Computer science

In this book, we present a collection of papers around the topic of agent com- nication.

IbPRIA 2005 (Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis) was the second of a series of conferences jointly organized every two years by the Portuguese and Spanish Associations for Pattern Recognition (APRP, AERFAI), with the support of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

This volume presents revised and extended versions of selected papers presented at the Joint Workshop on Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, a workshop federated with the 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2004), which was held in New York City, USA, July 19-23, 2004.

* Data warehousing and semantic data mining * Spatial, temporal, multimedia and multimodal semantics * Semantics in data visualization * Semantic services for mobile users * Supporting tools * Applications of semantic-driven approaches These topics are to be understood as speci?

IbPRIA 2005 (Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis) was the second of a series of conferences jointly organized every two years by the Portuguese and Spanish Associations for Pattern Recognition (APRP, AERFAI), with the support of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

These proceedings contain the papers presented at the 2005 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2005), held in Beijing, China, between November 30 and December 3, 2005.

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This volume contains the proceedings of EWSN 2006, the third in a series of - ropean workshops on wireless sensor networks.

Welcome to the proceedings of APPT 2005: the 6th International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies.

The last two years have been great for high performance computing in Baden- W* urttemberg and beyond.

We are delighted to welcome readers to the proceedings of the 6th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM).

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the First Int- national Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT 2006) organized in Chongqing, P.

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MathematicsMechanization consistsoftheory,softwareandapplicationofc- puterized mathematical activities such as computing, reasoning and discovering.

The Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM-Leipzig was the sixth event in a series of annual events which started in 2000.

This volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series records th the proceedings of the 8 International Workshop on Digital Mammography (IWDM), which was held in Manchester, UK, June 18-21, 2006.

PRIMA is a series of workshops on agent computing and multi-agent systems, integrating the activities in Asia and Pacific Rim countries.

NLDB 2005, the 10th International Conference on Applications of Natural L- guage to Information Systems, was held on June 15-17, 2005 at the University of Alicante, Spain.

1 The International Workshop on Recon?

Mathematical methods has been a dominant research path in computational vision leading to a number of areas like ?

On behalf of the ProgramCommittee, we are pleased to present the proceedings of the 2005 Asia-Paci?

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Welcome to the proceedings of ISPA 2005 which was held in the city of Nanjing.

This book contains refereed and improved papers presented at the 6th IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC 2005).

Since its start in 1990, the IPCO conference series (held under the auspices of theMathematicalProgrammingSociety)hasbecomeanimportantforumforthe presentation of recent results in Integer Programming and Combinatorial Op- mization.

The papers in this volume were selected for presentation at the 15th International Meshing Roundtable, held September 17-20, 2006 in Birmingham, Alabama, U.

The three volume set LNCS 3496/3497/3498 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2005, held in Chongqing, China in May/June 2005.

th The 24 Computer Graphics International Conference (CGI 2006) was held during June 26-28, 2006, in Hangzhou, China.