Information theory

Since its first edition in 2003, the XML Database Symposium series (XSym) has been a forum for academics, practitioners, users and vendors to discuss the use of and synergy between databases and XML.

The series of East European Conferences on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS) is an established and prestigious forum for the exchange of the latest research results in data management.

* Semantic caching * Data warehousing and semantic data mining * Spatial, temporal, multimedia and multimodal semantics * Semantics in data visualization * Semantic services for mobile users * Supporting tools * Applications of semantic-driven approaches These topics are to be understood as specifically related to semantic issues.

This book contains the best papers of the Third International Conference on E-business and Telecommunications (ICETE), which was held in 2006 in Portugal.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption, FSE 2008, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in February 2008.

This volume contains results gained from the EU-funded 5th Framework project, FLOMANIA (Flow Physics Modelling - An Integrated Approach).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields, WAIFI 2008, held in Siena, Italy, in July 2008.

The annual international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) is now well established as a reference scientific event.

Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery have been widely accepted as key te- nologies for enterprises and organizations to improve their abilities in data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge from data.

This volume contains the papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Source Separation held in L- don, 9-12 September 2007, at Queen Mary, University of London.

BNCOD has, for the past 27 years, provided a forum for researchers world-wide to gather to discuss the topical issues in databaseresearch.

In June of 2002, over 500 professors, students and researchers met in Boston, Massachusetts for the Fourth International Conference on Complex Systems.

This proceedings volume consists of selected papers presented at the Ninth Int- national Conference on Computer-Aided Scheduling of Public Transport (CASPT 2004), which was held at the Hilton San Diego Resort and Conference Center in San Diego, California, USA, from August 9-11, 2004.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Cryptology hosted in Africa, held in Casablanca, Morocco, in June 2008.

Computational science based on the high-level use of computers has been called the third major method in the field of scientific research, standing alongside the conventional methods of theory and experiment.

The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics.

Provenance is a well understood concept in the study of ?

Providing computer support for tasks in civil engineering and architecture is hard.

Welcome to SAFECOMP 2006, the 25th International Conference on Computer Safety, Security and Reliability, held in Gdansk,Poland.

This volume contains the papers presented at the 13th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), held October 11-13, 2006, in Glasgow, Scotland.

The two premier annual European conferences in the areas of machine learning anddatamining havebeencollocatedeversincethejointconferenceinFreiburg, Germany,2001.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, SAFECOMP 2005, held in Fredrikstad, Norway, in September 2005.

Developing software for current and especially for future architectures will require knowledge about parallel programming techniques of applications and library p- grammers.

Fast Software Encryption (FSE) 2006 is the 13th in a series of workshops on symmetric cryptography.

In recent years, scientists have applied the principles of complex systems science to increasingly diverse fields.

In recent years, scientists have applied the principles of complex systems science to increasingly diverse fields.

The theme of this symposium was operator algebras in a wide sense.

The 5th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR05) was held in Port Douglas, Australia, on 29th - 31st July 2005, and brought together the worlds' leading experts in field and service automation.

This volume contains the refereed proceedings of the 3rd International Conf- ence on Sequences and Their Applications (SETA 2004), held in Seoul, Korea during October 24-28, 2004.

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

For more than a decade, data warehousing together with knowledge discovery technology have made up the key technology for the decision-making process in companies.

- semantic caching - data warehousing and semantic data mining - spatial, temporal, multimedia and multimodal semantics - semantics in data visualization - semantic services for mobile users - supporting tools - applications of semantic-driven approaches These topics are to be understood as speci?

Recent developments in computer, communication, and information techno- gies, along with increasingly interconnected networks and mobility have est- lished new emerging technologies, such as ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence, as a very important and unavoidablepartof everydaylife.

This volume presents revised and extended versions of selected papers presented at the Joint Workshop on Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, a workshop federated with the 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2004), which was held in New York City, USA, July 19-23, 2004.