Keynote -- Embedded Hardware -- Embedded Software -- Real-Time Systems -- Power-Aware Computing -- H/S Co-design and Systems-on-Chip -- Testing and Verification -- Reconfigurable Computing -- Agent and Distributed Computing -- Wireless Communications -- Mobile Computing -- Multimedia, HCI and Pervasive Computing -- Network Protocol, Security and Fault-Tolerance -- Middleware and P2P Computing.W…
Programming Models and Support Tools -- Flexible Message Passing Interface for A Heterogenous Computing Environment -- GOP: A Graph-Oriented Programming Model for Parallel and Distributed Systems -- Programming Cellular Automata-Like Systems in a Multimedia Parallel Environment -- Algorithms -- Vector-Parallel Algorithms for 1-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transform -- Towards Solving NP-Complete Pr…
Examples and Modelling of Switched and Impulsive Systems -- Analysis of Switched and Impulsive Systems -- Stability of Linear Switched and Impulsive Systems -- Stability of Nonlinear Switched and Impulsive Systems -- Impulsive Synchronization of Chaotic Systems -- Chaos Based Secure Communication Systems -- Scheduling of Switched Server Systems -- Relative Differentiated Quality of Service of t…
Biometrics -- Biometrics: When Identity Matters -- Face Recognition: Technical Challenges and Research Directions -- Fingerprints: Recognition, Performance Evaluation and Synthetic Generation -- Recognising Persons by Their Iris Patterns -- Multiple Classifier Fusion for Biometric Authentication -- Performance Evaluation in 1 : 1 Biometric Engines -- Best Performing Biometric Engines -- Discuss…
Electronic Energy Level Structure -- Transition Intensities -- Ion-phonon Interactions -- Line Broadening Mechanisms and Their Measurement -- Up-conversions in RE-doped Solids -- Current Topics in Rare-earth Lasers -- Rare Earth Materiais in Optical Storage and Data Processing Applications -- Rare Earth Doped Confined Structures for Lasers and Amplifiers -- Rare Earth Luminescent Centers in Org…
Economic globalization and advanced communication and transportation technologies have greatly increased interconnectivity and integration of China with the rest of the world. This book explores the impact of globalization on China and the interactions of Chinese education with the globalized world. It consists of twenty chapters which collectively examine how globalization unfolds on the groun…
Foreword -- Changes in Education under China’s Market Economy: An Introduction -- Section I: Market Economy and Curriculum Reform -- Neo-Liberal Education Policy in China: Issues and Challenges in Curriculum Reform -- Social Change, Citizenship, and Citizenship Education in China Since the Late 1970s -- English as a Foreign Language Curriculum Reform in China: A Study in Reconstructionism -- …
Invited Talks -- On Bluetooth Repairing: Key Agreement Based on Symmetric-Key Cryptography -- You Can Prove So Many Things in Zero-Knowledge -- Identity Based Cryptography -- Improvements on Security Proofs of Some Identity Based Encryption Schemes -- An ID-Based Verifiable Encrypted Signature Scheme Based on Hess’s Scheme -- ID-Based Signature Scheme Without Trusted PKG -- Security Modelling…
From the contents: Part 1: Intelligent Systems and Data Mining; Some Considerations in Multi-Source Data Fusion; Granular Nested Causal Complexes; Gene Regulating Network Discovery; Semantic Relations and Information Discovery; Sequential Pattern Mining; Uncertain Knowledge Association through Information Gain; Data Mining for Maximal Frequency Patterns in Sequence Group; Mining Association Rul…
Workshop on Web Information Systems Quality -- Ontology for the Selection of e-Processes -- Managing Web GIS Quality -- A Reusability Model for Portlets -- Towards Using Simulation for Enhancing Web Information Systems’ Utility -- Adaptive Multimedia Content Delivery in Ubiquitous Environments -- Incorporating the Timeliness Quality Dimension in Internet Query Systems -- SOAP Request Scheduli…