Publications

This book describes the challenges that critical infrastructure systems face, and presents state of the art solutions to address them. How can we design intelligent systems or intelligent agents that can make appropriate real-time decisions in the management of such large-scale, complex systems? What are the primary challenges for critical infrastructure systems? The book also provides readers with the relevant information to recognize how important infrastructures are, and their role in connection with a society’s economy, security and prosperity. It goes on to describe state-of-the-art solutions to address these points, including new methodologies and instrumentation tools (e.g. embedded software and intelligent algorithms) for transforming and optimizing target infrastructures.

The State of the Art report summarizes the work done within the COST Action E40 ‘Innovative utilization and products of large dimensioned timber including the whole forest-wood-chain’. It gives an overview about the stock of LDT which is available in various countries as well as the potential for utilisation and processing of this timber. Several projects carried out in the last years on this topic (especially in Germany and Austria) are described. Product ideas and advantages as well as disadvantages of LDT are summarized and evaluated.

This book contains the description of the research work done in COST Action 290 ‘Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks” which ran from March 2004 to June 2008. 24 European countries contributed to the research, with more than 70 institutions involved. The authors address new techniques and approaches to deal with the growth of data traffic in wireless mobile networks and the important need to guarantee differentiated quality of service levels to different traffic classes. The material presents the latest research achievements and rseults in research areas such as traffic engineering, mobility and interoperability, network architectures and planning as well as services, regulations, and economic aspects. This book covers broad areas of research onw ireless communications and networking from the physical layer through the application layer. It is recommended for resarchers and PhD students to receive a comprehensive and up-to-date overview on enigineering approaches, opimization methods and open issues in wireless multimedia networks.

This volume brings together the selected and peer-reviewed contributions of the participants at the COST 2102 International Conference on Verbal and Nonverbal Features of Human-Human and Human-Machine Interaction, held in Patras, Greece.
The main theme of the conference was to foster existing and growing connections between the emerging field of technology devoted to the identification of individuals using biological traits and the fundamentals of verbal and nonverbal communication which include facial expressions, tones of voice, gestures, eye contact, spatial arrangements, patters of touch, expressive movement, cultural differences, and other “nonverbal” acts.
This book is broadly dividied into two scientific areas according to a thematic classification, even though all the areas are closely connected and all provdie fundamental insights for cross-fertilization of different disciplines.