th Welcome to the 15 International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2009), held January 7-9, 2009 at EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, France. MMM is a leadinginternationalconference for researchersandindustry practitionersto share their new ideas, original research results and practical development ex- riences from all multimedia-related areas. MMM 2009 was held in co-operation with the ACM Special Interest Group on MultiMedia (ACM SIGMM). It was a great honor to host MMM 2009, one of the most long-standing th multimedia conferences, at EURECOM in Sophia-Antipolis, France. The 15 edition of MMM...

This volume contains scientific papers and case studies presented at Interactive Sto- telling 08: The First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS), held November 26 29, 2008, in Erfurt, Germany. Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) is a cross-disciplinary topic, which explores new uses of interactive technologies for creating and experiencing narratives. IDS is also a huge step forward in games and learning. This can be seen through its ability to enrich virtual characters with intelligent behavior, to allow collaboration of humans and machines in the...

APWeb and WAIM are two leading international conferences on the research, development, and applications of Web technologies, database systems, infor- tion management and software engineering, with a focus on the Asia-Paci?c - gion. The previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xi'an (2000), Changsha (2001), Xi'an (2003), Hangzhou (2004), Sha- hai (2005), Harbin (2006), Huangshan (2007), and Shenyang (2008); and the previous WAIM conferences were held in Shanghai (2000), Xi'an (2001), Beijing (2002), Chengdu (2003), Dalian (2004), Hangzhou (2005), Hong Kong...

These proceedings contain the papers presented at ECIR 2009, the 31st - ropean Conference on Information Retrieval. The conference was organized by the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), in cooperation with the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer So- ety (BCS-IRSG) and was supported by the Special Interest Group on Infor- tion Retrieval (ACM SIGIR), the French Association of Information Retrieval (ARIA) and E-IRSG. It was held during April 6-9, 2007 in Toulouse, hosted by the Pierre Baudis congress center. ECIR 2009 con?rmed the growth trend...

We are grateful to Shazia Sadiq, Ke Deng, Qing Liu, Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung, Kathleen Williamson, James Bailey, and many other people for their great e?ort in supporting the conference organization. Special thanks also go to the DASFAA 2009 Regional Chairs: Xiaofeng Meng (Asia), John Roddick (Oceania), TorbenPedersen(Europe), andJunYang (America), andBestPaper AwardCommitteeCo-chairsKatsumiTanaka(UniversityofKyoto), Kyu-Young Whang (KAIST), and Lizhu Zhou (Tsinghua University). Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all Program C- mittee members andexternalreviewersfor their...

Starting in the late 1980s, the CAiSE series of conferences has established a platform for presenting and exchanging results of design-oriented research in - formation systems. In addition to the presentation of new information systems techniques, recent years have seen the rise of empirical validation of such te- niques. There is also increasing attention for industry participation. The 21st CAiSE conference, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during June 8-12, 2009, continued this tradition. The theme of CAiSE 2009 was "Information Systems for Business Innova- on." Due to the widespread...

Thepapersinthis volumewerepresentedatthe5thInternationalConferenceon Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management (AAIM 2009), held June 15 17, 2009, in San Francisco, California. The topics cover mostly algorithmic applications in information management and management science. A total of 41 papers were submitted to the conference.After an on-line paper review process, the Program Committee accepted 25 papers to be presented. The international Program Committee included Tetsuo Asano, Marshall Bern, Daniel Bienstock, Danny Z. Chen, Camil Demetrescu, Lisa Fleischer, Rudolf Fleischer,...

These proceedings contain the papers presented at the 4th International S- posium on Location and Context Awareness (LoCA) during May 7-8, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan.Locationandcontextawarenessarefundamentstonext-generation mobile and pervasive computing systems. Pervasive computing is a model of computing in which computation is everywhere and computer functions are - tegrated into everything. The ultimate aim is to make information, applications and services available anywhere and at anytime in the human environment in a ?uid manner appropriate to our current context. Once away from the desktop,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Pervasive 2009, held in Nara, Japan, in May 2009. The 20 revised full papers and 7 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital displays, navigation, at home with pervasive applications, sensors, sensors, everywhere, working together, tagging and tracking, methods and tools, and the importance of context.