This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems, ESSoS 2011, held in Madrid, Italy, in February 2011. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 3 idea papers were carefully reviewed and selec…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption, held in Washington, DC, USA, in March 2012. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and sel…
"With the increasing number of images available electronically, automatic retrieval systems are becoming essential. This book introduces an absolute prerequisite for any such system: a metric, called the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD), for comparing images in terms of their appear…
The increasing size of high performance computing systems and the associated increase in the volume of generated data, has resulted in an I/O bottleneck for these applications. This bottleneck is further exacerbated by the imbalance in the growth of processing capability compare…
"Focusing on a data-centric perspective, this book provides a complete overview of data mining: its uses, methods, current technologies, commercial products, and future challenges."--BOOK JACKET. "Is there a need for mining? Do you have the right tools? Do you have the people to…
"Dynamic Knowledge Interaction presents interdisciplinary work on the creation of information tools for people developing modern community support systems. Using social psychological, cognitive psychological, and artificial intelligence studies, the authors design and present tw…
