Business and Management

The 6th Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (TES-05) was held September 2-3, 2005, in conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2005) in Trondheim, Norway.

The RSA R Conference, with over 15,000attendees, as well as over 225 sponsors and exhibitors, is the largest computer security event of the year.

The Internet has now become an integral part of everyday life for hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Six parallel Business Process Management workshops were held on September 5th, 2005, in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2005) in Nancy, France.

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

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

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.

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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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).

The 9th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2005) was held in the Commonwealth of Dominica from February 28 to March 3, 2005.

This volume contains the proceedings of Formal Methods 2005, the 13th InternationalSymposiumonFormalMethodsheldinNewcastleuponTyne,UK, during July 18-22, 2005.

The 4th International Conference on Security in Communication Networks 2004 (SCN2004)washeldatthe"e;DioceseHall"e;oftheArchdioceseofAmal?

It was our great pleasure to extend a welcome to all who participated in SERA 2004, the second International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, held at the Omni Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks, QoS-IP 2005, held in Catania, Italy in February 2005.

The Seventh International Conference on Information and Communications - curity,ICICS2005,washeldinBeijing,China,10-13December2005.

It is an honor and great pleasure to write a preface for this postproceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Information Hiding.

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, through an integrated technological, organizational, and policy-based approach.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2005), organized by LORIA in Nancy, France, September 5-8, 2005.

This volume contains papers presented at SPW 2005, the Software Process Workshop held in Beijing, P.

In September 2003, Athens University of Economics & Business hosted the third in a series of international research symposia held under the a- pices of the ECR Europe Academic Partnership and ECR Journal: Inter- tional Commerce Review.

It is our great pleasure to introduce the papers of the proceedings of the 9th - ternational Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases - SSTD 2005.

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The challenge faced in today's manufacturing and business environments is the question of how to satisfy increasingly stringent customer requirements while managing growing system complexity.

On behalf of the Program Committee, it is our pleasure to present the proceedings of the 8th Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2005), which took place in Seattle, Washington, USA, September 7-9, 2005.

The 5th International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA 2004) was held in Jeju Island, Korea during August 23-25, 2004.

Sincerely welcome to the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Trust, Privacy, would be and Security in Digital Business, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from August 22nd till 26th, 2005.

It was a pleasure to take part in the 2005 European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS 2005), held on July 13-14 in Visegrad (Hungary) in conjunction with the First International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON) .

On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present to you the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2005), held in Oulu, Finland.

This volume contains the papers presented at the 12th SDL Forum, Grimstad, Norway.

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SAC 2004 was the eleventh in a series of annual workshops on Selected Areas in Cryptography.

DEXA 2005, the 16th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, was held at the Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, from August 22 to 26, 2005.

The 19th Annual Meeting of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming-ECOOP 2005-took place during the last week of July in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

The theme "e;Build and Conquer"e; chosen for this year's conference fully represents what we (the organizers) want to put across to the software community: software development is an engineering discipline, and not an artistic expression.