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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

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

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

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

Sociological theories of crime include: theories of strain blame crime on pers... Sociological theories of crime include: theories of strain blame crime on personal stressors; theories of social learning blame crime on its social rewards and see crime more as an institution in conflict with other institutions rather than as in-... more

On behalf of the NDT 2010 conference the Program Committee and Charles Univers... On behalf of the NDT 2010 conference the Program Committee and Charles University in Prague Czech Republic we welcome you to the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2010). The NDT 2010 conference... more

This comprehensive handbook written by leading experts in the field details th... This comprehensive handbook written by leading experts in the field details the groundbreaking research conducted under the breakthrough GALE program--The Global Autonomous Language Exploitation within the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency... more

Technology-enhanced systems and computer-aided tools that support scaffolding ... Technology-enhanced systems and computer-aided tools that support scaffolding in collaborative learning are key goals in the education research sector. This book covers a number of approaches to fostering functional collaborative learning and... more

Why are We Writing This Book? Visual data (graphical image video and visualize... Why are We Writing This Book? Visual data (graphical image video and visualized data) affect every aspect of modern society. The cheap collection storage and transmission of vast amounts of visual data have revolutionized the practice of science... more

Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 6: Data Mining: Theoretical F... Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 6: Data Mining: Theoretical Foundations and Applications Finding information hidden in data is as theoretically difficult as it is practically important. With the objective of discovering unknown... more

The book Soft Computing Based Modeling in Intelligent Systems contains the - t... The book Soft Computing Based Modeling in Intelligent Systems contains the - tended works originally presented at the IEEE International Workshop SOFA 2005 and additional papers. SOFA an acronym for SOFt computing and Applications is an... more