Preface

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to ICN 2015, the 2nd ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking, held from September 30 to October 2, 2015, in San Francisco, CA, USA! We have worked to put together a strong technical program that would be of interest to researchers, industrial practitioners, and students in the field of Information Centric Networking. The program includes technical research paper presentations, a keynote presentation, as well as two tutorials, technical demonstrations, poster presentations, and a panel discussion. This year, the technical program of ICN attracted 55 submissions. The Program Committee proceeded with a two phase selection process. In the first phase, three members of the program committee reviewed each one of the 55 submissions. We then selected those papers with at least one positive review or with no decidedly negative reviews for a second phase. The 45 papers that went to the second phase then received one or two additional reviews, and based on all the reviews we then selected 38 papers to discuss in the Program Committee meeting, which was held in Prague, Czech Republic in July. At the end of an all-day meeting, the Technical Program Committee selected 19 for publication and presentation at the conference. A subsequent decision resulted in a final program comprising 18 papers. The Technical Program Committee comprised 36 members, including the two TPC Co-Chairs. The TPC members were chosen for their expertise in the field and for their excellent track record on making balanced evaluations and providing thorough feedback to the authors. Just as with the submitted papers, the TPC members also were from all over the world, reflecting the significant wide-spread interest in ICN. We sincerely thank the TPC members for their dedication and hard work in reading and providing detailed feedback on the papers, and we hope the authors of all the papers would appreciate the feedback provided in the reviews to help improve their work. The resulting technical program is arranged over six sessions of paper presentations over the two days of the main conference. It is intended to give authors and attendees a chance to present and discuss new ideas and theoretical as well as experimental results in the general area of Information Centric Networking. The program covers a wide range of research topics, from network architectures, to routing, name resolution, router design and implementation, transport protocols, caching, security, and applications. The technical program is the backbone of the ICN conference. The resulting technical program is arranged over six sessions of paper presentations over the two days of the main conference. It is intended to give authors and attendees a chance to present and discuss new ideas and theoretical as well as experimental results in the general area of Information Centric Networking. The program covers a wide range of research topics, from network architectures, to routing, name resolution, router design and implementation, transport protocols, caching, security, and applications. The technical program is the backbone of the ICN conference. The keynote speaker is Van Jacobson, who has made long-term and foundational contributions to the Internet, and who is also a very influential proponent and architect of the notion of Information Centric Networking. In addition to the main technical program, the conference includes two tutorial presentations covering important technical features of the CCN and NDN systems, respectively; an open discussion lead by a panel of experts and practitioners on the future prospects for ICN in research, applications, deployments, and also in its economic aspects; a session dedicated to posters and demos intended as a venue to present and discuss compelling initial ideas and other advances in researchand engineering for ICN, including the demonstration of concrete systems, tools, and applications. In conclusion, we worked to assemble a compelling technical program to advance and consolidate knowledge and technology in the area of Information Centric Networking. We also wanted to create a venue to support, foster, and facilitate the exchange of ideas and to grow and strengthen the ICN research community. We hope we succeeded and we hope you enjoy the conference!

Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming

Welcome to the Big Apple for the 12-- th Great Lakes VLSI Symposium. While New York City is not exactly on the Great Lakes, it does have a connection to Lake Ontario through the Hudson and the old waterways. This justifies the choice of the Big Apple as the venue for this year's GLSVLSI! Once again this symposium has attracted an excellent assortment of papers, over a range of topics that are fundamental to advancing the state of the art.This years program has been carefully selected by the program co-- chairs through peer review, with each paper getting at least three reviews, in a record review period of just one month. Our kudos go to the program committee members and additional reviewers for completing their hard work in such a short time. We believe that we have a strong and interesting selection of papers for this symposium covering all major aspects of VLSI design.This year, we received 71 uniformly high quality submissions. We would like to thank all the authors who submitted their manuscripts for consideration. The technical program committee had great difficulty in limiting the number of accepted papers to fit time constraints of the conference. Of the submitted papers, 19 were accepted as full papers, 12 as short papers, and an additional 10 as posters. Approximately half of the full and short papers cover some aspect of VLSI CAD. A third discuss circuit related topics, and another third cover specific chip, subsystem, or systemdesign. A tenth address topics of a more theoretical nature, while a full 25% touch on the increasingly important area of low power. From our perspective, this is a very satisfying mix.

This volume contains a unique collection of papers collected at 2nd International Conference on Electronic Information and Communication Engineering (EICE 2023), which took place in Guangzhou, China in January 13th to 15th, 2023 (virtual conference). Each paper recognizes the seminal contributions to Electronic Information and Communication Engineering made by every author, and acknowledges their impact on their own researches.The 60 scientific participants had many fruitful discussions and exchanges that contributed to the success of the Conference. Participants from more than 10 countries made the Conference truly international in scope.There were 3 plenary keynote speeches covering the different areas of the Conference: Prof. Yongjin Zhou (Shanghai University, China) talked on Plasmonic Metasensors based on New Physical Mechanisms, Assoc. Prof. Santhosh Krishna B V (New Horizon College of Engineering, India) on Industrial Automation Using Internet of Things (Iiot) – (Opportunities and Challenges), Dr. Md. Khaja Mohiddin (BIT Raipur, India) on An Overview of Mobility in Wireless Sensor Network. The speakers gave very illuminating lectures that drew many people’s full attention. These speeches, held on Saturday evening, were very accessible to a general audience. In addition, there were 3 oral reports on ongoing current research. These talks covered the full range of the Conference topics, which includes Wireless Networks and Information Systems, Digital Electronic Technology, GPS and Wireless Location, Communication Electronic Circuit, Electronic Science and Technology, Analog Electronics, etc..All in all, the 2nd International Conference on Electronic Information and Communication Engineering in Guangzhou was very successful. The plenary speeches and the progress and oral reports bridged the gap between the different fields of electronic science and technology, making it possible for non-experts in a given area to gain insight into new areas. Also, included among the speakers were several young scientists, who brought new perspectives to their fields.We would like to acknowledge the authors of the papers collected in the present volume, the members of the Technical Program Committee and Local Organizing Chair for their guidance and support, and the referees for their generous work. Our thanks also go to the editors and other staff of the Journal of Physics: Conference Series, for their time and kindness in waiting for the final submission of the papers.Given the rapidity with which science is advancing in all of the areas covered by EICE, we expect that these future EICE conferences will be as stimulating as this most recent one was, as indicated by the contributions presented in this proceedings volume.The Committee of EICE 2023List of Committee Member is available in this Pdf.

It gives us great pleasure to introduce this special section on outstanding papers from the ACM MobiSys 2012 conference, for which we were honored to be the program committee cochairs. The conference was held in June 2012 and included 32 high-quality papers selected from 182 submissions, a record high for both paper submissions and paper acceptances. The conference's call-for-papers informed authors that a few outstanding papers would be considered for a fast-tracked special section in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). The selection process for the papers included in this special section was a byproduct of the selection process for the MobiSys 2012 Best Paper Award. Immediately after the MobiSys 2012 program committee meeting, we asked the committee members to nominate accepted papers for the Best Paper Award. Based on the responses we received, five papers with the most nominations were selected as candidates for the award. Their nominations were kept confidential until the opening of the conference. We then asked the program committee and external reviewer panel members to volunteer for the Best Paper Award committee to determine the final best paper and select three out of the five nominated papers for this special section. Based on the responses and conflicts of interest, four members of the program committee and one member of the external reviewer panel formed the Best Paper Award committee. At the conference, this committee selected the best paper and the three papers to be fast-tracked for this special section. The paper review process for the selected papers followed the standard procedure for fast-tracked TMC special sections. The authors were asked to submit a journal version with an explanation of how they addressed the reviews and feedback received at the conference. Note that each of these three papers received five or more conference reviews and had gone through a shepherding process to address reviewer comments for the final, camera-ready version. As required by the TMC fast-tracking procedure, we invited at least two reviewers for each submission. At least one reviewer was a MobiSys program committee member who reviewed the corresponding conference submission and another was not a member of program committee. In the end, the review process produced three very highquality papers that we are proud to present to the readers of TMC.

Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 22nd symposium on Operating systems principles

Developments in the connected fields of optics, optoelectronics and photonics have had a profound effect on the emergence of modern technologies and their influence on our lives. In all of these fields, understanding and improving the basic underlying materials is of crucial importance for the development of systems and applications. The International Conference on Optical, Optoelectronic and Photonic Materials and Applications (ICOOPMA) has successfully married these fields and become a regular feature in the conference calendar. The 6th conference in the series, held at the University of Leeds from 27th July – 1st August, 2014, continued the ICOOPMA tradition and attracted 220 international delegates with a diverse range of disciplines and interests. The 59 papers in this Proceedings provide an excellent overview of the topics presented. The conference consisted of four thematic areas in the fields of inorganic semiconductors, carbon and polymeric materials, inorganic glasses and crystalline materials, and metamaterials and plasmonics where each theme area included research on basic materials through to device applications. The conference began with a Workshop organised by Professor Dan Hewak (University of Southampton) with speakers covering Organic Optoelectronic Complexes (Dr Richard Curry, University of Surrey), Metamaterials (Dr Vassili Fedotov, University of Southampton), Graphene (Dr Monica Craciun, University of Exeter) and Amorphous Semiconductors (Dr Jiri Orava, University of Cambridge and Tohoku University). This provided an excellent overview of a representative range of the important topics that were discussed further at the conference. The conference included a banquet which successfully combined excellent food with a relaxing opportunity for the conference delegates to socialise and network. The pinnacle of the evening was the after dinner speech given by our distinguished guest, Professor Sir David Payne (University of Southampton), who gave a highly informative and humorous history of the development of photonics and the important role played by optical fibres, of which he was one of the key pioneers. Emerging scientific talent was also given a platform, with a particular feature of the conference being the Young Scientists Forum, organised by Dr Senthil Ganapathy (University of Southampton), consisting of a series of themed sessions providing up-and-coming researchers a opportunity to present and discuss their work.Each technical theme of the conference was introduced with Plenary lectures delivered by leading international figures in their respective fields. Professor Jim Harris (Stanford University) discussed the development of epitaxially grown dilute-nitride semiconductors and the important role that they play in high efficiency solar cells. This theme was continued by Professor Wolfgang Stolz (Philipps University, Marburg) who described the use of novel III-V semiconductors for the development of lasers on silicon. Dr Jerry Meyer (Naval Research Laboratories) and Dr Kumar Patel (Pranalytica) discussed the important field of mid-infrared devices highlighting the significant developments that have been made in inter-band cascade and quantum cascade based devices, respectively and which have wide-ranging applications in sensing. Professor Neil Greenham (University of Cambridge) discussed solution-based semiconductors based on conjugated polymers and nanocrystals offering low cost routes to the wide-scale deployment of photonics. Professor Ortwin Hess (Imperial College) gave an overview of the physics and fascinating technological potential of negative refractive index materials. Professor Stephen Elliott (University of Cambridge) discussed the optoelectronic properties of phase change materials for memories. These areas were expanded upon in over 70 invited talks from international speakers highlighting recent developments in each of these areas. Further detailed discussions were presented in many parallel Oral and Poster sessions. This Proceedings provides an exciting and wide-ranging discussion of the topics presented at ICOOPMA 2014. We are very grateful to the many people who helped with the organisation of the conference, with particular thanks to Alison Whiteley and her team who enabled the smooth running of the conference, Dr Senthil Ganapathy for his many and wide ranging contributions to the conference and finally Professor Safa Kasap for his wisdom, advice and strong support. The conference could not have happened without the commitment of the Local Organising Committee, who helped in many ways to assemble and run the conference, and for the International Programme, Advisory and Steering committees who guided the technical direction of the conference and assisted with the conference programme and proceedings. We are also extremely pleased to have received generous sponsorship from a large number of organisations and companies. Finally, we are also very grateful to Sarah Toms and the Editorial staff at the Institute of Physics, and the many contributors and reviewers for helping us to put-together this proceedings.Stephen Sweeney, Guildford, UK Animesh Jha, Leeds, UK

It is my pleasure to introduce the program for the Eleventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating.Authors submitted 245 abstracts resulting in 169 full paper submissions this year, the largest number ever. The program committee selected 24 papers for inclusion in this proceedings, for an acceptance rate of 14%. The submissions and selected papers reach the ASPLOS goal of going beyond the sometimes artificial boundaries between architecture, operating systems, and programming languages to solve and understand problems in the performance, reliability, security, and power of computer systems.In the first round of reviewing, I assigned each paper two committee member reviewers, and each of them requested one or more reviews. For the 112 papers with a significant number of positive reviews or conflicting reviews, I then assigned an additional committee member reviewer and in a few cases, external reviews. Thus, each paper had at least 4 reviews and all papers discussed at the committee meeting had 5 reviews, with 3 from committee members. There were 827 total reviews, for an average of 4.9 reviews per paper.Authors had a 3 day rebuttal period in which they could address reviewer comments. Most reviews were available before the rebuttal period, but several reviews came in during or after this period. The committee members referred to the rebuttal responses during the committee meeting. In a few cases, the rebuttal responses influenced the final decisions in both directions.The committee meeting was held in Austin on May 10, 1pm--8pm, and May 11, 9am--2pm. All but two of the committee members attended in person, and these two participated via conference phone. We applied a strict conflict-of-interest policy whereby committee members left the room or hung-up for papers with authors with whom the committee member had co-authored in the past 5 years, or held an advisee-advisor relationship, or was from the same institution, or was a co-author.Program committee members were encouraged to submit, and could submit up to 2 papers. 11 paper submissions were from committee members. The committee discussed these papers on the second day, after selecting over half of the program. The committee held the first accepted paper of a committee member to the same conference standard as other papers, and the second paper to a higher standard. The committee selected 5 committee authored papers, 2 of these from one committee member.Program committee members volunteered to shepherd four papers to ensure reviewer comments were well addressed. The committee was very pleased with the quality and diversity of topics in this resulting program here. We hope you find them interesting as well.

Invited Papers.- Turning the Web into a Database: Extracting Data and Structure.- Analysis and Improvement of Minimally Supervised Machine Learning for Relation Extraction.- Information Retrieval.- Using Evidences Based on Natural Language to Drive the Process of Fusing Multimodal Sources.- An Experimental Comparison of Explicit Semantic Analysis Implementations for Cross-Language Retrieval.- Term Extraction.- CITOM: Incremental Construction of Topic Maps.- Schema-Matching with Data Dictionaries.- Requirements Analysis: Concept Extraction and Translation of Textual Specifications to Executable Models.- Information Extraction.- Score-Based Approach for Anaphora Resolution in Drug-Drug Interactions Documents.- Relation Extraction for Monitoring Economic Networks.- Classification of Text.- Real-Word Typo Detection.- The Impact of Semantic and Morphosyntactic Ambiguity on Automatic Humour Recognition.- Semantic Approaches to Fine and Coarse-Grained Feature-Based Opinion Mining.- Classification of Documents.- Analyzing Document Collections via Context-Aware Term Extraction.- AIR: A Semi-Automatic System for Archiving Institutional Repositories.- Protein-Protein Interactions Classification from Text via Local Learning with Class Priors.- Interfaces to Knowledge Bases.- Natural Language Interfaces: What Is the Problem? - A Data-Driven Quantitative Analysis.- Semantic Mapping between Natural Language Questions and SQL Queries via Syntactic Pairing.- Search Interface to a Mayan Glyph Database Based on Visual Characteristics.- Using Semantic Models of Natural Language.- Temporal Expression Identification Based on Semantic Roles.- Evaluation of Arabic Machine Translation System Based on the Universal Networking Language.- Quality Assessment of Knowledge Sources.- Quality of Subsumption Hierarchies in Ontologies.- Evaluating Semantic Relations by Exploring Ontologies on the Semantic Web.- On the Assessment of Text Corpora.- Poster Papers.- Improving Semantic Web Applications with Navigational Semantics.- Hybrid Algorithm for Word-Level Alignment of Parallel Texts.- A Hybrid Approach for Data Mart Schema Design from NL-OLAP Requirements.- Spreadsheet Information Retrieval through Natural Language.- Characterizing Weblog Corpora.- Improving Full Text Search with Text Mining Tools.- Cognos: A Natural Interaction Knowledge Management Toolkit.- Doctoral Symposium Papers.- Specialized Entailment Engines: Approaching Linguistic Aspects of Textual Entailment.- Natural Language Processing for Spreadsheet Information Retrieval.- Use Speech for User's Group Identification.

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data

In Memoriam

We are pleased to introduce the technical programme of the Fourth International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG), the Biennial Meeting of SIGGEN, the ACL Special Interest Group in Natural Language Generation. INLG is the leading international conference on research into natural language generation. It has been held at Brockenhurst (UK) in 2004, in Harriman (New York, USA) in 2002, and in Mitzpe Ramon (Israel) in 2000. Prior to 2000, the INLG meetings were International Workshops, running every other year since 1980. The INLG conference provides a forum for the discussion, dissemination and archiving of research topics and results in the field of text generation. This year, INLG is being held as a COLING/ACL 2006 workshop. It takes place on the weekend prior to the main COLING/ACL 2006 conference, on July 15-16th 2006, in Sydney, Australia. The INLG programme consists of substantial, original, and previously unpublished results on all topics related to natural language generation. This year, as in previous years, each submission was reviewed as a full paper by at least three members of an international programme committee of leading researchers in the field, listed on the next page. We received 38 submissions (both long and short papers) from all over the world, from which we accepted 11 long papers (including two student papers) and five short papers. We would like to thank all who submitted papers and our programme committee for their hard work. This year, the programme centers around a variety of research issues around the realisation component of a natural language system, including the use of statistical techniques. In particular, there are a substantial number of contributions on the generation of referring expressions. The programme also includes an invited talk by Professor Kathleen McKeown (Columbia University, New York, USA) entitled "Lessons Learned from Large Scale Evaluation from Systems that Produce Text: Nightmares and Pleasant Surprises" and a special session on "Sharing Data and Comparative Evaluation", organised by Dr Anja Belz (University of Brighton, UK) and Professor Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Australia).

As the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was sweeping across Europe, many researchers, and especially young scientists, were struggling to disseminate their work, discussing new projects, and finding their place in science. The X-ray Spectrometry community was no exception. True to its purposes and objectives, the European X-ray Spectrometry Association (EXSA) decided to organize its first “virtual conference on X-ray Spectrometry,” #EXSA2021, to tighten and consolidate the links in between its members, and to propose a collaborating and networking platform where representatives from academia, industrial and private sector, and metrology institutes, could meet and exchange ideas and progresses. In a nutshell, the main objective of EXSA (www.exsa.hu) is to promote innovation and cooperation of X-ray spectroscopists and analysts within Europe by supporting talented young scientists; by fostering the interface between the academic and industrial sector (via activities such as the Fundamental Parameter Initiative); promoting X-ray Spectrometry courses and providing high-quality training via for instance the (co) organization of schools and workshops on novel and emerging X-ray Spectrometry topics. The next event will be held in Paris (France) in late October 2023. If one wanted to learn about the latest research and technologies in X-ray Spectrometry on the following topics: XRS in environmental applications, XRS for novel materials including, for example, batteries, nanostructures, instrumental development for XRS and its applications, and fundamental parameters, #EXSA2021 was the conference to join. Not only the event featured a collection of exclusive talks from leading scientists, but also contributions from young scientists, lively poster sessions, and in-depth thoughts during round tables and discussions. It also concluded with the meeting of the International Initiative on Fundamental Parameter. With 5 invited talks, 26 oral contributions, and 22 posters, #EXSA2021 went beyond our expectations. Please refer to our website https://www.exsa.hu/conf2021/ for more information. Open to all, and widely disseminated by word of mouth by EXSA members, #EXSA2021 was a true success with 128 participants, among which 20% were from the industry, 40% were non-EXSA members and with, on average, 72 persons attending per session. Indeed, to allow for a worldwide participation, the conference was organized as long sessions taking place from noon to late afternoon European time, which offered the possibility to join for attendees from different time zones. Despite a very lively event, and dynamics in EXSA community, only a few manuscripts were received to contribute to #EXSA2021 proceedings. These are as eclectic in contents as the X-ray Spectrometry fields of research are, and we are happy to share those with you in this special issue. We would like to express our appreciation and sincere thanks to those who made the #EXSA2021 possible. Our sponsors, for their great support to EXSA throughout all the years, and we would also like to thank the PTB (Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany) for providing us with the online platform and technical assistance, and Wiley X-ray Spectrometry journal, for providing awards to the best poster and best oral presentation of young scientists, and supporting the publication of these proceedings. The help by the program committee, the involvement of the moderators and speakers of the round tables, session chairs, and award committee was unvaluable to insure a well-balanced, interactive, and dynamic #EXSA2021. Finally, we are grateful to everyone who participated to #EXSA2021. We hope that you have as good memories of our #EXSA2021 virtual conference as we do! #EXSA2021 Chairs, Diane Eichert and Michael Kolbe.

Multi-Agent negotiation system has become the core of the intelligent e-commerce. A Virtual conference is the process where several agents meet virtually using electronic devices such as computer, mobile etc. Decision making is one of the most fundamental issues in Multi-Agent negotiation system for the virtual conference of Electronic markets. A negotiation protocol is used for planning and decision making. In this paper, we present a distributed Multi-Agent decision making system for mobile devices. We present an architecture that supports virtual conference decision making system using mobile phones. We also provide an algorithm that helps for making decision regarding to a specific agenda proposed by an individual participating in the virtual conference. Finally, we implement our system in a Blackberry platform.

The next generation of advances in computer throughput and capability can be achieved only by algorithmic and architectural innovations and by exploiting parallelism and concurrency. In this context, optical computing offers intrinsic massive parallelism, high speed and low power dissipation. Realization of those advantages requires technologies for optical and optoelectronic devices and materials. Whether optics will be an alternative or a complement to electronics for computing depends to a large extent on the technological advances in optical devices and materials. Architectural considerations for optical computing also depend on novel devices and materials. Optical computing requires light sources, detectors, switches and optical refractive, reflective and diffractive components. These devices should have distinct characteristics and should also be compatible with electronic VLSI technologies. Optoelectronic and photonic technologies are a fast-growing area in the industries related to optical fiber communications, optical disk memories, optoelectronic displays, laser printers, fax machines and photocopiers. There have also been significant advances in particular devices and materials for optical analog, digital, parallel and neural computing. A remarkable technological advance is the application of electronic VLSI fabrication technologies into optics and optoelectronics, resulting in new devices and new technologies such as multiple quantum well effect devices, binary optics, micro optic components, etc. In what follows, we will examine recent developments of the major optical and optoelectronic devices and materials for optical computing.