This book constitutes the proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on U- and E-Service, Science and Technology, UNESST 2009, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Future Generation Information Technology, FGIT 2009, on December 10-12, 2009, in Jeju Island, Korea. The FGIT 2009 conference received 1051 submissions in total, of which 301 papers were selected to be presented at one of the events taking place as part of it. The 23 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation at UNESST 2009. They focus on various aspects of u- and e-service, science and technology with computational sciences, mathematics and information technology and recent advances in these areas.

This book reports on advanced methods and theories in two related fields of research, Information Technology and Communication Systems. It provides professors, scientists, PhD students and engineers with a readily available guide to various approaches in Engineering Science. The book is divided into two major sections, the first of which covers Information Technology topics, including E-Learning, E-Government (egov), Data Mining, Text Mining, Ontologies, Semantic Similarity Databases, Multimedia Information Processing, and Applications. The second section addresses Communication Systems topics, including: Systems, Wireless and Network Computing, Software Security and Monitoring, Modern Antennas, and Smart Grids. The book gathers contributions presented at the International Conference on Information Technology and Communication Systems (ITCS 2017) held at the National School of Applied Sciences of Khouribga, Hassan 1st University, Morocco on March 28–29, 2017. This event was organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of Information Technology and Communication Systems. It not only highlights new methods, but also promotes collaborations between different communities working on related topics.

Education and Technology for a Better World was the main theme for WCCE 2009. The conference highlights and explores different perspectives of this theme, covering all levels of formal education as well as informal learning and societal aspects of education. The conference was open to everyone involved in education and training. Additionally players from technological, societal, business and political fields outside education were invited to make relevant contributions within the theme: Education and Technology for a Better World. For several years the WCCE (World Conference on Computers in Education) has brought benefits to the fields of computer science and computers and education as well as to their communities. The contributions at WCCE include research projects and good practice presented in different formats from full papers to posters, demonstrations, panels, workshops and symposiums. The focus is not only on presentations of accepted contributions but also on discussions and input from all participants. The main goal of these conferences is to provide a forum for the discussion of ideas in all areas of computer science and human learning. They create a unique environment in which researchers and practitioners in the fields of computer science and human learning can interact, exchanging theories, experiments, techniques, applications and evaluations of initiatives supporting new developments that are potentially relevant for the development of these fields. They intend to serve as reference guidelines for the research community.

The International Conference on Future Computer and Communication was held in Wuhan, China, June 6–7, 2009. The following topics are covered by FCC Conference: agents, knowledge-based technologies, bioinformatics engineering, computer architecture and design, computer networks and security, data mining and database applications, high-performance networks and protocols, multimedia and web services, network reliability and QoS, neural networks and intelligent systems, software engineering and agile development, antennas and propagation, information theory and coding, multiple access techniques, optical communications and photonics, RF and microwave devices, satellite, space and wireless communications, signal and image processing, 3G, 4G mobile communications, communications IC Design, instrumentation and control, and VLSI design. The purpose of the FCC conferences is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to exchange their research ideas and results and to discuss the state of the art in the areas covered by the conference The conference included invited talks, workshops, tutorials, and other events dedicated to this area. FCC 2009 provided a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, university and industry to present their latest research findings in any aspects of future computers and communication. The conference was co-sponsored by the Engineering Technology Press, Hong Kong, IEEE SMC TC on Education Technology and Training, and the Intelligent Information Technology Application Research Association, Hong Kong. Much work went into preparing a program of high quality. We received 110 submissions.

INTERACT 2009 was the 12th of a series of INTERACT international c- ferences supported by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. This year,INTERACT washeld in Uppsala (Sweden), organizedby the Swedish Interdisciplinary Interest Group for Human–Computer Interaction (STIMDI) in cooperation with the Department of Information Technology at Uppsala University. Like its predecessors, INTERACT 2009 highlighted, both to the academic and to the industrial world, the importance of the human–computer interaction (HCI) area and its most recent breakthroughs on current applications. Both - perienced HCI researchers and professionals, as well as newcomers to the HCI ?eld, interested in designing or evaluating interactive software, developing new interaction technologies, or investigating overarching theories of HCI, found in INTERACT 2009 a great forum for communication with people of similar int- ests, to encourage collaboration and to learn. INTERACT 2009 had Research and Practice as its special theme. The r- son we selected this theme is that the research within the ?eld has drifted away from the practicalapplicability of its results and that the HCI practice has come to disregard the knowledge and development within the academic community.