Springer Computer and Information Science: 131 (Studies in Computational Intelligence, 131)

An MDA Approach for Database Profiling and Performance Assessment.- Prediction of Diabetes by Employing a New Data Mining Approach Which Balances Fitting and Generalization.- Compression of Electrocardiogram Using Neural Networks and Wavelets.- Multi-step Parallel PNN Algorithm for Distributed-Memory Systems.- Software Repository for Software Process Improvement.- Payment Annotations for Web Service Description Language (PA-WSDL).- An Analogical Thinking Based New Software Engineering Education Methodology.- Capturing Public Knowledge to Forecast Future Events.- An Agent Based Semantic OSGi Service Architecture.- A Framework for SOA-Based Application on Agile of Small and Medium Enterprise.- Optimizing Text Summarization Based on Fuzzy Logic.- Reusability Enhancement by Using Flexible Topology Architecture for Network Management System.- Process Deployment in a Multi-site CMMI Level 3 Organization: A Case Study.- Experiments with Content-Based Image Retrieval for Medical Images.- Enterprise Process Model for Extreme Programming with CMMI Framework.- Lecture Sequence Management System Using Mobile Phone Messages.- A Robust Authentication System Using Multiple Biometrics.- Approximate Reasoning in a Symbolic Multi-valued Framework.- Effect of Sensor Specific Crop Location on Wireless Sensor Network Performance.- An Industrial Study Using UML Design Metrics for Web Applications.- An Ontology-Based Model for Supporting Inter- process Artifact Sharing in Component-Based Software Development.- Empirical Investigation of Metrics for Fault Prediction on Object-Oriented Software.- Two O(n 2)Time Fault-Tolerant Parallel Algorithm for Inter NoC Communication in NiP. From the Back Cover The purpose of the 7th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2008) and the 2nd IEEE/ACIS International Workshop on e-Activity (IWEA 2008) to be held on May 14 – 16, 2008 in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. is to bring together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to share their experiences and exchange new ideas and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of computer and information science; and to discuss the practical challenges encountered along the way and the solutions adopted to solve them. The conference organizers selected 23 outstanding papers from ICIS/IWEA 2008, all of which you will find in this volume of Springer’s Studies in Computational Intelligence.