Biometrics technology continues to stride forward with its wider acceptance and its real need in various new security facets of modern society. From simply logging on to a laptop to crossing the border of a country, biometrics is being called upon to meet the growing challenges of identity management.
The Information Management Systems group at the University of Padua, led by Maristella Agosti, has been a major contributor to information retrieval (IR) and digital libraries for nearly twenty years. This group has gained an excellent reputation in the IR community and has produced some of the best-known IR researchers, whose work spans a broad...
This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. Of particular note, this marks the first time that a World Computer Congress has...
The #1 reference in the field for the last quarter of a century, Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, Eighth Edition, has been completely updated to equip emergency physicians with today's most authoritative guide to clinical toxicology. The book presents unsurpassed coverage of all aspects of toxicologic emergencies_from pharmacology and clinical...
Since their very inception, both fuzzy and rough set theories have earned a sound, well-deserved reputation owing to their intrinsic capabilities to model uncertainty coming from the real world. The increasing amount of investigations on both subjects reported every year in the literature vouches for the dynamics of the area and its rapid...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International SPIN workshop on Model Checking Software, SPIN 2004, held in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2004.
The 19 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of an invited talk and 2 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers are...
Vertigo and dizziness are one of the most common complaints of patients consulting a doctor. These symptoms can be very disturbing to the patient, but a precise diagnosis is often di cult to make and, in many instances, satisfying therapy is lacking. The diagnostic approach has to be multidisciplinary including otolaryngology, ophthalmology and...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the IFIP TC6 5th International Workshop on Active Networks, IWAN 2003, held in Kyoto, Japan, in December 2003.
The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on high performance and...
This guide explains the use and administration of eHelp's latest software package, emphasizing administrator setup and maintenance.
Provides with an explanation of installing and configuring RoboHelp and presents an outline for creating a documentation plan. Softcover. CD-ROM included.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2004, held in Barcelona, Spain, in March/April 2004.
The 22 revised full papers and 4 tool presentation papers presented together with an invited paper and the abstract of another invited talk were carefully...
Empirical studies have become an integral element of software engineering research and practice. This unique text/reference includes chapters from some of the top international empirical software engineering researchers and focuses on the practical knowledge necessary for conducting, reporting and using empirical methods in software engineering....
SAC 2003 was the tenth in a series of annual workshops on Selected Areas in Cryptography. This marked the third time that the workshop had been held at Carleton University in Ottawa with previous workshops being held there in 1995 and 1997. The intent of the SAC workshops is to provide a relaxed atmosphere in which researchers in cryptography can...
