Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing 2012 (Studies in Computational Intelligence, 443)

The purpose of the 13th℗ International Conference on Computer and Information Science (SNPD 2012) held on August 8-10, 2012 in Kyoto, Japan was to bring together researchers and scientists, businessmen and entrepreneurs, teachers and students to discuss the numerous fields of computer science, and to share ideas and information in a meaningful way.℗ Our conference officers selected the best 17 papers from those papers accepted for presentation at the conference in order to publish them in this volume.℗ The papers were chosen based on review scores submitted by members of the program committee, and underwent further rounds of rigorous review. ℗ The℗ conference organizers selected 17 outstanding papers from SNPD 2012, all of which you will find in this volume of Springer ́ s Studies in Computational Intelligence Front Matter....Pages 1-11 Evaluation of Secular Changes in Statistical Features of Traffic for the Purpose of Malware Detection....Pages 1-11 A Comparative Study in the Bump Hunting between the Tree-GA and the PRIM....Pages 13-25 Back-to-Back Testing Framework Using a Machine Learning Method....Pages 27-36 StenoCipher to Provide Data Confidentiality and Tampered Data Recovery for RFID Tag....Pages 37-51 Multimedia Stream Rate Control over MANET Based on Router Feedback....Pages 53-68 Multivariate Regression Modeling for Home Value Estimates with Evaluation Using Maximum Information Coefficient....Pages 69-81 An Improvement of Basic Mouth Shape Detection Rate from Japanese Utterance Image Sequence Using Optical Flow....Pages 83-94 A Non-contact Image-to-Patient Registration Method Using Kinect Sensor and WAP-ICP....Pages 95-102 Page-Flow in Query Engine Grid....Pages 103-115 Automated Deployment of Hierarchical Components....Pages 117-128 Speech Synthesis of Emotions Using Vowel Features....Pages 129-141 Knowledge Management for Model Driven Data Cleaning of Very Large Database....Pages 143-158 Supporting End-User Development of Context-Aware Services in Home Network System....Pages 159-170 Analyzing Risk Factors Affecting Project Cost Overrun....Pages 171-184 Error Prediction Methods for Embedded Software Development Using Hybrid Models of Self-Organizing Maps and Multiple Regression Analyses....Pages 185-200 An Attribute Labeled Grid Graph Grammar and Its Application to Program Specification Forms....Pages 201-214 Multimodal Medical Image Fusion in Extended Contourlet Transform Domain....Pages 215-226 Back Matter....Pages 0--1