Computing and Information Technology

On behalf of all of the people involved in the program selection, the program committee members as well as numerous other reviewers, we are both relieved and pleased to present you with the proceedings of the 2006 Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC 2006), which is being hosted in Shanghai on September 6-8, 2006.

Welcome to the proceedings of PATMOS 2006, the 16th in a series of international workshops.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, SAFECOMP 2005, held in Fredrikstad, Norway, in September 2005.

For several years now, there has been an exponential growth of the amount of life science data (e.

This volume contains the proceedings of EWSN 2007, the fourth European c- ference on Wireless Sensor Networks.

th This volume contains the papers presented at the 9 Information Security Conference (ISC 2006) held on Samos Island, Greece, during August 30 - September 2, 2006.

CAiSE 2008wasthe20thinthe seriesofInternationalConferencesonAdvanced Information System Engineering.

The Annual International Frontiers in Algorithmics Workshop is a focused - rum on current trends in research on algorithms, discrete structures, and their applications.

This book is a follow-up of LNCS volume 2929 with the same title, and presents the major results of COST action 274 (2002-2005), TARSKI: Theory and - plications of Relational Structures as Knowledge Instruments.

This volume contains the papers presented at the International Workshop "e;Inf- mation Fusion and Geographical Information Systems"e; (IF&GIS'07) held in St.

The RSA Conference, with over 15,000 attendees and 300 exhibitors, is the largest computer security event of the year.

The Third International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2007, was held at Beijing,China.

Since knowledge was recognized as a crucial part of intelligent systems in the 1970s and early 1980s, the problem of the systematic and efficient acquisition of knowledge was an important research problem.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2006, held in Seattle, WA, USA in August 2006 as part of the 4th Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2006.

Developing software for current and especially for future architectures will require knowledge about parallel programming techniques of applications and library p- grammers.