Economics, Finance, Business and Management

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, Networking 2010.

On behalf of the Program Committee, it is our pleasure to present the p- ceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection systems (RAID 2009),which took place in Saint-Malo,France, during September 23-25.

These proceedings present the technical contributions to the First Conference on A- tions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications (AMMA), held May 8-9, 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

We are extremely pleased to present a comprehensive book comprising a collection of research papers which is basically an outcome of the Second IFIP TC 13.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management, IPOM 2009, held in Venice, Italy, on October 29-30, 2009, as part of the 5th International Week on Management of Networks and Services, Manweek 2009.

The First Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (HiNC1) was organized in Trondheim, in June 2003.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, PETS 2009, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in August 2009.

Recent economic, political, and technological forces are changing the landscape of electronic business and electronic commerce.

CollaborateCom is an annual international forum for dissemination of original ideas and research results in collaborative computing networks, systems, and applications.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 5.

The research of holonic and agent-based systems is developing very rapidly.

SEAFOOD 2009: Enabling Global Partnerships to Deliver on Business Needs Companies have been outsourcing areas of software development work for many years, either because of the engineering challenges or because the outsourced aspect is not central to their core business.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2009, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in July 2009.

th Ten years ago, the 5 edition of the EUNICE Summer School took place in Barcelona with the motto "e;Broadband for all.

These proceedings contain the papers presented at the Third International ICST C- ference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems, Autonomics 2009, held at the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus, during September 9-11, 2009.

The 2009 Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy was the 14th in an annual series that started in 1996.

Software systems for wireless and mobile communications are a key component in pervasive computing and are crucial for the materialization of easy-to-use and intel- gent services that people can use ubiquitously.

First established in August 1988, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has shaped the landscape of modern transaction processing and database benchmarks over two decades.

This Proceedings volume contains articles presented at the CIRP-Sponsored Inter- tional Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology (DET2009) that takes place December 14-16, 2009 in Hong Kong.

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The continuous and very intense development of IT has resulted in the fast development of computer networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2009, held in New Orleans, LA, USA in June 2009.

This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series contains the papers accepted for presentation at the Third International Conference on Autonomous - frastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2009).

Models have become essential for supporting the development, analysis and e- lution of large-scale and complex IT systems.

The 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI Inter- tional 2009, was held in San Diego, California, USA, July 19-24, 2009, jointly with the Symposium on Human Interface (Japan) 2009, the 8th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, the 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, the Third International Conf- ence on Virtual and Mixed Reality, the Third International Conference on Internati- alization, Design and Global Development, the Third International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, the 5th International Conference on Augmented Cognition, the Second International Conference on Digital Human Mod- ing, and the First International Conference on Human Centered Design.

I was invited to join the Organizing Committee of the First International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (Complex 2009) as its ninth member.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 6.

The 2009 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM 2009) was held in Shanghai, China 7-8 November 2009.

This research book, dedicated to Professor David Gale on his 100th birthday, compiles significant new findings by renowned experts in mathematical economics related to Gale's work.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications, GridNets 2008, held in Beijing, China in October 2008.

On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present the proce- th ings of the 10 International Conference on Product Focused Software Process - provement (PROFES 2009), held in Oulu, Finland.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 11.

The First Future Internet Symposium was held during September 28-30, 2008 in Vienna, Austria.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 7th International Working Conference on Active and Programmable Networks (IWAN 2005) that was held during November 21-23, 2005, in Sophia Antipolis, Cote d' Azur, France, jointly organized by Hitachi Europe and INRIA.

Data Analysis, Data Handling and Business Intelligence are research areas at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, and statistics.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2008, held in Beijing, China, in December 2008.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers presented at five international workshops held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2008, in Sydney, Australia, in December 2008.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom2008, held in Paris, France, on December 13, 2008.

Snow fell quietly the night before and the morning sun was shining brightly under the blue sky the next day.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on E-Technologies, MCETECH 2009, held in Ottawa, Canada, during May 4-6, 2009.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2008, held in Seoul, Korea, during December 3-5, 2008.

This book constitutes a collection of the best papers selected from the 12 workshops and 3 tutorials held in conjunction with MODELS 2008, the 11th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, in Toulouse, France, September 28 - October 3, 2008.