Continuing advances in the development of wireless and Internet technologies generate ever increasing interest in the diffusion, usage, and processing of georeferenced data of all types. Spatially-aware wireless and Internet devices also offer new ways of accessing and analyzing geo-spatial information in both realworld and virtual spaces....

After three meetings in Europe we decided to hold REALWSN in exciting Sri Lanka. We want to thank the local organizers as well as the authors, attendees and members of the technical Program Committee, Demo and Poster Chairs for...

The scope of the conference encompassed the theory and practice of all aspects of...

The IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC) is one of the most important conferences in the area of computer science at the worldwide level and it has a federated structure, which takes into account the rapidly growing and expanding interests in this area. Informatics is rapidly changing and becoming more and more connected to a number of human...

The deluge of data observed throughout research and industry has turned the analysis of the resulting information into the primary limiting factor for the rapid progress of science, engineering, and medicine. The field of visualization strives to tackle this data analysis challenge by devising visual representations that afford users an...

In 2009, for the second time in a row, Jena hosted an extraordinary event. In 2008, Jena celebrated the 450th birthday of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena with the motto “Lichtgedanken” – “flashes of brilliance.” This year, for almost one week, Jena became the center for the pattern recognition research...

This volume collects the papers accepted for presentation at MIRAGE 2009. The MIRAGE conference is continuing to receive international recognition, with this year’s presentations coming from 25 countries despite the large worldwide financial crisis. This time Asia submitted far fewer papers than previously and fewer than Europe. France...

It is a pleasure and an honour both to organize ICB 2009, the 3rd IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics. This will be held 2–5 June in Alghero, Italy, hosted by the Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Sassari. The conference series is the premier forum for presenting research in biometrics and its allied technologies:...

Computer Science, or Informatics as it is often called in Europe, is viewed by many as being both a science and a technology. Clearly, its technological aspects are very much upon us on a day to day basis. Yet all other exact  sciences such as physics, biology or chemistry are also very present in ourdaily lives through the technologies...

In response to the overwhelming success of the 2000 symposium, its organizers...

Game playing is a powerful metaphor that fits many situations where interaction between autonomous agents plays a central role. Numerous tasks in computer science, such as design, synthesis, verification, testing, query evaluation, planning, etc. can be formulated in game-theoretic terms. Viewing them abstractly as games reveals the...

The field of computer networking has evolved significantly over the past four decades since the development of ARPANET, the first large-scale computer network. The Internet has become a part and parcel of everyday life virtually worldwide, and its influence on various fields is well recognized. The TCP/IP protocol suite and packet...