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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.

This book contains the ceremonials and the proceedings pertaining to the Int- national Symposium CCN2005 on "e;Complex Computing-Networks: A Link between Brain-like and Wave-Oriented Electrodynamics Algorithms,"e; convened at Do ?

Man has been pondering for centuries over the basis of his own ethical and aesthetic values.

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.

We present in this volume the collection of finally accepted papers of the eighth edition of the "e;IWANN"e; conference ("e;International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks"e;).

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.

The1stand2ndInternationalConferencesonFunctionalImagingandModelling of the Heart (FIMH) were held in Helsinki, Finland, in November 2001, and in Lyon, France, in June 2003.

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.

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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 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Optics for Industry and Me- cine took place in Munster, * Germany, from October 19 to October 24, 2003.

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.

Proceedings of the Baroda Workshop on Nanomaterials, Magnetic Ions and Magnetic Semiconductors studied mostly by Hyperfine Interactions (IWNMS 2004), held in Baroda, India, 10-14 February, 2004.

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

ThisvolumeispublishedastheproceedingsoftheRussian-GermanAdvanced Research workshop on Computational Science and High Performance C- puting in Novosibirsk Academgorodok in September 2003.

Proceedings of the 9th Latin American Conference on the Applications of the Mossbauer Effect, LACAME 2004, held in Mexico City, Mexico, 19-24 September 2004.

This volume is the first part of the two-volume proceedings of the International C- ference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2005), held on September 11-15, 2005 in Warsaw, Poland, with several accompanying workshops held on September 15, 2005 at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toru , Poland.

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.

This volume contains revised papers that were presented at the international workshop entitled Computational Methods for Algebraic Spline Surfaces ("e;COMPASS"e;), which was held from September 29 to October 3, 2003, at Schlo Weinberg, Kefermarkt (A- tria).

Since 1995, when Costas Fotakis first brought together restorers and scientists to discuss the potential of lasers in art conservation, the field has grown enormously in importance, and today restorers and laser scientists work together to develop new applications.

This volume contains the papers presented at the 9th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2005), which was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 14-18, 2005.

The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) is a leading international conference in the area of data mining and knowledge discovery.

Besides turbulence, there is hardly any other scientific topic which has been considered a prominent scientific challenge for such a long time.

Multiresolution methods in geometric modelling are concerned with the generation, representation, and manipulation of geometric objects at several levels of detail.