The term "haptics" refers to the science of sensing and manipulation through touch. Multiple disciplines such as biomechanics, psychophysics, robotics, neuroscience, and software engineering converge to support haptics, and generally, haptic research is done by three communities…
The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseille aim to bring together leading scientists, promoting an exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge and the formation of inter-group collaborations. This book presents the most representative contributions to the 13th meeting, whic…
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Third Working Conference on Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET), held in Luxembourg, on September 6, 2011, as the industrial track of the 13th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC 2011).…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2011, held in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in August/September 2011. The volume contains 22 revised full research papers carefully reviewed and selected from 157 s…
Artificial economics is a computational approach that aims to explain economic systems by modeling them as societies of intelligent software agents. The individual agents make autonomous decisions, but their actual behaviors are constrained by available resources, other individu…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011 in the framework of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011 with 10 …
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2011, held in Bremen, Germany, in July 2011. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 12 short papers and 4 systems demonstrations were carefully reviewed and selec…
by Wolff, Karl Erich, International Conference Knowledge - Ontology - Theory, KONT, Novosibirsk, Russia), International Conference on Knowledge Processing in Practice, KPP, Darmstadt, Germany)
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This volume presents the proceedings of ECSCW 2011, the 12th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Each conference offers an occasion to critically review our research field, which has been multidisciplinary and committed to high scientific standards, both …
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of ten international workshops held in London, UK, in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2011, in June 2011. The 59 revised papers were carefully selected…
Power consumption becomes the most important design goal in a wide range of electronic systems. There are two driving forces towards this trend: continuing device scaling and ever increasing demand of higher computing power. First, device scaling continues to satisfy Moore's law…
Ontologies are increasingly recognized as essential tools in information science. Although the concepts are well understood theoretically, the practical implementation of ontologies remains challenging. In this book, researchers in computer science, information systems, ontology…
