This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Object-Oriented and Internet-Based Technologies, Concepts and Applications for a Networked World, Net. Object Days 2004, held in Erfurt, Germany, in September 2004. The 15 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from inclusion in the book. The papers are organised in topical sections on languages and models, agents and the semantic Web, supporting software processes, software product lines, and case studies and visions.

DIAL 2004 explores new technologies that promise to assist the integration of imaged documents within digital libraries. This workshop describes the state of the art and identifies urgent open problems. Its papers cover general DIA challenges arising within DLs, DL systems architectures, document-image retrieval, content extraction from document images for DLs, and specialized challenges to DIA methods posed by handwritten and/or historical documents.

The communication field is evolving rapidly in order to keep up with society’s demands. As such, it becomes imperative to research and report recent advancements in computational intelligence as it applies to communication networks. The Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Intelligent Communication Application is a pivotal reference source for the latest developments on emerging data communication applications. Featuring extensive coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such as satellite communication, cognitive radio networks, and wireless sensor networks, this book is ideally designed for engineers, professionals, practitioners, upper-level students, and academics seeking current information on emerging communication networking trends.

While wireless technologies continue to provide an array of new challenges and multi-domain applications for business processes and solutions, there still remains to be a comprehensive understanding of its various dimensions and environments. Security, Design, and Architecture for Broadband and Wireless Network Technologies provides a discussion on the latest research achievements in wireless networks and broadband technology. Highlighting new trends, applications, developments, and standards, this book is essential for next generation researchers and practitioners in the ICT field.

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