This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, CPM 2004, held in Istanbul, Turkey in July 2004.
The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are devoted to current theoretical and computational aspects of searching and matching of strings and more complicate patterns, such as trees, regular expressions, graphs, point ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2003, held in Manaus, Brazil, in October 2003.
The 21 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Web algorithms, bit-parallel algorithms, compression, ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2003, held in Pisa, Italy, in April 2003.
The 31 revised full papers and 16 short papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on IR and the Web; retrieval of structured documents; collaborative filtering and text ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, EMO 2003, held in Faro, Portugal, in April 2003.
The 56 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 100 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on objective handling and problem decomposition, algorithm improvements, online adaptation, problem construction, ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2008, held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, in June 2008.
The 51 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks and 25 system description papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 270 submitted papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on agents, application ontologies, applications, formal languages, ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Experimental and Efficient Algorithms, WEA 2008, held in Provincetown, MA, USA, in May/June 2008. The 26 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and present current research on experimental evaluation and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of computational optimization and its applications. Special ...