Computer hardware

Biomedical engineering and medical informatics are challenging and rapidly growing areas.

This volume contains the workshopproceedings of the accompanying workshops of the 14th Financial Cryptograpy and Data Security International Conference 2010, held on Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, January 25-28, 2010.

This book presents the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Trust, P- vacy and Security in Digital Business (TrustBus 2010), held in Bilbao, Spain during August 30-31, 2010.

Data warehousing and knowledge discovery has been widely accepted as a key te- nology for enterprises and organizations to improve their abilities in data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge from data.

The 6th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams - Diagrams 2010 - was held in Portland, USA in August 2010.

In front of you are the proceedings of the First International Conference on Electronic Government and Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS.

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2010 International Conferences on Grid and D- tributed Computing (GDC 2010), and Control and Automation (CA 2010) - two of the partnering events of the Second International Mega-Conference on Future Gene- tion Information Technology (FGIT 2010).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium, PETS 2010, held in Berlin, Germany in July 2010.

The 9th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS 2010) was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during December 12-14, 2010.

As information technology (IT) becomes specialized and fragmented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics have common threads and because of this, advances in one s- discipline may transmit to another.

The Third International Conference on Network Security and Applications (CNSA-2010) focused on all technical and practical aspects of security and its applications for wired and wireless networks.

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on u- and e-Service, Science and Technology (UNESST 2010) - one of the partnering events of the Second International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information Te- nology (FGIT 2010).

These are the proceedings of the tenth event of the Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM held in Berlin (www.

2010 was the first time that the International Conference on Software Process was held autonomously and not co-located with a larger conference.

On behalf of the NDT 2010 conference, the Program Committee and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, we welcome you to the proceedings of the Second International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies' (NDT 2010).

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

On behalf of the NDT 2010 conference, the Program Committee and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, we welcome you to the proceedings of the Second International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies' (NDT 2010).

Security-enriched urban computing and smart grids are areas that attracted many a- demic and industry professionals to research and develop.

Beginning with the first event in 2002, the International Conference on Wired/ Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC) has continuously been established as a highly selective conference focusing on integration and co-existence of rapidly dev- oping wireless network technologies and their applications related to the Internet.

The continuous and intensive development of computer science results in the fast progress of computer networks.

Over the last decade, we have witnessed a growing dependency on information technologyresultingina wide rangeofnew opportunities.

It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS proceedings of the First International Conference on Reforming Education, Quality of Teaching and Technology-Enhanced Learning: Learning Technologies, Quality of Education, Educational Systems, Evaluation, Pedagogies--TECH-EDUCATION 2010, Which was a part of the World Summit on the Knowledge Society Conference Series.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST), held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Berlin, Germany, June 21-23, 2010.

The advancementof the softwareindustry has hada substantialimpact notonly onproductivityandonGDPgrowthglobally,butalsoonourdailyworkandlife.

This volume contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Inf- mation Computing and Applications (ICICA 2010), which was held in Tangshan, China, October 15-18, 2010.

It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS 112 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.

th I3E 2010 marked the 10 anniversary of the IFIP Conference on e-Business, e- Services, and e-Society, continuing a tradition that was invented in 1998 during the International Conference on Trends in Electronic Commerce, TrEC 1998, in Hamburg (Germany).