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th These proceedings contain the refereed papers and posters presented at the 28 Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006), which was held at Imperial College London in South Kensington between April 10 and 12, 2006.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2005, held in Sao Leopoldo, Brazil in July 2005.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the Second International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases, SWDB 2004, held in Toronto, Canada in August 2004 as a satellite workshop of VLDB 2004.

The notion of agency has recently increased its in?

1 "e;Change is inevitable.

Testing often accounts for more than 50% of the required e?

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 10th Int- national Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing, RSFDGrC 2005, organized at the University of Regina, August 31st-September 3rd, 2005.

Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) is an initiative proposedby the Object M- agement Group (OMG) for platform-generic software development.

ETAPS 2006 was the ninth instance of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software.

This book is a collection of papers presented at UCS 2004, held on November 8-9 in Tokyo.

The UML 2004 conference was held in Lisbon (Portugal) from October 11 through October 15, 2004.

Context-awareness is one of the drivers of the ubiquitous computing paradigm.

Professional knowledge management is imperative for the success of enterprises.

The 2nd Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA 2004) focused on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems.

Welcome to the post proceedings of the First International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS 2004), which was held in Hangzhou, P.

The 6th Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (TES-05) was held September 2-3, 2005, in conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2005) in Trondheim, Norway.

This book contains the Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on OpenMP Appli- tionsandTools(WOMPAT2004),whichtookplaceattheUniversityofHouston, Houston, Texas on May 17 and 18, 2004.

Technological progress is one of the driving forces behind the dramatic devel- mentofcomputersystemarchitecturesoverthe pastthreedecades.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics (TPHOLs 2005), which was held during22-25August2005inOxford,UK.

The RSA R Conference, with over 15,000attendees, as well as over 225 sponsors and exhibitors, is the largest computer security event of the year.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2005).

We present in this volume the collection of ?

Six parallel Business Process Management workshops were held on September 5th, 2005, in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2005) in Nancy, France.

The design of complex artifacts and systems requires the cooperation of multidisciplinary design teams using multiple commercial and non-commercial engineering tools such as CAD tools, modeling, simulation and optimization software, engineering databases, and knowledge-based systems.

Motionanalysisisacentralproblemincomputervision,andthepasttwodecades have seen important advances in this ?

On behalf of the Organizing Committee I am pleased to present the proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE).

Theformulationofmanypracticalproblemsnaturallyinvolvesconstraintsonthe variables entering the mathematical model of a real-life situation to be analyzed.

The papers in this volume were presented at the workshop "e;Topic Map Research and Applications 2005"e; held on October 6-7, 2005, in Leipzig.