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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2009, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in July 2009. The 19 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected as best papers from 212 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on enterprise software technology; software engineering; distributed systems; data management; knowledge-based systems.

Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Software engineering --- Computer software --- Database management --- Computer science. --- Software engineering. --- Programming languages (Electronic computers). --- Data structures (Computer science). --- Database management. --- Data mining. --- Computer Science. --- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems. --- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters. --- Data Structures. --- Database Management. --- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Data structures (Computer scienc. --- Algorithmic knowledge discovery --- Factual data analysis --- KDD (Information retrieval) --- Knowledge discovery in data --- Knowledge discovery in databases --- Mining, Data --- Database searching --- Data base management --- Data services (Database management) --- Database management services --- DBMS (Computer science) --- Generalized data management systems --- Services, Database management --- Systems, Database management --- Systems, Generalized database management --- Electronic data processing --- Informatics --- Science --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Application software. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Information structures (Computer science) --- Structures, Data (Computer science) --- Structures, Information (Computer science) --- File organization (Computer science) --- Abstract data types (Computer science) --- Computer languages --- Computer program languages --- Computer programming languages --- Machine language --- Languages, Artificial

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Is death inevitable? Until now, the history of mankind has been marked by this fatal fact. Religions, borders and progress are born from an ancient fear of death, comfort from this fear man often found only in religious paradigms. But according to José Luis Cordeiro and David Wood, the incontrovertible fact of death is no longer an absolute certainty - science and technology are preparing to tear down the final frontier: that of immortality. This accessible book provides insight into recent exponential advances in artificial intelligence, tissue regeneration, stem cell treatment, organ printing, cryopreservation, and genetic therapies that, for the first time in human history, offer a realistic chance to solve the problem of the aging of the human body. In this book, Cordeiro and Wood not only present all the major developments, initiatives, and ideas for eternal life, they also show why there are a number of good arguments for seeing death for what it is: the last undefeated disease. Is death inevitable? Until now, the history of mankind has been marked by this fatal fact. Religions, borders and progress are born from an ancient fear of death, comfort from this fear man often found only in religious paradigms. But according to José Luis Cordeiro and David Wood, the incontrovertible fact of death is no longer an absolute certainty - science and technology are preparing to tear down the final frontier: that of immortality. This accessible book provides insight into recent exponential advances in artificial intelligence, tissue regeneration, stem cell treatment, organ printing, cryopreservation, and genetic therapies that, for the first time in human history, offer a realistic chance to solve the problem of the aging of the human body. In this book, Cordeiro and Wood not only present all the major developments, initiatives, and ideas for eternal life, they also show why there are a number of good arguments for seeing death for what it is: the last undefeated disease. Enter any drugstore or bookstore, and we confronted with a mountain of nonsense concerning the aging process. Society seems obsessed with aging. That is why The Death of Death is such a refreshing delight, able to cut through the hype and reveal a balanced, authoritative, and lucid discussion of this controversial topic. It summarizes the astonishing breakthroughs made recently in revealing how science may one day conquer the aging process. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything We are entering a Fantastic Voyage into life extension, crossing different bridges that will take us to indefinite life spans. The Death of Death explains clearly how we might soon reach longevity escape velocity and live long enough to live forever. Ray Kurzweil, co-author of Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever and co-founder of Singularity University The Death of Death is a truly revolutionary book. This is a visionary book that confronts us with the terrible reality of aging, and its authors are friends and connoisseurs of the subject. I believe that the authoritative and exhaustive description of this crusade that José and David make in this excellent book will accelerate this process. Forward! Aubrey de Grey, founder of LEV (Longevity Escape Velocity) Foundation and co-author of Ending Aging.

Biomedical engineering. --- Mortality. --- Longevity. --- Philosophy and social sciences. --- Medical and Health Technologies. --- Mortality and Longevity. --- Philosophy of the Social Sciences. --- Social sciences and philosophy --- Social sciences --- Life, Long --- Life extension --- Life span prolongation --- Long life --- Prolongation of life span --- Age --- Health --- Life spans (Biology) --- Old age --- Mortality, Law of --- Death --- Demography --- Death (Biology) --- Clinical engineering --- Medical engineering --- Bioengineering --- Biophysics --- Engineering --- Medicine

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Applied marketing --- Information systems --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Computer. Automation --- ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) --- bedrijfseconomie --- e-business --- informatica --- informatiesystemen --- e-commerce --- software engineering --- informatica management --- robots

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This book contains a selection of the best papers from WEBIST 2009 (the 5th Int- national Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies), held in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2009, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Inf- mation, Control and Communication (INSTICC), in collaboration with ACM SIGMIS and co-sponsored by the Workflow Management Coalition (WFMC). The purpose of the WEBIST series of conferences is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business applications of Web-based information systems. The conference has four main tracks, covering different aspects of Web information systems, including Internet Techn- ogy, Web Interfaces and Applications, Society, e-Communities, e-Business and e-Government. WEBIST 2009 received 203 paper submissions from 47 countries on all con- nents. A double-blind review process was enforced, with the help of more than 150 experts from the International Program Committee; each of them specialized in one of the main conference topic areas. After reviewing, 28 papers were selected to be published and presented as full papers and 44 additional papers, describing work-- progress, published and presented as short papers. Furthermore, 35 papers were p- sented as posters. The full-paper acceptance ratio was 13%, and the total oral paper acceptance ratio was 36%. Therefore, we hope that you find the papers included in this book interesting, and we trust they may represent a helpful reference for all those who need to address any of the research areas mentioned above. January 2010 José Cordeiro Joaquim Filipe

Office management --- Business policy --- Applied marketing --- Business management --- Programming --- Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Information systems --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Computer. Automation --- ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) --- e-business --- applicatiebeheer --- apps --- informatica --- bedrijfsadministratie --- informatiesystemen --- organisatiecultuur --- informatietechnologie --- e-commerce --- KI (kunstmatige intelligentie) --- architectuur (informatica) --- AI (artificiële intelligentie)

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