Computer Society Press
E-business engineering (ICEBE 2007, SOAIC 2007, SOSE 2007, SOKM 2007); proceedings.
This collection consists of 36 full papers and 30 short papers from the October 2007 conference as well as 30 papers from a service-oriented system engineering workshop, six papers from a service modeling workshop, and eight papers from a service-oriented knowledge management workshop. The e-commerce papers present research on security and trust, quality of service in middleware and servers, electronic contracts, negotiation systems, document exchange, and collaboration. The short papers explore RFID technologies and service analysis, and share e-business case studies and industry reports. Workshop topics include ontology for service discovery, requirements engineering, SOA education, service composition, and web services. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Electronics, robotics and automotive mechanics; proceedings.
Papers from a September 2007 conference describe the latest practical and theoretical innovations in the fields of communications, control systems, analog and digital circuit design, neural networks, computer vision, artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, robotics, virtual reality, mechatronics, power electronics, and computer science. Specific topics examined include automatic extraction of lips shape via statistical lips modeling and chromatic features, feature selection with interactions for continuous attributes and discrete classes, Gaussian component optimization for a robot controlled by speech commands in Mexican Spanish, and a cascade fuzzy logic controller for an anaerobic digester. Other subjects explored include modeling of a legged robot based on observation of Colombian insects, robotic architecture for hepatic biopsies, developing a virtual environment for safety training, and correction methods and algorithms for inertial navigation systems working inside of pipelines. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Embedded and real-time computing systems and applications; proceedings.
Collects 67 papers from the August 2007 conference on memory management for embedded applications, compiler techniques for embedded systems, middleware for ubiquitous computing, power-aware design, wireless sensor networks, resource sharing, and multi-processor scheduling. Invited contributions explore the performance of on-chip shared L2 caches, real-time loop scheduling with leakage energy minimization, and a voltage and resource synthesis technique for energy-aware real-time systems. Other topics include exact analysis of TDMA with slot skipping, real-time connectors for deterministic data flow, modeling real-time garbage collection cost, and virtual full replication by adaptive segmentation. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Enterprise distributed object computing; proceedings.
Papers from an October 2007 conference bring together perspectives from researchers, architects, and practitioners, from both academia and industry, to examine ways to meet challenges of new enterprises. Regular papers are grouped in sections on areas including business process modeling and management, middleware frameworks, security and enterprise computing, enterprise architecture, modeling enterprise systems policy and enterprise computing, and architectural models. Other areas covered are workflow, model-driven architecture, electronic contracts, and requirements. Short papers are presented in sections on secured services, quality of service, requirements based on development and strategic planning, and policy in enterprise systems. Some specific paper topics include self-configuration of network security, an analysis framework for mobile workforce automation, interoperability and conformance assessment in service composition, full support for loosely structured processes, and temporal interaction contracts for components in a distributed system. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Fault diagnosis and tolerance in cryptography; proceedings.
Twelve papers from the September 2007 workshop present methods for thwarting fault injection-based side channel attacks against public key cryptosystems, advanced encryption standard (AES) implementations, and elliptic curve crypto (ECC) implementations. The opening invited paper reviews basic hardware and firmware security features for flash memory. Other topics include Montgomery multiplication with redundancy check, countermeasure attacks branch target buffer attacks, a double data rate AES architecture, tate pairing with strong fault resiliency, and register transfer level concurrent error detection. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Field-programmable custom computing machines; proceedings.
Twenty-five papers from the April 2007 symposium share current research on software tools for FPGAs, bioinformatics, scientific computing, floating point arithmetic, and optimization. The international contributors propose a hardware architecture for generating random vectors, a library and platform for FPGA bitstream manipulation, a reconfigurable transactional memory, integer factorization based on the elliptic curve method, and automatic on-chip memory minimization for data reuse. The volume concludes with 32 posters. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Foundations of computer science; proceedings.
Papers from an October 2007 symposium, 63 in all, are collected here. Many of the papers represent reports of continuing research, and it is expected that most of them will appear in a more complete and polished form in scientific journals in the future. Balloon popping with applications to ascending auctions, the complexity of Nash equilibria and other fixed points, non-linear index coding, and reconstruction for models on random graphs are some subjects examined. Other topics explored include covert multi-party computation, smooth histograms for sliding windows, hardness of reconstructing multivariate polynomials over finite fields, quantum algorithms for hidden nonlinear structures, and sparse random linear codes. Further subjects include space-efficient identity based encryption without pairings, lower bounds on signatures from symmetric primitives, and approximation algorithms using hierarchies of semidefinite programming relaxations. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Frontier on computer science and technology; proceedings.
Twenty-three papers presented during the November 2007 workshop share research on the design and application of computer networks, distributed computing, storage systems, computer security, multimedia, and performance analysis. A session on query schemes presents a high level query interface for web users' access to data resources, a user-oriented query interface for web GIS, and a novel approach to reading large objects for storage devices. Other topics include the network transmission speed of a UMP system, probabilistic access allocation of disk files for energy-efficient server systems, hybrid tracking for augmented reality GIS registration, and an adaptive image watermarking algorithm in contourlet domain. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Global software engineering; proceedings.
Papers from an August 2007 conference address a range of technical, social, and management topics in global software engineering. This year's proceedings also contain a short overview of each of the conference's tutorial and workshop sessions. Areas covered include quality and performance, communication, risk management, frameworks, good practice, offshoring, and requirements engineering. Some specific paper topics include a generic framework for establishing an offshore development center, a three-dimensional relevance model for collaborative software engineering spaces, coordination practices in distributed software development of small enterprises, and technology for supporting software engineers in globally distributed contexts. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Grid and cooperative computing; proceedings.
This proceedings consists of the 89 papers selected for the August 2007 conference and 32 papers from three workshops on workflow management, grid middleware, and personalization. The research papers explore novel grid architectures, theory and fundamental algorithms, resource discovery, scheduling, usage models, semantic and non-functional support, and engineering approaches for grid applications. Topics include allocating resources to parallel query plans in data grids, hierarchical policy for agent grid collaboration, and dynamic group signature with forward security, and data persistence in structured P2P networks with redundancy schemes. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
High-performance interconnects; proceedings.
These proceedings from the symposium of August 2007 describe new hardware and software technologies that can switch, route and process packets sent over high-speed networks. Topics include on-chip networking (dynamic priority-based fast path architecture, layout-accurate design and photonic NoC for DMA communications) switch architecture (backlog-aware schedulers for input queued packet switches, power-aware management, and dynamic bandwidth re-allocation in optical interconnects), support for network security (a worm outbreak detection system and prototyping for fast and secure switches), routing (a memory-balanced linear pipeline architecture, a rate controlled protocol test network and a low cost device for identifying large flows), performance evaluation (10-gigabit Ethernet protocol stacks in multicore environments, computation and communication overlap in modern interconnects and Mellanox COnnectX InfiniBand architecture with multi-core platforms), and operating system and network interface technology (memory management strategies for data serving and reducing the impact of the memory wall for I/O using cache injection). (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Horizontal interactive human-computer systems; proceedings.
Twenty-one full papers and seven notes from the October 2007 workshop present recent advances in developing interactive tabletop arrangements of computer input devices and user displays. The researchers share experiences with remote collaboration, long-term office use of a multi-touch table, reproducing the writing process of Japanese calligraphy, browsing and sorting digital photo collections, and designing a game for children. Other topics include group dynamics of tabletop interaction under time pressure, expanding handheld interaction to touch table displays, using light for direct tabletop input, and depth-sensing video cameras for 3D tangible tabletop interaction. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Image and graphics; proceedings.
The dense proceedings of the August 2007 conference consists of 184 papers on image processing, image analysis, image understanding, and computer graphics. The image processing articles describe camera calibration, image coding, watermarking, enhancement, filtering, and restoration. The image analysis papers address segmentation, object detection and tracking, extraction and recognition, facial features, and biometrics. Other topics include remote sensing image matching based on corner structures, rendering translucent objects based on PRT, simulating paint water and ink motion based on soil-water dynamics, and a mesh simplification algorithm based quadrangle collapse. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Intelligent agent technology; proceedings.
The papers of this proceedings were first presented at the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, held in November 2007, in Silicon Valley, Calif. and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics and the web Intelligence Consortium. Both full-length and short papers are included, with all organized according to session topic. Topics include autonomy-oriented computing, autonomous knowledge and information agents, agent systems modeling and methodology, and distributed problem solving. The contributors carry out research at academic and private institutions worldwide. Author index only. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Intelligent information hiding and multimedia signal processing; proceedings; 2v.
The 311 papers of this proceedings were first presented at the Third International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, held in November 2007, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The papers are grouped according to session topic and fill two volumes. Session topics include computation intelligence for image processing and pattern recognition, networking and information security, computer graphics, and multimedia coding. The topics of individual papers include data hiding for ibinary images using a weight mechanism, blind color watermarking for hiding secret text, anonymity in PKI environment, and traffic detection at nighttime using entropy measurement. Author index only. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Intelligent pervasive computing; proceedings.
Papers from an October 2007 conference are presented here. In addition to the main conference papers, there is work grouped under headings according to several symposia: the International Workshop on Intelligent Healthcare Systems, the International Symposium on Intelligent and Ubiquitous Computing in Education, and the International Workshop on Intelligent Pervasive Middleware, Embedded System Architectures, and RFID Applications. Some specific topics examined include a hybrid genetic scheduling strategy, design of an actor-based worm modeling system using DML, a parallel and memory-efficient mean shift filter on a regular graph, and introducing volunteer nodes into P2P live streaming. Other topics covered include a web archive system for efficient storage of web history information, a study of ontology based medical information systems for home healthcare, the effect of computer screen back and font color on Chinese reading comprehension, and a modified ant algorithm for solving the quadratic assignment problem. Some other subjects are facial and speech recognition in distance education, a comparative study of different sensors for smart car part management, and real-time embedded architecture for pervasive robots. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Intelligent systems design and applications; proceedings.
The 187 papers selected for the October 2007 conference present research for developing the next generation of intelligent business systems, image and signal processing, internet modeling, data mining, control and automation, agents, and knowledge management. The authors explore artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, genetic algorithms, machine learning, mobile robots, text categorization, nature imitation methods, and evolutionary optimizations. Topics include feature selection for classifying gene expression data, edge detection of skin lesions, an optimal investment consumption model with CIR interest rate, parallel strategies for stochastic evolution, and data mining for satellite image storage. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Latin American web congress; proceedings.
A fall 2007 conference presented research on the Web, its technologies, and its future evolution, in areas such as search technologies, advertising algorithms, user behavior characterization, semantic Web techniques, and Web engineering. Papers from the conference are collected here. Some specific paper topics include geographical characterization of YouTube, new stochastic algorithms for placing ads in sponsored search, the benefits of using tag-based profiles, a fault-tolerant Web service architecture, and description and prediction of slashdot activity. Other subjects examined include semantic contract support for e-business processes, a three-layered approach to model Web accessibility for blind users, characterization of online auctions, personal robots as ubiquitous-multimedia-mobile Web interfaces, and distinctive features of the Argentinean Web. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Mass storage systems and technologies; proceedings.
The proceedings of the September 2007 conference consists of 15 full papers and 15 short papers on global-scale storage, long-term storage, and storage for high performance computing. The full papers explore novel architectures and present refined approaches to data grids, object-based storage, security, and reliability. Topics include the storage resource manager protocol, modeling the impact of checkpoints on next generation systems, capability-based secure assess control to networked storage devices, and analyzing physical damage caused by partial disk failures. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Mobile computing systems and applications; proceedings.
The 14 papers selected for the February 2007 workshop propose new directions of research and advocate nontraditional approaches to mobile applications, wireless devices, networking, and security. Topics include challenges to supporting health and safety compliance in the field, an architecture for efficient spectrum slicing, collaborative downloading for multi-homed wireless devices, and user-controllable security and privacy for pervasive computing. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
