Computer Society Press
Advanced information systems for enterprise; proceedings.
Ten papers from the April 2008 workshop explore both conceptual and technological tools for producing high quality information systems through original combinations of modeling, design techniques, development methods, and interoperability principles. The two multi- agent papers propose an agent-based architecture for homecare coordination and an agent-oriented approach to the dynamic vehicle routing problem. Other topics include an ontology and description schema for relational database integration, process analysis and simulation for crisis management, a method for describing knowledge work processes, and managing master data with XML schema and UML. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Asynchronous circuits and systems; proceedings.
The 15 papers selected for the April 2008 symposium present recent research on data-driven asynchronous circuits, variability and power, latch protocols and pipelines, efficient and reliable schemes for computation and communication, and verification of asynchronous controllers. Topics include automatic compilation of data driven circuits, the design of self-timed ring oscillators, adapting synchronizers to the effects of on-chip variability, coping with a transition signaling protocol for global communication, soft errors in asynchronous burst-mode machines. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Australian software engineering; proceedings.
Papers from a March 2008 conference describe recent results, obstacles, lessons learned, and open research questions associated with the application of software engineering in the real world. Material stems from academia and industry, reflecting the growing interest of industry and commerce in problems related to the development of large software systems. Papers are in sections on software paradigms, infrastructure, metrics, architecture, collaborative software approaches, methodological and testing issues, requirements engineering, ontology engineering, software usability, and issues in ICT education. Special sessions are devoted to aerospace, risk, and real-time issues, industry development issues in software engineering, and software reuse and Web applications. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Availability, reliability and security; proceedings.
The conference known as ARES 2008, held in March, in Barcelona, Spain is represented by this very thick volume (three inches deep), published in advance, which somehow holds all the presentations: three keynote addresses, 44 full papers, and something over 100 short and workshop papers. Emphasizing both the foundations and the practical issues of dependability in government, ubiquitous computing, and autonomous computing, among other areas, the papers address the specifics of availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability, and security. Indexing is by author (but not by subject). (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Bioinformatics and biomedicine; proceedings.
The result of an interdisciplinary approach to specific problems, these relatively new fields combine academic and industrial approaches to computer science, biology, chemistry, medicine, mathematics and statistics to apply databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling, simulation, ontology and other computational methods to life sciences. These proceedings of the November 2007 conference cover a range of these specific topics and include 59 papers and abstracts of the three keynote speeches. Topics of the papers include biological data mining, high performance bio-computing, genomics and comparative genomics, biological databases, data integration, visualization, molecular sequence analysis, healthcare informatics, proteomics and computational proteomics, protein structure research, computational systems biology, microarray design and data analysis, bio-ontology research, gene networks, pathways, networks, systems biology, signal and image processing in biomedicine, biomedical databases and information systems, biomedical information, and intelligent biomedical knowledge discovery. The editors provide an author index and each paper includes references. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Computer and information science/ e-activity; proceedings.
Papers from a May 2008 conference are presented here in sections on communication systems and networks, computer architecture and VLSI, computer science and information science, control systems and intelligent systems, data mining and data warehousing, image processing and pattern recognition, and image, acoustic, speech, and signal processing. There are additional sections on information management systems, internet technology and e-commerce applications, artificial intelligence and neural networks, middleware architectures and techniques, mobile/wireless computing, parallel and distributed computing, software metrics and project management, and software engineering and information engineering. Further themes include software reuse and design patterns, software testing and tools, UML and simulation, visual and multimedia, web engineering and applications, and e-activity. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Composition-based software systems; proceedings.
The 20 papers selected for the February 2008 conference address the shift from monolithic and static systems development to the construction of dynamic and evolving systems of systems built on existing custom-made, COTS, and open source software components. The best paper winner demonstrates the integration of a plug-in platform for enterprise software with an existing product line engineering tool suite. Other topics include specifying security goals of component-based systems, modeling variability and testability interaction, using DSL for automatic generation of software connectors, and a compositional language for distributed computing. Five student papers conclude the volume. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Complex, intelligent and software intensive systems; proceedings.
This volume collects the 40 papers selected for the March 2008 conference along with 105 papers presented in a series of ten workshops. The main conference papers explore advances in wireless networks, distributed simulation, global scale complex intelligent systems, optimization and mathematical modeling, sensor networks, web ontology, and data processing. The workshops focus on research being conducted in the areas of grid resource management, multi-core systems, human-computer interaction, medical informatics, adaptive systems for heterogeneous environments, and collaborative e-learning systems. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Creating, connecting and collaborating through computing C5 2008; proceedings.
Twenty-four papers from the January 2008 conference explore new approaches for transforming computer-based human activities to engage users in the active process of creating, connecting, and collaborating together. The contributors propose the Sophie multimedia book format, collaboration guidance systems, tools for children, education environments, multimedia for collaboration, and networking technologies. The opening paper from Kyoto University outlines four language services for the Language Grid web infrastructure. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Data compression conference; proceedings.
This book contains work from a March 2008 conference, grouped in technical sessions and poster sessions. Some subjects covered include defect list compression, rate-distortion functions for nonstationary Gaussian autoregressive processes, high-resolution functional quantization, and word-based statistical compressors as natural language compression boosters. Other subject are wireless video transmission, a reliable chunkless peer-to-peer architecture for multimedia streaming, distributed multistage coding of correlated sources, and noise-shaped predictive coding for multiple descriptions of a colored Gaussian source. Some poster session topics include spectral information recovery for compressed image restoration, adaptive compression of graph structured text, and multi-dimensional compression using JPEG2000. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Engineering of autonomic & autonomous systems; proceedings.
A spring 2008 conference brought together research in systems and software engineering methods for the realization of autonomic and autonomous computing and communications. Some topics explored are efficient policy conflict analysis for autonomic network management, a framework for statechart based component reconfiguration, instance- based ontology mapping, and ant foraging trails as inspiration for a new paradigm for self-organization. Other subjects examined include a tagging and tracking system for prisons and correctional facilities, the role of standardization in future autonomic communication systems, and a personal autonomic desktop manager with a circulatory computing approach. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Engineering of computer-based systems; proceedings.
The 53 papers selected for the March/April 2008 conference advance research in systems and software engineering methods for the realization of computer-based systems that meet or exceed the expectations of stakeholders. The two ancillary workshops focus on agility in the software process and model-based development for computer systems. Topics include quality attribute variability in software product families, automated phone capture of diabetes patient readings, secure mobile payment with SIP, counterexample guide abstraction refinement, and energy aware middleware. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Engineering of complex computer systems; proceedings.
An April conference brought together industrial, academic, and government experts from a variety of user domains and software disciplines to determine how problems and solutions from various disciplines interact with the entire computer system. The scope of interest of the conference included long-term research issues, short- term complex system requirements, existing complex systems, and commercially available tools. Papers from the conference are presented here, grouped in sections on verification, specification and design, synchronization and scheduling, testing and prediction, web services and pervasive computing, verified software, semantic services and mobility, experimental software engineering, and UML & AADL 2008. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Image and signal processing; proceedings; 5v. (CD-ROM included)
Five volumes contain the proceedings of the May 2008 conference in China, CISP 2008; it was the first such conference organized with the aim of bringing together researchers working in various areas of image and signal processing and was held with a conference on biomedical engineering and informatics to promote cross-fertilization of information. The selected 723 papers (out of 1833 submissions) are arranged thematically, addressing topics pertaining to image enhancement and noise filtering, acoustics, various kinds of signal processing, biomedical signal analysis, coding and transmission, sampling and quantization, sensor array and multi-channel systems, spectral analysis, and speech and language processing, among many other topics. Indexing is by author only, not by subject. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Informatics education and research for knowledge-circulating society; proceedings.
Organized by the Kyoto University Global COE program, this volume launches a new conference on informatics and information technology for promoting the circulation of knowledge. The 18 papers delivered at the January 2008 conference discuss research being conducted on primordial knowledge models, search engines for finding reliable knowledge, knowledge grid computing, and social information systems based on collaboration with field experts. Sixteen posters by young researcher funding award winners propose methods to extract invariant structures of objects from raw images, enumerate Tsume-Shogi diagrams by the reverse method, and build consensus on the establishment of a marine protected area in Thailand. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Information processing in sensor networks; proceedings.
The proceedings of the April 2008 conference consists of 30 technical papers on algorithms, systems, and theory pertaining to information processing using networks of embedded sensors, and 13 papers on the platforms and tools designed for networked embedded sensors. The researchers explore localization, network protocols, data gathering and dissemination, programming and debugging, hardware design, and software platforms. Topics include network coding for wireless multicast in Euclidean space, sensor selection for minimizing worst- case prediction error, a configurable library for elliptic curve cryptography, and human posture reconstruction in wireless smart camera networks. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Information security and assurance; proceedings.
The 108 papers accepted for the April 2008 conference explore new approaches to enhancing and modeling information security, and secure applications for commercial and military organizations. The Asian researchers propose a secure deniable authentication protocol based on ElGamal cryptography, a collaborative privacy management system, cyber criminal activity analysis models, and a forward-secure signature with backward-secure detection. Other topics include a hypertension management system with emergency monitoring, a web metering scheme for fair advertisement transactions, a forensic image format for high capacity disk storage, and teaching computer security using Xen in a virtual environment. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Information technology; proceedings.
The 190 papers of this proceedings were first presented at the 5th International Conference on Information Technology — New Generations held in Las Vegas, Nevada in April, 2008. The papers are organized by session, with session topics that include e-learning, cryptography, high performance computing architectures, sensor networks, mobile enterprise, and natural language processing. A random selection of individual paper topics includes the impact of business process outsourcing on firm performance, efficient monitoring of embedded real- time systems, and boundary value analysis using a divide- and-rule approach. Author index only. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Innovative architecture for future generation high-performance processors and systems; proceedings.
Twelve papers from a January 2007 workshop held in Maui present recent research on multi-core systems and hierarchical systems and single-program parallelism on such systems. Two of the papers propose a cache memory architecture for leakage energy reduction and define a mathematical model to analyze the temperature behavior of registers in VLIW systems. Other topics include the impact of predictive switching in 2d torus networks, accelerating brain circuit simulations of object recognition with CELL processors, and a copying algorithm for hierarchical clustering. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Knowledge discovery and data mining; proceedings.
This volume consists of 118 papers from the January 2008 workshop on knowledge discovery and data mining and 36 papers from the January 2008 symposium on intelligent information technology and security informatics. The KDD workshop features invited sessions on intelligent control, intelligent information processing, genetic and evolutionary computation, web intelligence, information security, and wireless communication. The IITSI contributions explore intrusion detection and access control, communication security, system security, knowledge discovery, and applications. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
