Computing and Information Technology

Theformulationofmanypracticalproblemsnaturallyinvolvesconstraintsonthe variables entering the mathematical model of a real-life situation to be analyzed.

The papers in this volume were presented at the workshop "e;Topic Map Research and Applications 2005"e; held on October 6-7, 2005, in Leipzig.

The lives of people all around the world, especially in industrialized nations, continue to be changed by the presence and growth of the Internet.

The 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology in Warsaw aimed to explore the current research topics in the ?

We welcome you to the 6th International Conference on E-Commerce and Web Technology (EC-Web 2005) held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

This proceedings volume collects the scienti?

The 16th International Workshop on Implementation and Application of Fu- tional Languages (IFL 2004) was held in Lub * eck, Germany, September 8-10, 2004.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA2005),whichwasheldonApril19- 21, 2005, at the Nara-Ken New Public Hall in the center of the Nara National Park in Nara, Japan.

Visual notations and languages continue to play a pivotal role in the design of complex software systems.

The beginning of the twenty-first century is characterized by global markets, and the mobility of people is becoming an important fact of life.

ISRR, the "e;International Symposium on Robotics Research"e;, is one of robotics' pioneering symposia, which has established some of the field's most fundamental and lasting contributions over the past two decades.

Nowadays, developers have to face the proliferation of hardware and software environments, the increasing demands of the users, the growing number of p- grams and the sharing of information, competences and services thanks to the generalization ofdatabasesandcommunication networks.

This book contains the proceedings of the 2nd EuroPKI Workshop - EuroPKI 2005, held at the University of Kent in the city of Canterbury, UK, 30 June-1 July 2005.

The 15th Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing was held in July 2002 at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Volume IV of the Transactions on Rough Sets (TRS) introduces a number of new advances in the theory and application of rough sets.

Welcome to the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Scale-Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision.

Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) was established in 2004 by the Asian information retrieval community after the successful series of Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL) workshops held in six different locations in Asia, starting from 1996.

Dear delegates,friendsand membersofthe growingKES professionalcommunity,w- come to the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and IntelligentInformationandEngineeringSystemshostedbyLa TrobeUniversityin M- bourne Australia.

The 3rd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2005) was sponsored and organized by ICISA (the International Commu- cations and Information Security Association).

This volume contains papers presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Mathematical Methods, Models and Architectures for Computer Network - curity (MMM-ACNS 2005) held in St.

Welcome to the proceedings of the Power-Aware Computer Systems (PACS 2004) workshop held in conjunction with the 37th Annual International Sym- sium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-37).

In this volume we present the contributions for the 18th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2005).

As software systems become ubiquitous, the issues of dependability become more and more crucial.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2005), that took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 12-15, 2005.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA 2005, held in Hilton Rye Town, NY, USA, in July 2005.

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ETAPS 2005 was the eighth instance of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software.

The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics.

* Semantics in data visualization * Semantic services for mobile users * Supporting tools * Applications of semantic-driven approaches These topics are to be understood as specifically related to semantic issues.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Knowledge Management MKM 2005 held July 15-17, 2005 at - ternational University Bremen, Germany.

On behalf of the Program Committee, it is our pleasure to present to you the proceedings of the 2nd GI SIG SIDAR Conference on Detection of Intrusions & Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA).