The research is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund as part of the Innovative Economy programs PLGrid POIG.02.03.00-00-007/08-00 and ITSOA POIG.01.03.01-00-008/08-01 Distributed Contract Negotiation System for Virtual Organizations Marcin Stelmach1, Bartosz Kryza2, Renata Słota1, Jacek Kitowski1,2 1Institute of Computer Science AGH-UST, Cracow, Poland 2Academic Computer Centre C...

1 This research was conducted in part while Micah Adler was at the Computer Science Department of the University of Toronto (supported by an operating grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and by ITRC, an Ontario Centre of Excellence), and in part while he was at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute Graduate College, Paderborn, Germany. Department of Computer Scienc...

1 Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America, 2 Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America, 3 Centre for Molecular Processing, School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom, 4 The Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, United States of...

Christopher Banerji, 2 Toufik Mansour, and Simone Severini Department of Computer Science, and Centre of Mathematics & Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom Statistical Cancer Genomics, Paul O’Gorman Building, UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom Department of Mathematics, Uni...

a School of Mathematics & Computer Engineering, Xihua University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610039, China Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Boeretang 200, B-2400 Mol, Belgium Dept. of Applied Math. & Computer Science, Ghent University, B-9000 Gent, Belgium d School of Computing and Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Newtownabbey BT37 0QB, Northern Ireland,...

a Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Technology Assessment and Public Health, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany b Department of Computer Science 7, Computer Networks and Communication Systems, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany c Siemens AG, Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany d National Cluster of Excellence, Medical Technologies —Medical Valley EMN', Erlangen, Ge...

Diwakar Shukla Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Sagar University, Sagar M. P. 470003, India. Associate Member, DST-Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P. Email: [email protected] Sharad Gangele Department of Computer Science, M.P. Bhoj (Open) University, Kolar Road, Bhopal, M. P., India. Email: [email protected] Rah...

Jianxin Chen,1, 2, 3 Xie Chen,4 Runyao Duan,5, 3 Zhengfeng Ji,6, 7 Zhaohui Wei,8 and Bei Zeng1, 2 Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua Unive...

The paper presents a gesture recognition system for human-computer communication. The system is based on static gesture detection using a hybrid approach for skin detection, seed markers watershed segmentation and morphological operations, palm centre allocation by a combination of minimal covering circle centre and palm convexity defect points and classification of gestures using decision tree...