Algorithms and data structures

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

These days, the nature of services and the volume of demand in the telecommu- nication industry is changing radically, with the replacement of analog transmis- sion and traditional copper cables by digital technology and fiber optic transmis- sion equipment.

At first sight discrete and fractional programming techniques appear to be two com- pletely unrelated fields in operations research.

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Continuous Media Databases brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

Security of Data and Transaction Processing brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking - Attacks and Countermeasures deals with information hiding.

Cellular Automata Transforms describes a new approach to using the dynamical system, popularly known as cellular automata (CA), as a tool for conducting transforms on data.

This book is a result of the ISD'99, Eight International Conference on Infonnation Systems Development-Methods and Tools, Theory, and Practice held August 11-13, 1999 in Boise, Idaho, USA.

Biometrics-based authentication and identification are emerging as the most reliable method to authenticate and identify individuals.

Information security is receiving a great deal of attention as computers increasingly process more and more sensitive information.

Marketing management support systems are designed to make marketing managers more effective decision makers in this electronic era.

Software product lines are emerging as a critical new paradigm for software development.

Knowledge discovery is an area of computer science that attempts to uncover interesting and useful patterns in data that permit a computer to perform a task autonomously or assist a human in performing a task more efficiently.

Climate and Environmental Database Systems contains the papers presented at the Second International Workshop on Climate and Environmental Database Systems, held November 21-23, 1995, in Hamburg, Germany.

Making Hypermedia Work: A User's Guide to HyTime discusses how the HyTime standard can be applied to real world problems of navigating from here to there in collections of documents.

Reversible grammar allows computational models to be built that are equally well suited for the analysis and generation of natural language utterances.

For any research field to have a lasting impact, there must be a firm theoretical foundation.

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Temporal databases have been an active research topic for at least fifteen years.

Video and Image Processing in Multimedia Systems treats a number of critical topics in multimedia systems, with respect to image and video processing techniques and their implementations.

Scheduling is a resource allocation problem which exists in virtually every type of organization.

The premise behind developing powerful declarative database languages is compelling: by enabling users to specify their queries (and their integrity constraints) in a clear, non-operational way, they make the user's task easier, and provide the database system with more opportunities for optimization.

Global optimization is concerned with the computation and characterization of global optima of nonlinear functions.

Advances in technology are making massive data sets common in many scientific disciplines, such as astronomy, medical imaging, bio-informatics, combinatorial chemistry, remote sensing, and physics.

Content-based image retrieval is the set of techniques for retrieving relevant images from an image database on the basis of automatically- derived image features.

Data Management and Internet Computing for Image/Pattern Analysis focuses on the data management issues and Internet computing aspect of image processing and pattern recognition research.

Design is an art form in which the designer selects from a myriad of alternatives to bring an "e;optimum"e; choice to a user.

This work is a revision of the doctoral dissertation of Eduardo Mena pre- sented to the Department of Computer Science and System Engineering at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in November 1998 [Mena 98].

Recent Advances in RSA Cryptography surveys the most important achievements of the last 22 years of research in RSA cryptography.

Information Organization and Databases: Foundations of Data Organization provides recent developments of information organization technologies that have become crucial not only for data mining applications and information visualization, but also for treatment of semistructured data, spatio-temporal data and multimedia data that are not necessarily stored in conventional DBMSs.

In a global and increasingly competitive market, where organizations are driven by information, the search for ways to transform data into true knowledge is critical to a business's success.

Multimedia Mining: A Highway to Intelligent Multimedia Documents brings together experts in digital media content analysis, state-of-art data mining and knowledge discovery in multimedia database systems, knowledge engineers and domain experts from diverse applied disciplines.

Mining Spatio-Temporal Information Systems, an edited volume is composed of chapters from leading experts in the field of Spatial-Temporal Information Systems and addresses the many issues in support of modeling, creation, querying, visualizing and mining.

Foundations of Web Technology covers the basics of Web technology while being specialized enough to add value to experienced professionals working in this field.

Traditionally, scientific fields have defined boundaries, and scientists work on research problems within those boundaries.

Neuroscience Databases: A Practical Guide is the first book providing a comprehensive overview of these increasingly important databases.

This book is about Granular Computing (GC) - an emerging conceptual and of information processing.

Content-Based Image And Video Retrieval addresses the basic concepts and techniques for designing content-based image and video retrieval systems.

Data mining is becoming a pervasive technology in activities as diverse as using historical data to predict the success of a marketing campaign, looking for patterns in financial transactions to discover illegal activities or analyzing genome sequences.

Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web explores techniques for applying knowledge discovery techniques to different web data sources (such as HTML documents, dictionaries, etc.

Based on ideas from Support Vector Machines (SVMs), Learning To Classify Text Using Support Vector Machines presents a new approach to generating text classifiers from examples.

Lattices are geometric objects that can be pictorially described as the set of intersection points of an infinite, regular n-dimensional grid.

High Performance Computing Systems and Applications contains a selection of fully refereed papers presented at the 14th International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications held in Victoria, Canada, in June 2000.

Mining the World Wide Web: An Information Search Approach explores the concepts and techniques of Web mining, a promising and rapidly growing field of computer science research.

Applications of Data Mining to Electronic Commerce brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

This book is a result of ISD2000-The Ninth International Conference on Infor- mation Systems Development: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice, held August 14-16, in Kristiansand, Norway.

Since their inception, fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic became popular.

This book is a result of the Tenth International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2001) held at Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom, during September 5-7, 2001.