Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Instructive poison cases -- Chapter 3: Criminal poisoning in theory -- Chapter 4: Understanding Poisons -- Chapter 5: Poisonous plants, animals, bacteria, and drugs -- Chapter 6: Elements and ‘other poisons’ -- Chapter 7: Poisoners and their characteristics -- Chapter 8: Victims of poisoning -- Chapter 9: Detection and its avoidance in poisoning cases -…
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Desistance in Perspective: Historical Work and the Identification of a Field of Study -- Chapter 2. Desistance under the Microscope: Definitions and Measurement -- Chapter 3. What Do We Know? Longitudinal Studies and Correlates of Desistance -- Chapter 4. Putting It All Together: Theories of Desistance from Crime -- Chapter 5. Integrated and Equal is Better: Desistanc…
General Issues -- Learning User Preferences in Distributed Calendar Scheduling -- Semantic Components for Timetabling -- An Open Interactive Timetabling Tool -- Distributed Choice Function Hyper-heuristics for Timetabling and Scheduling -- Transport Timetabling -- A Hybridised Integer Programming and Local Search Method for Robust Train Driver Schedules Planning -- Logistics Service Network Des…
Network Management -- An Infrastructure-Based Approach to Support Dynamic Networks with Mobile Agents -- Some Requirements for Autonomic Routing in Self-organizing Networks -- Policy Interoperability and Network Autonomics -- Models and Protocols -- Spatial Computing: An Emerging Paradigm for Autonomic Computing and Communication -- Self-deployment, Self-configuration:Critical Future Paradigms …
e-Democracy: Improving Citizen Participation and Policy Making -- Using Weblogs to Support Local Democracy -- Web-Based Tools for Policy Evaluation -- Can Online Map-Based Applications Improve Citizen Participation? -- e-Democracy: Experiences from Different Countries -- Interactive Tools for e-Democracy: Examples from Switzerland -- “Public Budget Dialogue” – An Innovative Approach to E-…
Improving Concurrent Write Scheme in File Server Group -- A Comparative Performance Study of Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithms with a Class of Extended Petri Nets -- A Practical Comparison of Cluster Operating Systems Implementing Sequential and Transactional Consistency -- Clock Synchronization State Graphs Based on Clock Precision Difference -- A Recursive-Adjustment Co-allocation Schem…
Knowledge Management and Decision Support -- Optimizing the Evaluation of XPath Using Description Logics -- Declaratively Querying and Visualizing Knowledge Bases in Xml -- SQL Based Frequent Pattern Mining with FP-Growth -- Incremental Learning of Transfer Rules for Customized Machine Translation -- Quality Measures and Semi-automatic Mining of Diagnostic Rule Bases -- An Evaluation of a Rule-…
Information Systems -- An Agent-Based Collaborative Emergent Process Management System -- Mobeet: A Multi-agent Framework for Ubiquitous Information Systems -- The Analysis of Coordination in an Information System Application – Emergency Medical Services -- Market-Based Recommender Systems: Learning Users’ Interests by Quality Classification -- Analysis and Modeling -- SNet Reloaded: Roles,…
Invited Talk (Shared with DBPL) -- Patterns and Types for Querying XML Documents -- Constraints and Views -- Checking Functional Dependency Satisfaction in XML -- A Theoretic Framework for Answering XPath Queries Using Views -- Labeling and Path Evaluation -- A Path-Based Labeling Scheme for Efficient Structural Join -- The BIRD Numbering Scheme for XML and Tree Databases – Deciding and Recon…
What Happened in CLEF 2004? -- I. Ad Hoc Text Retrieval Tracks -- II. Domain-Specific Document Retrieval -- III. Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval -- IV. Multiple Language Question Answering -- V. Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections -- VI. Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval -- VII. Issues in CLIR and in Evaluation.The ?fth campaign of the Cross-Language Evaluation…