This monograph presents foundations for a constrained logic scheme treating constraints as a very general form of restricted quantifiers. The constraints - or quantifier restrictions - are taken from a general constraint system consisting of constraint theory and a set of distinguished constraints. The book provides a calculus for this constrained logic based on a generalization of Robinson's resolution principle. Technically, the unification procedure of the resolution rule is replaced by suitable constraint-solving methods. The calculus is proven sound and complete for the refutation of...

The purpose of this book is to develop neural nets as astrong theory for both brains and machines. The theory isdeveloped in close correlation with the biology of theneuron and the properties of human reasoning. This approachimplies the following: - Updating the biology of the artificialneuron. Theneurosciences have experienced a tremendous development inthe last 50 years. One of the main purposes of the presentwork is toincorporate this knowledge into a strong model ofthe artificial neuron. Particular attention is devoted toformalizing the complex chemical processes at the synapticlevel....

This volume consists of the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Formal Modelling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS 2008). The maingoalof thisseriesofconferencesis to bring togetherdiversecommunitiesof researchers that deal with the timing aspects of computing systems. Both f- damental and practical aspects of timed systems are addressed. Further, three invited talks that survey various aspects of this broad research domain were presented at the conference: "Composing Web Services in an Open World: QoS Issues" (Albert Benveniste); "Recent Results in Metric Temporal Logic"...

The 12th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT 2008)washeld at KyotoSangyoUniversity, Kyoto, September 16-19,2008. This wasthesecondtimeDLTtookplaceinKyoto. PreviousDLTswereheldinTurku (1993), Magdeburg (1995), Thessaloniki (1997), Aachen (1999), Vienna (2001), Kyoto (2002), Szeged (2003), Auckland (2004), Palermo (2005), Santa Barbara (2006) and Turku (2007). These will be followed by the next DLT in Stuttgart (2009). Thetopics dealt with atthe conferencewere: grammars, acceptorsandtra- ducers for words, trees and graphs; algebraic theories of automata;...

This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series contains all papers accepted for presentation at the 19th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2008), which was held September 25-26, 2008 on the island of Samos, Greece. DSOM 2008 was the 19th event in a series of annual workshops. It followed in the footsteps of previous s- cessful meetings, the most recent of which were held in San Jos e, California, USA (DSOM 2007), Dublin, Ireland (DSOM 2006), Barcelona, Spain (DSOM 2005), Davis, California, USA (DSOM 2004), Heidelberg, Germany...

On behalf of the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on N- work Operations and Management (CNOM), Manweek 2008 Organizing C- mittee, and members of the IPOM Technical Program Committee, it is our pleasureto present the proceedings of the 8th IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management(IPOM 2008), heldaspartofManweek2008duringSeptember 22-26, 2008, on Samos, Greece. ThecurrentInternetisalarge-scaledistributedsystemwhosesub-components suchasaddressing, protocols, algorithms, services, need to scalein time withthe rapid growth of Internet tra?c volumes. Moreover, there is a high...

This volume presents the proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2008), which was held on Samos, Greece during September 22-26 as part of the 4th International Week on Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2008). As in the previous three years, the Manweek umbrella - lowed an international audience of researchers and scientists from industry and academia - who are researching and developing management systems - to share views and ideas and present their state-of-the-art results. The other events...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2008, held in Juan-les-Pins, France, in October 2008. The 33 revised full papers and 69 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image and video coding; systems and applications; video processing; filtering and restoration; segmentation and feature extraction; tracking, scene understanding and computer vision; medical imaging; and biometrics and surveillance.

"Intelligent systems are those which produce intelligent o?springs." AI researchers have been focusing on developing and employing strong methods that are capable of solving complex real-life problems. The 18th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Arti?cial Intelligence & Expert Systems (IEA/AIE 2005) held in Bari, Italy presented such work performed by many scientists worldwide. The Program Committee selected long papers from contributions presenting more complete work and posters from those reporting ongoing research. The Committee enforced the rule that only...