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This work presents the evolution of the traditional concept of "national security" as military security to additionally embrace "environmental security" and then necessarily also "social (societal) security", thence to be termed "comprehensive human security". It accomplishes this primarily by presenting …
This volume provides a modern look on the age-old influenza infection and the preventive role of anti-influenza shots. Influenza pandemic outbreaks are unrelenting despite the growing understanding of the molecular basis of viral infection and its spreads. A leap in …
This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the available and emerging mobile technologies and explores how these technologies can serve as support tools in enhancing user participation in health care and promoting well-being in the daily lives of individuals, thereby …
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9th International Symposium CMMR 2012, London, UK, June 19-22, 2012, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2012, held in London, UK, in June 2012. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for …
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9th International Workshop, ADMI 2013, Saint Paul, MN, USA, May 6-7, 2013, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and revised selected papers from the 9th International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction, ADMI 2013, held in Saint Paul, MN, USA in May 2013. The 10 papers presented in this volume were …
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19th International Conference, Formal Grammar 2014, Tubingen, Germany, August 16-17, 2014. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19 International Conference on Formal Grammar 2014, collocated with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information in August 2014. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited contributions …
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Papers in Honor of Johannes Buchmann on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday
Johannes Buchmann is internationally recognized as one of the leading figures in areas of computational number theory, cryptography and information security. He has published numerous scientific papers and books spanning a very wide spectrum of interests; besides R&D he also …
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4th International Workshop, HBU 2013, Barcelona, Spain, October 22, 2013, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, HBU 2013, held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2013. The 21 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are grouped …
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9th International Conference, ISPEC 2013, Lanzhou, China, May 12-14, 2013, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2013, held in Lanzhou, China, in May 2013. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. …
The book presents three most significant areas in Biometrics and Pattern Recognition. A step-by-step approach for design and implementation of Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DTCWT) plus Rotated Complex Wavelet Filters (RCWF) is discussed in detail. In addition to the …
View book details for Time-of-Flight and Depth Imaging. Sensors, Algorithms and Applications
Dagstuhl Seminar 2012 and GCPR Workshop on Imaging New Modalities
Cameras for 3D depth imaging, using either time-of-flight (ToF) or structured light sensors, have received a lot of attention recently and have been improved considerably over the last few years. The present techniques make full-range 3D data available at video …
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20th Anniversary International Conference, MMM 2014, Dublin, Ireland, January 6-10, 2014, Proceedings, Part I
The two-volume set LNCS 8325 and 8326 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 20th Anniversary International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2014, held in Dublin, Ireland, in January 2014. The 46 revised regular papers, 11 short papers and 9 …
View book details for Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics
5th Language and Technology Conference, LTC 2011, Poznan, Poland, November 25--27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2011, held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2011. The 44 revised and in many cases substantially extended papers presented in …
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Adventure of Ideas and Innovative Practices in Education
This new addition to Springers series on Key Thinkers in World Education tracks the intellectual and philosophical journey of a trail-blazing innovator whose ideas have fired the imaginations of progressive educationalists for almost a century. The volumes in-depth analysis of …
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First International Conference, HCIB 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on HCI in Business, HCIB 2014, held as part of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2014, in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, jointly with 13 other thematically …
The series of advanced courses initiated in Seminaire de Probabilites XXXIII continues with a course by Ivan Nourdin on Gaussian approximations using Malliavin calculus. The Seminaire also occasionally publishes a series of contributions on a unifying subject; in this spirit, …
View book details for Foundations of Augmented Cognition. Advancing Human Performance and Decision-Making through Adaptive Systems
8th International Conference, AC 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Augmented Cognition, AC 2014, held as part of HCI International 2014 which took place in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in June 2014 and incorporated 14 conferences which …
View book details for Multimodal Communication in Political Speech Shaping Minds and Social Action
International Workshop, Political Speech 2010, Rome, Italy, November 10-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Multimodal Communication in Political Speech: Shaping Minds and Social Actions, held in Rome, Italy, during November 10-12, 2010. The 16 regular papers were carefully reviewed and selected …
This book presents a critical review on the development and application of hygrothermal analysis methods to simulate the coupled transport processes of Heat, Air, and Moisture (HAM) transfer for one or multidimensional cases. During the past few decades there has …
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Security and Privacy Issues 9th International Workshop, RFIDsec 2013, Graz, Austria, July 9-11, 2013, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th Workshop on RFID Security and Privacy, RFIDsec 2013, held in Graz, Austria, in July 2013. The 11 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. RFIDsec deals …
View book details for Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, and Z
4th International Conference, ABZ 2014, Toulouse, France, June 2-6, 2014. Proceedings
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Abstract State Machines, B, TLA, VDM and Z, which took place in Toulouse, France, in June 2014. The 13 full papers presented together with 3 invited talks …
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First International Conference, ICAA 2014, Kolkata, India, January 13-15, 2014. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Applied Algorithms, ICAA 2014, held in Kolkata, India, in January 2014. ICAA is a new conference series with a mission to provide a quality forum for researchers working …
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11th International Workshop, IWDW 2012, Shanghai, China, October 31--November 3, 2012, Revised Selected Papers
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Digital-Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2012, held in Shanghai, China, during October/November 2012. The 42 revised papers (27 oral and 15 poster papers) were carefully reviewed and selected …
View book details for Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: User and Context Diversity
7th International Conference, UAHCI 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II
The three-volume set LNCS 8009-8011 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2013, held as part of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2013, held in Las Vegas, USA …
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11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Daejeon, Korea, November 5-9, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Part III
The four-volume set LNCS 7724--7727 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2012, held in Daejeon, Korea, in November 2012. The total of 226 contributions presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed …
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