Celebrating Five Years of Early Aspects The early aspects community had its origins in the "e;Early Aspects: Requirements En- neering and Architecture Design"e; workshop organized during the first international c- ference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD), in March 2002.
st This volume contains papers selected for presentation at the 1 KES Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems - Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2007), held in Wroclaw, Poland, May 31 - June 1, 2007.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2007, held in Brussels, Belgium in May 2007.
The 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), organized jointly by the Asian Institute of Technology, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center and Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, sought to provide information to users and practitioners of database and database systems on advanced applications.
Since its first edition in 2003, the XML Database Symposium series (XSym) has been a forum for academics, practitioners, users and vendors to discuss the use of and synergy between databases and XML.
The advancements of computational and informational techniques have enabled in silico testing of many lab-based experiments in life sciences before performing them in in vitro or in vivo.
Mastering and effective exploration of the web environment needs new ideas, adaptation of known methods as well as application of sophisticated and robust technical implementations.
Although a number of cryptography and security techniques have been around for quite some time, emerging technologies, such as ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence that exploit increasingly interconnected networks, mobility and personalization, put new requirements on privacy and security with respect to data management.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the joint International Workshops on Semantic Web, Ontologies and Databases, SWDB-ODBIS 2007, co-located with the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2007, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2007.
The series of East European Conferences on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS) is an established and prestigious forum for the exchange of the latest research results in data management.
Program Chairs' Message th The 4 International Service Availability Symposium (ISAS 2007) continued with the tradition of its predecessors by bringing together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to address the problems of service availability.
The 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2007) was held in Providence, RI, USA, September 23-27, 2007, in conjunction with the International Conference on Automated Pl- ning and Scheduling (ICAPS).
