This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2006, held in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2006.The 106 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 606 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on algorithms and theory, bioinformatics, computational intelligence, computer architecture, computer graphics, computer networks, computer vision, data mining, databases, embedded systems, information retrieval, mobile computing, parallel and distributed computing, performance evaluation, security and cryptography, as well as software engineering.
Invited Papers and Talks Analysis of Automated Auctions Advanced Mixed Reality Technologies for Surveillance and Risk Prevention Application Requirements Engineering as a Key to Holistic Software Quality Invited Talks Problems and Challenges of Image-Guided Neurosurgical Navigation and Intervention Information and Communication Technologies in the EU's Seventh Framework Programme Algorithms and Theory The Greedy Prepend Algorithm for Decision List Induction Heuristics for Minimum Brauer Chain Problem Dispatching Rules for Allocation of Component Types to Machines in the Automated Assembly of Printed Circuit Boards Heuristic Approach to Schedule Crew for a Regional Airline Automatic Segmentation of the Liver in CT Images Using a Model of Approximate Contour Unambiguous 3D Measurements by a Multi-period Phase Shift Method Hybrid Techniques for Dynamic Optimization Problems Minimizing the Search Space for Shape Retrieval Algorithms Decision Support for Packing in Warehouses A Fast Partial Distortion Elimination Algorithm Using Selective Matching Scan Variable Neighborhood Search for the Orienteering Problem : Bioinformatics Extracting Gene Regulation Information from Microarray Time-Series Data Using Hidden Markov Models Asymptotical Lower Limits on Required Number of Examples for Learning Boolean Networks Modified Association Rule Mining Approach for the MHC-Peptide Binding Problem Prediction and Classification for GPCR Sequences Based on Ligand Specific Features …… Computational Intelligence Compurer Architecture Computer Graphics Computer Networks Computer Vision Data Mining Databases Embedded Systems Information Retrieval Mobile Computing Parallel and Distributed Computing Performance Evaluation Security and Cryptography Software Engineering Author Index