The editors of this volume argue that future research into complex animal societies and intelligence will change the perception of animals as gene machines, programmed to act in particular ways and perhaps elevate them to a status much closer to our own. At a time when humans are perceived more biologically than ever before, and animals as more cultural, are we about to witness the dawn of a truly unified social science, one with a distinctly cross-specific perspective?

The Seventh International Workshop on Database Programming Languages (DBPL99) took place in Kinloch Rannoch, Perthshire, UK from the 1st to the 3rd of September 1999. This series of workshops focuses on the interaction of theory and practice in the design and development of database programming languages. The workshop has occurred biennially since 1987, and was previously held in: Rosco?, Finistere, France (1987) Salishan, Oregon, USA (1989) Nafplion, Argolida, Greece (1991) Manhattan, New York, USA (1993) Gubbio, Umbria, Italy (1995) Estes Park, Colorado, USA (1997) The workshop, as always, was organised as a mixture of invited speakers, informal paper presentations and discussion. Attendance at the workshop was limited to those who submitted papers and members of the Programme C- mittee, to ensure a su?ciently small forum for useful discussion. Before ?nding their way into this volume, papers were refereed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Sixteen of the 31 submitted papers were accepted for presentation at the workshop. In the tradition of the series, authors were - couraged to improve their papers based on both referees' comments and ensuing discussion at the workshop, and resubmit them for publication in this volume, after which a further stage of refereeing took place. The result, we believe, is a volume of high-quality and well-polished papers. Two invited presentations were given, by Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research Labs, Cambridge, UK) and Alon Levy (Univer

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications, SISAP 2021, held in Dortmund, Germany, in September/October 2021. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 23 full papers presented together with 5 short and 3 doctoral symposium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are organized in the topical sections named: Similarity Search and Retrieval; Intrinsic Dimensionality; Clustering and Classification; Applications of Similarity Search; Similarity Search in Graph-Structured Data; Doctoral Symposium.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications, SISAP 2015, held in Glasgow, UK, in October 2015. The 19 full papers, 12 short and 9 demo and poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: improving similarity search methods and techniques; metrics and evaluation; applications and specific domains; implementation and engineering solutions; posters; demo papers.

Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework explores the nature and development of Alberta's constitution by examining a number of celebrated cases and themes that have shaped and altered legal, social, economic, political, and cultural rights and responsibilities within Alberta and Canada. Contributors from across Canada include historians, lawyers, political scientists, and politicians, writing on themes that illustrate how Alberta's constitution is the product of decades, even centuries, of contest, debate, division, and negotiation. Hardback edition also available.