Databases

The ARCS series of conferences has over 30 years of tradition reporting hi- quality results in computer architecture and operating systems research.

The work embodied in this volume was presented across three consecutive e- tions of the International Workshop on Learning Classi?

Since 1981, the British National Conferences on Databases (BNCOD) have p- vided a forum for database researchers to report the latest progress and explore new ideas.

analysis.

This book contains selected and revised papers of the International Symposium on Knowledge Discovery and Emergent Complexity in Bioinformatics (KDECB 2006), held at the University of Ghent, Belgium, May 10, 2006.

Adaptive Hypermedia has emerged as an important area of both academic and deployed research.

We often conceptualize that older adults retire into a life of carefree luxury among palm trees, golf courses, and pristine beaches.

The progress in information technology including arti?

The Colloquium on Structure, Information, Communication, and Complexity (SIROCCO) is an annual research meeting focused on the relationship between information and e?

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2008, held in Shanghai, China, in June 2008.

The annual international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) is now well established as a reference scientific event.

The 30th Annual German Conference on Arti?

Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery have been widely accepted as key te- nologies for enterprises and organizations to improve their abilities in data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge from data.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2008, held in Hong Kong, China, in July 2008.

This volume contains the papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Source Separation held in L- don, 9-12 September 2007, at Queen Mary, University of London.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Public Key Infrastructure Workshop: Theory and Practice, EuroPKI 2008, held in Trondheim, Norway, in June 2008.

The Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference is an annual forum for exploring research, development, and novel applications of computing and combinatorics.

MLDM / ICDM Medaillie Meissner Porcellan, the "e;White Gold"e; of King August the Strongest of Saxonia Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, the great mathematician and son of Leipzig, was watching over us during our event in Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition (MLDM 2007).

The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2008, held on Santorini Island, Greece, in June 2008.

Welcome to the International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining, MCAM 2007.

BNCOD has, for the past 27 years, provided a forum for researchers world-wide to gather to discuss the topical issues in databaseresearch.

The 12th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Infor- tion Systems (NLDB 2007) took place during June 27-29 in Paris (France).

Researchneedsideas,discourseandexperimentationinordertothrive,butmore than ever we are expected to make researchimmediately 'relevant' and available to society and the world of commerce.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2006, held in Helsinki, Finland, in May 2006.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2008, held in Harbin, China, in May 2008.

The 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI Inter- tional 2007, was held in Beijing, P.

The 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI Inter- tional 2007, was held in Beijing, P.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2008, held in Madrid, Spain, in June 2008.

This volume contains the papers presented at the inaugural workshop on Data Mining and Bioinformatics at the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB).

This volume was prepared to share with a larger audience the exciting ideas and work presented at an ICML 2006 workshop of the same title.

The 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI Inter- tional 2007, was held in Beijing, P.

The papers contained in this volume were presented at the 19th Annual S- posium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2008) held at the University of Pisa, Italy, June 18-20, 2008.