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There are few more important topics than computational science and its applications, and few harder to keep apprised of. This first volume in a series based on a key industry congress covers the cutting edge in sub-fields including robotics and data mining.

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The latest inventions in computer technology influence most of human daily activities. In the near future, there is tendency that all of aspect of human life will be dependent on computer applications. In manufacturing, robotics and automation have become vital for high quality products. In education, the model of teaching and learning is focusing more on electronic media than traditional ones. Issues related to energy savings and environment is becoming critical.

Computational Science should enhance the quality of human life, not only solve their problems. Computational Science should help humans to make wise decisions by presenting choices and their possible consequences. Computational Science should help us make sense of observations, understand natural language, plan and reason with extensive background knowledge. Intelligence with wisdom is perhaps an ultimate goal for human-oriented science.

This book is a compilation of some recent research findings in computer application and computational science. This book provides state-of-the-art accounts in Computer Control and Robotics, Computers in Education and Learning Technologies, Computer Networks and Data Communications, Data Mining and Data Engineering, Energy and Power Systems, Intelligent Systems and Autonomous Agents, Internet and Web Systems, Scientific Computing and Modeling, Signal, Image and Multimedia Processing, and Software Engineering.

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From the content: A Microrobotic Gripper and Force Sensor.- On-Line Path Planning for UAV in Dynamic Environment.- An Automatic Portal Radiograph Verification System for Proton Therapy.- Compensation of Hydraulic Drag for an Underwater Manipulator Using a Real-time SPH Fluid Simulator: Application in a Master-Slave Teleoperation.- Design of bipedal bionic electric mobile platform based on MATLAB.- On the Design and Implementation of A Wearable Hybrid Assisted Lower Limb Orthosis.- 3D Point Sets Matching Method Based On Moravec Vertical Interest Operator.- Improvement and Simulation of Contract-Net-Based Task Allocation for Multi-Robot System.

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