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Free Download Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2004: EvoBIO, EvoCOMNET, EvoHOT, EvoISAP, EvoMUSART, and EvoSTOC, Coimbra, Portugal, April 5-7, 2004. Proceedings By Andrea Bazzoli, Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi (auth.), Günther R. Raidl, Stefano Cagnoni, Jürgen Branke, David Wolfe Corne, Rolf Drechsler, Yaochu Jin, Colin G. Johnson, Penousal Machado, Elena Marchiori, Franz Rothlauf, George D. Smith, Giovanni Squillero
2004 | 568 Pages | ISBN: 3540213783 | PDF | 13 MB
Evolutionary Computation (EC) deals with problem solving, optimization, and machine learning techniques inspired by principles of natural evolution and – netics. Just from this basic de?nition, it is clear that one of the main features of theresearchcommunityinvolvedinthestudyofitstheoryandinitsapplications is multidisciplinarity. For this reason, EC has been able to draw the attention of an ever-increasing number of researchers and practitioners in several ?elds. In its 6-year-long activity, EvoNet, the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, has been the natural reference and incubator for that multifaceted community. EvoNet has provided logistic and material support for thosewhowerealreadyinvolvedinECbut,inthe?rstplace,ithashadacritical role in favoring the signi?cant growth of the EC community and its interactions with longer-established ones. The main instrument that has made this possible has been the series of events, ?rst organized in 1998, that have spanned over both theoretical and practical aspects of EC. Ever since 1999, the present format, in which the EvoWorkshops, a collection of workshops on the most application-oriented aspects of EC, act as satellites of a core event, has proven to be very successful and very representative of the multi-disciplinarity of EC. Up to 2003, the core was represented by EuroGP, the main European event dedicated to Genetic Programming. EuroGP has been joined as the main event in 2004 by EvoCOP, formerly part of EvoWorkshops, which has become the European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization.

Free Download Web Information Systems – WISE 2004: 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, Brisbane, Australia, November 22-24, 2004. Proceedings By Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel (auth.), Xiaofang Zhou, Stanley Su, Mike P. Papazoglou, Maria Elzbieta Orlowska, Keith Jeffery (eds.)
2004 | 745 Pages | ISBN: 3540238948 | PDF | 9 MB
We have described the development of a new micro-payment system, NetPay, f- turing different ways of managing electronic money, or e-coins. NetPay provides an off-line, anonymous protocol that supports high-volume, low-cost electronic trans- tions over the Internet. We developed three kinds of e-wallets to manage coins in a NetPay-based system: a sever-side e-wallet allowing multiple computer access to- coins; a client-side e-wallet allowing customer PC management of the e-coins, and a cookie-based e-wallet cache to improve performance of the client-side e-wallet c- munication overhead. Experiences to date with NetPay prototypes have demonstrated it provides an effective micro-payment strategy and customers welcome the ability to manage their electronic coins in different ways. References 1. Dai, X. and Lo, B.: NetPay – An Efficient Protocol for Micropayments on the WWW. Fifth Australian World Wide Web Conference, Australia (1999) 2. Dai, X., Grundy, J. and Lo, B.: Comparing and contrasting micro-payment models for- commerce systems, International Conferences of Info-tech and Info-net (ICII), China (2001) 3. Dai, X., Grundy, J.: Architecture of a Micro-Payment System for Thin-Client Web App- cations. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, CSREA Press, June 24-27, 444–450 4. Dai, X. and Grundy J.: "Customer Perception of a Thin-client Micro-payment System Issues and Experiences", Journal of End User Computing, 15(4), pp 62-77, (2003).

Free Download The Semantic Web – ISWC 2004: Third International Semantic Web Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, November 7-11, 2004. Proceedings By Wolfgang Nejdl (auth.), Sheila A. McIlraith, Dimitris Plexousakis, Frank van Harmelen (eds.)
2004 | 844 Pages | ISBN: 3540237984 | PDF | 12 MB
The 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004) was held Nov- ber 7-11, 2004 in Hiroshima, Japan. If it is true what the proverb says: "Once by accident, twice by habit, three times by tradition," then this third ISWC did indeed ?rmly establish a tradition. After the overwhelming interest in last year’s conference at Sanibel Island, Florida, this year’s conference showed that the Semantic Web is not just a one-day wonder, but has established itself ?rmly on the research agenda. At a time when special interest meetings with a Sem- tic Web theme are springing up at major conferences in numerous areas (ACL, VLDB, ECAI, AAAI, ECML, WWW, to name but a few), the ISWC series has established itself as the primary venue for Semantic Web research. Response to the call for papers for the conference continued to be strong. We solicited submissions to three tracks of the conference: the research track, the industrial track, and the poster track. The research track, the premier venue for basic research on the Semantic Web, received 205 submissions, of which 48 were accepted for publication. Each submission was evaluated by three p- gram committee members whose reviews were coordinated by members of the senior program committee. Final decisions were made by the program co-chairs in consultation with the conference chair and the senior program committee. The industrial track, soliciting papers describing industrial research on the – mantic Web, received 22 submissions, of which 7 were accepted for publication.

Free Download PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Auckland, New Zealand, August 9-13, 2004. Proceedings By Richard Lathrop (auth.), Chengqi Zhang, Hans W. Guesgen, Wai-Kiang Yeap (eds.)
2004 | 1026 Pages | ISBN: 3540228179 | PDF | 21 MB
The Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) is a biennial international event which focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) theories and technologies, and their applications which are of social and economic importance for countries in the Pacific Rim region. Seven earlier conferences were held in: Nagoya, Japan (1990); Seoul, Korea (1992); Beijing, China (1994); Cairns, Australia (1996); Singapore (1998); Melbourne, Australia (2000); and Tokyo, Japan (2002). PRICAI 2004 was the eigth in the series and was held in Auckland, New Zealand in August 2004. PRICAI 2004 had attracted a historical record number of submissions, a total of 356 papers. After careful reviews by at least two international Program Committee members or referees, 94 papers were accepted as full papers (27%) and 54 papers (15%) were accepted as posters. Authors of accepted papers came from 27 countries. This volume of the proceedings contains all the 94 full papers but only a 2-page – tended abstract of each of the accepted posters. The full papers were categorized into four sections, namely: AI foundations, computational intelligence, AI technologies and systems, and AI specific application areas. Among the papers submitted, we found "Agent Technology" to be the area having the most papers submitted. This was followed by "Evolutionary Computing", "Computational Learning", and "Image Processing".

Free Download On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: OTM 2004 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, GADA, JTRES, MIOS, WORM, WOSE, PhDS, and INTEROP 2004, Agia Napa, Cyprus, October 25-29, 2004. Proceedings By Eiko Yoneki, Jean Bacon (auth.), Robert Meersman, Zahir Tari, Angelo Corsaro (eds.)
2004 | 888 Pages | ISBN: 3540236643 | PDF | 11 MB
A special mention for 2004 is in order for the new Doctoral Symposium Workshop where three young postdoc researchers organized an original setup and formula to bring PhD students together and allow them to submit their research proposals for selection. A limited number of the submissions and their approaches were independently evaluated by a panel of senior experts at the conference, and presented by the students in front of a wider audience. These students also got free access to all other parts of the OTM program, and only paid a heavily discounted fee for the Doctoral Symposium itself. (In fact their attendance was largely sponsored by the other participants!) If evaluated as successful, it is the intention of the General Chairs to expand this model in future editions of the OTM conferences and so draw in an audience of young researchers to the OnTheMove forum. All three main conferences and the associated workshops share the d- tributed aspects of modern computing systems, and the resulting applicati- pull created by the Internet and the so-called Semantic Web. For DOA 2004, the primary emphasis stayed on the distributed object infrastructure; for ODBASE 2004, it was the knowledge bases and methods required for enabling the use of formalsemantics;andforCoopIS2004themaintopicwastheinteractionofsuch technologies and methods with management issues, such as occurs in networked organizations. These subject areas naturally overlap and many submissions in factalsotreatenvisagedmutualimpactsamongthem.

Free Download Computer and Information Sciences – ISCIS 2004: 19th International Symposium, Kemer-Antalya, Turkey, October 27-29, 2004. Proceedings By Erol Gelenbe (auth.), Cevdet Aykanat, Tuǧrul Dayar, İbrahim Körpeoğlu (eds.)
2004 | 1012 Pages | ISBN: 3540235264 | PDF | 15 MB
The series of ISCIS (International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences) symposia have been held each year since 1986, mostly in Turkey and occasionally abroad. It is the main computer science and engineering meeting organized by Turkish academics and was founded by Erol Gelenbe. Each year ISCIS attracts a signi?cant number of international participants from all over the world. The 19th ISCIS was organized by Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering, and was held in Kemer-Antalya, Turkey during 27-29 October 2004. For ISCIS 2004, a total of 335 papers went through the review process and a large number of high-quality papers competed for acceptance. This volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series contains 100 of those papers that broadly fall into the following areas of interest: arti?cial int- ligence and machine learning, computer graphics and user interfaces, computer networksand security, computer vision and image processing,databasesystems, modeling and performance evaluation, natural languageprocessing, parallel and distributed computing, real-time control applications, software engineering and programming systems, and theory of computing.

Free Download Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2004: Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen By Markus Siebert, Alexander Jovanovic, Felix Eckstein, Heiko Graichen (auth.), Thomas Tolxdorff, Jürgen Braun, Heinz Handels, Alexander Horsch, Hans-Peter Meinzer (eds.)
2004 | 488 Pages | ISBN: 3540210598 | PDF | 29 MB
In den letzten Jahren hat sich der Workshop "Bldverarbeitung für die Medizin" durch erfolgreiche Veranstaltungen etabliert. Ziel ist auch 2004 wieder die Darstellung aktueller Forschungsergebnisse und die Vertiefung der Gespräche zwischen Wissenschaftlern, Industrie und Anwendern. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes – einige in englischer Sprache – behandeln alle Bereiche der medizinischen Bildverarbeitung, u.a.: Patientenspezifische Simulation und Planung, Computerunterstützte Diagnose, Biomechanische Modellierung, Bildverarbeitung in der Telemedizin, Roboter und Manipulatoren, Chirurgische Simulatoren.

Free Download Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2004: International Symposium on Neural Networks, Dalian, China, August 2004, Proceedings, Part I By Jianjun Wang, ZongBen Xu, Weijun Xu (auth.), Fu-Liang Yin, Jun Wang, Chengan Guo (eds.)
2004 | 1044 Pages | ISBN: 3540228411 | PDF | 12 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Symposium on Neural N- works (ISNN 2004) held in Dalian, Liaoning, China during August 19-21, 2004. ISNN 2004 received over 800 submissions from authors in ?ve continents (Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania), and 23 countries and regions (mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, India, Iran, Israel, Turkey, H- gary, Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, and Australia). Based on reviews, the Program Committee selected 329 hi- quality papers for presentation at ISNN 2004 and publication in the proceedings. The papers are organized into many topical sections under 11 major categories (theore- cal analysis; learning and optimization; support vector machines; blind source sepa- tion, independent component analysis, and principal component analysis; clustering and classi?cation; robotics and control; telecommunications; signal, image and time series processing; detection, diagnostics, and computer security; biomedical applications; and other applications) covering the whole spectrum of the recent neural network research and development. In addition to the numerous contributed papers, ?ve distinguished scholars were invited to give plenary speeches at ISNN 2004. ISNN 2004 was an inaugural event. It brought together a few hundred researchers, educators, scientists, and practitioners to the beautiful coastal city Dalian in northeastern China.

Free Download Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2004: International Symposium on Neural Networks, Dalian, China, August 19-21, 2004, Proceedings, Part II By Xusheng Lei, Jianbo Su (auth.), Fu-Liang Yin, Jun Wang, Chengan Guo (eds.)
2004 | 1024 Pages | ISBN: 3540228438 | PDF | 12 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Symposium on Neural N- works (ISNN 2004) held in Dalian, Liaoning, China duringAugust 19-21, 2004. ISNN 2004 received over 800 submissions from authors in ?ve continents (Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania), and 23 countries and regions (mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, India, Iran, Israel, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, – nezuela, Chile, andAustralia). Based on reviews, the Program Committee selected 329 high-quality papers for presentation at ISNN 2004 and publication in the proceedings. The papers are organized into many topical sections under 11 major categories (theo- tical analysis; learning and optimization; support vector machines; blind source sepa- tion,independentcomponentanalysis,andprincipalcomponentanalysis;clusteringand classi?cation; robotics and control; telecommunications; signal, image and time series processing; detection, diagnostics, and computer security; biomedical applications; and other applications) covering the whole spectrum of the recent neural network research and development. In addition to the numerous contributed papers, ?ve distinguished scholars were invited to give plenary speeches at ISNN 2004. ISNN 2004 was an inaugural event. It brought together a few hundred researchers, educators,scientists,andpractitionerstothebeautifulcoastalcityDalianinnortheastern China. It provided an international forum for the participants to present new results, to discuss the state of the art, and to exchange information on emerging areas and future trends of neural network research. It also created a nice opportunity for the participants to meet colleagues and make friends who share similar research interests.

Free Download UML 2004 – The Unified Modeling Language. Modeling Languages and Applications: 7th International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, October 11-15, 2004. Proceedings By Amador Durán, Beatriz Bernárdez, Marcela Genero, Mario Piattini (auth.), Thomas Baar, Alfred Strohmeier, Ana Moreira, Stephen J. Mellor (eds.)
2004 | 456 Pages | ISBN: 3540233075 | PDF | 7 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, UML 2004, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2004.The 30 revised full papers presented together with summaries on the workshops and tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 technical paper submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on metamodeling, aspects, profiles and extensions, OCL, model transformation, verification and model consistency, security, and methodology.