Computer science

The Annual International Frontiers in Algorithmics Workshop is a focused - rum on current trends in research on algorithms, discrete structures, and their applications.

This book is a follow-up of LNCS volume 2929 with the same title, and presents the major results of COST action 274 (2002-2005), TARSKI: Theory and - plications of Relational Structures as Knowledge Instruments.

This volume contains the papers presented at the International Workshop "e;Inf- mation Fusion and Geographical Information Systems"e; (IF&GIS'07) held in St.

The RSA Conference, with over 15,000 attendees and 300 exhibitors, is the largest computer security event of the year.

The Third International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2007, was held at Beijing,China.

Since knowledge was recognized as a crucial part of intelligent systems in the 1970s and early 1980s, the problem of the systematic and efficient acquisition of knowledge was an important research problem.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2006, held in Seattle, WA, USA in August 2006 as part of the 4th Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2006.

Developing software for current and especially for future architectures will require knowledge about parallel programming techniques of applications and library p- grammers.

The Fifth International Conference on Automatic Differentiation held from August 11 to 15, 2008 in Bonn, Germany, is the most recent one in a series that began in Breckenridge, USA, in 1991 and continued in Santa Fe, USA, in 1996, Nice, France, in 2000 and Chicago, USA, in 2004.

Formal methods have been applied successfully to the verification of medium-sized programs in protocol and hardware design.

The 21st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA-AIE 2008) held in Wroclaw, Poland was an international scientific forum for researchers in the field of applied artificial intelligence.

This volume contains the proceeding of the 5th International Conference on - age and Video Retrieval (CIVR), July 13-15, 2006, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA: http://www.

The Turkish Artificial Intelligence and Neural Network Symposium (TAINN) is an annual meeting where scientists present their new ideas and algorithms on artificial intelligence and neural networks with either oral or poster presentation.

The International Symposium on Smart Graphics 2006 was held during July 23-25, 2006, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Advanced computational methods are often employed for the solution of modelling and decision-making problems.

Soft Computing is a complex of methodologies that embraces approximate reasoning, imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth in order to mimic the remarkable human capability of making decisions in real-life, ambiguous environments.

This volume presents the papers contributed to DEON 2006, the 8th Inter- tional Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 12-14, 2006.

TheseproceedingsrecordthepaperspresentedattheSeventhInternationalC- ference of B Users (B 2007), held in the city of Besan con in the east of France.

Fast Software Encryption (FSE) 2006 is the 13th in a series of workshops on symmetric cryptography.

This volume contains the proceedings of FORTE 2008, 28th IFIP WG6.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-workshop proceedings of two co-located events: the Second International Workshop on Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships, CLEAR 2007, and the 5th Rich Transcription 2007 Meeting Recognition evaluation, RT 2007, held in succession in Baltimore, MD, USA, in May 2007.

th The 14 International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2006) was held in Aalborg, Denmark during July 16 - 21, 2006.

Web-based learning has attracted ongoing attention for its rapid development in recent years.

The fourth edition of the European Conference on Model-Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications (ECMDA-FA 2008) was dedicated to furthering the state of knowledge and fostering the industrialization of the model-driven architecture (MDA) methodology.