Business and Management

The inaugural Information Security Practice and Experience Conference (ISPEC) was held on April 11-14, 2005, in Singapore.

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.

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 theme of the XML Database Symposium (XSym) is the convergence of database technology with XML technology.

The Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) brings together researchers and engineers interested in practical and theoretical problems in Internet technologies.

BPM 2006 was the fourth in a conference series that provides a forum for - searchers and practitioners in all areas of business process management.

The Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks 2006 (SCN 2006) was held in Maiori, Italy, on September 6-8, 2006.

The TCGOV 2005 international conference on e-government was held at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano during March 2-4, 2005.

This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series contains all the papersacceptedforpresentationatthe16thIFIP/IEEEInternationalWorkshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2005), which was held at the University Polit` ecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona during October 24- 26, 2005.

For 20 years, the IFIP WG 11.

The First International Conference on Digital Rights Management: Technology, Issues, Challenges and Systems (DRMTICS - pronounced 'dramatics'), took place in Sydney, Australia on 31st October - 2nd November, 2005.

The 4th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security(ACNS 2006)washeldin Singapore,during June6-9,2006.

The 7th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2006) brought together researchers and industrial practitioners for reporting new research results and exchanging experiences and findings in the area of process and product improvement.

Software reuse as an umbrella concept has been around for several decades.

We are delighted to welcome the attendees of the Fourth International Wo- shop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW).

Welcome to the second International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services (DEECS 2006) in conjunction with the 8th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology and the third IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 ?

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.

This volume contains the Research Track proceedings of the Second Information Security Practice and Experience Conference 2006 (ISPEC 2006), which took place in Hangzhou, China, April 11-14, 2006.

The 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Public-Key Cr- tography(PKC 2006) took place in New York City.

This volume contains selected papers, presented at the international c- ference on Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining Conference nd IIS:IIPWM'06, organized in Ustro?

Intelligence and security informatics (ISI) can be broadly defined as the study of the development and use of advanced information technologies and systems for national and international security-related applications.

Testing often accounts for more than 50% of the required e?

TEAA 2005 (Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture) took place as a workshop of the conference VLDB 2005 (31st International Conference on Very Large Databases) in August 2005 in Trondheim, Norway.

Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) is an initiative proposedby the Object M- agement Group (OMG) for platform-generic software development.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Trust Management, held in Paris, France, during 23-26 May 2005.

We are happy to present to you the proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Watermarking, IWDW 2004.

The UML 2004 conference was held in Lisbon (Portugal) from October 11 through October 15, 2004.