Computer hardware

This 4-volume set, IFIP AICT 689-692, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.

The multi-volume set LNAI 14169 until  14175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2023, which took place in Turin, Italy, in September 2023.

This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2023, held in Jinan, China,during November 25 26, 2023.

The five-volume set, LNAI 158710 - 15874 constitutes the proceedings of the 29th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2025, held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, during June 10–13, 2025.

Ontological Engineering refers to the set of activities that concern the ontology development process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and the tool suites and languages that support them.

Robust control mechanisms customarily require knowledge of the system's describing equations which may be of the high order differential type.

In the future, everyday life in traffic will be intricately meshed with city life.

For generations, humans have fantasized about the ability to create devices that can see into a person's mind and thoughts, or to communicate and interact with machines through thought alone.

Cloud computing continues to emerge as a subject of substantial industrial and academic interest.

COOP 2010 is the 9th edition of the International Conference on Designing Cooperative Systems, being the second European conference in the field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work after ECSCW.

Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today.

The objects displayed on a table can take multiple forms.

The advances in sensor design have decreased the size, weight, and cost of sensors by orders of magnitude, yet with the increase of higher spatial and temporal re- lution and accuracy.

The frequency of new editions of this book is indicative of the rapid and trem- dous changes in the fields of computer and information sciences.

Network Science is the emerging field concerned with the study of large, realistic networks.

It is a general trend in computing that computers are becoming ever smaller and ever more interconnected.

This book focuses on the model and algorithm aspects of securing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks (UAV).

Modern computing engines-CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs-require extensive SRAM for cache designs, driven by the increasing demand for higher density, performance, and energy efficiency.

This book offers a systematic view of data services in heterogeneous wireless networks, from the perspectives of cause, governing rules, and impact of data's mobility on such networks.

The four-volume set LNAI 15819–15822 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in HCI, AI-HCI 2025, held as part of the 27th International Conference, HCI International 2025, which took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, June 22-17, 2025.

An oft-repeated adage among telecommunication providers goes, "e;There are ve things that matter: reliability, reliability, reliability, time to market, and cost.

Data networking now plays a major role in everyday life and new applications continue to appear at a blinding pace.

An increasing number of systems are exploiting mixed reality but to date there are no systematic methods, techniques or guidelines for the development of such systems.

"e;Robust Control for Uncertain Networked Control Systems with Random Delays"e; addresses the problem of analysis and design of networked control systems when the communication delays are varying in a random fashion.

Web-based Support Systems (WSS) are an emerging multidisciplinary research area in which one studies the support of human activities with the Web as the common platform,mediumandinterface.

The main objective of pervasive computing systems is to create environments where computers become invisible by being seamlessly integrated and connected into our everyday environment, where such embedded computers can then provide inf- mation and exercise intelligent control when needed, but without being obtrusive.

Information and communication technologies can provide new paradigms in healthcare provision.

Hopping, climbing and swimming robots, nano-size neural networks, motorless walkers, slime mould and chemical brains - "e;Artificial Life Models in Hardware"e; offers unique designs and prototypes of life-like creatures in conventional hardware and hybrid bio-silicon systems.

People go about their daily tasks with an in-built awareness of their social and physical environments.

The use of parallel programming and architectures is essential for simulating and solving problems in modern computational practice.

This book provides a broad overview of IP over WDM technologies, as seen by a group of experts participating in the e-Photon/ONeC and BONE Networks of Excellence funded within the VIth and VIIth Research Framework Programmes (FP6 and FP7) of the European Union.

Technology is meant to make life easier and to raise its quality.

It is a great pleasure to write a preface to this book.

Overview and Goals Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements.

Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction.

If we are to believe in Moore's law, then every passing day brings new and advanced changes to the technology arena.

Overview and Goals Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements.

Safety is a paradoxical system property.

The underlying theory on which much modern robust and nonlinear control is based can often be dif?

Information Visualization is a relatively young field that is acquiring more and more concensus in both academic and industrial environments.

Networked control systems (NCS) confer advantages of cost reduction, system diagnosis and flexibility, minimizing wiring and simplifying the addition and replacement of individual elements; efficient data sharing makes taking globally intelligent control decisions easier with NCS.

Problem Solving for Wireless Sensor Networks delivers a comprehensive review of the state of the art in the most important technological issues related to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN).

The birth of RFID technology is credited to the 1948 research paper by H.

In the last decade the remarkable advances in computing and networking have sparked an enormous interest in deploying automatic speech recognition in devices and networks, and the trend is accelerating.

Network calculus is a theory dealing with queuing systems found in computer networks.

Over the past several years, Internet users have changed in their usage p- terns from predominately client/server-based Web server interactions to also involving the use of more decentralized applications, where they contribute more equally in the role of the application as a whole, and further to d- tributed communities based around the Web.

Overview and Goals Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements.