This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2005, held in Liptovský Ján, Slovakia in January 2005. The 28 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with 8 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions. The papers were organized in four topical tracks on foundations of computer science, modeling and searching data in the web area, software engineering, and graph drawing and discrete computational mathematics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2007, held in Harrachov, Czech Republic in January 2007. The 69 revised full papers, presented together with 11 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 283 submissions. The papers were organized in four topical tracks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 37th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2011, held in Nový, Smokovec, Slovakia in January 2011. The 41 revised full papers, presented together with 5 invited contributions, were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. SOFSEM 2011 was organized around the following four tracks: foundations of computer science; software, systems, and services; processing large datasets; and cryptography, security, and trust.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 36th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2010, held in Špindleruv Mlýn, Czech Republic, in January 2009. The 53 revised full papers, presented together with 11 invited contributions, were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. SOFSEM 2010 was organized around the following four tracks: Foundations of computer science, principles of software construction, Data, knowledge, and intelligent systems and Web science.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32nd Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2006, held in Merin, Czech Republic in January 2006. The 45 revised full papers, including the best Student Research Forum paper, presented together with 10 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions. The papers were organized in four topical tracks on computer science foundations, wireless, mobile, ad hoc and sensor networks, database technologies, and semantic Web technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2014, held in Nový Smokovec, Slovakia, in January 2014. The 40 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. The book also contains 6 invited talks. The contributions covers topics as: Foundations of Computer Science, Software and Web Engineering, as well as Data, Information and Knowledge Engineering and Cryptography, Security and Verification.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Experimental and Efficient Algorithms, WEA 2005, held in Santorini Island, Greece in May 2005. The 47 revised full papers and 7 revised short papers presented together with extended abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. The book is devoted to the design, analysis, implementation, experimental evaluation, and engineering of efficient algorithms. Among the application areas addressed are most fields applying advanced algorithmic techniques, such as combinatorial optimization, approximation, graph theory, discrete mathematics, scheduling, searching, sorting, string matching, coding, networking, data mining, data analysis, etc.

The Handbook of Financial Cryptography and Security elucidates the theory and techniques of cryptography and illustrates how to establish and maintain security under the framework of financial cryptography. It applies various cryptographic techniques to auctions, electronic voting, micropayment systems, digital rights, financial portfolios, routing

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2005, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in September 2005 in the context of the combined conference ALGO 2005. The 75 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 244 submissions. The papers address all current issues in algorithmics reaching from design and mathematical issues over real-world applications in various fields up to engineering and analysis of algorithms.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2006, held on Samos Island, Greece in August/September 2006. The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 188 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections.