Recent history reveals that both the large-scale reforestation projects of the 20th century have often been less successful than anticipated, and that tree growing by smallholders as an alternative means to combat deforestation and promote sustainable land use has received relatively little attention from the scientific and...
The papers in this volume represent the proceedings of the 7th Industrial Conference on Data Mining. They are organized into topical sections on aspects of classification and prediction, clustering, web mining, data mining in medicine, applications of data mining, time series and frequent pattern mining, and association rule mining. Readers...
This volume brings together, through a peer-revision process, the advanced research
results obtained by the European COST Action 2102: Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal
and Nonverbal Communication, primarily discussed for the first time at the Second
COST 2102 International Training School on “Development of Multimodal...
This LNCS volume contains the papers accepted for presentation at the 18th
Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
(REFSQ 2012), held in Essen, Germany, during March 19–22, 2012.
Requirements engineering (RE) has long been recognized as a major factor for
achieving high-quality...
This book is a practical guide to testing in Moodle. You will initially learn to create different types of questions such as True/False, multiple choice, short answer, and so on. After you have learned how to create questions you will follow a step-by-step process to create complete tests by tweaking various options. Once you have gone...
The World Soft Computing (WSC) conference is an annual international
online conference on applied and theoretical soft computing technology. This
WSC 2008 is the thirteenth conference in this series and it has been a great
success.
We received a lot of excellent paper submissions which were peer-reviewed
by an international...
It is a great pleasure for me to write this foreword about a book that comes out
of one of the first research projects funded by ANR, the French National Research
Agency. ANR was established by the French government in 2005 to fund research
projects, based on competitive schemes giving researchers the best opportunities to
realize...
The 11th International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA
2010)was held on Jeju Island, Korea, during August 24–26, 2010. The workshop
was hosted by the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology
(KIISC), supported by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
(ETRI) and the Korea...
These proceedings contain the papers presented at the 8th Internationl Symposium
on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis held during
September 21–24, 2010 in Singapore. The primary objective of the ATVA conferences
remains the same: to exchange and promote the latest advances of
state-of-the-art research on...
We are delighted lo present the ECDL 2004 Conference proceedings from the
8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Li-
braries at the University of Bath. Bath, UK. This followed an impressive and
geographically dispersed series of locations for previous events: Pisa (1997). ller-
aklion (1998),...
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the proceedings of the 10th annual event of
the International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing
(ICA3PP).
ICA3PP is recognized as the main regular event covering the many dimensions of
parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing...
Decision support systems comprise a core subject area of the information systems
(IS) discipline, being one of several major expansions that have occurred in the IS
field. The decision support system (DSS) area, as a subject of research and
practice, continues to grow along ever-widening horizons – often blending with
other...
