Category: International Conferences And Symposiums

By Luca Cardelli (auth.), Jan Vitek, Christian Tschudin (eds.)

If the web is visible as a unmarried, mammoth, programmable computer, what's the right programming paradigm to facilitate improvement of the hot functions it needs to supply? This state of the art survey bargains with this query. the placement we are facing is the same to that during the Sixties, while a brand new hardware/software structure used to be brought and it took your time for the programming-language and operating-system experts to return up with the right kind programming paradigms. we have the hot and interesting paradigm of cellular computing, the place computations will not be certain to unmarried destinations yet may well stream round at will to most sensible use the to be had machine community assets. This paradigm may have a profound influence at the means dispensed purposes, specifically net functions, are designed and implemented.

By R. M. Duwairi, N. J. Fiddian, W. A. Gray (auth.), Ron Morrison, Jessie Kennedy (eds.)

This booklet constitutes the refereed court cases of the 14th British nationwide convention on Databases, BNCOD 14, held in Edinburgh, uk, in July 1996.
The thirteen revised papers awarded within the publication in complete model including invited talks and 3 business abstracts have been chosen from a complete of forty seven submissions concerning authors from 21 nations. The papers incorporated are written via researchers and pros from academia and undefined; the amount is equipped in topical sections on object-oriented databases, integrity matters, database functionality and optimization, and database languages.

Devoted toProf. Dr. Dr.h.c. Herbert Zeitler at the party of his eightieth birthdayProf. Dr. Dr.h.c. Helmut Karzel at the celebration of his seventy fifth birthdayProf. Dr. Dr.h.c Grozio Stanilov at the get together of his seventieth birthdayVarna (Bulgaria), September 5-10, 2003

By Arie Segev (auth.), Alon Halevy, Avigdor Gal (eds.)

NGITS2002 used to be the ?fth workshop of its sort, selling papers that debate new applied sciences in details structures. Following the luck of the 4 p- vious workshops (1993, 1995, 1997, and 1999), the ?fth NGITS Workshop came about on June 24–25, 2002, within the historical urban of Caesarea. in line with the decision for Papers, 22 papers have been submitted. every one paper used to be evaluated via 3 software Committee participants. We authorized eleven papers from three continents and five nations, Israel (5 papers), US (3 papers), Germany, Cyprus, and The Netherlands (1 paper from each). The workshop software consisted of ?ve paper periods, keynote lectures, and one panel dialogue. the subjects of the paper classes are: complex question Processing, internet purposes, relocating gadgets, complicated info types, and complex software program Engineering. we wish to thank all of the authors who submitted papers, this system committee participants, the presenters, and everyone who assisted in making NGITS2002 a reality.

By Donald J. Haderle (auth.), Albrecht Blaser (eds.)

This quantity includes 14 survey articles via reputed database researchers. they offer an account of the cutting-edge, current learn highlights and provide an outlook into the '90s concerning the probably evolution of database technology-research, ad-tech, items and functions. the amount is based into the next elements: - The evolution of database expertise and its impression on company details structures (keynote paper); - calls for on database platforms within the '90s (office, engineering, technology, multimedia, standardization); - person features (application programmers, advert hoc question users); - Database process and structure options for novel functions (data versions, item orientation, deductive DBMS, extensibility, information replication); - procedure and implementation points (performance and reliability, allotted and cooperative DBMS, impact). the amount could function an orientation for all those who find themselves drawn to database structures and their impression on machine applications.

By Alessandro DeAngelis,Oriana Mansutti

The contributions during this quantity offer a picture of the newest study and destiny plans for space-borne and ground-based experiments devoted to the commentary of the gamma-ray sky. The articles are authored by means of either pro veterans of the 1st committed gamma-ray missions, and younger scientists getting into the interesting box of gamma-ray astrophysics. With the arrival of gamma-ray instrumentation on spacecraft and massive and delicate ground-based detectors, new and unforeseen phenomena were stumbled on, corresponding to gamma-ray bursts and gamma-ray emission from blazars. The substantial power of the sector within the present "post-EGRET period" is witnessed by way of the varied ongoing and coming near near gamma-ray experiments documented the following, complementary to numerous cosmic-ray, neutrino, astroparticle and X-ray initiatives.

By Kenji Imamoto, Jianying Zhou, Kouichi Sakurai (auth.), Sihan Qing, Wenbo Mao, Javier López, Guilin Wang (eds.)

The 7th foreign convention on details and Communications - curity,ICICS2005,washeldinBeijing,China,10-13December2005. TheICICS convention sequence is a longtime discussion board for changing new study rules and improvement leads to the components of knowledge defense and utilized crypt- raphy. The ?rst occasion begun right here in Beijing in 1997. due to the fact then the convention sequence has been interleaving its venues in China and the remainder of the realm: ICICS 1997 in Beijing, China; ICICS 1999 in Sydney, Australia; ICICS 2001 in Xi’an, China; ICICS 2002 in Singapore; ICICS 2003 in Hohhot urban, China; and ICICS 2004 in Malaga, Spain. The convention court cases of the previous occasions have - methods been released by way of Springer within the Lecture Notes in machine technology sequence, with quantity numbers, respectively: LNCS 1334,LNCS 1726,LNCS 2229, LNCS 2513, LNCS 2836, and LNCS 3269. ICICS 2005 used to be backed by way of the chinese language Academy of Sciences (CAS); the Beijing typical technological know-how starting place of China lower than furnish No. 4052016; the nationwide traditional technological know-how starting place of China less than promises No. 60083007 and No. 60573042;the NationalGrandFundamentalResearch973ProgramofChina less than supply No. G1999035802, and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, China. The convention used to be equipped and hosted by means of the Engineering learn heart for info protection expertise of the chinese language Academy of Sciences (ERCIST, CAS) in co-operation with the overseas Communications and knowledge safety organization (ICISA). the purpose of the ICICS convention sequence has been to o?er the attendees the chance to debate the newest advancements in theoretical and useful - pects of data and communications security.

By Terry Dartnall (auth.), Grigoris Antoniou, John Slaney (eds.)

This e-book provides the completely refereed post-conference lawsuits of the eleventh Australian Joint convention on synthetic Intelligence, AI'98, held in Brisbane, Australia in July 1998.
The 28 revised complete papers awarded within the booklet have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from two times as many papers permitted for presentation on the convention.
Among the themes coated are philosophical matters, fuzzy good judgment, agent structures, AI logics, making plans, wisdom illustration, automatic deduction, clever brokers, studying, constraint fixing, and neural networks.

By Ian Hodkinson, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyaschev (auth.), Robert Nieuwenhuis, Andrei Voronkov (eds.)

This quantity comprises the papers awarded on the 8th overseas C- ference on common sense for Programming, Arti?cial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR 2001), hung on December 3-7, 2001, on the collage of Havana (Cuba), including the second one foreign Workshop on Implementation of Logics. there have been 112 submissions, of which 19 belonged to the targeted subm- sion class of experimental papers, meant to explain implementations or comparisons of structures, or experiments with platforms. each one submission was once - seen through no less than 3 application committee contributors and an digital application committee assembly used to be held through the net. The excessive variety of submissions prompted a large number of paintings, and we're very thankful to the opposite 31 computer contributors for his or her e?ciency and for the standard in their studies and discussions. eventually, the committee made up our minds to simply accept 40papers within the theoretical ca- gory, and nine experimental papers. as well as the refereed papers, this quantity includes a longer summary of the invited speak through Frank Wolter. different invited lectures got through Matthias Baaz and Manuel Hermenegildo. except this system committee, we might additionally wish to thank the opposite those that made LPAR 2001 attainable: the extra referees; the neighborhood Arran- ` gements Chair Luciano Garc´?a; Andr´es Navarro and Oscar Guell, ¨ who ran the internet-based submission software program and this system committee dialogue so- ware on the LSI division lab in Barcelona; and invoice McCune, whose application committee administration software program was once used.

By Mike Reiter (auth.), Choon-sik Park, Seongtaek Chee (eds.)

This booklet constitutes the completely refereed postproceedings of the seventh foreign convention on info safeguard and Cryptology, ICISC 2004, held in Seoul, Korea in December 2004.

The 34 revised complete papers offered have undergone rounds of reviewing and development and have been chosen from 194 submissions. The papers are prepared in topical sections on block ciphers and movement ciphers, public key cryptosystems, PKI and similar implementations, electronic signatures, elliptic curve cryptosystems, provable defense and primitives, community safeguard, steganography, and biometrics.