Electronics and communications engineering

This book offers a multifaceted exploration of cybersecurity through the lenses of policy, ethics, and advanced technology.

This book offers a multifaceted exploration of cybersecurity through the lenses of policy, ethics, and advanced technology.

This book reports on innovative research and developments in the broad field of transportation.

This book reports on innovative research and developments in the broad field of transportation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Evolutionary Robotics, ER 2001, held in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2001.

This book provides a new direction in the field of nano-optics and nanophotonics from information and computing-related sciences and technology.

Effective evacuation of people from closed spaces is an extremely important topic, since it can save real lives in emergency situations that can be brought about by natural and human made disasters.

Information extraction (IE) is a new technology enabling relevant content to be extracted from textual information available electronically.

In defining the state of the art of E-Government, EGOV 2002 was aimed at breaking new ground in the development of innovative solutions in this impor- tant field of the emerging Information Society.

Mobile agents refer to self-contained and identi?

These are the proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, held in Modena, Italy, September 6-8, 2001.

Multimodal Interfaces represents an emerging interdisciplinary research direction and has become one of the frontiers in Computer Science.

Originating from a Dagstuhl seminar, the collection of papers presented in this book constitutes on the one hand a representative state-of-the-art survey of embodied artificial intelligence, and on the other hand the papers identify the important research trends and directions in the field.

Thisbookcontainstherefereedproceedingsofthe1stIFIP-TC6WorkingCon- rence on Wireless-On-Demand Network Systems, WONS 2004.

In this book for the first time two scientific fields - consensus formation and synchronization of communications - are presented together and examined through their interrelational aspects, of rapidly growing importance.

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.