This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies, PIT 2006, held at Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 2006. The book presents 16 revised full papers together with 4 revised poster papers and 6 system demonstration papers, organized in topical sections on head pose and eye gaze tracking, modeling and simulation of perception, integrating information from multiple channels, and more…. More >>

Perception and Interactive Technologies: International Tutorial and Research Workshop, Kloster Irsee, PIT 2006, Germany, June 19-21, 2006

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM’99, held in Zurich, Switzerland in October 1999 with the topical focus on Active Technologies for Network and Service Management. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on decentralized monitoring and anomaly detection, management components and multi-domain management, the future of SNMP-based management, programmable SNMP-based management, management of programmable and active networks, IT and enterprise management, and management tools…. More >>

Active Technologies for Network and Service Management: 10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM’99, … October 11-13, 1999, Proceedings

Currently, the field of information systems technology is rapidly extending into several dimensions. There is the semantic dimension (including object orientation, data deduction and extended knowledge representation schemes), there is improved systems integration, and there are new tools. All these extensions aim to provide semantically richer and better engineered information systems that allow for more adequate and complete representations and thus extend the effective use of database technology to a wider class of applications. Database researchers and developers, whether they are committed to application or to system construction, are convinced that next-generation information system technology will be heavily determined by a handful of new concepts that they have to understand and work out in detail now. This volume concentrates on the following topics: – Extended data types and data models, database programming languages; – Rule-based data deduction, expert systems, knowledge ba… More >>

Next Generation Information System Technology: First International East/West Data Base Workshop, Kiev, USSR, October 9-12, 1990. Procceedings

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, PET 2002, held in Dresden, Germany in March 2003. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 52 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. Among the topics addressed are mix-networks, generalized mixes, unlinkability, traffic analysis prevention, face recognition, privacy legislation, Web censorship, anonymous networking, personalized Web-based systems, and privacy in enterprises. … More >>

Privacy Enhancing Technologies: Third International Workshop, PET 2003, Dresden, Germany, March 26-28, 2003, Revised Papers

This book documents the satellite events run around the 15th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2001, held in Budapest, Hungary, in June 2001. This book presents 17 value-adding workshop reports, and the documentation of a panel and the posters. All in all, the book offers a comprehensive and thought-provoking snapshot of the current research in object-oriented technology, ranging from theoretical and foundational issues to applications in various domains. … More >>

Object-Oriented Technology. ECOOP 2001 Workshop Reader: ECOOP 2001 Workshops, Panel, and Posters, Budapest, Hungary, June 18-22, 2001. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications, MATA 2004, held in Florianopolis, Brazil in October 2004. The 35 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on context-aware support for mobile systems, context-aware applications and networks, service and network management, grid and agent technologies in mobile environments, sensor networks, security issues, performance and QoS, mobility-aware systems and services, and agent technology and applications…. More >>

Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications: First International Workshop, MATA 2004, Florianopolis, Brazil, October 20-22, 2004. Proceedings

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response, MobileResponse 2007 held in Sankt Augustin, Germany in February 2007. The 16 revised papers presented together with 1 kenote lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on medical services, team support, geospatial information, wearable computing, and communication technology…. More >>

Mobile Response: First International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology, for Emergency Response, Mobile Response 2007, Sankt Augustin, Germany, February 22-23, 2007. Revised Selected Papers

The Army Medical Department is planning now to ensure that the Army will have the required medical capabilities in 2025. As part of this planning, it conducted Medical Technology Workshop 1999 to investigate technologies for future medical concepts and capabilities. Besides gleaning insights from both the functional and technology perspectives into such areas medical informatics, combat service support, and biological and chemical defense, RAND analysts in this report also identify areas warranting further investigation. The authors also discuss methods of improving future workshops…. More >>

Army Medical Support to the Army after Next: Issues and Insights from the Medical Technology Workshop

The eighteenth century has long been considered critical for the development of modern chemistry, yet many crucial features of the period remain largely unknown or unexplored, for general accounts–often built around Lavoisier–have remained quite selective. This volume presents new approaches and topics in an attempt to build a richer, fuller, more complex view of chemical work during the period. Themes include “late-phase” alchemy, professionalization, chemical education, and the links and relations between chemistry and pharmacy, medicine, agriculture, and geology…. More >>

New Narratives in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry: Contributions from the First Francis Bacon Workshop, 21-23 April 2005, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Fuel Cells have become a potential highly efficient sustainable source of energy and electricity for an ever-demanding power hungry world. The two main types of fuel cells ripe for commercialisation are the high temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and the low temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEM). The commercial uses of which include, but are not limited to, military, stand-by power, commercial and industrial, and remoter power. However, all aspects of the electricity market are being considered. This book has brought together a team of world-renowned experts in all aspects of fuel cell development for both SOFC and PEM in a workshop environment. The workshop held between June 6 ? 10 2004 was held in the capital city of the Ukraine, Kiev. The reason for the venue was that Ukraine is the third largest resource of zircon sands, a major source of material for the solid oxide fuel cell. Ukraine is looking at undertaking a very large effort in the solid oxide fuel c… More >>

Fuel Cell Technologies: State and Perspectives–Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Fuel Cell Technologies: State And Perspectives, Kyiv, … Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 202)