Computer hardware

FAY SUDWEEKS AND CELIA ROMM At the tum of the twenty-fIrst century, global communication is changing the fabric of society at a rate never experienced before.

Computer-based diagnostic systems are among the most successful applications of knowledge-based systems (KBS) technology.

The new information services provided worldwide through the Internet are fostering the upgrade of existing access and transmission plants, and the de- ployment of new ones.

Evolutionary Web Development examines the evolution of Web information systems, paying particular attention to the emergent attributes of electronic markets.

Currently we are at the beginnings of widespread wireless connectivity and ubiquitous computing.

Network Algebra considers the algebraic study of networks and their behaviour.

This book is a translation ofthe accomplishment ofthe French engineer Ammar Attoui, who has set out to bring together the works of computer scientists and automotive engineers.

This book is about people and skilled work.

Multimedia Internet Broadcasting: Quality, Technology and Interface studies one of the most exciting aspects of contemporary Internet use and research: the broadcasting of multimedia content.

The area of networked learning (learning in which information and communications technology (ICT) is used to promote connections between people and resources) is wide and growing in importance, especially in further and higher education.

Components of System Safety contains the invited papers presented at the tenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held in Southampton, February 2002.

Ben Shneiderman The turbulence generated by the integration of information technology into higher education provokes more conversations than the weather.

Information Spaces: The Architecture of Cyberspace is aimed at students taking information management as a minor in their course as well as those who manage document collections but who are not professional librarians.

Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) was the first to carry out substantial re- search in the field now known as Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Ann Macintosh Napier University, UK The papers in this volume are the refereed application papers presented at ES2001, the Twenty-fIrst SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied ArtifIcial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 200 I.

This is one of the shorter books in the 21 volume Practitioner Book Series, but this is entirely appropriate for a text on the ubiquitous topic of Quality.

Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing is a unique survey of research work in high-level parallel and distributed computing over the past ten years.

Information technology has revolutionized the way business is conducted, especially since the adoption of the Internet by the business community over the last decade.

A new economy is emerging.

This publication has grown out of two frustrations.

This book provides an overview of interfaces to social information spaces, illustrated by several contemporary systems including Usenet News and CoWebs.

Mapping Scientific Frontiers examines the history and the latest developments in the quest for knowledge visualization from an interdisciplinary perspective, ranging from theories of invisible colleges and competing paradigms, to practical applications of visualization techniques for capturing intellectual structures, and the rise and fall of scientific paradigms.

The recent explosive growth of our ability to generate and store data has created a need for new, scalable and efficient, tools for data analysis.

Asynchronous System-on-Chip Interconnect describes the use of an entirely asynchronous system-bus for the modular construction of integrated circuits.

Artificial Intelligence is concerned with producing devices that help or replace human beings in their daily activities.

In the last decade a dynamic development in positive systems has been observed.

Aimed primarily at final year undergraduate courses and MSc courses on Information Systems, Management of Information Systems and Design of Information Systems, this textbook aims to provide answers to five questions;What is security?

In the usual process of control system design, the assumption is made that the controller is implemented exactly.

Ann Macintosh Napier University, UK The papers in this volume are the refereed application papers presented at ES2000, the Twentieth SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2000.

The two-volume set LNCS 14634 and 14635 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2024, held as part of EvoStar 2024, in Aberystwyth, UK, April 3-5, 2024, and co-located with the EvoStar events, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART, and EuroGP.

As our world becomes increasingly digital, electronics underpin nearly every industry.

This two-volume set LNCS 15263 and LNCS 15264 constitutes the refereed proceedings of eleven International Workshops which were held in conjunction with the 29th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2024, held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, during September 16-20, 2024.

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and the emergence of various new sensors, autonomous driving has grown in popularity in recent years.

The 13-volume set LNCS 14425-14437 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2023, held in Xiamen, China, during October 13-15, 2023.

This eleven-volume set LNCS 14815 - 14825 constitutes the refereed workshop proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2024, held at Hanoi, Vietnam, during July 1-4, 2024.

This 13-volume set LNCS 14862-14874 constitutes - in conjunction with the 6-volume set LNAI 14875-14880 and the two-volume set LNBI 14881-14882 - the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2024, held in Tianjin, China, during August 5-8, 2024.

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, ISAIM 2024, and the 22nd International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, IWCIA 2024, held in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, during January 8-10, 2024.

This five-volume set LNCS 14684-14688 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Human Computer Interaction thematic area of the 26 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2024, held in Washington, DC, USA, during June 29 - July 4, 2024.

This 13-volume set LNCS 14862-14874 constitutes - in conjunction with the 6-volume set LNAI 14875-14880 and the two-volume set LNBI 14881-14882 - the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2024, held in Tianjin, China, during August 5-8, 2024.

The three-volume set LNCS 14801, 14802, and 14803 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Euro-Par 2024, which took place in Madrid, Spain, during August 26-30, 2024.

This five-volume set LNCS 14684-14688 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Human Computer Interaction thematic area of the 26 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2024, held in Washington, DC, USA, during June 29 - July 4, 2024.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2023, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during February 16-18, 2023.

The 9 volume set LNCS 15484-15492 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2024, which took place in Kolkata, India, during December 9-13, 2024.

The five-volume set CCIS 1832-1836 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2023, which was held as a hybrid event in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2023.

The two-volume set ICAISC 2024 15164, 15165 and 15166 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2024, held in Zakopane, Poland, during June 16-20, 2024.

This four-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence, xAI 2024, held in Valletta, Malta, during July 17-19, 2024.

The eight-volume set, CCIS 2522-2529, constitutes the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2025, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, during June 22–27, 2025.

This eleven-volume set LNCS 14815 - 14825 constitutes the refereed workshop proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2024, held at Hanoi, Vietnam, during July 1-4, 2024.