Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes

Over the last few years, the local value of mobility and information in our society has grown tremendously.

This book covers the results of the 11th and 12th Tera?

Vietnam is a rapidly developing, socially dynamic country, where interest in biomedical engineering activities has grown considerably in recent years.

Mathematical optimization encompasses both a rich and rapidly evolving body of fundamental theory, and a variety of exciting applications in science and engineering.

th This volume contains the papers selected for the 13 FIRA Robot World Congress, held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Bangalore, India, September 15-17, 2010.

Currently, around one to two billion users are able to connect to the Internet, most of them living in the industrialized parts of the world.

History of Computing: Learning from the Past Why is the history of computing important?

As more and more hardware platforms support parallelism, parallel programming is gaining momentum.

Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT) seeks an interchange of research on intelligent systems and intelligent technologies which enhance or improve decision making in industry, government and academia.

The market demands for skills, knowledge and personalities have positioned robotics as an important field in both engineering and science.

The 14th onlineWorld Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications provides a unique opportunity for soft computing researchers and practitioners to publish high quality papers and discuss research issues in detail without incurring a huge cost.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Meeting on DNA Computing, DNA15, held in Fayetteville, AR, USA, in June 2009.

This book will be a valuable source of information for those concerned with rural and farm tourism, sustainable tourism and the marketing of "e;Calibri"e;>local gastronomy.

The Second International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Security in Information Systems (CISIS'09) presented the most recent developments in the - namically expanding realm of several fields such as Data Mining and Intelligence, Infrastructure Protection, Network Security, Biometry and Industrial Perspectives.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design, HAID 2009 held in Dresden, Germany in September 2009.

rd This book constitutes a collection of extended versions of papers presented at the 23 IFIP TC7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, which was held in C- cow, Poland, on July 23-27, 2007.

We are delighted to present the proceedings of the 12th Asia-Paci?

The papers in this volume were selected for presentation at the 18th International Meshing Roundtable (IMR), held October 25-28, 2009 in Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Nano-Networks, Nano-Net 2009, held in Lucerne, Switherland, in October 2009.

Present Your Research to the World!

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.

This book covers the results of the Tera op Workbench, other projects related to High Performance Computing, and the usage of HPC installations at HLRS.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management, IPOM 2009, held in Venice, Italy, on October 29-30, 2009, as part of the 5th International Week on Management of Networks and Services, Manweek 2009.

The First Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (HiNC1) was organized in Trondheim, in June 2003.

The interest in the field of active flow control (AFC) is steadily increasing.

The First International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Systems (MOBILIGHT) was held in Athens during May 18-20, 2009.

th HESSD 2009 was the 7 IFIP WG 13.

The aim of the present book is to show, in a broad and yet deep way, the state of the art in computational science and engineering.

Intelligent computing covers a hybrid palette of methods and techniques - rived from classical arti?

This book constitutes the proceedings of the second International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence (IWACI 2009), with a sequel of IWACI 2008 successfully held in Macao, China.

This volume contains description of experimental and numerical results obtained in the UFAST project.

This book is the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Fuzzy Information and Engineering (ICFIE 2009) held in the famous mountain city Chongqing in Southwestern China, from September 26-29, 2009.

Software systems for wireless and mobile communications are a key component in pervasive computing and are crucial for the materialization of easy-to-use and intel- gent services that people can use ubiquitously.

The 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI Inter- tional 2009, was held in San Diego, California, USA, July 19-24, 2009, jointly with the Symposium on Human Interface (Japan) 2009, the 8th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, the 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, the Third International Conf- ence on Virtual and Mixed Reality, the Third International Conference on Internati- alization, Design and Global Development, the Third International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, the 5th International Conference on Augmented Cognition, the Second International Conference on Digital Human Mod- ing, and the First International Conference on Human Centered Design.

"e;Advanced Tribology"e; is the proceedings of the 5th China International Symposium on Tribology (held every four years) and the 1st International Tribology Symposium of IFToMM, held in Beijing 24th-27th September 2008.

This Proceedings volume contains articles presented at the CIRP-Sponsored Inter- tional Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology (DET2009) that takes place December 14-16, 2009 in Hong Kong.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology, RSKT 2009, held in Gold Coast, Australia, in July 2009.

This book was compiled from contributions given at the 7th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation, May 4-8, 2009, Berlin (IAA - International Academy of Astronautics).

This third issue on "e;progress in turbulence"e; is based on the third ITI conference (ITI interdisciplinary turbulence initiative), which took place in Bertinoro, North Italy.