Business and Management

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

The EuropeanSymposium on Researchin Computer Security (ESORICS) has a tradition that goes back two decades.

It is our great pleasure to present the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications (MACOM) that was held in Barcelona during September 13-14, 2010.

Business information systems is a rapidly developing domain.

In this edited volume, we present the state-of-the-art views of the perspective of enterprise risk management, to include frameworks and controls in the ERM process with respect to supply chains, constructions, and project, energy, environmental and sustainable development risk management.

The First Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS 2010) took place during August 20-22, 2010 in Rebild, Denmark.

Manufacturing and operations management paradigms are evolving toward more open and resilient spaces where innovation is driven not only by ever-changing customer needs but also by agile and fast-reacting networked structures.

This volume contains the workshopproceedings of the accompanying workshops of the 14th Financial Cryptograpy and Data Security International Conference 2010, held on Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, January 25-28, 2010.

This book presents the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Trust, P- vacy and Security in Digital Business (TrustBus 2010), held in Bilbao, Spain during August 30-31, 2010.

In front of you are the proceedings of the First International Conference on Electronic Government and Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS.

In today's competitive and highly dynamic environment, organizations need new so- tions to enable them to solve modern business problems and to make decisions using integrated, trustworthy, and up-to-date data.

The Third International Conference on Network Security and Applications (CNSA-2010) focused on all technical and practical aspects of security and its applications for wired and wireless networks.

The continuous and intensive development of computer science results in the fast progress of computer networks.

On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present the proce- th ings of the 11 International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2010), held in Limerick, Ireland.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST), held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Berlin, Germany, June 21-23, 2010.

The advancementof the softwareindustry has hada substantialimpact notonly onproductivityandonGDPgrowthglobally,butalsoonourdailyworkandlife.

It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS 112 proceedings of the Third World Summit on the Knowledge Society--WSKS 2010--that was organized by the International Scientific Council for the Knowledge Society, and supported by the Open Research Society, NGO, (http://www.

TheBPMN2010workshopseriesprovidesa forumfor academicsandpractiti- ers that share an interest in business process modeling using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) which has seen a huge uptake in both academia and industry.

th I3E 2010 marked the 10 anniversary of the IFIP Conference on e-Business, e- Services, and e-Society, continuing a tradition that was invented in 1998 during the International Conference on Trends in Electronic Commerce, TrEC 1998, in Hamburg (Germany).

ACNS 2010, the 8th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, was held in Beijing, China, during June 22-25, 2010.

The PRET working conferences are set up as a one-day event in such a way that it attracts an audience from both industry and academia.

Following the success of the First MOBILIGHT 2009 in Athens, Greece, the Second International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Systems (MOBILIGHT) was held in Barcelona, Spain on May 10-12, 2010.

Global computing refers to computation over "e;global computers,"e; i.

The EUNICE (European Network of Universities and Companies in Information and Communication technology) (http://www.

This volume contains the proceedings of IFIPTM 2010, the 4th IFIP WG 11.

IBWAS 2009, the Iberic Conference on Web Applications Security, was the first international conference organized by both the OWASP Portuguese and Spanish ch- ters in order to join the international Web application security academic and industry communities to present and discuss the major aspects of Web applications security.

A typical characterization of EuroSPI is reflected in a statement made by a c- pany: "e;.

This volume contains the best papers presented at the 14th East-European C- ference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2010), held during September 20-24, 2010, in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social context based on computational systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Heinz Nixdorf Symposium, IHNS 2010, held in Paderborn, Germany, April 21-22, 2010, under the title "e;Changing Paradigms: Advanced Manufacturing and Sustainable Logistics"e;.

The Second International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA 2010) was an initiative of the COST Action IC0703 "e;Data Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: Theory, Techniques, Tools and Applications for the Future Networks"e; (http:// www.

The present book contains the proceedings of two conferences held at the World Computer Congress 2010 in Brisbane, Australia (September 20-23) organised by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

Economic perspectives in network management have recently attracted a high level of attention.

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are envisioned to enable a variety of applications including environmental monitoring, building and plant automation, homeland se- rity and healthcare.

The 2010 edition of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference was the 11th of a series of successful events.

These proceedings contain the papers of IFIP/SEC 2010.