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Advances
in Visual
Computing

Third International

Symposium, ISVC

2007, Lake Tahoe,

NV, USA, November

26-28, 2007,

Proceedings, Part II

G. Bebis, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA

The 77 revised full papers and 42 poster papers

presented together with 32 full and 5 poster papers of 6 special tracks were carefully

reviewed and selected from more than 270

submissions. The papers cover the four main areas of visual computing: vision, graphics,

visualization, and virtual reality.

2007. XXXIII, 827 p. With online files/update.

(Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4842)

Softcover

ISBN 978-3-540-76855-5 7 $119.00

Formal Methods
and Software
Engineering

9th International

Conference on

Formal Engineering

Methods, ICFEM

2007, Boca Raton,

Florida, USA, November 14-15, 2007,

Proceedings

M. Butler, University of Southampton, UK

The 19 revised full papers together with 2

invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers

address all current issues in formal methods

and their applications in software engineering. They are organized in topical sections on

security and knowledge, embedded systems,

testing, automated analysis, hardware and

concurrency.

2007. VIII, 387 p. With online files/update. (Lecture

Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4789)

Softcover

ISBN 978-3-540-76648-3 7 $74.95

Cryptography
and Coding

11th IMA

International

Conference,

Cirencester, UK,

December 18-20,

2007, Proceedings

S. Galbraith, Royal Holloway University of

London, UK (Ed.)

The 22 revised full papers presented together

with 2 invited contributions were carefully

reviewed and selected from 48 submissions.

The papers are organized in topical sections on signatures, boolean functions, block cipher

cryptanalysis, side channels, linear complexity,

public key encryption, curves, and RSA implementation.

2007. XI, 423 p. With online files/update. (Lecture

Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4887)

Softcover

ISBN 978-3-540-77271-2 7 $79.95

50 Years of
Artificial
Intelligence

Essays Dedicated to

the 50th Anniversary

of Artificial

Intelligence

M. Lungarella, University of Zurich, Switzerland

The selected papers reflect the breadth of the

topics presented and discussed at the summit, covering subjects ranging from the history and

prospects of AI, to speech recognition and

processing, linguistics, bionics, and consciousness. The papers are organized in topical

sections on Historical and Philosophical Issue.

2007. X, 399 p. With online files/update. (Lecture

Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4850)

Softcover

ISBN 978-3-540-77295-8 7 $79.95

Distributed
Computing and
Networking

9th International

Conference, ICDCN

2008, Kolkata, India,

January 5-8, 2008,

Proceedings

S. Rao, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India

The 30 revised full papers and 27 revised short papers presented together with 3 keynote talks

and 1 invited lecture were carefully reviewed

and selected from 185 submissions. The papers

are organized in topical sections on agreement protocols.

2008. XVIII, 588 p. With online files/update.

(Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4904)

Softcover

ISBN 978-3-540-77443-3 7 $99.00

Advances in
Multimedia
Modeling

14th International

Multimedia

Modeling

Conference, MMM

2008, Kyoto, Japan,

January 9-11, 2008, Proceedings

S. Satoh, National Institute of Informatics,

Tokyo, Japan

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings

of the 14th International Multimedia Modeling

Conference, MMM 2007, held in Kyoto, Japan, in January 2007. The 23 revised full papers and

24 revised poster papers were carefully

reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on

media understanding, creative media, visual

content representation, video codecs, media

retrieval, as well as audio and music.

2008. XIX, 510 p. With online files/update. (Lecture

Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4903)

Softcover

ISBN 978-3-540-77407-5 7 $89.95

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