Physical design of integrated circuits remains one of the most interesting and challenging arenas in the field of Electronic Design Automation. The ability to integrate more and more devices on our silicon chips requires the algorithms to continuously scale up. Nowadays we can integrate 2e9 transistors on a single 45nm-technology chip. This...
People often ask me why I chose to publish this work. Primarily, this book was
motivated by my experience in industry after having been in the academic world for
many years. We often hear about the need to bridge the gap between industry and
academia, but one can easily intellectually understand something without having
experienced it...
Current search paradigms for the Web, direct access through search engines and
navigational access via static taxonomies, have recently been strongly criticized.
A third paradigm, dynamic taxonomies or faceted search, is gaining acceptance to
the extent that it is now the de facto standard in product selection for e-commerce.
This new...
Sequencing and scheduling is a formof decision-making that plays a crucial role in manufacturing and service industries. In the current competitive environment effective sequencing and scheduling has become a necessity for survival in the market-place. Companies have to meet shipping dates that have been committed to customers, as failure to...
We would like to welcome you to the proceedings of the 2009 International Conference
on Security Technology (SecTech 2009), which was organized as part of the
2009 International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information Technology
(FGIT 2009), held during December 10–12, 2009, at the International Convention
Center Jeju,...
IBWAS 2009, the Iberic Conference on Web Applications Security, was the first
international conference organized by both the OWASP Portuguese and Spanish chapters
in order to join the international Web application security academic and industry
communities to present and discuss the major aspects of Web applications security.
The 16th edition of the International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies
– Ada-Europe 2011—took place in the John McIntyre Conference Centre,
Edinburgh (UK). Previous editions of the conference were held in Switzerland
(Montreux 1996 and Geneva 2007), United Kingdom (London 1997 and York
2005), Sweden (Uppsala...
More than 50 years ago when I was studying to become an electrical engineer,
I came across complex numbers, which were used to represent out-of-phase voltages
and currents using the j operator. I believe that the letter j was used, rather
than i, because the latter stood for electrical current. So from the very start of my
studies I...
Privacy is a basic human need, and losing privacy is perceived as an extremely
threatening experience. Privacy embraces solitude, personal space, or intimacy with
family and friends and as such, it is a ubiquitous and trans-cultural phenomenon.
Privacy leverages well-being; without privacy we are at risk of becoming physically
or...
Automatic speech recognition suffers from a lack of robustness with respect to
noise, reverberation and interfering speech. The growing field of speech recognition
in the presence of missing or uncertain input data seeks to ameliorate those
problems by using not only a preprocessed speech signal but also an estimate of
its...
The first author, Said Elnashaie, and his wife, Shadia Elshishini, moved next door to
the second author, Frank Uhlig, and his family in 2000. The two families became good
neighbors and friends. Their chats covered the usual topics and occasionally included
random teaching, departmental, and...
Every year ESWC brings together researchers and practitioners dealing with
different aspects of semantic technologies. Following a successful re-launch in
2010 as a multi-track conference, the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference
built on the success of the ESWC conference series initiated in 2004. Through its
extended concept this...