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Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue on "MATCOS-13 conference"

It is passing almost two years since we successfully concluded Middle-European Conference on Applied Theoretical Computer Science, MATCOS-13 conference, that was held at the University of Primorska as a part of multiconference Information Society. The conference welcomed papers from a wide spectrum of topics, however with a clear emphasis on applicability of research of theoretical Computer Sci...

13 Volume Editors

The W3C SPARQL working group is defining the new SPARQL 1.1query language. The current working draft of SPARQL 1.1 focuses mainly on thedescription of the language. In this paper, we provide a formalization of the syntaxand semantics of the SPARQL 1.1 federation extension, an important fragment ofthe language that has not yet received much attention. Besides, we propose opti-<lb...

Proceedings 13 Volume Editors

Every enterprise competes with its software-development processes, its ”recipes” for building better software. In this session, you’ll gain understanding regarding the recipes and mini-recipes advocated within Unified Process (UP), Feature-Driven Development (FDD), and Extreme Programming (XP). You’ll discover recipes and mini-recipes that could be more effective and appealing and effective for...

Healthcare [Guest editors' introduction]

W e’re moving closer to realizing pervasive computing devices that can monitor our health status, both individually and as a community. Imagine what doctors could do with ECG data collected on a more regular basis, as people carry on their daily activities. The ability to monitor day-to-day heart data would profoundly affect how the medical community tracks our individual health status. Likewis...

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