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Architecting dependable systems III
As software systems become ubiquitous, the issues of dependability become more and more crucial. Given 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 comes as a result of an effort to bring together the research communities of software architectures and dependability. The papers are organised in topical sections on architectures for dependable services, monitoring and reconfiguration in software architectures, dependability support for software architectures, architectural evaluation, and architectural abstractions for dependability
Analysis and Design of Information Systems : Third ed.
This third edition of the successful Analysis and Design of Information Systems provides a comprehensive introduction and user-friendly survey to all aspects of business transformation and analysis, and aims to provide the complex set of tools covering all types of systems, including legacy, transactional, database, and web/e-commerce topics.
An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans : The Case Study of Kavala
Presents the town of Kavala in Northern Greece as an example of Ottoman urban and residential development, covering the long period of Kavala’s expansion over five centuries under Ottoman rule. Kavala was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1387 to 1912. In the middle of the sixteenth century, Ibrahim Pasha, grand vizier of Suleiman the Magnificent, contributed to the town's prosperity and growth by the construction of an aqueduct. The Ottomans also rebuilt and extended the existing Byzantine fortress.
Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life : Foreword by Emile Aarts
Originating from the Workshop on Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life held at the Miramar Congress Center, San Sebastian, Spain, in July 2005, this book is devoted to the cognitive aspects of ambient intelligence. The 15 carefully reviewed and revised articles presented are organized in topical sections on human-centric computing, ambient interfaces, and architectures for ambient intelligence.
Ambient Intelligence ; European Conference, AmI 2007, Darmstadt, Germany, November 7-10, 2007, Proceedings
This book presented sections on mobility and sensing, applications of AmI, activity and location sensing, AmI and artificial intelligence, AmI middleware and infrastructure, and interaction with the environment. The book is rounded off by a section on case studies and lessons learned, presenting a high level selection of current research reports and papers that reflect the most important activities of current ambient intelligence research.
Algorithmic applications in management ; 1st international conference, AAIM 2005, Xian, China, June 22-25, 2005, Proceedings
The papers in this volume were presented at the 1st International Conference onAlgorithmic Applications in Management (AAIM 2005), in China. The topics cover algorithmic applications in most management-related areas.including Programming Techniques Business Strategy/Leadership Theory of Computation Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity Data Structures Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science
Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science; First International Conference, CALCO 2005, Swansea, UK, September 3-6, 2005, Proceedings
CALCO, the Conference on Algebra and Coal-gebra in Computer Science, was created to bring together researchers and practitio-ners to exchange new results related to foundational aspects, and both traditional and emerging uses of algebras and coalgebras in computer science. CALCO 2005 was the first instance of this new conference. The interest that it generated in the scientific community suggests that it will not be the last. Indeed, it attracted as many as 62 submissions covering a wide range of topics roughly divided into two areas: Algebras and Coalgebras as Mathematical Objects: Automata and languages; categorical semantics; hybrid, probabilistic, and timed systems; inductive and coin-ductive methods; modal logics; relational systems and term rewriting.
AI, data, and digitalization : First International Symposium, SAIDD 2023, Sogndal, Norway, May 9–10, 2023, Revised Selected Papers
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Digitalization allow us more than ever beforeto make use of the data our society and public and private sectors generate every day.Institutions around the world are increasingly turning to such methods and technologiesto help them solve complex problems, promote efficiency and improve performance anddecision-making.
AI in drug discovery
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First international workshop on ai in Drug Discovery, AIDD 2024, held as a part of the 33rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2024, in Lugano, Switzerland, on September 19, 2024. These papers focus on various aspects of the rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery in chemistry, including Big Data and advanced Machine Learning, eXplainable AI (XAI), Chemoinformatics, Use of deep learning to predict molecular properties, Modeling and prediction of chemical reaction data and Generative models.
Agent-mediated electronic commerce : Designing trading agents and mechanisms ; AAMAS 2005 Workshop, AMEC 2005, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 25, 2005, and IJCAI 2005 Workshop, TADA 2005, Edinburgh, UK, August 1, 2005, Selected and Revised Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, AMEC VII 2005, held in Utrecht, Netherlands in July 2005, as part of AAMAS 2005, and the third Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, TADA 2005, held in Edinburgh, UK in August 2005, in the course of the IJCAI 2005 conference meetings. The seven revised full AMEC 2005 papers presented were carefully selected.
Affective computing and intelligent interaction ; 2nd International Conference, ACII 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 12-14, 2007, Proceedings
Organized in topical sections on affective facial expression and recognition, affective body expression and recognition, affective speech processing, affective text and dialogue processing, recognising affect using physiological measures, computational models of emotion and theoretical foundations, affective databases, annotations, tools and languages, affective sound and music processing, affective interactions: systems and applications, as well as evaluating affective systems.
Aeronomy of the Middle Atmosphere : Chemistry and Physics of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere
Provides a comprehensive view of the chemical, dynamical, and radiative processes that affect ozone and other chemicals in the stratosphere and mesosphere. Over recent decades our understanding of these processes has increased dramatically. The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole has shown that human activities can lead to major changes in our environment.
Advances in Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization
The book gathers contributions related to the following topics: theoretical developments in metaheuristics; adaptation of discrete metaheuristics to continuous optimization; performance comparisons of metaheuristics; cooperative methods combining different approaches; parallel and distributed metaheuristics for multiobjective optimization; software implementations; and real-world applications.
Advances in Image and Video Technology ; 2nd Pacific Rim Symposium, PSIVT 2007 Santiago, Chile, December 17-19, 2007 Proceedings
The aim of the symposium was to promote and disseminate ongoing research on multi- dia hardware and image sensor technologies, graphics and visualization, image analysis, multiple view imaging and processing, computer vision applications, image and video coding, and multimedia processing. The volume is a realization of the ongoing success of the Pacific Rim Symposium on Video and Image Te- nology
Advances in grid computing - EGC 2005 ; European grid conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 14-16, 2005, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the proceedings of the European Grid Con-ference 2005, held at the Science Park Amsterdam The aim of the European Grid Conference was to be the premier event onGrid computing in Europe in 2005, focusing on all aspects of Grid computingand bringing together participants from research and industry. In this book you find the final versions of these accepted papers.
Advances in databases and information Systems ; Vol. 4152 : 10th East European Conference, ADBIS 2006, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 3-7, 2006, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2006, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in September 2006. The 29 high-quality papers were selected in a rigorous reviewing process out of 126 submissions. The papers address a wide range of hot research issues and are organized in topical sections on: XML databases and semantic web, materialized views, database modelling, web information systems and middleware, query processing and indexing, data mining and clustering, and modelling and design issues.
Advances in biometrics ; International conference, ICB 2006, Hong Kong, China, January 5-7, 2006, Proceedings
Biometrics has emerged as a reliable person identification method that can over-come some of the limitations of the traditional automatic personal identificationmethods. With significant advances in biometric technology and a correspondingincrease in the number of applications incorporating biometrics, it is essentialthat we bring together researchers from academia and industry as well as practi-tioners to share ideas, problems and solutions for the development and successfuldeployment of state-of-the-art biometric systems.The International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2006) followed the success-ful International Conference on Biometric Authentication (ICBA 2004) to facil-itate this interaction. ICB 2006 received a large number of high-quality researchpapers. After a careful review of 192 submissions, 104 papers were acceptedfor presentation.
Advanced Techniques in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
This explosion is a result of the growing use of electronic media. But what is data mining (DM)? A Web search using the Google search engine retrieves many (really many) definitions of data mining. We include here a few interesting ones. One of the simpler definitions is: “As the term suggests, data mining is the analysis of data to establish relationships and identify patterns” [1]. It focuses on identifying relations in data. Our next example is more elaborate: An information extraction activity whose goal is to discover hidden facts contained in databases. Using a combination of machine learning, statistical analysis, modeling techniques and database technology, data mining finds patterns and subtle relationships in data and infers rules that allow the prediction of future results. Typical applications include market segmentation, customer profiling, fraud detection, evaluation of retail promotions, and credit risk analysis .
Advanced Information Systems Engineering ; 14th International Conference, CAiSE 2002 Toronto, Canada, May 27-31, 2002 Proceedings
The explosive growth of the Internet and the Web have created a never-growing demand for information systems, and ever-growing challenges for Information Systems Engineering. The series of Conferences on Advanced Information S- tems Engineering (CAiSE) was launched in Scandinavia by Janis Bubenko and Arne Solvberg in 1989, became an important European conference, and was held annually in major European sites throughout the 1990s. Now, in its 14th year, CAiSE was held for the first time outside Europe, showcasing international research on information systems and their engineering. Not surprisingly, this year the conference enjoyed unprecedented attention.
Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems ; 9th International Conference, ACIVS 2007, Delft, The Netherlands, August 28-31, 2007, Proceedings
This volume collects the papers accepted for presentation at the Ninth International Conference on “Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems”The ACIVS conference was established in 1999 in Baden-Baden (Germany) as part of a large m ulticonference. Since then ACIVS has been developed as an independent scientific event and has maintained the tradition of being a single track event with oral presentations of 25 minutes each, even though the number of participants has been steadily growing every year. The conference currently attracts computer scientists from more than 20 countries, mostly from Europe, Australia and Japan, but also from the USA, Asia and the Middle East.
