Network hardware

This year the SOFSEM conference is coming back to Milovy in Moravia to th be held for the 26 time.

 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2003, held in Wollongong, Australia, in July 2003.

This book is the third official archival publication devoted to RoboCup and documents the achievements presented at the Third Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, Robo-Cup-99, held in Stockholm, Sweden in July/August 1999.

Informatics - 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead presents a unique collection of expository papers on major current issues in the field of computer science and information technology.

Welcome to GRID 2000, the first annual IEEE/ACM international workshop on grid computing sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

The ninth in the series of IMA Conferences on Cryptography and Coding was held (as ever) at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, from 16-18 Dec- ber 2003.

Artificial intelligence has, traditionally focused on solving human-centered problems like natural language processing or common-sense reasoning.

The international conference on current trends in the theory and practice of informatics SOFSEM 2000 was held 25 November-2 December 2000 in the c- ference facilities of the Dev?

The papers in this volume were selected for presentation at the Eleventh Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2000), held on 18{20 December, 2000 at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

Euro-Par - the European Conference on Parallel Computing - is an international conference series dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel computing.

Presently, in our world, visual information dominates.

The papers in this volume were selected for presentation at the Fourth Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON'98), held on August 12-14, 1998, in Taipei.

This book presents the revised version of seven tutorials given at the NETWORKING 2002 Conference in Pisa, Italy in May 2002.

Concepts like ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence that exploit - creasingly interconnected networks and mobility put new requirements on data management.

Johannes Buchmann is internationally recognized as one of the leading figures in areas of computational number theory, cryptography and information security.

COST - the acronym for European COoperation in Science and Technology - is the oldest and widest European intergovernmental network for cooperation in - search.

The application of formal methods to security protocol analysis has attracted increasing attention in the past two decades, and recently has been sh- ing signs of new maturity and consolidation.

In 1992 we initiated a research project on large scale distributed computing systems (LSDCS).

SOFSEM 2001, the International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics, was held on November 24 - December 1, 2001 in the ?

EUROCRYPT 2001, the 20th annual Eurocrypt conference, was sponsored by the IACR, the International Association for Cryptologic Research, see http://www.

Quality of Service continues to be an active research eld, especially in the networking community.

The Sixth International Financial Cryptography Conference was held during March 11-14, 2002, in Southampton, Bermuda.

Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems (IDMS) and Protocols for Mul- media Systems (PROMS) have been two successful series of international events bringing together researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry in all areas of multimedia systems.

The 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004) was held Nov- ber 7-11, 2004 in Hiroshima, Japan.

Sincerely welcome to proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business, Zaragoza, Spain, held from August 30th to September 1st, 2004.

These Transactions publish archival papers in the broad area of Petri nets and other models of concurrency, ranging from theoretical work to tool support and industrial applications.

The second International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2004) was sponsored and organized by ICISA (the International Communications and Information Security Association).

ECOOP is the premier forum in Europe for bringing together practitioners, - searchers, and students to share their ideas and experiences in a broad range of disciplines woven with the common thread of object technology.

Transactions on HiPEAC aims at the timely dissemination of research contributions in computer architecture and compilation methods for high-performance embedded computer systems.

This volume brings together the advanced research results obtained by the European COST Action 2102: "e;Cross Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication"e;.

We would like to present, with great pleasure, the first volume of a new journal, Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence (TCCI).

The papers in this volume were presented at PARA 2000, the Fifth International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing.

We welcome you to Coordination '99, the third in a series of conferences d- icated to an important perspective on the development of complex software systems.

The objective of the workshops associated with the ER'99 18th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling is to give participants access to high level presentations on specialized, hot, or emerging scientific topics.

The International Conference on Networking (ICN01) is the first conference in its series aimed at stimulating technical exchange in the emerging and important field of networking.

Welcome to the 8th International Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG 2002)!

ICICS 2001, the Third International Conference on Information and Commu- cations Security, was held in Xi'an, China, 13-16 November 2001.

Welcome to the second IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (IEEE PCM 2001) held in Zhongguanchun, Beijing, China, October 22 24, 2001.

Developments in network and switching technologies have made telecommu- cations systems and services far more data intensive.

We welcome you to the Second International Conference on E commerce and Web Technology (ECWEB 2001) held in conjunction with DEXA 2001 in Munich, Germany.