2010 | Action Number: 298

The Good, the Bad and the Challenging

• http://conference2009.cost298.org

This DVD contains the lectures of the participants in the Copenhagen conference which took place on 13-15 May 2009.

2010 | Action Number: E49

Performance in Use and New Products of Wood Based Composites

• Pages: 325
• Author(s): M. Fan, M. Ohlmeyer, M. Irle et al
• Publisher(s): Brunel
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-902316-75-8

The use of wood-based panels can help reduce the environmental impact of several sectors such as the construction, furniture and packaging industries. This requires the panels to be fit for purpose and their life-cycle performance to be accurately determined. Researchers in Working Group 3 of COST Action E49 made a positive contribution by assessing the performance of both existing and new wood-based panel products.
This publication provides a broad overview of the wood-based panel industry. It is of particular interest to students and researchers in wood science and technology, structural engineering and material sciences. It reviews the achievements of research in the last few decades within and outside Europe, by outlining the scientific demand for the future in five broad themes.
This book does not only review the performance of wood-based panels but also conformity, environment and sustainability aspects. Moreover, it provides an overview of new wood-based panels and finishing with a final appraisal of research needs.

2010 | Action Number: COST

COST Interaction Conference

• Pages: 101
• Author(s): B. Reichert
• Publisher(s): OPOCE
• Download from external website
• ISBN/ISSN: 92-827-7020-6
• EUR: 16827

The Swiss authorities and European Commission jointly organised the COST Interaction Conference from 9 to 11 October 1995 in Basel (CH). More than 600 participants from inside and outside the COST networks attended this event. The conference was structured around 3 symposia:

• The reasonable exploitation of earth's resources;
• the development of new processes, products & services and
• the human dimension in science and society.

2010 | Action Number: A30

Comparative Media Systems - European and Global Perspectives

• Pages: 290
• Author(s): B. Dobek-Ostrowska, M. Glowacki, K. Jakubowicz and M. Sükösd
• Publisher(s): CEU Press
• http://www.ceupress.com/books/html/Comparative-Media-Systems.htm
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-963-9776-54-8

2010 | Action Number: A27

From Present to Past through Landscape

• Pages: 287
• Author(s): A. Orejas, D. Mattingly and M. Clavel-Lévêque
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-84-00-08908-5

The major axes that articulate the different papers collected in this publication are:

• the construction of a theory for landscape studies, able to connect funademntal and applied research;
• strategies for recording and characterising landscapes and landmarks;
• specific proposals for protection and management;
• scientific and social approaches to landscape through perception, presentation and valorisation and
• landscape studies and policies.

This book is the result of a desire of the members of Action A27 to contribute to the construction of an interdisciplinary and socially relevant research field on cultural landscape studies. Transnational collaborations ensure an added value and open new possiblities of common understanding and shared initiatives beyond the different academic traditions and legal/administrative frames. This cooperative approach should constitute the core of the innovative and imaginative issues to be raised.

2010 | Action Number: E47

Forest Vegetation Management - Towards Environmental Sustainability

• Pages: 106
• Author(s): N. Scott Bentsen
• Publisher(s): Forest & Landscape Denmark
• http://www2.clermont.inra.fr/cost-e47/
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-87-7903-419-8

These proceedings are a collection of abstracts from the final COST E47 conferences on forest vegetation management hosted by University of Copenhagen. A key benefit of the Action was the establishment of a European forum for the management of forest vegetation, where co-operation between the main players in the forest industry in Eruope together with the scientific institutions is intended to give leadership and create networks providing data and information for national forest services and the public.

2010 | Action Number: 293

Graphs and Algorithms in Communication Networks

• Pages: 426
• Author(s): A. Koster and X. Muñoz
• Publisher(s): Springer
• www.springer.com/978-3-642-02249-4
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-642-02249-4

Algorithmic discrete mathematics plays a key role in the development of information and communication technologies, and methods that arise in computer science, mathematics and operations research - in particular algorithms, computational complexity, distributed computing and optimization - are vital to modern services such as mobile telephony, online banking and VoIP.

This book examines communication networking from a mathematical viewpoint. The contributing authors took part in the European COST Action 293 - a four-year program of multidisciplinary research on this subject. In this book they offer introductory overviews and state-of-the-art assessments of current and future research in the fields of broadband, optical, wireless and ad hoc networks.

Particular topics of interest are design, optimization, robustness and energy consumption. The book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the areas of networking, theoretical computer science, operations research, distributed computing and mathematics.

2010 | Action Number: 287

Musical Gestures: Sound, Movement And Meaning

• Pages: 307
• Author(s): R. I. Godoy and M. Leman
• Publisher(s): Routledge
• http://www.routledgemusic.com/books/Musical-Gestures-isbn9780415998871
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-415-99886-4

Musical Gestures is a collection of essays addressing the fundamental issues of gesture research in relation to music. This includes different approaches to what musical gestures are about, analyses of the relationships between gestures and sound, the relationships between performance and perception of gestures, and their significance and use in cultural contexts. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to these issues, drawing on ideas, theories, and methods from disciplines such as musicology, music perception, human movement science, cognitive psychology, and computer science.

2010 | Action Number: 720

Integrated Ground-Based Remote-Sensing Stations for Atmospheric Profiling

• Pages: 398
• Author(s): D. Engelbart, W. Monna, J. Nash and C. Mätzler
• Publisher(s): OPOCE
• Download from external website
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-92-898-0050-1
• EUR: 24172

2010 | Action Number: A27

Heritage, Images, Memory of European Landscapes

• Pages: 394
• Author(s): L. Lévêque, M. Ruiz Arbol, L. Pop
• Publisher(s): L'Harmattan
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-2-296-10887-5

How we can tell apart the shifting, interlocking patterns of the landscapes past or present - this is the challenge of this book taking the reader to the heart of the various societies of this cultural heritage that we call the European landscapes. Across the braod panel selected by the researchers it is the long-trailing memory of European history itself that emerges in the profuse scope of images and representations. By presenting some thirty cases the book displays the plurality of approaches undertaken in the research and analysis that has come to be part and parcel of the protection and safeguarding policies for the environmental and landscape heritage as well as the valorisation practices of this common cultural non-renewable asset.

2010 | Action Number: COST

Road-mapping the Digital Revolution: Visions from COST Foresight 2030

• Author(s): A. Ferreira
• Download (PDF, 176 kB)

From innovation triggered by user virtual communities to remote surgery and new financial instruments, the creative power of individuals is being fostered at proportions previously unseen. The main driver enabling such a pace of innovation, scientific progress, and user adoption is the Digital Revolution. One consequence is that interrelationships between science, technology and society are increasing in complexity and harder to understand. COST Foresight 2030 was an initiative encompassing a set of events designed to explore a multi-disciplinary vision for a future permeated and shaped by the digital revolution. The first of such events was a brain-storming workshop on Computer and Communication Sciences and Technologies, whose objective was to identify key technologies available by year 2030 and the corresponding benefits for Individuals, Society, and the World, in terms of Devices, Systems, and Services. The outcomes of this workshop will serve as the basis for experts in other scientific areas to envision how challenges in their respective disciplines will be tackled when such technologies are available. Such outcomes were presented at the IEEE VITAE conference.

2009 | Action Number: 725

Establishing a European Dataplatform for Climatological Applications

• Pages: 82
• Author(s): E. Koch, A. Donelly, W. Lipa, A. Menzel and J. Nekovár
• Publisher(s): OPOCE
• Download from external website
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-92-898-0048-8 | 
• EUR: 23922

2009 | Action Number: 298

The Good, The Bad and The Challenging - 2 volumes

• Pages: 1055
• Author(s): B. Sapio, L. Haddon, E. Mante-Meijer et al.
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-961-6277-18-1

COST Action 298 'Participation in the Broadband Society' has been working towards understanding the factors that both constrain and enable users' abilities to shape and use ICTs and more broadly have a bearing on different cross-cultural experiences of technology. As in the previous and successful conferences, COST 298 invited technology and product developers, desginers, social scientist, policy makers, community representatives and early stage researchers who are interested in the conference topics, to join our attempt to develop this discussion on a common, shared and transdisciplinary ground. We asked participants to - strive to present their approach to technology from a human-centric point of view, and to - present their topic in a language that attempts to transcend disciplinary boundaries, a language that non-experts can also understand, and to - not only report on their work, but also to engage in the conference debate which aims to develop ways to understand the interests of people and society, to evaluate developments against such an evolving understanding, and to chart interesting and desirable future directions. In addition to promoting and understanding of the current and future developments in a broadband information society, the event aimed to promote networking between and a dialogue with colleagues from around Europe and the rest of the world.

2009 | Action Number: 2101

Biometrics and Identity Management

• Pages: 257
• Author(s): B. Schouten, N. C. Juul, A. Drygajlo and M. Tistarelli
• Publisher(s): Springer
• http://www.springer.com/computer/computer+imaging/book/978-3-540-89990-7
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-540-89990-7

The scope of this first COST 2102 open workshop covered all the research aspects of the Action, from biometric data quality, through biometric templates and modalities, to biometric attacks and countermeasures, as well as biometric interfaces and standards. These proceedings contain the revised papers that were presented during the workshop. Position papers by invited speakers presented at the workshop are also included.