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Free Download Advances in Information Retrieval: 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006, London, UK, April 10-12, 2006. Proceedings By Mounia Lalmas, Stefan Rüger, Theodora Tsikrika, Alexei Yavlinsky (auth.), Mounia Lalmas, Andy MacFarlane, Stefan Rüger, Anastasios Tombros, Theodora Tsikrika, Alexei Yavlinsky (eds.)
2006 | 588 Pages | ISBN: 3540333479 | PDF | 7 MB
th These proceedings contain the refereed papers and posters presented at the 28 Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006), which was held at Imperial College London in South Kensington between April 10 and 12, 2006. ECIR is the annual conference of the British Computer Society’s Inf- mation Retrieval Specialist Group. The event started its life as a colloquium in 1978 and was held in the UK each year until 1998, when the event took place in Grenoble, France. Since then the venue has alternated between the UK and Continental Europe. In the last decade ECIR has grown to become the major Europeanforumforthediscussionofresearchinthe?eldofinformationretrieval. ECIR 2006 received 177 paper and 73 poster submissions, largely from the UK (18%) and Continental Europe (50%), but we had many sub- missions from furthera?eldincludingAmerica(7%),Asia(21%),Middle EastandAfrica(2%), and Australasia (2%). In total 37 papers and 28 posters were accepted, and two papers were converted to posters. All contributions were reviewed by at least three reviewers in a double anonymous process and then ranked during a ProgrammeCommittee meeting with respectto scienti?c quality andoriginality. It is a good and healthy sign for information retrieval in general, and ECIR in particular, that the submission rate has more than doubled over the past three years. The downside, of course, is that many high-quality submissions had to be rejected owing to a limited capacity of the conference.

Free Download Advances in Hybrid Information Technology: First International Conference, ICHIT 2006, Jeju Island, Korea, November 9-11, 2006, Revised Selected Papers By José-Luis Polo, Fernando Berzal, Juan-Carlos Cubero (auth.), Marcin S. Szczuka, Daniel Howard, Dominik Ślȩzak, Haeng-kon Kim, Tai-hoon Kim, Il-seok Ko, Geuk Lee, Peter M. A. Sloot (eds.)
2007 | 674 Pages | ISBN: 3540773673 | PDF | 57 MB
As information technologies (IT) become specialized and fragmented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in IT have common threads and because of this, advances in one sub-discipline may transmit to another. The presentation of results between di?erent sub-disciplines of IT encourages this interchange for the advancement of IT as a whole. Of particular interest is the hybrid approach or combining ideas from one discipline with those of another to achieve a result that is more signi?cant than the sum of the individual parts. Through this hybrid philosophy, a new or common principle can be discovered which has the propensity to propagate throughout this multifaceted discipline. This volume comprises the selection of extended versions of papers that were presentedintheirshortenedformatthe2006InternationalConferenceonHybrid InformationTechnology(http://www.sersc.org/ICHIT2006/).Sixty-four papers out of the 235 that were published in ICHIT 2006 electronic proceedings were deemed suitable for inclusion in this volume, in a selection that was guided by technical quality and relevance to the balance of topics in hybrid information technology. The conference re?ected a change in the thinking of scientists and practitioners,whonowtendtojointheire?ortswithinmultidisciplinaryprojects. As a consequence, the readers may observe that many papers might conceivably be classi?ed into more than one chapter, given their interdisciplinary scope. The contributions in this monograph are clustered into six chapters: Data Analysis, Modeling, and Learning (11 papers); Imaging, Speech, and Complex Data (11 papers); Applications of Arti?cial Intelligence (11 papers); Hybrid, Smart, and UbiquitousSystems(11papers);HardwareandSoftwareEngineering(9papers); as well as Networking and Telecommunications (11 papers).

Free Download Neural Information Processing: 13th International Conference, ICONIP 2006, Hong Kong, China, October 3-6, 2006. Proceedings, Part II By Dijun Luo, Rong Xiong (auth.), Irwin King, Jun Wang, Lai-Wan Chan, DeLiang Wang (eds.)
2006 | 1203 Pages | ISBN: 3540464816 | PDF | 25 MB
The three volume set LNCS 4232, LNCS 4233, and LNCS 4234 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2006, held in Hong Kong, China in October 2006.The 386 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1175 submissions. The 126 papers of the first volume are organized in topical sections on neurobiological modeling and analysis, cognitive processing, mathematical modeling and analysis, learning algorithms, support vector machines, self-organizing maps, as well as independent component analysis and blind source separation. The second volume contains 128 contributions related to pattern classification, face analysis and processing, image processing, signal processing, computer vision, data pre-processing, forecasting and prediction, as well as neurodynamic and particle swarm optimization. The third volume offers 131 papers that deal with bioinformatics and biomedical applications, information security, data and text processing, financial applications, manufacturing systems, control and robotics, evolutionary algorithms and systems, fuzzy systems, and hardware implementations.<

Free Download Network-Based Information Systems: First International Conference, NBiS 2007, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007. Proceedings By Makoto Ikeda, Giuseppe De Marco, Leonard Barolli (auth.), Tomoya Enokido, Leonard Barolli, Makoto Takizawa (eds.)
2007 | 546 Pages | ISBN: 3540745726 | PDF | 26 MB
Welcome to the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Network- Based Information Systems (NBiS-2007), in conjunction with the 18th Inter- tional Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA-2007, which was held in Regensburg, Germany, September 3-4, 2007. The main objective of NBiS-2007 was to bring together scientists, engineers, and researchers from both network systems and information systems with the aimofencouragingtheexchangeofideas,opinions,andexperiencebetweenthese two communities. NBiS started as a workshop and for 9 years it was held together with DEXA International Conference and is the oldest among DEXA Workshops. The wo- shop has been very successful in quantity and quality. We received many paper submissions every year, but as a workshop we could accept only a limited n- ber of papers. This was the ?rst year that NBiS was run as an international conference together with DEXA. We received 122 research papers from all over the world. The submitted papers were carefully reviewed by at least two reviewers. Based on the review results, the Program Committee members selected 55 high-quality papers to be presented during the NBiS-2007 conference.

Free Download Managing Information Quality: Increasing the Value of Information in Knowledge-intensive Products and Processes By Professor Dr. Martin J. Eppler (auth.)
2006 | 398 Pages | ISBN: 3540314083 | PDF | 4 MB
It still holds true: information is not always the answer. Information is often part of the problem. While the main goal of information in the business place is to – able adequate decisions and actions, it can also lead to numerous negative effects: it can confuse, block creativity, or it can lead to hectic activism, stress and fatigue. Information can distract and divert attention, and it may even delay important – cisions – the paralysis by analysis. Strategies to avoid these dysfunctional effects of information can be divided into sender-based strategies and receiver-based strategies. In my previous research, I have looked at receiver-based strategies that outline effective ways of dealing with information overload. This book, by c- trast, analyzes sender-based strategies that aim at making content actionable by increasing its information quality. By offering relevant and sound information in a convenient and reliable manner, managers and information providers ranging from analysts to CEOs can not only optimize communication, they can also improve their reputation, employee satisfaction and customer loyalty. In a time where – formation has become a commodity or even a nuisance, this is a valuable strategy. The main premise of this book is consequently that information quality has – ready become a (if not the) decisive factor of the information economy. Many companies, however, are not managing this factor systematically.

Free Download Knowledge Management Systems: Information and Communication Technologies for Knowledge Management By Professor Dr. Ronald Maier (auth.)
2007 | 720 Pages | ISBN: 3540714081 | PDF | 6 MB
Information and knowledge have profoundly transformed businesses, organizations and society. Knowledge management promises concepts and instruments that help organizations to provide an environment supportive of knowledge creation, sharing and application. Information and communication technologies are often regarded as the enabler for the effective and especially efficient implementation of knowledge management. The book presents an almost encyclopedic treatise of the many important facets, concepts and theories that have influenced knowledge management and integrates them into a framework consisting of strategy, organization, systems and economics guiding the design of successful initiatives. The third edition particularly extends coverage of the two pillars of implementing knowledge management initiatives, i.e. organization and systems

Free Download Atsuyuki Okabe, "Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems"
English | 2004 | pages: 310 | ISBN: 0415332508 | PDF | 9,1 mb
In this volume the contributors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to reassess both historic and contemporary Asian countries and traditionally Islamic areas. This highly illustrated and comprehensive work highlights how GIS can be applied to the social sciences. With its description of how to process, construct and manage geographical data the book is ideal for the non-specialist looking for a new and refreshing way to approach Islamic area studies.

Free Download Information and Communications Security: 9th International Conference, ICICS 2007, Zhengzhou, China, December 12-15, 2007. Proceedings By Charalampos Papamanthou, Roberto Tamassia (auth.), Sihan Qing, Hideki Imai, Guilin Wang (eds.)
2007 | 514 Pages | ISBN: 354077047X | PDF | 13 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2007, held in Zhengzhou, China, in December 2007.The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 222 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on authentication and key exchange, digital signatures, applications, watermarking, fast implementations, applied cryptography, cryptanalysis, formal analysis, system security, and network security.

Free Download Information Security and Privacy: 12th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2007, Townsville, Australia, July 2-4, 2007. Proceedings By Steve Babbage, Carlos Cid, Norbert Pramstaller, Håvard Raddum (auth.), Josef Pieprzyk, Hossein Ghodosi, Ed Dawson (eds.)
2007 | 476 Pages | ISBN: 3540734570 | PDF | 8 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2007, held in Townsville, Australia in July 2007.The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 132 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on stream ciphers, hashing, biometrics, secret sharing, cryptanalysis, public key cryptography, authentication, e-commerce, and security.

Free Download Information Security Theory and Practices. Smart Cards, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Systems: First IFIP TC6 / WG 8.8 / WG 11.2 International Workshop, WISTP 2007, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 9-11, 2007. Proceedings By Eve Atallah, Serge Chaumette (auth.), Damien Sauveron, Konstantinos Markantonakis, Angelos Bilas, Jean-Jacques Quisquater (eds.)
2007 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 3540723536 | PDF | 7 MB
With the rapid technological development of information technology, computer systems and especially embedded systems are becoming more mobile and ub- uitous. Ensuring the security of these complex and yet resource-constraineds- temshasemergedasoneofthemostpressingchallengesforresearchers.Although there are a number of information security conferences that look at particular aspects of the challenge, we decided to create the Workshop in Information – curity Theory and Practices (WISTP) to consider the problem as a whole. In additiontheworkshopaimsto bringtogetherresearchersandpractitionersin- lated disciplines and encourage interchange and practical co-operation between academia and industry. Although this is the ?rst ever WISTP event, the response from researchers wassuperbwithover68paperssubmittedforpotentialinclusionintheworkshop and proceedings. The submissions were reviewed by at least three reviewers, in most cases by four, and for program committee (PC) papers at least ?ve reviewers. This long and rigorous process was only possible thanks to the hard work of the PC members and additional reviewers, listed in the following pages. We would like to express our gratitude to the PC members, who were very supportive from the very beginning of this project. Thanks are also due to the additional expert reviewers who helped the PC to select the ?nal 20 workshop papers for publication in the proceedings. Of course we highly appreciate the e?orts of all the authors who submitted papers to WISTP 2007. We hope they will contribute again to a future edition and encourage others to do so.