Algorithms and data structures

An understanding of emergent computation requires a profound revision of the most fundamental ideas.

Time is ubiquitous in information systems.

Purpose of the Book This book presents an approach to improve the standard object-oriented pro- gramming model.

Major advances in computing are occurring at an ever-increasing pace.

Foreword by Lars Knudsen Practical Intranet Security focuses on the various ways in which an intranet can be violated and gives a thorough review of the technologies that can be used by an organization to secure its intranet.

Data Mining Methods for Knowledge Discovery provides an introduction to the data mining methods that are frequently used in the process of knowledge discovery.

In the past five years, the field of electrostatic discharge (ESD) control has under- gone some notable changes.

Document Computing: Technologies for Managing Electronic Document Collections discusses the important aspects of document computing and recommends technologies and techniques for document management, with an emphasis on the processes that are appropriate when computers are used to create, access, and publish documents.

This book is a result of the Seventh International Conference on Information Sys- tems Development-Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice held in Bled, Slovenia, Sep- tember 21-23, 1998.

Fundamentals of Information Systems contains articles from the 7th International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects (FoMLaDO '98), which was held in Timmel, Germany.

Database Support for Workflow Management: The WIDE Project presents the results of the ESPRIT WIDE project on advanced database support for workflow management.

Multimedia Document Systems in Perspectives brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

Geographic information systems have developed rapidly in the past decade, and are now a major class of software, with applications that include infrastructure maintenance, resource management, agriculture, Earth science, and planning.

Computational Optimization: A Tribute to Olvi Mangasarian serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.

Since their invention in the late seventies, public key cryptosystems have become an indispensable asset in establishing private and secure electronic communication, and this need, given the tremendous growth of the Internet, is likely to continue growing.

Behavioral Specifications of Businesses and Systems deals with the reading, writing and understanding of specifications.

Mobile Data Management and Applications brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

Approximate reasoning is a key motivation in fuzzy sets and possibility theory.

Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing contains contributions from world-leading experts from both the academic and industrial communities.

The ability to extract generic 3D objects from images is a crucial step towards automation of a variety of problems in cartographic database compilation, industrial inspection and assembly, and autonomous navigation.

This is a self-contained introduction to algebraic curves over finite fields and geometric Goppa codes.

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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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.

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.