Mathematics

TheAsiaInformationRetrievalSymposium(AIRS)wasestablishedbytheAsian information retrieval community after the successful series of Information - trieval with Asian Languages (IRAL) workshops held in six di?

Highperformancecomputinghaschangedthewayinwhichscienceprogresses.

The 2nd Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA 2004) focused on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems.

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.

Theformulationofmanypracticalproblemsnaturallyinvolvesconstraintsonthe variables entering the mathematical model of a real-life situation to be analyzed.

Welcome to the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Scale-Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Knowledge Management MKM 2005 held July 15-17, 2005 at - ternational University Bremen, Germany.

SVMs have emerged as very successful pattern recognition methods in recent years [16].

The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2005, held in Marina del Rey, California, USA in June/July 2005.

The 32nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2005) was held in Lisbon, Portugal from July 11 to July 15, 2005.

This volume contains the Proceedings of ICFCA 2005, the 3rd International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis.

The third Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA 2005) focused on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems.

One of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century is how to master, organize and extract useful knowledge from the overwhelming flow of information made available by today's data acquisition systems and computing resources.

Economic application of nonlinear dynamics, microscopic agent-based modelling, and the use of artificial intelligence techniques as learning devices of boundedly rational actors are among the most exciting interdisciplinary ventures of economic theory over the past decade.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 15th Annual International Sym- sium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2004), held in Hong Kong, 20-22 December, 2004.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis, held December 1-3, 2004, in Auckland, New Zealand.

This book contains a collection of original and state-of-the-art contributions in rational choice and general equilibrium theory.

This volume of High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering is fully dedicated to the final report of KONWIHR, the Bavarian Competence Network for Technical and Scientific High Performance Computing.

Thereexistawiderangeofapplicationswhereasigni?

These proceedings are the fifth in the series Traffic and Granular Flow, and we hope they will be as useful a reference as their predecessors.

The articles in this volume summarize the research results obtained in the former SFB 359 "e;Reactive Flow, Diffusion and Transport"e; which has been supported by the DFG over the period 1993-2004.

ECMI has a brand name in Industrial Mathematics and organises successful biannual conferences.

This volume presents results of the International Meshing Roundtable conference organized by Sandia National Laboratories held in September 2005.

Multiscale problems naturally pose severe challenges for computational science and engineering.