Computing and Information Technology

PRIMA is a series of workshops on agent computing and multi-agent systems, integrating the activities in Asia and Pacific Rim countries.

NLDB 2005, the 10th International Conference on Applications of Natural L- guage to Information Systems, was held on June 15-17, 2005 at the University of Alicante, Spain.

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The First International Conference on Digital Rights Management: Technology, Issues, Challenges and Systems (DRMTICS - pronounced 'dramatics'), took place in Sydney, Australia on 31st October - 2nd November, 2005.

Mathematical methods has been a dominant research path in computational vision leading to a number of areas like ?

On behalf of the ProgramCommittee, we are pleased to present the proceedings of the 2005 Asia-Paci?

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Welcome to the proceedings of ISPA 2005 which was held in the city of Nanjing.

This book contains refereed and improved papers presented at the 6th IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC 2005).

Since its start in 1990, the IPCO conference series (held under the auspices of theMathematicalProgrammingSociety)hasbecomeanimportantforumforthe presentation of recent results in Integer Programming and Combinatorial Op- mization.

The papers in this volume were selected for presentation at the 15th International Meshing Roundtable, held September 17-20, 2006 in Birmingham, Alabama, U.

The three volume set LNCS 3496/3497/3498 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2005, held in Chongqing, China in May/June 2005.

th The 24 Computer Graphics International Conference (CGI 2006) was held during June 26-28, 2006, in Hangzhou, China.

This is the proceedings of the 11th edition of the Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology (AMAST) conference series.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee I am pleased to present the proceedings of the 2006 Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2005, held in Mont Saint-Michel, France in May 2005.

Content-oriented XML retrieval has been receiving increasing interest due to the widespread use of eXtensible Markup Language (XML), which is becoming a standard document format on the Web, in digital libraries,and publishing.

This volume contains the proceedings of ICTAC 2005, the second ICTAC, International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing.

The ultimate goal of many information access systems (e.

CiE 2006: Logical Approaches to Computational Barriers Swansea, Wales, June 30 - July 5, 2006 Computability in Europe (CiE) is an informal network of European scientists working on computability theory, including its foundations, technical devel- ment, and applications.

The 4th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security(ACNS 2006)washeldin Singapore,during June6-9,2006.

The idea to establish a European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on various aspects of performance modeling and analysis of manuf- toring and information systems gave rise to an annual series of workshops, - ferred to as European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW).

The 7th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2006) brought together researchers and industrial practitioners for reporting new research results and exchanging experiences and findings in the area of process and product improvement.

These are the proceedings of the 24th Annual IACR Eurocrypt Conference.

This book and its sister volumes constitute the proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2005).

The three volume set LNCS 3496/3497/3498 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2005, held in Chongqing, China in May/June 2005.

Software reuse as an umbrella concept has been around for several decades.

The opening ceremony and pre-conference tutorials on various related topics were held on December 21.

We are delighted to welcome the attendees of the Fourth International Wo- shop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW).

Welcome to the second International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services (DEECS 2006) in conjunction with the 8th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology and the third IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services.