Computing and Information Technology

The research of holonic and agent-based systems is developing rapidly, as is the community around this R&D topic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2007, held in Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007 in conjunction with Dexa 2007.

Stamatis Vassiliadis established the SAMOS workshop in the year 2001-an event which combines his devotion to computer engineering and his pride for Samos, the island where he was born.

The past decade has seen a rapid growth in the demand for the usage of behavioral and physiological characteristics of humans for e-security and forensics applications.

This volume contains the proceedings of the seventh International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2007), which was held in Como (Italy) in July 2007.

Here is a highly relevant book that covers a wide array of key aspects in information security.

ICDM / MLDM Medaillie (limited edition) Meissner Porcellan, the "e;White Gold"e; of King August the Strongest of Saxonia ICDM 2007 was the seventh event in the Industrial Conference on Data Mining series and was held in Leipzig (www.

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

We are glad to present in this volume the proceedings of the ninth edition of Information Hiding (IH 2007).

The main goal of the EUNICE Summer School is to give young researchers,and particularly PhD students, the opportunity to present their work at an inter- tional level.

Reliable Software Technologies is an annual series of international conferences devoted to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of reliable software technologies.

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 18th Annual S- posium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2007) held at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada from July 9 to 11, 2007.

These proceedings contain the papers accepted at the 2007 European PKI Workshop: Theory and Practice (EuroPKI 2007), held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, during June 28-30, and hosted by the Computer Science Department of the University of Balearic Islands (UIB) with the support of the Balearic Islands Government and the Private Law Department at UIB.

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

The 20th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Im- ing(IPMI)washeldduringJuly2-6,2007,atRolducAbbey,locatedinKerkrade in the south of the Netherlands.

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Sixth Int- national Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT) which was organized in Brno, Czech Republic, from August 30 to September 1 of 2006.

Modeling and computations in electromagnetics is a quite novel and growing discipline, expanding as a result of the steadily increasing demand for designing electrical devices, modeling electromagnetic materials, and simulating electromagnetic fields in nanoscale structures.

The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is one of the leading international conferences in digital libraries research.

The advent of the Internet has opened up a wealth of applications, but also given rise to a host of new problems.

In 1901, Karl Pearson invented Principal Component Analysis (PCA).

Welcome to the proceedings of the 14th WoLLIC meeting, which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2 - 5, 2007.

Persuasive technology is the general class of technologies that purposefully apply psychological principles of persuasion - principles of credibility, trust, reciprocity, authority and the like - in interactive media, in the service of changing their users' attitudes and behavior.

The papers in this volume were presented at the 10th Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2005).

These proceedings are a manifestation of the excellent scienti?