Applied computing

It is a great pleasure to present the proceedings of the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2007).

This volume contains papers presented at the International Conference on Software Process (ICSP 2008) held in Leipzig, Germany, during May 10-11, 2008.

This series constitutes a collection of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Medical Imaging and Informatics (MIMI2007), held during August 14-16, in Beijing, China.

We are proud to present the proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007) which, following Pisa (1997), Heraklion (1998), Paris (1999), Lisbon (2000), Da- stadt (2001), Rome (2002), Trondheim (2003), Bath (2004), Vienna (2005) and Alicante (2006), took place on September 16-21, 2007 in Budapest, Hungary.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG 2007).

This year the CDVE conference celebratedits fourth annual eventin an exciting city-Shanghai, China.

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2007 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2007) held in Dalian, China.

The 4th International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality, MIAR 2008, was held at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan during August 1-2, 2008.

EGOV 2007 was the sixth edition of this highly successful series of annual int- national conferences dedicated to electronic government research and practice.

This is the eighth year that the Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS) workshops have been held.

* Web semantics and semi-structured data * Semantic caching * Data warehousing and semantic data mining * Spatial, temporal, multimedia and multimodal semantics * Semantics in data visualization * Semantic services for mobile users * Supporting tools * Applications of semantic-driven approaches These topics are to be understood as specifically related to semantic issues.

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Dagstuhl Seminar "e;Negotiation and Market Engineering"e; held for one week in November 2006, in Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.

This volume contains papers presented at the Fourth International Workshop on Mathematical Methods, Models and Architectures for Computer Network Security (MMM-ACNS 2007) held in St.

The incursion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in health care entails evident bene?

Following from the very successful First KES Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems - Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2007), held in Wroclaw, Poland, 31 May-1 June 2007, the second event in the KES-AMSTA symposium series (KES-AMSTA 2008) was held in Incheon, Korea, March 26-28, 2008.

The research of holonic and agent-based systems is developing rapidly, as is the community around this R&D topic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2007, held in Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007 in conjunction with Dexa 2007.

This volume contains the proceedings of the seventh International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2007), which was held in Como (Italy) in July 2007.

ICDM / MLDM Medaillie (limited edition) Meissner Porcellan, the "e;White Gold"e; of King August the Strongest of Saxonia ICDM 2007 was the seventh event in the Industrial Conference on Data Mining series and was held in Leipzig (www.

The 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI Inter- tional 2007, was held in Beijing, P.

We are glad to present in this volume the proceedings of the ninth edition of Information Hiding (IH 2007).

The main goal of the EUNICE Summer School is to give young researchers,and particularly PhD students, the opportunity to present their work at an inter- tional level.

Reliable Software Technologies is an annual series of international conferences devoted to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of reliable software technologies.

These proceedings contain the papers accepted at the 2007 European PKI Workshop: Theory and Practice (EuroPKI 2007), held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, during June 28-30, and hosted by the Computer Science Department of the University of Balearic Islands (UIB) with the support of the Balearic Islands Government and the Private Law Department at UIB.

The 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI Inter- tional 2007, was held in Beijing, P.

The 20th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Im- ing(IPMI)washeldduringJuly2-6,2007,atRolducAbbey,locatedinKerkrade in the south of the Netherlands.

The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is one of the leading international conferences in digital libraries research.

The advent of the Internet has opened up a wealth of applications, but also given rise to a host of new problems.

Persuasive technology is the general class of technologies that purposefully apply psychological principles of persuasion - principles of credibility, trust, reciprocity, authority and the like - in interactive media, in the service of changing their users' attitudes and behavior.