Computer Society Press

Multimedia and ubiquitous engineering; proceedings.

The 178 papers of this massive proceedings were first presented at the 2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, held in Seoul, Korea in April of 2007. Among the subjects for workshops were soft computing in intelligent multimedia, grid and pervasive computing security, data management in ubiquitous computing, smart living space, and software effectiveness and efficiency. In addition, several keynote addresses are included, among them analysis of sound features for music timbre recognition, by Xin Zhang and Zbigniew W. Ras of the U. of North Carolina at Charlotte; and sensor node activity scheduling approach, by Jemal H. Abawajy, Saeid Nahavandi, and Fahed Al-Neyadi, of Deakin U. in Geelong, Australia. The remaining contributors are also computer engineers at universities and research bodies worldwide. Name indexed only. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Object and component-oriented real-time distributed computing; proceedings.

Forty-three regular papers and ten short papers from the May 2007 symposium present recent research in real-time Java, wireless networks, component execution support, resource management, model-driven development, sensor networks, embedded systems, and execution time analysis. The contributors propose a unified benchmarking process for components in automotive systems software, a method to design arbitrary failure detectors for distributed protocols, and an approach to automated agent deployment in service- base systems. Other topics include predictable serialization in Java, domain-specific language design using UML, task scheduling with value control to predict timing faults, and an evaluation of EJB implementation methods. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Parallel, distributed and network-based processing; proceedings.

Held in February of 2007, the 15th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing was comprised of 56 full presentations and 12 short presentations on recent developments in the theory and applications of parallel and distributed computing, all of which are presented in this volume by program chairs D'Ambra and Guarracin (both of the Instituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, Italy). They divided the conference program roughly equally between six "traditional" sessions and six "special" sessions. The former address advanced applications; network-based and internet-based computing; models and tools for programming environments distributed systems; languages, compilers, and runtime support systems; and parallel computer systems. The "special" sessions were devoted to next generation Web computing; parallel and distributed image processing, video processing, and multimedia; pervasive computing environments and services; multi-agent and bio- inspired algorithms and applications for distributed systems; modeling, simulation, and optimization of peer-to-peer environments; and parallel and distributed data storage. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Pervasive computing and communications, workshops; proceedings.

Proceedings from a March 2007 conference held in White Plains, New York. In this second of two volumes from the conference, 99 papers are organized into the ten workshop sections: context modeling and reasoning, intermittently connected mobile ad hoc networks, mobile peer-to-peer computing, pervasive learning, pervasive computing and communication security, sensor networks and systems for pervasive computing, pervasive RFID/NFC technology and applications, pervasive transportation systems, middleware support for pervasive computing, and pervasive wireless networking. These are followed by 12 papers from the final work-in-progress session. A sampling of topics: the role of probabilistic schemes in multisensor context-awareness, how small labels create big improvements, energy efficient routing in nomadic networks, the effect that screen size has on video-based m-learning, public-key cryptography for RFID- tags, data quality and query cost in wireless sensor networks, defining strong privacy for RFID, and decentralized bootstrapping in pervasive applications. No subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Pervasive computing and communications; proceedings. (CD-ROM included)

Proceedings from a March 2007 conference held in White Plains, New York. In this first of two volumes from the conference, twenty-eight research papers are organized into sections on radio frequency identification (RFID), best papers, middleware and applications, application design and development, localization and its applications, end-user experience, security, data management and usage, and interacting with the user. A sampling of topics: serverless search and authentication protocols for RFID, mining frequent trajectory patterns for activity monitoring using radio frequency tag arrays, designing ubiquitous computing systems for sports equipment, supporting domain experts in creating pervasive experiences, the SkyLoc floor localization system, a wall- sized focus plus context display, securing distributed data storage and retrieval in sensor networks, structural learning of activities from sparse datasets, and supporting mobile service usage through physical mobile interaction. No subject index. The accompanying CD-ROM contains both the papers and the workshops from the conference. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Real-time and embedded technology and applications, RTAS 2007; proceedings.

These proceedings from the April 2007 academic symposium include papers on both theory and practice in the traditional core areas as well as in areas of special emphasis, namely real-time and embedded applications and benchmarks; development, verification and debug tools for embedded systems; and embedded system hardware/software interaction and co-design. General topics of the papers also include networking, scheduling, middleware, systems analysis and scheduling, testing and debugging, energy management, building robust systems, distributed real-time systems, and a selection of miscellaneous papers on such topics as making intelligent risk and optimizing decisions based on such factors as available resources and risk tolerance limits, real-time database modeling and performance management, and dynamic patching of embedded software. The editors include an author index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Simulation symposium (ANSS 2007); proceedings.

These proceedings from the March 2007 symposium include reports on research from the front lines of computer simulation and its applications. Topics include queuing network modeling and simulation (including the JMT simulator for performance evaluation of non-product form queuing networks), service-oriented computing and network modeling and simulation (including validation of a load shared integrated network with heterogeneous services), advances in methodology and practices (including evaluating biological cells), performance modeling, languages and tools, environments, distributed systems and networks, VLSI circuit simulation and distributed simulation, and parallel and distributed simulation. The editors have included an author index, but no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Software maintenance and reengineering; proceedings.

During the lifetime of a typical software product, the code grows and becomes more complex, indicating a need to pay explicit attention to maintenance and reengineering issues during the development process and afterwards. The 11th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, held in March 2007, was dedicated to methods and techniques of dealing with these issues of software evolution. This volume presents 29 technical papers from the conference, originally presented in sessions dealing with maintenance changes, components and objects, dependency analysis, maintenance with dynamics, architecture, web applications, quality, static analysis, features, and recovery. The volume also includes nine papers from industry track and tool track sessions, including discussions of testing techniques for the cross-platform migration of very large interactive applications, software configuration management for the evolution of large existing code bases, a multi-view toolkit to assist software integration and evolution, and the Sisyphus continuous integration system. Additionally, the proceedings of a doctoral symposium are also presented, addressing the support of reliable software evolution through program analysis, dynamic object process graph extraction for program understanding and protocol recovery, monitoring requirements evolution using views, automated mass maintenance of software assets, model-driven evolution of software architectures, and software quality attribute analysis by architecture reconstruction. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Symbolic and numeric algorithms for scientific computing; proceedings.

Seventy papers comprise this proceedings from the 8th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (Romania, 2006). Contributors discuss current issues in topics of interest to engineers and mathematicians that include: numeric and symbolic computation, computer algebra, agent systems, formal methods in software design, natural and grid computing, image processing and geometric visualization, and workflow management. This volume contains an author index only. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Systematic approaches to digital forensic engineering; proceedings.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering, held in Seattle, Washington, in April of 2007. Sixteen papers and panels on the topics of the use of models in forensics, gathering and understanding digital data, challenges for the forensic community, analysis tools, and education and training are presented by forensic researchers, advanced tool/product builders, and law enforcement representatives from around the world. The workshop was intended to promote systematic approaches to cyber crime investigation by furthering the advancement of digital forensic engineering as a disciplined practice. Only an author index is included. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Universal multiservice networks; proceedings.

Forty-seven papers from the February 2007 conference present development trends in web services, peer-to-peer systems, routing, quality of service support, network management, congestion and admission control, performance analysis, traffic characterization, wireless networks, and security. Topics include characterizing document types to evaluate web cache replacement policies, utility-based bandwidth allocation for triple play services, safety message dissemination in vehicular ad hoc networks, and the efficiency of periodic rekeying in dynamic group key management. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

World haptics; proceedings.

Teleoperators and other haptic technologies are computer-based interfaces that function by providing feedback to the human sense of touch. This volume presents 123 research papers originally given as oral or poster presentations at the March 2007 Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems. The oral presentations were presented in sessions covering psychophysics, device design, control and dynamics, modeling and rendering, and haptic systems and applications and the poster papers and shorter "sketch" papers cover essentially the same material. Some examples of specific topics covered include a behavioral adaptation approach to identifying visual dependence of haptic perception, the relationship between haptic feedback and force skill learning, tactile perception of rotational sliding, an infrared thermal measurement system for evaluating model-based thermal displays, design guidelines for wave variable controllers in time delayed telerobotics, transparent rendering of tool contact with compliant environments, incorporating geometric algorithms in impedance- and admittance-type haptic rendering, user perception and preference in model mediated telemanipulation, and a haptic/acoustic application to allow the blind access to spatial information. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)