Computational Science - ICCS 2008: 8th International Conference, Krakow, Poland, June 23-25, 2008, Proceedings, Part II - Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues 2008 edition

Jacket Description/Back: The three-volume set LNCS 5101-5103 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2008, held in Krakow, Poland in June 2008. The 167 revised papers of the main conference track presented together with the abstracts of 7 keynote talks and the 100 revised papers from 14 workshops were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the three volumes. The main conference track was divided into approximately 20 parallel sessions addressing topics such as e-science applications and systems, scheduling and load balancing, software services and tools, new hardware and its applications, computer networks, simulation of complex systems, image processing and visualization, optimization techniques, numerical linear algebra, and numerical algorithms. The second volume contains workshop papers related to various computational research areas, e.g.: computer graphics and geometric modeling, simulation of multiphysics multiscale systems, computational chemistry and its applications, computational finance and business intelligence, physical, biological and social networks, geocomputation, and teaching computational science. The third volume is mostly related to computer science topics such as bioinformatics' challenges to computer science, tools for program development and analysis in computational science, software engineering for large-scale computing, collaborative and cooperative environments, applications of workflows in computational science, as well as intelligent agents and evolvable systems. Table of Contents: 7th International Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling.- VII International Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling CGGM 2008.- Sliding-Tris: A Sliding Window Level-of-Detail Scheme.- Efficient Interference Calculation by Tight Bounding Volumes.- Modeling of 3D Scene Based on Series of Photographs Taken with Different Depth-of-Field.- A Simple Method of the Surface Drawing Suitable for Teaching Materials with the Aid of CAS.- Family of Energy Conserving Glossy Reflection Models.- Harmonic Variation of Edge Size in Meshing CAD Geometries from IGES Format.- Generating Sharp Features on Non-regular Triangular Meshes.- A Novel Artificial Mosaic Generation Technique Driven by Local Gradient Analysis.- Level-of-Detail Triangle Strips for Deforming Meshes.- Triangular Bezier Approximations to Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces.- Procedural Graphics Model and Behavior Generation.- Particle Swarm Optimization for Bezier Surface Reconstruction.- Geometrical Properties of Simulated Packings of Spherocylinders.- Real-Time Illumination of Foliage Using Depth Maps.- On-Line 3D Geometric Model Reconstruction.- Implementation of Filters for Image Pre-processing for Leaf Analyses in Plantations.- 5th Workshop on Simulation of Multiphysics Multiscale Systems.- Simulation of Multiphysics Multiscale Systems, 5th International Workshop.- A Hybrid Model of Sprouting Angiogenesis.- Particle Based Model of Tumor Progression Stimulated by the Process of Angiogenesis.- A Multiphysics Model of Myoma Growth.- Computational Implementation of a New Multiphysics Model for Field Emission from CNT Thin Films.- A Multiphysics and Multiscale Software Environment for Modeling Astrophysical Systems.- Dynamic Interactions in HLA Component Model for Multiscale Simulations.- An Agent-Based Coupling Platform for Complex Automata.- A Control Algorithm for Multiscale Simulations of Liquid Water.- Multiscale Models of Quantum Dot Based Nanomaterials and Nanodevices for Solar Cells.- Multi-scale Modelling of the Two-Dimensional Flow Dynamics in a Stationary Supersonic Hot Gas Expansion.- Multiscale Three-Phase Flow Simulation Dedicated to Model Based Control.- Simulation of Sound Emitted from Collision of Droplet with Shallow Water by the Lattice Boltzmann Method.- Multiscale Numerical Models for Simulation of Radiation Events in Semiconductor Devices.- Scale-Splitting Error in Complex Automata Models for Reaction-Diffusion Systems.- Wavelet Based Spatial Scaling of Coupled Reaction Diffusion Fields.- Domain Decomposition Methodology with Robin Interface Matching Conditions for Solving Strongly Coupled Problems.- Transient Boundary Element Method and Numerical Evaluation of Retarded Potentials.- A Multiscale Approach for Solving Maxwell s Equations in Waveguides with Conical Inclusions.- 3rd Workshop on Computational Chemistry and Its Applications.- 3rd Workshop on Computational Chemistry and Its Applications (3rd CCA).- First Principle Gas Phase Study of the Trans and Gauche Rotamers of 1,2-Diisocyanoethane, 1,2-Diisocyanodisilane and Isocyano(isocyanomethyl)silane.- A Density Functional Theory Study of Oxygen Adsorption at Silver Surfaces: Implications for Nanotoxicity.- Mechanism of Influenza A M2 Ion-Channel Inhibition: A Docking and QSAR Study.- A Java Tool for the Management of Chemical Databases and Similarity Analysis Based on Molecular Graphs Isomorphism.- Noncanonical Base Pairing in RNA: Topological and NBO Analysis of Hoogsteen Edge - Sugar Edge Interactions.- Design of Optimal Laser Fields to Control Vibrational Excitations in Carboxy-myoglobin.- Computations of Ground State and Excitation Energies of Poly(3-methoxy-thiophene) and Poly(thienylene vinylene) from First Principles.- Workshop on Computational Finance and Business Intelligence.- Workshop on Computational Finance and Business Intelligence.- Parallelization of Pricing Path-Dependent Financial Instruments on Bounded Trinomial Lattices.- Heterogeneity and Endogenous Nonlinearity in an Artificial Stock Model.- Bound for the L 2 Norm of Random Matrix and Succinct Matrix Approximation.- Select Representative Samples for Regularized Multiple-Criteria Linear Programming Classification.- A Kernel-Based Technique for Direction-of-Change Financial Time Series Forecasting.- An Optimization-Based Classification Approach with the Non-additive Measure.- A Selection Method of ETF s Credit Risk Evaluation Indicators.- Estimation of Market Share by Using Discretization Technology: An Application in China Mobile.- A Rough Set-Based Multiple Criteria Linear Programming Approach for Classification.- Predictive Modeling of Large-Scale Sequential Curves Based on Clustering.- Estimating Real Estate Value-at-Risk Using Wavelet Denoising and Time Series Model.- The Impact of Taxes on Intra-week Stock Return Seasonality.- A Survey of Formal Verification for Business Process Modeling.- Workshop on Physical, Biological and Social Networks.- Network Modeling of Complex Dynamic Systems.- Clustering Organisms Using Metabolic Networks.- Influence of Network Structure on Market Share in Complex Market Structures.- When the Spatial Networks Split?.- Search of Weighted Subgraphs on Complex Networks with Maximum Likelihood Methods.- Spectral Properties of Adjacency and Distance Matrices for Various Networks.- Simplicial Complexes of Networks and Their Statistical Properties.- Movies Recommendation Networks as Bipartite Graphs.- Dynamical Regularization in Scalefree-Trees of Coupled 2D Chaotic Maps.- Physics Based Algorithms for Sparse Graph Visualization.- Workshop on GeoComputation.- High Performance Geocomputation - Preface.- Study on Implementation of High-Performance GIServices in Spatial Information Grid.- Numerical Simulation of Threshold-Crossing Problem for Random Fields of Environmental Contamination.- A Context-Driven Approach to Route Planning.- InterCondor: A Prototype High Throughput Computing Middleware for Geocomputation.- Discrete Spherical Harmonic Transforms: Numerical Preconditioning and Optimization.- A Data Management Framework for Urgent Geoscience Workflows.- 2nd Workshop on Teaching Computational Science.- Second Workshop on Teaching Computational Science WTCS 2008.- Using Metaheuristics in a Parallel Computing Course.- Improving the Introduction to a Collaborative Project-Based Course on Computer Network Applications.- Supporting Materials for Active e-Learning in Computational Models.- Improving Software Development Process Implemented in Team Project Course.- An Undergraduate Computational Science Curriculum.- Cryptography Adapted to the New European Area of Higher Education.- An Introductory Computer Graphics Course in the Context of the European Space of Higher Education: A Curricular Approach.- Collaborative Environments through Dialogues and PBL to Encourage the Self-directed Learning in Computational Sciences.- The Simulation Course: An Innovative Way of Teaching Computational Science in Aeronautics."Publisher Marketing: Martin Walker: NewParadigmsforComputationalScience Yong Shi: MultipleCriteriaMathematicalProgrammingandDataMining Hank Childs: Why Petascale Visualization and Analysis Will Change the Rules Fabrizio Gagliardi: HPCOpportunitiesandChallengesine-Science Pawel Gepner: Intel sTechnologyVisionandProductsforHPC Jarek Nieplocha: IntegratedDataandTaskManagementforScienti?c- plications Neil F. Johnson: WhatDoFinancialMarkets, WorldofWarcraft, andthe War in Iraq, all Have in Common? Computational Insights into Human CrowdDynamics We would like to thank all keynote speakers for their interesting and inspiring talks and for submitting the abstracts and papers for these proceedings. Fig. 1. Number of papers in the general track by topic The main track of ICSS 2008 was divided into approximately 20 parallel sessions (see Fig. 1) addressing the following topics: 1. e-Science Applications and Systems 2. Scheduling and Load Balancing 3. Software Services and Tools Preface VII 4. New Hardware and Its Applications 5. Computer Networks 6. Simulation of Complex Systems 7. Image Processing and Visualization 8. Optimization Techniques 9. Numerical Linear Algebra 10. Numerical Algorithms # papers 25 23 19 20 17 14 14 15 10 10 10 10 9 10 8 8 8 7 5 0 Fig. 2. Number of papers in workshops The conference included the following workshops (Fig. 2): 1. 7th Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling 2. 5th Workshop on Simulation of Multiphysics Multiscale Systems 3. 3rd Workshop on Computational Chemistry and Its Applications 4. Workshop on Computational Finance and Business Intelligence 5. Workshop on Physical, Biological and Social Networks 6. Workshop on GeoComputation 7. 2nd Workshop on Teaching Computational Science 8."

Contributor Bio:  Dongarra, Jack Dongarra is Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, and Distinguished Scientist, Methematical Sciences Section, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.