This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. Of particular note, this marks the first time that a World Computer Congress has been held in a Latin American country.
Topics in this series include:
- The 4th International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science
- Education for the 21st Century- Impact of ICT and Digital Resources
- Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks
- Ad-Hoc Networking
- Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security, and Mobility
- The Past and Future of Information Systems: 1976-2006 and Beyond
- History of Computing and Education
- Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing
- Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice
- Applications in Artificial Intelligence
- Advanced… More >>

Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, V: IFIP 19th World Computer Congress,TC-6, 5th IFIP International Conference on Network … in Information and Communication Technology)

This book presents the state of the art of artificial intelligence techniques applied to structural engineering. The 28 revised full papers by leading scientists were solicited for presentation at a meeting held in Ascona, Switzerland, in July 1998.
The recent advances in information technology, in particular decreasing hardware cost, Internet communication, faster computation, increased bandwidth, etc., allow for the application of new AI techniques to structural engineering. The papers presented deal with new aspects of information technology support for the design, analysis, monitoring, control and diagnosis of various structural engineering systems.This book presents the state of the art of artificial intelligence techniques applied to structural engineering. The 28 revised full papers by leading scientists were solicited for presentation at a meeting held in Ascona, Switzerland, in July 1998.
The recent advances in information technology, in particular decreasing hardware co… More >>

Artificial Intelligence in Structural Engineering: Information Technology for Design, Collaboration, Maintenance, and Monitoring

This book collects invited lectures presented at the AMAS & ECCOMAS Workshop/Thematic Conference SMART’03 on Smart Materials and Structures. The conference was held in Jadwisin, Poland near Warsaw, 2-5 September 2003. It was organized by the Advanced Materials and Structures (AMAS) Centre of Excellence at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (IFTR) in Warsaw and ECCOMAS – the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and SMART-TECH Centre at IFTR. The goal of the workshop was to bring together and consolidate the community of Smart Materials and Structures in Europe. The workshop program was grouped into the topics Structural Control, Vibration Control and Dynamics, Damage Identification, and Smart Materials.This book collects invited lectures presented at the AMAS & ECCOMAS Workshop/Thematic Conference SMART’03 on Smart Materials and Structures. The conference was held in Jadwisin, Poland near Warsaw, 2-5 September 2003. It was organized by t… More >>

Advances in Smart Technologies in Structural Engineering

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Asian Internet Engineering Conference, AINTEC 2006, held in Pathumthani, Thailand, in November 2006.
The 12 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on service architecture, multicast, performance in WLAN, routing, and multihoming in mobile networks.This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Asian Internet Engineering Conference, AINTEC 2006, held in Pathumthani, Thailand, in November 2006.
The 12 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on service architecture, multicast, performance in WLAN, routing, and multihoming in mobile networks…. More >>

Technologies for Advanced Heterogeneous Networks II: Second Asian Internet Engineering Conference, AINTEC 2006, Pathumthani, Thailand, November 28-30, … Networks and Telecommunications)

This book comprises the proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), which was held in Heraklion, Greece in September 1998. It contains research articles written by researchers from all over the world, who set out to explore and evaluate new techniques for designing and building user interfaces or groupware systems. It also contains the reports of workshops held during the conference on the most recent research issues raised by user-interface engineering. In particular, the texts in this book address topics such as: Architectures for human-computer interfaces and groupware systems; Applications such as virtual universities; Criteria for information visualization techniques; Formalisms for modeling user interaction.£/LIST£ Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction will be of interest to computer scientists, software developers, information systems managers… More >>

Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction

This unique, single-source reference offers immediately applicable information on all types of corrosion, corrosion theory, and the major materials of construction used for reducing corrosion, including metals, plastics, linings, coatings, elastomers, and masonry products.This unique, single-source reference offers immediately applicable information on all types of corrosion, corrosion theory, and the major materials of construction used for reducing corrosion, including metals, plastics, linings, coatings, elastomers, and masonry products…. More >>

Corrosion Engineering Handbook: 11

This state-of-the-art text is a collection of the effort of experts in the modelling, design and development of information infrastructures for global enterprises and networks working together in an active forum. The problems in establishing and managing the dynamics of inter- and intra-enterprises in the present day fast-changing global operating manufacturing scenario requires universal applicability of enterprise integration architectures, methodologies and information infrastructure support. New requirements are emerging due to advancements in information and telecommunication technologies. In particular, the capability of information infrastructure and intelligent manufacturing systems to capture and transform information in globally distributed enterprise networks into knowledge for decision and action by machine and skilful people is becoming increasingly important for the success of virtual enterprises. These issues are thoroughly discussed in this book under the fields of: V… More >>

Global Engineering, Manufacturing and Enterprise Networks

Cooperative working environments and their development are becoming increasingly important and ever more frequent in different industrial sectors and this book provides a scientific approach for managing Team Engineering. Meta-cognitive knowledge and networks are identified as the key resources enabling engineering teams to work effectively and to reduce engineering time and this book illustrates how computer support can aid cooperative work within the context of practical methodologies and examples. The fields covered in the book include: State-of-the-art research in cooperative learning tools; Practical examples and methodologies illustrating the implementation of cooperative networks; and An interdisciplinary approach to team engineering. This valuable new book is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and will be essential reading for researchers, engineers, technical managers involved in the development of advanced applications for engin… More >>

Cooperative Knowledge Processing for Engineering Design

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2006, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2006.
The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on real-time systems, static analysis, verification, applications, reliability, compilers, and distributed systems. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2006, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2006.
The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on real-time systems, static analysis, verification, applications, reliability, compilers, and distributed systems. … More >>

Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe 2006: 11th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Porto, Portugal, June 5-9, … / Programming and Software Engineering)

IFIP Working Group 5.2 has organized a series of workshops extending the concept of intelligent CAD to the concept of “knowledge intensive engineering”. The concept advocates that intensive life-cycle knowledge regarding products and design processes must be incorporated in the center of the CAD architecture. It focuses on the systematization and sharing of knowledge across the life-cycle stages and organizational boundaries. From Knowledge Intensive CAD to Knowledge Intensive Engineering comprises the Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Knowledge Intensive CAD, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Parma, Italy in May 2000. This workshop looked at the evolution of knowledge intensive design for the product life cycle moving towards knowledge intensive engineering. The 18 selected papers present an overview of the state-of-the-art in knowledge intensive engineering, discussing theoretical aspects and also p… More >>

From Knowledge Intensive CAD to Knowledge Intensive Engineering