Electronics and communications engineering

Synchronization of chaotic systems, a patently nonlinear phenomenon, has emerged as a highly active interdisciplinary research topic at the interface of physics, biology, applied mathematics and engineering sciences.

The portable device and mobile phone market has witnessed rapid growth in the last few years with the emergence of several revolutionary products such as mobile TV, converging iPhone and digital cameras that combine music, phone and video functionalities into one device.

The International Conference on Networking (ICN01) is the first conference in its series aimed at stimulating technical exchange in the emerging and important field of networking.

It is our great pleasure and honor to organize the First IEEE Computer Society International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV 2000).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 Eighth - ternational Conference on Personal Wireless Communications, PWC 2003.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Inclusive Design as a framework for developing products, services, environments, and learning experiences that enable the diversity and differing abilities of human populations.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Inclusive Design as a framework for developing products, services, environments, and learning experiences that enable the diversity and differing abilities of human populations.

This book presents a comprehensive framework for integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Internet of Things (IoT) networks.

This book presents a comprehensive framework for integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Internet of Things (IoT) networks.

Reinforcement learning has developed as a successful learning approach for domains that are not fully understood and that are too complex to be described in closed form.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Active Networks, IWAN'99, held in Berlin, Germany in June/July 1999.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Conference on Information Networking, ICOIN 2003, held at Cheju Island, Korea in February 2003.

This book contains the papers presented at the 13th International Workshop on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) held on September 1-3, 2003.

Robotic agents, such as autonomous office couriers or robot tourguides, must be both reliable and efficient.

On behalf of the Organizing and Program Committees of the 3rd European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN 2004), it is our great pleasure to introduce the proceedings of ECUMN 2004, which was held during October 25-27, 2004, in Porto, Portugal.

This book contains the written contributions to the program of the First In- ternational Conference on Computer Vision, Virtual Reality, and Robotics in Medicine (CVRMed'95) held in Nice during the period April 3-6, 1995.

This volume is the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Multimedia Content Processing (AMCP '98).

The 1999 International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Sys- tems and Telecommunication Services (IDMS) in Toulouse is the sixth in a se- ries that started in 1992.

The first international workshop on Intelligent Agents for Telecommunications Applications (IATA'96) was held in July 1996 in Budapest during the XII European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI'96.

The International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization, and Simulation PATMOS 2002, was the 12th in a series of international workshops 1 previously held in several places in Europe.

Industrial robots carry out simple tasks in customized environments for which it is typical that nearly all e?

The phenomenal increases in computer system performance in recent years have been accompanied by a commensurate increase in power and energy dissipation.

Thousands of mini computers (comparable to a stick of chewing gum in size), equipped with sensors, are deployed in some terrain or other.

In this book the author employs a cybernetic view of robot cognition and perception as he examines mobile robot simulations, realizations and experiments, and explains the related mathematical models and algorithms.

Enabling group communication is one of the major challenges for the future Internet.

The IFIP TC-6 9th International Conference on Personal Wireless Communi- tions, PWC 2004 is the main conference of the IFIP Working Group 6.

Chaos and nonlinear dynamics initially developed as a new emergent field with its foundation in physics and applied mathematics.

Physicalsystemswhichrightthemselvesafterbeingdisturbedevokeourcuriosity becausewe wantto understand howsuchsystemsareableto reactto unexpected stimuli.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI'98, held in Cambridge, MA, USA, in October 1998.

For many years, Arti?

Peer-to-peer has emerged as a promising new paradigm for large-scale distributed computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2001, held in Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic in September 2001.