Fundamentals -- From Autonomy to AOC -- AOC at a Glance -- Design and Engineering Issues -- A Formal Framework of AOC -- AOC in Depth -- AOC in Constraint Satisfaction -- AOC in Complex Systems Modeling -- AOC in Optimization -- Challenges and Opportunities.Autonomy Oriented Computing explores the important theoretical and practical issues in AOC, by analyzing methodologies and presenting exper…
Invited Papers -- Negotiation Technologies -- Knowledge Discovery for Training Intelligent Agents: Methodology, Tools and Applications -- Artificial Immune Systems—An Emergent Technology for Autonomous Intelligent Systems and Data Mining -- Evolving Agents: Communication and Cognition -- Agents and Data Mining: Mutual Enhancement by Integration -- Soft-Device Inheritance in the Knowledge Grid…
CSCW Techniques and Methods -- Vega Information Grid for Collaborative Computing -- Physical Object Icons Buttons Gesture (PIBG): A New Interaction Paradigm with Pen -- A Novel Method of QoS Based Resource Management and Trust Based Task Scheduling -- Learning to Plan the Collaborative Design Process -- Groupware System Design and the Context Concept -- Grid Authorization Management Oriented to…
Cryptography and Coding -- Cryptographic Protocols -- Intrusion Detection -- Security Models and Architecture -- Security Management -- Watermarking and Information Hiding -- Web and Network Applications -- Image and Signal Processing -- Applications.
Keynote Speech -- Research Issues in Adapting Computing to Small Devices -- Mobile Context-Aware Systems – Linking the Physical and Digital World -- Architecture -- A Data Transformations Based Approach for Optimizing Memory and Cache Locality on Distributed Memory Multiprocessors -- A Fetch Policy Maximizing Throughput and Fairness for Two-Context SMT Processors -- A Loop Transformation Usin…
One -- Globalization and Educational Change: New Policy Worlds -- Marketization in Education: Looking Back to Move Forward with a Stronger Critique -- Multicultural Education in the United States and Canada: The Importance of National Policies -- International Comparative Studies of Education and Large-Scale Change -- A Changed Policy Environment for US Universities -- The Implications of Polic…
Introduction: Dis-Orient to Re-Orient Ourselves? -- 1- Reconceptualising the ‘Other’ in Australian universities -- 2- Encountering ‘the West’ through academic mobility: Shifting representations and reinforced stereotypes -- 3- The PRC “foreign talent” scholars and their Singaporean “Other”: Neo-Occidentalism amidst intercultural contact in the context of higher education student…
A.J. Bard, Z. Ding, N. Myung: Electrochemistry and Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence of Semiconductor Nanocrystals in Solutions and in Films -- P. Guyot-Sionnest: Intraband Spectroscopy and Semiconductor Nanocrystals -- X. Peng, J. Thessing: Controlled Synthesis of High Quality Semiconductor Nanocrystals -- D. Santamaria-Pérez, A. Vegas, F. Liebau: The Zintl-Klemm Concept Applied to Cations i…
Gross Anatomy of the Brain -- Neurons and Associated Cells -- Basic Neurophysiology -- Blood Circulation -- Meninges, Ventricles and Cerebrospinal Fluid -- Development and Growth of the Nervous System -- The Spinal Cord -- Reflexes and Muscle Tone -- Pain and Temperature -- Discriminative General Senses, Crude Touch, and Proprioception -- Motoneurons and Motor Pathways -- Lesions of the Spinal …
Neurodegenerative Disorders as Proteinopathies: Phenotypic Relationships -- Towards a Molecular Classification of Neurodegenerative Disease -- Racial and Ethnic Influences on the Expression of the Genotype in Neurodegenerative Diseases -- Causes and Consequences of Oxidative Stress in Neurodegenerative Diseases -- Early Onset Familial Alzheimer's Disease: Is a Mutation Predictive of Pathology? …