Computer programming / software engineering

The automatic analysis of images and signals in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry is a challenging and demanding field.

The present volume contains the proceedings of the Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2007, held at Hotel Hvide Hus, Aalborg, Denmark, June 10-14, 2007.

We are currently witnessing a proliferation in parallel and distributed processing technologies and applications.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the Proceedings of the 3rd - ternational Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2007) held in Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California.

The 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI Inter- tional 2007, was held in Beijing, P.

The 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI Inter- tional 2007, was held in Beijing, P.

A leitmotif in the evolution of programming paradigms has been the level and extent of parametrisation that is facilitated - the so-called genericity of the paradigm.

The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2007, held in Sante Fe, NM, USA in June 2007.

Globally, major network operators have incorporated network convergence into their strategy to grow service revenues and reduce capital and operating costs.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 6.

This book contains the best papers of the Second International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks (ICETE), which was held, in 2005, at the Microsoft Research Centre - Reading, in the UK.

The 3rd Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) followed the ?

Parallel and distributed computing in the 1980s and 1990s had great in?

The design of complex artifacts and systems requires the cooperation of multidiscip- nary design teams using multiple commercial and proprietary engineering software tools (e.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL 2007), held in Vienna, Austria, on September 23-24, 2007.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Experimental and Efficient Algorithms, WEA 2007, held in Rome, Italy, in June 2007.

Celebrating Five Years of Early Aspects The early aspects community had its origins in the "e;Early Aspects: Requirements En- neering and Architecture Design"e; workshop organized during the first international c- ference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD), in March 2002.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2007, held in Brussels, Belgium in May 2007.