Bücher der Reihe IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Themes related to the conceptualisation of diffusion and adoption of networked information systems are discussed along with studies of the diffusion of networked information systems in public sector institutions and private businesses.

Computer Networks, Architecture and Applications covers many aspects of research in modern communications networks for computing purposes.

They provide a comprehensive overview of identified challenges and recent advances in various collaborative network (CN) domains and their applications with a particular focus on the support for reindustrialization.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 13.6 Working Conference on Human Work Interaction Design, HWID 2012, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December 2012.

Mobile computing is one of the biggest issues of computer technology, science and industry today. This book looks at the requirements of developing mobile computing systems and the challenges they pose to computer designers.

This year, forty papers were received of which sixteen were presented as full papers and four were presented as poster papers. Although we received many excellent papers the program committee decided to keep the number of full presentations low in order to accommodate more discussion in keeping with the format of a workshop.

System Modelling and Optimization covers research issues within systems theory, optimization, modelling, and computing.

On the verge of the global information society, enterprises are competing for markets that are becoming global and driven by customer demand, and where growing specialisation is pushing them to focus on core competencies and look for partnerships to provide products and services.

This book is a collection of selected proceedings from the EUNICE Summer School which took place in Colmenarejo in July of 2005. It covers topics of advanced engineering such as ubiquitous computing, full mobility and real-time multimedia, into real services, applications, protocols and networks.

This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers that were p- sented during the 16th edition of the IFIP/IEEE WG10.5 International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, a global System-on-a-Chip Design & CAD conference.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, ISESS 2015, held in Melbourne, Australia, in March 2015. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: information systems, information modeling and semantics; decision support tools and systems;

This book is a collection of thoroughly refereed papers presented at the 25th IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, held in Dresden, Germany, in September 2011. They are organized in the following topical sections: control of distributed parameter systems; and applications and control of lumped parameter systems.

This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the 23rd IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2015, held in Daejeon, Korea, in October 2015. The 10 papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from the 44 full papers presented at the conference.

This book features a selection of papers presented at the Second IFIP WG 12.6 International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management, AI4KM 2014, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in September 2014, in the framework of the Federated Conferences on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS 2014.

The papers have been organized into topical sections on privacy and identity management, anonymous credentials, authentication and access control, risk management of identity management, identity management with smart cards, and federated identity management.

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 3.7 Conference on Information Technology in Educational Management, ITEM 2012, held in Bremen, Germany, in August 2012. They focus on four key questions: Why do we need new educational management information systems?

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2013, held in Bangalore, India, in June 2013. The 35 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper, 12 short papers and 3 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions.

The two volumes IFIP AICT 459 and 460 constitute the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2015, held in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2015. project management, engineering management, and quality management;

The two volumes IFIP AICT 459 and 460 constitute the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2015, held in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2015. project management, engineering management, and quality management;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 10 International Embedded Systems Symposium, IESS 2013, held in Paderborn, Germany, in June 2013. non-functional aspects of embedded systems; The book also includes a special chapter dedicated to the BMBF funded ARAMIS project on Automotive, Railway and Avionics Multicore Systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IFIP AI 2015, Held as Part of WCC 2015, in Daejeon, South Korea, in October 2015.

This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the 22nd IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2014, held in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, in October 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2016, held in Costa de Caparica, Portugal, in April 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2016, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in May/June 2016. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to free, libre, and open source software, including: organizational aspects of communities;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2016, held in Campinas, Brazil, in August 2016. The 16 full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions.

This book is a collection of thoroughly refereed papers presented at the 26th IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, held in Klagenfurt, Austria, in September 2013.

This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the 20th IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2012, held in Santa Cruz, CA, USA, in October 2012.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, ISESS 2013, held in Neusiedl am See, Austria, in June 2013. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: environmental application in the scope of the future Internet;