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This book explores the unique experiences of Thai-speaking minority students within Malaysia's multilingual educational landscape.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-based Simulation, MABS 2008, held in Estoril, Portugal, in May 2008.

th This volume is an edition of the papers selected from the 12 FIRA RoboWorld C- gress, held in Incheon, Korea, August 16-18, 2009.

The Second International Conference on Hybrid Learning was organized by the School of Continuing and Professional Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Macau in August 2009.

This year, we received a record high of about 180 submissions to ICWL 2007.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use, held in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, during September 14-18, 2008.

Bringing Them Under the Same Roof The Haptic and Audio Interaction Design workshop series is now in its third year.

It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS proceedings of the First World Summit on the Knowledge Society - WSKS 2008 that was organized by the Open Research Society, NGO, http://www.

In the mid 1990s, the emir of Qatar conceived the idea of a satellite channel that would further the progressive image he hoped to establish for his small Arabian/Persian Gulf state.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Hybrid Learning, ICHL 2008, held in Hong Kong, China, in August 2008.

With the considerable advances made in the quality of sensors on board commercial observation satellites, information gained from them not only became widely available, but very useful for the verification of a number of arms control treaties including the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (the NPT).

Atthestartofthe21stcentury,wearenowwellonthewaytowardsaknowled- intensive society, in which knowledge plays ever more important roles.

The postcolonial compendium aims at a compilation and brief explication of key terms used in the multidisciplinary field of forced migration and refugee studies.

The European Court of Human Rights is faced with a huge and ev- growing workload.

Intergenerational justice has been achieved if the opportunities of the members of the next generation to fulfill their needs are better than those of the members of the preceding generation.

The European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2008) was the third event of a series that started in 2006.

This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2024 edition of the Singapore Conference of Applied Psychology (SCAP) and the Malaysia Conference on Applied Psychology (MCAP), led by East Asia Research in Singapore in collaboration with the Singapore University of Technology and Design, Charles Sturt University in Australia, and Monash University Malaysia.

You are holding more than 500 pages of combined wisdom on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) in your hands!

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG 2007).

The 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI Inter- tional 2007, was held in Beijing, P.

Persuasive technology is the general class of technologies that purposefully apply psychological principles of persuasion - principles of credibility, trust, reciprocity, authority and the like - in interactive media, in the service of changing their users' attitudes and behavior.

This volume brings together the invited papers and selected participants' contributions presented at the COST 2102 International Workshop on "e;Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviours"e;, held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, March 29-31, 2007.

The papers in this volume were presented at TMRA 2007, the International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, held October 11-12, 2007, in Leipzig, Germany.

"e;One Country, Two Systems, Three Legal Orders"e; - Perspectives of Evolution - : Essays on Macau's Autonomy after the Resumption of Sovereignty by China"e; can be said, in a short preamble-like manner, to be a book that provides a comprehensive look at several issues regarding public law that arise from, or correlate with, the Chinese apex motto for reunification - One Country, Two Systems - and its implementation in Macau and Hong Kong.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2008, held in Montreal, Canada, in June 2008.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2008, held in Madrid, Spain, in June 2008.

The papers in this volume were presented at TMRA 2006, the International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, held October 11-12, 2006, in Leipzig, Germany.

Web-based learning has attracted ongoing attention for its rapid development in recent years.

This edited book offers diverse perspectives on the Palestinian refugee problem and the possible ways to facilitate its resolution.

Since 1993, PROPOR Workshops have become an important forum for - searchers involved in the Computational Processing of Portuguese,both written and spoken.

Although the school system is subject to specific national regulations, didactical issues warrant discussion on an international level.

1 In his separate opinion in the Nuclear Weapons case, Judge Mohammed Bed- oui, then the President of the International Court of Justice, called nuclear we- ons "e;the absolute evil.

The origin of the Intelligent Virtual Agents conference dates from a successful workshop on Intelligent Virtual Environments held in Brighton, UK at the 13th European Conference on Arti?

Overview The International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design was - ganized as part of the EPSRC-funded MultiVis project.

The opening ceremony and pre-conference tutorials on various related topics were held on December 21.

Professional knowledge management is imperative for the success of enterprises.

The papers in this volume were presented at the workshop "e;Topic Map Research and Applications 2005"e; held on October 6-7, 2005, in Leipzig.

An increasing number of landings of illegal migrants on the coast of Italy and Spain, but also the recent riots, car-burnings, and street battles that occurred all across France and that have been attributed to the migrant community, seem to indicate that migration is likely to stay high on the European policy agenda for some time.

Article 9 of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on the right to social security is the shortest article in the entire Covenant and for that reason alone highly abstract and vague.

We will be, sooner or later, not only handling personal computers but also mul- purpose cellular phones, complex personal digital assistants, devices that will be context-aware, and even wearable computers stitched to our clothes.