Computer science

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the conference and two abstracts from invited speakers.

This volume contains papers selected for presentation during the 24th Interna- tional Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science held on September 6-10, 1999 in Szklarska Por^ba, Poland.

The idea of creating the European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC) was born at the moment when the Iron Curtain fell.

Truly personal handheld and wearable technologies should be small and unobtrusive and allow access to information and computing most of the time and in most circumstance.

th 2002 DEXA, the 13 International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications was held on September 2-6, 2002, at the Universite Aix-Marseille II, France.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines.

Recent years have witnessed the appearance of new paradigms for designing distributed applications where the application components can be relocated - namically across the hosts of the network.

This volume contains the papers presented at the 13th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing.

It is our great pleasure and honor to organize the First IEEE Computer Society International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV 2000).

In the four years of its existence, MICCAI has developed into the premier - nual conference on medical image computing and computer-assisted interv- tion.

The PaCT-2003 (Parallel Computing Technologies) conference was a four-day conference held in Nizhni Novgorod on September 15-19, 2003.

CAiSE 2000 was the 12th in the series of International Conferences on Advanced Information Systems Engineering.

The number of research topics covered in recent approaches to Information - traction (IE) is continually growing as new facts are being considered.

I would like to welcome all the participants to the 3rd International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2000).

This volume contains the papers presented at the Fourth IAPR Workshop on Graph Based Representations in Pattern Recognition.

This book contains the proceedings of the Workshop on OpenMP Applications and Tools, WOMPAT 2003.

Why is the question of the di?

This volume contains the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2000) held in State College, Pennsylvania, USA, during 22-25 August 2000.

Policy based systems are the subject of a wide range of activities in univer- ties, standardisation bodies, and within industry.

ASIACRYPT 2000 was the sixth annual ASIACRYPT conference.

The ASM 2000 workshop was held in the conference center of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) at Monte Verit a, Canton Ticino, March 19-24, 2000.

It is now no longer necessary to argue the importance of agent technology.

It is a pleasure for us to present the contributions of the First International Symposium on Medical Data Analysis.

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA 2003) which was held in Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan, July 2-4, 2003.

This book contains the papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management organized by the Department of Knowledge Management, Institute of Informatics and Business Informatics, University of Vienna.

This volume consists of the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on the Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2002), organized under the auspices of the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS).

The idea of evolving machines, whose origins can be traced to the cybernetics movementofthe1940sand1950s,hasrecentlyresurgedintheformofthenascent ?

This volume presents extended and revised versions of the papers presented at the Third International Workshop on Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS 2002), a workshop federated with the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002), which was held in Bologna, Italy, in July, 2002.

Machine Learning has become a key enabling technology for many engineering applications and theoretical problems alike.

Object detection and recognition is a topic of significant interest in computer and robot vision.

Starting with Napster and Gnutella, peer-to-peer systems became an integrated part of the Internet fabric attracting millions of users.

The central themes of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2004) were ontological engineering and the Semantic Web.

These are the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2004), held at the Fair and Congress Center in - furt, Germany, September 27-29, 2004.

Welcome to the proceedings of GCC2004 and the city of Wuhan.

Welcome to the proceedings of GCC2004 and the city of Wuhan.

The message passing paradigm is the most frequently used approach to develop high-performancecomputing applications on paralleland distributed computing architectures.

This volume contains the contributed papers and invited talks presented at the 1stInternationalWorkshoponAlgorithmicAspectsofWirelessSensorNetworks (ALGOSENSORS 2004), which was held July 16, 2004, in Turku, Finland, - located with the 31st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2004).

"e;We know more than we can tell and we can know nothing without relying upon those things which we may not be able to tell"e; (Michael Polanyi) The importance of knowledge management (KM) is increasingly recognized in the public sector and in relation with e-government implementations.