Distributed Processing and Applications, the narrower question: "In what sense do statistical ISPA 2007, held in Niagara Falls, Canada, in Au- methods provide scientific evidence?" The present gust 2007 (see LNCS 4742). The 53 revised full pa- volume begins the task of providing interpretations pers presented were carefully reviewed and select- and explanations of several theories of statistical evi- ed from many high quality submissions. The work- dence. It should be relevant to anyone interested in shops are very specific and contribute to enlarging the logic of experimental science. Have we achieved the spectrum of the more general topics treated in a true Foundation of Statistics? We have made the the ISPA 2007 main conference. Topics addressed link with one widely accepted view of science and we are Security and Survivability in Distributed Sen- have explained the senses in which Bayesian statistics sor Networks (SSDSN 2007), Ubiquitous Process- and p-values allow [..] ing for Wireless Networks (UPWN 2007), Intelligent Systems and Smart Home (WISH 2007), Semantic Features and Grid Computing (SGC 2007), Parallel and Dis- This book has substantial implications for all users of tributed Multimedia Computing (ParDMCom 2007), Statistical methods High Performance Computing in Medicine and Biol- ogy (HiPCoMB 2007), as well as Intelligent Systems Contents Techniques for Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Net- Mathematics and its Applications.- The Evolution works (IST-AWSN 2007). of Natural Scientists and their Theories.- Law and Learning.- Introduction to Probability.- The Fair Fields of interest Betting Utility Interpretation of Probability.- Atti- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Com- tudes toward Chance.- A Framework for Statistics.- puter Communication Networks; Information Sys- A Critique of Bayesian Inference.- The Long Run tems Applications (incl.Internet); System Perfor- Consequence of Behavior.- A Critique of P-Values.- mance and Evaluation; Software Engineering; Com- The Nature of Statistical Evidence.- The Science of putational Biology/Bioinformatics Statistics.- Comparison of Evidential Theories. Target groups Fields of interest Researchers and professionals Statistical Theory and Methods Type of publication Target groups Proceedings Graduate students, researchers

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Modeling Decisions

Information Fusion and Aggregation Operators

Information fusion techniques and aggregation operators produce the most comprehensive, specific datum about an entity using data supplied from different sources, thus enabling us to reduce noise, increase accuracy, summarize and extract information, and make decisions. These techniques are applied in fields such as economics, biology and education, while in computer science they are particularly used in fields such as knowledge-based systems, robotics, and data mining. This book covers the underlying science and application issues related to aggregation operators, focusing on tools used in practical applications that involve numerical information. Starting with detailed introductions to information fusion and integration, measurement and probability theory, fuzzy sets, and functional equations, the authors then cover the following topics in detail: synthesis of judgements, fuzzy measures, weighted means and fuzzy integrals, indices and evaluation methods, model selection, and parameter extraction. [..]

Features There is no other authored title on this subject that takes a practical view, in addition to presenting the theory The authors of the current title have been the organizers of the main related conference (MDAI, http://www.mdai.info/mdai2006/) for the last 3 years

Contents Introduction.- Basic Notions.- Synthesis of Judge- ments.- Fuzzy Measures.- From the Weighted Mean to the Fuzzy Integrals.- Indices and Evaluation Meth- ods.- Selection of the Model.- Extracting Parameters from a Set of Examples.- Conclusions.- References.

Fields of interest Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Computation by Abstract Devices; Information Storage and Retrieval; Simula- tion and Modeling

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Integration of AI and OR Pro Drupal Development Visualizing the Structure of Science Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Drupal is the premier open source content manage- Constructing a great map of the sciences has been Optimization Problems ment system available. It is used for high profile sites a persistent dream since the Middle Ages. In mod- 4th International Conference, CPAIOR 2007, Brussels, Bel- such as TheOnion.com and has been deployed by or- ern times this need has become even more urgent gium, May 23-26, 2007, Proceedings ganizations such as NASA. Utilizing Drupal, you can because of the requirement to combine and link re- create your own personal blog, a community driven search in adjacent areas, often resulting in new disci- site like Slashdot, or any other content oriented web plines such as bioinformatics and nanotechnologies. site you can imagine. Pro Drupal Development is a Computer visualization helps humans to perceive This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of book geared to professionals that need to deploy and and understand large and complex structures, such the 4th International Conference on Integration of customize Drupal. This book delves deep into the in- as molecular structures or data dependencies. Var- AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming ternals of the Drupal system and teaches the reader gas-Quesada and Moya-Anegón propose a for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR everything they will need to know to deploy a highly methodology for visualizing large scientific domains. 2007, held in Brussels, Belgium in May 2007. The 27 customized and optimized Drupal installation. Every They create science maps, so-called "scientograms", revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed web developer looking to deploy web sites quickly to based on the interactions between authors and their and selected from 80 submissions. Methodological their clients while still being able to harness the pow- papers through citations and co-citations, using ap- and foundational issues from AI, OR, and algorith- er of an excellent content management system needs proaches such as domain analysis, social networks, mics are presented as well as applications to the solu- this book. cluster analysis and pathfinder networks. The result- tion of combinatorial optimization problems in vari- ing scientograms offer manifold possibilities. Do- ous fields via constraint programming. Features main analysts can discover the most significant con- The only book to cover Drupal internals and cus- nections between categories of a given domain, and Fields of interest tomization in detail Written by two core Drupal de- they can also see how these categories are grouped Numeric Computing; Discrete Mathematics in Com- velopers Common pitfalls identified and addressed into [..] puter Science; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Foreword by Dries Buytaert, Drupal Founder Complexity; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Contents Operation Research/Decision Theory; Combina- Contents 1) Introduction - 2) Visualization - 3) Visualization torics 1. How Drupal Works.- 2. Getting Started: Your of Science - 4) Methodologic Aspects - 5) Material First Module.- 3. Module-Specific Settings.- 4. The Used - 6) Methodology - 7) Results - 8) Discussion - Target groups Menu/Callback Mapping System.- 5. Working with 9) Epilogue Researchers and professionals Databases.- 6. Working with Users.- 7. The Node System.- 8. The Theme System.- 9. The Block Sys- Fields of interest Type of publication tem.- 10. Working with Forms.- 11. Manipulating User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Proceedings User Input: the Filter System.- 12. Searching and In- Philosophy of Science; Computer Appl. in Social and dexing Content.- 13. Working with Files.- 14. Work- Behavioral Sciences; Information Systems Applica- Due May 2007 ing with Taxonomy.- 15. Caching.- 16. Sessions.- 17. tions (incl.Internet) Using AJAX.- 18. Internationalization.- 19. XML- 2007. X, 391 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer RPC.- 20. Writing Secure Code.- 21. Development Target groups Science, Vol. 4510) Softcover Best Practices.- 22. Optimizing Drupal.- 23. Ap- Researchers, libraries pendix [..] 56,00 € Type of publication ISBN 978-3-540-72396-7 Fields of interest Monograph Programming Techniques Due May 2007 Target groups Intermediate Web developers 2007. VII, 311 p. 81 illus. Hardcover Type of publication 99,95 € Professional book ISBN 978-3-540-69727-5

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S. Vassiliadis, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; M. D.J. Veit, University of Mannheim, Germany; J. Altmann, Interna- A. Venkatesh, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA; T. Gonza- Berekovic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; T.D. tional University of Bruchsal, Germany (Eds.) lves, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India; A. Monk, Uni- Hämäläinen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland (Eds.) versity of York, UK; K. Buckner, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK (Eds.) Grid Economics and Business Embedded Computer Systems: Models Architectures, Modeling, and Home Informatics and Telematics: 4th International Workshop, GECON 2007, Rennes, France, Au- ICT for the Next Billion Simulation gust 28, 2007, Proceedings 7th International Workshop, SAMOS 2007, Samos, Greece, July 16-19, 2007, Proceedings This volume represents the papers reviewed and ac- This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of cepted for the HOIT2007 conference held at the In- the 4th International Workshop on Grid Economics dian Institute of Technology Madras in the city of This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the and Business Models, GECON 2007, held in Rennes, Chennai, India in August 2007. Home Informatics 7th International Workshop on Systems, Architec- France, in August 2007. The 12 full papers included and Telematics: ICT for the Next Billion addresses tures, Modeling, and Simulation, SAMOS 2007, held in this volume were carefully selected and revised; many of the major themes of current interest in the in Samos, Greece on July 2007. The 44 revised full they aim at presenting current results and innova- field, with a particular focus on community-based papers presented together with 2 keynote talks were tive research in the area of grid economics. The pa- technologies. This comprehensive book is divided thoroughly reviewed and selected from 116 submis- pers are organized in topical sections on grid busi- into five different sections: Empowerment and Digi- sions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ness modeling, market mechanisms for the grid, and tal Divide; ICT and Learning; ICT-Emereging Com- system modeling and simulation, VLSI architectures, economic grid service provisioning. The proceed- munities and Societal Issues; Home Applications and scheduling and programming models, multi-proces- ings are rounded off by 6 project reports that give an Family Uses; ICTs in the Home- Usability and De- sor architectures, reconfigurable architectures, de- overview of the current and ongoing research in grid sign Issues. sign space exploration, processor components, em- economics. bedded processors, SoC for SDR, and wireless sen- Features Fields of interest sors. Most up-to-date research on computers and society Computer Communication Networks; e-business Fields of interest and e-commerce; Information Storage and Retrieval; Contents Computer Hardware; Processor Architectures; Com- Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; A Set of Heuristic Measurements for Evaluating the puter Communication Networks; System Perfor- Communications Engineering, Networks; Informa- Inclusiveness of a Technology.- Intelligent Tutor- mance and Evaluation; Computer System Implemen- tion Systems ing Systems using Reinforcement Learning to teach tation Autistic Students.- Community Software Applica- Target groups tions.- Containing Family Clutter.- Usability- Key Target groups Researchers and professionals Factor of Future Smart Home Systems. Researchers and professionals Type of publication Fields of interest Type of publication Proceedings Computer Science, general Proceedings Due August 2007 Target groups Due July 2007 Researchers and practitioners in the area of computers and society 2007. XII, 201 p. Also avaible online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4685) Softcover 2007. XVII, 466 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4599) Type of publication Softcover 42,00 € Proceedings 60,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74428-3 ISBN 978-3-540-73622-6 Due September 2007

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M. Verma, Altera European Technology Center, High Wycombe, J. Vince, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK D. Vohra, White Rock, BC, Canada UK; P. Marwedel, University of Dortmund, Germany Vector Analysis for Computer Ruby on Rails for PHP and Java Advanced Memory Optimization Graphics Developers Techniques for Low-Power Embedded Processors Vector analysis is relatively young in the history of The web framework Ruby on Rails for developing mathematics, however, in the short period of its ex- database based web applications provides a Mod- The design of embedded systems warrants a new istence it has become a powerful and central tool in el-View-Controller framework. The required web perspective because of the following two reasons: describing and solving a wide range of geometric server WEBrick is included with Ruby on Rails. The Firstly, slow and energy inefficient memory hierar- problems, many, of which, arise in computer graph- framework is configured with the MySQL database chies have already become the bottleneck of the em- ics. These may be in the form of describing lines, by default, but may be configured with another bedded systems. It is documented in the literature surfaces and volumes, which may touch, collide, in- database. The book covers developing web applica- as the memory wall problem. Secondly, the software tersect, or create shadows upon complex surfaces. tions with Ruby on Rails. Technologies discussed in- running on the contemporary embedded devices is Vector Analysis for Computer Graphics provides a clude Ajax, directory services, and web services. A becoming increasingly complex. It is also well under- complete introduction to vector analysis, especially comparison is made with PHP, the most commonly stood that no silver bullet exists to solve the memo- within the context of computer graphics. The author used scripting language for developing web applica- ry wall problem. Therefore, this book explores a col- shows why vectors are useful and how it is possible tions. laborative approach by proposing novel memory hi- to develop analytical skills in manipulating the vector Features erarchies and software optimization techniques for algebra. 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The evaluation of the optimization techniques us- vectors, vector differentiation, projections, rendering er 2005 ing real-life benchmarks for a single processor sys- and motion. tem, a multiprocessor system-on-chip (SoC) and for Features Contents a digital signal processor system, reports significant Approaches vector analysis from a geometric stand- Preface.- Introduction to Ruby.- Introduction to [..] point, with an emphasis on applications in computer Rails.- CRUD on Rails.- Ajax on Rails.- Creating PDF and Excel Reports.- XML on Rails.- PHP on Features graphics Rails.- LDAP on Rails.- Web Services on Rails.- Us- The complete application, including data variables Contents ing Ruby on Rails in Eclipse.- Rails Testing and Fix- and code segments, is optimized Comprehensive ar- Scalars and Vectors.- Vector Representation.- tures.- Rails Production.- References.- Index. chitecture-level exploration for real-life applications Straight Lines.- The Plane.- Reflections.- Intersec- Demonstration of architecture-aware compilation tions.- Rotating Vectors.- Vector Differentiation.- Fields of interest techniques Projections.- Rendering.- Motion.- Appendix A: Software Engineering/Programming and Oper- ating Systems; Information Systems Applications Contents Vector Algebra.- Appendix B: Vector Triple Prod- (incl.Internet); Operating Systems 1.Introduction.- 2.Related Work.- 3.Memory Aware uct.- References. Compilation and Simulation Framework.- 4.Non- Fields of interest Target groups Overlayed Scratchpad Allocation Approaches for Computer Graphics Web applications developers, IT-architects, project Main / Scratchpad Memory Hierarchy.- 5.Non- managers, system administrators Overlayed Scratchpad Allocation Approaches for Target groups Main / Scratchpad + Cache Memory Hierarchy.- 6. University/college courses at undergraduate and post Type of publication Scratchpad Overlay Approaches for Main / Scratch- graduate level Professional book pad Memory Hierarchy.- 7. Data Partitioning and Loop Nest Splitting.- 8. Scratchpad Sharing Strate- Type of publication Due August 2007 gies for Multiprocess Applications.- 9. Conclu- Graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook sions and Future Work.- A. Theoretical Analysis for Scratchpad Sharing Strategies. - List of Figures. - List 2007. XV, 394 p. Softcover Due June 2007 of Tables. - [..] 39,95 € Fields of interest 2007. XIII, 259 p. 185 illus. 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D. Wagner, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; R. Wattenhofer, R. Wagner, University of Linz, Austria; N. Revell, Middlesex Uni- P.P. Wang, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; D. Ruan, The Bel- ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Eds.) versity, UK; G. Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany (Eds.) gian Nuclear Research Centre, Mol, Belgium; E.E. Kerre, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium (Eds.) Algorithms for Sensor and Ad Hoc Database and Expert Systems Networks Applications Fuzzy Logic A Spectrum of Theoretical & Practical Issues Advanced Lectures 18th International Conference, DEXA 2007, Regensburg, Ger- many, September 3-7, 2007, Proceedings

This book exclusively surveys the active on-going Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks have gained an research of the current maturity of fuzzy logic over incredible research momentum. Computer scientists This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the last four decades. Many world leaders of fuzzy and engineers of all flavors are embracing the area. the 18th International Conference on Database and logic have enthusiastically contributed their best re- Sensor networks have been adopted by researchers Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2007, held in search results into five theoretical, philosophical and from many different fields, ranging from hardware Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007. The fundamental sub areas and nine distinctive appli- technology to operating systems, from antenna de- 86 revised full papers presented together with 1 in- cations, including two PhD dissertations from two sign to databases, from information theory to net- vited paper were carefully reviewed and selected world class universities dealing with cutting-edge working, from graph theory to computational ge- from 267 submissions. The papers are organized research areas of bioinformatics and geological sci- ometry. The purpose of this monograph - outcome in topical sections on XML, data and information, ence. Beyond the scope of survey and collection of of a GI-Dagstuhl Seminar held in Dagstuhl Castle datamining and data warehouses, database applica- the book, one important spin off is the emerging and in November 2005 - is to give a first overview of al- tions, WWW, bioinformatics, process automation recognition of a major scientific paradigm shift from gorithmic results on wireless ad hoc and sensor net- and workflow, knowledge management and expert the conventional mathematics to the mathematics works. Its focus is on algorithms and protocols that systems, database theory, query processing, as well as of uncertainty, which arguably holds the key to solv- allow for an analysis of their efficiency and efficacy. privacy and security. ing very difficult and complex problems in biologi- Many chapters deal with distributed algorithms, in cal and social sciences alike. The book, loaded with particular local and localized algorithms. Importance Fields of interest historical perspective, creative thinking, critical reis attached to topics combining both interesting as- Database Management; Information Systems Appli- viewing, and uniquely constructed strategy for future pects of wireless networks and attractive algorithmic cations (incl.Internet); Data Mining and Knowledge growth of this dynamic research area, is an invalu- methods. Each chapter provides a survey of some Discovery; User Interfaces and Human Computer able resource for active [..] part of the field, whilst selected results are [..] Interaction; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Systems Features Fields of interest Coincides with new material coming in the 40th an- Computer Communication Networks; Software En- Target groups niversary of fuzzy theory and technology gineering; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Com- Researchers and professionals plexity; Information Storage and Retrieval; Informa- Type of publication Contents tion Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Communi- Proceedings Why Fuzzy Logic.- On Fuzzy Set Theories.- Uni- cations Engineering, Networks norms Basics.- Structural Interpolation and Approxi- mation with Fuzzy Relations: A Study in Knowledge Target groups Due August 2007 Re-use.- On Fuzzy Logic and Chaos Theory – From Advances students, researchers, and professionals an Engineering Perspective.- Upper and Lower Val- 2007. XXII, 907 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4653) ues for the Level of Fuzziness in FCM.- Mathemati- Type of publication Softcover Monograph cal Modeling of Natural Phenomena: A Fuzzy Logic Approach.- Mathematical Fuzzy Logic in Modeling 93,00 € of Natural Language Semantics.- Analytical Theory ISBN 978-3-540-74467-2 Due September 2007 of Fuzzy IF-THEN Rules with Compositional Rule of Inference.- Fuzzy Logic and Ontology-based Infor- 2007. XIII, 415 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4621) mation Retrieval.- Real World Fuzzy Logic Applica- Softcover tions in [..]

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Q. Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; D. Pfahl, Y. Wang, Xidian University, China; Y.-m. Cheung, Hong Kong Bap- R.O. Weber, M.M. Richter (Eds.) University of Calgary, AB, Canada; D.M. Raffo, Portland State Uni- tist University, China; H. Liu, Guangdong University of Technolo- versity, OR, USA (Eds.) gy, China (Eds.) Case-Based Reasoning Research Software Process Dynamics and Computational Intelligence and and Development Agility Security 7th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2007 Belfast Northern Ireland, UK, August 13-16, 2007 Pro- International Conference on Software Process, ICSP 2007, International Conference, CIS 2006, Guangzhou, China, ceedings Minneapolis, MN, USA, May 19-20, 2007, Proceedings November 3-6, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- 7th International Conference on Case-Based Reason- the First International Conference on Software Pro- proceedings of the annual International Confer- ing, ICCBR 2007, held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, cess, held in Minneapolis, MN, USA, in May 2007. ence on Computational Intelligence and Security, UK in August 2007. The 15 revised full research pa- The event emanated from the joint International CIS 2006, held in Guangzhou, China in November pers and 18 revised poster papers presented together Software Process Workshop and the Internation- 2006. The 116 revised papers presented were careful- with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and se- al Workshop on Software Process Simulation and ly reviewed and selected from a total of 2078 initial lected from 64 submissions. The papers address all Modeling and was colocated with 29th Internation- submissions during two rounds of revision and im- current aspects of case-based reasoning and feature al Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2007. provement. The papers are organized in topical sec- original theoretical research, applied research, and The 28 revised full papers presented together with tions on bio-inspired computing, evolutionary com- deployed applications with practical, social, environ- the abstracts of 2 keynote addresses were carefully putation, learning systems and multi-agents, cryp- mental or economic significance. reviewed and selected from 98 initial submissions. tography, information processing and intrusion de- The papers are organized in topical sections on protection, systems and security, image and signal pro- Fields of interest cess content, process tools and metrics, process man- cessing, as well as pattern recognition. Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical agement, process representation, analysis and mod- Logic and Formal Languages; Information Systems eling, experience report, and simulation modeling. Fields of interest Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Target groups Fields of interest Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applica- Researchers and professionals 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- Type of publication ministrative Data Processing; Computers and Soci- ty; Management of Computing and Information Sys- Proceedings ety; Programming Techniques; Technology Manage- tems ment Due July 2007 Target groups Target groups Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals 2007. XIII, 534 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Type of publication er Science, Vol. 4626) Softcover Type of publication Proceedings 64,00 € Proceedings ISBN 978-3-540-74138-1 Due August 2007 Due May 2007 2007. XXIII, 1118 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2007. XI, 346 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer 4456) Softcover Science, Vol. 4470) Softcover 104,00 € 52,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74376-7 ISBN 978-3-540-72425-4 springer.com/booksellers Computer Science 227

K.M. Wegrzyn-Wolska, Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Informa- M. Weske, HPI, U Potsdam, Germany A. Wiemann, San Carlos, CA, USA tique et Genie des Telécommunications, Fontainebleau, France; P.S. Szczepaniak, Technical University of Lodz, Poland (Eds.) Business Process Management Standardized Functional

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A.P. Wierzbicki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Tech- D. Williams, PayPal, Campbell, CA, USA G.B. Williams, University of East London, UK nology, Ishikawa, Japan; Y. Nakamori, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan (Eds.) Pro PayPal E-Commerce Online Business Security Systems Creative Environments

Issues of Creativity Support for the Knowledge Civilization With over 100 million users, PayPal has more ac- Online Business Security Systems applies the con- Age counts than Discover and American Express com- cept of synchronization to security of global het- bined. Since its inception in 1998, PayPal has quickly erogeneous and hetero-standard systems by mod- grown to become the global standard for online pay- eling the relationship of risk access spots (RAS) be- "Creative Environments" is a follow-up on the book ments and is constantly expanding into new coun- tween advanced and developing economies network Creative Space in the same series and by the same tries, languages, and currencies. PayPal offers a wide platforms. The proposed model is more effective in authors, serving this time as editors of a broader range of payment technologies, but it’s not always securing the electronic security gap between these book on computational intelligence and knowledge clear which is the best choice for a website. This book economies with reference to real life applications, engineering tools for supporting knowledge creation. gets under the hood to show you how the different such as electronic fund transfer in electronic busi- This book contains four parts. The first part presents technologies work, how to choose the right solution, ness. This process involves the identification of vul- a further development of models of knowledge cre- and how to implement it - complete with real-world nerabilities on communication networks. This pro- ation presented already in Creative Space, in particu- examples. This book shows developers how to inte- fessional book also presents a model and simulation lar the Triple Helix of normal academic knowledge grate PayPal directly into websites to make use of of an integrated approach to security and risk known creation and a new, integrated model of normal aca- its payment technologies. This allows developers, as Service Server Transmission Model (SSTM). On- demic and organizational knowledge creation, called no matter what language they program in, to build line Business Security Systems is designed for both Nanatsudaki (seven waterfalls) Model. The second shopping carts or similar channel products with Pay- a professional and an academic audience. This in- part presents computational intelligence tools for Pal as a payment option. Merchants can also use this cludes researchers and practitioners in industry, as knowledge acquisition by machine learning and da- book to find out the basics of e-commerce, where well as graduate students studying network security ta mining, for debating, brainstorming, for roadmap- PayPal fits in, and how they could take a DIY ap- and risk/security management. ping and for integrated support of academic cre- proach to solving their e-commerce needs. ativity. The third part presents the use of statistics Features for creativity support, virtual laboratories, gaming Features Presents an Integrated Security and Risk Model and role playing for creativity support, methods of PayPal is a hugely popular payment option for e- specifically designed to address E-business security knowledge representation and multiple [..] 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 Features ployee with great knowledge of the technology Only demonstrate and ensure successful secure on-line Creative Environments is a hot topic of knowledge book to cover the PayPal SDK transactions for e-business across the globe management Contents Contents Contents Introduction.- How PayPal -Preface.- Foreword by Don Anderson, President, Part I: Basic Models of Creative Processes.- Prelim- works.- Choosing the Right Quantum International Corporation, Founding inaries.- Testing the Triple Helix Model.- Knowl- Solution.- Standard Pay- Member, Intellas Group, LLC, and Adel Elmaghraby, edge Sciences and JAIST Nanatsudaki Model.- Part Pal Payments.- Using Pay- Ph.D., Chair, Department of Computer Engineer- II: Tools for Supporting Basic Creative Processes.- Pal Web Services.- Post-Pay- ing and Computer Science, University of Louisville, Knowledge Acquisition by Machine Learning and ment Processing.- Gateway Solu- USA.- Overview of Commercial Activities in Online Data Mining.- Creativity Support in Brainstorming.- tions.- Express Checkout.- Mass Pay- Business.- Legal and Social Ethical issues in Online Debating and Creativity Support.- Creativity Support ment.- Administration.- Reporting.- Business.- On-line Business Systems.- Online Busi- for Roadmapping.- Integrated Support for Scientific Fraud Protection.- Appendix. ness Security Technologies.- Risk Access Spots com- Creativity.- Part III: Diverse Tools Supporting Cre- mon to Communication Networks .- Methods of at- ative Processes.- Statistics for Creativity Support.- Fields of interest tacks on risk access spots.- Security risk modelling.- Virtual Laboratories.- Gaming and Role Playing as Programming Techniques Theoretical, Concepts and Empirical foundations of Tools for Creativity Training.- [..] [..] Target groups Fields of interest Intermediate to Advanced Developers who Fields of interest Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- wish to directly integrate websites with PayPal and Systems and Data Security; Data Encryption; Com- neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. 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M.A. Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany; J. Scholl, S. Winter, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia; M. Duckham, C.D. Wise, WiserWays LLC, Houston, TX, USA University of Washington, DC, USA; A. Grönlund, Örebro Universi- University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia; L. Kulik, University of Mel- ty, Sweden (Eds.) bourne, VIC, Australia; B. Kuipers, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA (Eds.) Foundations of Microsoft Electronic Goverment Expression Web Spatial Information Theory 6th International Conference, EGOV 2007, Regensburg, Ger- The Basics and Beyond many, September 3-7, 2007, Proceedings 8th International Conference, COSIT 2007, Melbourne, Aus- tralia, September 19-23, 2007, Proceedings Microsoft's Expression Suite promises new levels of This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the power in creating rich dynamic user experiences on 6th International Conference on Electronic Govern- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the web, and Expression Web Designer is but one ment, EGOV 2007, held in Regensburg, Germany the 9th International Conference on Spatial Informa- program within that suite. It is a powerful web site in September 2007 in conjunction with DEXA 2007. tion Theory, COSIT 2007, held in Melbourne, Aus- creation tool, allowing the user to rapidly build up The 37 revised papers presented were carefully re- tralia, in September 2007. The 27 revised full papers standards-compliant web pages, style them with CSS, viewed and selected from numerous submissions presented were carefully reviewed and selected from add dynamic ASP.NET functionality to them, and for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized 102 submissions. The papers are organized in topi- publish them to the web, all from the safety of the in topical sections on research foundations, frame- cal sections on cultural studies, semantics, similarity, same program. Enter Foundations of Expression works and methods, process design and interoper- mapping and representation, perception and cogni- Web Designer, one of the first books available on the ability, electronic services, policies and strategies, as- tion, reasoning and algorithms, navigation and land- subject. The author—expert MS trainer and MVP sessment and evaluation, participation and democra- marks, as well as uncertainty and imperfection. Cheryl D Wise—starts with the very basics, and then cy, as well as perspectives on e-government. takes the reader up to advanced level through a series Fields of interest of practical real world exercises. Although no knowl- Fields of interest Data Structures; Artificial Intelligence (incl. edge is assumed, the book is carefully written to not Computers and Society; Management of Comput- Robotics); Computation by Abstract Devices; be patronizing, and be of use to more advanced web ing and Information Systems; Legal Aspects of Com- Database Management; Models and Principles; Phys- developers and designers wishing to make use of the puting; Computer Communication Networks; User ical Geography software, as well as complete beginners. Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Com- puter Appl. in Administrative Data Processing Target groups Features Researchers and professionals One of the first books on this exciting new technolo- Target groups gy Takes the reader from novice up to advanced lev- Researchers and professionals Type of publication el, through a series of practical exercises Assumes no Proceedings previous knowledge, but doesn't patronize the reader Type of publication Proceedings Due September 2007 Contents Before you begin.- Taking your first steps.- Starting off right.- Your first web Due August 2007 2007. XV, 455 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4736) Softcover page.- Cascading style sheets.- The importance of hidden elements.- Branding or 2007. XIV, 450 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4656) common look and feel.- From one page to a Softcover 60,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-74786-4 web site.- Legal and usability issues.- As 60,00 € your skills increase.- Dynamic web sites.- ISBN 978-3-540-74443-6 Master pages.- Appendices. Fields of interest Programming Techniques

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K. Wolter, Humboldt Univevrsity Berlin, Germany (Ed.) K. Wolter, University of Chicago, IL, USA B. Xiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK; L.T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada; J. Ma, Hosei University, Japan; C. Muller-Schloer, University of Hannover, Germany; Y. Hua, Formal Methods and Stochastic Introduction to Variance Estimation Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China (Eds.) Models for Performance Evaluation Autonomic and Trusted Computing Fourth European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW 2007, Berlin, Germany, September 27-28, 2007, Proceedings 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 methods for computing the precision of the survey This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of data and for making inferences to the target popula- the 4th European Performance Engineering Work- tion are absolutely essential to sound decision mak- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of shop, EPEW 2007, held in Berlin, Germany, Septem- ing. Now in its second edition, Introduction to Vari- the 4th International Conference on Autonomic and ber 27-28, 2007. The 20 revised full papers present- ance Estimation has for more than twenty years pro- Trusted Computing, ATC 2007, held in Hong Kong, ed were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 sub- vided the definitive account of the theory and meth- China in July 2007, co-located with UIC 2007, the missions. The papers are organized in topical sec- ods for correct precision calculations and inference, 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intel- tions on Markov Chains, Process Algebra, Wireless including examples of modern, complex surveys in ligence and Computing. The 55 revised full papers Networks, Queueing Theory and Applications of which the methods have been used successfully. The presented together with 1 keynote lecture were care- Queueing, Benchmarking and Bounding, Grid and book provides instruction on the methods that are fully reviewed and selected from 223 submissions. Peer-to-Peer Systems. vital to data-driven decision making in business, The papers are organized in topical sections on cryp- government, and academe. It will appeal to survey tography and signatures, autonomic computing and Fields of interest statisticians and other scientists engaged in the plan- services, secure and trusted computing, autonomic Software Engineering; System Performance and ning and conduct of survey research, and to those models and architectures, trusted models and sys- Evaluation; Computer Communication Networks; analyzing survey data and charged with extracting tems, intrusion detection, access control, trusted Logics and Meanings of Programs compelling information from such data. It will ap- computing and communications, key management, peal to graduate students and university [..] worm detection and data security, secured services Target groups and applications, as well as fault-tolerant systems. Researchers and professionals Features The book is organized in a way that emphasizes both Fields of interest Type of publication the theory and applications of the various variance Systems and Data Security; Software Engineer- Proceedings estimating techniques Now in its second edition, In- ing; Computer Communication Networks; Da- troduction to Variance Estimation has for more than ta Encryption; Information Systems Applications Due September 2007 twenty years provided the definitive account of the (incl.Internet); Management of Computing and In- theory and methods for correct precision calcula- formation Systems 2007. X, 301p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4748) tions and inference, including examples of modern, Softcover complex surveys in which the methods have been Target groups used [..] Researchers and professionals 48,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-75210-3 Contents Type of publication Introduction.- The method of random groups.-Vari- Proceedings ance estimation based on balanced half-samples.- The jackknife method.- The bootstrap method.- Tay- Due July 2007 lor series methods.- Generalized variance functions.- Variance estimation for systematic sampling.-Sum- 2007. XVIII, 571 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4610) mary of methods for complex surveys. Softcover

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Y. Xiao, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA; X. Shen, Uni- C.C. Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China; D. Zeng, J. Yao, University of Regina, Canada; P. Lingras, Saint Mary's Uni- versity of Waterloo, ON, Canada; D.-Z. Du, University of Texas at University of Arizona, AZ, USA; M. Chau, University of Hong Kong, versity, Halifax, Canada; W.-Z. Wu, Zhejiang Ocean University, Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA (Eds.) China; K. Chang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; China; M. Szczuka, Warsaw University, Poland; N. Cercone, York Q. Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; X. Cheng, Chinese University, Toronto, Canada; D. Slezak, Infobright Inc., Toronto, Academy of Sciences, China; J. Wang, Chinese Academy of Sci- Canada (Eds.) Wireless Network Security ences, China; F.-Y. Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; H. Chen, University of Arizona, AZ, USA (Eds.) Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology Wireless networks technologies have been dramati- Intelligence and Security cally improved by the popularity of third generation Informatics Second International Conference, RSKT 2007, Toronto, Cana- (3G) wireless networks, wireless LANs, Bluetooth, da, May 14-16, 2007, Proceedings and sensor networks. However, security is a major Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2007, Chengdu, China, April concern for wide deployments of such wireless net- 11-12, 2007, Proceedings works. The contributions to this volume identify var- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ious vulnerabilities in the physical layer, the MAC the Second International Conference on Rough Sets layer, the IP layer, the transport layer, and the appli- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the and Knowledge Technology, RSKT 2007, held in cation layer, and discuss ways to strengthen security Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Securi- Toronto, Canada in May 2007 in conjunction with mechanisms and services in all these layers. The top- ty Informatics, PAISI 2007, held in Chengdu, China the 11th International Conference on Rough Sets, ics covered in this book include intrusion detection, in April 2007. The 18 revised full papers, 14 revised Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing, secure PHY/MAC/routing protocols, attacks and short papers, and extended abstracts of 10 poster pa- RSFDGrC 2007, both as part of the Joint Rough Set prevention, immunization, key management, secure pers presented were carefully reviewed and select- Symposium, JRS 2007. The 67 revised full papers pa- group communications/multicast, secure location ed from 159 submissions. The papers are organized pers presented together with 3 invited papers were services, monitoring and surveillance, anonymity, in topical sections on crime analysis, emergency re- carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 319 privacy, trust establishment/management, redundan- sponse and surveillance, intrusion detection, net- general submissions to the JRS 2007 symposium. The cy and security, and dependable wireless networking. work security, data and text mining, cybercrime and papers are organized in topical sections on rough information access and security, intrusion detection, Features set foundations, multiple criteria decision analysis, network security, terrorism informatics and crime A timely volume thoroughly treating wireless securi- biometrics, kansei engineering, autonomy-oriented analysis, network security and intrusion detection. ty issues, including discussions of issues with all the computing, soft computing in bioinformatics, ubiquitous computing and networking, rough set algo- layers from physical layer to application layer, that Fields of interest rithms, knowledge representation and reasoning, ge- approaches the topic more broadly than other books Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); In- netic algorithms, and rough set applications. currently on the market formation Storage and Retrieval; Computer Com- munication Networks; Computers and Society; Legal Contents Fields of interest Aspects of Computing; Management of Computing High Performance Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Co- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining and Information Systems Processor.- An Adaptive Encryption Protocol in Mo- and Knowledge Discovery; Database Management; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Compu- bile Computing.- Pre-Authentication and Authen- Target groups tation by Abstract Devices; Pattern Recognition tication Models in Ad Hoc Networks.- Promoting Researchers and professionals Identity-Based Key Management in Wireless Ad Hoc Target groups Networks.- A Survey on Intrustion Detection in Mo- Type of publication Researchers and professionals bile Ad Hoc Networks.- Intrusion Detection in Cel- Proceedings lular Mobile Networks.- The Spread of Epidemics Type of publication on Smartphones.- Cross-Domain Mobility-Adaptive Due March 2007 Proceedings Authentication.- AAA Architecture and Authentica- tion for Wireless LAN Roaming.- An Experimental Study on Security Protocols in WLANs.- Security Is- 2007. XII, 330 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Due April 2007 sues in [..] er Science, Vol. 4430) Softcover 48,00 € 2007. XIV, 576 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Fields of interest er Science, Vol. 4481) Softcover ISBN 978-3-540-71548-1 Communications Engineering, Networks; Data En- cryption; Computer Communication Networks; The 68,00 € Computer Industry; Personal Computing ISBN 978-3-540-72457-5

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A.L. Yuille, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; S.-C. F. Zammetti, Omnytex Technologies, Pottstown, PA, USA D. Zeng, University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA; I. Gotham, New Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; D. Cremers, York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA; K. Komat- University of Bonn, Germany; Y. Wang, Beijing Institute of Tech- su, Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, AZ, USA; nology, China (Eds.) Practical JavaScript, DOM Scripting, C. Lynch, University of California, Davis, CA, USA; M. Thurmond, University of California, Davis, CA, USA; D. Madigan, Rutgers Uni- and Ajax Projects versity, New Brunswick, NJ, USA; B. Lober, University of Washing- Energy Minimization Methods ton, Seattle, WA, USA; J. Kvach, Lexington, VA. USA; H. Chen, Uni- in Computer Vision and Pattern versity of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA (Eds.) Recognition JavaScript is hugely poplar in modern web development, with good support in modern web browsers, Intelligence and Security 6th International Conference, EMMCVPR 2007, Ezhou, China, and improved development practices, leading to a lot Informatics: Biosurveillance August 27-29, 2007, Proceedings of interest in topics such as Ajax, and DOM Script- ing. This is the first pure "learn by example" book of Second NSF Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, New Brunswick, it's kind, providing 10 complete JavaScript projects NJ, USA, May 22, 2007, Proceedings that will save web developers countless hours of de- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of velopment time—they can learn from them and the 6th International Conference on Energy Mini- adapt for use in their own projects The projects all mization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of address common needs in modern web applica- Recognition, EMMCVPR 2007, held in Ezhou, Chi- the Second NSF Workshop on Biosurveillance Sys- tions, including a utility library, a validation frame- na in August 2007. The 22 revised full papers and 15 tems and Case Studies, BioSurveillance 2007, held in work, a GUI widget framework, a dynamic event cal- poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and New Brunswick, NJ, USA in May 2007, co-located endar application, a drag and drop shopping cart, selected from 140 submissions. The papers are orga- with the 2007 IEEE International Conference on In- and more! Over the course of the book, we cover nized in topical sections on algorithms, applications, telligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2007). The JavaScript best practices, Ajax techniques, and some image parsing, image processing, motion, shape, and 17 revised full papers, 6 revised short papers present- of the most popular JavaScript libraries, such as Pro- three-dimensional processing. ed together with 1 invited talk and 2 poster papers totype, Script.aculo.us, and the Yahoo YUI library. were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion Fields of interest Features in the book. Bringing together infectious disease in- Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Com- JavaScript (and related topics) is a big seller now, formatics (IDI) researchers and practitioners to dis- puter Vision; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); and for the foreseeable future Includes 10 complete cuss selected topics directly relevant to data sharing Computer Graphics; Algorithm Analysis and Prob- JavaScript applications that serve real world needs and analysis for real-time animal and public health lem Complexity; Data Mining and Knowledge Dis- for the reader to learn from and adapt in their own surveillance, the workshop covers a wide range of covery 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 Target groups and machine learning/data mining. Researchers and professionals such as Dojo, Prototype, etc Contents Fields of interest Type of publication Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Proceedings Part 1: Say Hello to my Little Friend: JavaScript!.- 1: A Brief History of JavaScript.- 2: The Seven Habits Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Computer of Successful JavaScript Developers.- Part 2: The Communication Networks; Computational Biolo- Due August 2007 projects.- 3: Hodge-Podge: Building an Extensible gy/Bioinformatics; Computers and Society; Manage- JavaScript Library.- 4: CalcTron 3000: A JavaScript ment of Computing and Information Systems 2007. XII, 494 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Comput- Calculator.- 5: Expanding CalcTron to Include Unit Target groups er Science, Vol. 4679) Softcover Conversion Capabilities.- 6: A JavaScript Validation Researchers and professionals Framework.- 7: JSDigester: Taking the pain out of 64,00 € Client-side XML.- 8: Widget Mania: A GUI Wid- ISBN 978-3-540-74195-4 Type of publication get Framework.- 9: Client-side Persistence: Work- Proceedings ing with Cookies and Local Shared Objects.- 10: Ajax Powered Event-planner site.- 11: [..] Due May 2007 Fields of interest Programming Techniques 2007. XI, 234 p. Also available online. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4506) Softcover Target groups Intermediate-advanced Web developers 42,00 € ISBN 978-3-540-72607-4 Type of publication Professional book

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K. Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA L.-J. Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, 134,95 € USA; J. Zhang, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA; H. Cai, ISBN 978-3-540-38281-2 IBM China Research Laboratory, Beijing, China Visual Languages and Applications Services Computing

Visual languages have long been a pursuit of effective communication between human and machine. With rapid advances of the Internet and Web tech- As the core technical foundation for the modern ser- nology, human-human communication through vices science, Services Computing covers the science, the Web or electronic mobile devices is becoming technology and business models of effectively creat- more and more prevalent. Visual Languages and Ap- ing and leveraging computing technology to bridge plications is a comprehensive introduction to dia- the gap between business and IT services. This book grammatical visual languages. This book discusses systematically introduces the fundamentals of this what visual programming languages are, and new discipline based on the latest research results how such languages and their underlying founda- in web services and Service-Oriented Architecture tions can be usefully applied to other fields in com- (SOA); business consulting methodology and utili- puter science. It also covers a broad range of con- ties; business process modeling, transformation, in- tents from the underlying theory of graph gram- tegration, and management; and services as software, mars to the applications in various domains. Point- software as service, and Web 2.0 for effective services ers to related topics and further readings are provid- delivery. Major solution architectures, technologies ed as well. Visual Languages and Applications is de- and research methods are discussed in the lifecycle signed as a secondary text book for advanced-lev- of services innovation research. This book provides el students in computer science and engineering. readers with new research and solution methods to This volume is also suitable for practitioners better create and manage business services, which is and researchers in industry as a professional book. the goal of Services Computing. Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang was the Chief Architect of Industrial Standards at Features IBM Software Group from 2004 to [..] Includes multimedia authoring and presentation First publication featuring visual languages including Features graph grammars Discusses Services Computing as a bridge between business and IT services Proposes an original life-cy- Contents cle view of the modern service industry Presents cur- Preface.- Introduction.- The Foundation - Graph rent innovative research results and industry solu- Grammars.- Spatial Specification.- Multimedia Au- tions in Services ComputingShows how to efficiently thoring and Presentation.- Digital Interoperation.- and effectively establish, operate, and manage busi- Software Architecture Design.- Web Engineering.- ness services using Services Computing Suggests re- Visual Language Generation.- Conclusions and Fu- search aims of Services Computing in SOA and Web ture Perspective.- Bibliography.- Appendix.- Index. services

Fields of interest Contents Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction of Services Com- Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and puting.- Part 1: Background of Services Computing.- Graphics; Multimedia Information Systems; Soft- Chapter 2. Enterprise and e-Business Evolution.- ware Engineering; Information Systems Applications Chapter 3. Web Services Modeling and Discovery.- (incl.Internet); Software Engineering/Programming Chapter 4. Services Value Chain Collaboration.- Part and Operating Systems 2: Open Architecture.- Chapter 5. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).- Chapter 6. SOA Solution De- Target groups sign.- Chapter 7. SOA Industry Solutions.- Chapter Professionals in industry 8. SOA Industry Standards.- Part 3: Business Process Management and Integration.- Chapter 9. Enterprise Type of publication Modeling.- Chapter 10. Business Process Modeling.- Monograph Chapter 11. Integration Services: [..]

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