Artificial intelligence

In this volume we present the contributions for the 18th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2005).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA 2005, held in Hilton Rye Town, NY, USA, in July 2005.

Started on the inspired initiative of Prof.

ETAPS 2005 was the eighth instance of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software.

The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics.

* Semantics in data visualization * Semantic services for mobile users * Supporting tools * Applications of semantic-driven approaches These topics are to be understood as specifically related to semantic issues.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Knowledge Management MKM 2005 held July 15-17, 2005 at - ternational University Bremen, Germany.

The Automated Technology for Veri?

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2005 IFIP International Conference on - bedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2005), which was held in Nagasaki, Japan, December 6-9, 2005.

The 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2005) was held at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia from 5 to 9 December 2005.

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to Lake Tahoe for the 2005 Int- national Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC).

The 1st International Conference on Virtual Storytelling took place on September 27-28, 2001, in Avignon (France) in the prestigious Popes' Palace.

SVMs have emerged as very successful pattern recognition methods in recent years [16].

The aim of the CEEMAS conference series is to provide a biennial forum for the presentation of multi-agent research and development results.

CICLing 2006 (www.

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) lies at the crossroads of many scienti?

ThesearetheproceedingsoftheRoboCup2004Symposium,heldattheInstituto Superior T' ecnico, in Lisbon, Portugal in conjunction with the RoboCup c- petition.

It was our great pleasure to host the 4th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) at the National University of Singapore on 20-22 July 2005.

This volume contains the Proceedings of ICFCA 2005, the 3rd International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis.

This is the fourth volume in a series of books dedicated to basic research in spatial cognition.

We will be, sooner or later, not only handling personal computers but also mul- purpose cellular phones, complex personal digital assistants, devices that will be context-aware, and even wearable computers stitched to our clothes.

Conditionals are fascinating and versatile objects of knowledge representation.

It was our great pleasure to extend a welcome to all who participated in SERA 2004, the second International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, held at the Omni Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA.

This book is an extended collection of revised contributions that were initially submitted to the International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2005).