Computer Society Press
Artificial reality and telexistence; proceedings.
In November 2007, the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence was held in Denmark, the first time in its 17-year history that it was held outside of the Asia/Pacific region. Papers from the conference address topics related to tracking, display, interaction, haptics, applications, augmented reality and modeling, and rendering and modeling. Some areas discussed include real-time recognition of body motion for a virtual dance collaboration system, volumetric display for augmented reality, haptic navigation for broad social applications by kinesthetic illusion of pulling sensations, and paper-based augmented reality. Other areas explored include photorealistic VR games, the generation of scenes in mixed reality environments using the chromakey technique, using a single cell to create an entire organ, and a first-person shooter game with dual guns using multiple optical air mouse devices. B&w photos and screenshots are included. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Asia-Pacific services computing; proceedings.
The 74 papers selected for the December 2007 conference present new development in wireless sensor networks, mobile computing, web services, grid computing, service-centric computing models, and service computing process integration. The researchers propose an agent scheduling optimization for call centers, a visual lens toolkit for mobile devices, a mediation architecture for federated digital library services, and a fuzzy multi-ontology web service discovery systems. Other topics include resource availability evaluation in service grid environment, mass customization through semantic web services, cultural issues in e-business solutions, and an algorithm for avoiding packet reordering in load-balanced switches. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Asia-Pacific software engineering conference; proceedings.
Sixth-seven papers from the December 2007 conference present recent research on requirements engineering, software processes, formal methods, aspect-oriented software, quality management, testing and analysis, and software maintenance. The contributors propose approximation algorithms for software component selection, a static call graph generator for C++, a process pattern language for agile methods, and a Six Sigma framework for software process improvements. Other topics include concurrency control mechanisms in data service layers, compositional verification of UML dynamic models, checking distributed programs with partially ordered atoms, and aspect mining for Linux. The index only lists authors. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Automated production of cross media content for multi-channel distribution; proceedings.
A 2007 conference brought together technology transfer experts, project managers, researchers, developers, and users of the AXEMEDIS domain. The conference focused on challenges in the cross-media domain, including production, protection, management, representation, formats, aggregation, workflow, distribution, and transaction models. The conference also explored the integration of new forms of content and content management systems and distribution chains, with particular emphasis on cost reduction and innovative solutions for complex cross-domain issues and multi-channel distribution. This first volume of the conference proceedings contains scientific papers; a separate second volume contains selected submissions from workshops and industrial panels. Papers are in sections on content and metadata, grid and P2P, DRM implementation, technology, cross-media, applications, DRM approaches, business models, architectures, and content production. Some areas examined include a social web radio architecture for group customization, audio and video conferencing tools in learning management systems, and motives and willingness to pay for digital music. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Communication and IT for rural environments; proceedings.
The December 2007 conference proceedings volume begins with five tutorials on: utility-oriented grid computing and the gridbus middleware; search engines in Indian languages; infrastructure protection from distributed denial of service attacks; multicores — architectures, programming and beyond; and management of transactions on mobile database systems. Following are invited talk abstracts on petaflop computing, telemedicine and its usage in India, fair routing and related optimization problems, cryptography and security, and handwriting recognition. Subsequent contributions are arranged in sections on testability and cryptoanalysis, soft computing, network performance analysis, medical informatics, hardware, wireless networks, web engineering, and pattern recognition, among other topics. Indexing is by author only (not by subject). (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Computational intelligence and multimedia applications; proceedings; 4v.
Four volumes collect the proceedings of the December 2007 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, amounting to 640 peer-reviewed papers in all. The first volume opens with invited talks on machine intelligence, computational theory of perception, and rough-fuzzy computing and on kernel methods for speech and image processing tasks. It then presents papers from sessions on artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks; education; fuzzy systems; genetic algorithms; hybrid systems; and memory, storage, and retrieval. Volume II opens with presentations on small eigenvalue based solutions to feature extraction in images and constrained disjoint paths in geometric network and proceeds to include papers on data mining, knowledge based engineering, learning algorithms, logic synthesis, and pattern recognition. Another invited talk, on texture image features, opens the third volume, followed by discussion of intelligent databases and image/video compression and processing. The final volume begins with a paper on digital image/video forensics (yes, invited) and then presents papers dealing intelligent control and systems, multimedia and security, multimedia and algorithms, multimedia information retrieval, multimedia systems, multimedia and telecommunications, and multimedia and virtual reality. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Computational intelligence and security; proceedings.
The 228 papers of this proceedings were first presented at the 2007 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security Workshops, held in December 2007 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. The papers are grouped by session topic, with topics that include neural and fuzzy systems, intelligent computation, image processing and pattern recognition, and cryptography and security techniques. Thirty-one papers fall under the topic 'other applications'; these include such topics as a method of radar signal separation, stereoscopic video coding based on H264 standard, and time bounding event reasoning in computer forensic. Author indexed only. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Computational intelligence and security; proceedings.
The 224 papers of this proceedings were first presented at the 2007 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, held in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China in December. Organized by session topic, the papers present research on topics that include learning theory and algorithms, cyptography, system security and management, and distributed and multi-agent systems. A sampling of paper topics includes model for fitting the yield curve based on a continuous penalty function, traffic signs detection and recognition by improved RBFNN, a new evolutionary algorithm for constrained optimization problems, and frequent closed informative itemset mining. Author indexed only. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Computer security applications conference; proceedings.
The 42 papers selected for the December 2007 conference present practical solutions to managing security during the lifecycle of operating systems, enterprise networks, databases, and distributed systems. The contributors propose a signature testing technique through dynamic data flow analysis, a novel IM malware detection and suppression mechanism, a runtime system infrastructure for security- typed languages, and a secure searchable automated remote email storage system. Other topics include a taxonomy of botnet structures, balanced lineage authentication, tracking darkports for network defense, and extending the Java virtual machine to enforce fine-grained security policies in mobile devices. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Cyberworlds; proceedings.
In addition to the 35 papers selected for the October 2007 conference on cyberworlds, this volume also publishes 10 papers from a workshop on modeling virtual reality systems incorporating haptic and tactile feedback and 13 papers from a second workshop on advanced mathematical methods for geometric modeling and shape analysis. The cyberworld papers explore data management, artificial intelligence, cyber ethics, virtual humans, distributed virtual environments, human interaction, and visualization. Other topics include subjective fabric evaluation, anisotropic bending stiffness on particles grids, fast inverse forging simulation via medial axis transform, encoding animated meshes in local coordinates, and parametric reconstruction of bent tube surfaces. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Data mining; proceedings.
An October 2007 conference featured tutorials on practical relational data community generation, mining for software reliability, cluster detection in moderate-to-high dimensional data, and methods and applications of contrast data mining. Regular and short papers from the conference are collected here. Some topics explored include cross-mining binary and numerical attributes, using burstiness to improve clustering of topics in news streams, and training conditional random fields by periodic step size adaptation for large-scale text mining. Other subjects include finding cohesive clusters for analyzing knowledge communities, sample detection for maximal diversity, local probabilistic models for link prediction, language-independent set expansion of named entities using the Web, and incorporating user provided constraints into document clustering. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Dependable computing; proceedings.
Thirty-nine regular papers and 20 short papers from the December 2007 symposium present ideas for improving the dependability of computer hardware, systems, and networks. The security session investigates web vulnerability scanning tools for SQL injection and XSS attacks, the effects of finite memory on intrusion-tolerant systems, and a threshold scheme for the pseudonymization of health data. Other topics include an online control flow checking method for VLIW processors, benchmarking the robustness of web services, a proportional intensity-based software reliability assessment tool, and a highly available OSPF router for ATCA. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Digital media and its application in museum and heritage; proceedings.
The 82 papers selected for the December 2007 workshop describe recent advances in using computer technologies to expose, restore, and protect world cultural heritages. The Chinese researchers explore watermarking techniques, image processing, navigation and motion planning, geometric modeling, real-time rendering, stereoscopic display techniques, and virtual reality architectures. Topics include capturing character contours from images of ancient Chinese calligraphy, ID recognition for museum tourists, human skeleton reconstruction, a video mosaic algorithm for compressed video, mixed reality science exhibitions for children, and a forecasting model of urban traffic accidents. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
E-science and grid computing; proceedings.
The 60 papers selected for the December 2007 conference are divided into 15 sessions on grid programming and development, workflows, scheduling, data management, communications, resource discovery, semantics, performance, and applications. Topics include large- scale ATLAS simulated production on EGEE, a web service system for meteorological grid data, index structures for efficient querying of distributed triplestores, and improving the efficiency of small meander line RFID antennas. Three workshops containing an additional 16 papers on problem solving environments, grid interoperability, and scientific workflows close out the volume. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
E-technologies; proceedings.
The proceedings volume of the January 2008 conference consists of 20 regular research papers and nine shorts papers on web-mediated collaboration, semantic information mining, service-oriented architectures, e-governance, business process management, security and trust, and web services. Topics include an integrated user requirements notation framework, modeling the interaction of distributed systems as protocols, trusted data collection for knowledge discovery, a Pervaho middleware for mobile context-aware applications, use case maps for business process and workflow description, and lessons learned from Wikipedia. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Enabling technologies; infrastructure for collaborative enterprises; proceedings.
The nine workshops held during the June 2007 gathering explored agent-based computing for enterprise collaboration, coordination in pervasive environments, service-oriented P2P systems, distributed and mobile collaboration, agile process-aware systems, web services, tangible interaction, and security. The largest workshop focuses on emerging technologies for next generation grid computing and reports on the Cometa PI2S2 project under development in Sicily. Topics of the 79 papers include a federated directory system of semantic web services, rarity-based routing in structured P2P overlays, virtual storage services for dynamic collaboration, structural adaptation of workflows, and a dual driver networked fire truck simulator. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Formal methods in computer aided design; proceedings.
Papers from a November 2007 conference report on formal aspects of computer-aided system design, including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing. The papers are presented in sections on SAT-based methods, high-level system analysis, abstraction-based methods, software analysis methods, symbolic trajectory evaluation, specification theory, industrial-strength verification, reasoning about physical systems, and advanced theorem-proving applications. Some specific topics examined include automated extraction of inductive invariants to aid model checking, circuit-level verification of a high-speed toggle, a mechanized refinement framework for analysis of custom memories, and two-dimensional regular expressions for compositional bus protocols. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Frontiers in the covergence of bioscience and information technologies; proceedings.
The 158 papers of this proceedings were first presented at the Frontiers in the Convergence of Bioscience and Information Technologies Conference, held in October 2007 in Jeju Island, South Korea. As the title suggests, topics covered include those areas where biology and computer science meet, including cell biology and biotechnology, microarrays, infectomics, rough sets for bioscience, computational anatomy, and biomedicine. The papers are grouped according to section topic. Eight papers are included on aquacenter research. The contributors are scientists in a variety of fields worldwide. Author indexed only. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Future generation communication and networking; proceedings; 2v.
Representing the proceedings of an international conference held December 2007 (Jeju-Island, Korea), this two-volume set carries the main conference papers in volume one and the workshop papers in volume two. Twenty-five invited keynote papers and 200 articles selected from over 600 submissions address topics in the areas of communication basics and infrastructure (telecommunications, protocols, algorithms, transmission techniques); network basics and management (systems and devices, wireless, modeling and simulation, security); multimedia application; and image, video, signal and information processing. Author lists are included, but no subject index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Granular computing; proceedings.
The proceedings of the November 2007 conference collects recent research on methods and strategies for granular computing, fuzzy control, and rough set, neighborhood, grid, interval, quotient, and neutrosophic computing. Many of the contributors explore applications in artificial intelligence, machine learning, knowledge discovery, databases, bioinformatics, and computer security. Topics of the 151 papers include a granular space model for ontology learning, rough set approximations based on random sets, automatic classification of graphs by symbolic histograms, and the use of neural networks in forecasting financial markets. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
