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: 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:

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

• Author(s): A. Ferreira
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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:

Annual Report 2008

• Pages: 74
• Author(s): COST Office
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The 2008 Annual Report presents the yearly achievements, Domain activities, publications, and more. The document is available in pdf and can be obtained in hard copy from the COST Office.

2009 | Action Number: 725

Benefit of Old Phenodata Series - Evaluation and Declaring Ability in Italian Journal of Agrometeorology

• Pages: 58
• Author(s): S. Orlandini et al
• Publisher(s): AIAM
• ISBN/ISSN: 1824-8705

2009 | Action Number: 724

Developing the Scientific Basis for Monitoring, Modelling and Predicting Space Weather

• Pages: 364
• Author(s): J. Lilensten, A. Belehaki, M. Messerotti, R. Vainio, J. Watermann, S. Poedts
• Publisher(s): OPOCE
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• EUR: 23348

Thanks to COST Action 724, space weather now has a European definition: Space weather is the physical and phenomenological state of natural space environments. The associated discipline aims, through obversation, monitoring, analysis and modeling, at understanding and predicting the state of the Sun, the interplanetary and planetary environments, and the solar and non-solar driven perturbations that affect them, and also at forecasting and nowcasting the potential impacts on biological and technological systems.

2009 | Action Number: 350

Integrated Assessment of Environmental Impact of Traffic and Transport Infrastructure

• Pages: 405
• Author(s): E.J. Caldéron, C. Pronello, T. Goger
• Publisher(s): Servicio de Publicaciones ETS Ingenieros de Caminos
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-84-7493-401-4

This book is the outcome of the COST Action 350. The main objective of the book is to establish operational guidance for the assessment and integration of the relevant environmental impacts of transport plans and programmes in order to provide support in the decision-making process, assisting planners in the early stages of drafting transport plans and programmes.

2009 | Action Number: IC0602

Annales du Lamsade - Proceedings of the Workshop on Algorithmic Decision Theory

• Pages: 193
• Publisher(s): Université Dauphine Paris
• ISBN/ISSN: 1762-455X

This volume includes a number of contributions presented during the workshop on Algoritmic Decision Theory. It focused on recent advances on algorithmic decision theory with particular emphasis to problems where very large data sets (possibly under uncertainty) have to be considered in order to make a decision. The workshop follows two previous ones organised in 2004 and 2006, part of a joint effort searching connections between computer science and decision theory, development of new decision-theory-based methodologies relevant to the scope of modern CS problems, and investigation of their applications to problems of computer science and also to problems of the social sciences which could benefit from new ideas and techniques.

2009 | Action Number: C27

European Rural Development Policy 2007-2013: A Planning Framework

• Pages: 99
• Author(s): E. Calderón
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-84-7493-403-8

The present final report describes the result of a 2-year collaborative research effort undertaken within the scope of COST Action C27, through its working Group 1.

2009 | Action Number: 2101

IET Journals Special Issue "Biometric Recognition"

• Author(s): J. Thompson (Ed)
• Publisher(s): The Institution of Engineering and Technology
• http://www.ietdl.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=ISPECX&Volume=3&Issue=4
• ISBN/ISSN: 1751-9675

This Special Issue which is associated with COST 2101 reports on a range of challenges and advances in certain aspects of biometric recognition. The papers are highly informative, describing some key issues and new developments with respect to different classes of biometrics.

2009 | Action Number:

About COST 2009

• Author(s): COST Office
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This easy-to-use guide covers the whole of the COST system for research cooperation in Europe, including information about COST governance, contact points and financial instruments plus, most importantly, the COST Actions.

2009 | Action Number: 298

The Good, the Bad, the Unexpected: Conference Proceedings Volume II

• Pages: 595
• Author(s): B. Sapio, L. Fortunati, L. Haddon, K. Kommonen, E. Mante-Maijer and T. Turk
• Publisher(s): OPOCE
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• ISBN/ISSN: 978-92-898-0042-6
• EUR: 23328

The main objective of the conference was to create new knowledge about users' creativity and facilitate their empowerment in a broadband information society. This knowledge is crucial in order to strengthen the European Research Area. Moreover, this requieres an examination of the factors that can both constrain and enhance users' abilities to shape and use ICTs. In this conference, the organisers invited technology and product developers, designers, social scientists, policy makers, community representatives and others who are interested in the conference topics, to join the attempt to develop this discussion on a common, shared and transdisciplinary ground.

2009 | Action Number: 298

The Good, the Bad, the Unexpected: Conference Proceedings Volume I

• Pages: 666
• Author(s): B. Sapio, L. Fortunati, L. Haddon, K. Kommonen, E. Mante-Maijer and T. Turk
• Publisher(s): OPOCE
• Download from external website
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-92-898-0041-9
• EUR: 23328

The main objective of the conference was to create new knowledge about users' creativity and facilitate their empowerment in a broadband information society. This knowledge is crucial in order to strengthen the European Research Area. Moreover, this requieres an examination of the factors that can both constrain and enhance users' abilities to shape and use ICTs. In this conference, the organisers invited technology and product developers, designers, social scientists, policy makers, community representatives and others who are interested in the conference topics, to join the attempt to develop this discussion on a common, shared and transdisciplinary ground.

2009 | Action Number: 2102

Multimodal Signals: cognitive and Algorithmic Issues

• Pages: 346
• Author(s): A. Esposito, A. Hussain, M. Marinaro and R. Martone
• Publisher(s): Springer
• http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/book/978-3-642-00524-4
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-642-00524-4

This volume brings together the peer-reviewed contributions of the participants at the COST 2102 and euCognition International Training School on "Multimodal Signals: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues". The main theme of the school was to investigate the mathematical and psychological tools for modelling human-machine interaction through access to a graded series of tasks for measuring the amount of adjustment (as well as intelligence and achievement) needed for introducing new concepts in the information communication technology domain in order to develop adaptive, socially enable and human-centered automatic systems able to serve remote applications in medicine, learning, care, rehabilitation, and for accessibility to work, employment, and information.