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The papers in this volume comprise the refereed proceedings of the Second IFIP... The papers in this volume comprise the refereed proceedings of the Second IFIP International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA2008) in Beijing China 2008. The conference on the Second IFIP International... more

Cost-Efficient Development of Virtual Sales Assistants.- Cost-Efficient Develo... Cost-Efficient Development of Virtual Sales Assistants.- Cost-Efficient Development of Virtual Sales Assistants.- Security of Linguistic Threshold Schemes in Multimedia Systems.- Surveillance Camera Tracking of Geo positioned Objects.- Distributed... more

This book is about synergy in computational intelligence (CI). It is a c- lect... This book is about synergy in computational intelligence (CI). It is a c- lection of chapters that covers a rich and diverse variety of computer-based techniques all involving some aspect of computational intelligence but each one taking a somewhat... more

WSC2008Chair s Welcome Message Dear Colleague The World Soft Computing (WSC) c... WSC2008Chair s Welcome Message Dear Colleague The World Soft Computing (WSC) conference is an annual international online conference on applied and theoretical soft computing technology. This WSC 2008 is the thirteenth conference in this series and... more

The International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intel- gen... The International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intel- gence (DCAI´10) is an annual forum that brings together past experience current work and promising future trends associated with distributed computing artificial... more

Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 9th Inter... Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems more

Database Systems: The Complete Book is ideal for Database Systems and Database... Database Systems: The Complete Book is ideal for Database Systems and Database Design and Application courses offered at the junior senior and graduate levels in Computer Science departments. A basic understanding of algebraic expressions and laws... more

For the past decade or so Computational Intelligence (CI) has been an - tremel... For the past decade or so Computational Intelligence (CI) has been an - tremely hot topic amongst researchers working in the ?elds of biomedicine and bioinformatics. There are many successful applications of CI in such areas ascomputationalgenomics... more

COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS Becoming a pervasive paradigm In recent years the area ... COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS Becoming a pervasive paradigm In recent years the area of collaborative networks is being consolidated as a new discipline (Camarinha-Matos Afsarmanesh 2005) that encompasses and gives more structured support to a large... more

The database industry is a multi-billion world-wide all-encompassing part of t... The database industry is a multi-billion world-wide all-encompassing part of the software world. Quantifiers in Action: Generalized Quantification in Query Logical and Natural Languages introduces a query language called GQs-Generalized... more

Argumentation is all around us. Letters to the Editor often make points of con... Argumentation is all around us. Letters to the Editor often make points of cons- tency and Why is one of the most frequent questions in language asking for r- sons behind behaviour. And argumentation is more than reasoning in the recesses of single... more

Algorithmic discrete mathematics plays a key role in the development of inform... Algorithmic discrete mathematics plays a key role in the development of information and communication technologies and methods that arise in computer science mathematics and operations research - in particular in algorithms computational complexity... more

Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 2: Approximation Reasoning: T... Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 2: Approximation Reasoning: Theoretical Foundations and Applications Human reasoning usually is very approximate and involves various types of - certainties. Approximate reasoning is the computational... more

The First Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (HiNC1) was organized ... The First Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (HiNC1) was organized in Trondheim in June 2003. The HiNC1 event focused on the early years of computing that is the years from the 1940s through the 1960s although it formally extended to year... more

INTERACT 2009 was the 12th of a series of INTERACT international c- ferences s... INTERACT 2009 was the 12th of a series of INTERACT international c- ferences supported by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human-Computer Interaction. This year INTERACT washeld in Uppsala (Sweden) organizedby the Swedish Interdisciplinary... more

The two-volume set LNCS 5761 and LNCS 5762 constitute the refereed proceedings... The two-volume set LNCS 5761 and LNCS 5762 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention MICCAI 2009 held in London UK in September 2009. Based on rigorous peer... more

Visual informatics is a field of interest not just among the information techn... Visual informatics is a field of interest not just among the information technology and computer science community but also other related fields such as engineering me- cal and health informatics and education starting in the early 1990s. Recently... more

Computational collective intelligence (CCI) is most often understood as a subf... Computational collective intelligence (CCI) is most often understood as a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) dealing with soft computing methods that enable group decisions to be made or knowledge to be processed among autonomous units acting... more

Large volumes of data and complex problems inspire research in computing and d... Large volumes of data and complex problems inspire research in computing and data text and Web mining. However analyzing data is not sufficient as it has to be presented visually with analytical capabilities. Visual Analytics and Interactive... more

This book aims to discuss in depth the current state of research and practice ... This book aims to discuss in depth the current state of research and practice in database security. It documents progress and provides researchers and students with a broad perspective of recent developments in what is recognised as a key topic in... more