The 7th Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA 2009) focused on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems. Both kinds of problems have a large number of applications from a variety of fields. WAOA 2009 took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, during September 10–11, 2009. The workshop...

Current search paradigms for the Web, direct access through search engines and navigational access via static taxonomies, have recently been strongly criticized. A third paradigm, dynamic taxonomies or faceted search, is gaining acceptance to the extent that it is now the de facto standard in product selection for e-commerce. This new...

FLOPS is a forum for research on all issues concerning declarative programming, including functional programming and...

Wireless communications will play a major role in future communication systems. In fact, the need of wireless access to the Internet will become increasingly important, and novel network communication paradigms, such as ad-hoc wireless networks or integrated mobile/satellite systems, will be developed in the near future. Detection algorithms...

This book is written for enterprise executives and addresses the single most important activity for which they are ultimately responsible—optimization of performance. Whether you are an executive of government or commercial enterprise, or any other organization, your primary aim is to maximize return from limited resources to accomplish...

This book will immerse you in a variety of advanced topics, including architecting different application data tiers, memory caching paradigms, data...