This sixth edition of Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water serves as a handbook for scientists, engineers, and other professionals who study and work in drinking water—particularly the quality of water supplies, the quality of treated drinking water, and water treatment processes. It is meant as a resource for...

Prefaces to sets of essays, such as this one, are often devoted to explaining why publication was delayed or why certain planned essays are missing from the completed book. This Preface is an exception. All of the authors met their deadlines — or near to — and they produced a very close approximation to the volume that the editors...

This volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS) constitutes the final publication of the EU COST 2101 Action “Biometrics for Identity Documents and Smart Cards,” which has been successfully running during the years 2006-2010. One of the many valuable outputs of this initiative is the realization of a new...

Continuing advances in the development of wireless and Internet technologies generate ever increasing interest in the diffusion, usage, and processing of georeferenced data of all types. Spatially-aware wireless and Internet devices also offer new ways of accessing and analyzing geo-spatial information in both realworld and virtual spaces....

The RSA conference was initiated in 1991 and is a major international event for cryptography and information security researchers as well as the industry related to these disciplines. It is an annual event that attracts hundreds of vendors and thousands of participants from industry and academia. Since 2001, the RSA conference has included...

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...

After three meetings in Europe we decided to hold REALWSN in exciting Sri Lanka. We want to thank the local organizers as well as the authors, attendees and members of the technical Program Committee, Demo and Poster Chairs for...

The scope of the conference encompassed the theory and practice of all aspects of...

The Computer and Games conference series is a major international...

We received a lot of excellent paper submissions which were peer-reviewed by an international...

Why did we decide to update this book on ATM once again? Mainly, because the publisher asked us to! Seriously, though, in the fast moving telecommunications industry, a lot has happened since the publication of the last edition in 1998. In case you have been asleep, Internet-based communication is clearly the killer application for...

Mathematically, computability theory originates from the concept of an algorithm. It leads to a classification of functions according...