Algorithms and data structures

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 17th Annual International Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2010, held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in August 2010.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th InternationalConference on Information Systems, Technology and Management, ICISTM2011, held in Gurgaon, India, in March 2011.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems for Indian Languages, ICISIL 2011, held in Patiala, India, in March 2011.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conferenceproceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on BiomedicalEngineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2010, held in Valencia,Spain, in January 2010.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications, NMA 2010, held in Borovets, Bulgaria, in August 2010.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2010, held in Liverpool, UK, in September 2010 as part of the ALGO 2010 conference event.

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information, this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Indian Conference on Logic and Its Applications, ICLA 2011, held in Delhi, India, in January 2011.

Ad hoc networks, which include a variety of autonomous networks for specific purposes, promise a broad range of civilian, commercial, and military applications.

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2010 International Conferences on Security Te- nology (SecTech 2010), and Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (DRBC 2010) - two of the partnering events of the Second International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information Technology (FGIT 2010).

This LNCS volume contains the papers presented at the First Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing Conference (SEMCCO 2010) held during December 16-- 18, 2010 at SRM University, Chennai, in India.

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2010 International Conferences on Signal Proce- ing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (SIP 2010), and Multimedia, C- puter Graphics and Broadcasting (MulGraB 2010) - two of the partnering events of the Second International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information Te- nology (FGIT 2010).

Locally computable (NC0) functions are "e;simple"e; functions for which every bit of the output can be computed by reading a small number of bits of their input.

This book collects up-to-date papers from world experts in a broad variety of relevant applications of approximation theory, including dynamical systems, multiscale modelling of fluid flow, metrology, and geometric modelling to mention a few.

The information infrastructure - comprising computers, embedded devices, networks and software systems - is vital to operations in every sector: inf- mation technology, telecommunications, energy, banking and ?

Pattern recognition is a central topic in contemporary computer sciences, with continuously evolving topics, challenges, and methods, including machine learning, content-based image retrieval, and model- and knowledge-based - proaches, just to name a few.

The papers in this volume were presented at the 12th International Sym- sium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS), held September 20-22, 2010 at Columbia University, NYC, USA.

The annual International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability (ICGS3) is an established platform in which security, safety and sustainability issues can be examined from several global perspectives through dialogue between acad- ics, students, government representatives, chief executives, security professionals, and research scientists from the United Kingdom and from around the globe.

Advances in Digital Forensics VI describes original research results and innovative applications in the discipline of digital forensics.

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th This volume is part of the three-volume proceedings of the 20 International Conference on Arti?

th This volume is part of the three-volume proceedings of the 20 International Conference on Arti?

It is our great pleasure to present the proceedings of the second Russia-Taiwan Symposium on Methods and Tools of Parallel Programming (MTPP 2010).

For more than a decade, ad hoc wireless networks have galvanized the interest and sparked the imagination of researchers.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th Annual IFIP WG 11.

Advanced Science and Technology, Advanced Communication and Networking, Information Security and Assurance, Ubiquitous Computing and Multimedia Appli- tions are conferences that attract many academic and industry professionals.

Theidea ofa refereedconferencefor the mathematicalprogrammingcommunity was proposed by Ravi Kannan and William Pulleyblank to the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS) in the late 1980s.

This book includes extended versions of the selected papers from VISIGRAPP 2009, the International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, which was held in Lisbon, Portugal, during February 5-8, 2009 and organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC).

The present book includes a set of selected papers from the First International Conf- ence on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2009), held in Porto, Portugal, during January 19-21, 2009.