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This book contains papers presented at the 5th Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference, AWIC'2007, held in Fontainbleau, France, in June 2007, and organized by Esigetel, Technical University of Lodz, and Polish Academy of Sciences. It includes reports from the front of diverse fields of the Web, including application of artificial intelligence, design, information retrieval and interpretation, user profiling, security, and engineering.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, NETWORKING 2007, held in Atlanta, GA, USA in May 2007. The 99 revised full papers and 30 poster papers cover ad hoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, and the next generation internet.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS 2007, held in Daegu, Korea, May 2007. The 75 revised full papers cover embedded architecture, embedded hardware, embedded software, HW-SW co-design and SoC, multimedia and HCI, pervasive/ubiquitous computing and sensor network, power-aware computing, real-time systems, security and dependability, and wireless communication.

WWIC 2007 was organized by the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and it was the fifth event of a series of International Conferences on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, addressing research topics such as the design and evaluation of protocols, the dynamics of the integration, the performance trade-offs, the need for new performance metrics, and cross-layer interactions. Previous events were held in Berne (Switzerland) in 2006, Xanthi (Greece) in 2005, Frankfurt (Germany) in 2004, and Las Vegas (USA) in 2002. As in 2005 and 2006, WWIC was selected as the official conference by COST...

This volume 4465 of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series is a coll- tion of the papers of the NET-COOP 2007 conference, a ?rst-of-a-series Euro- NGI/FGI Conference on Network Control and Optimization. The event took place in the beautiful city of Avignon, France, June 5 7, 2007, was jointly or- nized by INRIA and the University of Avignon and was hosted by the latter. Internet communications and services areexperiencing an increasein volume and diversity both in their capacity and in their demand. This comes at the cost of an increase in the complexity of their control and...

The optical networking field is seen to be rapidly emerging with a strong and s- tained technological and business growth. Research has led to massive development and deployment in the optical networking space leading to significant advancements in high speed network core and access networks. th The 11 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling brought together scientists and researchers to meet and exchange ideas and recent work in this emerging area of networking. The conference was sponsored by IFIP and supported by the e-Photon/ONe and COST 291 projects. The...

Program Chairs Message th The 4 International Service Availability Symposium (ISAS 2007) continued with the tradition of its predecessors by bringing together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to address the problems of service availability. The unique characteristic of a strong academic and industrial partnership was vividly - flected in this year s event, from the Organizing Committee to the contributions and the participants. Recognizing the value of broadening the scope of ISAS 2007, we included new topic areas that cover model-driven design and human factors....

Researchneedsideas, discourseandexperimentationinordertothrive, butmore than ever we are expected to make researchimmediately relevant and available to society and the world of commerce. Of these three poles (ideas, discourse and experimentation), ideas lie farthest from a ?nished product, and it is therefore ideas that are most easily left behind in the rush to catch the gravy train. The pressure to prioritize applications rather than understanding hinders researchers from thinking deeply about problems, and in the worst case prevents us from truly understanding and innovating. The ?rst...

Globally, major network operators have incorporated network convergence into their strategy to grow service revenues and reduce capital and operating costs. Conv- gence occurs in applications (integrated messaging, voice over IP), in network control (portable numbers, SIP, mobile IP), in the transport layer, as well as in the access network. This convergence of networks means that various types of traffic flows, which have been carried by separate specialized networks, now share the resources of a single core IP-based network. In the access, the trends are towards fixed/wireless convergence...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference On Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2007, held in Nara, Japan in June 2007. It presents the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of smart homes, health telematics, and emerging enabling technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2007, held in Sante Fe, NM, USA in June 2007. It covers algorithms, applications, and systems. It bridges the gap between theory and practice and between the broader field of distributed computing and the specific issues arising in sensor networks and related systems.

In den letzen Jahren entwickelte sich das World Wide Web (WWW) stetig weiter. Jungst gepragte Begriffe, wie Web 2.0 und AJAX, haben sich in der Welt der modernen Webentwicklung etabliert und werden von interessierten Webentwicklern und Webbenutzern mit Begeisterung aufgenommen. Das erhohte Interesse, welches AJAX aktuell geniesst, ist auf visuell attraktive und hochinteraktive Web-Applikationen zuruckzufuhren, die in ihrem Verhalten Desktop-Anwendungen ahneln.

Doch was genau steckt hinter diesem neuen Schlagwort? Dieser Frage wird in diesem Buch nachgegangen. Dabei wird auf einfache...

Der Begriff "Web 2.0" ist mittlerweile nahezu allgegenwartig. Doch auch wenn er Einzug in diverse Stellenausschreibungen und Nachrichtenmeldungen gehalten hat, scheint doch den wenigsten Leuten klar zu sein, was er genau zu bedeuten hat. Diese Frage zu beantworten und die jeweiligen Hintergrunde aufzuzeigen ist das Ziel des ersten Teils dieses Buches.

Zudem wird ein Einblick in die relevanten Technologien gegeben. Neben AJaX werden hierbei auch die Grundlagen von RSS und Webservices praktisch vorgestellt, so dass der unerfahrene Leser nach dieser Lekture ein grundlegendes...

The main goal of the EUNICE Summer School is to give young researchers, and particularly PhD students, the opportunity to present their work at an inter- tional level. The EUNICE Summer School also seeks to o?er comprehensive and inspiring invited talks from experienced experts in the ?eld, providing a context for discussions on ongoing research and new challenges. The EUNICE Summer School is an initiative of the European University Network of Information and Communication Engineering, or EUNICE Network for short. Although the summer school events are organized by the member institutions...

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2007 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2007) held in Dalian, China. NPC has been a premier conference that has brought together researchers and pr- titioners from academia, industry and governments around the world to advance the theories and technologies of network and parallel computing. The goal of NPC is to establish an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present their - cellent ideas and experiences in all system fields of network and parallel computing. The main focus of NPC 2007 was on the most...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, ADHOC-NOW 2007, held in Morelia, Mexico, in September 2007.

The 21 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on routing, topology control, security and privacy, protocols, as well as quality of service and performance.

The Ubiquitous Computing conference series provides the premier forum in which to present original research results in all areas relating to the design, implementation, app- cation and evaluation of ubiquitous computing technologies. It is a well-established platform to introduce and discuss research that enables new capabilities, appropriate security and privacy, improved user experiences and simplified and powerful devel- ment and deployment practices. These proceedings contain the papers presented at the Ninth International Conf- ence on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007) in Innsbruck,...

New information and communication technologies unquestionably brought about enormous changes that resulted in an ever-increasing networked society. Indeed, there is no area in the social and economic world which is unaffected by the recent advances. In response to these changes scientists from numerous disciplines teamed up in 1997 to lay a foundation for a common theory of networks. The objective was to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms behind social, economic, technical and other kinds of networks in order to develop a unified theory of networks. Such a theory would then guide...

The specialty of this work is the creation of a generic Online Trust Creation Model (OTC Model), which is not only applicable in the domain of eTourism but all industries represented online. The practical focus on eTourism and the use of innovative research methodologies from the Harvard Business School make this work an important reading to all managing practitioners in the field of eCommerce.
Sabine Schaffer is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and works for McKinsey & Company.

Technology is ubiquitous and hardly anything works without it. There have
been many innovations but one of the most important inventions of our time
was the Internet. There is no doubt that the Internet had the greatest impact
on our lives. The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each
other, look for information, entertain ourselves and the way we do business.
The Internet has come a long way and still evolves constantly and as fast as
no other medium since 1966. Meanwhile, travel and tourism has become one
of the fastest growing sectors. The growth of air travel after World War...