Business mathematics and systems

The 8th International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA 2007) was held on Jeju Island, Korea during August 27-29, 2007.

SAC 2007 was the 14th in a series of annual workshops on Selected Areas in Cryptography.

Data analysis and machine learning are research areas at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics and statistics.

Voting and identity have a very delicate relationship.

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The 11th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2007, http://fc07.

th It is our great pleasure to present this volume of the proceedings of the 10 edition of Information Hiding (IH 2008).

ASIACRYPT 2007 was held in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, during December 2-6, 2007.

This book contains the best papers of the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007), held in the city of Funchal, Madeira (Portugal), organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and the University of Madeira, in collaboration with ACM/SIGMIS and AAAI.

Embedded and ubiquitous computing systems have considerably increased their scope of application over the past few years, and they now also include missi- and business-critical scenarios.

This book contains the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business (TrustBus 2008), held in Turin, Italy on 4-5 September 2008.

On behalf of the Program Committee, it is our pleasure to present the p- ceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2008), which took place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA on September 15-17.

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th Thisvolumecontainsthepaperspresentedatthe13 SDL Forum,Paris,France entitled "e;Design for Dependable Systems"e; and re?

Thisvolumecontainsallofthe Research-Track,Industry-TrackandDemo-Track papers that were selected for presentation at the Fifth International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2007), which was held in Vienna, A- tria, September 17-20, 2007.

This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series contains all papers th accepted for presentation at the 18 IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2007), which was held in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose, California, USA, on October 29-31, 2007.

This volume contains papers presented at the International Conference on Software Process (ICSP 2008) held in Leipzig, Germany, during May 10-11, 2008.

The International Workshop on Security (IWSEC 2007) was the second in the annualseriesthat startedin 2006.

The RSA Conference is the largest regularly-staged computer security event, with over 350 vendors and many thousands of attendees.

EGOV 2007 was the sixth edition of this highly successful series of annual int- national conferences dedicated to electronic government research and practice.

The International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR) is the pre-eminent international meeting on case-based reasoning (CBR).

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Dagstuhl Seminar "e;Negotiation and Market Engineering"e; held for one week in November 2006, in Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.