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Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Human-computer interaction

Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking - First International Conference, E-Energy 2010, First International ICST Conference,... Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking - First International Conference, E-Energy 2010, First International ICST Conference, E-Energy 2010 Athens, Greece, October 14-15, 2010 Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Nikos Hatziargyriou, Aris Dimeas, Thomai Tomtsi, Anke Weidlich
R1,508 Discovery Miles 15 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the postproceedings of the First International Conference on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking, E-Energy, held in Passau, Germany in April 2010. The 23 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the post-proceedings. The papers are organized in topical sections on energy market and algorithms, ICT technology for the energy market, implementation of smart grid and smart home technology, microgrids and energy management, and energy efficiency through distributed energy management and buildings.

Human Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage - First International Workshop, HCITOCH 2010, Brescello, Italy,... Human Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage - First International Workshop, HCITOCH 2010, Brescello, Italy, September 7-8, 2010 Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, Edition.)
Francisco Cipolla Ficarra, Carlos de Castro Lozano, Emma Nicol, Andreas Kratky, Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra
R1,493 Discovery Miles 14 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage, HCITOCH 2010, held in Brescello, Italy, in September 2010. The 17 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Providing strategies for a creative future with computer science, quality design and communicability, the papers discuss the latest advances in the areas of augmented realities, computer art, computer graphics, e-commerce, eco-design, emerging technologies, dynamic and static media (2D & 3D), HCI, interactive systems, mixed reality, networking, simulation languages, tourism, usability, video games, virtual classroom and virtual museum.

Graph Drawing - 18th International Symposium, GD 2010, Konstanz, Germany, September 21-24, 2010. Revised Selected Papers... Graph Drawing - 18th International Symposium, GD 2010, Konstanz, Germany, September 21-24, 2010. Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, Edition.)
Ulrik Brandes, Sabine Cornelsen
R1,560 Discovery Miles 15 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD 2010, held in Konstanz, Germany, during September 2010. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 5 revised short and 8 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The volume also contains a detailed report about the 17th Annual Graph Drawing Contest, held as a satellite event of GD 2010. Devoted both to theoretical advances as well as to implemented solutions, the papers are concerned with the geometric representation of graphs and networks and are motivated by those applications where it is crucial to visualize structural information as graphs.

Provenance and Annotation of Data and Process - Third International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2010, Troy, NY,... Provenance and Annotation of Data and Process - Third International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2010, Troy, NY, USA, June 15-16, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Deborah L. McGuinness, James R. Michaelis, Luc Moreau
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The 7 revised full papers, 11 revised medium-length papers, 6 revised short, and 7 demo papers presented together with 10 poster/abstract papers describing late-breaking work were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Provenance has been recognized to be important in a wide range of areas including databases, workflows, knowledge representation and reasoning, and digital libraries. Thus, many disciplines have proposed a wide range of provenance models, techniques, and infrastructure for encoding and using provenance. The papers investigate many facets of data provenance, process documentation, data derivation, and data annotation.

Ad Hoc Networks - Second International Conference, ADHOCNETS 2010, Victoria, BC, Canada, August 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected... Ad Hoc Networks - Second International Conference, ADHOCNETS 2010, Victoria, BC, Canada, August 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Jun Zhi-Zhong, David Simplot-Ryl, Victor C. M. Leung
R2,964 Discovery Miles 29 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ad hoc networks, which include a variety of autonomous networks for specific purposes, promise a broad range of civilian, commercial, and military applications. These networks were originally envisioned as collections of autonomous mobile or stationary nodes that dynamically auto-configure themselves into a wireless network without relying on any existing network infrastructure or centralized administration. With the significant advances in the last decade, the concept of ad hoc networks now covers an even broader scope, referring to the many types of autonomous wireless networks designed and deployed for a specific task or function, such as wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, home networks, and so on. In contrast to the traditional wireless networking paradigm, such networks are all characterized by sporadic connections, highly error-prone communications, distributed autonomous operation, and fragile multi-hop relay paths. The new wireless networking paradigm necessitates reexamination of many established concepts and protocols, and calls for developing a new understanding of fundamental problems such as interference, mobility, connectivity, capacity, and security, among others. While it is essential to advance theoretical research on fundamental and practical research on efficient policies, algorithms and protocols, it is also critical to develop useful applications, experimental prototypes, and real-world deployments to achieve an immediate impact on society for the success of this wireless networking paradigm.

Recent Advances in Chaotic Systems and Synchronization - From Theory to Real World Applications (Paperback): Olfa Boubaker,... Recent Advances in Chaotic Systems and Synchronization - From Theory to Real World Applications (Paperback)
Olfa Boubaker, Sajad Jafary
R3,351 R3,120 Discovery Miles 31 200 Save R231 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Recent Advances in Chaotic Systems and Synchronization: From Theory to Real World Applications is a major reference for scientists and engineers interested in applying new computational and mathematical tools for solving complex problems related to modeling, analyzing and synchronizing chaotic systems. Furthermore, it offers an array of new, real-world applications in the field. Written by eminent scientists in the field of control theory and nonlinear systems from 19 countries (Cameroon, China, Ethiopia, France, Greece, India, Italia, Iran, Japan, Mexico, and more), this book covers the latest advances in chaos theory, along with the efficiency of novel synchronization approaches. Readers will find the fundamentals and algorithms related to the analysis and synchronization of chaotic systems, along with key applications, including electronic design, text and image encryption, and robot control and tracking.

Towards Energy Smart Homes - Algorithms, Technologies, and Applications (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Stephane Ploix, Manar... Towards Energy Smart Homes - Algorithms, Technologies, and Applications (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Stephane Ploix, Manar Amayri, Nizar Bouguila
R3,237 R2,981 Discovery Miles 29 810 Save R256 (8%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book exemplifies how smart buildings have a crucial role to play for the future of energy. The book investigates what already exists in regards to technologies, approaches and solutions both with a scientific and technological point of view. The authors cover solutions for mirroring and tracing human activities, optimal strategies to configure home settings, and generating explanations and persuasive dashboards to get occupants better committed in their home energy managements. Solutions are adapted from the fields of Internet of Things, physical modeling, optimization, machine learning and applied artificial intelligence. Practical applications are given throughout.

U- and E-Service, Science and Technology - International Conference UNESST 2010, Held as Part of the Future Generation... U- and E-Service, Science and Technology - International Conference UNESST 2010, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2010, Jeju Island, Korea, December 13-15, 2010. Proceedings (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Tai-Hoon Kim, Jianhua Ma, Wai-Chi Fang, Byungjoo Park, Byeong Ho Kang, …
R1,505 Discovery Miles 15 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on u- and e-Service, Science and Technology (UNESST 2010) - one of the partnering events of the Second International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information Te- nology (FGIT 2010). UNESST brings together researchers from academia and industry as well as prac- tioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of u- and e-services and their applications, with links to computational sciences, mat- matics and information technology. In total, 1,630 papers were submitted to FGIT 2010 from 30 countries, which - cludes 223 papers submitted to UNESST 2010. The submitted papers went through a rigorous reviewing process: 395 of the 1,630 papers were accepted for FGIT 2010, while 50 papers were accepted for UNESST 2010. Of the 50 papers 8 were selected for the special FGIT 2010 volume published by Springer in the LNCS series. 27 papers are published in this volume and 15 papers were withdrawn due to technical reasons. We would like to acknowledge the great effort of the UNESST 2010 International Advisory Board and members of the International Program Committee, as well as all the organizations and individuals who supported the idea of publishing this volume of proceedings, including SERSC and Springer. Also, the success of the conference would not have been possible without the huge support from our sponsors and the work of the Chairs and Organizing Committee.

Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2010 - 9th International Conference, Shanghai, China, December 8-10, 2010, Proceedings... Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2010 - 9th International Conference, Shanghai, China, December 8-10, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, 2010)
Xiangfeng Luo, Marc Spaniol, Lizhe Wang, Qing Li, Wolfgang Nejdl, …
R1,560 Discovery Miles 15 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

ICWL is an annual international conference series on Web-based learning that has so far been held in Asia, Europe and Australia. This series represents the cooperationofEuropeanandAsianresearcherstoadvancethe?eldofWeb-based learning. The 9th ICWL 2010 was held in Shanghai, China. ICWL 2010 was jointlyorganizedbytheHongKongWebSociety,ShanghaiUniversity.Shanghai, knownthroughouttheworldasthe"ParisoftheOrient,"isathrivingmetropolis delightfully mixing the West and East, old and new, ancient and modern. It was particularly special to hold ICWL 2010 in Shanghai, as Expo 2010 was held in the same city just before the conference period. This year, we received about 192 submissions. There were a total of 36 full papers and 8 short papers, representing an acceptance rate of about 23%; these papers are included in this LNCS proceedings volume. The authors of these s- missions came from 35 countries and regions, while the authors of the accepted paperscamefrom18countriesandregions.Wewouldliketo thank thereviewers for spending their precious time reviewing the papers and for providing valuable comments that aided signi?cantly in the paper selection process. We would like to especially thank our Organization Chair, Feiyue Ye, for spending an enormous amount of time and e?ort in coordinating the local - rangements. In fact, we would like to thank the entire conference Organizing Committee for their hard work in putting together the conference. In parti- lar, we would like to express our appreciation to our Registration Chair, Jiying (Jean) Wang, and Haoran Xie for their tremendous e?orts in communicating with the authors.

Advances in Visual Computing - 6th International Symposium, ISVC 2010, Las Vegas, NV, USA, November 29 - December 1, 2010,... Advances in Visual Computing - 6th International Symposium, ISVC 2010, Las Vegas, NV, USA, November 29 - December 1, 2010, Proceedings, Part III (Paperback, Edition.)
Richard Boyle, Bahram Parvin, Darko Koracin, Ronald Chung, Hammoud, …
R3,003 Discovery Miles 30 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The three volume set LNCS 6453, LNCS 6454, and LNCS 6455 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2010, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in November/December 2010. The 93 revised full papers and 73 poster papers presented together with 44 full and 6 poster papers of 7 special tracks were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 300 submissions. The papers of part I (LNCS 6453) are organized in computational bioimaging, computer graphics, behavior detection and modeling, low-level color image processing, feature extraction and matching, visualization, motion and tracking, unconstrained biometrics: advances and trends, 3D mapping, modeling and surface reconstruction, and virtual reality. Part II (LNCS 6454) comprises topics such as calibration, pose estimation, and reconstruction, segmentation, stereo, registration, medical imaging, low cost virtual reality: expanding horizons, best practices in teaching visual computing, applications, and video analysis and event recognition. Part III (LNCS 6455) mainly contains papers of the poster session and concludes with contributions addressing visualization, as well as motion and tracking.

Public Key Infrastructures, Services and Applications - 6th European Workshop, EuroPKI 2009, Pisa, Italy, September 10-11,... Public Key Infrastructures, Services and Applications - 6th European Workshop, EuroPKI 2009, Pisa, Italy, September 10-11, 2009, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, Edition.)
Fabio Martinelli, Bart Preneel
R1,526 Discovery Miles 15 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thisbookcontainsthepostproceedingsofthe6thEuropeanWorkshoponPublic Key Services, Applications and Infrastructures, which was held at the CNR Research Area in Pisa, Italy, in September 2009. The EuroPKI workshop series focuses on all research and practice aspects of public key infrastructures, services and applications, and welcomes original research papers and excellent survey contributions from academia, government, and industry. Previous events of the series were held in: Samos, Greece (2004); Kent, UK (2005); Turin, Italy, (2006); Palma de Mallorca, Spain, (2007); and Trondheim, Norway (2008). From the original focus on public key infrastructures, EuroPKI interests - panded to include advanced cryptographic techniques, applications and (more generally) services. The Workshops brings together researchersfrom the cryp- graphiccommunity as well as fromthe applied security community, as witnessed by the interesting program. Indeed, this volume holds 18 refereed papers and the presentation paper by the invited speaker, Alexander Dent. In response to the EuroPKI 2009 call for papers, a total of 40 submissions were received. All submissions underwent a thorough blind review by at least three ProgramCommittee members, resulting in careful selection and revision of the accepted papers. After the conference, the papers were revised and improved by the authors before inclusion in this volume.

Advances in Information and Computer Security - 5th International Worshop on Security, IWSEC 2010, Kobe, Japan, November 22-24,... Advances in Information and Computer Security - 5th International Worshop on Security, IWSEC 2010, Kobe, Japan, November 22-24, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Isao Echizen, Noboru Kunihiro, Ryoichi Sasaki
R1,548 Discovery Miles 15 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Fifth International Workshop on Security (IWSEC 2010) was held at Kobe InternationalConferenceCenter,Kobe,Japan,November22-24,2010. Thewo- shop was co-organized by CSEC, a special interest group concerned with the computer security of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) and ISEC,atechnicalgroupconcernedwiththe informationsecurityofTheInstitute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE). The exc- lentLocalOrganizingCommitteewasledbytheIWSEC2010GeneralCo-chairs, Hiroaki Kikuchi and Toru Fujiwara. This year IWSEC 2010 had three tracks, the Foundations of Security (Track I), Security in Networks and Ubiquitous Computing Systems (Track II), and Security in Real Life Applications (Track III), and the review and selection processes for these tracks were independent of each other. We received 75 paper submissions including 44 submissions for Track I, 20 submissions for Track II, and 11 submissions for Track III. We would like to thank all the authors who submitted papers. Each paper was reviewed by at least three reviewers. In - dition to the Program Committee members, many external reviewers joined the review process from their particular areas of expertise. We were fortunate to have this energetic team of experts, and are grateful to all of them for their hard work. This hard work included very active discussions; the discussion phase was almost as long as the initial individual reviewing. The review and discussions weresupportedbyaveryniceWeb-basedsystem,iChair. Wewouldliketothank its developers. Following the review phases, 22 papers including 13 papers for Track I, 6 papers for Track II, and 3 papers for Track III were accepted for publication in this volume of Advances in Information and Computer Security.

Ambient Intelligence - First International Joint Conference, AmI 2010, Malaga, Spain, November 10-12, 2010, Proceedings... Ambient Intelligence - First International Joint Conference, AmI 2010, Malaga, Spain, November 10-12, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Boris De Ruyter, Reiner Wichert, David V. Keyson, Panos Markopoulos, Norbert Streitz, …
R1,543 Discovery Miles 15 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In a world supported by Ambient Intelligence (AmI), various devices embedded in the environment collectively use the distributed information and the intelligence inherent in this interconnected environment. A range of information from sensing and reas- ing technologies is used by distributed devices in the environment. The cooperation between natural user interfaces and sensor interfaces covers all of a person's s- roundings, resulting in a device environment that behaves intelligently; the term "Ambient Intelligence" has been coined to describe it. In this way, the environment is able to recognize the persons in it, to identify their individual needs, to learn from their behavior, and to act and react in their interest. Since this vision is influenced by a lot of different concepts in information proce- ing and combines multi-disciplinary fields in electrical engineering, computer science, industrial design, user interfaces, and cognitive sciences, considerable research is needed to provide new models of technological innovation within a multi-dimensional society. Thus the AmI vision relies on the large-scale integration of electronics into the environment, enabling the actors, i.e., people and objects, to interact with their surrounding in a seamless, trustworthy, and natural manner.

Smart Sensing and Context - 5th European Conference, EuroSSC 2010, Passau, Germany, November 14-16, 2010. Proceedings... Smart Sensing and Context - 5th European Conference, EuroSSC 2010, Passau, Germany, November 14-16, 2010. Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Paul Lukowicz, Kai Kunze, Gerd Kortuem
R1,496 Discovery Miles 14 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Welcome to the 5th European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context. EuroSSC 2010 is a venue for high-quality papers that describe both original and unpublished research advancing the state of the art in smart surroundings, context-awareness and networked embedded sensor and actuator systems. The conference brings researchers of a variety of disciplines, perspectives and g- graphical areas together. It aims to explore the implications of computing as it starts to surround us transparently, interwoven into the fabric of everyday life. Our Program Committee-composed of 28 leading international researchers in the ?elds of context recognition and smart sensing-accepted 13 papers to be published in these proceedings. We want to take the opportunity to express our gratitude to the diligent e?orts of all members of the EuroSSCProgramCommittee and the team for the localarrangements.We also wantto thank the over50 (co-)authorsfrom over13 countries for their contributions, shaping the EuroSSC into a true international venue. In addition to the o?cial conference proceedings, we are pleased to also - clude a short report about the Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) platforms. We also want to express our thanks to the MonAMI coordinators, as without them the sharedworkshopwouldnot have been possible. We found that theworkshopsparkedinterestingdiscussionsbetweentheconferenceparticipants about the fascination topic of aging in a pervasive computing age.

Social Informatics - Second International Conference, SocInfo 2010, Laxenburg, Austria, October 27-29, 2010, Proceedings... Social Informatics - Second International Conference, SocInfo 2010, Laxenburg, Austria, October 27-29, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Leonard Bolc, Marek Makowski, Adam Wierzbicki
R1,510 Discovery Miles 15 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As information technology became ubiquitous, it did not take long for prac- cally minded ICT specialists to realize the technology's potential for supporting and enhancing our social activities. Today, it is a truism to say that information technology has a social dimension and a social impact-it is enough to consider such applications as Facebook, LinkedIn, or Wikipedia. Proponents of the social applications of ICT will go further and claim that information technology is - shaping the way we are doing business, working, learning, playing, and making friends or enemies. They will say that, for example, Wikipedia has the pot- tial to completely change our economy (following Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, the authors of Wikinomics). Computer science was slower than the social sciences to direct its interests towardthe social uses of its products. The concept of social informatics was ?rst invented by Rob Kling, who deemed it as an area of study of information and communication tools in cultural or institutional contexts. However, he was not the only one, as for example ethnographists quickly became interested in the ways ICT in?uences our culture (consider the studies of YouTube by Michael Wesch). Mediascienceandsociologyhavebeengearedupbytheseminalworksof McLuhan and are ready to tackle the new media created by ICT, as in the work of Manuel Castells. Psychologists quickly became interested in the Internet and computergames.Economistsrecognizedthequicklyrisingimpactofe-commerce and e-business and focused much e?ort on their analysis.

HCI in Work and Learning, Life and Leisure - 6th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability... HCI in Work and Learning, Life and Leisure - 6th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering, USAB 2010, Klagenfurt, Austria, November 4-5, 2010. Proceedings (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Gerhard Leitner, Martin Hitz, Andreas Holzinger
R1,597 Discovery Miles 15 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Human-Computer Interaction & Usability Engineering Workgroup (Ar- .. beitskreis HCI&UE) of the Austrian Computer Society (Osterreichische C- puter Gesellschaft, OCG) has been serving as an international platform for interdisciplinaryexchange,researchanddevelopmentsinceFebruary2005. While human-computer interaction (HCI) traditionally brings psychologists and c- puter scientists together, the inclusion of usability engineering (UE), a software engineering discipline ensuring the appropriate implementation of applications, has become indispensable. Because of the fast developments in information and communication technologies (ICT), the ?elds of application of HCI and UE are broader than ever. Therefore, USAB 2010 had, in comparison to past USAB conferences, quite a broad focus on all potential aspects of HCI in work - vironments, learning, private life and leisure activities. Each of these areas of application includes various challenges for HCI and UE, which go far beyond the classical desktop interface as well as usability norms and de?nitions pos- lated in the late twentieth century. The contributions for USAB 2010 provide important insights on the actual researchactivities in the ?eld and support the interested audience by presenting the state of the art in HCI researchas well as giving valuable input on questions arising when planning or designing research projects. Because of the increasing propagation of the ?eld of HCI research, it is not possible to address all areas within a smallconference;however,this is not the goalofUSAB 2010-itshould be seen as a metaphorical counterpart of a wholesale, an HCI delicatessen shop providinga tasting menuwith di?erent courses(hopefully) cateringto alltastes.

Advances in Information Technology - 4th International Conference, IAIT 2010, Bangkok, Thailand, November 4-5, 2010,... Advances in Information Technology - 4th International Conference, IAIT 2010, Bangkok, Thailand, November 4-5, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Borworn Papasratorn, Kittichai Lavangnananda, Wichian Chutimaskul, Vajirasak Vanijja
R1,498 Discovery Miles 14 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It was our intention to organize IAIT 2010 as the place where researchers and ind- trial practitioners could share their work and achievements in information technology, both theoretical and in application. This is the fourth time we have organized IAIT to serve as a venue to foster collaboration among industry and academia from different parts of the world. A lot has been achieved since the launch of the first IAIT in 2005; however, many challenges remain to be addressed in the years to come. IAIT 2010 drew attendance from leading professionals in both industry and academes, as in IAIT 2009. In addition to the relevant program offered by IAIT 2010, the conference p- vided an excellent environment to meet peers in the IT profession, build relationships, and exchange lessons learned. During the conference, participants presented and d- cussed the latest topics in information technology, ranging from technical knowledge and experimentation to future strategic directions. As the Internet continues to reach out even further, almost everything in our daily life is accessible via IP addresses, our societies need to recognize that we need new knowledge to make this advancement become a benefit to all life in this world. It is almost impossible to gain this new knowledge without contributions from our c- leagues, working in various aspects of information technology. Some times, new knowledge found in one area can help simplify difficult task in another. Together we can make our world better by creating applications from information technology.

Modelling Autonomic Communication Environments - 5th IEEE International Workshop, MACE 2010, Niagara Falls, Canada, October 28,... Modelling Autonomic Communication Environments - 5th IEEE International Workshop, MACE 2010, Niagara Falls, Canada, October 28, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Rob Brennan, Joel Fleck II, Sven van der Meer
R1,471 Discovery Miles 14 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Wearedelightedtopresenttheproceedingsofthe5thInternationalWorkshopon Modeling Autonomic Communication Environments (MACE 2010). This wo- shopwasheldaspartofthe6thInternationalConferenceonNetworkandService Management (CNSM 2010), formerly known as and building on the success of the MANWEEK conference series. This year we met just a hundred yards away from Niagara Falls in Canada, a very exciting location. MACE started as an experiment and over the past years has created a small yet very active community that convened again this year to discuss and ev- uate new advances, innovative ideas, and solid developments. The main focus of MACE, combining modeling with communications, is certainly a hard topic that requires a lot of discussion, thus the work presented at the workshop is - trinsically debatable and might not be as practiced as in other well-established workshops, but this was the nature of MACE from the beginning. New ideas, sometimes more,sometimes less rougharoundthe edges (and someof them even inside) are submitted and provoke extensive discussions. The ?eld in which we areworkingreliesonthesediscussions,orevenadventures,andwehavethis year again strongly motivated and supported a variety of novel work in the technical program. This year, the submissions, while being closely related to the main themes, brought some new areas into the workshop. We still see architectural design and theapplicationofautonomicprinciplestonetworksandservices,butwealsonow have submissions looking into previously unexplored areas such as Home Area Networks,multimedia streaming,virtualization,federation,anduserexperience. This portrays a maturity in the domain, which has by now gone through several cycles, and improves its outputs by applying the lessons learned.

Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society - Third World Summit on the Knowledge Society,... Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society - Third World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2010, Corfu, Greece, September 22-24, 2010, Proceedings, Part II (Paperback, Edition.)
Miltiadis D Lytras, Patricia Ordonez De Pablos, Adrian Ziderman, Alan Roulstone, Hermann Maurer, …
R2,968 Discovery Miles 29 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS 112 proceedings of the Third World Summit on the Knowledge Society--WSKS 2010--that was organized by the International Scientific Council for the Knowledge Society, and supported by the Open Research Society, NGO, (http://www.open-knowledge-society.org) and the Int- national Journal of the Knowledge Society Research, (http://www.igi-global.com/ijksr), and took place in Aquis Corfu Holiday Palace Hotel, on Corfu island, Greece, September 22-24, 2010. The Third World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2010) was an inter- tional scientific event devoted to promoting the dialogue on the main aspects of the knowledge society towards a better world for all. The multidimensional economic and social crisis of the last couple years brings to the fore the need to discuss in depth new policies and strategies for a human-centric developmental process in the global c- text. This annual summit brings together key stakeholders of knowledge society dev- opment worldwide, from academia, industry, government, policy makers, and active citizens to look at the impact and prospects of it information technology, and the knowledge-based era it is creating, on key facets of living, working, learning, innovating, and collaborating in today's hyper-complex world.

E-business Technology and Strategy - International Conference, CETS 2010, Ottawa, Canada, September 29-30, 2010. Proceedings... E-business Technology and Strategy - International Conference, CETS 2010, Ottawa, Canada, September 29-30, 2010. Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Marzia Zaman, Yawei Liang, Sohail M. Siddiqui, Tim Wang, Vincent Liu, …
R1,533 Discovery Miles 15 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The International Conference on E-business Technology & Strategy (CETS) provides a peer-reviewed forum for researchers from across the globe to share contemporary research on developments in the fields of e-business, information technology and business strategy. It seeks to promote effective and vibrant networking among researchers and practitioners from around the world who are concerned about the effective management of information technology in organizations. This network of researchers views fostering the development of emerging scholars in the information technology and e-business fields as its primary task. Consequently the conference is designed to provide a venue for researchers to get substantive and beneficial feedback on their work. There were 134 contributions submitted to CETS 2010. After in-depth discussions, 29 high-quality contributions were selected for publication in this volume. The authors are from Canada, USA, China, Japan, India and Malaysia. We thank all the authors who submitted papers, the Program Committee members, and the external reviewers. We also thank all the local people who were instrumental in making this edition of CETS another very successful event. In particular, we are very grateful to Ying Xie, who was responsible for the local arrangements. Special gratitude goes to the publishing editor, Leonie Kunz, who managed the complexity of information and communication aspects. Furthermore, we thank the many students who volunteered on the organization team, as well as the IT services of Carleton University.

Human-Centred Software Engineering - Third International Conference, HCSE 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland, October 14-15, 2010.... Human-Centred Software Engineering - Third International Conference, HCSE 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland, October 14-15, 2010. Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Regina Bernhaupt, Peter Forbrig, Jan Gulliksen, Marta Kristin Larusdottir
R1,502 Discovery Miles 15 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The conference series HCSE (Human-Centred Software Engineering) was established four years ago in Salamanca. HCSE 2010 is the third working conference of IFIP Working Group 13.2, Methodologies for User-Centered Systems Design. The goal of HCSE is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, examining the re- tionship between software engineering and human-computer interaction and focusing on how to strengthen user-centered design as an essential part of software engineering processes. As a working conference, substantial time was devoted to the open and lively discussion of papers. The interest in the conference was positive in terms of submissions and partici- tion. We received 42 contributions that resulted in 10 long papers, 5 short papers and 3 poster papers. The selection was carried out carefully by the International Program Committee. The result is a set of interesting and stimulating papers that address such important issues as contextual design, user-aware systems, ubiquitous environments and usability evaluation. The final program of the conference included a keynote by Liam Bannon with the title "Approaches to Software Engineering: A Human-Centred Perspective." This talk raised a lot of interesting questions for IFIP WG 13.2 and might have had some - pact for participants to become a member of the working group. We hope that participants considered HCSE 2010 as successful as its two p- desessors in terms of interesting discussions and new ideas for scientific co-operation.

Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environments - Second International Workshop, IWSDS 2010, Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan, October... Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environments - Second International Workshop, IWSDS 2010, Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan, October 1-2, 2010. Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Gary Geunbae Lee, Joseph Mariani, Wolfgang Minker, Satoshi Nakamura
R1,494 Discovery Miles 14 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2nd International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS), which was held, as a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2010, at Gotemba Kogen Resort in the Fuji area, Japan, October 1-2, 2010. The annual workshop brings together researchers from all over the world working in the ?eld of spoken dialogue systems. It provides an international - rum for the presentation of research and applications and for lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists. Building on the success of IWSDS 2009Irsee,Germany,thisyear'sworkshopdesignated"SpokenDialogueSystems for Ambient Environments" as a special theme of discussion. We also enco- aged discussions of common issues of spoken dialogue systems including but not limited to: - Speech recognition and semantic analysis - Dialogue management - Adaptive dialogue modelling - Recognition of emotions from speech, gestures, facial expressions and ph- iological data - User modelling - Planning and reasoning capabilities for coordinationand con?ict description - Con?ict resolution in complex multi-level decisions - Multi-modality such as graphics, gesture and speech for input and output - Fusion and information management - Learning and adaptability - Visual processing and recognition for advanced human-computer interaction - Databases and corpora - Evaluation strategies and paradigms - Prototypes and products The workshop program consisted of 22 regular papers and 2 invited keynote talks. This year, we were pleased to have two keynote speakers: Prof. Ram' on L' opez-C' ozar, Universidad de Granada, Spain and Prof. Tetsunori Kobayashi, Waseda University, Japan.

Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering - 7th International Conference, CDVE 2010, Calvia, Mallorca, Spain,... Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering - 7th International Conference, CDVE 2010, Calvia, Mallorca, Spain, September 19-22, 2010, Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Yuhua Luo
R1,526 Discovery Miles 15 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many papers in this volume re?ect, to some degree, the active, rapid economic developmentincertaingeographicareasintheworldsuchasChina,Japan,South Korea,and EasternEurope, which demand cooperative work,particularly co- erative engineering, more than ever. New concepts and new ideas of cooperative design, visualization, and engineering have emerged to meet the higher demand resulting from the economic development in these areas. Another trend among the papers in this volume is to apply existing concepts and methods to new application areas. The emergence of new concepts can be considered as a signal of fruitful research with its maturity in the ?eld. This can be found in the papers of this year's conference. Cooperative design, visualization, and engineering via cloud computing is a new concept presented in a group of papers in this volume. The concept of cloud has been proposed for cooperative manufacturing, large scale cooperative simulation, and visualization, etc. Applying existing concepts to new application areas or creating new me- ods based on them is a logicaldirection to takefull advantageof the cooperative design, visualization, and engineering technology. This is no doubt the best way to widen anddeepen the knowledgein the ?eld. Typicalexamples in this volume include the cooperative visualization of DNA microarray data in bioinform- ics, astrophysical simulations, natural disaster simulations, and cooperative risk assessment, etc. As the volume editor, I would like to congratulate all the authors for their research and development results, raising cooperative technology to a new level.

Trustworthy Global Computing - 5th International Symposium, TGC 2010, Munich, Germany, February 24-26, 2010, Revised Selected... Trustworthy Global Computing - 5th International Symposium, TGC 2010, Munich, Germany, February 24-26, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, Edition.)
Martin Wirsing, Martin Hofmann, Axel Rauschmayer
R1,548 Discovery Miles 15 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Global computing refers to computation over "global computers," i.e., com- tational infrastructures available globally and able to provide uniform services with variable guarantees for communication, cooperation and mobility, resource usage, security policies and mechanisms, etc., with particular regard to explo- ing their universal scale and the programmability of their services. As the scope and computational power of such global infrastructures continue to grow, it - comes more and more important to develop methods, theories and techniques for trustworthy systems running on global computers. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the ?fth e- tion of the International Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing (TGC 2010)thatwasheldinMunich,Germany,February24-26,2010.TheSymposium on Trustworthy Global Computing is an international annual venue dedicated to safe and reliable computation in global computers. It focuses on providing frameworks, tools, and protocols for constructing well-behaved applications and on reasoning rigorouslyabout their behavior and properties. The related models of computation incorporate code and data mobility over distributed networks with highly dynamic topologies and heterogeneous devices.

Future Internet - FIS 2010 - Third Future Internet Symposium, Berlin, Germany, September 20-22, 2010. Proceedings (Paperback,... Future Internet - FIS 2010 - Third Future Internet Symposium, Berlin, Germany, September 20-22, 2010. Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Arne J. Berre, Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Kurt Tutschku
R1,482 Discovery Miles 14 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The current Internet has undergone an essential transformation: it has changed from a network of networks that enables access to remote machines by a cons- tentprotocolsuite(TCP/IP),toanetworkofcontent,applications,andservices. Thus, it has become a modern commodity for everyone. The Future Internet(FI) is destinedtocontinue this developmentandto p- videimprovedfeaturesandusabilityforindividualsandbusiness.Itsapplications are expected to originate from areas such as entertainment, health, energy grid, utilities and the environment, transport, mobility, and logistics. Tight economic constraints, however, require the Future Internet to consolidate and converge application-speci?c networks and support for the Internet of Services (IoS), the Internet of Things (IoT), and the Internet of Content (IoC) in a homogenous and, if possible, a single system. A simple investigation of network performance requirements of the ant- ipated FI applications reveals a set of contrary needs that have challenged research on network architectures and protocols for decades. Only a few - plications have been successful, e.g., P2P systems, which can adapt easily to heterogeneousenvironments.Similarly, semantic technologyhas providedme- ingful relationships of content, but has failed when it has come to manageability and performance in universal and heterogeneous network systems.

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