The twentieth century witnessed the birth of revolutionary ideas in the phys-
ical sciences. These ideas began to shake the traditional view of the universe
dating back to the days of Newton, even to the days of Galileo. Albert Ein-
stein is usually identified as the creator of the relativity theory, a theory that
is used to model the...
While books and journals of high quality have proliferated in discrete and compu-
tational geometry during recent years, there has been to date no single reference
work fully accessible to the nonspecialist as well as to the specialist, covering all
the major aspects of both fields. The Handbook of Discrete and Computational
Geometry...
I am are very happy to have taken part in the 12th Financial Cryptography and
Data Security Conference (FC 2008). Due to the recent growth in the number of
security and cryptography venues, the competition for high-quality submissions
has been on the rise. Despite that, the continued success of FC is attested by
the research...
This book’s primary focus is on designing hypermedia APIs. That may seem a bit
strange to some readers. There are many books on programming languages, data storage
systems, web frameworks, etc. This is not one of those books. Instead, this book
covers the nature of the messages passed between client and server, and how to improve...
Cutting planes (cuts) are very popular in the OR community, where they are
used to strengthen the Linear Programming (LP) relaxation of Mixed-Integer
Programs (MIPs) in the hope of improving the performance of an exact LPbased
solver. In particular, an intense research effort has been devoted to the
study of families of general cuts,...
The phenomenal growth of the Internet has resulted in the availability of
huge amounts of online information, a situation that is overwhelming to
the end-user. To overcome this problem personalization technologies have
been extensively employed across several domains to provide assistance in
filtering, sorting, classifying and sharing...
The incredible growth rates for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad have pushed consumers to
a new "App" economy, with developers racing to the platform. Mobile touch-centric interfaces
vary greatly from traditional computing platforms, and programmers as well as designers must
learn to adapt to the new form-factor.
Ongoing economic challenges are affecting and impacting business and society in nearly every industry and geographical region. Taking decisive action to reprioritize the way we are doing business is a key focus for companies. Around the world, companies are taking the necessary measures that will enable us to adjust to today’s reality...
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...
These proceedings contain the papers presented at ECIR 2009, the 31st European
Conference on Information Retrieval. The conference was organized by
the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), in cooperation
with the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society
(BCS-IRSG) and was...
Computing is transforming our society in ways that are as profound as the changes wrought
by physics and chemistry in the previous two centuries. Indeed, there is hardly an aspect of
our lives that hasn't already been influenced, or even revolutionized, by digital technology.
Given the importance of computing to modern society,...
The first edition of the RF and Microwave Handbook was published in 2000. The project got off to an inauspicious start when 24 inches of snow fell in Denver the evening before the advisory board planned to hold their kick-off meeting. Two members of the board were trapped for days in the Denver airport since planes were not arriving or...
