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This book presents the selected results of the 1 st International Symposium on Applied Computers and Information Technology (ACIT 2013) held on August 31 - September 4, 2013 in Matsue City, Japan, which brought together researchers, scientists, engineers, industry practitioners and students to discuss all aspects of Applied Computers & Information Technology and its practical challenges. This book includes the best 12 papers presented at the conference, which were chosen based on review scores submitted by members of the program committee and underwent further rigorous rounds of review.

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Intelligent Billboard Based on Ambient System (IBBAS).- Deriving Pauses for Obtaining Fundamental Movements in Traditional Skills.- A Novel Approach to Design of an Under-actuated Mechanism for Grasping in Agriculture Application.- Discovering Unpredictably Related Words from Logs of Scholarly Repositories for Grouping Similar Queries.- A Trichotomic Approach to Concept Capture and Representation With its Application to Library Data Mining.- Hard Optimization Problems in Learning Tree Contraction Patterns.- A Web Page Segmentation Approach Using Seam Degree and Content Similarity.- Improving Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm and Its Application to Physical Travelling Salesman Problems with a Dynamic Search Space.- Experimental Implementation of a M2M System Controlled by a Wiki Network.- Personal Ontology Extraction Considering Content Concordance from Tagging to Web pages in Similar SBM Users.- Psychophysiological and Behavioral Evaluation of the Process of Mastering Skills To Select Appropriate Indices for a Target Movement.- Frameworks for Adaptive Human Management Systems based on MDA.

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