Invited Papers -- Invention and Artificial Intelligence -- Algorithms and Software for Collaborative Discovery from Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous, Distributed Information Sources -- Training Support Vector Machines via SMO-Type Decomposition Methods -- The Robot Scientist Project -- The Arrowsmith Project: 2005 Status Report -- Regular Contributions - Long Papers -- Practical Algorithm…
Local Information and Communication Infrastructures: An Introduction -- Local Information and Communication Infrastructures: An Introduction -- I Digital Cities Around the World: Case Studies -- The Seattle Community Network: Anomaly or Replicable Model? -- The Blacksburg Electronic Village: A Study in Community Computing -- The Life and Death of the Great Amsterdam Digital City -- Urban Cybers…
Socio-Technical Studies of Mobility and Ubiquity -- Keynotes -- The Future of Work -- Its the Experience, Not the Price -- The Culture of Information: Ubiquitous Computing and Representations of Reality -- Individual Consequences -- Friend or Foe? The Ambivalent Relationship between Mobile Technology and its Users -- The Role of Ubiquitous Computing in Maintaining Work-Life Balance: Perspective…
Keynote Lectures -- How Much Intelligence in the Semantic Web? -- The Wisdom Web – A Grand Intellectual Undertaking -- Measuring Attractiveness of Rules from the Viewpoint of Knowledge Representation, Prediction and Efficiency of Intervention -- Web Intelligence Meets Brain Informatics: An Impending Revolution in WI and Brain Sciences -- Case Studies -- Hybrid Computational Intelligence for A…
Simulation of Multi-agent Systems -- Smooth Scaling Ahead: Progressive MAS Simulation from Single PCs to Grids -- Agent Communication in Distributed Simulations -- Distributed Simulation of MAS -- Extending Time Management Support for Multi-agent Systems -- Designing and Implementing MABS in AKIRA -- Technique and Technology -- Work-Environment Analysis: Environment Centric Multi-agent Simulati…
Modelling the Context of Learning Interactions in Intelligent Learning Environments -- Contextual Modals -- Understanding Context Before Using It -- Epistemological Contextualism: A Semantic Perspective -- Task-Realization Models in Contextual Graphs -- Context-Dependent and Epistemic Uses of Attention for Perceptual-Demonstrative Identification -- Utilizing Visual Attention for Cross-Modal Cor…
Research Questions for the Evolving Communications Landscape -- Mobile Back to Front: Uncertainty and Danger in the Theory—Technology Relation -- Wi-Fi Networks and the Reorganization of Wireline—Wireless Relationship -- Mobile Phones as Fashion Statements: The Co-creation of Mobile Communication’s Public Meaning -- Behavioral Changes at the Mobile Workplace: A Symbolic Interactionistic A…
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…
Face -- Texture Features in Facial Image Analysis -- Enhance ASMs Based on AdaBoost-Based Salient Landmarks Localization and Confidence-Constraint Shape Modeling -- Face Authentication Using One-Class Support Vector Machines -- A Novel Illumination Normalization Method for Face Recognition -- Using Score Normalization to Solve the Score Variation Problem in Face Authentication -- Gabor Feature …
Quality of Life in the Global Context: A Chinese Response -- Arts and the Quality of Life: An Exploratory Study -- Apparent Quality-of-Life in Nations: How Long and Happy People Live -- Global Quality of Life (QOL), Health and Ability Are Primarily Determined by Our Consciousness. Research Findings from Denmark 1991–2004 -- Participatory Partnerships: Engaging and Empowering to Enhance Enviro…