It was a real pleasure to have taken part in organizing the 10th International Conference on Cryptography and Network Security (CANS 2011). It was held during December 10–12, 2011, at the International Asia Pacific Convention Center in Sanya, on the subtropical island of Hainan (China). CANS 2011 was sponsored by the National...

When people speak of Ruby web development, it has historically been in reference to the opinionated juggernaut that is Rails. This is certainly not an unfounded association; Hulu, Yellow Pages, Twitter, and countless others have relied on Rails to power their (often massive) web presences, and Rails facilitates that process with zeal....

Systems analysis and design (SAND) has been the central field of research and education in the area of management information systems (MIS) or, as it is called more frequently in Europe, business informatics, almost from the time of its origins. SAND continuously attracts the attention of both academia and business. The rapid progress...

This volume contains papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI 2011), held in Changsha, China, July 28-30. This conference followed MDAI 2004 (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain),MDAI 2005 (Tsukuba, Japan),MDAI 2006 (Tarragona,Catalonia, Spain), MDAI 2007 (Kitakyushu,...