This book includes selected papers of the VISAPP and GRAPP International Conferences 2006, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, February 25-28, 2006.

The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 314 submissions. The topics include geometry and modeling, rendering, animation and simulation, interactive environments, image formation and processing, image analysis, image understanding, motion, tracking and stereo vision.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks, ICETE 2005. The 85 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 151 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on global communication information systems and services, security and reliability in information systems and networks, wireless communication systems and networks, and multimedia signal processing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network Security, MMM-ACNS 2007, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in September 2007. Its objective was to bring together leading researchers from academia and governmental organizations as well as practitioners in the area of computer networks and information security.

The International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) was formed to provide an annual forum dedicated to the emerging and challenging topics in artificial intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, etc. It aims to bring - gether researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to share ideas, problems and solutions related to the multifaceted aspects of intelligent computing. ICIC 2007, held in Qingdao, China, August 21-24, 2007, constituted the Third - ternational Conference on Intelligent Computing. It built upon the success of ICIC 2006...

This book is made up of selected papers from the Asia Simulation Conference 2007, held in Seoul, Korea, in October of 2007. The 42 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. After the conference, the papers went through another round of revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on a host of subjects. These include, among others, sections on numerical simulation, general application, and agent-based simulation.

It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS proceedings of the First World Summit on the Knowledge Society - WSKS 2008 that was organized by the Open Research Society, NGO, http: //www.open-knowledge-society.org, and hosted by the American College of Greece, http: //www.acg.gr, during September 24-27, 2008, in Athens, Greece. The World Summit on the Knowledge Society Series is an international attempt to promote a dialogue on the main aspects of a knowledge society toward a better world for all based on knowledge and learning. The WSKS Series brings together academics, people...

This book contains the best papers of the 4th International Conference on E-business and Telecommunications (ICETE), which was held during July 28-31, 2007 in Barcelona, Spain. The conference reflects a continuing effort to increase the dissemination of recent research results among professionals who work in the areas of e-business and telecommunications. ICETE is a joint international conf- ence integrating four major areas of knowledge that are divided into four cor- sponding conferences: ICE-B (International Conference on e-Business), SECRYPT (International Conference on Security and...

This book contains the best papers of the Second International Conference on So- ware and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2007), held in Barcelona, Spain. It was org- ized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Communication and Control (INSTICC), co-sponsored by the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Institute for Collaboration and Research on Enterprise Systems and Technology (IICREST). The purpose of ICSOFT 2007 was to bring together researchers and practitioners int- ested in information technology and software development. The...

This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International DMTF Ac- emic Alliance Workshopon Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and New Technologies (SVM 2008) held in Munich, Germany, during October 21 22, 2008. The SVM 2008 proceedings are intended for use by students of systems and virtualization management. The reader is presumed to have a basic knowledge of systems management technologies and standards at the level provided, for example, the Common Information Model (CIM) standard for modeling m- agement resources. The student of systems management will ?nd here...

The international multi-topic conference IMTIC 2008 was held in Pakistan during April 11-12, 2008. It was a joint venture between Mehran University, Jamshoro, Sindh and Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark. Apart from the two-day main event, two workshops were also held: the Workshop on Creating Social Semantic Web 2.0 Information Spaces and the Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks. Two hundred participants registered for the main conference from 24 countries and 43 papers were presented; the two workshops had overwhelming support and over 400 delegates registered. IMTIC 2008 served as a...