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.
This book contains the best papers of the 4th International Conference on E-business and Telecommunications (ICETE), which was held during July 28-31, 2007 in Barcelona, Spain.
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.
This textbook is intended for use by SPI (Software Process Improvement) managers and researchers, quality managers, and experienced project and research managers.
The Grid computing concept, which allows users to integrate administratively and g- graphically dispersed computing resources, has been gaining traction in a number of application areas during the past few years.
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.
EGOV 2007 was the sixth edition of this highly successful series of annual int- national conferences dedicated to electronic government research and practice.
