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Biological systems are extremely complex reactive systems. They operate as highly concurrent programs with millions of entities running in parallel and communicating with each other under various environmental conditions. Understanding how living systems operate in such harmony and precision, and how this harmony is being disrupted in diseased states, are key questions in biological and medical...

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The nature of emerging business technologies, such automatic identification, and data capture innova­ tions, such as smart cards, touch memory, and RFID, proves to be a difficult process to implement and achieve, despite recent efforts, even as implementation continues to lessen. The economy of scales as­ sociated with bar codes is a difficult barrier to overcome. Two Pittsburgh-based companies...

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This volume contains the supplementary proceedings of ICCS 2008, the 16th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS). The focus of the ICCS conference is the representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge. ICCS brings together researchers to explore novel ways that conceptual structures can be used. Conceptual Structures are motivated by C.S. Peirce’s Existential Graphs and w...

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