Message from the QRASA 2016 Chairs

Welcome Message from the Chairs of WICSA, QoSA and CBSE

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the WICSA, QoSA, and CBSE 2016 conferences. While we had separate calls for papers, separate chairs and review processes for each conference, we had a unified, stronger community with a joint program committee. Even though the proceedings separate the papers in distinct chapters for each conference, there is a single conference program designed jointly b...

Key paediatric messages from the 2016 European Respiratory Society International Congress

In this article, the Group Chairs of the Paediatric Assembly of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) highlight some of the most interesting abstracts presented at the 2016 ERS International Congress, which was held in London.

Welcome Message from General Chairs

Message from the ICDE 2016 Program Committee and general chairs

Since its inception in 1984, the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) has become a premier forum for the exchange and dissemination of data management research results among researchers, users, practitioners, and developers. Continuing this long-standing tradition, the 32nd ICDE will be hosted this year in Helsinki, Finland, from May 16 to May 20, 2016. It is our great pleas...

Message from the Workshop Chairs

This volume contains the papers presented at the 2016 International Workshop on Cyber-physical Systems for Smart Water Networks (CySWater 2016), which is held in conjunction with the CyberPhysical Systems Week in Vienna, Austria, on 11 April 2016. CySWater 2016 focuses on the crossdisciplinary issues between advances in Cyber Physical Systems and their applications in Water Networks, and as suc...