Data warehousing

Developments in network and switching technologies have made telecommu- cations systems and services far more data intensive.

After a decade of major technical and theoretical advancements in the area, the scope for exploitation of database technology has never been greater.

We welcome you to the Second International Conference on E commerce and Web Technology (ECWEB 2001) held in conjunction with DEXA 2001 in Munich, Germany.

This book constitutes the ?

We have described the development of a new micro-payment system, NetPay, f- turing different ways of managing electronic money, or e-coins.

The 11th Conference "e;Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications - Semantic Web Challenges"e; (AIMSA 2004) continued successfully pursuing the main aim of the AIMSA series of conferences - to foster the multidisciplinary community of artificial intelligence researchers, embracing both the theoretic underpinnings of the field and the practical issues involved in development, deployment, and maintenance of systems with intelligent behavior.

This section gives a description of notions used throughout this study.

This workshop on "e;Protocols for High-Speed Networks"e; is the seventh in a s- cessful series of international workshops, well known for their small and focused target audience, that provide a sound basis for intensive discussions of hi- qualityand timelyresearch work.

The Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) are becoming more and more important in our highly interconnected world as more and more data and information is made available for online access.

The Internet has nearly a ten year history as a global, public communication infrastructure.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Thyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communication, IWDC 2001, held in Taormina, Italy in September 2001.

 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CaiSE 2003, held in Klagenfurt, Austria in June 2003.

Anonymity and unobservability have become key issues in the context of securing privacy on the Internet and in other communication networks.

Multimedia Interactive Protocols and Systems (MIPS) is the brand new name of a workshop that has been successfully held for the ?

Envisioning Machine Translation in the Information Future When the organizing committee of AMTA-2000 began planning, it was in that brief moment in history when we were absorbed in contemplation of the passing of the century and the millennium.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2003, held in Sapporo, Japan in October 2003.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2004, held in Budapest, Hungary, in September 2004.

Welcometotheproceedingsofthe2004EuropeanConferenceonWebServices(ECOWS 2004).

This year marked the coming of age of the British National Conference on Databases with its 21st conference held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, in July 2004.

Many challenging problems in information systems engineering involve the manipulation of complex metadata artifacts or models, such as database schema, interface specifications, or object diagrams, and mappings between models.

The second evaluation campaign of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for European languages was held from January to September 2001.

These are the conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2001).

This volume contains the 14 contributed papers and the contribution of the distinguished invited speaker B' ela Bollob' as presented at the 3rd Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph (WAW 2004), held in Rome, Italy, October 16, 2004, in conjunction with the 45th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2004).

missions in fact also treat an envisaged mutual impact among them.

The International Symposium on Medical Data Analysis is an important - riodical opportunity to exchange ideas and ?

We welcome you to the proceedings of the 5t International Conference on E- CommerceandWebTechnology(EC-Web2004)heldinconjunctionwithDEXA 2004 in Zaragoza, Spain.

The 2nd Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web (WES) was held during June 16-17, 2003 in conjunction with CAiSE 2003, the 15th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First European Public Key Infrastructure Workshop: Research and Applications, EuroPKI 2004, held on Samos Island, Greece in June 2004.

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This Festschrift volume is published in Honor of Yaacov Choueka on the occasion of this 75th birthday.

This book grew out of the First Symposium on the Personal Web, co-located with CASCON 2010 in Markham, Ontario, Canada.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence (TCCI) focuses on all facets of computational collective intelligence (CCI) and their applications in a wide range of fields such as the Semantic Web, social networks and multi-agent systems.

The Semantic Web aims at enriching the existing Web with meta-data and processing methods so as to provide web-based systems with advanced capabilities, in particular with context awareness and decision support.

I love the idea of a Smart Internet that lets users improve many parts of their lives, pulling together data and services from around the internet.