Computer Society Press

3D data processing, visualization and transmission; proceedings.

This volume collects the five invited papers, 28 oral presentations, and 109 posters from the June 2006 symposium. The invited papers focus on urban modeling and 3D coding and transmission while the regular papers explore 3D navigation, geometric modeling, visual hulls, multiple view reconstruction, and view planning. The contributors propose a recursive multi-frame planar parallax algorithm, histogram matching for camera pose neighbor selection, an automatic 3D ear recognition system, and range image registration based on circular features. Other topics include 3D city modeling using cognitive loops, point containment in discrete arbitrary dimension, RDTC streaming for remote browsing in image-based scene representations, and 3D skeleton-based body pose recovery. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Adaptive hardware and systems; proceedings.

Ninety-nine papers from August 2007 conference present recent research on adaptive and reconfigurable circuits for multimedia and telecommunications, evolvable hardware, bio-inspired search and optimization algorithms, on-chip learning with analog circuits, fault tolerance, and self-repair. Special sessions feature invited papers on reconfigurable antennas, adaptive wireless sensor networks, high performance reconfigurable computing, and secure data. In one such session, four emerging technology papers explore a pervasive computing framework for modeling complex virtually-unbounded systems, a novel hardware architecture for self-adaptive systems, the Perplexus reconfigurable circuit, and a multi-agent approach to distributed autonomous explorations. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Advanced learning technologies; proceedings.

ICALT 2007 was held July 2007, in Niigata, Japan, attended by an international group of experts in computer technology and in student learning. The titles of the three keynote presentations identify some key themes: 1) Torn between Technology Lust and Teaching Humans; 2) Does Elearning have to be so Awful? (Time to Mashup or Shutup); and 3) New Educational Technology Models for Social and Personal Computing. Ninety-six papers, 98 short presentations, and 53 poster presentations address the interests of the technically-oriented folk as well as those who teach and must come to terms with the technological environment — whether the tools it affords are useful or simply dazzling. The scope is broad. A sampling of topics: music programming for learning object-oriented concepts, applying hierarchical curriculum structure graphing for remedial learning, online learning strategies measurement, comparison of images versus video, a formal competency model for health care, e-learning among teachers, engineering heterogeneous distributed learning environments using Tuple spaces. Panels and workshops discuss pedagogy and curricula, online distributed classrooms, technologies for disabled and non- disabled people, machine-mediated multimodal communication, and educational data mining. Authors indexed, but with such a variety of topics, a subject or keyword index would have been useful. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Advanced networking and applications; proceedings.

About 135 papers from a May 2007 conference describe recent work in theoretical and practical aspects of network systems, distributed systems, multimedia systems, Internet and Web technologies, mobile computing, intelligent computing, pervasive/ubiquitous networks, dependable systems, semantic service, Grid, P2P, and scalable computing. Other subjects addressed include ad hoc networks, agent- based computing, wireless sensor networks, security and intrusion detection, communication technology, fault-tolerant networks, and network analysis and modeling. Some specific topics are depth-latency tradeoffs in multicast tree algorithms, multipath cellular network architecture for quality assured multimedia delivery, anonymous stabilizing leader election using a network sequencer, and robust and large scale distributed disaster information systems over the Internet. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Advanced networking and applications workshops/symposia; proceedings; 2v.

This massive two-volume proceedings contains the papers presented at the various symposia and workshops held together during the 21st International Conference on Advanced Networking and Applications, which took place in May 2007 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Among them are the 4th Symposium on Embedded Computing, the Symposium on Ubisafe Computing; the Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence; the Symposium on Bioinformatics and Life Science Computing; the 3d Symposium on Security in Networks and Distributed Systems; the Symposium on Data Mining and Information Retrieval; the 3d Symposium on Frontiers in Networking with Applications; and the 2d Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Ad Hoc Communications. The presenters are computer specialists based at public and private institutions worldwide. Author indexed only. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Application of concurrency to system design; proceedings.

A July 2007 conference served as a forum for disseminating theoretical results with application potential and advanced methods and tools for the design of complex concurrent systems. This proceedings volume contains invited papers, regular papers, tool papers, and extended abstracts from the conference. Some areas discussed include modeling mobility in high-level Petri nets, a model-driven design approach for mechatronic systems, automatic resolution of encoding conflicts using STG unfoldings, real-time process algebra with stochastic delays, and asynchronous data path models. Other topics covered include mapping applications to tiled multiprocessor embedded systems, hazard checking of time asynchronous circuits, and synthesis and control of asynchronous and distributed systems. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Autonomic and autonomous systems; proceedings. (CD-ROM)

This CD-ROM presents 69 papers from the June 2007 conference in pdf format. The chapters open in separate windows (a nice feature for printing) and cover topics related to modeling and algorithms; design and development; advanced automation; and management and control. Topics include MOF-EMF alignment; concurrent inference of high level context using alternative context construction trees; autonomously reconstructable semi-structured P2P networks for file sharing; adaptive context-aware access control policy in ad-hoc networks; load redistribution in heterogeneous systems; digital stock control mechanism in electronic retail companies in the UK; and algorithms and design for an autonomous biological system. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Bio-inspired, learning, and intelligent systems for security; proceedings.

With so many minds on security it is no wonder that research is booming on computational systems that operate partly on fully autonomously in such a way that if the same behavior was observed in animals the observer would assume the animal was therefore intelligent. Many various species and stripes of computational animals are here, many of which are designed to fight cyber-crime, maintain the integrity of financial systems or combine system types for specific applications such as using space vessel systems to perform mapping of the earth. General topics include biometrics, cyber security, sensor networks, adaptive techniques for security, image and signal processing techniques, emerging areas in security research and applications from biology, chemistry and medicine. The editors provide an author index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

British National Conference on databases; workshop proceedings.

Papers from two workshops at a July 2007 conference bring together recent work in teaching, leaning, and assessment of databases, and Web information management. Papers having to do with the teaching and learning of databases cover areas such as adopting a student-centered approach, teaching databases internationally, teaching and assessing a data warehouse design course, and teaching and learning applications related to the automated interpretation of ERDs. Papers on Web information management examine topics including integrity checking and maintenance with Active Rule in MXL databases, compressed materialized views of semi-structured data, a workflow model for multi-channel applications, determining output schemas of XQuery queries, and XML query optimization using the binding hash method. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Computer and information science/ e-activity; proceedings.

A July 2007 conference brought together researchers, scientists, engineers, industry practitioners, and students to share experiences and ideas in all aspects of computer and information science. Papers from the conference are presented here, grouped in sections on topics such as computer architecture and VLSI, web engineering and applications, image processing and pattern recognition, mobile/wireless computing, and software and information engineering. Other subjects covered include artificial intelligence and neural networks, image and speech processing, intelligent agent technology, data mining and warehousing, and communication systems and wireless networks. Also covered are parallel and distributed computing, middleware architecture, economic and financial systems, e-commerce, visual and multimedia computing, programming languages, healthcare engineering, and technology education. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Computer and robot vision; proceedings.

This volume contains the 26 oral presentations from the Fourth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision held in May of 2007. The presentations are organized into sections on camera calibration, early vision, motion, object recognition, robot control, robot vision, segmentation, and stereo vision. It also presents 31 poster papers on such topics as terrain modeling for planetary exploration, three-dimensional tree-structured object tracking for autonomous ground vehicles, wavelet-based light reconstruction from a single image, region detection and description for object category recognition, and images restoration using an iterative dynamic programming approach. Additionally, it includes eight papers from the associated International Workshop on Video Processing and Recognition that discussed such items as automatic annotation of humans in surveillance video, constructing face image logs that are both complete and concise, and real-time commercial recognition using color moments and hashing. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Computer arithmetic; proceedings.

These proceedings of the June 2007 symposium include 28 papers on recent advances in the theory and implementation of number systems and basic arithmetic operations to hardware implementation of complete arithmetic units and their language support. General topics include the decimal floating point (including solving constants on the intermediate results of decimal floating point operations), floating point implementation (including a P6 floating point unit and a new architecture for multiple-precision floating point multiply-add fused unit design), floating point issues and operations, crypto algorithms (including asymmetric squaring formulae and spectral modular exponentiation), elementary functions (including a return to hardware), and modular operations. Special topics include an accurate multiple-precision Gauss-Legendre quadrature. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Computer-based medical systems; proceedings.

Papers from a June 2007 symposium describe recent research in software systems in medicine, computer-aided diagnosis, knowledge- based systems, signal and image processing in medicine, bioinformatics, medical image segmentation, and medical databases and information systems. Other areas covered include affective computing, bioinformatics and its medical applications, computational proteomics, data mining, and grids for biomedicine and bioinformatics. Healthcare knowledge management, machine learning and management of health-care procedural knowledge, technology enhanced learning in medical education, and intelligent patient management are some other topics. Some specific paper topics include the use of Markov models to find interesting patient pathways, online medical CBT usage, managing conceptual revisions in a temporal fungal taxonomy, and medical knowledge morphing via a semantic web framework. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Computational complexity; proceedings.

Papers from a June 2007 conference shed light on recent work in areas such as halfspace matrices, time-space tradeoffs for counting NP Solutions modulo integers, unbalanced expanders and randomness extractions from Parvesh-Vardy codes, and quantum versus classical proofs and advice. Other topics examined include approximate majority and probabilistic time, the complexity of polynomials and their coefficient functions, a linear round lower bound for Lovasz- Schrijver SDP relaxations of vertex cover, and directed planar reachability in unambiguous log-space. Heuristic time hierarchies, mathgate computations, a new interactive hashing theorem, and parity problems in planar graphs are some other subjects explored. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Computer graphics, imaging and visualization; techniques and applications; proceedings.

About 100 papers from an August 2007 conference describe advances in computer graphics, imaging, and visualization. Most of the papers fall within the themes of rendering, digital art and multimedia, augmented and virtual reality, and computer-aided geometric design and graphics, as well as forensic digital imaging, image/video analysis for pattern recognition, intelligent recognition techniques and applications, data and information visualization, bio-medical visualization, and spatial/geographic data visualization. Some specific subjects presented include simulation of Chinese painting, flight simulation of butterflies and hypothetical morphology, and bringing courtrooms to life with virtual reconstructions. Other topics are vision-based detection of guitar players' fingertips without markers, curve reconstruction in the presence of noise, shape recovery using HDR images, and cloning of facial expressions using spatial information. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Computer information systems and industrial management applications; proceedings.

Sixty papers and eight keynote presentations from the June 2007 conference discuss emerging information system development and its application in digital information management, internet security, data mining, image processing, and optimization. The contributors address data analysis and knowledge discovery tools, decision support systems, graphical user interfaces, web intelligence, cryptography, and robotics. Topics include obfuscation as intellectual rights protection in VHDL language, nonlinear and frequency analysis of the weather in Bialystok, the optimization of public transport travel, and a wireless sensor network for intravenous drip systems. No subject index is provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Communication networks and services research; proceedings.

This collection from a May 2007 conference presents 54 papers on communication networks and services. Materials is organized in sections on security monitoring using wireless sensor networks, communication systems, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, the Web, and security. Other subject areas are ad hoc networks and emerging communications technologies, communications algorithms, protocol design and analysis, traffic engineering and management, and ultra-wide band networks. Specific topics covered include a generic user modeling server for adaptive Web systems, an evaluation framework of location privacy of wireless mobile systems with arbitrary beam pattern, structural monitoring using wireless sensors and controller area networks, and topology design of optical networks based on existing power grids. There is no index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Computer security foundations; proceedings.

This proceedings volume contains 25 papers from a July 2007 symposium, organized in sections on authorization, multi-layer protocols and key conjuring, cryptographic foundations, secure implementation, information flow, privacy, vulnerability analysis and information- theoretic security, and security protocol analysis. Some specific topics examined include secure implementations for typed session abstractions, automaton-based confidentiality monitoring of concurrent programs, a flow-sensitive analysis of privacy properties, and creating vulnerability signatures using weakest preconditions. Other topics are probability of error in information-hiding protocols, causality-based abstraction of multiplicity in security protocols, LTL model checking for security protocols, and programmatic access control with explicit identities. There is no index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Computer software and applications; proceedings; 2v.

Two hefty volumes present papers from the 31st COMPSAC conference held in July 2007. Initial panels discuss future trends — computing as a core discipline; challenges and experiences in industry-university research collaboration and technology transition; middleware for next- generation converged networks and services (myths and realities); ethics in computing; software process improvement for small organizations; software for the mobile internet; and test automation in practice. Following are papers organized in topical sections on such subjects as security, life cycle, quality of service, software engineering methods and tools, and software applications. Topics presented in the doctoral symposium include selecting COTS component guidelines, coding and testing of component-based software, functional specifications of object oriented systems, model checking of component connectors, and end user service composition. Indexing is by author, but not by subject. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Coordinated & multiple views in exploratory visualization; proceedings.

These proceedings of the July 2007 conference include significant discoveries in how people can manipulate images to see a range of scenarios and solutions. Sessions and papers include such topics as visual exploration, including creating methods of interactive visual analysis, coordinating linear and two-dimensional displays, and viewing medical data to expedite medical diagnosis; theory and techniques, including creating hierarchical linked views and integrating data and quality space interactions; applications and toolkits, including using the GAV toolkit for multiple linked views and performing an interactive cross-detector analysis of vortical flow data; and panel discussions on the state of the art in the field, criticism of coordinated multiple views, requirements for industrial applications, and the future of coordinated and multiple view research. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)