This book and its companion volume, LNCS vols. 6145 and 6146, constitute the
proceedings of the International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2010)
held in Beijing, the capital of China, during June 12-15, 2010. ICSI 2010 was
the first gathering in the world for researchers working on all aspects of swarm
intelligence, and...
In the last 15 years, some of us have witnessed mail becoming e-mail, grocery stores
becoming www.store, and step-by-step technology becoming part of our daily life.
Technology development has radically changed the enterprise's way of doing
business. First, daily tasks such as sales, client, and vendor management became...
The 24th Computer Graphics International Conference (CGI 2006) was held during
June 26–28, 2006, in Hangzhou, China. This volume contains 39 full papers and 39
short papers accepted by CGI 2006. CGI conference was initially founded by the
Computer Graphics Society in 1983 and has now become a widely recognized,
high-quality...
This volume is a documenlation of I he main results in Ihe research area "Inte
gration of Software Specification Techniques for Applications in Engineering".
On one hand it is based on the Priority Program "Integration von Techniken der
Soflwarespezifikation fur ingenieurwissensehaftliehe Anwendungen", short Soft...
Ajax is the necessary paradigm in Web 2.0 sites. Most Web 2.0 sites are built with PHP and Ajax. Extending Ajax is about delivering front-end services for accessing back-end services in PHP in a quick and easy manner. With this book in hand, you will learn how to use the necessary tools for Ajaxification of websites and iPhones.
You can use the Drupal 7 content management framework to build a small business
website rapidly. You may add blogs; images and image galleries; maps, e-commerce
and shopping carts; social application integration including Twitter and Flickr,
and more to your site to connect with your customers and make more money
from your...
When we began creating Unity, we were just three programmers working on
a beautiful little game. There weren't any good game engines that one could
license without putting down wads of cash, so we created our own. We eventually decided that we enjoyed the challenge of making great tools even more than making games, and after some soul...
Databases are the workhorses of the information age. Like Atlas, they go largely unnoticed
in supporting the digital world we’ve come to inhabit. It’s easy to forget that our
digital interactions, from commenting and tweeting to searching and sorting, are in
essence interactions with a database. Because of this fundamental...
The need for compressed and coded representation and transmission of multimedia data
has not rescinded as computer processing power, storage, and network bandwidth have
increased. They have merely served to increase the demand for greater quality and
increased functionality from all elements in the multimedia delivery and consumption...
We are pleased to publish the significant papers accepted in the First International
Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INCT 2011).
The production and the use of newer computing devices and platforms has
led to a better understanding of the emerging computing paradigms. For many
decades, computing systems have...
The papers in this volume were presented at the 20th Annual International Symposium
on Algorithms and Computation, held December 16–18, 2009, in Hawaii,
USA. In response to the Call-for-Papers, 279 papers were submitted. Each paper
received at least three reviews by either Program Committee members or experts
selected by Program...
This LNCS volume contains the papers accepted for presentation at the 18th
Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
(REFSQ 2012), held in Essen, Germany, during March 19–22, 2012.
Requirements engineering (RE) has long been recognized as a major factor for
achieving high-quality...
