Advanced Database Query Systems: Techniques, Applications and...

Machine audition is the field of the study of algorithms and systems for the automatic analysis and understanding of sound by machine. It plays an important role in many applications, such as automatic audio indexing for internet searching, robust speech recognition in un-controlled natural environment, untethered audio communication...

Microsoft has recently changed its certification program to contain three primary series: Technology, Professional, and Architect. The Technology Series of certifications are intended to allow candidates to target specific technologies and are the basis for obtaining the Profes sional Series and Architect Series of certifications. The...

"AI Techniques for Game Programming" takes the difficult topics of genetic algorithms and neural networks and explains them in plain English. Gone are the tortuous mathematic equations and abstract examples to be found in other books. Each chapter takes readers through the theory a step at a time, explaining clearly how they can...

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The ServiceWave conference series is committed to being the premier European forum for researchers, educators and industrial practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in software services (or the “Future of the Internet of Service”) and related underlying infrastructure...

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:...

When in 1986 Yves Kodratoff started the European Working Session on Learning at Orsay, France, it could not be foreseen that the conference would grow year by year and become the premier European conference of the field, attracting submissions from all over the world. The first European Conference on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge...

Data mining has developed rapidly and has become very popular in the past two decades, but actually has its origin in the early stages of IT, then being mostly limited to one-dimensional searching in databases. The statistical basis of what is now also referred to as data mining has often been laid centuries ago. In corporate...

Large volumes of data and complex problems inspire research in computing and data, text, and web mining. However, analyzing data is not sufficient, as it has to be presented visually with analytical capabilities, i.e., a chart/diagram/image illustration that enables humans to perceive, relate, and conclude in the knowledge discovery...

Real time 3D games have been around for well over ten years now. We’ve played them, created assets in the style of our favorites, and maybe even “mod”ed a few of them. But until recently, the cost of licensing one of the premier game engines has ranged from several hundred thousand to several million dollars per title...

The workshop attracted a record number of 148 submissions from 29 countries, of which the...