Computer Society Press
High assurance systems engineering; proceedings.
This proceedings contains 33 papers from a November 2007 symposium. Themes include high-assurance requirements, system design and architectures, security systems engineering, testing, security assurance and policies, distributed systems, high-assurance embedded systems, software engineering for high-assurance systems, fault tolerance and availability, empirical analysis, formal verification and validation, requirements and design, Web and e-commerce, formal methods and applications, and systems and networks. Some specific topics include a mobile agent-based multi-robot design method for high-assurance, an analytic model for Web anomalies, parsimonious classifiers for software quality assessment, a formal approach to Web site maintenance, and design of a fairness guarantee mechanism based on network measurement. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
HPCMP users group conference; proceedings.
During the June 2007 conference, military researchers and defense contractors presented developments in the ongoing high performance computing modernization program. The 76 papers investigate computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry and materials science, acoustics, climate and ocean modeling, signal and image processing, software performance, and ship support. Topics include integrated analysis of scramjet flowpath with innovative inlets, a parallel 3D FDTD simulator for photonic crystals, enhancements to the extensible data model and format (XDMF), and memory leak detection in FORTRAN applications using TAU. Several color plates are provided, but no index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Image analysis and processing; proceedings.
The foreword describes how ICIAP has become the international conference that joins together the Italian and international communities of researchers working on image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, and multimedia; and it also explains that the proceedings of the 2007 conference (Modena, Italy) are available digitally, but a deliberate decision was made to print a book (there's no CD) because the format continues to be useful in the digital age and "...Books attest to the history of culture, books are culture and books cannot be replaced by digital access." Approximately 130 oral and poster presentations (from 41 countries) are arranged in sections on biometry, theory, industrial applications, surveillance and security, multimedia, and medical imaging. There is an author list, but no subject index. Workshop proceedings have been published separately. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Image analysis and processing; proceedings.
Published to accompany the proceedings volume from the 14th ICIAP conference (September 2007, Modena, Italy), this volume presents workshop papers on emerging media digital libraries: audio, 3D, image, and video. An invited lecture on web-scale multimedia data management by Edward Chang, head of Google Research China is followed by 26 papers on such topics as a system for automatic identification of mustic works, shape indexing through Laplacian spectra, detecting eye fixations by projection clustering, and scalability and adaptability for multimodal retrieval and annotation, to name just a few of the topics covered. There is an author list, but no subject index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Improving patient safety through medical device interoperability and high confidence software; proceedings.
A June 2007 conference brought together specialists in high-confidence medical devices and software and medical device plug-and-play interoperability, from clinical environments, industry, research laboratories, academia, and government. Thirteen full papers from the conference, plus 22 poster abstracts and laboratory demonstrations, are presented here, addressing challenges facing the design, manufacture, certification, and use of medical devices. Material is in sections on high-confidence medical device software, sensor networks, and interoperability challenges and solutions. Some specific topics covered are user access of public shared devices in pervasive computing environments, standardization of acute health care digital communications, and dynamic fall detection and pace measurement in walking sticks. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Information science and security; proceedings.
Thirty-nine papers from the January 2008 conference present recent research on information communication technologies, information systems for national defense, network systems, and information system security. The primarily Korean contributors propose an algorithm to cluster orthologous proteins across multiple genomes, a multimedia content encryption scheme for mobile handheld devices, and a tool for detecting hidden data in Microsoft compound document file format. Other topics include the dangers of applying Web 2.0 technologies in e-commerce solutions, secure data transmission based on 3D coordinates for sensor network communication, node movement detection to overcome false route failures, and the Kyonggi forensic management system for digital evidence. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Information technology covergence; proceedings.
Eighty-two papers from the November 2007 symposium share recent research on intelligent systems, computer networks, signal processing, medical equipment, and human-computer interaction, highlighting the convergence of information technology with advances in other fields. The contributors propose a double chance algorithm for car license plate extraction, an extension of OWL description logic with fuzzy logic, a packet marking scheme for assured forwarding services in DiffServ networks, and a P2P simulation protocol for DEVS models. Other topics include object representation using geodesic levels, heart murmur classification with the SVM technique, manufacturing test data analysis, VoIP design for advertising services, and heuristic road extraction. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Intelligent information technology application; proceedings.
Ninety-one papers from the December 2007 workshop present recent developments in data mining, knowledge management, intelligent agents, machine learning, and automatic reasoning; and successful applications in agriculture, biomedicine, e-services, e-learning, and business. The 18 sessions address rough sets, circuit design, evolutionary computation, neural networks, image processing, fuzzy systems, and security. Topics include a genetic algorithm optimizing design for electric plant construction projects, a logistics vehicle routing problem based on GIS, a computer forensics model based on danger theory, and acoustic source localization in wireless sensor networks. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Machine learning and applications; proceedings.
The papers of this proceedings were first presented at the Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, held in Cincinnati in December 2007. The papers are grouped by session topic, among them support vector machines, evolutionary methods, text and multimedia learning, machine learning in web based real-time applications, and machine learning applications in biomedicine. Three workshop sessions are included; these are on machine learning applications in the areas of genomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics. Author indexed only. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Microarchitecture; proceedings.
This publication features the papers from the 40th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, held in Chicago in December of 2007. Thirty-five papers are compiled on solutions to the challenges posed by new manufacturing technologies and hardware/software support for chip multiprocessors, and new applications and their impact on architectures, including sessions on technology issues, instruction scheduling, wear-out aware architectures, memory, networking and security, reliability, simulation-workload analysis, prefetching and snooping, parallelism and quality of service in chip multi-processors, parallel architectures, and cache replacement policies. The internationally- based presenters work in computer science and architecture, and electrical and computer engineering. Only an author index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Multimedia; proceedings.
This second volume from the December 2007 symposium contains 88 papers from the special session, industrial session, demonstrations, and seven workshops on techniques for managing and manipulating interactive digital media at home, audio and speech processing, information processing and retrieval, video coding, and web 2.0 for education. The six special session papers propose a simulation system for tsunami wave propagation, compare upmixing and downmixing techniques for two-channel stereo, construct role-playing learning content, and enhance student interaction with SMS messages. Other topics include media sink elements for modeling data-driven multimedia presentations, semantic clustering for region-based image retrieval, dynamic search range control for H.264, automatic hierarchical classification of emotional speech, and web image gathering with a spatial pyramid kernel. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Multimedia; proceedings.
The first of two volumes from the December 2007 symposium collects four keynote speeches and 38 papers on mobile multimedia services, multimedia networking, database and information retrieval, and audio, image, and video processing. The researchers propose a scheme for extracting QR code from a non-uniform background, a temporal UID matrix strategy for indexing video databases, a real-time interactive shadow avatar, and an adaptive audio quantizer for VoIP systems. Other topics include compressed steganography using hidden referenced halftoning, the performance of distributed speech recognition services, motion retrieval based on energy morphing, and layered clustering for solar powered wireless visual sensor networks. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Next generation web services practices; proceedings.
Abraham (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) presents papers from an October 2007 conference on different aspects of Web- based information systems, including semantic web, Web-based services, Web applications, Web-enhanced business information systems, e-education specialists, and information security. Major themes discussed include Web services architecture, database technologies for Web service, scalability and performance, user interfaces and visualization, and customization. Other themes addressed are Web services standards, Web-based e-commerce and e-learning, home networks, grid-based Web services, and intellectual property. Specific topics described include OWL-S-based interaction testing of a Web service-based system, ranking services based on non-functional properties, and a secure key authentication scheme based on discrete algorithms. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Parallel and distributed computing, applications and technologies; proceedings.
The 77 papers of this proceedings were first presented at the Eighth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies held in December 2007 in Adelaide, Australia. The papers are divided according to session topic, with general topics that include internet computing, task mapping and job scheduling, high-performance computing, grid computing, and distributed databases. Individual paper topics include detecting atomicity errors in message passing programs, parallel database join operations in heterogeneous grids, and optimal routing in binomial graph networks. Author indexed only. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Real-time systems symposium; proceedings.
The 44 papers selected for the December 2007 symposium describe recent research on real-time system modeling, task scheduling, databases, and industrial implementations. Three special tracks focus on architecture and composability for cyber-physical systems, hardware-software interaction and co-design, and sensor networks and applications. Topics include sea depth measurement with restricted floating sensors, performance evaluation of a self-maintained memory module, real-time monitoring of uncertain data streams using probabilistic similarity, a WAN virtual topology tool for embedded applications. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Security in storage; proceedings.
Six papers from a September 2007 workshop shed light on current work in topics including cryptographic remote untrusted storage without public keys, enabling optimal security for removable storage devices, and an information theoretic secure verifiable secret redistribution protocol for long-term archival storage. Other subjects include a secure and accountable filesystem over untrusted storage, securing disk-resident data through application level encryption, and security and integrity of a distributed file storage in a virtual environment. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Semantic media adaptation and personalization; proceedings.
The proceedings of the December 2007 workshop consists of 46 papers on technology that adapts and personalizes content, six papers on media analysis, and 11 doctoral works in progress. The researchers propose a representation language for multimedia web semantic, a personalized interactive newscast system, a spatial relations method for classifying images from athletics, and a hanging basket model for MPEG-7 user interaction tools. Other topics include semantic media for medical information systems, personalized faceted navigation for multimedia collections, tuning local context analysis for Farsi documents, and non-verbal feedback on user interest. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
System sciences; proceedings. (CD-ROM included)
The CD-ROM accompanying this volume contains 410 papers presented at the January conference on computer-related sciences and systems engineering. The book consists of paper abstracts arranged into ten tracks on collaboration systems, decision technologies, digital media, electric power systems, electronic government, health care IT, knowledge management systems, organizational technology, and software. The contributors explore emergency response systems, decision support for logistics, bioinformatics tools for translational research, community wireless networks, knowledge transfer in organizations, data warehousing, radio frequency identification, and enterprise modeling. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
VLSI design; proceedings.
The papers of this proceedings were first presented at the 21st International Conference on VLSI Design and the 7th International Conference on Embedded Systems, held in January 2008 in Hyderabad, India. The papers are grouped by session topic and include the initial tutorial workshops. Session topics include fault tolerance, wireless communication, embedded systems, NoC/SoC, low power and standards in EDA. Author indexed only. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Web intelligence and intelligent agent technology; proceedings.
Papers from a November 2007 conference concentrate on challenges and initiatives that pertain to web intelligence and intelligent agent technology. Material is presented in 13 sections. corresponding to 13 different workshops held at the conference. Themes include collective intelligence on semantic web, new computing programs for web intelligence, web personalization and recommender systems, service composition and SWS challenges, biomedicine applications of web technologies, intelligent web interaction, social media analysis, web security and privacy, communication between human and artificial agents, secure negotiations in multi-agent systems, peer-to-peer computing and autonomous agents, a multiagent system in e-business, and agents and data mining interaction. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Web intelligence; proceedings.
One hundred forty-one papers from the November 2007 conference apply artificial intelligence and advanced information technology to the next generation of web-powered products and services. The sessions explore social networks, knowledge grids, web mining, semantics, web agents, information filtering, human-web interaction, and e-technology. Topics include an algorithm for ranking blogs based on behavioral features, an ontology approach to reflective middleware, a fuzzy Markov model for predicting user navigation, and wrapping VRXQuery with self-adaptive fuzzy capabilities. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Web services; proceedings.
Twenty-five papers from the November 2007 conference report research results investigating web service composition, web service infrastructure and deployment, semantic web services, service discovery and matching, and architecture. The contributors propose lightweight semantic descriptions for services on the web, a formal framework for building and checking service-oriented architectures, and a nonblocking scheduling mechanism for web service transactions. Other topics include structural matching of BPEL processes, secure emails in XML format, composing services with JOLIE, web service hosting and revenue maximization, and automatic learning of repair strategies for web services. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
