Informatics: 10 Years Back. 10 Years Ahead

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Springer, Jun 29, 2003 - Computers - 372 pages
Informatics - 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead presents a unique collection of expository papers on major current issues in the field of computer science and information technology. The 26 contributions written by leading researchers on personal invitation assess the state of the art of the field by looking back over the past decade, presenting important results, identifying relevant open problems, and developing visions for the decade to come.
This book marks two remarkable and festive moments: the 10th anniversary of the International Research and Conference Center for Computer Science in Dagstuhl, Germany and the 2000th volume published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
 

Contents

The
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Challenges in Ubiquitous Data Management
24
How to Still Feel Secure
50
Cryptography 200010
65
A LanguageBased Approach to Security
86
Software
102
Orientations in Verification Engineering of Avionics Software
131
A TenYear Perspective
137
The Quantum Computing Challenge
219
MM + X
234
Wolfgang Thomas
257
From Algorithm to Program to Software Library Kurt Mehlhorn
268
Rolf Pfeifer
294
Scientific Visualization Methods and Applications
311
Past and Future
328
Immersion into Other Disciplines
341

Progress on the State Explosion Problem in Model Checking
176
Open Source?
195
Architecture
207
Computer Science in Physics
356
Author Index
369
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