Computing and Information Technology

In today's society the issue of security has become a crucial one.

The aerospace industry increasingly relies on advanced numerical simulation tools in the early design phase.

The 11th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2006) was held in Melbourne, 3-5 July, 2006.

This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series publishes the set of papers accepted for the ICQT 2006 workshop, i.

"e;Intelligent Design and complex problem solving are twined like wife and husband.

This book presents the proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (WSTST '05), May 25-27, 2005, Muroran, Japan.

Thisvolumecontainsaselectionofpapersfromthe5thInternationalConference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2004) held in Pittsburgh, USA, August 18-20, 2004.

These proceedings contain the papers selected for presentation at the 5th edition of the International Workshop on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, held in December 2005, in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The international conference Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining IIS:IIPWM'05, organized in Gda?

Context is of crucial importance for research and applications in many disciplines, as evidenced by many workshops, symposia, seminars, and conferences on specific aspects of context.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2006, held in Harbin, China in January 2006.

Welcometothe7thAsianConferenceonComputerVision.

Thisvolumecontainsrefereedpapersdevotedtocodingandcryptography.

Unbelievable, we have reached the seventh edition of the XP2k+n conference!

This volume contains the proceedings of the IFIP WG 6.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Data Management in Grids, DMG 2005, held in Trondheim, Norway in September 2005 in conjunction with VLDB 2005.

SAC 2005 was the 12th in a series of annual workshops on Selected Areas in Cryptography.

ETAPS 2006 was the ninth instance of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software.

The International Conference on Networking (ICN 2005) was the fourth conf- ence in its series aimed at stimulating technical exchange in the emerging and important ?

ESAW 2005 took place at the Pine Bay Hotel in Kusadasi, Turkey at the end of the October 2005.

Formal methods have been applied successfully to the verification of medium-sized programs in protocol and hardware design.

This volume contains selected and thoroughly revised papers plus contributions from invited speakers presented at the First International Workshop on C- straint Solving and Language Processing, held in Roskilde, Denmark, September 1-3, 2004.

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information, this book inaugurates the new FoLLI LNAI subline.

Persuasive technology is the general class of technology that has the explicit purpose of changing human attitudes and behaviours.

The interests and goals of HCI (human-computer interaction) include understanding, designing, building, and evaluating complex interactive systems - involving many people and technologies.

This volume contains the papers presented at CONCUR 2005, the 16th - ternational Conference on Concurrency Theory.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 8th International Information - curity Conference (ISC 2005), which took place in Singapore, from 20th to 23rd September 2005.

One of the superb characteristics of Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) is that it is an interdisciplinary ?

Networking 2006 was organized by the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and it was the fifth event in a series of International Conferences on Networking sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC 6).

The second edition of the workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Te- nologies (DALT 2004) was held July 2004 in New York City, and was a great success.

This volume contains papers presented at the first joint conference of the Software Pr- ess Workshop and the International Workshop on Software Process Simulation and Modeling (SPW/ProSim 2006) held in Shanghai, P.

The International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) was set up as an annual forum dedicated to emerging and challenging topics in the various aspects of advances in computational intelligence fields, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, etc.

Based on two international workshops on trust in agent societies, held at AAMAS 2003 and AAMAS 2004, this book draws together carefully revised papers on trust, reputation, and security in agent society.