Information theory

Content-oriented XML retrieval has been receiving increasing interest due to the widespread use of eXtensible Markup Language (XML), which is becoming a standard document format on the Web, in digital libraries,and publishing.

These are the proceedings of the 24th Annual IACR Eurocrypt Conference.

The 11th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2006) was held in Melbourne, 3-5 July, 2006.

Thisvolumecontainsrefereedpapersdevotedtocodingandcryptography.

Introduction The dramatic increase in available computer storage capacity over the last 10 years has led to the creation of very large databases of scienti?

The4thInternationalWorkshoponKnowledgeDiscoveryinInductiveDatabases (KDID 2005) was held in Porto, Portugal, on October 3, 2005 in conjunction with the 16th European Conference on Machine Learning and the 9th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases.

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.

The KDXD 2006 (Knowledge Discovery from XML Documents) workshop is the ?

Computing in context has become a necessity in modern and intelligent IT - plications.

TEAA 2005 (Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture) took place as a workshop of the conference VLDB 2005 (31st International Conference on Very Large Databases) in August 2005 in Trondheim, Norway.

The series of International Conferences on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) is an established and prestigious forum for the exchange of the latest research results in data management.

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.

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

This book is an extended collection of revised contributions that were initially submitted to the International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2005).

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.

Juval Portugali The notion of complex artificial environments (CAE) refers to theories of c- plexity and self-organization, as well as to artifacts in general, and to artificial - vironments, such as cities, in particular.

This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the 3rd Interna- tional Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005) that is held at Awara-Spa, Fukui, Japan, September 20-22, 2005.

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 first SKLOIS Conference on Information Security and Cryptography(CISC 2005) was organized by the State Key Laboratory of Information Security of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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

Leading-edge research groups in the field of scientific computing present their outstanding projects using the High Performance Computer in Bavaria (HLRB), Hitachi SR8000-F1, one of the top-level supercomputers for academic research in Germany.

The 9th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems was held on September 12-15, 2005, in Tallinn, Estonia.

DEXA 2005, the 16th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, was held at the Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, from August 22 to 26, 2005.

The INDOCRYPT series of conferences started in 2000.

Understanding the mechanism of a socio-economic system requires more than an understanding of the individuals that comprise the system.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2025, held in Modena, Italy, during December 16–19, 2025.

This book offers an in-depth review of kinetically constrained models (KCMs), a topic that lies at the crossroads of probability and statistical mechanics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference, The Inclusive Web: Realizing Safe, Accessible, Inclusive, and Sustainable Web Engineering, ICWE 2025, held in Delft, The Netherlands, during June 30–July 3, 2025.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference, The Inclusive Web: Realizing Safe, Accessible, Inclusive, and Sustainable Web Engineering, ICWE 2025, held in Delft, The Netherlands, during June 30–July 3, 2025.

This book introduces qualitative methods for understanding differential equations, especially when analytical solutions are not possible.

This book introduces qualitative methods for understanding differential equations, especially when analytical solutions are not possible.

This textbook takes the reader on a tour of the most important landmarks of theoretical physics: classical, quantum, and statistical mechanics, relativity, electrodynamics, as well as the most modern and exciting of all: elementary particles and the physics of fractals.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2025, held in Modena, Italy, during December 16–19, 2025.

This textbook is designed to introduce and deepen the understanding of drone technology in the field of forensic science.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the satellite events held at the XXX Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2025, held in Portoroz, Slovenia, during June 1–2, 2025.