Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015: 15th International Conference, Banff, AB, Canada, June 22-25, 2015, Proceedings, Part I

Front Matter....Pages I-XXXIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Adapting to Climate Change - An Open Data Platform for Cumulative Environmental Analysis and Management....Pages 3-15
Mining Climate Change Awareness on Twitter: A PageRank Network Analysis Method....Pages 16-31
Assessing Patterns of Urban Transmutation Through 3D Geographical Modelling and Using Historical Micro-Datasets....Pages 32-44
Potential Nitrogen Load from Crop-Livestock Systems: An Agri-environmental Spatial Database for a Multi-scale Assessment....Pages 45-59
An Empirical Multi-classifier for Coffee Rust Detection in Colombian Crops....Pages 60-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
A Fast Approach Towards Android Malware Detection....Pages 77-89
A Tight Security Reduction Designated Verifier Proxy Signature Scheme Without Random Oracle....Pages 90-97
Front Matter....Pages 98-109
CBR Method for Risk Assessment on Power Grid Protection Under Natural Disasters: Case Representation and Retrieval....Pages 111-111
Urban Power Network Vulnerability Assessment Based on Multi-attribute Analysis....Pages 113-125
Front Matter....Pages 126-140
Teaching-Learning Environment Tool to Promote Individualized Student Assistance....Pages 141-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-155
Autonomous Tuning for Constraint Programming via Artificial Bee Colony Optimization....Pages 157-157
Monitoring of Service-Oriented Applications for the Reconstruction of Interactions Models....Pages 159-171
Comparing Cuckoo Search, Bee Colony, Firefly Optimization, and Electromagnetism-Like Algorithms for Solving the Set Covering Problem....Pages 172-186
Interactive Image Segmentation of Non-contiguous Classes Using Particle Competition and Cooperation....Pages 187-202
The Evolution from a Web SPL of the e-Gov Domain to the Mobile Paradigm....Pages 203-216
Advanced Induction Variable Elimination for the Matrix Multiplication Task....Pages 217-231
Name Entity Recognition for Malay Texts Using Cross-Lingual Annotation Projection Approach....Pages 232-241
The Maximum Similarity Partitioning Problem and its Application in the Transcriptome Reconstruction and Quantification Problem....Pages 242-256
Largest Empty Square Queries in Rectilinear Polygons....Pages 257-266
Front Matter....Pages 267-282
Variable Size Block Matching Trajectories for Human Action Recognition....Pages 157-157
An Impact Study of Business Process Models for Requirements Elicitation in XP....Pages 283-297
Moving Meshes to Fit Large Deformations Based on Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation (CVT)....Pages 298-312
Deployment of Collaborative Softwares as a Service in a Private Cloud to a Software Factory....Pages 313-328
A Meta-Information Extractor for Interrogative Sentences....Pages 329-344
Latency Optimization for Resource Allocation in Cloud Computing System....Pages 345-354
Optimized Elastic Query Mesh for Cloud Data Streams....Pages 355-366
An Efficient Hybrid Usage-Based Ranking Algorithm for Arabic Search Engines....Pages 367-381
Efficient BSP/CGM Algorithms for the Maximum Subarray Sum and Related Problems....Pages 382-391
Set Similarity Measures for Images Based on Collective Knowledge....Pages 392-407
A Classification of Test Purposes Based on Testable Properties....Pages 408-417
Dynamical Discrete-Time Rössler Map with Variable Delay....Pages 418-430
#Worldcup2014 on Twitter....Pages 431-446
Adaptive Computational Workload Offloading Method for Web Applications....Pages 447-458
Clustering Retrieved Web Documents to Speed Up Web Searches....Pages 459-471
A Comparative Study of Different Color Space Models Using FCM-Based Automatic GrabCut for Image Segmentation....Pages 472-488
A Novel Approach to the Weighted Laplacian Formulation Applied to 2D Delaunay Triangulations....Pages 489-501
Adaptive Clustering-Based Change Prediction for Refreshing Web Repository....Pages 502-515
A Framework for End-to-End Ontology Management System....Pages 516-528
Towards a Cloud Ontology Clustering Mechanism to Enhance IaaS Service Discovery and Selection....Pages 529-544
Front Matter....Pages 545-556
Improving Reliability and Availability of IaaS Services in Hybrid Clouds....Pages 157-157
Mixed Reality for Improving Tele-rehabilitation Practices....Pages 557-568
Back Matter....Pages 569-580
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