In 2009, it is estimated that more than 1.5 billion people have access to the Internet, including
220 million in the U.S. alone. Throw in 338 million Chinese users, 55 million German users, 48
million British users, 38 million Russian users, and 67 million Brazilians, and you can see the
meaning of the word “world” in the...
Humans receive the great majority of information about their environment through
sight, and at least 50% of the human brain is dedicated to vision. Vision is also a key
component for building artificial systems that can perceive and understand their environment.
Computer vision is likely to change society in many ways; for example,
it...
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This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference
on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency
(PETRI NETS 2011). The Petri Net conferences serve as annual meeting places
to discuss the progress in the field of Petri nets and related models of concurrency.
They provide a forum for...
The need for compressed and coded representation and transmission of multimedia data
has not rescinded as computer processing power, storage, and network bandwidth have
increased. They have merely served to increase the demand for greater quality and
increased functionality from all elements in the multimedia delivery and consumption...
This volume of LNCS contains the proceedings of the 6th European Performance
Engineering Workshop, held at Imperial College London during July 9–10, 2009.
This was the first in the EPEW series to be held in the UK, following on from the
highly successful workshops that were held in Toledo (2004), Versailles (2005),...
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...
The 2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational
Intelligence (AICI 2010) was held October 23–24, 2010 in Sanya, China. The AICI
2010 received 1,216 submissions from 20 countries and regions. After rigorous
reviews, 105 high-quality papers were selected for publication in the AICI 2010...
The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a highly visible forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote interactions and collaborations among the database and information systems research communities from Central and Eastern European countries and with the rest of the world. The ADBIS...
The 2011 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining
(WISM 2011) was held during September 24–25, 2011 in Taiyuan, China. WISM 2011 received 472 submissions from 20 countries and regions. After rigorous reviews, 112 high-quality papers were selected for publication in the WISM...
Systems analysis and design (SAND) has been the central field of research and
education in the area of management information systems (MIS) or, as it is
called more frequently in Europe, business informatics, almost from the time
of its origins. SAND continuously attracts the attention of both academia and
business. The rapid progress...
Ongoing economic challenges are affecting and impacting business and society in nearly every industry and geographical region. Taking decisive action to reprioritize the way we are doing business is a key focus for companies. Around the world, companies are taking the necessary measures that will enable us to adjust to today’s reality...
