Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

It is our pleasure to present the papers accepted and presented at the 5th Int- national School and Symposium on Advanced Distributed Systems (ISSADS) in this LNCS volume. The symposium was held in the city of Guadalajara,Mexico from January 24 to 28, 2005. The organization team was composed of members of CINVESTAV Guadalajara, Rostock University in Germany, the CUCEI and CUCEA campuses of Guadalajara University, and Instituto Tecnol´ ogico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, ITESO. The symposium is already a we- established annual meeting, at which scientists and people from the industrial ?eld meet and discuss the progress of applications and the theory of distributed systems in a forum during the last week of January. This year, more than 250 people from 3 continents attended the conference. Most of them are scientists, teachers, students and engineers from the local industry. The papers presented in the sessions of the symposium cover not only the subjects of distributed systems from the system level and applications, but also contributions from the area of theory and arti?cial intelligence concepts. These papers were selected out of more than 100 submissions. There was a selection ?lter in which each paper was evaluated by at least three members of the - ternational Program Committee, who came from research institutions of good reputation all over the world.

Computers. --- Computer communication systems. --- Software engineering. --- Operating systems (Computers). --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Application software. --- Theory of Computation. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Software Engineering. --- Operating Systems. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 15th International S- posiumonMethodologiesforIntelligentSystems,ISMIS2005,heldinSaratogaSprings, NewYork,25-28May,2005. ThesymposiumwasorganizedbySUNYatAlbany. Itwas sponsored by the Army Research Of?ce and by several units of the University at Albany including its Division for Research, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of C- puter Science, and Institute for Informatics, Logics, and Security Studies (formerly the Institute for Programming and Logics). ISMIS is a conference series that was started in 1986 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Since then it has been held in Charlotte (North Carolina), Knoxville(Tennessee),Turin(Italy),Trondheim(Norway),Warsaw(Poland),Zakopane (Poland), Lyon (France), and Maebashi City (Japan). The Program Committee selected the following major areas for ISMIS 2005: intelligent information systems, knowledge discovery and data mining, knowledge - formation and integration, knowledge representation, logic for arti?cial intelligence, soft computing, Web intelligence, Web services, and papers dealing with applications of intelligent systems in complex/novel domains. The contributed papers were selected from almost 200 full draft papers by the Program Committee members: Troels Andreasen, Peter Baumgartner, Boualemn Benatallah, Salima Benbernou, Veronique Benzaken, Petr Berka, Elisa Bertino, Alan Biermann, Jacques Calmet, Sandra Carberry, Juan Carlos Cubero, Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Shu-Ching Chen, Christine Collet, Agnieszka Dardzinska, Ian Davidson, Robert Demolombe, Jitender Deogun, Jon Doyle, Tapio Elomaa, Attilio Giordana, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse,MirsadHadzikadic,ReinerHaehnle,JanuszKacprzyk,VipulKashyap, Jan Komorowski, Jacek Koronacki, Tsau Young Lin, Donato Malerba, David Maluf, Davide Martinenghi, Stan Matwin, Natasha Noy, Werner Nutt, James Peters, Jean-Marc Petit, Vijay Raghavan, Jan Rauch, Gilbert Ritschard, Erik Rosenthal, Marie-Christine Rousset, Nahid Shahmehri, Andrzej Skowron, Dominik Slezak, Nicolas Spyratos, V. S.

Artificial intelligence. --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Application software. --- Database management. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Computers. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Database Management. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Computation by Abstract Devices.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

As its name suggests, the EHCI-DSVIS conference has been a special event, merging two different, although overlapping, research communities: EHCI (Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction) is a conference organized by the IFIP 2.7/13.4 working group, started in 1974 and held every three years since 1989. The group's activity is the scientific investigation of the relationships among the human factors in computing and software engineering. DSVIS (Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems) is an annual conference started in 1994, and dedicated to the use of formal methods for the design of interactive systems. Of course these two research domains have a lot in common, and are informed by each other's results. The year 2004 was a good opportunity to bring closer these two research communities for an event, the 11th edition of DSVIS and the 9th edition of EHCI. EHCI-DSVIS was set up as a working conference bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, specification and verification, and in examining the relationships between software engineering and human-computer interaction. The call for papers attracted a lot of attention, and we received a record number of submissions: out of the 65 submissions, 23 full papers were accepted, which gives an acceptance rate of approximately 34%. Three short papers were also included. The contributions were categorized in 8 chapters: Chapter 1 (Usability and Software Architecture) contains three contributions which advance the state of the art in usability approaches for modern software engineering.

User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Software engineering. --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Application software. --- Computers and civilization. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Software Engineering. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Computers and Society.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This yearmarks anexciting time in the XML-database space:XQueryis moving closer to becoming a full W3C Recommendation, and the Big 3  database vendors (IBM, Oracle, Microsoft) are expected to release XQuery support in theirrelationalDBMSs,joininganumberofexistingopensourceandcommercial products. Thus, we are very pleased to feature an industrial paper (describing theXML-speci?cfeaturesofMicrosoftSQLServer)aswellas14researchpapers. XSym's focus this year was on building XML repositories, and papers discussed the following topics: indexing support for the evaluation of XPath and XQuery; benchmarks and algorithms for XQuery and XPath evaluation; algorithms for constraint satisfaction checking, information extraction, and subtree matching; and applications of XML in information systems. This year, XSym also coordinated its e?orts with the Database and P- gramming Languages Symposium, DBPL 2005. The resulting program included not only presentations of the papers in this proceedings, but also a joint DBPL- XSym keynote talk by Giuseppe Castagna, developer of the CDuce language for XML processing, and a joint panel on open XML research problems and challenges. The organizers would like to express their gratitude to the XSym Program Committee and external reviewers for their e?orts in providing very thorough evaluationsofthesubmittedpapersundersigni?canttimeconstraintsandto- crosoftfortheirsponsorshipandfortheuseoftheMicrosoftConferenceMana- ment Toolkit. We would also like to thank Gavin Bierman and Christoph Koch, the organizersof DBPL, for their e?orts andtheir willingness to coordinate with us. These proceedings are dedicated to Alberto Mendelzon who sadly passed awaythisyear.Asastrongsupporterofandactivecontributortothissymposium series he will always remain in our memory.

Data structures (Computer science). --- Database management. --- Computer communication systems. --- Software engineering. --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Application software. --- Data Structures and Information Theory. --- Database Management. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Software Engineering. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The sequencing of the genomes of humans and other organisms is inspiring the developmentofnew statisticalandbioinformatics tools that we hope canmodify the current understanding of human diseases and therapies. As our knowledge about the human genome increases so does our belief that to fully grasp the mechanisms of diseases we need to understand their genetic basis and the p- teomicsbehind them and to integratethe knowledgegeneratedin thelaboratory in clinical settings. The new genetic and proteomic data has brought forth the possibility of developing new targets and therapies based on these ?ndings, of implementing newly developed preventive measures, and also of discovering new research approaches to old problems. To fully enhance our understanding of disease processes, to develop more and better therapies to combat and cure diseases, and to develop strategies to prevent them, there is a need for synergy of the disciplines involved, medicine, molecular biology, biochemistry and computer science, leading to more recent ?elds such as bioinformatics and biomedical informatics. The 6th International Symposium on Biological and Medical Data Analysis aimed to become a place where researchersinvolved in these diversebut incre- ingly complementary areas could meet to present and discuss their scienti?c results. The papers in this volume discuss issues from statistical models to arc- tectures and applications to bioinformatics and biomedicine. They cover both practical experience and novel research ideas and concepts.

Medicine. --- Database management. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Mathematical statistics. --- Bioinformatics. --- Biomedicine, general. --- Database Management. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Probability and Statistics in Computer Science. --- Bioinformatics.