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All modern industries rely on large and complex software systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, AICS 2009, held in Dublin, Ireland in August 2009.

The book presents a representative selection of all publications published between 01/2009 and 06/2010 in various books, journals and conference proceedings by the researchers of the institute cluster: IMA - Institute of Information Management in Mechanical Engineering ZLW - Center for Learning and Knowledge Management IfU - Institute for Management Cybernetics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University The contributions address the cluster's five core research fields: suitable processes for knowledge- and technology-intensive organizations, next-generation teaching and learning concepts for universities and the economy, cognitive IT-supported processes for heterogeneous and cooperative systems, target group-adapted user models for innovation and technology development processes, semantic networks and ontologies for complex value chains and virtual environments Innovative fields of application such as cognitive systems, autonomous truck convoys, telemedicine, ontology engineering, knowledge and information management, learning models and technologies, organizational development and management cybernetics are presented.

The tenth campaign of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for European languages was held from January to September 2009.

The13thInternationalConferenceonMedicalImageComputingandComputer- Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2010, was held in Beijing, China from 20-24 September,2010.

This volume represents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovation through Knowledge Transfer, InnovationKT'2010, organised jointly by KES International and the Institute of Knowledge Transfer, and taking place in Coventry, UK on 7&8 December 2010.

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The conference series BIR (Business Informatics Research) was established 10 years ago in Rostock as an initiative of researchers from Swedish and German universities.

This edited book is intended for use by students, academics and practitioners who take interest in outsourcing and offshoring of information technology and business pr- esses.

This book constitutes the post-proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS 2010) , held at the CAiSE 2010 conference in Hammamet, Tunisia, June 7-8, 2010.

The13thInternationalConferenceonMedicalImageComputingandComputer- Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2010, was held in Beijing, China from 20-24 September,2010.

The13thInternationalConferenceonMedicalImageComputingandComputer- Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2010, was held in Beijing, China from 20-24 September,2010.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in simulation on supercomputers.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Collaboration Researchers' International Working Group Conference on Collaboration and Technology, held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in September 2010.

The 5th International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality, MIAR 2010, was held at the China National Convention Center (CNCC), B- jing, China on September 19-20, 2010.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the SecondInternational Conference on Advances in Communication, Network, andComputing, CNC 2011, held in Bangalore, India, in March 2011.

The BPM Conference series has established itself as the premier forum for - searchersintheareaofbusinessprocessmanagementandprocess-awareinfor- tion systems.

The 2010 International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation (LSMS 2010) and the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment (ICSEE 2010) were formed to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of life system modeling/simulation and intelligent computing applied to worldwide sustainable energy and environmental applications.

A Message from the TAIC PART 2010 General Chair TAIC PART is a unique event that strives to combine aspects of a conference, a workshop and a retreat.

The 2010 edition of the European Conference on Computer Vision was held in Heraklion, Crete.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2010, held on Jeju Island, South Korea, in September 2010.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Active Media Technology, AMT 2010, held in Toronto, Canada, in August 2010.

The 2010 edition of the European Conference on Computer Vision was held in Heraklion, Crete.

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The commercial exploitation of distributed computing technologies is slowly starting to become popular under the general area of cloud computing.

The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA 2010) was held in Varna, Bulgaria, during September 8-10, 2010.

The VLDB Secure Data Management Workshop was held for the 7th time this year.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2011, held in Torino, Italy, in April 2011 colocated with the Evo* 2011 events.

The 2010 International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation (LSMS 2010) and the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment (ICSEE 2010) were formed to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of life system modeling/simulation and intelligent computing applied to worldwide sustainable energy and environmental applications.