Applied computing

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 17th Annual International Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2010, held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in August 2010.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th InternationalConference on Information Systems, Technology and Management, ICISTM2011, held in Gurgaon, India, in March 2011.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post proceedings of two international workshops, the 5th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2010, and the 3rd International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2010, collocated with the ESORICS 2010 symposium in Athens, Greece, in September 2010.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2010, held in Liverpool, UK, in September 2010 as part of the ALGO 2010 conference event.

The two-volume set LNCS 6496 and 6497 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2010, held in Shanghai, China, during November 7-11, 2010.

The two-volume set LNCS 6496 and 6497 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2010, held in Shanghai, China, during November 7-11, 2010.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the CAiSE Forum from the 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2010), held in Hammamet, Tunisia, June 9, 2010.

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2010 International Conferences on Security Te- nology (SecTech 2010), and Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (DRBC 2010) - two of the partnering events of the Second International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information Technology (FGIT 2010).

Welcome to the Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications (ASEA 2010) - one of the partnering events of the Second International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information Technology (FGIT 2010).

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2010 International Conferences on Signal Proce- ing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (SIP 2010), and Multimedia, C- puter Graphics and Broadcasting (MulGraB 2010) - two of the partnering events of the Second International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information Te- nology (FGIT 2010).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of workshops, held at the 29th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2010, in Vancouver, Canada, in November 2010.

This volume comprises the 6th IFIP International Conference on Intelligent Infor- tion Processing.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th InternationalConference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2010,held in Perpignan, France, in October 2010.

The abundance of information and increase in computing power currently enable researchers to tackle highly complicated and challenging computational problems.

This volume comprises the proceedings of the Third International Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EuroMed 2010) on the historical island of Cyprus.

BlogTalk, the International Conference on Social Software, brings together different groups of people using and advancing the Internet and its usage: technical and conceptual developers, researchers with interdisciplinary backgrounds, and practitioners alike.

"e;Convergence"e; is defined as the intertwinement of species or technologies.

The tenth campaign of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for European languages was held from January to September 2009.

The annual International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability (ICGS3) is an established platform in which security, safety and sustainability issues can be examined from several global perspectives through dialogue between acad- ics, students, government representatives, chief executives, security professionals, and research scientists from the United Kingdom and from around the globe.

The IDEAL conference has become a unique, established and broad interdisciplinary forum for experts, researchers and practitioners in many fields to interact with each other and with leading academics and industries in the areas of machine learning, information processing, data mining, knowledge management, bio-informatics, neu- informatics, bio-inspired models, agents and distributed systems, and hybrid systems.

The papers in this volume comprise the refereed proceedings of the conference Arti- cial Intelligence in Theory and Practice (IFIP AI 2010), which formed part of the 21st World Computer Congress of IFIP, the International Federation for Information Pr- essing (WCC-2010), in Brisbane, Australia in September 2010.

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It is our great pleasure to present the proceedings of the second Russia-Taiwan Symposium on Methods and Tools of Parallel Programming (MTPP 2010).

For almost a decade the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.

For more than a decade, ad hoc wireless networks have galvanized the interest and sparked the imagination of researchers.

The discipline of Services Science, introduced by IBM in 2002, has emerged and matured in a true transdisciplinary atmosphere.

This book contains the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-agent Systems (LADS 2009), which took place during September 7-9, 2009 in Turin, Italy.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th Annual IFIP WG 11.

This volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series comprises th the scienti?

Advanced Science and Technology, Advanced Communication and Networking, Information Security and Assurance, Ubiquitous Computing and Multimedia Appli- tions are conferences that attract many academic and industry professionals.

Simulation and Decision Making, Multi-Agent Applications, Management and e-Business, Mobile Agents and Robots, and Machine Learning.

Welcome to the Proceedings of ICCHP 2010!