Algorithms and data structures

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.

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.

Exploration of Visual Data presents latest research efforts in the area of content-based exploration of image and video data.

Intrusion Detection In Distributed Systems: An Abstraction-Based Approach presents research contributions in three areas with respect to intrusion detection in distributed systems.

This book treats three planning problems arising in public railway transportation planning: line planning, timetabling, and delay management, with the objective to minimize passengers' travel time.

Data mining deals with finding patterns in data that are by user-definition, interesting and valid.

Secure Broadcast Communication in Wired and Wireless Networks presents a set of fundamental protocols for building secure information distribution systems.

This book is the result of the 11 th International Conference on Information Systems Development -Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice, held in Riga, Latvia, September 12-14,2002.

Mobile IP: Present State and Future is an up-to-date introduction to the rapidly evolving field of mobile IP.

In System-on-Chip Architectures and Implementations for Private-Key Data Encryption, new generic silicon architectures for the DES and Rijndael symmetric key encryption algorithms are presented.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is the leading sponsor of basic academic research in engineering, and its influence far exceeds its budget.

Shape Analysis and Retrieval of Multimedia Objects provides a comprehensive survey of the most advanced and powerful shape retrieval techniques used in practice today.

The Second International Workshop on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC2002) has brought together researchers, academics, and industry practitioners who are involved and interested in the development of advanced and emerging cooperative computing technologies.

This SpringerBrief analyzes the potential privacy threats in wireless and mobile network environments, and reviews some existing works.

This volume addresses the emerging area of human computation, The chapters, written by leading international researchers, explore existing and future opportunities to combine the respective strengths of both humans and machines in order to create powerful problem-solving capabilities.

This book explores the impact of augmenting novel architectural designs with hardware-based application accelerators.

New generations of IT users are increasingly abstracted from the underlying devices and platforms that provide and safeguard their services.

Dynamic secrets are constantly generated and updated from messages exchanged between two communication users.

This volume contains a collection of papers based on lectures and presentations delivered at the International Conference on Constructive Nonsmooth Analysis (CNSA) held in St.

Topics in Matroid Theory provides a brief introduction to matroid theory with an emphasis on algorithmic consequences.

Network Science and Cybersecurity introduces new research and development efforts for cybersecurity solutions and applications taking place within various U.

An Introduction to Quasisymmetric Schur Functions is aimed at researchers and graduate students in algebraic combinatorics.

These contributions, written by the foremost international researchers and practitioners of Genetic Programming (GP), explore the synergy between theoretical and empirical results on real-world problems, producing a comprehensive view of the state of the art in GP.

Mobile devices, such as smart phones, have achieved computing and networking capabilities comparable to traditional personal computers.

Advanced DPA Theory and Practice provides a thorough survey of new physical leakages of embedded systems, namely the power and the electromagnetic emanations.

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This work describes the propagation properties of the so-called symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (SIPG) approximations of the 1-d wave equation.

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Malicious software (i.

Our cyber defenses are static and are governed by lengthy processes, e.

Mobile Authentication: Problems and Solutions looks at human-to-machine authentication, with a keen focus on the mobile scenario.

Network Robustness under Large-Scale Attacks provides the analysis of network robustness under attacks, with a focus on large-scale correlated physical attacks.

This thesis discusses the privacy issues in speech-based applications such as biometric authentication, surveillance, and external speech processing services.

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