Computer Society Press

3-D digital imaging and modeling; proceedings. (CD-ROM included)

Two of the invited speeches, 30 oral presentations, and 20 posters from the August 2007 conference present recent research on 3D geometry, appearance modeling, registration, recognition, sensors, and shape modeling. The invited speakers describe a tensor algebraic approach to image synthesis and recognition, and summarize the remaining challenges to 3D scanning technology that are being addressed. Other topics include automated reverse engineering of free form objects using Morse theory, dense depth and color acquisition of repetitive motions, examplar-based shape from shading, and generalized MPU implicits using belief propagation. No index is provided in the book, but the articles are searchable on the CD-ROM in PDF format. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Advanced language processing and web information technology; proceedings.

Papers from an August 2007 conference reveal the latest advances by Asian researchers in language processing and web-based information technologies. Material is in sections on language processing technology, multimedia technology, ubiquitous and mobile technology, and web services technology. Specific language issues addressed include automatic spelling correction rule extraction and application for spoken-style Korean text, a template-based English-Chinese translation system using FOPA and UAMRT, a memory-based concordancer for Mongolian toponyms, Chinese FrameNet and OWL representations, and topic-based Vietnamese news document filtering in the BioCaster Project. Other topics examined include a hybrid genetic and particle swarm algorithm for service composition, reinforcement learning using negative relevance feedback, secure fast handoff mechanisms in wireless active network environments, FPGA design of digital code for passive RFID tags, and kinematical access for realistic behavior generation of artificial fish. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Agile; proceedings.

The proceedings of the August 2007 conference consists of nine research papers, three educator papers on teaching agile methods in the classroom, and 47 experience reports on agile PMO, process improvement, product ownership, release management, scaling up, growing teams, and building trust with collaboration. The research papers explore the social nature of agile teams, the motivational needs of software developers, the relationship between customer collaboration and software project overruns, and incremental change in agile software processes. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Asian test symposium; proceedings.

The 51 full papers and 28 short papers selected for the October 2007 symposium on testing integrated circuits and systems are arranged into 24 technical sessions that address most key VLSI testing areas. Many of the articles propose new approaches to fault diagnosis, delay test, power aware test, DFT, BIST, test generation, and design verification, memory test. Topics include test compression based on a JPEG variable-length coding algorithm, an efficient peak power reduction technique for scan testing, optimum test set for bridging faults detection in reversible circuits, and test efficiency analysis and improvement for SOC test platforms. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Chilean Computer Science Society; proceedings.

The proceedings of the 26th International Conference of the Chilean Society of Computer Science are collected here, with 15 papers presented. The conference was held in Iquique, Chile, in November of 2007, which was part of a larger event, the Chilean Computer Week. Papers, by contributors in computer science and informatics from around the world, focused on software engineering and distributed systems, with specific sessions on distributing and adapting, specifying, testing, and querying, and engineering and scaling. The objective of the conference was to bring attention to work done in Latin America, as well as major advances in the field. Only an author index is included. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Computer and information technology; proceedings.

The 188 papers selected for the October 2007 conference are arranged into ten sessions on databases, web applications, high performance computing, mobile computing, multimedia, information security, embedded systems, software engineering, sensor networks, and service-oriented computing. The Asian researchers explore intelligent systems for data handling, networking protocols and algorithms, image processing, VLSI design, watermarking and encryption, automated testing tools, RID management, and energy control issues. Topics include a biomedical interface for medical device connectivity, robot programming based on frame representation of knowledge, local binary patterns on hexagonal image structure, secure fingerprinting for mobile game distribution content, and semantic retrieval of text documents. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Computer architecture and high performance computing; proceedings.

This publication contains the proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, held in Gramado, RS - Brazil, in October of 2007. The international group of researchers present 32 papers on applications, microarchitecture, benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis, application-specific architectures, grid computing, cache and memory architectures, interconnection networks, routing, and communication, tools for parallel and distributed programming, and load balancing and scheduling. Only an author index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Computer graphics and applications; proceedings.

Papers from a fall conference are presented here, including 39 regular papers from oral presentations and 18 short papers from poster presentations. Major themes include animation, rendering, shape modeling, applications, geometry processing, curves and surfaces, non-photorealistic rendering, image processing, and video processing. Some specific subjects explored are abstract line drawing from 2D images, computer-generated papercutting, practical global illumination for hair rendering, automatic natural video matting with depth, and developable strip approximation of parametric surfaces with global error bounds. Other topics include contour correspondence via ant colony optimization, visualization of implicit algebraic curves, real-time breaking waves for shallow water simulations, and image-space caustics and curvatures. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Computer graphics and image processing; proceedings.

Proceedings of an October 2007 conference held in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Forty contributions are organized into sections on animation and graphical interfaces; mathematical morphology; modeling and computational geometry; image processing applications; image and video retrieval; rendering and visualization; object location and tracking; 3D imaging and stereo vision; pattern recognition and applications; image filtering; medical image segmentation; and medical imaging, registration, and visualization. A sampling of topics: a simple framework for natural animation of digitized models, color mathematical morphology based on partial ordering of spectra, an exact and efficient algorithm for the orthogonal art gallery problem, improved reversible mapping from color to gray, bipartite graph matching for video clip localization, improved real-time shadow mapping for CAD models, automatic eye localization in color images, interactive 3D scanning without tracking, unsupervised identification of coherent motion in video, and automated segmentation of the corpus callosum midsagittal surface area. No subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Computational science and its applications; proceedings.

Gavrilova (U. of Calgary, Canada) and Gervasi (U. of Perugia, Italy) present 82 short, refereed papers from the 2007 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications. Papers are at first structured according to the major conference themes: computational methods, algorithms, and applications; high performance technical computing and networks; advanced and emerging applications; and information systems and information technologies. Remaining papers are then organized according to the workshop and technical session topics: advanced security services; advances in web based learning; component based software engineering and software process model; computational geometry and applications; computational intelligence approaches and methods for security engineering; digital content security and management of distributed computing; distributed data and storage system management; data storage devices and systems; hybrid information technology using computational intelligence; integrated analysis and intelligent design technology; intelligent image mining, information services and information technologies; intelligent services and synchronization in mobile multimedia networks; mobile communications; modeling of location management in mobile information systems; molecular simulations, structures, and processes: theories and applications of optimization; pattern recognition and ubiquitous computing; computer graphics and geometric modeling; computational science in educations; wireless sensor networks; and virtual reality in scientific applications and learning. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Current trends in computer science; proceedings.

Twenty-three papers selected for the September 2007 conference report research advances in information retrieval, scalable pattern recognition, and user-driven software systems. The researchers propose a fuzzy spatial data warehouse, a layered architecture for cooperative work environments, an algorithm for identifying authors using synonyms, and an image registration method using a projective transformation model. Other topics include automatic recognition of chemical images, plagiarism of digital documents, a collaborative search engine, and node availability for distributed systems considering processor and RAM utilization. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Database and expert systems applications; proceedings.

Papers from a September 2007 workshop highlight specialized topics in applications of database and expert systems technology. Themes include XML data management tools and techniques, multimedia data mining and management, management and interaction with multimodal information content, evolutionary techniques in data processing, and knowledge management and discovery for ubiquitous and pervasive applications. Other subjects are dynamic taxonomies and faceted search, text-based information retrieval, decision support in structural health monitoring and flexible query processing in information systems, and flexible database and information system technology. Semantic web architectures for enterprises, conceptual knowledge engineering, mobile information systems, e-learning systems, data management in global data repositories, and Internet communications security are some other areas explored. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Database engineering and applications; proceedings.

Twenty-nine full papers and nine short papers from the September 2007 symposium address data exploration, service orientation, data streams, peer-to-peer issues, enterprise and web data, concurrency control, query processing, storage, and security. The researchers present new approaches to text categorization in the digital library, controlling the quality of data, QoS-enabled service discovery, matching ordered XML documents, and managing uncertain expressions in databases. Other topics include foreign superkeys and constant references, scalable query dissemination in XPeer, stream processing in a relational database, Kruskal's algorithm for query tree optimization, and a web database security model using the host identity protocol. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Data, privacy, and e-commerce; proceedings.

A November 2007 symposium highlighted a broad spectrum of research topics on data, privacy, and electronic commerce. This work presents papers from the symposium. Some specific topics examined are boundary extract and reduction of mass data in reverse engineering, semantics-based complex event processing for RFID data streams, a novel document analysis method using compressibility vectors, and a method of using personal habits for path prediction in network games. Other subjects include ontology-driven conceptual modeling for spatiotemporal database applications, motion retrieval based on multiple instance learning by isomap and RBF, a survey study on XML functional dependencies, and a self-adaptive spatial information multigrid database. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Defect and fault tolerance in VLSI systems; proceedings.

A September 2007 symposium gathered academics, research scientists, and industrial practitioners in the global defect and fault tolerance (DFT) community to examine traditional DFT topics, such as error correction and fault tolerant designs, as well as new topics, including DFT in networks-on-chips, nanotechnology, and soft errors. This proceedings presents 45 regular papers from the symposium and 12 papers from a special poster session. Papers are organized in sections on reliable NoCs and SoCs, single event effects, defect and fault tolerance, fault injection and reliability analysis, testing and design for testability, defect and fault tolerance, dependable solutions for memories and storage, reliable design techniques, emerging technologies, and reliable applications. Papers from the poster session explore realms such as timing-aware diagnosis for small delay defects, testing of asynchronous NULL conventional logic circuits in synchronous-based designs, and production yield and self-configuration in massively defective nanochips. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Dependable, autonomic and secure computing; proceedings.

A September 2007 symposium brought together scientists and researchers from academia and industry who are working in various scientific and technical areas of dependability, security, and autonomic computing. Papers from the symposium, 22 in total, are presented here, in sections on self-healing and self-configuration, dependability, security, autonomic computing systems, performance and reliability, self-improvement based on software and hardware, and networks and systems. Some specific topics covered include an inference-based collaborative filtering approach, Byzantine fault tolerance for nondeterministic applications, hybrid trust information exchange for federated systems, and a secure multipath routing scheme for mobile ad hoc networks. Other subjects covered include a coarse-grained pessimistic message logging scheme for improving roll-back recovery efficiency, a proactive fraud management framework for financial data streams, and isolating buggy and malicious device drivers using hardware virtualization support. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Digital forensics and incident analysis; proceedings.

Eight papers from an August 2007 workshop are presented here, covering legal issues, issues of international cooperation, and technical, managerial, and theoretical issues. Specific papers topics include international cooperation to fight transnational cybercrime, DNS amplification attacks, and a cognitive model for the forensic recovery of end-user passwords. Other paper subjects include a framework to induce a suspected user into context honeypot, applying a cryptographic scheme in the RPINA protocol, and a feasibility study of using Linux clustering techniques in computer forensics. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Digital system design architectures, methods and tools; proceedings.

Papers from an August 2007 conference address key issues in the design and implementation of embedded digital systems. Coverage encompasses areas including processor and memory architectures, application specific processes, systems-on-chip, hardware/software co-design, circuit design, system validation, and design automation. Specific paper topics include graph matching constraints for synthesis with complex components, silicon compaction/defragmentation for partial runtime reconfiguration, merge logic for clustered multithreaded VLIW processors, and a reliable FAT file system. Other subjects include architecture of a small, low-cost satellite, evaluating energy consumption in wireless sensor networks applications, on-chip verification of NoCs using assertion processors, and application-specific topology design customization for STNoC. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Distributed simulation and real-time applications; proceedings.

This volume presents the proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications, held in October of 2007 in Chania, Greece. Two keynote speeches and 353 papers are collected, on large-scale simulation, collaborative virtual environments, and real-time applications. Specific sessions focus on collision detection, interest management and group communication, tools, scheduling and load balancing, grid and web services, applications, collaborative virtual environments, time management, and network simulation. Contributors are based around the world and work in the fields of computer engineering, information technology, computer science, and others. Only an author index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Document analysis and recognition; proceedings; 2v.

A September 2007 conference provided an international forum for exchanging ideas on document analysis, understanding, retrieval, and applications in the field of pattern recognition. Document databases and forensic sciences are two new areas discussed at this year's conference. In Volume I of a two-volume set of papers from the conference, work is grouped in sections on handwriting recognition, document retrieval, page segmentation, classifiers, online handwriting applications, Asian character recognition, graphics recognition, and image preprocessing and classification. Volume II presents papers on writer identification and verification, symbol recognition, camera and video applications, layout analysis, Arabic recognition, and camera-based systems. Some of the areas examined include color document synthesis as a compression strategy, a modular approach to recognition of strokes in Telugu script, robust circle detection, and an incremental on-line parsing algorithm for recognizing sketching diagrams. Some other topics discussed include robust binarization for video text recognition, skew detection for Chinese handwriting by horizontal stroke histogram, a data mining approach to reading order detection, spoken handwriting verification using statistical methods, and segmentation-based recovery of arbitrarily warped images. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)