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Preface - Advances in mass data analysis of signals and images in medicine, biotechnology and chemistry
Perner P, Salvetti O
The automatic analysis of images and signals in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry is a challenging and demanding field. Signal-producing procedures by microscopes, spectrometers, and other sensors have found their way into wide fields of medicine, biotechnology, economy, and environmental analysis. With this arises the problem of the automatic mass analysis of signal information. Signal-interpreting systems which generate automatically the desired target statements from the signals are therefore of compelling necessity. The continuation of mass analyses on the basis of classical procedures leads to investments of proportions that are not feasible. New procedures and system architectures are therefore required. The scope of the International Conference on Mass Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology and Chemistry MDA (www.mda-signals.de) is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry people who are dealing with mass analysis of images and signals to present and discuss recent research in these fields.Source: LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 4826
Perner P, Salvetti O
The automatic analysis of images and signals in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry is a challenging and demanding field. Signal-producing procedures by microscopes, spectrometers, and other sensors have found their way into wide fields of medicine, biotechnology, economy, and environmental analysis. With this arises the problem of the automatic mass analysis of signal information. Signal-interpreting systems which generate automatically the desired target statements from the signals are therefore of compelling necessity. The continuation of mass analyses on the basis of classical procedures leads to investments of proportions that are not feasible. New procedures and system architectures are therefore required. The scope of the International Conference on Mass Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology and Chemistry MDA (www.mda-signals.de) is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry people who are dealing with mass analysis of images and signals to present and discuss recent research in these fields.Source: LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 4826
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Editorial activity - Special Issue on Bayesian Source Separation
Kuruoglu E, Knuth K
The signal processing problem known as source separation has rapidly grown in the last decade from being viewed as something of a curiosity to becoming a fundamental signal processing problem that is ubiquitous across scientific disciplines. Source separation problems are characterized by a set of sources that either emit or modulate signals that propagate to one or several detectors. The signal processing goal is to "separate" the recorded signals into the set of "source" signals. This basic situation appears in a wide variety of contexts ranging from the more traditional mixing of sound signals as in the Cocktail Party Problem to mixtures of source signals of spatial extent in images, such as in astrophysical applications where the objects of study are optically thin (transparent) or magnetic resonance imaging where the effects of several distinct processes are superimposed. At this point in time, source separation has been widely studied, resulting in an extensive array of source separation algorithms. Much of the effort has gone into developing what are known as blind source separation algorithms, referring to the fact that these algorithms are provided with a minimum amount of information about the nature of the recorded signals. These blind algorithms are extremely useful, as they are specifically designed to be generally applicable to a wide array of problems. Many of these techniques work well in a wide variety of situations, including those where noise is an issue.Source: DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING, pp. 855-857
Kuruoglu E, Knuth K
The signal processing problem known as source separation has rapidly grown in the last decade from being viewed as something of a curiosity to becoming a fundamental signal processing problem that is ubiquitous across scientific disciplines. Source separation problems are characterized by a set of sources that either emit or modulate signals that propagate to one or several detectors. The signal processing goal is to "separate" the recorded signals into the set of "source" signals. This basic situation appears in a wide variety of contexts ranging from the more traditional mixing of sound signals as in the Cocktail Party Problem to mixtures of source signals of spatial extent in images, such as in astrophysical applications where the objects of study are optically thin (transparent) or magnetic resonance imaging where the effects of several distinct processes are superimposed. At this point in time, source separation has been widely studied, resulting in an extensive array of source separation algorithms. Much of the effort has gone into developing what are known as blind source separation algorithms, referring to the fact that these algorithms are provided with a minimum amount of information about the nature of the recorded signals. These blind algorithms are extremely useful, as they are specifically designed to be generally applicable to a wide array of problems. Many of these techniques work well in a wide variety of situations, including those where noise is an issue.Source: DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING, pp. 855-857
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Preface - Digital Libraries : research and development - First International DELOS Conference
Thanos C, Borri F, Candela L
Digital Libraries represent the meeting point of a large number of technical areas within the field of informatics, i.e., information retrieval, document management, information systems, the web, image processing, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, mass-storage systems, and others. Moreover, Digital Libraries draw upon other disciplines beyond informatics, such as library sciences, museum sciences, archives, sociology, psychology, etc. However, they constitute a relatively young scientific field, whose life spans roughly the last fifteen years. During these years the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (http://www.delos.info) has represented a constant presence aiming to contribute to the consolidation of the field. The activities of DELOS started many years ago, with the "DELOS Working Group" at the end of the nineties, and the DELOS Thematic Network, under the Fifth Framework Program, from 2001 to 2003. Since the beginning, the main objective of DELOS has been to advance the state of the art in the field of Digital Libraries by coordinating the efforts of the major European research teams conducting activities in the major fields of interest. Every year DELOS organises the All-Tasks meeting, the annual appointment of the DELOS community where the scientific results achieved during the previous year are presented. Instead of the usual status reports from the various DELOS Tasks, in 2006 it was decided to issue a Call for Papers, soliciting papers reporting the scientific achievements of the DELOS members during 2006, and to organize a Conference. The first DELOS Conference was held on February 13-14, 2007, at the Grand Hotel Continental in Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy. The Conference represented a good coverage of the 27 research tasks in DELOS, with 38 papers being presented. In addition, two invited papers: "Semantic Digital Libraries" (John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto) and "Digital Libraries: From proposals to pro jects to systems to theory to curricula" (Edward Fox, Virginia Tech) completed the program. The Conference was open to the larger Digital Library Community and not just to the DELOS partners. About 120 people attended , half of which were not from DELOS partners. We believe that this is an indication of the increased interest in Digital Libraries, and the recognition that the DELOS research activities have played and are playing an important role in the European Digital Library scene. This volume includes extended and revised versions of the papers presented at the DELOS Conference. We believe that it should be of interest to the broad audience potentially interested in the Digital Library research area. It has been structured into 10 sections, corresponding to the different sessions in which the Conference was structured, which in turn correspond to the ma jor areas of research where DELOS has focussed its attention recently.
Thanos C, Borri F, Candela L
Digital Libraries represent the meeting point of a large number of technical areas within the field of informatics, i.e., information retrieval, document management, information systems, the web, image processing, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, mass-storage systems, and others. Moreover, Digital Libraries draw upon other disciplines beyond informatics, such as library sciences, museum sciences, archives, sociology, psychology, etc. However, they constitute a relatively young scientific field, whose life spans roughly the last fifteen years. During these years the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (http://www.delos.info) has represented a constant presence aiming to contribute to the consolidation of the field. The activities of DELOS started many years ago, with the "DELOS Working Group" at the end of the nineties, and the DELOS Thematic Network, under the Fifth Framework Program, from 2001 to 2003. Since the beginning, the main objective of DELOS has been to advance the state of the art in the field of Digital Libraries by coordinating the efforts of the major European research teams conducting activities in the major fields of interest. Every year DELOS organises the All-Tasks meeting, the annual appointment of the DELOS community where the scientific results achieved during the previous year are presented. Instead of the usual status reports from the various DELOS Tasks, in 2006 it was decided to issue a Call for Papers, soliciting papers reporting the scientific achievements of the DELOS members during 2006, and to organize a Conference. The first DELOS Conference was held on February 13-14, 2007, at the Grand Hotel Continental in Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy. The Conference represented a good coverage of the 27 research tasks in DELOS, with 38 papers being presented. In addition, two invited papers: "Semantic Digital Libraries" (John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto) and "Digital Libraries: From proposals to pro jects to systems to theory to curricula" (Edward Fox, Virginia Tech) completed the program. The Conference was open to the larger Digital Library Community and not just to the DELOS partners. About 120 people attended , half of which were not from DELOS partners. We believe that this is an indication of the increased interest in Digital Libraries, and the recognition that the DELOS research activities have played and are playing an important role in the European Digital Library scene. This volume includes extended and revised versions of the papers presented at the DELOS Conference. We believe that it should be of interest to the broad audience potentially interested in the Digital Library research area. It has been structured into 10 sections, corresponding to the different sessions in which the Conference was structured, which in turn correspond to the ma jor areas of research where DELOS has focussed its attention recently.
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Preface - Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval
Peters C, Clough P, Gey F, Karlgren J, Magnini B, Oard D, De Rijke M, Stempfhuber M
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, held in Alicante, Spain, September 2006. The revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval, Domain-Specifig Information Retrieval, i-CLEF, QA@CLEF, ImageCLEF, CLSR, WebCLEF and GeoCLEF.
Peters C, Clough P, Gey F, Karlgren J, Magnini B, Oard D, De Rijke M, Stempfhuber M
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, held in Alicante, Spain, September 2006. The revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval, Domain-Specifig Information Retrieval, i-CLEF, QA@CLEF, ImageCLEF, CLSR, WebCLEF and GeoCLEF.
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Introduction to Special Issue on the 25th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research
Sebastiani F
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FME 2003: Formal Methods
Araki K, Gnesi S, Mandrioli D
This volume contains the proceedings of FM 2003, the 12th International Formal Methods Europe Symposium which was held in Pisa, Italy on September 8 14, 2003. Formal Methods Europe (FME, www.fmeurope.org) is an independent association which aims to stimulate the use of and research on formal methods for system development. FME conferences began with a VDM Europe symposium in 1987. Since then, the meetings have grown and have been held about once every 18 months. Throughout the years the symposia have been notably successful in bringing together researchers, tool developers, vendors, and users, both from academia and from industry. Unlike previous symposia in the series, FM 2003 was not given a speci c theme. Rather, its main goal could be synthesized as widening the scope. Indeed, the organizers aimed at enlarging the audience and impact of the symposium along several directions. Dropping the su x E from the title of the conference re ects the wish to welcome participation and contribution from every country; also, contributions from outside the traditional Formal Methods community were solicited. The recent innovation of including an Industrial Day as an important part of the symposium shows the strong commitment to involve industrial people more and more within the Formal Methods community.
Araki K, Gnesi S, Mandrioli D
This volume contains the proceedings of FM 2003, the 12th International Formal Methods Europe Symposium which was held in Pisa, Italy on September 8 14, 2003. Formal Methods Europe (FME, www.fmeurope.org) is an independent association which aims to stimulate the use of and research on formal methods for system development. FME conferences began with a VDM Europe symposium in 1987. Since then, the meetings have grown and have been held about once every 18 months. Throughout the years the symposia have been notably successful in bringing together researchers, tool developers, vendors, and users, both from academia and from industry. Unlike previous symposia in the series, FM 2003 was not given a speci c theme. Rather, its main goal could be synthesized as widening the scope. Indeed, the organizers aimed at enlarging the audience and impact of the symposium along several directions. Dropping the su x E from the title of the conference re ects the wish to welcome participation and contribution from every country; also, contributions from outside the traditional Formal Methods community were solicited. The recent innovation of including an Industrial Day as an important part of the symposium shows the strong commitment to involve industrial people more and more within the Formal Methods community.
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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface
Dongarra J, Laforenza D, Orlando S
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting held in Venice, Italy, in September/October 2003. The 64 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with abstracts of 8 invited contributions and 7 reviewed special track papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation and performance analysis; parallel algorithms using message passing; extensions, improvements, and implementations of PVM/MPI; parallel programming tools; applications in science and engineering; grid and heterogeneous computing; and numerical simulation of parallel engineering environments - ParSim 2003.
Dongarra J, Laforenza D, Orlando S
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting held in Venice, Italy, in September/October 2003. The 64 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with abstracts of 8 invited contributions and 7 reviewed special track papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation and performance analysis; parallel algorithms using message passing; extensions, improvements, and implementations of PVM/MPI; parallel programming tools; applications in science and engineering; grid and heterogeneous computing; and numerical simulation of parallel engineering environments - ParSim 2003.
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Editorial activity - ECIR 2003
Sebastiani F
The European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, now in its 25th "Silver Jubilee" edition, was initially established by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society (BCS-IRSG) under the name "Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research", and always held in the United Kingdom until 1997. Since 1998 the location of the colloquium has alternated between the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe, in order to reflect the growing European orientation of the event. For the same reason, in 2001 the event was renamed "European Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research". Since 2002, the proceedings of the Colloquium are being published by Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Sebastiani F
The European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, now in its 25th "Silver Jubilee" edition, was initially established by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society (BCS-IRSG) under the name "Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research", and always held in the United Kingdom until 1997. Since 1998 the location of the colloquium has alternated between the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe, in order to reflect the growing European orientation of the event. For the same reason, in 2001 the event was renamed "European Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research". Since 2002, the proceedings of the Colloquium are being published by Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
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Advances in Mass Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry
Perner P, Salvetti O
The automatic analysis of signals and images together with the characterization and elaboration of their representation features is still a challenging activity in many relevant scientific and hi-tech fields such as medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry. Multidimensional and multisource signal processing can generate a number of information patterns which can be useful to increase the knowledge of several domains for solving complex problems. Furthermore, advanced signal and image manipulation allows relating specific application problems into pattern recognition problems, often implying also the development of KDD and other computational intelligence procedures. Nevertheless, the amount of data produced by sensors and equipments used in biomedicine, biotechnology and chemistry is usually quite huge and structured, thus strongly pushing the need of investigating advanced models and efficient computational algorithms for automating mass analysis procedures. Accordingly, signal and image understanding approaches able to generate automatically expected outputs become more and more essential, including novel conceptual approaches and system architectures. The purpose of this third edition of the International Conference on Mass Data Analysis of Signals and Images in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry (MDA 2008; www.mda-signals.de) was to present the broad and growing scientific evidence linking mass data analysis with challenging problems in medicine, biotechnology and chemistry. Scientific and engineering experts convened at the workshop to present the current understanding of image and signal processing and interpretation methods useful for facing various medical and biological problems and exploring the applicability and effectiveness of advanced techniques as solutions. The primary goal of the conference was to disseminate this knowledge to a multidisciplinary community and encourage cooperative proactive collaboration in all the interested fields. We were pleased to see that the idea of the conference was taken up by a growing number of researchers and that we could start to bundle the activities in this area. We appreciate the help and understanding of the editorial staff at Springer, and in particular Alfred Hofmann, who supported the publication of these proceedings in the LNAI series. Last, but not least, we wish to thank all the speakers and participants who contributed to the success of the conference. The next International Conferences on Mass Data Analysis of Signals and Images (www.mda-signals.de) will be held in July 2009. We are looking forward to your submissions.
Perner P, Salvetti O
The automatic analysis of signals and images together with the characterization and elaboration of their representation features is still a challenging activity in many relevant scientific and hi-tech fields such as medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry. Multidimensional and multisource signal processing can generate a number of information patterns which can be useful to increase the knowledge of several domains for solving complex problems. Furthermore, advanced signal and image manipulation allows relating specific application problems into pattern recognition problems, often implying also the development of KDD and other computational intelligence procedures. Nevertheless, the amount of data produced by sensors and equipments used in biomedicine, biotechnology and chemistry is usually quite huge and structured, thus strongly pushing the need of investigating advanced models and efficient computational algorithms for automating mass analysis procedures. Accordingly, signal and image understanding approaches able to generate automatically expected outputs become more and more essential, including novel conceptual approaches and system architectures. The purpose of this third edition of the International Conference on Mass Data Analysis of Signals and Images in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry (MDA 2008; www.mda-signals.de) was to present the broad and growing scientific evidence linking mass data analysis with challenging problems in medicine, biotechnology and chemistry. Scientific and engineering experts convened at the workshop to present the current understanding of image and signal processing and interpretation methods useful for facing various medical and biological problems and exploring the applicability and effectiveness of advanced techniques as solutions. The primary goal of the conference was to disseminate this knowledge to a multidisciplinary community and encourage cooperative proactive collaboration in all the interested fields. We were pleased to see that the idea of the conference was taken up by a growing number of researchers and that we could start to bundle the activities in this area. We appreciate the help and understanding of the editorial staff at Springer, and in particular Alfred Hofmann, who supported the publication of these proceedings in the LNAI series. Last, but not least, we wish to thank all the speakers and participants who contributed to the success of the conference. The next International Conferences on Mass Data Analysis of Signals and Images (www.mda-signals.de) will be held in July 2009. We are looking forward to your submissions.
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Architecting dependable systems V - Preface
De Lemos R, Di Giandomenico F, Gacek C, Muccini H, Vieira M
This is the fifth book in a series on Architecting Dependable Systems we started six years ago that brings together issues related to software architectures and the dependability of systems. This book includes expanded and peer-reviewed papers based on the selected contributions to two workshops, and a number of invited papers written by recognized experts in the area. The two workshops were: the Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS) organized at the 2007 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2007), and the Third Workshop on the Role of Software Architecture for Testing and Analysis organized as part of a federated conference on Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture (CompArch 2007).
De Lemos R, Di Giandomenico F, Gacek C, Muccini H, Vieira M
This is the fifth book in a series on Architecting Dependable Systems we started six years ago that brings together issues related to software architectures and the dependability of systems. This book includes expanded and peer-reviewed papers based on the selected contributions to two workshops, and a number of invited papers written by recognized experts in the area. The two workshops were: the Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS) organized at the 2007 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2007), and the Third Workshop on the Role of Software Architecture for Testing and Analysis organized as part of a federated conference on Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture (CompArch 2007).
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CLEF 2007
Peters C, Jijkoun V, Mandl T, Mueller H, Oard D W, Petras V, Santos D
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, held in Budapest, Hungary, September 2007. The revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval, Domain-Specific Information Retrieval, Multiple Language Question Answering, Cross-language Retrieval in Image Collections, Cross-Language Speech retrieval, Multingual Web Retrieval, and Cross-Language Geographical retrieval.
Peters C, Jijkoun V, Mandl T, Mueller H, Oard D W, Petras V, Santos D
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, held in Budapest, Hungary, September 2007. The revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval, Domain-Specific Information Retrieval, Multiple Language Question Answering, Cross-language Retrieval in Image Collections, Cross-Language Speech retrieval, Multingual Web Retrieval, and Cross-Language Geographical retrieval.
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ECDL 2008
Castelli D, Christensendalsgaard B, Ammitzbøll Jurik B, Lippincott J
The proceedings of the 2008 European Conference on Digital Libraries are presented and commented.
Castelli D, Christensendalsgaard B, Ammitzbøll Jurik B, Lippincott J
The proceedings of the 2008 European Conference on Digital Libraries are presented and commented.
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Foreword - Space debris
Anselmo L
While the world was celebrating 50 years of space activity, the United Nations' Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) approved, during the 6-15 June 2007 session, a set of space debris mitigation guidelines, formally endorsed by the General Assembly on 14 November 2007 (A/RES/62/217, issued on 10 January 2008). Derived from the Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines, issued in 2002 by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the COPUOS guidelines consist of a set of seven high level mitigation principles covering space system design, launch, operation and disposal. This testifies to the growing relevance of space debris outside the relatively small number of engineers and scientists directly involved in research. The circumterrestrial space is, in fact, a very precious environment of great scientific, economic and strategic importance. All reasonable efforts must be made to preserve it for future generations and appropriate strategies should be devised, developed and implemented to minimize the impact of space debris on future space missions. Several significant results have been obtained in recent years, but a lot remains to be done in terms of enhanced observations, in situ measurements, environment and impact modeling, protection and implementation of affordable mitigation practices.Source: ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH, p. 1003
Anselmo L
While the world was celebrating 50 years of space activity, the United Nations' Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) approved, during the 6-15 June 2007 session, a set of space debris mitigation guidelines, formally endorsed by the General Assembly on 14 November 2007 (A/RES/62/217, issued on 10 January 2008). Derived from the Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines, issued in 2002 by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the COPUOS guidelines consist of a set of seven high level mitigation principles covering space system design, launch, operation and disposal. This testifies to the growing relevance of space debris outside the relatively small number of engineers and scientists directly involved in research. The circumterrestrial space is, in fact, a very precious environment of great scientific, economic and strategic importance. All reasonable efforts must be made to preserve it for future generations and appropriate strategies should be devised, developed and implemented to minimize the impact of space debris on future space missions. Several significant results have been obtained in recent years, but a lot remains to be done in terms of enhanced observations, in situ measurements, environment and impact modeling, protection and implementation of affordable mitigation practices.Source: ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH, p. 1003
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Human-Activity Analysis in Multimedia Data
Salvetti O, Cetin E A, Pauwels E
Many important applications in multimedia revolve around the detection of humans and the interpretation of their behavior. These include surveillance and intrusion detection, video conferencing applications, assisted living applications, and automatic analysis of sports videos, broadcasts, and movies, to name just a few. Success in these tasks often requires the integration of various sensor or data modalities such as video, audio, motion, and accompanying text, and typically hinges on a host of machine-learning methodologies to handle the inherent variability and complexity of the ensuing features. The computational efficiency of the resulting algorithms is critical since the amount of data to be processed in multimedia applications is typically large, and in real-time systems, speed is of the essence. There have been several recent special issues dealing with the dection of humans and the analysis of their activity relying solely on video footage. In this special issue, we have tried to provide a platform to contributions that make use of a broader spectrum of multimedia information, complementing video with audio or text information as well as other types of sensor signals, whenever available. The first group of papers in the special issue addresses the joint use of audio and video data. The paperSource: EURASIP JOURNAL ON ADVANCES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING (ONLINE)
Salvetti O, Cetin E A, Pauwels E
Many important applications in multimedia revolve around the detection of humans and the interpretation of their behavior. These include surveillance and intrusion detection, video conferencing applications, assisted living applications, and automatic analysis of sports videos, broadcasts, and movies, to name just a few. Success in these tasks often requires the integration of various sensor or data modalities such as video, audio, motion, and accompanying text, and typically hinges on a host of machine-learning methodologies to handle the inherent variability and complexity of the ensuing features. The computational efficiency of the resulting algorithms is critical since the amount of data to be processed in multimedia applications is typically large, and in real-time systems, speed is of the essence. There have been several recent special issues dealing with the dection of humans and the analysis of their activity relying solely on video footage. In this special issue, we have tried to provide a platform to contributions that make use of a broader spectrum of multimedia information, complementing video with audio or text information as well as other types of sensor signals, whenever available. The first group of papers in the special issue addresses the joint use of audio and video data. The paperSource: EURASIP JOURNAL ON ADVANCES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING (ONLINE)
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Preface - Architecting Dependable Systems VI
De Lemos R, Fabre J, Gacek C, Gadducci F, Ter Beek M
As software systems become increasingly ubiquitous, issues of dependability become ever more crucial. Given that solutions to these issues must be considered from the very beginning of the design process, it is reasonable that dependability and security are addressed at the architectural level. This book has originated from an effort to bring together the research communities of software architectures, dependability and security. This state-of-the-art survey contains expanded and peer-reviewed papers based on the carefully selected contributions to two workshops: the Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS 2008), organized at the 2008 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2008), held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, in June 2008, and the Third International Workshop on Views On Designing Complex Architectures (VODCA 2008) held in Bertinoro, Italy, in August 2008. It also contains invited papers written by recognized experts in the area. The 13 papers are organized in topical sections on dependable service-oriented architectures, fault-tolerance and system evaluation, and architecting security.
De Lemos R, Fabre J, Gacek C, Gadducci F, Ter Beek M
As software systems become increasingly ubiquitous, issues of dependability become ever more crucial. Given that solutions to these issues must be considered from the very beginning of the design process, it is reasonable that dependability and security are addressed at the architectural level. This book has originated from an effort to bring together the research communities of software architectures, dependability and security. This state-of-the-art survey contains expanded and peer-reviewed papers based on the carefully selected contributions to two workshops: the Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS 2008), organized at the 2008 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2008), held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, in June 2008, and the Third International Workshop on Views On Designing Complex Architectures (VODCA 2008) held in Bertinoro, Italy, in August 2008. It also contains invited papers written by recognized experts in the area. The 13 papers are organized in topical sections on dependable service-oriented architectures, fault-tolerance and system evaluation, and architecting security.
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Preface to FMICS 2008
Cofer D, Fantechi A
The aim of the FMICS workshop series is to provide a forum for researchers who are interested in the development and application of formal methods in industry. In particular, these workshops are intended to bring together scientists and practitioners who are active in the area of formal methods and interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage of these methods. These workshops also strive to promote research and development for the improvement of formal methods and tools for industrial applications.
Cofer D, Fantechi A
The aim of the FMICS workshop series is to provide a forum for researchers who are interested in the development and application of formal methods in industry. In particular, these workshops are intended to bring together scientists and practitioners who are active in the area of formal methods and interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage of these methods. These workshops also strive to promote research and development for the improvement of formal methods and tools for industrial applications.
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Preface to Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal information Access
Peters C, Deselaers T, Ferro N, Gonzalo J, Jones G J, Kurimo M, Mandl T, Penas A, Petras V
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in September 2008. The 130 revised and extended papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. They are completed by an introduction on CLEF 2008. As usual, the seven main evaluation tracks in CLEF 2008 aimed to test the performance of a wide range of multilingual information access systems or system components. The papers are organized in topical main sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc), Mono- and Cross-Language Scientific Data Retrieval (Domain-Specific), Interactive Cross-Language Retrieval (iCLEF), Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF), Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF), Multilingual Web Track (WebCLEF), Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF), Cross-Language Video Retrieval (VideoCLEF), Multilingual Information Filtering (INFILE@CLEF), and Morpho Challenge at CLEF 2008.
Peters C, Deselaers T, Ferro N, Gonzalo J, Jones G J, Kurimo M, Mandl T, Penas A, Petras V
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in September 2008. The 130 revised and extended papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. They are completed by an introduction on CLEF 2008. As usual, the seven main evaluation tracks in CLEF 2008 aimed to test the performance of a wide range of multilingual information access systems or system components. The papers are organized in topical main sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc), Mono- and Cross-Language Scientific Data Retrieval (Domain-Specific), Interactive Cross-Language Retrieval (iCLEF), Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF), Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF), Multilingual Web Track (WebCLEF), Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF), Cross-Language Video Retrieval (VideoCLEF), Multilingual Information Filtering (INFILE@CLEF), and Morpho Challenge at CLEF 2008.
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Special Section: Scalable information systems
Lee W, Jianliang X, Jianzhong L, Silvestri F
As data and knowledge volumes keep increasing, and global means for information dissemination continues to diversify, new methods, modeling paradigms and structures are needed to effi- ciently support the mounting scalability requirements for the large variety of current and future data, information, and knowledge [1-3]. Grid computing, peer-to-peer technology, data and knowl- edge bases, distributed information retrieval technology, and net- working technology should all converge to address the scalability concern. This special section compiles recent work on addressing scalability issues of distributed and peer-to-peer systems.Source: FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS, pp. 51-52
Lee W, Jianliang X, Jianzhong L, Silvestri F
As data and knowledge volumes keep increasing, and global means for information dissemination continues to diversify, new methods, modeling paradigms and structures are needed to effi- ciently support the mounting scalability requirements for the large variety of current and future data, information, and knowledge [1-3]. Grid computing, peer-to-peer technology, data and knowl- edge bases, distributed information retrieval technology, and net- working technology should all converge to address the scalability concern. This special section compiles recent work on addressing scalability issues of distributed and peer-to-peer systems.Source: FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS, pp. 51-52
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Introduction to the issue on Signal Processing for Space Research and Astronomy
Leshem A, Christou J, Jeffs B D, Kuruoglu E E, Van Der Veen A
SPACE research in general, and astronomy in particular, are some of the most challenging application areas for signal processing. Digital signal and image processing techniques have been widely used for optical astronomy and radio astronomy as well as in deep-space communication. Several new instruments are being designed for radio, optical, and other frequencies. These instruments will push our understanding of the universe even further and ambitious design goals for these instruments will rely on advanced signal processing techniques. Traditionally, radio telescope design was in the forefront of electrical engineering technology. Technological advances in the last decade have created possibilities for large distributed interferometric radio and optical telescopes with very large receiving areas, extremely large aperture, and a sensitivity which is one to two orders of magnitude better than the current generation. Increased sensitivity implies receiving more interfering signals; therefore, RFI detection and removal is now an important topic in radio astronomy. Fortunately, massive digital phased-array technology has also greatly advanced during this period and can provide increased flexibility to filter out interference as well as the possibility of directing multiple beams simultaneously. Several major, international research groups are working on next generations of phased-array instruments. The most ambitious one falls under the framework of the Square Kilometer Array programm (SKA), with a target commissioning date of 2020. A second instrument, which is a distributed phasedarray radio telescope is the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) currently under construction in The Netherlands, and slated for 2009. The LOFAR design calls for an instrument consisting of about 13 000Source: IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING, pp. 609-612
Leshem A, Christou J, Jeffs B D, Kuruoglu E E, Van Der Veen A
SPACE research in general, and astronomy in particular, are some of the most challenging application areas for signal processing. Digital signal and image processing techniques have been widely used for optical astronomy and radio astronomy as well as in deep-space communication. Several new instruments are being designed for radio, optical, and other frequencies. These instruments will push our understanding of the universe even further and ambitious design goals for these instruments will rely on advanced signal processing techniques. Traditionally, radio telescope design was in the forefront of electrical engineering technology. Technological advances in the last decade have created possibilities for large distributed interferometric radio and optical telescopes with very large receiving areas, extremely large aperture, and a sensitivity which is one to two orders of magnitude better than the current generation. Increased sensitivity implies receiving more interfering signals; therefore, RFI detection and removal is now an important topic in radio astronomy. Fortunately, massive digital phased-array technology has also greatly advanced during this period and can provide increased flexibility to filter out interference as well as the possibility of directing multiple beams simultaneously. Several major, international research groups are working on next generations of phased-array instruments. The most ambitious one falls under the framework of the Square Kilometer Array programm (SKA), with a target commissioning date of 2020. A second instrument, which is a distributed phasedarray radio telescope is the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) currently under construction in The Netherlands, and slated for 2009. The LOFAR design calls for an instrument consisting of about 13 000Source: IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING, pp. 609-612
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Preface to CLEF 2010
Agosti M, Ferro N, Peters C, De Rijke M, Smeaton A
Editorial of the Proceedings of the CLEF 2010 Conference
Agosti M, Ferro N, Peters C, De Rijke M, Smeaton A
Editorial of the Proceedings of the CLEF 2010 Conference
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