Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

Knowledge discovery and data mining have become areas of growing significance because of the recent increasing demand for KDD techniques, including those used in machine learning, databases, statistics, knowledge acquisition, data visualization, and high performance computing.

The Seventh Australasian Conference in Information Security and Privacy (ACISP) was held in Melbourne, 3-5July, 2002.

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2004) which was held in Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan, 25-27 August 2004.

Communities are groupings of distributed objects that are capable of com- nicating, directly or indirectly, through the medium of a shared context.

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is currently attracting enormous public attention, spurred by the popularity of file-sharing systems such as Napster, Gnutella, and Morpheus.

Smart cards have been driven by the need for a secure, portable, computing platform.

In the last decade, we have seen tremendous successes in World Wide Web and Internet technologies.

The past few years have witnessed rapid scienti?

No symposium of this size can be organized without the help of many dedicated persons.

PKC 2003 was the Sixth International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography and was sponsored by IACR, the International As- ciation for Cryptologic Research (www.

These post-proceedings contain 27 papers that were accepted for presentation at the Fifth International Workshop on Information Hiding, held 7-9 October 2002, in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.

Since the mid 1990s, data hiding has been proposed as an enabling technology for securing multimedia communication, and is now used in various applications including broadcast monitoring, movie fingerprinting, steganography, video indexing and retrieval, and image authentication.

Electronic Commerce, as a gamut of activities involving electronic transactions performed over a network via software that may be more or less autonomous, is an emerging reality.

The EGOV Conference Series intends to assess the state of the art in e-Gove- ment and to provide guidance for research and development in this fast-moving ?

Electronic negotiations concern transactions on the basis of electronic media, such as the Internet.

Ubiquitous user modeling differs from generic user modeling by three additional concepts: ongoing modeling, ongoing sharing, and ongoing exploitation.

This book is dedicated to Hermann Maurer on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

Software professionals and companies live in a new world today.

The papers in this volume were presented at the workshop "e;Innovative Internet Community Systems 2003"e; held on June 19-21, 2003 in Leipzig.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG 2003).

On behalf of the PROFES organizing committee we are proud to present to you the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2004), held in Kansai Science City, Japan.

This volume brings together, through a peer-revision process, the advanced research results obtained by the European COST Action 2102: Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication, primarily discussed for the first time at the Second COST 2102 International Training School on "e;Development of Multimodal Int- faces: Active Listening and Synchrony"e; held in Dublin, Ireland, March 23-27 2009.

In the setting of multi-party computation, sets of two or more parties with private inputs wish to jointly compute some (predetermined) function of their inputs.

 This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, AMEC 2002, held in Bologna, Italy in July 2002 during the AAMAS 2002 conference.

Simplicity in nature is the ultimate sophistication.

The emerging information technologies have enabled new human patterns ranging from physiological interactions to psychological interactions.

iTrust is an Information Society Technologies (IST) working group, which started on 1st of August, 2002.

The theme of the 4th International Workshop on Learning Software Organizations (LSO 2002) was "e;BalancingAgile Processes and Long-Term Learning in Software - ganizations.

Among the many changes brought by the Internet is the emergence of electronic commerce over the Web.

 This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Digital Rights Management, DRM 2002, held in Washington, DC, USA, in November 2002, in conjunction with ACM CCS-9.

Acknowledgements This Volume could not exist without the contributors of its papers.

On behalf of the PROFES organizing committee we would like to welcome you to the 4th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Impro- ment (PROFES 2002) in Rovaniemi, Finland.

This book is the result of the workshop "e;Deception, Fraud, and Trust in Agent Societies"e;, held in Barcelona on June 4, 2000 as part of the Autonomous Agents 2000 Conference, and organized by Rino Falcone, Munindar Singh, and Yao-Hua Tan.

We were very pleased to once again extend to the delegates and, we are pleased to th say, our friends the warmest of welcomes to the 8 International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems at Wellington - stitute of Technology in Wellington, New Zealand.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society, DTGS 2016, held in St.

Sincerely welcome to proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business, Zaragoza, Spain, held from August 30th to September 1st, 2004.