Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXXIII

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2. Workshop on Agricultural and Environmental Information and Decision Support Systems (AEIDSS 2015)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Adapting to Climate Change - An Open Data Platform for Cumulative Environmental Analysis and Management

      • Donald Cowan, Paulo Alencar, Fred McGarry, R. Mark Palmer

      Pages 3-15

   3. Mining Climate Change Awareness on Twitter: A PageRank Network Analysis Method

      • Ahmed Abdeen Hamed, Asim Zia

      Pages 16-31

   4. Assessing Patterns of Urban Transmutation Through 3D Geographical Modelling and Using Historical Micro-Datasets

      • Teresa Santos, Antonio Manuel Rodrigues, Filipa Ramalhete

      Pages 32-44

   5. Potential Nitrogen Load from Crop-Livestock Systems: An Agri-environmental Spatial Database for a Multi-scale Assessment

      • Marco Vizzari, Alessandra Santucci, Luca Casagrande, Mariano Pauselli, Paolo Benincasa, Michela Farneselli et al.

      Pages 45-59

   6. An Empirical Multi-classifier for Coffee Rust Detection in Colombian Crops

      • David Camilo Corrales, Apolinar Figueroa, Agapito Ledezma, Juan Carlos Corrales

      Pages 60-74

3. Workshop on Approaches or Methods of Security Engineering (AMSE 2015)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. A Fast Approach Towards Android Malware Detection

      • Hongmei Chi, Xavier Simms

      Pages 77-89

   3. A Novel Prototype Decision Tree Method Using Sampling Strategy

      • Bhanu Prakash Battula, Debnath Bhattacharyya, C. V. P. R. Prasad, Tai-hoon Kim

      Pages 90-97

   4. A Tight Security Reduction Designated Verifier Proxy Signature Scheme Without Random Oracle

      • Xiaoming Hu, Hong Lu, Yan Liu, Jian Wang, Wenan Tan

      Pages 98-109

4. Workshop on Advances in information Systems and Technologies for Emergency preparedness and Risk assessment (ASTER 2015)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. CBR Method for Risk Assessment on Power Grid Protection Under Natural Disasters: Case Representation and Retrieval

      • Feng Yu, Xiangyang Li, Shiying Wang

      Pages 113-125

   3. Urban Power Network Vulnerability Assessment Based on Multi-attribute Analysis

      • Jun Li, Xiang-yang Li, Rui Yang

      Pages 126-140

5. Workshop on Advances in Web Based Learning (AWBL 2015)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Teaching-Learning Environment Tool to Promote Individualized Student Assistance

      • Rafael Santos, Bruno Nogueira Luz, Valéria Farinazzo Martins, Diego Colombo Dias, Marcelo de Paiva Guimarães

      Pages 143-155

6. General Tracks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Autonomous Tuning for Constraint Programming via Artificial Bee Colony Optimization

      • Ricardo Soto, Broderick Crawford, Felipe Mella, Javier Flores, Cristian Galleguillos, Sanjay Misra et al.

      Pages 159-171

   3. Monitoring of Service-Oriented Applications for the Reconstruction of Interactions Models

      • Mariam Chaabane, Fatma Krichen, Ismael Bouassida Rodriguez, Mohamed Jmaiel

      Pages 172-186

   4. Comparing Cuckoo Search, Bee Colony, Firefly Optimization, and Electromagnetism-Like Algorithms for Solving the Set Covering Problem

      • Ricardo Soto, Broderick Crawford, Cristian Galleguillos, Jorge Barraza, Sebastián Lizama, Alexis Muñoz et al.

      Pages 187-202

The five-volume set LNCS 9155-9159 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2015, held in Banff, AB, Canada, in June 2015. The 232 revised full papers presented in 22 workshops and a general track were carefully reviewed and selected from 780 initial submissions for inclusion in this volume. They cover various areas in computational science ranging from computational science technologies to specific areas of computational science such as computational geometry and security.

• Collaborative and social computing
• Computer graphics
• Cryptography
• Data management systems
• Distributed architectures
• Human computer interaction
• Information retrieval
• Information systems applications
• Network algorithms
• Network architectures
• Network protocols
• Network security
• Network services
• Parallel architectures
• Security services
• Software and application security
• Software organization and properties
• Ubiquitous and mobile computing
• Visualization
• World wide Web

• University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

  Osvaldo Gervasi

• University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

  Beniamino Murgante

• Covenant University, Canaanland, Nigeria

  Sanjay Misra

• University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

  Marina L. Gavrilova

• University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

  Ana Maria Alves Coutinho Rocha

• Polytechnic University, Bari, Italy

  Carmelo Torre

• Monash University, Clayton, Australia

  David Taniar

• Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

  Bernady O. Apduhan

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