Clustering is an important unsupervised classification technique where a set of patterns, usually vectors in multidimensional space, are grouped into clusters based on some similarity or dissimilarity criteria. In crisp clustering, each pattern is assigned to exactly one cluster, whereas in fuzzy clustering, each pattern is given a...

This book is a tribute to Etienne E. Kerre on the occasion of his retirement on October 1st, 2010, after being active for 35 years in the field of fuzzy set theory. It gathers contributions from researchers that have been close to him in one way or another during his long and fruitful career. Besides a foreword by Lotfi A. Zadeh, it contains...

Pattern recognition is a central topic in contemporary computer sciences, with continuously evolving topics, challenges, and methods, including machine learning, content-based image retrieval, and model- and knowledge-based approaches, just to name a few. The Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP) has become established as a...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Unifying Theories of Programming, UTP 2010, held in Shanghai, China, in November 2010, in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2010. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were...

Mr. Sorin A. Huss was born in Bukarest, Romania on May 21, 1950. He attended a secondary school with emphasis on mathematic and scientific topics in Dachau near Munich and after his Abitur...

These are the proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling, held in Delft (The Netherlands) on November 9 and 10, 2010. It followed the success of PoEM 2008 and 2009 (both held in Stockholm), which each attracted over 50 participants from all over the world, representing both industry and...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 36th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2010, held in Zarós, Crete, Greece, in June 2010. The 28 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 initial...

Welcome to the 5th European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context. EuroSSC 2010 is a venue for high-quality papers that describe both original and unpublished research advancing the state of the art in smart surroundings, context-awareness and networked embedded sensor and actuator systems. The conference brings researchers of a variety of...

Ziel des Buchs ist es, Lesern die Andersartigkeit der Gestaltung für elektronische Medien bewusst zu machen und Wege zu einem mediengerechten Entwurf aufzuzeigen: von der Sitearchitektur über die kreative Entwurfsphase bis zum Navigations- und Screendesign und der Umsetzung eines Internetauftritts mit (X)HTML und CSS. Begleitend...

At the beginning of our research we thought that a solution for the problem of...