Advances in Computer Science and Engineering: 13th International Csi Computer Conference, Csicc 2008 Kish Island, Iran, March 9-11, 2008 Revised Selec (Paperback, 2009)

Full Papers.- A Novel Piecewise Linear Clustering Technique Based on Hyper Plane Adjustment.- Ant Colony Optimization with a Genetic Restart Approach toward Global Optimization.- Automatic Extraction of IS-A Relations in Taxonomy Learning.- A Bayesian Network Based Approach for Data Classification Using Structural Learning.- A Clustering Method Based on Soft Learning of Model (Prototype) and Dissimilarity Metrics.- An Approximation Algorithm for the k-Level Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem with Penalties.- Optimizing Fixpoint Evaluation of Logic Programs with Uncertainty.- Approximating Component Selection with General Costs.- Online Suffix Tree Construction for Streaming Sequences.- Fuzzy Voronoi Diagram.- A Novel Partitioned Encoding Scheme for Reducing Total Power Consumption of Parallel Bus.- Efficient Parallel Buffer Structure and Its Management Scheme for a Robust Network-on-Chip (NoC) Architecture.- Integration of System-Level IP Cores in Object-Oriented Design Methodologies.- Polymorphism-Aware Common Bus in an Object-Oriented ASIP.- Efficient VLSI Layout of WK-Recursive and WK-Pyramid Interconnection Networks.- Energy Adaptive Cluster-Head Selection for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Center of Energy Mass.- SHRP: A New Routing Protocol to Wireless Sensor Networks.- Improvement of MAC Performance for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Route Optimization Security in Mobile IPv6 Wireless Networks: A Test-Bed Experience.- Adaptive End-to-End QoS for Multimedia over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks.- A Blocking Reduction Scheme for Multiple Slot Cell Scheduling in Multicast Switching Systems.- Object-Based Video Coding for Distance Learning Using Stereo Cameras.- Seabed Image Texture Segmentation and Classification Based on Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform.- Unequal Error Protection for the Scalable Extension of H.264/AVC Using Genetic Algorithm.- An Adaptive Method for Moving Object Blending in Dynamic Mosaicing.- Inferring a Bayesian Network for Content-Based Image Classification.- High Performance Mathematical Quarter-Pixel Motion Estimation with Novel Rate Distortion Metric for H.264/AVC.- A Versatile Reconfigurable Bit-Serial Multiplier Architecture in Finite Fields GF(2m).- A Nonspeculative Maximally Redundant Signed Digit Adder.- System-Level Assertion-Based Performance Verification for Embedded Systems.- The Effect of Core Number and Core Diversity on Power and Performance in Multicore Processors.- Reducing the Computational Complexity of an RLS-Based Adaptive Controller in ANVC Applications.- An Efficient and Extendable Modeling Approach for VLIW DSP Processors.- An Exact Algorithm for the Multiple-Choice Multidimensional Knapsack Based on the Core.- Kinetic Polar Diagram.- A Graph Transformation-Based Approach to Formal Modeling and Verification of Workflows.- Efficient Parallel Routing Algorithms for Cartesian and Composition Networks.- A Naive Bayes Classifier with Distance Weighting for Hand-Gesture Recognition.- SBUQA Question Answering System.- A New Feedback ANC System Approach.- Benefiting White Noise in Developing Feedforward Active Noise Control Systems.- Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Models for Estimating Brain Deformation Using Finite Element Method.- Context-Dependent Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels Using Hidden Markov Models.- Retinal Vessel Extraction Using Gabor Filters and Support Vector Machines.- A New Segmentation Method for Iris Recognition Using the Complex Inversion Map and Best-Fitting Curve.- A New Algorithm for Combating Free-Riders in Structured P2P Networks.- Clustering Search Engine Log for Query Recommendation.- Reliability Evaluation in Grid Environment.- Formulating Priority Coefficients for Information Quality Criteria on the Blog.- A Distributed Proxy System for High Speed Clients.- New Routing Strategies for RSP Problems with Concave Cost.- Modeling Routing Protocols in Adhoc Networks.- CEBAC: A Decentralized Cooperation Enforcement Based Access Control Framework i