It is my pleasure to write the preface for Information Processing and Management. This book aims to bring together innovative results and new research trends in inf- mation processing, computer science and management engineering. If an information processing system is able to perform useful actions for an obj- tive in a given domain, it is because the system knows something about that domain. The more knowledge it has, the more useful it can be to its users. Without that kno- edge, the system itself is useless. In the information systems field, there is conceptual modeling for the activity that elicits and describes the general knowledge a particular information system needs to know. The main objective of conceptual modeling is to obtain that description, which is called a conceptual schema. Conceptual schemas are written in languages called conceptual modeling languages. Conceptual modeling is an important part of requi- ments engineering, the first and most important phase in the development of an inf- mation system.

Computing and Communication provides a glimpse of the selected research areas of interesting topics in the subject of computing and communication, relating to Data Mining, Information Security, Image Processing and Signal Processing and guides you through the progress in the fields like, Dynamic Address Routing, Measure for Web Page Similarity, Delay Minimization Techniques in Anonymity Networks, An enhanced FP-Tree Algorithm in large Database Mining, Moving Object Database Handling, Web Characterization, Efficient Consistency maintenance and Load Flow studies by Parallel Computation. Moreover it deals with the Intellectual Property protection, Multimedia content protection, applying two-stage FEC scheme, performance prediction of string algorithms, Nonlinear channel equalization in Communication, User story validation and Location Privacy in mobile systems. This volume is a road map showing the position of image processing areas like hand-written text recognition, Image classification using wavelet decomposition, performance evaluation of string algorithms, Multi Human Tracking and Adaptive Median Filter designing.