Creator: Roland Traunmüller
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-10-05
Dewey code: 005.74
List Price: $129.00
Price: $94.17
Review Database and Expert Systems Applications: 15th International Conference, DEXA 2004, Zaragoza, Spain, August 30-September 3, 2004, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / Springer:This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2004, held in Zaragoza, Spain in August/September 2004. The 92 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 304 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on workflow, active and deductive database aspects, query processing, applications, knowledge processing and information retrieval, digital libraries, OLAP, mobile information systems, XML, distributed and parallel databases, advanced database techniques, bioinformatics, temporal and spatial databases, and Web and databases.
Publication date: 1999
Review Data modeling (Quick study) / Urban and Regional Information Systems Association:
Authors
- Heiko Meyer
- Franz Fuchs
- Klaus Thiel
Publication date: 2009-04-24
Dewey code: 670
List Price: $89.95
Price: $89.95
Review Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES): Optimal Design, Planning, and Deployment / McGraw-Hill Professional:A real-world guide to analyzing your manufacturing processes to identify the most effective MES software solution for your needsMES is manufacturing-process-focused software that integrates and optimizes existing operational systems. This book helps manufacturing architects properly assess manufacturing process flow, design, and planning to successfully adopt MES. Manufacturing Execution Systems helps you to create flawless manufacturing processes and provides real-time feedback of requirement changes. You will find a comprehensive presentation of available MES software, systematic guidelines for process design and planning, and details on the economical aspects of MES adoption. Actual MES implementation examples are included.
Creator: Lei Xu
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-08-27
Dewey code: 006.32
List Price: $159.00
Price: $97.13
Review Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing - ICANN/ICONIP 2003: Joint International Conference ICANN/ICONIP 2003, Istanbul, Turkey, June ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / Springer:This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the joint International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICANN/ICONIP 2003, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in June 2003. The 138 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 346 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning algorithms, support vector machine and kernel methods, statistical data analysis, pattern recognition, vision, speech recognition, robotics and control, signal processing, time-series prediction, intelligent systems, neural network hardware, cognitive science, computational neuroscience, context aware systems, complex-valued neural networks, emotion recognition, and applications in bioinformatics.
Creator: Zahir Tari
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-11-01
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $89.25
Price: $89.22
Review On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008: OTM Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, GADA, IS, and ODBASE 2008, Monterrey, Mexico, ... Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / Springer:This two-volume set LNCS 5331/5332 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the five confederated international conferences on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2008), Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA 2008), Grid computing, high performAnce and Distributed Applications (GADA 2008), Information Security (IS 2008), and Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2008), held as OTM 2008 in Monterrey, Mexico, in November 2008. The 86 revised full and 9 revised short papers presented together with 5 invited papers and 4 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 292 submissions. Corresponding to the five OTM 2008 main conferences CoopIS, DOA, GADA, IS, and ODBASE the papers are organized in topical sections on Web service, business process technology, E-service management, distributed process management, schema matching, business process tracing, workflow and business applications, designing distributed systems, context in distributed systems, high availability, adaptive distributed systems, scheduling allocation, databases in grids, grid applications, data management and storage, new tendencies and approaches, intrusion detection, information hiding, data and risk management, access control, evaluation and implementation, semantic matching and similarity measuring, semantic searching, ontology development, ontology maintanence and evaluation, ontology applications, and semantic query processing.
Creator: Henrik Scharfe
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2009-03-19
Dewey code: 003.54
List Price: $99.95
Price: $91.00
Review Conceptual Structures in Practice (Chapman & Hall/Crc Studies in Informatics Series) / Chapman & Hall/CRC:Exploring fundamental research questions, Conceptual Structures in Practice takes you through the basic yet nontrivial task of establishing conceptual relations as the foundation for research in knowledge representation and knowledge mining. It includes contributions from leading researchers in both the conceptual graph and formal concept analysis (FCA) communities. This accessible, self-contained book begins by providing the formal background in FCA and conceptual graphs. It then describes various software tools for analysis and computation, including the ToscanaJ suite. Written by the original visionaries of the field, the next section discusses the history and future directions of conceptual structures. The final chapters explore prominent application areas in computer science, including text analysis, web semantics, and intelligent systems. An unprecedented, state-of-the-art overview from innovators in the field, this volume discusses how FCA and conceptual graphs can be used in many computer science areas. It serves as a benchmark of research on conceptual structures, inspiring further exploration in this discipline.
Creator: Michael Zimmer
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-03-11
Dewey code: 025.04
List Price: $119.00
Price: $90.00
Review Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Information Science and Knowledge Management) / Springer:Web search engines have emerged as one of the dominant technologies of modern life, leaving few aspects of our everyday activities untouched. Search engines are not just indispensable tools for finding and accessing information online, but have become a defining component of the human condition and can be conceptualized as a complex behavior embedded within an individual's everyday social, cultural, political, and information-seeking activities. This book investigates Web search from the non-technical perspective, bringing together chapters that represent a range of multidisciplinary theories, models, and ideas about Web searching. They examine the various roles and impacts of Web searching on the social, cultural, political, legal, and informational spheres of our lives, such as the impact on individuals, social groups, modern and postmodern ways of knowing, and public and private life. By critically examining the issues, theories, and formations arising from, and surrounding, Web searching, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives represents an important contribution to the emerging multidisciplinary body of research on Web search engines. The new ideas and novel perspectives on Web searching gathered in this volume will prove valuable for research and curricula in the fields of social sciences, communication studies, cultural studies, information science, and related disciplines.
Creator: Zahir Tari
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-12-20
Dewey code: 005
List Price: $109.00
Price: $87.21
Review On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE: OTM Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE ... Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / Springer:This two-volume set LNCS 4275/4276 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the four confederated conferences CoopIS 2006, DOA 2006, GADA 2006, and ODBASE 2006 held as OTM 2006 in Montpellier, France in October/November 2006. The 106 revised full and 9 short papers presented together with 4 keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 361 submissions. Corresponding with the four OTM 2006 main conferences CoopIS, ODBASE, GADA, and DOA, the papers are organized in topical sections on distributed information systems, workflow modelling, workflow management and discovery, dynamic and adaptable workflows, services metrics and pricing, formal approaches to services, trust and security in cooperative IS, P2P systems, collaborative systems design and development, collaborative systems development, cooperative IS applications, foundations, metadata, design, ontology mappings, information integration, agents, contexts, similarity and matching, resource selection and management, P2P-based systems, grid file transfer, parallel applications, scheduling in grid environments, autonomous and autonomic computing, grid infrastructures for data analysis, access control and security, programming aspects for developing scientific grid components, databases and data grids, distributed applications, evaluation, services, communications, searching techniques, types and notations, adaptivity, middleware, distribution support, and self-organisation.
Creator: Antonín Kucera
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-09-14
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $119.00
Price: $88.37
Review Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2007: 32nd International Symposium, MFCS 2007 Ceský Krumlov, Czech Republic, August 26-31, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / Springer:This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2007, held in Ceský Krumlov, Czech Republic, August 26-31, 2007. The 61 revised full papers presented together with the full papers or abstracts of 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. All current aspects in theoretical computer science and its mathematical foundations are addressed, ranging from algorithms and data structures, to complexity, automata, semantics, logic, formal specifications, models of computation, concurrency theory, computational geometry, parallel and distributed computing, networks, bioinformatics, quantum computing, cryptography, knowledge-based systems, and artificial intelligence.
Authors
- Christine Parent
- Stefano Spaccapietra
- Esteban Zimányi
Publication date: 2006-06-02
Dewey code: 005.74
List Price: $115.00
Price: $90.05
Review Conceptual Modeling for Traditional and Spatio-Temporal Applications: The MADS Approach / Springer:From environmental management to land planning and geo-marketing, the number of application domains that may greatly benefit from using data enriched with spatio-temporal features is expanding very rapidly. Unfortunately, development of new spatio-temporal applications is hampered by the lack of conceptual design methods suited to cope with the additional complexity of spatio-temporal data. This complexity is obviously due to the particular semantics of space and time, but also to the need for multiple representations of the same reality to address the diversity of requirements from highly heterogeneous user communities. Conceptual design methods are also needed to facilitate the exchange and reuse of existing data sets, a must in geographical data management due to the high collection costs of the data. Yet, current practice in areas like geographical information systems or moving objects databases does not include conceptual design methods very well, if at all. This book shows that a conceptual design approach for spatio-temporal databases is both feasible and easy to apprehend. While providing a firm basis through extensive discussion of traditional data modeling concepts, the major focus of the book is on modeling spatial and temporal information. Parent, Spaccapietra and Zimányi provide a detailed and comprehensive description of an approach that fills the gap between application conceptual requirements and system capabilities, covering both data modeling and data manipulation features. The ideas presented summarize several years of research on the characteristics and description of space, time, and perception. In addition to the authors' own data modeling approach, MADS (Modeling of Application Data with Spatio-temporal features), the book also surveys alternative data models and approaches (from industry and academia) that target support of spatio-temporal modeling. [+]The reader will acquire intimate knowledge of both the traditional and innovative features that form a consistent data modeling approach. Visual notations and examples are employed extensively to illustrate the use of the various constructs. Therefore, this book is of major importance and interest to advanced professionals, researchers, and graduate or post-graduate students in the areas of spatio-temporal databases and geographical information systems. "For anyone thinking of doing research in this field, or who is developing a system based on spatio-temporal data, this text is essential reading. " (Mike Worboys, U Maine, Orono, ME, USA) "The high-level semantic model presented and validated in this book provides essential guidance to researchers and implementers when improving the capabilities of data systems to serve the actual needs of applications and their users in the temporal and spatial domains that are so prevalent today. " (Gio Wiederhold, Stanford U, CA, USA).
Authors
- John A. Stankovic
- Marco Spuri
- Krithi Ramamritham
- Giorgio C. Buttazzo
Publication date: 1998-10-31
Dewey code: 004.33
List Price: $125.00
Price: $91.07
Review Deadline Scheduling for Real-Time Systems - EDF and Related Algorithms (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) / Springer:Many real-time systems rely on static scheduling algorithms. This includes cyclic scheduling, rate monotonic scheduling and fixed schedules created by off-line scheduling techniques such as dynamic programming, heuristic search, and simulated annealing. However, for many real-time systems, static scheduling algorithms are quite restrictive and inflexible. For example, highly automated agile manufacturing, command, control and communications, and distributed real-time multimedia applications all operate over long lifetimes and in highly non-deterministic environments. Dynamic real-time scheduling algorithms are more appropriate for these systems and are used in such systems. Many of these algorithms are based on earliest deadline first (EDF) policies. There exists a wealth of literature on EDF-based scheduling with many extensions to deal with sophisticated issues such as precedence constraints, resource requirements, system overload, multi-processors, and distributed systems. Deadline Scheduling for Real-Time Systems: EDF and Related Algorithms aims at collecting a significant body of knowledge on EDF scheduling for real-time systems, but it does not try to be all-inclusive (the literature is too extensive). The book primarily presents the algorithms and associated analysis, but guidelines, rules, and implementation considerations are also discussed, especially for the more complicated situations where mathematical analysis is difficult. In general, it is very difficult to codify and taxonomize scheduling knowledge because there are many performance metrics, task characteristics, and system configurations. [+]Also, adding to the complexity is the fact that a variety of algorithms have been designed for different combinations of these considerations. In spite of the recent advances there are still gaps in the solution space and there is a need to integrate the available solutions. For example, a list of issues to consider includes: + preemptive versus non-preemptive tasks, + uni-processors versus multi-processors, + using EDF at dispatch time versus EDF-based planning, + precedence constraints among tasks, + resource constraints, + periodic versus aperiodic versus sporadic tasks, + scheduling during overload, + fault tolerance requirements, and + providing guarantees and levels of guarantees (meeting quality of service requirements). Deadline Scheduling for Real-Time Systems: EDF and Related Algorithms should be of interest to researchers, real-time system designers, and instructors and students, either as a focussed course on deadline-based scheduling for real-time systems, or, more likely, as part of a more general course on real-time computing. The book serves as an invaluable reference in this fast-moving field.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-12-13
Dewey code: 005.74
List Price: $109.95
Price: $87.96
Review Intelligent Data Warehousing: From Data Preparation to Data Mining / CRC:Effective decision support systems (DSS) are quickly becoming key to businesses gaining a competitive advantage, and the effectiveness of these systems depends on the ability to construct, maintain, and extract information from data warehouses. While many still perceive data warehousing as a subdiscipline of management information systems (MIS), in fact many of its advances have and will continue to come from the computer science arena. Intelligent Data Warehousing presents the state of the art in data warehousing research and practice from a perspective that integrates business applications and computer science. It brings the intelligent techniques associated with artificial intelligence (AI) to the entire process of data warehousing, including data preparation, storage, and mining. Part I provides an overview of the main ideas and fundamentals of data mining, artificial intelligence, business intelligence, and data warehousing. Part II presents core materials on data warehousing, and Part III explores data analysis and knowledge discovery in the data warehousing environment, including how to perform intelligent data analysis and the discovery of influential association patterns. Bridging the gap between theoretical research and business applications, this book summarizes the main ideas behind recent research developments rather than setting forth technical details, and it presents case studies that show the how-to's of implementing these ideas. The result is a practical, first-of-its-kind book that brings together scattered research, unites MIS with computer science, and melds intelligent techniques with data warehousing.
Creator: Gabor C. Temes
Publication date: 1996-10-14
Dewey code: 621.3815322
List Price: $165.00
Price: $90.00
Review Delta-Sigma Data Converters: Theory, Design, and Simulation / Wiley-IEEE Press:This comprehensive guide offers a detailed treatment of the analysis, design, simulation and testing of the full range of today's leading delta-sigma data converters. Written by professionals experienced in all practical aspects of delta-sigma modulator design, DELTA-SIGMA DATA CONVERTERS provides comprehensive coverage of low and high-order single-bit, bandpass, continuous-time, multi-stage modulators as well as advanced topics, including idle-channel tones, stability, decimation and interpolation filter design, and simulation.
Publication date: 2006-01-11
Dewey code: 025.04
List Price: $110.00
Price: $88.00
Review The Semantic Web: Crafting Infrastructure for Agency / Wiley:The Semantic Web is an idea of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee that the Web as a whole can be made more intelligent and perhaps even intuitive about how to serve a users needs. Although search engines index much of the Web's content, they have little ability to select the pages that a user really wants or needs. Berners-Lee foresees a number of ways in which developers and authors, singly or in collaborations, can use self-descriptions and other techniques so that the context-understanding programs can selectively find what users want. The Semantic Web: Crafting Infrastructure for Agency presents a more holistic view of the current state of development and deployment. This a comprehensive reference to the rapidly developing technologies, which are enabling more intelligent and automated transactions over the internet, and a visionary overview of the implications of deploying such a layer of infrastructure. A through examination of the Semantic Web, including the following topics: web information management, languages and protocols, application and tools, and collaboration and agency. A unique volume of practical information, in-depth analysis, conceptual overviews and contextual material from professionals in the field. Features appendices of technical terms and glossary, Semantic Web resources, intellectual property issues and lists of elements. This is essential reading for engineers, web developers and industry professionals wishing to enhance their knowledge of recent developments. Management staff, lecturers. [+]postgraduate and undergraduate students will also find this book appealing.
Authors
- D. C.) Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries (1997 : Washington
Publication date: 1997-05
Dewey code: 025.00285
List Price: $60.00
Price: $88.23
Review IEEE International Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries: Adl'97 : May 7-9, 1997 Washington, Dc : Proceedings / Institute of Electrical & Electronics Enginee:These papers on database and information systems cover: information retrieval; medical applications; and access to services.
Creator: Gabriele Taentzer
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-10-07
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $99.00
Price: $88.54
Review Graph Transformations: 4th International Conference, ICGT 2008, Leicester, United Kingdom, September 7-13, 2008, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / Springer:This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Graph Transformations, ICGT 2008, held in Leicester, UK, in September 2008. The 27 revised full papers presented together with 5 tutorial and workshop papers and 3 invited lectures were carefully selected from 57 submissions. All current aspects in graph drawing are addressed including hypergraphs and termgraph rewriting, applications of graph transformation, execution of graph transformations, compositional systems, validation and verification, graph languages and special transformation concepts, as well as patterns and model transformations. In addition the volume contains 17 short papers of the ICGT 2008 Doctoral Symposium.
Creator: Emo Welzl
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-11-28
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $119.00
Price: $88.67
Review Algorithms - ESA 2007: 15th Annual European Symposium, Eilat, Israel, October 8-10, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / Springer:This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2007, held in Eilat, Israel, in October 2007 in the context of the combined conference ALGO 2007. The 63 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected: 50 papers out of 165 submissions for the design and analysis track and 13 out of 44 submissions in the engineering and applications track. The papers address all current subjects in algorithmics reaching from design and analysis issues of algorithms over to real-world applications and engineering of algorithms in various fields.
Authors
- Apostolos N. Papadopoulos
- Alexandros Nanopoulos
- Y. Theodoridis
- Yannis Manolopoulos
Publication date: 2005-09-30
Dewey code: 005
List Price: $104.00
Price: $90.85
Review R-Trees: Theory and Applications (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing) / Springer:Space support in databases poses new challenges in every part of a database management system & the capability of spatial support in the physical layer is considered very important. This has led to the design of spatial access methods to enable the effective & efficient management of spatial objects. R-trees have a simplicity of structure & together with their resemblance to the B-tree, allow developers to incorporate them easily into existing database management systems for the support of spatial query processing. This book provides an extensive survey of the R-tree evolution, studying the applicability of the structure & its variations to efficient query processing, accurate proposed cost models, & implementation issues like concurrency control and parallelism. Written for database researchers, designers & programmers as well as graduate students, this comprehensive monograph will be a welcome addition to the field.
Creator: Mokrane Bouzeghoub
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-03-18
Dewey code: 005.74
List Price: $111.00
Price: $88.80
Review Advances in Database Technology EDBT '96: 5th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Avignon, France, March 25-29 1996, Proceedings. / Springer:This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT'96, held in Avignon, France in March 1996. The 31 full revised papers included were selected from a total of 178 submissions; also included are some industrial-track papers, contributed by partners of several ESPRIT projects. The volume is organized in topical sections on data mining, active databases, design tools, advanced DBMS, optimization, warehousing, system issues, temporal databases, the web and hypermedia, performance, workflow management, database design, and parallel databases.
Creator: Pilar Herrero
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-12-14
Dewey code: 005
List Price: $119.00
Price: $93.88
Review On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, OTM Academy Doctoral ... Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) / Springer:This two-volume set LNCS 4805/4806 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 10 international workshops and papers of the OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium held as part of OTM 2007 in Vilamoura, Portugal, in November 2007. The 126 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 241 submissions to the workshops. The first volume begins with 23 additional revised short or poster papers of the OTM 2007 main conferences. Topics of the workshop papers contained are agents, web services and ontologies merging (AweSOMe 2007), context aware mobile systems (CAMS 2007), OTM academy doctoral consortium, mobile and networking technologies for social applications (MONET 2007), ontology content and evaluation in enterprise (OntoContent 2007), obect-role modeling (ORM 2007), pervasive systems (PerSys 2007), peer to peer networks (PPN 2007), reliability in decentralized distributed systems (RDDS 2007), scalable semantic Web knowledge base systems (SSWS 2007), and semantic Web and Web semantics (SWWS 2007).
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Database and Expert Systems Applications: 15th International Conference, DEXA 2004, Zaragoza, Spain, August 30-September 3, 2004, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Data modeling (Quick study), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES): Optimal Design, Planning, and Deployment, Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing - ICANN/ICONIP 2003: Joint International Conference ICANN/ICONIP 2003, Istanbul, Turkey, June ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008: OTM Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, GADA, IS, and ODBASE 2008, Monterrey, Mexico, ... Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Conceptual Structures in Practice (Chapman & Hall/Crc Studies in Informatics Series), Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Information Science and Knowledge Management), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE: OTM Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE ... Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2007: 32nd International Symposium, MFCS 2007 Ceský Krumlov, Czech Republic, August 26-31, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Conceptual Modeling for Traditional and Spatio-Temporal Applications: The MADS Approach, Deadline Scheduling for Real-Time Systems - EDF and Related Algorithms (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science), Intelligent Data Warehousing: From Data Preparation to Data Mining, Delta-Sigma Data Converters: Theory, Design, and Simulation, The Semantic Web: Crafting Infrastructure for Agency, IEEE International Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries: Adl'97 : May 7-9, 1997 Washington, Dc : Proceedings, Graph Transformations: 4th International Conference, ICGT 2008, Leicester, United Kingdom, September 7-13, 2008, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Algorithms - ESA 2007: 15th Annual European Symposium, Eilat, Israel, October 8-10, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), R-Trees: Theory and Applications (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing), Advances in Database Technology EDBT '96: 5th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Avignon, France, March 25-29 1996, Proceedings., On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, OTM Academy Doctoral ... 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