Network hardware

This volume constitutes the first of three parts of the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, CCSIT 2010, held in Bangalore, India, in January 2011.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Security Protocols, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in April 2007.

The 7 revised full papers, 11 revised medium-length papers, 6 revised short, and 7 demo papers presented together with 10 poster/abstract papers describing late-breaking work were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions.

The advances in wireless communication technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices have enabled the realization of intelligent environments for people to c- municate with each other, interact with information-processing devices, and receive a wide range of mobile wireless services through various types of networks and systems everywhere, anytime.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Integrated Circuit and System Design, PATMOS 2010, held in Grenoble, France, in September 2010.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third European Conference, ServiceWave 2010, held in Ghent, Belgium, in December 2010.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, WINE 2010, held in Stanford, USA, in December 2010.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the KR4HC 2010 workshop held at ECAI in Lisbon, Portugal, in August 2010.

This volume collects the papers accepted for presentation at the 12th Int- national Conference on "e;Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems"e; (ACIVS 2010).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2011, held in Bangalore, India, during January 2-5, 2011.

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Future Gene- tion Communication and Networking (FGCN 2010) - one of the partnering events of the Second International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information Technology (FGIT 2010).

th Welcome to the Proceedings of WISE 2010 - the 11 International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering.

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Future Gene- tion Communication and Networking (FGCN 2010) - one of the partnering events of the Second International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information Te- nology (FGIT 2010).

This two-volume set (CCIS 134 and CCIS 135) constitutes the refereedproceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing andInformation Science, ICICIS2011, held in Chongqing, China, in January2011.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the InternationalConference on Advances in Computing Communications and Control, ICAC32011, held in Mumbai, India, in January 2011.

Why are the many highly capable autonomous robots that have been promised for novel applications driven by society, industry, and research not available - day despite the tremendous progress in robotics science and systems achieved during the last decades?

The idea of telematics appeared more than a decade ago and it is possible to define it, in a general and simple way, as a communication system for collecting, processing and distributing information.

MobiSec 2010 was the second ICST conference on security and privacy in mobile information and communication systems.

The 4th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA 2010) took place in Big Island, Hawaii, USA, December 18-20, 2010.

Ubiquitous sensors, devices, networks and information are paving the way toward a smart world in which computational intelligence is distributed throughout the physical environment to provide reliable and relevant services to people.

With the ever-growing power of generating, transmitting, and collecting huge amounts of data, information overloadis nowan imminent problemto mankind.

With the ever-growing power of generating, transmitting, and collecting huge amounts of data, information overloadis nowan imminent problemto mankind.

Securing complex and networked systems has become increasingly important as these systems play an indispensable role in modern life at the turn of the - formation age.

Knowledge Management and Knowledge Engineering is a fascinating ?

The present economic and social environment has given rise to new situations within which companies must operate.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th provable security conference held in Malacca, Malaysia in October 2010.

It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS 111 proceedings of the Third World Summit on the Knowledge Society--WSKS 2010--that was organized by the International Scientific Council for the Knowledge Society, and supported by the Open Research Society, NGO, (http://www.

Image Processing and Communications represents an exciting and dynamic part of the information area.

The 36th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG 2010) took place in Zar' os, Crete, Greece, June 28-30, 2010.

The 8th IFIP Workshop on Software Technologies for Embedded and Ubiq- tous Systems (SEUS 2010) in Waidhofen/Ybbs, Austria, October 13-15, 2010, succeeded the seven previous workshops in Newport Beach, USA (2009); Capri, Italy (2008); Santorini, Greece (2007); Gyeongju, Korea (2006); Seattle, USA (2005); Vienna, Austria (2004); and Hokodate, Japan (2003); installing SEUS as a successfully established workshop in the ?

We are pleased to welcome you to the eleventh edition of the Middleware c- ference.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th InternationalConference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2010, held in Shanghai, China,November 2010.