Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes

The 5th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR05) was held in Port Douglas, Australia, on 29th - 31st July 2005, and brought together the worlds' leading experts in field and service automation.

Duringthelastfewyearsweseenetworkandinformationsystemsecurityplaying an increasingly important role in our everyday lives.

Prometheus brought fire to mankind Arthur R.

The autonomic communication paradigm has been defined mainly through the Autonomic Communications Forum (ACF) and particularly as follows: Autonomic communication is centered on selfware - an innovative approach to perform known and emerging tasks of a network control plane, both end-to-end and middle box communication-based.

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

Communication is a crucial basis for the development of each individual's social identity as well as for intellectual and commercial exchange and economic development.

The Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) brings together researchers and engineers interested in practical and theoretical problems in Internet technologies.

Welcometothe6thInternationalWorkshoponPassiveandActiveMeasurement, held in Boston, Massuchusetts.

The 5th International Conference on Adhoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks (Adhoc-Now 2006) was held during August 17-19, 2006, in Ottawa, Canada.

The papers in this volume were selected for presentation at the 15th International Meshing Roundtable, held September 17-20, 2006 in Birmingham, Alabama, U.

In today's society the issue of security has become a crucial one.

The aerospace industry increasingly relies on advanced numerical simulation tools in the early design phase.

This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series publishes the set of papers accepted for the ICQT 2006 workshop, i.

This book presents the proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (WSTST '05), May 25-27, 2005, Muroran, Japan.

The international conference Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining IIS:IIPWM'05, organized in Gda?

Context is of crucial importance for research and applications in many disciplines, as evidenced by many workshops, symposia, seminars, and conferences on specific aspects of context.

The International Conference on Networking (ICN 2005) was the fourth conf- ence in its series aimed at stimulating technical exchange in the emerging and important ?

This is a long-established international biennial conference series, organised in conjunction with the Royal Microscopical Society, Oxford, the Institute of Physics, London and the Materials Research Society, USA.

Networking 2006 was organized by the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and it was the fifth event in a series of International Conferences on Networking sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC 6).

Highperformancecomputinghaschangedthewayinwhichscienceprogresses.

This volume contains selected papers, presented at the international c- ference on Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining Conference nd IIS:IIPWM'06, organized in Ustro?

Looking back 10 years when the International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Application (AMAA) started, enormous progress has been made in reducing casualties, emissions and in increasing comfort and performance.

The Second IFIP Workshop on Autonomic Communication (WAC 2005) took place on October 2-5, 2005, in Athens, Greece.

Context-awareness is one of the drivers of the ubiquitous computing paradigm.

We present in this volume the collection of ?

ISRR, the "e;International Symposium on Robotics Research"e;, is one of robotics' pioneering symposia, which has established some of the field's most fundamental and lasting contributions over the past two decades.

Welcome to the proceedings of the Power-Aware Computer Systems (PACS 2004) workshop held in conjunction with the 37th Annual International Sym- sium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-37).

SVMs have emerged as very successful pattern recognition methods in recent years [16].

The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2005, held in Marina del Rey, California, USA in June/July 2005.

ThesearetheproceedingsoftheRoboCup2004Symposium,heldattheInstituto Superior T' ecnico, in Lisbon, Portugal in conjunction with the RoboCup c- petition.

This book contains the ceremonials and the proceedings pertaining to the Int- national Symposium CCN2005 on "e;Complex Computing-Networks: A Link between Brain-like and Wave-Oriented Electrodynamics Algorithms,"e; convened at Do ?

Welcome to ICOIN 2005,the International Conference on Information Netwo- ing, held at Ramada Plaza Jeju Hotel, Jeju Island, Korea during January 31- February2,2005.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks, QoS-IP 2005, held in Catania, Italy in February 2005.

Interest in climbing and walking robots (CLAWAR) has increased remarkably over recent years.

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.