Last update:
Mon May 28 12:32:21 MDT 2018
P. Feautrier Basis of Parallel Speculative Execution 3 T. Hoare and J. He Unifying Theories for Parallel Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 M. Hermenegildo Automatic Parallelization of Irregular and Pointer-Based Computations: Perspectives from Logic and Constraint Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 F. Meyer auf der Heide and B. Voecking Static and Dynamic Management in Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 U. Ruede Iterative Algorithms on High Performance Architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 P. Stenstroem and J. Skeppstedt A Performance Tuning Approach for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors . . . . . 72 A. D. Malony and B. Tourancheau Support Tools and Environments . . . . . 87 C. L. Jeffery and S. G. Dykes and X. Zhang and G. H. Gonzalez Nova Visualization for Optimization of Data-Parallel Programs . . . . . . . . . 89 F. Teodorescu and J. Chassin de Kergommeaux On Correcting the Intrusion of Tracing Non-deterministic Programs by Software 94 D. Kranzlmueller and S. Grabner and J. J. Volkert Using Control and Data Flow Analysis for Race Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 A. T. Krantz and V. S. Sunderam Client Server Computing on Message Passing Systems: Experiences with PVM-RPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 R. C. Koppler and G. K\rurka and J. J. Volkert Exdasy --- A User-Friendly and Extendable Data Distribution System . . 118 P. D. Medeiros and J. C. Cunha Interconnecting Multiple Heterogeneous Parallel Application Components . . . . 128 T. Delaitre and P. Vekariya and R. Bigeard and G. R. Justo EDPEPPS: An Integrated Graphical Toolset for the Design and Performance Evaluation of Portable Parallel Software 140 G. Stellner and J. Trinitis Load Balancing Based on Process Migration for MPI . . . . . . . . . . . 150 J. Aguilar and T. Jimenez A Processors Management System for PVM 158 H. Zhu and I. Watson A Full Program Control Flow Representation for Real Programs . . . . 162 E. Mayr and C. Das Routing and Communication in Interconnection Networks . . . . . . . . 169 F. Petrini and M. Vanneschi Efficient Total-Exchange in Wormhole-Routed Toroidal Cubes . . . . . 171 E. A. Varvarigos and J. P. Lang An Analysis of Deflection-Based Wormhole Routing with Virtual Channels . . . . . 176 M. Di Ianni Wormhole Deadlock Prediction . . . . . . 188 G. Bilardi and B. Codenotti and G. Del Corso and C. Pinotti Broadcast and Associative Operations on Fat-Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 S. Nikoletseas and G. Pantziou and P. Psycharis and P. Spirakis On the Fault Tolerance of Fat-Trees . . 208 D. Deserable Minimal Routing in the Triangular Grid and in a Family of Related Tori . . . . 218 J. Trdlicka and P. Tvrdik Embedding Complete $k$-ary Trees into $2$-Dimensional Meshes and Tori . . . . 226 M. Soch and P. Tvrdik Optimal Gossip in Store-and-Forward Noncombining $2$-D Tori . . . . . . . . 234 I. Vrt'o Cutwidth of the Mesh of $d$-ary Trees 242 V. Leppaenen Embedding and Emulation Results for Static Multichannel Mesh of Optical Buses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 E. Karaivazoglou and F. Meyer auf der Heide Routing on Asynchronous Processor Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 R. Kralovic and P. Ruzicka and D. Stefankovic The Complexity of Shortest Path and Dilation Bounded Interval Routing . . . 258 P. Damaschke Finding a Pair on a Mesh with Multiple Broadcasting is Hard . . . . . . . . . . 266 B. S. Chlebus and A. Czumaj and J. F. Sibeyn Routing on the PADAM: Degrees of Optimality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Y. Robert Automatic Parallelization and High-Performance Compilers . . . . . . . 283 P. Clauss Handling Memory Cache Policy with Integer Points Countings . . . . . . . . 285 Y.- K. Kwok and I. Ahmad and M.-Y. Wu and W. Shu A Graphical Tool for Automatic Parallelization and Scheduling of Programs on Multiprocessors . . . . . . 294 H. Zhu and I. Watson Identifying Critical Loads in Real Programs for Decoupled Virtual Shared Memory Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 O. Beckmann and P. H. J. Kelly Runtime Interprocedural Data Placement Optimisation for Lazy Parallel Libraries 306 R. Wyrzykowski and J. Kanevski A Technique for Mapping Sparse Matrix Computations into Regular Processor Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 V. Kotlyar and K. Pingali and P. Stodghill A Relational Approach to the Compilation of Sparse Matrix Programs . . . . . . . 318 V. Loechner and C. Mongenet Solutions to the Communication Minimization Problem for Affine Recurrence Equations . . . . . . . . . . 328 M. Besch and H. W. Pohl Dependence-Free Clustering of Shift-Invariant Data Structures . . . . 338 W. Amine and E. M. Zehendner Experiences in Analyzing Data Dependences for Programs with Pointers and Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 C. W. Kessler Applicability of Program Comprehension to Sparse Matrix Computations . . . . . 347 C. Barrado and J. Labarta Hamiltonian Recurrence for ILP . . . . . 352 V. Lefebvre and P. Feautrier Optimizing Storage Size for Static Control Programs in Automatic Parallelizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 J. Knoop and E. Mehofer Optimal Distribution Assignment Placement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 K. Marzullo and C. Phillips Parallel and Distributed Algorithms . . 377 D. C. Lin and P. W. Dymond and X. Deng Parallel Merge Sort on Concurrent-Read, Owner-Write PRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 P. Sanders and R. Vollmar and T. Worsch Feasible Models of Computation: Three-Dimensionality and Energy Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384 J. F. Sibeyn Sample Sort on Meshes . . . . . . . . . 389 A. Wachsmann and R. Wanka Sorting on a Massively Parallel System Using a Library of Basic Primitives --- Modeling and Experimental Results . . . 399 A. V. Gerbessiotis and C. J. Siniolakis and A. Tiskin Parallel Priority Queue and List Contraction: The BSP Approach . . . . . 409 M. Marin Priority Queue Operations on EREW-PRAM 417 L. Bouge and J. Gabarro and X. Messeguer and N. Schabanel Concurrent Rebalancing of AVL Trees: A Fine-Grained Approach . . . . . . . . . 421 W. Liang and G. Havas NC Approximation Algorithms for $2$-Connectivity Augmentation in a Graph 430 M. Serna and F. Xhafa Approximating Scheduling Problems in Parallel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 Viet Hai Nguyen A New Staircase Separator Theorem . . . 450 N. Kalantery Tentative Time Warp . . . . . . . . . . 458 J. Bataller and J. Bernabeu Synchronized DSM Models . . . . . . . . 468 F. Petit and V. Villain A Space-Efficient and Self-Stabilizing Depth-First Token Circulation Protocol for Asynchronous Message-Passing Systems 476 G. Antonoiu and P. K. Srimani Distributed Self-Stabilizing Algorithm for Minimum Spanning Tree Construction 480 M. Skubiszewski and N. Porteix Partly-Consistent Cuts of Databases . . 488 D. Agrawal and G. Alonso and A. El Abbadi and I. Stanoi Exploiting Atomic Broadcast in Replicated Databases . . . . . . . . . . 496 R. Perrott and G. Agha Programming Languages and Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming . . . . . . 507 A. Stewart and M. Clint Synchronising Asynchronous Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511 E. Violard Typechecking of PEI Expressions . . . . 521 F. Loulergue and G. Hains Functional Parallel Programming with Explicit Processes: Beyond SPMD . . . . 530 L. F. Llana Diaz and M. Nuñez Testing Semantics for Unbounded Nondeterminism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538 Y. Oyama and K. Taura and A. Yonezawa An Efficient Compilation Framework for Languages Based on a Concurrent Process Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546 A. Ravara and V. Vasconcelos Behavioural Types for a Calculus of Concurrent Objects . . . . . . . . . . . 554 P. Kosiuczenko Time in Message Sequence Charts: A Formal Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 562 A. J. Nebro and E. Pimentel and J. M. Troya Integrating an Entry Consistency Memory Model and Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567 R. Breu and R. Grosu Modeling the Dynamic Behavior of Objects on Events, Messages and Methods . . . . 572 A. R. Silva A Quality Design Solution for Object Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . 576 L. Moreau and D. De Route and I. Foster NeXeme: A Distributed Scheme Based on Nexus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581 J. Briat and I. Ginzburg and M. Pasin and B. Plateau Athapascan Runtime: Efficiency for Irregular Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 591 M. Kandemir and J. Ramanujam and A. Choudhary Optimization of Out-of-Core Computations Using Chain Vectors . . . . . . . . . . 601 D. B. Skillicorn Programming Models and Methods . . . . . 611 J. Kornerup Parlists --- A Generalization of Powerlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614 M. Danelutto and F. Pasqualetti and S. Pelagatti Skeletons for Data Parallelism in P3L 619 J. Serot Embodying Parallel Functional Skeletons: An Experimental Implementation on Top of MPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629 M. I. Cole On Dividing and Conquering Independently 634 Q. Wu and A. J. Field and P. H. J. Kelly M-Tree: A Parallel Abstract Data Type for Block-Irregular Adaptive Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638 C. B. Jay and M. I. Cole and M. Sekanina and P. Steckler A Monadic Calculus for Parallel Costing of a Functional Language of Arrays . . . 650 J. O'Donnell and G. Ruenger A Methodology for Deriving Parallel Programs with a Family of Parallel Abstract Machines . . . . . . . . . . . 662 N. Winstanley and J. O'Donnell Parallel Distributed Programming with Haskell+PVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670 J. M. Nash and P. M. Dew and J. R. Davy A Parallelisation Approach for Supporting Scalable and Portable Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678 H.- J. Bungartz Parallel Numerical Algorithms . . . . . 685 T. Rauber and G. Ruenger and C. Scholtes Scalability of Parallel Sparse Cholesky Factorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688 E. E. Santos Optimal Parallel Algorithms for Solving Tridiagonal Linear Systems . . . . . . . 700 M. Szularz and J. Weston and M. Clint Robust Parallel Lanczos Methods for Clustered Eigenvalues . . . . . . . . . 710 A. Kiper A Fully Parallel Symmetric Matrix Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718 T. Rossi and J. Toivanen Numerical Experiments with a Parallel Fast Direct Elliptic Solver on Cray T3E 722 G. Haase New Matrix-by-Vector Multiplications Based on a Nonoverlapping Domain Decomposition Data Distribution . . . . 726 W. Huber A Comparison Between Different Parallelization Methods on Workstation Clusters to Solve CFD-Problems . . . . . 734 A. Frommer and T. Lippert and K. Schilling Scalable Parallel SSOR Preconditioning for Lattice Computations in Gauge Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742 T. Steihaug and Y. Yalcinkaya Deteriorating Convergence for Asynchronous Methods on Linear Least Squares Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 750 P. Stenstroem and P. Quinton Parallel Computer Architecture and Image Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763 C. J. Glossner and S. Vassiliadis The Delft-Java Engine . . . . . . . . . 766 D. K. Arvind and S. Sotelo-Salazar Scheduling Instructions with Uncertain Latencies in Asynchronous Architectures 771 H. Tomiyasu and S. Kusakabe and T. Kawano and M. Amamiya Co-processor System Design for Fine-Grain Message Handling in KUMP/D 779 D. Kim and J. Lee A Virtual-Physical On-Chip Cache for Shared Memory Multiprocessors . . . . . 789 T. Kisuki and M. Wakabayashi and J. Yamamoto and K. Inoue Shared vs. Snoop: Evaluation of Cache Structure for Single-Chip Multiprocessors . . . . . . . . . . . . 793 K. P. Lam and A. Furness An Analytical Design of High-Speed Pixel Transformation for Object Boundary Enhancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807 M. Fleury and A. C. Downton and A. F. Clark Karhuenen-Loeve Transform: An Exercise in Simple Image-Processing Parallel Pipelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815 E. D. Willink and A. V. Shafarenko and V. B. Muchnick Use of F-Code as a Very High Level Intermediate Language for DSP . . . . . 820 W. Gentzsch Applications of High-Performance Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827 J. G. Barbosa and A. J. Padilha and J.-P. Madier and T. Neubert Experiments on Using WPVM for Industrial Visual Inspection Problems . . . . . . . 828 F. Guidec and P. Calegari and P. Kuonen Object-Oriented Parallel Software for Radio Wave Propagation Simulation in Urban Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 832 A. Bouaricha and S. Mueller A Portable Parallel Implementation of a $3$D Semiconductor Device Simulator . . 840 M. Hahad A Parallel Sparse LU Decomposition with Application to Semiconductor Device Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848 M. Juganaru and I. Sakho and C. Maurice and F. Montheillet A Parallel Simulation of a Quantitative Large-Strain Polycrystal Deformation . . 852 N. Marco and S. Lanteri and J.-A. Desideri and B. Mantel Parallel Genetic Algorithms Applied to Optimum Shape Design in Aeronautics . . 856 S. Muzaferija and V. Seidl and H. Fogt and A. Kneer Parallel Multidimensional Calculation of Steady-State and Time-Dependent Flows with Combustion . . . . . . . . . . . . 864 J. W. Manke and T. M. Wicks and L. Dadone and J. E. Hirsh A Two-Level Parallel Strategy for Rotorcraft Optimization and Design . . . 872 V. Kumar and R. Lueling and C. Roucairol Scheduling and Load Balancing . . . . . 879 A. Corradi and L. Leonardi and F. Zambonelli Performance Comparison of Load Balancing Policies Based on a Diffusion Scheme . . 882 X. Du and Y. Dong and X. Zhang Effectively Scheduling Parallel Tasks and Communications on Networks of Workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887 W. Loewe and W. Zimmermann and J. Eisenbiegler On Linear Schedules of Task Graphs for Generalized LogP-Machines . . . . . . . 895 C. Boeres and V. E. F. Rebello Versatile Task Scheduling of Binary Trees for Realistic Machines . . . . . . 913 J. Galtier Load Balancing Issues in the Prepartitioning Method . . . . . . . . . 922 S. K. Das and D. J. Harvey and R. Biswas Design of Novel Load-Balancing Algorithms with Implementations on an IBM SP2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937 K. Schloegel and G. Karypis and V. Kumar Repartitioning of Adaptive Meshes: Experiments with Multilevel Diffusion 945 F. D'Amore and L. Becchetti and S. L. Bezrukov and A. Marchetti-Spaccamela On the Embedding of Refinements of $2$-Dimensional Grids . . . . . . . . . 950 J. Gehring Dynamic Program Description as a Basis for Runtime Optimization . . . . . . . . 958 A. Bode and J. Dongarra Performance Evaluation and Prediction 969--970 J. Simon and M. Vieth and R. Weicker Workload Analysis of Computation Intensive Tasks: Case Study on SPEC CPU95 Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . 971 E. Strohmaier Statistical Performance Modeling: Case Study of the NPB 2.1 Results . . . . . . 985 C. J. Bouras and J. D. Garofalakis and P. G. Spirakis and V. D. Triantafillou A General Performance Model for Multistage Interconnection Networks . . 993 C. D. Pham and J. Essmeyer and S. Fdida Simulation of a Routing Algorithm Using Distributed Simulation Techniques . . . 1001 V. Getov and E. Hernandez and T. Hey Message-Passing Performance of Parallel Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009 E. D. Moreno and S. T. Kofuji and M. H. Cintra Prefetching and Multithreading Performance in Bus-Based Multiprocessors with Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017 J. Smith On Synchronisation in Fault-Tolerant Data and Compute Intensive Programs over a Network of Workstations . . . . . . . 1025 M. Pahud and F. Guidec and T. Cornu Performance Analysis of a Parallel Program for Wave Propagation Simulation 1030 L. Lundberg Bounding the Minimal Completion Time of Static Mappings of Multithreaded Solaris Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1034 D. K. Arvind Instruction-Level Parallelism . . . . . 1041 M. H. Lipasti and J. P. Shen The Performance Potential of Value and Dependence Prediction . . . . . . . . . 1043 J.-B. Lee and W. Sung and S.-M. Moon An Enhanced Two-Level Adaptive Multiple Branch Prediction for Superscalar Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053 E. M. C. Filho and E. S. T. Fernandes The Effect of the Speculation Depth on the Performance of Superscalar Architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1061
D. L. Parnas Software Engineering: An Unconsummated Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 J. Rushby Subtypes for Specifications . . . . . . 4 B. Boehm and J. Kwan and R. Madachy Developing Multimedia Applications with the Win-Win Spiral Model . . . . . . . . 20 T. S. E. Maibaum What we Teach Software Engineers in the University: Do we take engineering seriously? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 J. Uhl What we Expect from Software Engineers in the Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 R. A. Kemmerer Security Issues in Distributed Software 52 N. Medvidovic and R. N. Taylor A Framework for Classifying and Comparing Architecture Description Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 G. Naumovich and G. S. Avrunin and L. A. Clarke and L. J. Osterweil Applying Static Analysis to Software Architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 T. D. Meijler and S. Demeyer and R. Engel Making Design Patterns Explicit in FACE --- A Framework Adaptive Composition Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 G. Allen and L. Davies and G. Lindmark and E.- A. Karlsson TTM15 --- A Large Multi-Site Improvement Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 G. Joeris Change Management Needs Integrated Process and Configuration Management . . 125 S. M. Sutton and L. J. Osterweil The Design of a Next-Generation Process Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 A. Van Der Hoek and R. S. Hall and D. Heimbigner and A. L. Wolf Software Release Management . . . . . . 159 K. Pohl and K. Weidenhaupt A Contextual Approach for Process-Integrated Tools . . . . . . . . 176 J. H. Jahnke and W. Schaefer and A. Zuendorf Generic Fuzzy Reasoning Nets as a Basis for Reverse Engineering Relational Database Applications . . . . . . . . . 193 A. Alborghetti and A. Gargantini and A. Morzenti Providing Automated Support to Deductive Analysis of Time Critical Systems . . . 211 Shing Chi Cheung and D. Giannakopoulou and J. Kramer Verification of Liveness Properties Using Compositional Reachability Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 M. B. Dwyer and V. Carr and L. Hines Model Checking Graphical User Interfaces Using Abstractions . . . . . . . . . . . 244 M. Wood and M. Roper and A. Brooks and J. Miller Comparing and Combining Software Defect Detection Techniques: A Replicated Empirical Study . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 C. Ebert Experiences with Criticality Predictions in Software Development . . . . . . . . 278 L. Pek Wee Land and C. Sauer and R. Jeffery Validating the Defect Detection Performance Advantage of Group Designs for Software Reviews: Report of a Laboratory Experiment Using Program Code 294 J. Desharnais and R. Khedri and M. Frappier and A. Mili Integration of Sequential Scenarios . . 310 G. Engels and R. Heckel and G. Taentzer and H. Ehrig A View-Oriented Approach to System Modelling Based on Graph Transformation 327 D. S. Rosenblum and A. L. Wolf A Design Framework for Internet-Scale Event Observation and Notification . . . 344 R. Bodik and R. Gupta and M. L. Soffa Refining Data Flow Information Using Infeasible Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 R. Forgacs and A. Bertolino Feasible Test Path Selection by Principal Slicing . . . . . . . . . . . 378 P. Devanbu and S. G. Stubblebine Cryptographic Verification of Test Coverage Claims . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 Y.-F. R. Chen and E. R. Gansner and E. Koutsofios A C++ Data Model Supporting Reachability Analysis and Dead Code Detection . . . . 414 T. Reps and T. Ball and M. Das and J. Larus The Use of Program Profiling for Software Maintenance with Applications to the Year 2000 Problem . . . . . . . . 432 M. P. E. Heimdahl and M. W. Whalen Reduction and Slicing of Hierarchical State Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 M. Schuetze and J. P. Riegel and G. Zimmermann A Pattern-Based Application Generator for Building Simulation . . . . . . . . 468 S. Ducasse and T. Richner Executable Connectors: Towards Reusable Design Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . 483 G. P. Picco and G.-C. Roman and P. J. McCann Expressing Code Mobility in Mobile UNITY 500 E.-A. Karlsson and L. Taxen Incremental Development for AXE 10 . . . 519 D. E. Perry and L. G. Votta The Tale of Two Projects . . . . . . . . 521 J. H. Obbink Analysis of Software Architectures in High and Low Volume Electronic Systems 523 A. Idri and B. Griech and A. El Irak Towards an Adaptation of the COCOMO Cost Model to the Software Measurement Theory 525 P. Dini and A. Belkhelladi and W. L. Melo Formalizing Software Architectures: An Industrial Experience . . . . . . . . . 527
G. Ramalingam On Sparse Evaluation Representations . . 1 M. Shapiro and S. Horwitz The Effects of the Precision of Pointer Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 O. Waddell and R. K. Dybvig Fast and Effective Procedure Inlining 35 R. Bagnara and P. M. Hill and E. Zaffanella Set Sharing is Redundant for Pair-Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 M. Codish and V. Lagoon and F. Bueno An Algebraic Approach to Sharing Analysis of Logic Programs . . . . . . . 68 F. Scozzari Logical Optimality of Groundness Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 K. Yi and S. Ryu Toward a Cost-Effective Estimation of Uncaught Exceptions in SML Programs . . 98 M. Faehndrich and A. Aiken Program Analysis using Mixed Term and Set Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 P. Devienne and J. M. Talbot and S. Tison Set-Based Analysis for Logic Programming and Tree Automata . . . . . . . . . . . 127 F. Zartmann Denotational Abstract Interpretation of Functional Logic Programs . . . . . . . 141 C. Speirs and Z. Somogyi and H. Sondergaard Termination Analysis for Mercury . . . . 160 B. Boigelot and P. Godefroid and B. Willems and P. Wolper The Power of QDDs . . . . . . . . . . . 172 A. Igarashi and N. Kobayashi Type-Based Analysis of Communication for Concurrent Programming Languages . . . . 187 C. Bodei and C. Priami True Concurrency via Abstract Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 I. Mackie Static Analysis of Interaction Nets for Distributed Implementations . . . . . . 217 S. Jagannathan and S. Weeks and A. Wright Type-Directed Flow Analysis for Typed Intermediate Languages . . . . . . . . . 232 C. Mossin Exact Flow Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 250 A. Frey Satisfying Subtype Inequalities in Polynomial Space . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 P. Granger Static Analyses of Congruence Properties on Rational Numbers . . . . . . . . . . 278 L. Hornof and J. Noye and C. Consel Effective Specialization of Realistic Programs via Use Sensitivity . . . . . . 293 G.-R. Uh and D. B. Whalley Coalescing Conditional Branches into Efficient Indirect Jumps . . . . . . . . 319 J. Brauburger Automatic Termination Analysis for Partial Functions Using Polynomial Orderings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 S. E. Panitz and M. Schmidt-Schauss TEA: Automatically Proving Termination of Programs in a Non-strict Higher-order Functional Language . . . . . . . . . . 345 P. G. Emelianov and D. E. Baburin Semantic Analyzer of Modula-Programs . . 361 D. Baldan and G. File Abstract Interpretation for Improving WAM Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 L. Correnson and E. Duris and D. Parigot and G. Roussel Attribute Grammars and Functional Programming Deforestation . . . . . . . 365 S. Tzolovski Data Dependences as Abstract Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 K. Marriott Abstract Interpretation: A Theory of Approximate Computation . . . . . . . . 367 B. Le Charlier and P. Flener On the Desirable Link Between Theory and Practice in Abstract Interpretation . . 379 P. Cousot Abstract Interpretation Based Static Analysis Parameterized by Semantics . . 388 L. Harrison Can Abstract Interpretation become a Mainstream Compiler Technology? . . . . 395 N. D. Jones Combining Abstract Interpretation and Partial Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . 396 B. G. Ryder Practical Compile-Time Analysis . . . . 406
A. G. Cohn Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning Techniques . . . . . . . . . . 1 K. Konolige COLBERT: A Language for Reactive Control in Sapphira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 P. Langley Machine Learning for Adaptive User Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 S. Gerberding and B. Pientka Structured Incremental Proof Planning 63 T. Kolbe and S. Glesner Many-Sorted Logic in a Learning Theorem Prover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 M. Kuehn Rigid Hypertableaux . . . . . . . . . . 87 W. Lu Minimal Model Generation Based on E-hyper Tableaux . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 E. Melis and J. Whittle External Analogy in Inductive Theorem Proving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 M. Kerber and M. Kohlhase Mechanising Partiality without Re-implementation . . . . . . . . . . . 123 E. Sandner From Linear Proofs to Direct Logic with Exponentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 M. Strecker and M. Sorea Integrating an Equality Prover into a Software Development System Based on Type Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 P. Gruenwald Causation and Nonmonotonic Temporal Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 D. Basin and S. Matthews and L. Vigano Labelled Quantified Modal Logics . . . . 171 B. Messing Defining Decision Rules in Signed Horn Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 B. Berendt Modeling Subjective Distances . . . . . 195 C. Eschenbach and L. Kulik An Axiomatic Approach to the Spatial Relations Underlying ``left''-``right'' and ``in front of''-``behind'' . . . . . 207 R. Roehrig Representation and Processing of Qualitative Orientation Knowledge . . . 219 B. Ludwig A Contribution to the Question of Authenticity of Rhesus Using Part-of-Speech-Tagging . . . . . . . . . 231 S. Schacht and U. Hahn Making Objects More Knowledgeable . . . 243 K. Schnattinger and U. Hahn Constraining the Acquisition of Concepts by the Quality of Heterogeneous Evidence 255 S. Staab and U. Hahn Conceptualizing Adjectives . . . . . . . 267 H. Weber and J. Spilker and G. Goerz Parsing $N$ Best Trees from a Word Lattice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 W. Burgard and D. Fox and D. Henning Fast Grid-Based Position Tracking for Mobile Robots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 M. Haag and W. Theilmann and K. H. Schaefer and H.-H. Nagel Integration of Image Sequence Evaluation and Fuzzy Metric Temporal Logic Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 S. Hoelldobler and Y. Kalinke and H. Lehmann Designing a Counter: Another Case Study of Dynamics and Activation Landscapes in Recurrent Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 313 S. K. Bamberger Cooperating Diagnostic Expert Systems to Solve Complex Diagnosis Tasks . . . . . 325 O. Steinmann and A. Strohmaier and T. Stfitzle Tabu Search vs. Random Walk . . . . . . 337 A. Strohmaier Multi-flip Networks: Parallelizing GenSAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 T. Weis Resource-Adaptive Action Planning in a Dialogue System for Repair Support . . . 361 A. Artosi and P. Cattabriga and G. Governatori A Modal Computational Framework for Default Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . 373 L. Cheikhrouhou Planning Diagonalization Proofs . . . . 377 S. Edelkamp Suffix Tree Automata in State Space Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 B. Fronhoefer Connection Cutting for Contraction Free Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 D. Gabbay and R. Nossum and M. Thielscher Agents in Proactive Environments . . . . 389 S. Hartrumpf and M. Schulz Reducing Lexical Redundancy by Augmenting Conceptual Knowledge . . . . 393 J. Nilson and G. Koekai A Graphical User Interface for an ECG Classifier System . . . . . . . . . . . 397 N. Stojanovic and L. Stoiljkovic and D. Milenovic and V. Stoiljkovic Expert System in Additional Finishing 401 L. W. N. Van der Torre and Y.-H. Tan Reasoning About Exceptions . . . . . . . 405 H. Walischewski Learning and Interpretation of the Layout of Structured Documents . . . . . 409
J. Faura and J. M. Moreno and M. A. Aguirre and P. Van Duong Multicontext dynamic reconfiguration and real time probing on a novel mixed signal programmable device with on-chip microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 T. Miyazaki and A. Takahara and M. Katayama and T. Murooka CAD-oriented FPGA and dedicated CAD system for telecommunications . . . . . 11 M. Leeser and W. M. Meleis and M. M. Vai and P. Zavracky Rothko: A three dimensional FPGA architecture, its fabrication, and design tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 G. McGregor and P. Lysaght Extending dynamic circuit switching to meet the challenges of new FPGA architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 D. Robinson and P. Lysaght and G. McGregor and H. Dick Performance evaluation of a full speed PCI initiator and target subsystem using FPGAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 T.-T. Do and H. Kropp and M. Schwiegershausen and P. Pirsch Implementation of pipelined multipliers on Xilinx FPGAs . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 S. Nisbet and S. A. Guccione The XC6200DS development system . . . . 61 E. Boemo and S. Lopez-Buedo Thermal monitoring on FPGAs using ring-oscillators . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 I. Kostarnov and S. Morley and J. Osmany and C. Solomon A reconfigurable approach to low cost media processing . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 P. I. Mackinlay and P. Y. K. Cheung and W. Luk and R. Sandiford Riley-2: A flexible platform for codesign and dynamic reconfigurable computing research . . . . . . . . . . . 91 B. Kahne and P. Athanas Stream synthesis for a wormhole run-time reconfigurable platform . . . . . . . . 101 W. Luk and N. Shirazi and S. R. Guo and P. Y. K. Cheung Pipeline morphing and virtual pipelines 111 B. Rising and M. Van Daalen and P. Burge and J. Shawe-Taylor Parallel Graph colouring using FPGAs . . 121 O. Diessel and H. ElGindy Run-time compaction of FPGA designs . . 131 J. M. Emmert and D. Bhatia Partial reconfiguration of FPGA mapped designs with applications to fault tolerance and yield enhancement . . . . 141 J. Leonard and W. H. Mangione-Smith A case study of partially evaluated hardware circuits: Key-specific DES . . 151 R. Payne Run-time parameterised circuits for the Xilinx XC6200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 G. Brebner Automatic identification of swappable logic units in XC6200 circuitry . . . . 173 P. Lysaght Towards an expert system for a priori estimation of reconfiguration latency in dynamically reconfigurable logic . . . . 183 B. L. Hutchings Exploiting reconfigurability through domain-specific systems . . . . . . . . 193 M. Z. Servit and K. Yi Technology mapping by binate covering 203 V. Betz and J. Rose VPR: A new packing, placement and routing tool for FPGA research . . . . . 213 M. K. Inuani and J. Saul Technology mapping of heterogeneous LUT-based FPGAs . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 K. Feske and S. Mulka and M. Koegst and G. Elst Technology-driven FSM partitioning for synthesis of large sequential circuits targeting lookup-table based FPGAs . . . 235 X. Lin and E. Dagless and A. Lu Technology mapping of LUT based FPGAs for delay optimisation . . . . . . . . . 245 S. J. B. Acock and K. R. Dimond Automatic mapping of algorithms onto multiple FPGA-SRAM modules . . . . . . . 255 R. B. Maunder and Z. A. Salcic and G. G. Coghill FPLD HDL synthesis employing high-level evolutionary algorithm optimisation . . 265 A. V. Chichkov and C. B. Almeida A hardware/software partitioning algorithm for custom computing machines 274 E. Lechner and S. A. Guccione The Java environment for reconfigurable computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 R. W. Hartenstein and J. Becker and M. Herz and U. Nageldinger Data scheduling to increase performance of parallel accelerators . . . . . . . . 294 R. Kress and R. W. Hartenstein and U. Nageldinger An operating system for custom computing machines based on the Xputer paradigm 304 A. Dandalis and V. K. Prasanna Fast parallel implementation of DFT using configurable devices . . . . . . . 314 D. Greenfield and C. Crome and M. S. Won and D. Amos Enhancing fixed point DSP processor performance by adding CPLDs as coprocessing elements . . . . . . . . . 324 M. Shand A case study of algorithm implementation in reconfigurable hardware and software 333 A. S. Chaudhuri and P. Y. K. Cheung and W. Luk A reconfigurable data-localised array for morphological algorithms . . . . . . 344 B. Bramer and D. Chauham and M. K. Ibrahim and A. Aggoun Virtual radix array processors (V-RaAP) 354 T. Mathews and S. C. Gibb and L. E. Turner and P. J. W. Graumann An FPGA implementation of a matched filter detector for spread spectrum communications systems . . . . . . . . . 364 S. Teerapanyawatt and K. Athikulwongse An NTSC and PAL closed caption processor 374 T. Kean and A. Duncan A 800 Mpixel/sec reconfigurable image correlator on XC6216 . . . . . . . . . . 382 F. Lisa and F. Cuadrado and D. Rexachs and J. Carrabina A reconfigurable coprocessor for a PCI-based real time computer vision system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 P. Dunn and P. Corke Real-time stereopsis using FPGAs . . . . 400 C. C. Jong and Y. Y. H. Lam and L. S. Ng FPGA implementation of a digital IQ demodulator using VHDL . . . . . . . . . 410 I. Page Hardware compilation, configurable platforms and ASICs for self-validating sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 S. Singh and J. Patterson and J. Burns and M. Dales Postscript[TM] rendering with virtual hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 I. Hadzic and J. M. Smith P4: A platform for FPGA implementation of protocol boosters . . . . . . . . . . 438 M. Abramovici and D. Saab Satisfiability on reconfigurable hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448 T. Jebelean Auto-configurable array for GCD computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 B. Laurent and G. Bosco and G. Saucier Structural versus algorithmic approaches for efficient adders on Xilinx 5200 FPGA 462 A. Tisserand and M. Dimmler FPGA implementation of real-time digital controllers using on-line arithmetic . . 472 T. Hollstein and A. Kirschbaum and M. Glesner A prototyping environment for fuzzy controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 K. Nukata and Y. Shibata and H. Amano and Y. Anzai A reconfigurable sensor-data processing system for personal robots . . . . . . . 491
S. Bedingfield and S. Huxford and Y. Cheung Simulating Pricing Behaviours Using a Genetic Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 3 P. Devine and R. Paton Biologically Inspired Computational Ecologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 B. Edmonds and S. Moss Modelling Bounded Rationality Using Evolutionary Techniques . . . . . . . . 31 V. L. Kalmykov The Abstract Theory of Evolution of the Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 H. P. Albright and J. P. Ignizio An Evolutionary Algorithm for Single Objective Nonlinear Constrained Optimization Problems . . . . . . . . . 55 I. East On Recombinative Sampling . . . . . . . 65 T. Hirst The Evolution of Mutation, Plasticity and Culture in Cyclically Changing Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 T. Hirst On the Structure and Transformation of Landscapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 D. Whitley and S. Rana and R. Heckendorn Island Model genetic Algorithms and Linearly Separable Problems . . . . . . 109 P. Jacob and A. Ball Empirical Validation of the Performance of a Class of Transient Detector . . . . 129 H. Kennedy and C. Chinniah and P. Bradbeer and L. Morss The Construction and Evaluation of Decision Trees: a Comparison of Evolutionary and Concept Learning Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--162 R. Poli Parallel Distributed Genetic Programming Applied to the Evolution of Natural Language Recognisers . . . . . . . . . . 163 B. Langdon Scheduling Planned Maintenance of the South Wales Region of the National Grid 181 M. McIlhagga Solving Generic Scheduling Problems with a Distributed Genetic Algorithm . . . . 199 P. Ross and A. Tuson Directing the Search of Evolutionary and Neighbourhood-Search Optimisers for the Flowshop Sequencing Problem with an Idle-Time Heuristic . . . . . . . . . . 213 D. Savic and G. Walters and M. Schwab Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms for Pump Scheduling in Water Supply . . . . 227 J. Shaw and P. Fleming Use of Rules and Preferences for Schedule Builders in Genetic Algorithms for Production Scheduling . . . . . . . 237 P. Baron and R. Fisher and A. Sherlock and F. Mill A Voxel Based Approach to Evolutionary Shape Optimisation . . . . . . . . . . . 253 A. Deakin and D. Yates Phase Transition Networks: A Modelling Technique Supporting the Evolution of Autonomous Agents' Tactical and Operational Activities . . . . . . . . . 263 I. Parmee and M. Beck An Evolutionary, Agent-Assisted Strategy for Conceptual Design Space Decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 F. Seredynski Task Scheduling with use of Classifier Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
C. H. C. Leung and W. W. S. So Characteristics and Architectural Components of Visual Information Systems 1 S.- K. Chang Active Visual Information Systems . . . 13 T. L. Kunii and J. Ma and R. Huang Towards Direct Mapping between Visual Information Worlds and Real Worlds . . . 27 J. S. Jin and H. Greenfield and R. Kurniawati Visual Data Processing in Multimedia Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 H. Rehatschek Design of a Distributed Planetary Image Data Archive Based on an ATM Network . . 66 F. Ferri and P. Grifoni and F. L. Ricci An Object-Oriented Model for a Visual Information System of Patient Folders 92 N. Mirenkov and T. Mirenkova ``Filmification'' of Methods and Film Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 G. Lu Chain Code-Based Shape Representation and Similarity Measure . . . . . . . . . 135 Z. J. Zheng and C. H. C. Leung Content-Based Retrieval Using Random Verification of $1$D Cellular Automata Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Z. J. Zheng and C. Pantelis and C. H. C. Leung and M. T. H. Wong Extracting Complex Tissues of MRI Brain Images Using Conjugate Transformation for Medical Visual Information Systems 162 M. C. Lee and D. A. Adjeroh A Uniform Framework for Feature-Based Indexing and Retrieval in Visual Information Systems . . . . . . . . . . 176 L. Wegner and S. Thelemann and J. Thamm and D. Wilke Navigational Exploration and Declarative Queries in a Prototype for Visual Information Systems . . . . . . . . . . 199 E. A. Rose Incorporating Typed Links in a Visual Search Tool for Images on the Web . . . 219 M. Palhang and A. Sowmya Automatic Acquisition of Object Models by Relational Learning . . . . . . . . . 239 M. Worring and C. Van den Berg and L. Hardman and A. Tam System Design for Structured Hypermedia Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
G. Ehmayer and G. Kappel and S. Reich Connecting Databases to the Web: A Taxonomy of Gateways (Invited Lecture at DEXA '96) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 G. Gardarin Multimedia Federated Databases on Intranets: Web-Enabling IRO-DB . . . . . 16 T. Branki and B. Defude A Terminological Canonical Data Model for Cooperating Heterogeneous Geographical Information Systems . . . . 28 L.-C. Chan and Q. Li An Extensible Approach to Reactive Processing in an Advanced Object Modelling Environment . . . . . . . . . 38 J. Debenham Constructing the Functional Model . . . 48 L. Bellatreche and K. Karlapalem and A. Simonet Horizontal Class Partitioning in Object-Oriented Databases . . . . . . . 58 M. Benattou and L. Lakhal Incremental Inheritance Model for an OODBMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 J.-Y. Gay and L. Gruenwald A Clustering Technique for Object Oriented Databases . . . . . . . . . . . 81 T. Bouaziz and J. Karvonen and A. Pesonen and A. Wolski Design and Implementation of TEMPO Fuzzy Triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 M. S. Desouki and A. Simonet and M. Simonet Supporting and Maintaining Derivations: A Declarative Active Approach . . . . . 101 M.-C. Fauvet and J.-F. Canavaggio and P.-C. Scholl Modelling Histories in Object DBMS . . . 112 B. Faure and M. Teisseire and R. Cicchetti Activity Threads: A Unified Framework for Aiding Behavioural Modelling . . . . 122 O. Pastor and E. Insfran and V. Pelechano and S. Ramirez Linking Object-Oriented Conceptual Modelling with Object-Oriented Implementation in Java . . . . . . . . . 132 B. Wang Toward a Unified Data Model for Large Hypermedia Applications . . . . . . . . 142 C. Oussalah and M. Magnan and S. Vauttier Managing the Global Behaviour of Composite Objects . . . . . . . . . . . 152 J. Teuhola Heuristic Clustering of Database Objects According to Multi-valued Attributes . . 162 W. Wieczeraycki Object-Oriented Environment for Collaborative Software Design . . . . . 172 S. Y. Lee and T. W. Ling Refined Termination Decision in Active Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 K. Zettsu and K. Uehara and K. Tanaka and N. Kimura A Time-Stamped Authoring Graph for Video Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 M. Aritsugi and T. Tagashira and T. Amagasa and Y. Kanamori An Approach to Spatio-temporal Queries --- Interval-Based Contents Representation of Images . . . . . . . . 202 N. Denos and C. Berrut and M. Mechkour An Image Retrieval System Based on the Visualization of System Relevance via Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Y. Park and F. Golshani ImageRoadMap: A New Content-Based Image Retrieval System . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 F. Buddrus and H. Gaertner and S.-E. Lautemann First Steps to a Formal Framework for Multilevel Database Modifications . . . 240 A. Doucet and S. Monties Versions of Integrity Constraints in Multiversion Databases . . . . . . . . . 252 E. Mayol and E. Teniente Structuring the Process of Integrity Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 J. M. Jose and D. J. Harper A Retrieval Mechanism for Semi-structured Photographic Collections 276 Y. Kidawara and K. Tanaka and K. Uehara Encapsulating Multimedia Contents and a Copyright Protection Mechanism into Distributed Objects . . . . . . . . . . 293 J. Park and Y. Nah and S. Lee A Priority-Driven Inheritance Scheme for Temporal-Spatial Structures in Multimedia Databases . . . . . . . . . . 303 J. Kouloumdjian and F. Toumani Relational Database Reverse Engineering and Terminological Reasoning . . . . . . 313 R. Sunderraman Modelling Negative and Disjunctive Information in Relational Databases . . 337 K. Karlapalem and N. M. Pun Query Driven Data Allocation Algorithms for Distributed Database Systems . . . . 347 Y.-L. Lo and K. A. Hua and H. C. Young A General Multidimensional Data Allocation Method for Multicomputer Database Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 F. Ravat and M. De Michiel and G. Zurfluh Distributed Object Oriented Databases: An Allocation Method . . . . . . . . . . 367 C. Huemer and G. Quirchmayr and A. M. Tjoa A Meta Message Approach for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) . . . . . . . . . 377 D.-Y. Seo and D.-H. Lee and K.-S. Moon and J. Chang Schemaless Representation of Semistructured Data and Schema Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 I. Shimojo and T. Tachikawa and M. Takizawa M-ary Commitment Protocol with Partially Ordered Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 M. J. Aramburu Cabo and R. Berlanga Llavori Metadata for a Digital Library of Historical Documents . . . . . . . . . . 409 H. Ahonen and B. Heikkinen and O. Heinonen and P. Kilpelaeinen Assembling Documents from Digital Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419 P. Grefen and J. Vonk and E. Boertjes and P. Apers Two-Layer Transaction Management for Workflow Management Applications . . . . 430 S. K. Madria and S. N. Maheshwari and B. Chandra and B. Bhargava Crash Recovery in an Open and Safe Nested Transaction Model . . . . . . . . 440 W. Winiwarter and Y. Kambayashi A Machine Learning Workbench in a DOOD Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452 T. Miura and I. Shioya Examining Complex Objects for Type Scheme Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 I. Abbas and O. Boucelma A Framework for Algebraic Optimization of Object-Oriented Query Languages . . . 478 O. Balownew and T. Bode and A. B. Cremers and J. Kalinski A Library Application on Top of an RDBMS: Performance Aspects . . . . . . . 488 G.- H. Cha and H.-H. Park and C.-W. Chung Analysis of Nearest Neighbour Query Performance in Multidimensional Index Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498 J.-L. Koh and A. L. P. Chen and P. C. M. Chang and J. C. C. Chen A Query Language and Interface for Integrated Media and Alphanumeric Database Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 508 K. Leilahi and R. Souah and N. Spyratos An Algebraic Query Language for Object-Oriented Data Models . . . . . . 519 W. Ng and M. Levene The Development of Ordered SQL Packages for Modelling Advanced Applications . . 529 S.-H. Moon and B.-H Hong Incremental Update Algorithms for Materialized Spatial Views by Using View Derivation Relationships . . . . . . . . 539 M. Mohania and S. Konomi and Y. Kambayashi Incremental Maintenance of Materialized Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551 H. Afsarmanesh and L. M. Camarinha-Matos Federated Information Management for Cooperative Virtual Organizations . . . 561 Z. Bellahsene Extending a View Mechanism to Support Schema Evolution in Federated Database Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573 Y. Chen and W. Benn On the Query Treatment in Federated Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583 X. Wu Query Processing and Transforming for a Federated Database System . . . . . . . 593 D. Dubois and H. Prade Valid or Complete Information in Databases --- A Possibility Theory-Based Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603 M. Nakata and G. Resconi and T. Murai Handling Imperfection in Databases: A Modal Logic Approach . . . . . . . . . . 613 U. Hahn and K. Schnattinger Text Knowledge Engineering by Qualitative Terminological Learning . . 623 F. P. Coenen and B. Beattie and T. J. M. Bench-Capon and B. M. Diaz Approach to a Tesseral $n$-dimensional Spatial Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . 633 S. Si-Said and C. Rolland Guidance for Requirements Engineering Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643 A. Henrich Repository Based Software Cost Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653 V. Plihon and C. Rolland Using a Generic Approach to Support the Construction of Methods . . . . . . . . 663 D. Costal and M.-R. Sancho and A. Olive and A. Rosello The Role of Structural Events in Behaviour Specification . . . . . . . . 673
R. Ohbuchi and H. Masuda and M. Aono Embedding Data in $3$D Models . . . . . 1 A. Smolic and B. Makai and G. Lin and T. Sikora Estimation of Motion Parameters of a Rigid Body from a Monocular Image Sequence for MPEG-4 Applications . . . . 11 J. Z. Wang and G. Wiederhold and O. Firschein System for Screening Objectionable Images Using Daubechies' Wavelets and Color Histograms . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 P. Bosco and G. Martini and G. Reteuna MUSIC: An Interactive MUltimedia ServIce Composition Environment for Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 M. Soto and H. Le Van Gong Achieving Networked Virtual Environments Interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 C. Shahabi and M. H. Alshayeji and S. Wang A Redundant Hierarchical Structure for a Distributed Continuous Media Server . . 51 G. Dammicco and U. Mocci Program Caching and Multicasting Techniques in VoD Networks . . . . . . . 65 R. Baier and C. Gran and P. Hoepner and K. Hofrichter PENGUIN: DAVIC and the WWW in Coexistence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 P. Parnes and K. Synnes and D. Schefstroem mTunnel: A Multicast Tunneling System with a User Based Quality-of-Service Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Q. Sun and H. Langendoerfer A Distributed Delay-Constrained Dynamic Multicast Routing Algorithm . . . . . . 97 J.-C Henrion An Efficient Software Implementation of a FEC Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 J. Korst and V. Pronk and P. Coumans Disk Scheduling for Variable-Rate Data Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 S.-L. Tsao and Y.-M. Huang and C.- C. Lin and S.-C. Liou A Novel Data Placement Scheme on Optical Discs for Near-VOD Servers . . . . . . . 133 K.-Y. Lam and C. C. H. Ngan and J. K. Y. Ng A Priority Feedback Mechanism for Distributed MPEG Video Player Systems 143 H.-H. Chu and K. Nahrstedt A Soft Real Time Scheduling Server in UNIX Operating System . . . . . . . . . 153 S. Gumbrich and J. Heller Stored Video Transmission Across ATM Networks: RVBR versus RCBR Service for Interactive Applications . . . . . . . . 163 R. Noro and J. P. Hubaux Improving Clock Synchronization for MPEG-2 Services over ATM Networks . . . 176 Y. Matsui and H. Tokuda VoR: A Network System Framework for VBR over Reserved Bandwidth . . . . . . . . 189 A. Knapp and N. Koch and M. Wirsing and J. Duckeck EPK-fix: Methods and Tools for Engineering Electronic Product Catalogues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 S. Ferrandino and A. Negro and V. Scarano CHEOPS: Adaptive Hypermedia on World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 H. Benz and S. Fischer and R. Mecklenburg and A. Wenger Application Output Recording for Instant Authoring in a Distributed Multimedia Annotation Environment . . . . . . . . . 220 A. Tsukada and T. Hata and F. Matsuda and K. Sato Video Data Management in Media Controller: A Distributed Multimedia Surveillance System . . . . . . . . . . 231 Anonymous Personalised News on Demand: The HyNoDe Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--250 H. Brandt and C. Tittel and P. Todorova and J. J. Tchouto Broadband Video Conference Customer Premises Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . 251 R. Ludwig and N. Niebert and R. Quinet Radio Webs --- Support Architecture for Mobile Web Access . . . . . . . . . . . 261 L. Neumann and A. B. Raposo An Approach for an Adaptive Visualization in a Mobile Environment 272 M. Lauff and H.-W. Gellersen Multimedia Client Implementation on Personal Digital Assistants . . . . . . 283 T. Helbig and S. Tretter and D. Trossen Combining CORBA and ITU-T.120 to an Efficient Conferencing Service . . . . . 296 M. Bochicchio and P. Paolini Supportive Environments for Executing Multimedia Applications . . . . . . . . 308 E. Koerner Patterns for Constructing CSCW Applications in TINA . . . . . . . . . . 320 L. Barolli and K. Tanno and A. Greca Performance Evaluation of the Fuzzy Policing Mechanism for Still Picture in ATM Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 T. Braun and A. Reisenauer Implementation of an Audio/Video Conferencing Application over Native ATM 342 S. Dresler and M. Hofmann and C. Schmidt and H. R. Wiltfang A Native ATM API Suited for Multimedia Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 V. Hilt and W. Geyer A Model for Collaborative Services in Distributed Learning Environments . . . 364 O. Neumann and S. Rennecke and A. Schill Using Distributed Multimedia Infrastructures for Advanced Teleteaching Applications . . . . . . . 376 A. Hafid and R. Boutaba A Scalable Scheme to Access Multimedia Documents with Quality of Service Guarantees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 S. Hollfelder and A. Kraiss and T. C. Rakow A Client-Controlled Adaptation Framework for Multimedia Database Systems . . . . 397 C.-M. Huang and C. Wang Interactive Multimedia Communications at the Presentation Layer . . . . . . . . . 410 S. Wirag Modeling of Adaptable Multimedia Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 G. Michelitsch and M. Ott and D. Reininger and G. Welling QoS Aware Browsing in Distributed Multimedia Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 430 J. Deicke and U. Mayer and M. Glesner An Object-Oriented Client/Server Architecture for Video-on-Demand Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 W. Holfelder Interactive Remote Recording and Playback of Multicast Videoconferences 450
D. Petkovic Challenges and Opportunities for Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Research in Year 2000 and Beyond . . . . . . . . 1 O. F. Olsen and M. Nielsen Multiscale Gradient Magnitude Watershed Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 S. Baronti and A. Casini and F. Lotti and S. Porcinai Segmentation of Multispectral Images of Works of Art through Principal Component Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 C.-J. Sze and H.-Y. M. Liao and H.-L. Hung and K.- C. Fan Multiscale Edge Detection via Normal Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 I. Bloch and H. Maitre Extending Adjacency to Fuzzy Sets for Coping with Imprecise Image Objects . . 30 G. Giacinto and F. Roli Adaptive Selection of Image Classifiers 38 L. P. Cordella and P. Foggia and C. Sansone and F. Tortorella Classification Reliability and Its Use in Multi-classifier Systems . . . . . . 46 C.-Y. Kim and Y.-S. Seo and I.-S. Kweon Color Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . . 54 D. Marini and A. Rizzi A Computational Approach to Color Illusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 A. Grau and J. Saludes Improved Textured Images Segmentation Using an Energy Functional . . . . . . . 70 J. Regincos Isern and J. Batlle Grabulosa Contribution to the Colour Segmentation by Means of an Algorithm Which Reduces the CCDs Saturation Problems . . . . . . 79 B. Aiazzi and L. Alparone and S. Baronti and V. Cappellini Pyramid-Based Multi-sensor Image Data Fusion with Enhancement of Textural Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 D. Chetverikov Texture Analysis Using Pairwise Interaction Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 P. Pujas and M.-J. Aldon Estimation of the Color Image Gradient with Perceptual Attributes . . . . . . . 103 M. Lalonde and Y. Li Contour Line Extraction from Color Images of Scanned Maps . . . . . . . . . 111 P. Androutsos and D. Androutsos and K. N. Plataniotis and A. N. Venetsanopoulos Subjective Analysis of Edge Detectors in Color Image Processing . . . . . . . . . 119 A. Carkacio\uglu and F. T. Yarman-Vural Similarity Measures for Binary and Grey Level Markov Random Field Textures . . . 127 C. Cafforio and E. Di Sciascio and C. Guaragnella and G. Piscitelli A Simple and Effective Edge Detector . . 134 A. Biancardi and L. Lombardi and V. Pacaccio Improvements to Image Magnification . . 142 R. C. Wilson and E. R. Hancock Refining Surface Curvature with Relaxation Labeling . . . . . . . . . . 150 A. H. Salden Dynamic Scale-Space Theories . . . . . . 158 E. Barcucci and A. Del Lungo and M. Nivat and R. Pinzani Reconstructing Digital Sets from X-Rays 166 L. Wendling and J. Desachy and A. Paries Pattern Recognition from Compressed Labelled Trees of Fuzzy Regions . . . . 174 X. Jiang Optimality Analysis of Edge Detection Algorithms for Range Images . . . . . . 182 F. Sloboda and B. Zat'Ko Analysis Situs and Image Processing . . 190 P. Matsakis and J. Gadiou and J. Desachy Defining Cost Functions and Profitability Measures for Digraphs Associated with Raster Dems . . . . . . 198 J. S. Sanchez and F. Pla and F. J. Ferri Using Proximity and Spatial Homogeneity in Neighbourhood-Based Classifiers . . . 206 C. Di Ruberto and M. Nappi and S. Vitulano Image Segmentation by Means of Fuzzy Entropy Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 A. Basman and J. Lasenby and R. Cipolla Efficient Region Segmentation through ``Creep-and-Merge'' . . . . . . . . . . 223 J. M. Ithesta and P. J. Sanz and A. P. Del Pobil An Automatic Transformation from Bimodal to Pseudo-Binary Images . . . . . . . . 231 Z. Zhang and M. Braun and P. Abbott A New Deformable Model for $3$D Image Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 P. Zingaretti and A. Carbonaro and P. Puliti Evolutionary Image Segmentation . . . . 247 P. C. Smits and S. G. Dellepiane and G. Vernazza Discontinuity Adaptive MRF Model for Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Analysis 255 O. Cuisenaire Region Growing Euclidean Distance Transforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 S. C. Bae and I. S. Kweon COP: A New Method for Extracting Edges and Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 O. R. P. Bellon and C. L. Tozzi An Integrated Approach for Segmentation and Representation of Range Images . . . 279 V. Anh and J. Maeda and T. Ishizaka and Y. Suzuki Two-Dimensional Fractal Segmentation of Natural Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 M. Haindl and P. Zid Fast Segmentation of Range Images . . . 295 B. Kurt and M. Goekmen and A. K. Jain Image Compression Based on Centipede Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 T. Ojala and M. Pietikaeinen Unsupervised Texture Segmentation Using Feature Distributions . . . . . . . . . 311 T. Gevers and A. W. M. Smeulders Color Based Object Recognition . . . . . 319 G. Van De Wouwer and S. Livens and P. Scheunders and D. Van Dyck Color Texture Classification by Wavelet Energy Correlation Signatures . . . . . 327 E. Boldrin and R. Schettini Cross-Media Color Matching Using Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 J. K. Aggarwal and S. Shah Object Recognition and Performance Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 A. L. Yuille and M. Ferraro and T. Zhang Relating Image Warping to $3$D Geometrical Deformations . . . . . . . . 361 G. Borgefors and G. Ramella and G. Sanniti Di Baja Using Top-Down and Bottom-Up Analysis for a Multiscale Skeleton Hierarchy . . 369 L. Di Stefano and F. Boland A New Algorithm for $3$D Profilometry Based on Phase Measurement . . . . . . . 377 K. Pulli and M. Cohen and T. Duchamp and H. Hoppe Surface Modeling and Display from Range and Color Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 N. Duta and M. Sonka An Improved Active Shape Model: Handling Occlusion and Outliers . . . . . . . . . 398 A. D. J. Cross and E. R. Hancock Perspective Matching Using the EM Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 J. Sato and R. Cipolla Identifying Human Face Profiles with Semi-Local Integral Invariants . . . . . 414 P. Camacho and F. Arrebola and F. Sandoval Adaptive Fovea Structures for Space-Variant Sensors . . . . . . . . . 422 P. Bottoni and L. Cinque and S. Levialdi and P. Mussio Structural Characterization of Image Processing Operators . . . . . . . . . . 430 S. Spiess and M. Li Easy Calibration of Pan/Tilt Camera Heads and Online Computation of the Epipolar Correspondences . . . . . . . . 438 M. Barni and F. Bartolini and V. Cappellini and F. Lambardi Integration of Spatio-Temporal Information for Motion Detection by Means of Fuzzy Reasoning . . . . . . . . 446 Y. Malo and F. Ferri and J. Albert and J. M. Artigas Adaptive Motion Estimation and Video Vector Quantization Based on Spatiotemporal Non-linearities of Human Perception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454 A. Nomura Integral Based Approach for Determining Motion Vector Fields . . . . . . . . . . 462 M. Trajkovic and M. Hedley A Practical Algorithm for Structure and Motion Recovery from Long Sequence of Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470 F. Dornaika and C. Garcia Object Pose by Affine Iterations . . . . 478 J. Magarey and A. Kokaram and N. Kingsbury Robust Motion Estimation Using Chrominance Information in Color Image Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 N. Herodotou and A. N. Venetsanopoulos Temporal Prediction of Video Sequences Using an Image Warping Technique Based on Color Segmentation . . . . . . . . . 494 J. Badenas and M. Bober and F. Pla Motion and Intensity-Based Segmentation and Its Application to Traffic Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502 A. Raji and E. Petit and J. Lemoine and S. Djeziri A Geometrically Deformable Contour Model 510 J.-D. Durou and L. Mascarilla and D. Piau Non-visible Deformations . . . . . . . . 519 W. Peckar and C. Schnoerr and K. Rohr and H. S. Stiehl Two-Step Parameter-Free Elastic Image Registration with Prescribed Point Displacements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527 R. Cucchiara and M. Piccardi and M. Bariani and P. Mello Learning for Feature Selection and Shape Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535 G. Anelli and A. Broggi and G. Destri Experiments on the Decomposition of Arbitrarily Shaped Binary Morphological Structuring Elements . . . . . . . . . . 543 A. Varley and P. Rayner Bézier Modelling of Cracks . . . . . . . 551 A. R. Mirhosseini and K.-M. Lam and H. Yan An Adaptive Deformable Template for Mouth Boundary Modeling . . . . . . . . 559 L. H. Tung and I. King A Two-Stage Framework for Polygon Retrieval Using Minimum Circular Error Bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567 P. K. Saha and D. D. Majumder Topology and Shape Preserving Parallel Thinning for $3$D Digital Images --- A New Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575 M. S. Lew and M. Chaudron and N. Huijsmans and A. She Convergence of Model Based Shape from Shading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582 M. Ciuc and D. Coquin and P. Bolon Quantitative Assessment of Two Skeletonization Algorithms Adapted to Rectangular Grids . . . . . . . . . . . 588 M. Falcone and M. Sagona An Algorithm for the Global Solution of the Shape-from-Shading Model . . . . . . 596 M. Peura A Statistical Classification Method for Hierarchical Irregular Objects . . . . . 604 R. K. K. Yip Multi-level Dynamic Programming for Axial Motion Stereo Line Matching . . . 612 O. Schreer and I. Hartmann and R. Adams Analysis of Grey-Level Features for Line Segment Stereo Matching . . . . . . . . 620 T. Shioyama and H. Y. Wu and W. B. Jiang and S. Terauchi $3$D Object Positioning from Monocular Image Brightnesses . . . . . . . . . . . 628 X.-F. Zhang and A. Luo and W. Tao and H. Burkhardt Camera Calibration Based on $3$D-Point-Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . 636 L. Sommellier and E. Tosan and D. Vandorpe A Geometric Modeling Tool for Stereo-Matching and Reconstruction of a Model of $3$D-Scene . . . . . . . . . . 644 F. Pla and M. Bober Estimating Translation/Deformation Motion through Phase Correlation . . . . 653 C. Meilhac and C. Nastar Robust Fitting of $3$D CAD Models to Video Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661 A. Fusiello and V. Roberto and E. Trucco Experiments with a New Area-Based Stereo Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669 C. Menard and W. G. Kropatsch Adaptive Stereo Matching in Correlation Scale-Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677 J.-I. Park and S. Inoue Hierarchical Depth Mapping from Multiple Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685 B. T. Messmer and H. Bunke Fast Computation of Error-Correcting Graph Isomorphisms Based on Model Precompilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693 F. Serratosa and A. Sanfeliu Function-Described Graphs Applied to $3$D Object Representation . . . . . . . 701 N. Oswald and P. Levi Cooperative Vision in a Multi-Agent Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709
R. Jain Content-Centric Computing in Visual Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 J. Martinez and S. Guillaume Color Image Retrieval Fitted to ``Classical'' Querying . . . . . . . . . 14 D. P. Huijsmans and M. S. Lew and D. Denteneer Quality Measures for Interactive Image Retrieval with a Performance Evaluation of Two 3 x 3 Texel-based Methods . . . . 22 A. M. Bruckstein and R. J. Holt and A. N. Netravali Holographic Image Representations: The Fourier Transform Method . . . . . . . . 30 S. Santini and R. Jain Image Databases Are Not Databases with Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 N. Zingirian and P. Baglietto and M. Maresca and M. Migliardi Customizing MPEG Video Compression Algorithms to Specific Application Domains: The Case of Highway Monitoring 46 B. Carpentieri A New Lossless Image Compression Algorithm Based on Arithmetic Coding . . 54 L. Teixeira Analysis of a Two Step MPEG Video System 62 K. Wiatr Dedicated Hardware Processors for a Real-Time Image Data Pre-processing Implemented in FPGA Structure . . . . . 69 M. Ferretti and D. Rizzo Wavelet Transform Architectures: A System Level Review . . . . . . . . . . 77 S. Van Assche and W. Philips and I. Lemahieu Lossless Compression of Pre-press Images Using a Novel Colour Decorrelation Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 F. Marino and E. Stella and N. Veneziani and A. Distante Real Time Hardware Architecture for Visual Robot Navigation . . . . . . . . 93 R. Distasi and M. Nappi and S. Vitulano Speeding Up Fractal Encoding of Images Using a Block Indexing Technique . . . . 101 A. Biancardi and A. Merigot Adding Associative Meshes to the PACCO I.P. Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 L. Teixeira and T. Andrade Smoothing of MPEG Multi-program Video Coding for Packet Networks . . . . . . . 117 C. Saraceno and R. Leonardi Audio-visual Processing for Scene Change Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 E. Vicario and W. X. He Weighted Walkthroughs in Retrieval by Content of Pictorial Data . . . . . . . 132 F. Mokhtarian and S. Abbasi and J. Kittler A New Approach to Computation of Curvature Scale Space Image for Shape Similarity Retrieval . . . . . . . . . . 140 M. S. Lew and D. P. Huijsmans and D. Denteneer Optimal Keys for Image Database Indexing 148 C. Meghini and F. Sebastiani and U. Straccia The Terminological Image Retrieval Model 156 S.-C. Pei and C.-M. Cheng Novel Block Truncation Coding of Image Sequences for Limited-Color Display . . 164 S. Moss and E. R. Hancock Image Registration with Shape Mixtures 172 A. Del Bimbo and M. Mugnaini and P. Pala and F. Turco Image Retrieval by Color Regions . . . . 180 L. Cinque and S. Levialdi and A. Malizia and R. Mancini Interactive Model-Based Matching Retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Y. Seo and S. Choi and H. Kim and K.-S Hong Where Are the Ball and Players? Soccer Game Analysis with Color Based Tracking and Image Mosaick . . . . . . . . . . . 196 C. Colombo and A. Rizzi and I. Genovesi Histogram Families for Color-Based Retrieval in Image Databases . . . . . . 204 P. Pala and S. Santini Image Retrieval by Multidimensional Elastic Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 G. G. Vass and M. Daoudi and F. Ghorbel Optimization Methods in Multilayer Classifier Networks for Automatic Control of Lamellibranch Larva Growth 220 G. Cucurachi and G. Tascini and F. Piazza Neural Networks for Region Detection . . 228 D. O. Gorodnichy and A. M. Reznik Static and Dynamic Attractors of Auto-associative Neural Networks . . . . 238 L. I. Timchenko and Y. F. Kutaev and M. A. Grudin and S. V. Cepornyuk A Brain-Like Approach to Multistage Hierarchical Image Processing . . . . . 246 A. J. Pinho and L. B. Almeida Contextual Edge Detection Using a Recurrent Neural Network . . . . . . . . 254 S. I. Cho and H. Saito and S. Ozawa A Divide-and-Conquer Strategy in Recovering Shape of Book Surface from Shading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Y. Sato and T. Ishikawa and M. Otsuki Reconstruction of $3$D Shape and Texture by Active Rangefinding . . . . . . . . . 270 M. G. Albanesi and L. Lombardi Wavelets for Multiresolution Shape Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 J. Chao and A. Karasudani and K. Minowa Invariant Object Representation and Recognition Using Lie Algebra of Perceptual Vector Fields . . . . . . . . 284 N. M. Sirakov A Fast Approach for Determining of Visibility of $3$D Object's Surfaces . . 292 M. Pontil and A. Verri Direct Aspect-Based $3$D Object Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 L. De Floriani and P. Magillo and E. Puppo Visualizing Parametric Surfaces at Variable Resolution . . . . . . . . . . 308 M. Burge and W. Burger Learning Visual Ideals . . . . . . . . . 316 J. R. Serra and J. B. Subirana Adaptive Non-cartesian Networks for Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324 D. O. Gorodnichy and W. W. Armstrong and X. Li Adaptive Logic Networks for Facial Feature Detection . . . . . . . . . . . 332 J. Martin and J. L. Crowley An Appearance-Based Approach to Gesture-Recognition . . . . . . . . . . 340 K. Straahlen Exponential Vector Field Tomography . . 348 S. Sarkar and S. Chaudhuri Detection of Rib Shadows in Digital Chest Radiographs . . . . . . . . . . . 356 J. M. Pardo and D. Cabello and J. Heras A Markov Random Field Model for Bony Tissue Classification . . . . . . . . . 364 A. Garrido and N. Perez De La Blanca and M. Garcia-Silvente A New Methodology to Automatically Segment Biomedical Images . . . . . . . 372 T. M. Buzug and J. Weese and C. Lorenz and W. Beil Histogram-Based Image Registration for Digital Subtraction Angiography . . . . 380 S. Loncaric and D. Kovacevic A Method for Segmentation of CT Head Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388 H. Jiang and W. Tiu and S. Yamamoto and S.-I Iisaku Automatic Recognition of Spicules in Mammograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396 V. Di Lecce and A. Guerriero Specialized Environment for Medical Radiological Image Visualization . . . . 404 C. R. Dance and M. H. Syn and R. W. Prager and J. P. M. Gosling Interactive Segmentation of $3$D Ultrasound Using Deformable Solid Models and Active Contours . . . . . . . . . . 412 Y. Kawata and K. Kanazawa and S. Toshioka and N. Niki Computer Aided Diagnosis System for Lung Cancer Based on Helical CT Images . . . 420 F. Bello and A. C. F. Colchester and S. A. Roell A Generalized Geometry and Intensity Based Partial Volume Correction for Magnetic Resonance Images . . . . . . . 428 C. Bonifazzi and G. Maino and A. Tartari A Regularization Method for Unfolding the Measured Data of Different X-Ray Spectrometers in Compton Scattering Tomography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436 S. Vinitski and T. Iwanaga and C. Gonzalez and D. Andrews Fast Tissue Segmentation Based on a $4$D Feature Map: Preliminary Results . . . . 445 J. Kontinen and J. Roening and R. M. MacKie Texture Features in the Classification of Melanocytic Lesions . . . . . . . . . 453 S. Rachid and N. Niki and H. Nishitahi and S. Nakamura Segmentation of Sputum Color Image for Lung Cancer Diagnosis Based on Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 C.-C. Hah and H.-Y. M. Liao and G.-J. Yu and L.-H. Chen Fast Face Detection via Morphology-Based Pre-processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469 F. Arrebola and P. Camacho and F. Sandoval Generalization of Shifted Fovea Multiresolution Geometries Applied to Object Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . 477 C. S. Regazzoni and A. Teschioni and E. Stringa A Long Term Change Detection Method for Surveillance Applications . . . . . . . 485 P. Vannoorenberghe and C. Motamed and J.-M. Blosseville and J.-G. Postaire Automatic Pedestrian Recognition Using Real-time Motion Analysis . . . . . . . 493 M. Kosugi and K. Yamashita Person Identification System Based on a Trapezoid Pyramid Architecture of a Grey-Level Image . . . . . . . . . . . . 501 M. Gregori and L. Lombardi and M. Savini and A. Scianna Autonomous Plant Inspection and Anomaly Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509 F. Hahn and R. Mota Nobel Chile Jalapeño Sorting Using Structured Laser and Neural Networks Classifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517 T. Sumimoto and K. Kuramoto and S. Okada and H. Miyauchi Development of Image Processing Technique for Detection of the Rescue Target in the Marine Casualty . . . . . 524 N. Schultz and J. M. Carstensen Bimodal Histogram Transformation Based on Maximum Likelihood Parameter Estimates in Univariate Gaussian Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532 M. H. Ghassemian Yazdi A Robust Structural Fingerprint Restoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544 X. F. Hermida and F. M. Rodriguez and J. L. F. Lijo and F. P. Sande A System for the Automatic and Real Time Recognition of V.L.P.'s (Vehicle Licence Plate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552 R. Vaccaro and S. Dellepiane Spatial Correlation Features for SAR Images in a Small Sample Size Context 560 T. C. H. Heng and Y. Kuno and Y. Shirai Combination of Active Sensing and Sensor Fusion for Collision Avoidance in Mobile Robots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568 R. Bozzano and A. Siccardi Underwater Vegetation Detection in High Frequency Sonar Images: A Preliminary Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576 A. Branca and M. G. Abbate and F. P. Lovergine and G. Attolico Leather Inspection through Singularities Detection Using Wavelet Transforms . . . 584 G. Dimauro and S. Impedovo and G. Pirlo and A. Salzo Zoning Design for Handwritten Numeral Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592 A. Chianese and M. De Santo and A. Picariello Improving the Use of Contours and Skeletons for Off-Line Cursive Script Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600 M. A. Oezdil and F. T. Yarman-Vural and N. Arica Optical Character Recognition Without Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 A. Amin and M. Kavianifar Automatic Recognition of Printed Arabic Text Using Neural Network Classifier . . 616 A. F. R. Rahman and M. C. Fairhurst A Novel Pair-Wise Recognition Scheme for Handwritten Characters in the Framework of a Multi-expert Configuration . . . . 624 E. Del Ninno and G. Nicchiotti and E. Ottaviani A General and Flexible Deskewing Method Based on Generalized Projections . . . . 632 L. Duffy and F. Lebourgeois and H. Emptoz Logical Structure Analysis by Typographic Characteristics Extraction 639 J. Hu and A. S. Rosenthal and M. K. Brown Combining High-Level Features with Sequential Local Features for On-Line Handwriting Recognition . . . . . . . . 647 Y. Mizukami and K. Koga Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition Using Displacement Extraction Based on Directional Features 655 D. L. Farkas and B. T. Ballou and C. Du and G. W. Fisher Optical Image Acquisition, Analysis and Processing for Biomedical Applications 663 P. Abbott and M. Braun Segmentation of Ultrasound Image Data by Two Dimensional Autoregressive Modelling 672 A. Neumann and C. Lorenz Comparison and Application of Selected Statistical Shape Models in Medical Imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680 R. Van De Walle and I. Lemahieu and E. Achten Two Motion Detection Algorithms for Projection-Reconstruction Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Theory and Experimental Verification . . . . . . . 688 N. Nagata and T. Dobashi and Y. Manabe and T. Usami Image Analysis and Synthesis Using Physics-Based Modeling for Pearl Quality Evaluation System . . . . . . . . . . . 697 G. Garibotto and C. Scagliola Computer Vision and Image Processing in Postal Automation . . . . . . . . . . . 705 T. D. Kimura Adaptive Pen User Interface with Supervised Competitive Learning . . . . 713 A. C. Kokaram and S. J. Godsill Joint Detection, Interpolation, Motion and Parameter Estimation for Image Sequences with Missing Data . . . . . . 719 M. Tistarelli and E. Grosso and J. Bigun and C. Sacerdoti The VIRSBS Project: Visual Intelligent Recognition for Secure Banking Services 727 V. Pahor and G. Ramponi and R. Castagno The ESPRIT LTR Research Project: ``Nonlinear Model-Based Analysis and Description of Images for Multimedia Applications (NOBLESSE)'' . . . . . . . 735 P. C. Smits and S. B. Serpico Analysis and Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images for Land-Cover Mapping 743 G. G. Pieroni and G. L. Foresti and V. Murino Integration of Optical and Acoustical Imaging Sensors for Underwater Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749 L. Khoudour and J. P. Deparis and J. L. Bruyelle and F. Cabestaing Project CROMATICA . . . . . . . . . . . 757 J. Austin and G. Giacinto and I. Kanellopoulos and K. Lees The COMPARES Project: COnnectionist Methods for Preprocessing and Analysis of REmote Sensing Data . . . . . . . . . 765 A. C. Kokaram Reconstruction of Severely Degraded Image Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 773 M. Mari and C. Dambra and D. Chetverikov and J. Verestoy The CRASH Project: Defect Detection and Classification in Ferrite Cores . . . . 781
P. R. F. Sampaio and N. W. Paton Deductive Object-Oriented Database Systems: A Survey . . . . . . . . . . . 1 W. May and C. Schlepphorst and G. Lausen Integrating Dynamic Aspects into Deductive Object-Oriented Databases . . 20 E. Mayol and J. A. Pastor and E. Teniente and T. Urpi FOLRE: A Deductive Database System for the Integrated Treatment of Updates . . 35 E. N. Hanson and S. Khosla An Introduction to the TriggerMan Asynchronous Trigger Processor . . . . . 51 A. Geppert and D. Tombros Logging and Post-Mortem Analysis of Workflow Executions Based on Event Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 M. Schlesinger and G. Loerincze Rule Modelling and Simulation in ALFRED 83 S. Comai and L. Tanca Using the Properties of Datalog to Prove Termination and Confluence in Active Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 X. Wang and J.-H. You and L. Y. Yuan On Confluence Property of Active Databases with Meta-Rules . . . . . . . 118 M. K. Tschudi and S. D. Urban and S. W. Dietrich and A. P. Karadimce An Implementation and Evaluation of the Refined Triggering Graph Method for Active Rule Termination Analysis . . . . 133 H. W. R. Chan and S. W. Dietrich and S. D. Urban On Control Flow Testing of Active Rules in a Declarative Object-Oriented Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 P. Fraternali and E. Teniente and T. Urpi Validating Active Rules by Planning . . 181 M. Bouzeghoub and F. Fabret and F. Llirbat and M. Matulovic ACTIVE-DESIGN: A Generic Toolkit for Deriving Specific Rule Execution Models 197
S. Anderson and K. Tourlas Diagrams and Programming Languages for Programmable Controllers . . . . . . . . 1 H. Dierks and C. Dietz Graphical Specification and Reasoning: Case Study Generalised Railroad Crossing 20 G. Reggio and M. Larosa A Graphic Notation for Formal Specifications of Dynamic Systems . . . 40 G. Smith A Semantic Integration of Object-Z and CSP for the Specification of Concurrent Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 A. Mikhajlova and E. Sekerinski Class Refinement and Interface Refinement in Object-Oriented Programs 82 S. Kleuker Formalizing Requirements for Distributed Systems with Trace Diagrams . . . . . . 102 F. Huber and B. Schaetz and G. Einert Consistent Graphical Specification of Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . 122 K. Lano and A. Sanchez Design of Reactive Control Systems for Event-Driven Operations . . . . . . . . 142 H. Fleischhack and J. Tapken An M-Net Semantics for a Real-Time Extension of SDL . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 M. Broy and R. Grosu and C. Klein Reconciling Real-Time with Asynchronous Message Passing . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 M. Schoenhoff and M. Kowsari Specifying the Remote Controlling of Valves in an Explosion Test Environment 201 L. Devauchelle and P. G. Larsen and H. Voss PICGAL: Practical Use of Formal Specification to Develop a Complex Critical System . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 W. D. Young and W. R. Bevier Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of an External Memory Manager . . . . . . . . 237 P. Mukherjee Automatic Translation of VDM-SL Specifications into Gofer . . . . . . . 258 S. Agerholm and J. Frost Towards an Integrated CASE and Theorem Proving Tool for VDM-SL . . . . . . . . 278 K. Lano and J. Bicarregui and J. Fiadeiro and A. Lopes Specification of Required Non-determinism . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 H. Tej and B. Wolff A Corrected Failure-Divergence Model for CSP in Isabelle/HOL . . . . . . . . . . 318 B. K. Aichernig and P. G. Larsen A Proof Obligation Generator for VDM-SL 338 M. M. Ayadi and D. Bolignano Verification of Cryptographic Protocols: An Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 J.-C Gregoire TLA + PROMELA: Conjecture, Check, Proof. Engineering New Protocols Using Methods and Formal Notations . . . . . . . . . . 378 A. Mokkedem and M. J. Ferguson and R. deB. Johnston A TLA Solution to the Specification and Verification of the RLP1 Retransmission Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 J. M. R. Martin and S. A. Jassim An Efficient Technique for Deadlock Analysis of Large Scale Process Networks 418 S. Yu and Z. Luo Implementing a Model Checker for LEGO 442 A. Dold and F. W. Von Henke and H. Pfeifer and H. Ruess Formal Verification of Transformations for Peephole Optimization . . . . . . . 459 R. F. Paige A Meta-Method for Formal Method Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 D. Hemer and P. A. Lindsay Reuse of Verified Design Templates Through Extended Pattern Matching . . . 495 F. S. De Boer and U. Hannemann and W.-P. De Roever A Compositional Proof System for Shared Variable Concurrency . . . . . . . . . . 515 P. Michel and V. Wiels A Framework for Modular Formal Specification and Verification . . . . . 533 C. Petersohn and L. Urbina A Timed Semantics for the STATEMATE Implementation of Statecharts . . . . . 553 D. W. J. Stringer-Calvert and S. Stepney and I. Wand Using PVS to Prove a Z Refinement: A Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573 P. Kellomaeki Verification of Reactive Systems Using DisCo and PVS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589 D. Cazier and J.-F. Dufourd Term Rewrite Systems to Derive Set Boolean Operations on $2$D Objects . . . 605 L. Silva and A. Sampaio and E. Barros A Normal Form Reduction Strategy for Hardware/Software Partitioning . . . . . 624 E. Boiten and H. Bowman and J. Derrick and M. Steen Viewpoint Consistency in Z and LOTOS: A Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644 M. Charpentier A Unity Mapping Operator for Distributed Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
R. J. Mooney Inductive logic programming for natural language processing . . . . . . . . . . 3 S. Muggleton and D. Page and A. Srinivasan An initial experiment into stereochemistry-based drug design using inductive logic programming . . . . . . 25 S. Dzeroski and S. Schulze-Kremer and K. R. Heidtke and K. Sierns Applying ILP to diterpene structure elucidation from 0103C NMR spectra . . . 41 E. Van Baelen and L. De Raedt Analysis and prediction of piano performances using inductive logic programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 D. Gamberger and N. Lavrac Noise detection and elimination applied to noise handling in a KRK chess endgame 72 A. Srinivasan and R. D. King Feature construction with inductive logic programming: A study of quantitative predictions of biological activity aided by structural attributes 89 M. Sebag and C. Rouveirol Polynomial-time learning in logic programming and constraint logic programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 G. Kokai and Z. Alexin and T. Gyimothy Analyzing and learning ECG waveforms . . 127 F. Mizoguchi and H. Ohwada and M. Daidoji and S. Shivato Learning rules that classify ocular fundus images for glaucoma diagnosis . . 146 H. Fujita and N. Yagi and T. Ozaki and K. Furukawa A new design and implementation of Progol by bottom-up computation . . . . 163 P. Flener Inductive logic program synthesis with DIALOGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 H. Blockeel and L. De Raedt Relational knowledge discovery in databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 T. Scheffer and R. Herbrich and F. Wysotzki Efficient theta-subsumption based on graph algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 A. Jorge and P. B. Brazdil Integrity Constraints in ILP using a Monte Carlo approach . . . . . . . . . . 229 A. Rieger Restructuring chain datalog programs . . 245 N. Inuzuka and M. Kamo and N. Ishii and H. Seki Top-down induction of logic programs from incomplete samples . . . . . . . . 265 S.-H. Nienhuys-Cheng and R. De Wolf Least generalizations under implication 285 U. Pompe Efficient proof encoding . . . . . . . . 299 T. Horvath and R. H. Sloan and G. Turan Learning logic programs with random classification noise . . . . . . . . . . 315 M.- E. Goncalves Handling quantifiers in ILP . . . . . . 337 S. Muggleton Learning from positive data . . . . . . 358 Z. Markov lambda-subsumption and its application to learning from positive-only examples 377
G. Sommer Algebraic Aspects of Designing Behaviour Based Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 G. H. Granlund From Multidimensional Signals to the Generation of Responses . . . . . . . . 29 A. Heyden and G. Sparr and K. Aastroem Perception and Action Using Multilinear Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 J. J. Koenderink and A. J. Van Doorn Local Image Operators and Iconic Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 T. Lindeberg On Automatic Selection of Temporal Scales in Time-Causal Scale-Space . . . 94 R. Lenz Some Applications of Representations of Lie Algebras and Lie Groups . . . . . . 114 L. Van Gool A Systematic Approach to Geometric-Based Grouping and Non-accidentalness . . . . 126 T. Buelow and G. Sommer Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing Using an Algebraically Extended Signal Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 A. V. Chernov and V. M. Chernov On Hestenes' Formalization for Describing Linear Image Transforms . . . 164 W. Skarbek and K. Ignasiak Fractal Basis Functions for Pattern Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 A. Shashua Trilinear Tensor: The Fundamental Construct of Multiple-view Geometry and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 G. Csurka and O. Faugeras Algebraic and Geometric Tools to Compute Projective and Permutation Invariants 207 E. Bayro-Corrochano and J. Lasenby A Unified Language for Computer Vision and Robotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 A. Naeve Structure from Translational Observer Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 C. Fermueller and L. F. Cheong and Y. Aloimonos The Geometry of Visual Space Distortion 249 T. Tuytelaars and M. Proesmans and L. Van Gool The Cascaded Hough Transform as Support for Grouping and Finding Vanishing Points and Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 E. Marchand and F. Chaumette Visual Perception Strategies for $3$D Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 K. Kanatani Statistical Optimization and Geometric Visual Inference . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 S. J. Maybank and A. D. Worrall Path Prediction and Classification Based on Non-linear Filtering . . . . . . . . 323 L. Dorst Bottom-up Derivation of the Qualitatively Different Behaviours of a Car across Varying Spatio-Temporal Scales: A Study in Abstraction of Goal-Directed Motion . . . . . . . . . . 344 H. Ritter Neural Network Approaches for Perception and Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 E. Bayro-Corrochano and S. Buchholz Geometric Neural Networks . . . . . . . 379
M. Blum Program error detection/correction: Turning PAC learning into Perfect learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A. Ambainis and K. Apsitis and R. Freivalds and W. Gasarch Team learning as a game . . . . . . . . 2 E. Hirowatari and S. Arikawa Inferability of recursive real-valued functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 S. Jain and S. Lange and J. Nessel Learning of r.e. languages from good examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 S. Kobayashi and T. Yokomori Identifiability of subspaces and homomorphic images of zero-reversible languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 C. Domingo and T. Tsukiji and O. Watanabe Partial Occam's razor and its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 M. Sitharam and T. Straney Derandomized learning of Boolean functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 R. Parekh and V. Honavar Learning DFA from simple examples . . . 116 F. Denis and R. Gilleron PAC learning under helpful distributions 132 H. Qiao and N. S. V. Rao and V. Protopopescu PAC learning using Nadaraya-Watson estimator based on orthonormal systems 146 E. Boros and T. Ibaraki and K. Makino Monotone extensions of Boolean data sets 161 M. Sato Classical Brouwer-Heyting-Kolmogorov interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Y. Mukouchi Inferring a system from examples with time passage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 S. Matsumoto and Y. Hayashi and T. Shoudai Polynomial time inductive inference of regular term tree languages from positive data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 J. Case and S. Jain and A. Sharma Synthesizing noise-tolerant language learners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 A. Ambainis and K. Apsitis and C. Calude and R. Freivalds Effects of Kolmogorov complexity present in inductive inference as well . . . . . 244 T. Erlebach and P. Rossmanith and H. Stadtherr and A. Steger Learning one-variable pattern languages very efficiently on average, in parallel, and by asking queries . . . . 260 J. Koebler and W. Lindner Oracles in 0p2 are sufficient for exact learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 V. Arvind and N. V. Vinodchandran Exact learning via teaching assistants 291 A. Nakamura An efficient exact learning algorithm for ordered binary decision diagrams . . 307 V. Vovk Probability theory for the Brier game 323 X. Zhang and M. Numao Learning and revising theories in noisy domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 L. Gurvits A note on a scale-sensitive dimension of linear bounded functionals in Banach spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 W. Maass On the relevance of time in neural computation and learning . . . . . . . . 364 E. Takimoto and K. Hirai and A. Maruoka A simple algorithm for predicting nearly as well as the best pruning labeled with the best prediction values of a decision tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 S. Kwek Learning disjunctions of features . . . 401 H. Sakamoto Leaning simple deterministic finite-memory automata . . . . . . . . . 416 H. Arimura Learning acyclic first-order Horn sentences from entailment . . . . . . . 432 T. Hegedues and P. Indyk On learning disjunctions of zero-one threshold functions with queries . . . . 446
M. Leman and A. Schneider Origin and Nature of Cognitive and Systematic Musicology: An Introduction 13 J. Louhivuori Systematic, Cognitive and Historical Approaches in Musicology . . . . . . . . 30 M. Weber Empiricism, Gestalt Qualities, and Determination of Style: Some Remarks Concerning the Relationship of Guido Adler to Richard Wallaschek, Alexius Meinong, Christian von Ehrenfels, and Robert Lach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 M. Reybrouck Gestalt Concepts and Music: Limitations and Possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . 57 R. Eichert and L. Schmidt and U. Seifert Logic, Gestalt Theory, and Neural Computation in Research on Auditory Perceptual Organization . . . . . . . . 70 R. I. Godoey Knowledge in Music Theory by Shapes of Musical Objects and Sound-Producing Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 E. Ungeheuer Statistical Gestalts --- Perceptible Features in Serial Music . . . . . . . . 103 A. Schneider ``Verschmelzung'', Tonal Fusion, and Consonance: Carl Stumpf Revisited . . . 117 M. Leman and F. Carreras Schema and Gestalt: Testing the Hypothesis of Psychoneural Isomorphism by Computer Simulation . . . . . . . . . 144 N. C. Petroni and M. Tricarico Self-organizing Neural Nets and the Perceptual Origin of the Circle of Fifths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 R. Parncutt A Model of the Perceptual Root(s) of a Chord Accounting for Voicing and Prevailing Tonality . . . . . . . . . . 181 D. Werts `Good', `Fair', and `Bad' Chord Progressions: A Regression-Analysis of Some Psychological Chord Progression Data Obtained in an Experiment by J. Bharucha and C. Krumhansl . . . . . . . 200 J. Keuler Problems of Shape and Background in Sounds with Inharmonic Spectra . . . . . 214 R. Eberlein A Method of Analysing Harmony, Based on Interval Patterns or ``Gestalten'' . . . 225 E. Isaacson Neural Network Models for the Study of Post-Tonal Music . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 M. Franek and J. Mates Tempo Relations: Is There a Psychological Basis for Proportional Tempo Theory? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 D. Moelants A Framework for the Subsymbolic Description of Meter . . . . . . . . . . 263 E. Cambouropoulos Musical Rhythm: A Formal Model for Determining Local Boundaries, Accents and Metre in a Melodic Surface . . . . . 277 C. Krumhansl Effects of Perceptual Organization and Musical Form on Melodic Expectancies . . 294 S. Larson Continuations as Completions: Studying Melodic, Expectation in the Creative Microdomain Seek Well . . . . . . . . . 321 P. Toiviainen Optimizing Self-Organizing Timbre Maps: Two Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 M. Rusko Towards a More General Understanding of the Nasality Phenomenon . . . . . . . . 351 C. Reuter Karl Erich Schumann's Principles of Timbre as a Helpful Tool in Stream Segregation Research . . . . . . . . . . 362 T. Rochebois and G. Charbonneau Cross-Synthesis Using Interverted Principal Harmonic Sub-Spaces . . . . . 375 D. Cohen and S. Dubnov Gestalt Phenomena in Musical Texture . . 386 A. Tanguiane Technology of Interpretation and Expressive Pulses . . . . . . . . . . . 409 J. Fyk Intonational Protention in the Performance of Melodic Octaves on the Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
G. Davida and Y. Frankel and Y. Tsiounis and M. Yung Anonymity Control in E-Cash Systems . . 1 E. Gabber and P. B. Gibbons and Y. Matias and A. Mayer How to Make Personalized Web Browsing Simple, Secure, and Anonymous . . . . . 17 J. McCoy Anonymous Networking and Virtual Intranets: Tools for Anonymous Corporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 P. F. Syverson and S. G. Stubblebine and D. M. Goldschlag Unlinkable Serial Transactions . . . . . 39 C. Radu and R. Govaerts and J. Vandewalle Efficient Electronic Cash with Restricted Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Y. Zheng The SPEED Cipher . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 S. L. Lelieveldt Evaluating the Security of Electronic Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 D. G. W. Birch and N. A. McEvoy Electronic Cash --- Technology Will Denationalise Money . . . . . . . . . . 95 D. P. Maher Fault Induction Attacks, Tamper Resistance, and Hostile Reverse Engineering in Perspective . . . . . . . 109 L. C. Guillou Some Critical Remarks on ``Dynamic Data Authentication'' as Specified in EMV '96 123 N. Lange Single-Chip Implementation of a Cryptosystem for Financial Applications 135 R. L. Rivest Perspectives on Financial Cryptography 145 M. K. Franklin and D. Malkhi Auditable Metering with Lightweight Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 J. Stem and S. Vaudenay SVP: A Flexible Micropayment Scheme . . 161 S. Jarecki and A. Odlyzko An Efficient Micropayment System Based on Probabilistic Polling . . . . . . . . 173--191 Y. Yacobi On the Continuum Between On-line and Off-line E-cash Systems --- I . . . . . 193 H. Pagnia and R. Jansen Towards Multiple-Payment Schemes for Digital Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 M. Jakobsson and M. Yung Applying Anti-Trust Policies to Increase Trust in a Versatile E-Money System . . 217 P. P. Swire The Uses and Limits of Financial Cryptography: A Law Professor's Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 E. J. Radlo Legal Issues in Cryptography . . . . . . 259 A. M. Froomkin Digital Signatures Today . . . . . . . . 287 C. R. Merrill An Attorney's Roadmap to the Digital Signature Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . 291 B. Wright Alternative Visions for Legal Signatures and Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 P. C. Wayner Money Laundering: Past, Present and Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 R. L. Rivest Electronic Lottery Tickets as Micropayments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 P. Lampru Strategic Tasks for Government in the Information Age . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 I. Grigg and C. C. Petro Using Electronic Markets to Achieve Efficient Task Distribution . . . . . . 329 T. Goldstein The Gateway Security Model in the Java Electronic Commerce Framework . . . . . 340 D. W. Kravitz Highly Scalable On-line Payments Via Task Decoupling . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 B. Fox and B. Beckman and D. Simon GUMP: Grand Unified Meta-Protocols Recipes for Simple, Standards-Based Financial Cryptography . . . . . . . . . 375 B. Esslinger and J. Schneider Secure Network Communications and Secure Store and Forward Mechanisms with the SAP R/3 System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
G. Beydoun and A. Hoffmann Acquisition of Search Knowledge . . . . 1 P. Beys and M. Van Someren A Systematic Approach to the Functionality of Problem-Solving Methods 17 P. Borst and H. Akkermans An Ontology Approach to Product Disassembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 R. Boswell and S. Craw and R. Rowe Knowledge Refinement for a Design System 49 F. Cornelissen and C. M. Jonker and J. Treur Compositional Verification of Knowledge-Based Systems: A Case Study for Diagnostic Reasoning . . . . . . . . 65 S. Decker and M. Daniel and M. Erdmann and R. Studer An Enterprise Reference Scheme for Integrating Model Based Knowledge Engineering and Enterprise Modelling . . 81 D. Fensel The Tower-of-Adapter Method for Developing and Reusing Problem-Solving Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 D. Fensel and E. Motta and S. Decker and Z. Zdrahal Using Ontologies for Defining Tasks, Problem-Solving Methods and their Mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 U. Hahn and K. Schnattinger An Empirical Evaluation of a System for Text Knowledge Acquisition . . . . . . . 129 D. M. Jones and R. C. Paton Acquisition of Conceptual Structure in Scientific Theories . . . . . . . . . . 145 R. Martinez-Bejar and V. R. Benjamins and F. Martin-Rubio Designing Operators for Constructing Domain Knowledge Ontologies . . . . . . 159 R. Perkuhn Reuse of Problem-Solving Methods and Family Resemblances . . . . . . . . . . 174 C. Pierret-Golbreich and X. Talon Specification of Flexible Knowledge-Based Systems . . . . . . . . 190 A. Pos and H. Akkermans and R. Straatman Problem Solving for Redesign . . . . . . 205 C. Reynaud and N. Aussenac-Gilles and P. Tchounikine and F. Trichet The Notion of Role in Conceptual Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 D. Richards and P. Compton Knowledge Acquisition First, Modelling Later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 B. D. Smith and K. Rajan and N. Muscettola Knowledge Acquisition for the Onboard Planner of an Autonomous Spacecraft . . 253 B. Tschaitschian and A. Abecker and F. Schmalhofer Information Tuning with KARAT: Capitalizing on Existing Documents . . . 269 S. Wallis and G. Nelson Syntactic Parsing as a Knowledge Acquisition Problem . . . . . . . . . . 285 G. P. Zarri and S. Azzam Building Up and Making Use of Corporate Knowledge Repositories . . . . . . . . . 301 F. Brazier and P. Van Eck and J. Treur Modelling Competitive Co-operation of Agents in a Compositional Multi-Agent Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 F. M. T. Brazier and N. J. E. Wijngaards An Instrument for a Purpose Driven Comparison of Modelling Frameworks . . . 323 T. Breidenstein and I. Bournaud and F. Wolinski Knowledge Discovery in Rule Bases . . . 329 V. M. H. Coupe and L. C. Van der Gaag Supporting Probability Elicitation by Sensitivity Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 335 J.-M. Gabriel Towards More Collaboration Between Machine Learning Systems and their Users 341 D. Garcia COATIS, an NLP System to Locate Expressions of Actions Connected by Causality Links . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 S. Kaspar and A. Hoffmann Using Knowledge Acquisition to Build Spoken Language Systems . . . . . . . . 353 L. Maillet-Contoz and J. Sallantin An Assistant for a Design Project: Application to the Design of a Mixed Hardware/Software Architecture . . . . . 359 L. Poittevin REVINOS: An Interactive Revision Tool Based on the Concept of Situation . . . 365 R. Straatman KIDS for KADS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 L. Talavera and U. Cortes Exploiting Inductive Bias Shift in Knowledge Acquisition from Ill-Structured Domains . . . . . . . . . 377 J. Kingston The DARPA High Performance Knowledge Bases Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
F. B. Schneider Towards Fault-Tolerant and Secure Agentry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A. Reuter Workflow Management: An Exercise in Distributed Computing . . . . . . . . . 15 A. Pogosyants and R. Segala and N. Lynch Verification of the Randomized Consensus Algorithm of Aspnes and Herlihy: A Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 T. Eilam and S. Moran and S. Zaks A Simple DFS-Based Algorithm for Linear Interval Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 M. Flammini and E. Nardelli and G. Proietti ATM Layouts with Bounded Hop Count and Congestion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 K.-S. Lui and S. Zaks Scheduling in Synchronous Networks and the Greedy Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 66 J. E. Gehrke and C. G. Plaxton and R. Rajaraman Rapid Convergence of a Local Load Balancing Algorithm for Asynchronous Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 B. S. Chlebus and R. De Prisco and A. A. Shvartsman Performing Tasks on Restartable Message-Passing Processors . . . . . . . 96 R. De Prisco and B. Lampson and N. Lynch Revisiting the Paxos Algorithm . . . . . 111 M. K. Aguilera and W. Chen and S. Toueg Heartbeat: A Timeout-Free Failure Detector for Quiescent Reliable Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 R. Guerraoui and A. Schiper Genuine Atomic Multicast . . . . . . . . 141 S. Katz and P. Lincoln and J. Rushby Low-Overhead Time-Triggered Group Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 J.-M. Helary and A. Mostefaoui and M. Raynal Virtual Precedence in Asynchronous Systems: Concept and Applications . . . 170 S. D. Stoller Detecting Global Predicates in Distributed Systems with Clocks . . . . 185 J. James and A. K. Singh Fault Tolerance Bounds for Memory Consistency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 V. Luchangco Precedence-Based Memory Models . . . . . 215 Y.-J. Joung and J.-Y. Liao Strong Interaction Fairness in a Fully Distributed System with Unbounded Speed Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 A. Beimel and M. Franklin Reliable Communication over Partially Authenticated Networks . . . . . . . . . 245 C. Johnen and G. Alari and J. Beauquier and A. K. Datta Self-Stabilizing Depth-First Token Passing on Rooted Networks . . . . . . . 260 J. A. Garay and R. Gennaro and C. Jutla and T. Rabin Secure Distributed Storage and Retrieval 275 M. Inoue and S. Moriya and T. Masuzawa and H. Fujiwara Optimal Wait-Free Clock Synchronization Protocol on a Shared-Memory Multi-processor System . . . . . . . . . 290 M. Moir Transparent Support for Wait-Free Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 P. Jayanti and S. Khanna On the Power of Multi-objects . . . . . 320
F. Neri and L. Saitta Modeling Conceptual Change: An Interdisciplinary Approach . . . . . . . 1 M. Botta and A. Giordana and R. Piola Refining Numerical Terms in Horn Clauses 13 D. Malerba and F. Esposito and G. Semeraro and S. Caggese Handling Continuous Data in Top-Down Induction of First-Order Rules . . . . . 24 P. Frasconi and M. Gori and M. Maggini and E. Martinelli Inductive Inference of Tree Automata by Recursive Neural Networks . . . . . . . 36 L. Ardissono and G. Boella and R. Damiano A Computational Model of Misunderstandings in Agent Communication 48 G. Barbero and V. Lombardo Wide-Coverage Lexicalized Grammars . . . 60 P. Barboni and D. Sestero Flexible Response Choice Using Problem-Solving Plans and Rethorical Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 M.- J. Nederhof and G. Satta A Variant of Earley Parsing . . . . . . 84 M. Piaggio and A. Sgorbissa and G. Vercelli and R. Zaccaria Autonomous Robot Navigation Using a Reactive Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 A. Chella and S. Gaglio and G. Sajeva and F. Torterolo A Hybrid Architecture for Autonomous Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 E. Zagrouba $3$-D Facets Construction for Stereovision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 M. Baldoni and U. Baroglio and D. Cavagnino and G. Lo Bello Extraction of Discriminant Features from Image Fractal Encoding . . . . . . . . . 127 G. Armano and G. Fumera Learning Relational Concepts at Different Levels of Granularity . . . . 139 C. Carpineto and G. Romano Inferring Minimal Rule Covers from Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 R. Basili and M. T. Pazienza and M. Vindigni Corpus-Driven Unsupervised Learning of Verb Subcategorization Frames . . . . . 159 G. Kokai and J. Csirik and T. Gyimothy Learning the Syntax and Semantic Rules of an ECG Grammar . . . . . . . . . . . 171 E. Lamma and P. Mello and M. Milano and F. Riguzzi Introducing Abduction into (Extensional) Inductive Logic Programming System . . . 183 V. Brusoni and L. Console and P. Terenziani and D. Theseider Dupre An Efficient Algorithm for Temporal Abduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 M. Cadoli and A. Giovanardi and M. Schaerf Experimental Analysis of the Computational Cost of Evaluating Quantified Boolean Formulae . . . . . . 207 F. Massacci A Proof Theory for Tractable Approximations of Propositional Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 R. Rosati Embedding Minimal Knowledge into Autoepistemic Logic . . . . . . . . . . 231 F. A. Asnicar and M. Di Fant and C. Tasso User Model-Based Information Filtering 242 L. Portinale and P. Torasso A Comparative Analysis of Horn Models and Bayesian Networks for Diagnosis . . 254 E. Sangineto Multi-agent Negotiation and Planning Through Knowledge Contextualization . . 266 C. Castelfranchi and R. Falcone From Task Delegation to Role Delegation 278 N. D. Monekosso and P. Remagnino Automated Reasoning On-Board Autonomous Spacecrafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 A. Oddi A Weakly Backjumping Strategy to Solve Hard Scheduling Problems . . . . . . . . 302 M. Baioletti and S. Marcugini and A. Milani Compiling Task Networks into Partial Order Planning Domains . . . . . . . . . 311 N. Cancedda and G. Kamstrup and E. Pianta and E. Pietrosanti A Hybrid Approach to Hypertext Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 B. De Carolis and F. De Rosis and S. Pizzutillo Generating User-Adapted Hypermedia from Discourse Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 A. Artale and B. Magnini and C. Strapparava WordNet for Italian and Its Use for Lexical Discrimination . . . . . . . . . 346 M. Gaspari Efficient Support for Reactive Rules in Prolog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 E. Compatangelo and F. M. Donini and G. Rumolo Reasoning with Behavioural Knowledge in Application Domain Models . . . . . . . 369 E. Madalinska-Bugaj How to Solve Qualification and Ramification Using Dijkstra's Semantics for Programming Languages . . . . . . . 381 D. Pacholezyk Towards a Qualitative Representation of Linguistic Negation of Nuanced Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 P. Avesani and A. Perini and F. Ricci CBET: A Case Base Exploration Tool . . . 405 A. Bonzano and P. Cunningham and B. Smyth Learning Feature Weights for CBR: Global versus Local . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 G. Attardi and A. Cisternino and M. Simi CompAss: a System for Plans of Study Compilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 A. Balderi and M. Solimano A Prototypal System for Data-Validation 431 S. Bergamaschi and C. Sartori and D. Beneventano and M. Vincini ODB-Tools: a Description Logics Based Tool for Schema Validation and Semantic Query Optimization in Object Oriented Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 D. Malerba and F. Esposito and G. Semeraro and L. De Filippis Processing Paper Documents with WISDOM 439 F. Neri REGAL3.2: FOL Concept Learning by Cooperative Genetic Algorithms . . . . . 443 G. Semeraro and F. Esposito and D. Malerba and N. Fanizzi IDL: A Prototypical Intelligent Digital Library Service . . . . . . . . . . . . 447 P. Bazzica and G. Casonato and A. Cesta An Object-Oriented Architecture for the DRS Scheduling Problem . . . . . . . . . 451 R. Brancaleoni and A. Cesta and D. D'Aloisi MASMA: A Personal Assistant for Meetings Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
M. Fuchs Flexible Proof-Replay with Heuristics 1 M. Fuchs Flexible Re-enactment of Proofs . . . . 13 D. Fuchs Inference Rights for Controlling Search in Generating Theorem Provers . . . . . 25 P. Gomes and C. Bento A Retrieval Method for Exploration of a Case Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 U. Hahn and M. Klenner Incremental Concept Evolution Based on Adaptive Feature Weighting . . . . . . . 49 M. Ettaouil A $0-1$ Quadratic Knapsack Problem for Modelizing and Solving the Constraint Satisfaction Problems . . . . . . . . . 61 A. P. Tomas and M. Filgueiras An Algorithm for Solving Systems of Linear Diophantine Equations in Naturals 73 Y. Smirnov and M. M. Veloso GenSAT: A Navigational Approach . . . . 85 P. Soares and N. J. Mamede Timetabling Using Demand Profiles . . . 97 R. Lu and K. Han and Y. Ma and W. Zhang Intelligent VR Training . . . . . . . . 111 C. Choquet and P. Tchounikine and F. Trichet Training Strategies and Knowledge Acquisition: Using the same Reflective Tools for Different Purposes . . . . . . 119 D. Pacholczyk About the Intended Meaning of a Linguistic Negation . . . . . . . . . . 131 H. S. Pinto Integration of Inheritance in SNePS . . 143 J. Vejnarova Measures of Uncertainty and Independence Concept in Different Calculi . . . . . . 155 G. Bittencourt and I. Tonin A Multi-Agent Approach to First-Order Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 M. Da Costa Mora and G. Pereira Lopes and H. Coelho and R. M. Viccari Modelling Dynamic Aspects of Intentions 179 J. M. Fonseca and E. De Oliveira and A. Steiger-Garcao Multi-Agent Negotiation Algorithms for Resources Cost Estimation: A Case Study 195 A. Cesar and P. L. Da Costa and G. Bittencourt Parla: A Cooperation Language for Cognitive Multi-Agent Systems . . . . . 207 M. Schroeder and I. Mora and J. J. Alferes Vivid Agents Arguing about Distributed Extended Logic Programs . . . . . . . . 217 H. Prendinger Approximate Reasoning . . . . . . . . . 229 H. Farreny New Results About Sub-Admissibility for General Families of Heuristic Search Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 M. Takac Fixed Point Classification Method for Qualitative Simulation . . . . . . . . . 255 P. A. Matos and J. P. Martins Contextual Logic of Change and the Ramification Problem . . . . . . . . . . 267 S. Schacht and U. Hahn Temporal Reasoning about Actor Systems 279 N. F. Da Fonseca Bastos Gomes A CLP Model to the Job Sequencing Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 A. L. Castellanos and J. Castellanos and D. Manrique and A. Martinez A New Approach for Extracting Rules from a Trained Neural Network . . . . . . . . 297 P. Larrañaga and M. J. Gallego and B. Sierra and L. Urkola Bayesian Networks, Rule Induction and Logistic Regression in the Prediction of the Survival of Women Suffering from Breast Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 M. T. Cox and M. M. Veloso Controlling for Unexpected Goals when Planning in a Mixed-Initiative Setting 309 P. V. S. R. Bhanu Prasad and D. Khemani Cooperative Memory Structures and Commonsense Knowledge for Planning . . . 319 J. Pellegrini and J. Wainer Diagonalization and Type Rewriting in Clam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 S. Poria and R. Garigliano Granularity for Explanation . . . . . . 331 L. Jerinic and V. Devedzic and M. Lomic and D. Radovic Object Model of Intelligent Tutoring Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 A. Cunha and O. Belo Resource Allocation on Agent Meta-Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 O. Dressier Diagnostic Information at Your Fingertips! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 L. M. Pereira and R. Li Reasoning about Actions with Abductive Logic Programming . . . . . . . . . . . 361 F. J. Varela Dimensions of Embodiments: Possible Futures for Cognitive Science . . . . . 389 T. Mitchell Machine Learning Meets Natural Language 391
M. Stefik and G. Lavendel Libraries and Digital Property Rights 1 S. Abiteboul Object Database Support for Digital Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 R. Procter and A. McKinlay and A. Goldenberg and E. Davenport Enhancing Community and Collaboration in the Virtual Library . . . . . . . . . . 25 L. Slaughter and B. Shneiderman and G. Marchionini Comprehension and Object Recognition Capabilities for Presentations of Simultaneous Video Key Frame Surrogates 41 J. C. French and A. L. Powell and J. L. Pfaltz and E. Schulman Automating the Construction of Authority Files in Digital Libraries: A Case Study 55 K. Tochtermann and W.-F. Riekert and G. Wiest Using Semantic, Geographical, and Temporal Relationships to Enhance Search and Retrieval in Digital Catalogs . . . 73 R. Iannella Metadata Repositories Using PICS . . . . 87 A. F. Smeaton and F. Crimmins Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion for Searching the Web: A Model for Searching a Digital Library . . . . . . 99 J. M. Ponte and W. B. Croft Text Segmentation by Topic . . . . . . . 113 D. Hawking Scalable Text Retrieval for Large Digital Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . 127 A. Crespo and H. Garcia-Molina Awareness Services for Digital Libraries 147 C. Nikolaou and M. Marazakis and D. Papadakis and Y. Yeorgiannakis Towards a Common Infrastructure for Large-Scale Distributed Applications . . 173 G. Semeraro and F. Esposito and D. Malerba and N. Fanizzi Machine Learning + On-line Libraries = IDL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 M. Dartois and T. Sakaguchi and S. Sugimoto and K. Tabata Building a Multilingual Electronic Text Collection of Folk Tales as a Set of Encapsulated Document Objects: An Approach for Casual Users to Browse Multilingual Documents on the Fly . . . 215 R. Ferber Automated Indexing with Thesaurus Descriptors: A Co-occurrence Based Approach to Multilingual Retrieval . . . 233 P. Sheridan and M. Braschler and P. Schaeuble Cross-Language Information Retrieval in a Multilingual Legal Domain . . . . . . 253 A. Bozzi and S. Calabretto The Digital Library and Computational Philology: The BAMBI Project . . . . . . 269 T. A. Phelps and R. Wilensky Multivalent Annotations . . . . . . . . 287 V. Christophides and M. Doerr and I. Fundulaki A Semantic Network Approach to Semi-structured Documents Repositories 305 C. Meghini and F. Sebastiani and U. Straccia Modelling the Retrieval of Structured Documents Containing Texts and Images 325 S. M. Harding and W. B. Croft and C. Weir Probabilistic Retrieval of OCR Degraded Text Using $N$-Grams . . . . . . . . . . 345 T. C. Noordermeer Deposit for Dutch Electronic Publications: Research and Practice in The Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 M. Breu and R. Weber Charging for a Digital Library --- The Business Model and the Cost Models of the MeDoc Digital Library . . . . . . . 375 S. Mony Biblioth\`eque Nationale de France's Audiovisual System: Digital Audio, Video, and Photo Consultation in a Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 J. Bern and C. Damm and C. Meinel The Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC): A Digital Library in Use . . . . . . . . . 405
A. W. Biermann and C. A. Guinn and M. Fulkerson and G. A. Keim Goal-oriented multimedia dialogue with variable initiative . . . . . . . . . . 1 W. W. Chu and A. F. Cardenas and R. K. Taira Knowledge-based image retrieval with spatial and temporal constructs . . . . 17 M. Lowry and K. Havelund and J. Penix Verification and validation oral systems that control deep-space spacecraft . . . 35 G. Piatetsky-Shapiro Data mining and knowledge discovery: The third generation . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 J. Chen Embedding prioritized circumscription in logic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 S. Conrad and G. Saake Extending temporal logic for capturing evolving behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . 60 P. Lambrix and L. Padgham A description logic model for querying knowledge bases for structured documents 72 M. Botta and A. Giordana and R. Piola Refining first order theories with neural networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 N. Zhong and C. Liu and S. Ohsuga A way of increasing both autonomy and versatility of a KDD system . . . . . . 94 B. Barber and H. J. Hamilton A comparison of attribute selection strategies for attribute-oriented generalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 H. S. Nguyen and A. Skowron Boolean reasoning for feature extraction problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 L. Saitta and F. Neri and A. Tiberghien Worm model construction in children during physics learning . . . . . . . . 127 R. Feldman and W. Kloesgen and A. Zilberstein Document explorer: discovering knowledge in document collections . . . . . . . . 137 T. Elomaa and J. Rousu Well-behaved evaluation functions for numerical attributes . . . . . . . . . . 147 J. Kacprzyk and G. Szkatuta An improved inductive learning algorithm with a preanalysis of data . . . . . . . 157 L. Martin and C. Vrain Efficient induction of numerical constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 J. Zhang and H. J. Hamilton Learning English syllabification for words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 S. C. Yoon Towards conceptual query answering . . . 187 T. Schaub and P. Nicolas An implementation platform for query-answering in default logics: theoretical underpinnings . . . . . . . 197 M. Singh and J. Barnett and M. P. Singh Automating spoken dialogue systems . . . 207 W. Skarbek and K. Ignasiak Handwritten digit recognition by local principal components analysis . . . . . 217 J. Debenham From conceptual model to internal model 227 Q. Zhang Speeding GA-based attribute selection for image interpretation . . . . . . . . 237 B. S. Hadad and C. F. Eick Using recurrent selection to improve GA performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 A. Giordana and L. Saitta and G. Lo Bello A coevolutionary approach to concept learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 F. Federman and S. F. Dorchak Representation of music in a learning classifier system . . . . . . . . . . . 267 W. Van Laer and L. De Raedt and S. Dzeroski On multi-class problems and discretization in inductive logic programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 K.-M. Huang and J. M. Zytkow Discovering empirical equations from robot-collected data . . . . . . . . . . 287 S. Tsumoto Induction of positive and negative deterministic rules based on rough set model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 L. J. Mazlack Autonomous database mining and disorder measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 J. Calmet and S. Jekutsch and P. Kullmann and J. Schue KOMET --- a system for the integration of heterogeneous information sources . . 318 E. Nissan and D. Rousseau Towards A1 formalisms for legal evidence 328 C. Capponi Type extensibility of a knowledge representation system with powersets . . 338 D. Costal and A. Olive Planning based on view updating in deductive databases . . . . . . . . . . 348 S. K. Choubey and V. V. Raghavan Generic and fully automatic content-based image retrieval architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 J. Eusterbrock Program synthesis from examples by theory formation . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 Y. Y. Yao and S. K. M. Wong Interval approaches for uncertain reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 M. A. Klopotek and S. T. Wierzchon Qualitative versus quantitative interpretation of the mathematical theory of evidence . . . . . . . . . . . 391 Q. Zhu and Z. Chen Knowledge discovery from databases with the guidance of a causal network . . . . 401 M. J. Donahoo and J. W. Murdock and A. K. Goel and S. Navathe From data to knowledge: method-specific transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 M. Kryszkiewicz Generalized rules in incomplete information systems . . . . . . . . . . 421 R. Cucchiara and E. Lamma and P. Mello and M. Milano An interactive constraint-based system for selective attention in visual search 431 D. A. Maluf and G. Wiederhold Abstraction of representation for interoperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 S. Carberry and J. R. Clarke Trauma CASE: exploiting the knowledge base of an existing decision support system to automatically construct medical cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456 D. Pacholczyk An intelligent system dealing with negative information . . . . . . . . . . 467 P. Bosc and O. Pivert On representation-based querying of databases containing ill-known values 477 D. Slezak Decision value oriented decomposition of data tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487 J. W. Grzymala-Busse and L. J. Old A machine learning experiment to determine part of speech from word-endings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497 M. Quafafou Learning flexible concepts from uncertain data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 M. Hadzikadic and B. F. Bohren Determining attribute relevance in decision trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 J. Y. Chai and A. W. Biermann A WordNet based rule generalization engine in meaning extraction system . . 529 D. Calvanese and G. De Giacomo and M. Lenzerini Representing and reasoning on SGML documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540 G. P. Zarri Conceptual modelling of the ``meaning'' of textual narrative documents . . . . . 550 J. D. Oldham and V. W. Marek and M. Truszczynski Intelligent computation of presentation documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560 T. Andreasen Flexible database querying based on associations of domain values . . . . . 570 F. Cuppens and R. Demolombe A modal logical framework for security policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579 R. Haehnle and N. V. Murray and E. Rosenthal Completeness for linear regular negation normal form inference systems . . . . . 590 X. Nie and Q. Guo Renaming a set of non-Horn clauses . . . 600 Y. Zhang Constraints, causal rules and minimal change in model-based update . . . . . . 609 F. Esposito and D. Malerba and G. Semeraro and S. Ferilli Knowledge revision for document understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619
M. Bieber Enhancing Information Comprehension Through Hypertext . . . . . . . . . . . 1 P. Brusilovsky Efficient Techniques for Adaptive Hypermedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 E. Gobbetti and R. Turner Exploring Annotated $3$D Environments on the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . 31 J. Kay and B. Kummerfeld User Models for Customized Hypertext . . 47 R. E. Kent and C. Neuss Conceptual Analysis of Hypertext . . . . 70 J. Mayfield Two-Level Models of Hypertext . . . . . 90 C. Pearce and E. Miller The TELLTALE Dynamic Hypertext Environment: Approaches to Scalability 109 W. Wang and C. Ghaoui and R. Rada Domain Model Based Hypertext for Collaborative Authoring . . . . . . . . 131 D. Rus and D. Subramanian Information Retrieval, Information Structure, and Information Agents . . . 145
W. Schultz Reward Responses of Dopamine Neurons: A Biological Reinforcement Signal . . . . 3 H. Markram and M. Tsodyks The Information Content of Action Potential Trains --- A Synaptic Basis 13 R. Miller Cortical Cell Assemblies, Laminar Interaction, and Thalamocortical Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 N. Brunel Cross-Correlations in Sparsely Connected Recurrent Networks of Spiking Neurons 31 I. V. Tetko and A. E. P. Villa A Comparative Study of Pattern Detection Algorithm and Dynamical System Approach Using Simulated Spike Trains . . . . . . 37 J. Rouat Spatio-Temporal Pattern Recognition with Neural Networks: Application to Speech 43 P. Lansky and V. Lanska Noise in Integrate-and-Fire Models of Neuronal Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . 49 C. W. Eurich and H. R. Dinse and U. Dicke and B. Godde Coarse Coding Accounts for Improvement of Spatial Discrimination after Plastic Reorganization in Rats and Humans . . . 55 S. Schultz and S. Panzeri and A. Treves and E. T. Rolls Analogue Resolution in a Model of the Schaffer Collaterals . . . . . . . . . . 61 M. Mattia and S. Fusi Modeling Networks with Linear (VLSI) Integrate-and-Fire Neurons . . . . . . . 67 G. Deco and B. Schuermann An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Temporal Coding Strategies by Spiking Central Neurons . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 R. Ritz and T. J. Sejnowski Correlation Coding in Stochastic Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 A. Hirose Two-Dimensional Hodgkin--Huxley Equations for Investigating a Basis of Pulse-Processing Neural Networks . . . . 85 E. Koerner and U. Koerner Concurrent Parallel-Sequential Processing in Gamma Controlled Cortical-Type Networks of Spiking Neurones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 L. S. Smith A Noise-Robust Auditory Modeling Front End for Voiced Speech . . . . . . . . . 97 T. V. Ho and J. Rouat A Novelty Detector Using a Network of Integrate and Fire Neurons . . . . . . . 103 J. Eggert and J. L. Van Hemmen Derivation of Pool Dynamics from Microscopic Neuronal Models . . . . . . 109 V. Steuber and D. J. Willshaw How a Single Purkinje Cell Could Learn the Adaptive Timing of the Classically Conditioned Eye-Blink Response . . . . . 115 W. Senn and M. Tsodyks and H. Markram An Algorithm for Synaptic Modification Based on Exact Timing of Pre- and Post-Synaptic Action Potentials . . . . 121 L. Benuskova Modeling Plasticity in Rat Barrel Cortex Induced by One Spared Whisker . . . . . 127 R. Kohli and P. G. H. Clarke Mathematical Analysis of Competition Between Sensory Ganglion Cells for Nerve Growth Factor in the Skin . . . . . . . 133 A. Van Ooyen and D. J. Willshaw Competition Amongst Neurons for Neurotrophins . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 M. Samuelides and S. Thorpe and E. Veneau Implementing Hebbian Learning in a Rank-Based Neural Network . . . . . . . 145 B. Graham and D. J. Willshaw A Model of Clipped Hebbian Learning in a Neocortical Pyramidal Cell . . . . . . . 151 C. W. Eurich and J. D. Cowan and J. G. Milton Hebbian Delay Adaptation in a Network of Integrate-and-Fire Neurons . . . . . . . 157 A. Loerincz Hippocampal Formation Trains Independent Components via Forcing Input Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 S. Loewel and K. E. Schmidt and W. Singer Nature vs. Nurture in the Development of Tangential Connections and Functional Maps in the Visual Cortex . . . . . . . 171 M. Huebener and D. Shoham and S. Schulze and G. Braendle Geometric Relationships Between Feature Maps in Cat Visual Cortex . . . . . . . 177 S. Wimbauer and O. Wenisch and J. L. Van Hemmen A Linear Hebbian Model for the Development of Spatiotemporal Receptive Fields of Simple Cells . . . . . . . . . 183 M. Stetter and E. W. Lang and K. Obermayer Synapse Clustering Can Drive Simultaneous ON-OFF and Ocular-Dominance Segregation in a Model of Area 17 . . . 189 F. Wolf and T. Geisel Must Pinwheels Move During Visual Development? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 F. Frisone and L. Perico and P. G. Morasso Extending the TRN Model in a Biologically Plausible Way . . . . . . . 201 D. Brockmann and H. U. Bauer and M. Riesenhuber and T. Geisel SOM-Model for the Development of Oriented Receptive Fields and Orientation Maps from Non-oriented ON-center OFF-center Inputs . . . . . . 207 U. Bauer and P. Adorjan and M. Scholz and J. B. Levitt On the Anatomical Basis of Field Size, Contrast Sensitivity, and Orientation Selectivity in Macaque Striate Cortex: A Model Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 C. Ziegaus and E. W. Lang Statistics of Natural and Urban Images 219 T. Burger and E. W. Lang A CBL Network Model with Intracortical Plasticity and Natural Image Stimuli . . 225 U. Ernst and K. Pawelzik and F. Wolf and T. Geisel Geometry of Orientation Preference Map Determines Nonclassical Receptive Field Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 H. Bartsch and M. Stetter and K. Obermayer A Model for Orientation Tuning and Contextual Effects of Orientation Selective Receptive Fields . . . . . . . 237 L. Wiskott and T. J. Sejnowski Objective Functions for Neural Map Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 K. Kopecz and K. Mohraz Relative Time Scales in the Self-Organization of Pattern Classification: From One-Shot to Statistical Learning . . . . . . . . . . 249 J. Chao and Y. Miyata and S. Yoshida Realization of Geometric Illusions and Geometry of Visual Space with Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 V. N. Vapnik The Support Vector Method . . . . . . . 263 R. S. Sutton On the Significance of Markov Decision Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 N. Chatenet and H. Bersini Economical Reinforcement Learning for Non Stationary Problems . . . . . . . . 283 T. Czernichow A Double Gradient Algorithm to Optimize Regularization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 N. P. Bradshaw and A. Duchateau and H. Bersini Global Least-Squares vs. EM Training for the Gaussian Mixture of Experts . . . . 295 H. J. Kappen and F. B. Rodriguez Accelerated Learning in Boltzmann Machines Using Mean Field Theory . . . . 301 S. Boes Adaptive Online Learning for Nonstationary Problems . . . . . . . . . 307 M. Aboukassem and S. Schwember and S. Noehte and R. Maenner Weight Discretization due to Optical Constraints and Its Influence on the Generalization Abilities of a Simple Perceptron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 S. Soltani and S. Canu and D. Boichu and Y. Grandvalet Wavelet Frames Based Estimator . . . . . 319 N. Mozayyani and G. Vaucher A Spatio-temporal Perceptron for On-Line Handwritten Character Recognition . . . 325 M. G. Weiss Learning Oscillations Using Adaptive Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 P. Eggenberger Creation of Neural Networks Based on Developmental and Evolutionary Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 A. Bettoni and P. Campadelli and M. Parodi A Boosting Algorithm for Regression . . 343 M. Taniguchi and V. Tresp Combining Regularized Neural Networks 349 S. M. Rueger Making Stochastic Networks Deterministic 355 B. Ruf and M. Schmitt Unsupervised Learning in Networks of Spiking Neurons Using Temporal Coding 361 A. Selonen and J. Lampinen Experiments on Regularizing MLP Models with Background Knowledge . . . . . . . 367 S. Gutjahr and J. Feist Elliptical Basis Function Networks for Classification Tasks . . . . . . . . . . 373 I. Galleske and J. Castellanos Probabilistic Neural Networks with Rotated Kernel Functions . . . . . . . . 379 N. Jankowski and V. Kadirkamanathan Statistical Control of RBF-like Networks for Classification . . . . . . . . . . . 385 M. Scherf and W. Brauer Improving RBF Networks by the Feature Selection Approach EUBAFES . . . . . . . 391 L. Graf and U. Kressel and J. Franke Polynomial Classifiers and Support Vector Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 M. Kimura and R. Nakano Unique Representations of Dynamical Systems Produced by Recurrent Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 B. Hammer Generalization of Elman Networks . . . . 409 M. Ishikawa and K. Nishino Designing Neural Networks by a Combination of Structural Learning and Genetic Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 415 M. Varsta and J. del R. Millan and J. Heikkonen A Recurrent Self-Organizing Map for Temporal Sequence Processing . . . . . . 421 P. Stagge and B. Sendhoff An Extended Elman Net for Modeling Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 M. Kuzmina and E. Manykin and I. Surina Recurrent Associative Memory Network of Nonlinear Coupled Oscillators . . . . . 433 H. Wersing and J. J. Steil and H. Ritter A Layered Recurrent Neural Network for Feature Grouping . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 K. Meert and J. Ludik A Multilayer Real-Time Recurrent Learning Algorithm for Improved Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 A. Storkey Increasing the Capacity of a Hopfield Network without Sacrificing Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 H. Wang and D. Bell A Novel Associative Network Accommodating Pattern Deformation . . . 457 Y. Grandvalet and S. Canu Adaptive Noise Injection for Input Variables Relevance Determination . . . 463 P. Van De Laar and S. Gielen and T. Heskes Input Selection with Partial Retraining 469 E. Mayoraz On the Complexity of Recognizing Iterated Differences of Polyhedra . . . 475 Y. Guermeur and F. D'Alche-Buc and P. Gallinari Optimal Linear Regression on Classifier Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 R. Quelavoine and P. Nocera Learning Verification in Multilayer Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 487 O. J. Kwon and S. Y. Bang Design of a Fault Tolerant Multilayer Perceptron with a Desired Level of Robustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493 P. Moerland Mixtures of Experts Estimate A Posteriori Probabilities . . . . . . . . 499 A. Doering and M. Galicki and H. Witte Admissibility and Optimality of the Cascade-Correlation Algorithm . . . . . 505 N. P. Bradshaw The Effective VC Dimension of the $n$-tuple Classifier . . . . . . . . . . 511 E. Oja and J. Karhunen and A. Hyvaerinen From Neural Principal Components to Neural Independent Components . . . . . 519 A. Taleb and C. Jutten Entropy Optimization --- Application to Blind Source Separation . . . . . . . . 529 B.-U. Koehler and T.-W. Lee and R. Orglmeister Improving the Performance of Infomax Using Statistical Signal Processing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535 P. Pajunen and J. Karhunen A Maximum Likelihood Approach to Nonlinear Blind Source Separation . . . 541 M. Mattavelli and E. Amaldi and J.-M. Vesin A Perceptron-Based Approach to Piecewise Linear Modeling with an Application to Time Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547 E. Oja and K. Valkealahti Local Independent Component Analysis by the Self-Organizing Map . . . . . . . . 553 G. Linares and P. Nocera and H. Meloni Model Breaking Detection Using Independent Component Classifier . . . . 559 A. Paraschiv-Ionescu and C. Jutten and G. Bouvier Neural Network Based Processing for Smart Sensors Arrays . . . . . . . . . . 565 S. Fiori and A. Uncini and F. Piazza Application of the MEC Network to Principal Component Analysis and Source Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571 J. Joutsensalo Semi-Blind Source Parameter Separation 577 B. Schoelkopf and A. J. Smola and K.-R Mueller Kernel Principal Component Analysis . . 583 T. Balachander and R. Kothari and H. Cualing An Empirical Comparison of Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Pattern Classification . . . . . . . . . 589 J. Bruske and G. Sommer Topology Representing Networks for Intrinsic Dimensionality Estimation . . 595 E. Haekkinen and P. Koikkalainen SOM Based Visualization in Data Analysis 601 G. A. Carpenter and F. D. M. Wilson ARTMAP-DS: Pattern Discrimination by Discounting Similarities . . . . . . . . 607 B. Fritzke A Self-Organizing Network that Can Follow Non-stationary Distributions . . 613 M. Burger and T. Graepel and K. Obermayer Phase Transitions in Soft Topographic Vector Quantization . . . . . . . . . . 619 M. Herrmann and T. Villmann Vector Quantization by Optimal Neural Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625 J.-C. Fort and G. Pages Convergences of the Kohonen Maps: A Dynamical System Approach . . . . . . . 631 J. Laaksonen Local Subspace Classifier . . . . . . . 637 J. P. Delmas Asymptotic Distributions Associated to Unsupervised Oja's Learning Equation . . 643 N. A. Vlassis and A. Dimopoulos and G. Papakonstantinou The Probabilistic Growing Cell Structures Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 649 S. Hochreiter and J. Schmidhuber Unsupervised Coding with LOCOCODE . . . 655 B. Dobrzewski and D. Ruwish and M. Bode Wave Propagation in Self-Organizing Feature Maps as a Means for the Representation of Temporal Sequences . . 661 N. Pican Contextual Kohonen SOM with Orthogonal Weight Estimator Principle . . . . . . . 667 H. Ritter Self-Organizing Maps for Robot Control 675 I. Harvey Cognition is Not Computation; Evolution is Not Optimisation . . . . . . . . . . 685 C. Scheier and R. Pfeifer Information Theoretic Implications of Embodiment for Neural Network Learning 691 J. Tani Visual Attention and Learning of a Cognitive Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . 697 S. Egner and C. Scheier Feature Binding Through Temporally Correlated Neural Activity in a Robot Model of Visual Perception . . . . . . . 703 S. A. Huber and H. H. Buelthoff Modeling Obstacle Avoidance Behavior of Flies Using an Adaptive Autonomous Agent 709 T. R. Neumann and S. A. Huber and H. H. Buelthoff Minimalistic Approach to $3$D Obstacle Avoidance Behavior from Simulated Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715 J. Vaario and K. Shimohara Synthesis of Developmental and Evolutionary Modeling of Adaptive Autonomous Agents . . . . . . . . . . . 721 A. Buehlmeier and P. Steiner and M. Rossmann and K. Goser Hebbian Multilayer Network in a Wheelchair Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . 727 S. Nolfi and D. Parisi Neural Networks in an Artificial Life Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733 J. del R. Millan Incremental Acquisition of Local Networks for the Control of Autonomous Robots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739 H. H. Lund Robot-Animal Interaction . . . . . . . . 745 H. A. Mallot and M. Franz and B. Schoelkopf and H. H. Buelthoff The View-Graph Approach to Visual Navigation and Spatial Memory . . . . . 751 O. Trullier and J.-A Meyer Place Sequence Learning for Navigation 757 A. Billard and G. Hayes Learning to Communicate Through Imitation in Autonomous Robots . . . . . 763 R. Salustowicz and M. Wiering and J. Schmidhuber On Learning Soccer Strategies . . . . . 769 K. Mizutani and T. Omori A Model of Logic Like Inference by Memory Model PATON . . . . . . . . . . . 775 N. Saadia and Y. Amirat and J. Pontnau and A. Ramdane-Cherif Force Feedback Control of an Assembly Robot by Neural Networks . . . . . . . . 781 M. Dapper and R. Maass and V. Zahn and R. Eckmiller Neural Force Control (NFC) for Complex Manipulator Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . 787 T. Frontzek and N. Goerke and R. Eckmiller A Hybrid Path Planning System Combining the A-Method and RBF-Networks . . . . . 793 A. Chella and S. Gaglio and V. Mulia and G. Sajeva An ASSOM Neural Network to Represent Actions Performed by an Autonomous Agent 799 R. Salomon The Application of Radial Basis Function Networks with Implicit Continuity Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805 G. Indiveri and P. Vetschure Autonomous Vehicle Guidance Using Analog VLSI Neuromorphic Sensors . . . . . . . 811 V. Ortmann and R. Eckmiller Neural Network Visual Tracking System 817 F. Pasemann Pole-Balancing with Different Evolved Neurocontrollers . . . . . . . . . . . . 823 I. Kokcharov Calibration of Parallel Robots by Evolutionary Algorithm . . . . . . . . . 831 I. Duleba and R. Muszynski On Use of ANNs to Model and to Control Robot Manipulators . . . . . . . . . . . 837 C. Ledoux and F. Bonnard Identification of the Electric Arc of a Furnace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843 C. Breining and G. Alt On Using MLPs for Step Size Control in Echo Cancellation for Hands-Free Telephone Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849 R. Habtom and L. Litz Neurocontrol of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Subject to Unmeasured Disturbance Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . 855
Patrick Blackburn and Marc Dymetman and Alain Lecomte and Aarne Ranta and Christian Retoré and Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics: An Introduction . . . . . . 1 Aravind K. Joshi and Seth Kulick Partial Proof Trees, Resource Sensitive Logics, and Syntactic Constraints . . . 21 Marcus Kracht Inessential Features . . . . . . . . . . 43 Dale Miller Linear Logic as Logic Programming: An Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Edward Stabler Derivational Minimalism . . . . . . . . 68 V. Michele Abrusci and Christophe Fouqueré and Jacqueline Vauzeilles Tree adjoining grammars in non-commutative linear logic . . . . . . 96 Denis Bechet and Philippe de Groote Constructing Different Phonological Bracketings from a Proof Net . . . . . . 118 Pascal Boldini Vagueness and Type Theory . . . . . . . 134 Yann Coscoy A Natural Language Explanation for Formal Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Martin Emms Models for Polymorphic Lambek Calculus 168 Claire Gardent Sloppy Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--207 Stephen J. Hegner A Family of Decidable Feature Logics which Support HPSG-Style Set and List Constructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Ruth Kempson and Wilfried Meyer Viol and Dov Gabbay Language Understanding: A Procedural Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Paul John King and Kiril Ivanov Simov The Automatic Deduction of Classificatory Systems from Linguistic Theories (Abridged) . . . . . . . . . . 248 Lucia H. B. Manara and Anne De Roeck A Belief-Centered Treatment of Pragmatic Presupposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 Jacek Marciniec Connected Sets of Types and Categorial Consequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Josep M. Merenciano and Glyn Morrill Generation as Deduction on Labelled Proof Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 Jens Michaelis and Marcus Kracht Semilinearity as a Syntactic Invariant 329 Stefan Riezler Quantitative Constraint Logic Programming for Weighted Grammar Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 James Rogers Strict $ \mathbf {LT}_2 $: Regular :: Local : Recognizable . . . . . . . . . . 366 Irene Schena Pomset Logic and Variants in Natural Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 Frieder Stolzenburg and Stephan Höhne and Ulrich Koch and Martin Volk Constraint Logic Programming for Computational Linguistics . . . . . . . 406 Marek Szczerba Representation Theorems for Residuated Groupoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
A. Galton Continuous Change in Spatial Regions . . 1 K. Hornsby and M. J. Egenhofer Qualitative Representation of Change . . 15 M. A. Rodriguez and M. J. Egenhofer Image-Schemata-Based Spatial Inferences: The Container-Surface Algebra . . . . . 35 A. Dieberger A City Metaphor to Support Navigation in Complex Information Spaces . . . . . . . 53 S. Timpf and A. U. Frank Using Hierarchical Spatial Data Structures for Hierarchical Spatial Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 M. Raubal and M. J. Egenhofer and D. Pfoser and N. Tryfona Structuring Space with Image Schemata: Wayfinding in Airports as a Case Study 85 B. Smith and A. C. Varzi Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries: Towards an Ontology of Spatially Extended Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 B. Plewe A Representation-Oriented Taxonomy of Gradation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 M. V. Gray Classification as an Impediment to the Reliable and Valid Use of Spatial Information: A Disaggregate Approach . . 137 H. Couclelis and J. Gottsegen What Maps Mean to People: Denotation, Connotation, and Geographic Visualization in Land-Use Debates . . . 151 J. G. Stell and M. F. Worboys The Algebraic Structure of Sets of Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 V. H. Nguyen and C. Parent and S. Spaccapietra Complex Regions in Topological Queries 175 M. Knauff and R. Rauh and J. Renz A Cognitive Assessment of Topological Spatial Relations: Results from an Empirical Investigation . . . . . . . . 193 J.-F. Hangouet and R. Djadri Voronoi Diagrams on Line Segments: Measurements for Contextual Generalization Purposes . . . . . . . . 207 T. Bittner A Qualitative Coordinate Language of Location of Figures within the Ground 223 C. Tao and M. Molenaar and T. Bouloucos Identification of Fuzzy Objects from Field Observation Data . . . . . . . . . 241 T. Federico and N. Franklin Long-Term Spatial Representations From Pictorial and Textual Input . . . . . . 261 B. Berendt and P. Jansen-Osmann Feature Accumulation and Route Structuring in Distance Estimations --- An Interdisciplinary Approach . . . . . 279 D. R. Montello The Perception and Cognition of Environmental Distance: Direct Source of Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 F. Harvey Improving Multi-Purpose GIS Design: Participative Design . . . . . . . . . . 313 J. Portugali Self-Organization, Cities, Cognitive Maps and Information Systems . . . . . . 329 T. Barkowsky and C. Freksa Cognitive Requirements on Making and Interpreting Maps . . . . . . . . . . . 347 G. L. Allen From Knowledge to Words to Wayfinding: Issues in the Production and Comprehension of Route Directions . . . 363 S. L. Epstein Spatial Representation for Pragmatic Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 M. Erwig and M. Schneider Partition and Conquer . . . . . . . . . 389 S. C. Chase Supporting Emergence in Spatial Reasoning with Shape Algebras and Formal Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 P. Haunold and S. Grumbach and G. Kuper and Z. Lacroix Linear Constraints: Geometric Objects Represented by Inequalities . . . . . . 429 M. J. Almeida An Event-Based Approach to Spatial Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 G. Edwards Geocognostics --- A New Framework for Spatial Information Theory . . . . . . . 455 J.-P. Cheylan and T. Libourel and C. Mende Graphical Modelling for Geographical Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 M. Gahegan Experiments Using Context and Significance to Enhance the Reporting Capabilities of GIS . . . . . . . . . . 485 A. Abella and J. R. Kender Automatic Summarization of Radiographic Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497 M. Barrault An Automated System for Name Placement which Complies with Cartographic Quality Criteria: The Hydrographic Network . . . 499 I. Benenson and J. Portugali Agent-Based Simulations of a City Dynamics in a GIS Environment . . . . . 501 B. Bennett and A. G. Cohn and A. Isli A Logical Approach to Incorporating Qualitative Spatial Reasoning into GIS 503 A. D. Blaser User Interaction in a Sketch-Based GIS User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505 U. Rupp Metrical Refinement of Topological Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 F. B. Zahn Approximation of Topological Relations Between Fuzzy Regions Satisfying a Linguistically Described Query . . . . . 509
P. Van Hentenryck Visual Solver, a Modeling Language for Constraint Programming . . . . . . . . . 1 N. B. Guernalec and A. Colmerauer Narrowing a $ 2 n $-block of Sortings in $ O(n \log n) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Y. Caseau and F. Laburthe Solving Various Weighted Matching Problems with Constraints . . . . . . . 17 J.-C. Regin and J.-F. Puget A Filtering Algorithm for Global Sequencing Constraints . . . . . . . . . 32 F. De Boer and M. Gabbrielli and M. C. Meo Semantics and Expressive Power of a Timed Concurrent Constraint Language . . 47 P. Devienne and J. M. Talbot and S. Tison Solving Classes of Set Constraints with Tree Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 I. P. Gent and J. L. Underwood The Logic of Search Algorithms: Theory and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 S. Melzer Verification of Parallel Systems Using Constraint Programming . . . . . . . . . 92 D. Achlioptas and L. M. Kirousis and E. Kranakis and D. Krizanc Random Constraint Satisfaction: A More Accurate Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 C. P. Gomes and B. Selman and N. Crato Heavy-Tailed Distributions in Combinatorial Search . . . . . . . . . . 121 G. Istrate Counting, Structure Identification and Maximum Consistency for Binary Constraint Satisfaction Problems . . . . 136 I. Rish and D. Frost Statistical Analysis of Backtracking on Inconsistent CSPs . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Y. Caseau Using Constraint Propagation for Complex Scheduling Problems: Managing Size, Complex Resources and Travel . . . . . . 163 D. Sabin and E. C. Freuder Understanding and Improving the MAC Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 B. M. Smith and S. A. Grant Modelling Exceptionally Hard Constraint Satisfaction Problems . . . . . . . . . 182 P. Galinier and J.-K. Hao Tabu Search for Maximal Constraint Satisfaction Problems . . . . . . . . . 196 Y. Hamadi and D. Merceron Reconfigurable Architectures: A New Vision for Optimization Problems . . . . 209 K. Hirayama and M. Yokoo Distributed Partial Constraint Satisfaction Problem . . . . . . . . . . 222 L. Michel and P. Van Hentenryck Localizer: A Modeling Language for Local Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 S. Abdennadher Operational Semantics and Confluence of Constraint Propagation Rules . . . . . . 252 A. Boudet and E. Contejean AC-Unification of Higher-Order Patterns 267 M. Hermann and P. G. Kolaitis On the Complexity of Unification and Disunification in Commutative Idempotent Semigroups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 M. Mueller and J. Niehren and A. Podelski Ordering Constraints over Feature Trees 297 R. Debruyne and C. Bessiere From Restricted Path Consistency to Max-Restricted Path Consistency . . . . 312 I. P. Gent and E. MacIntyre and P. Prosser and P. Shaw The Constrainedness of Arc Consistency 327 Chu Min Li and Anbulagan Look-Ahead Versus Look-Back for Satisfiability Problems . . . . . . . . 341--355 M. Yokoo Why Adding More Constraints Makes a Problem Easier for Hill-Climbing Algorithms: Analyzing Landscapes of CSPs 356 L. Michel and J.-F Puget Interval Methods for Non-linear Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 S. Minton Configurable Solvers: Tailoring General Methods to Specific Applications . . . . 372 P. Baptiste and C. Le Pape Constraint Propagation and Decomposition Techniques for Highly Disjunctive and Highly Cumulative Project Scheduling Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 J. C. Beck and A. J. Davenport and M. S. Fox Five Pitfalls of Empirical Scheduling Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 S. De Givry and G. Verfaillie and T. Schiex Bounding the Optimum of Constraint Optimization Problems . . . . . . . . . 405 G. Pesant and M. Gendreau and J.-M Rousseau GENIUS-CP: A Generic Single-Vehicle Routing Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 420 C. Bettini and X. Sean Wang and S. Jajodia Satisfiability of Quantitative Temporal Constraints with Multiple Granularities 435 S. Crumbach and G. Kuper Tractable Recursion over Geometric Data 450 C. M. Hoffmann and A. Lomonosov and M. Sitharam Finding Solvable Subsets of Constraint Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463 D. Cohen and P. Jeavons and M. Koubarakis Tractable Disjunctive Constraints . . . 478 W. Harvey and P. J. Stuckey and A. Borning Compiling Constraint Solving Using Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491 J.-M. Labat and L. Mynard Oscillation, Heuristic Ordering and Pruning in Neighborhood Search . . . . . 506 C. Schulte Programming Constraint Inference Engines 519 I. Shvetsov and V. Telerman and D. Ushakov NeMo+: Object-Oriented Constraint Programming Environment Based on Subdefinite Models . . . . . . . . . . . 534 L. Pacholski and A. Podelski Set Constraints: A Pearl in Research on Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
A. G. Merten From Conceptual Modeler to University President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 V. C. Storey and H. Ullrich and S. Sundaresan An Ontology for Database Design Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 K. D. Schewe Well-behaving Rule Systems for Entity-Relationship and Object-Oriented Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 M. Lloyd-Williams Exploiting Domain Knowledge During the Automated Design of Object-Oriented Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 S. Purao and V. C. Storey Intelligent Support for Retrieval and Synthesis of Patterns for Object-Oriented Design . . . . . . . . . 30 I. Petrounias A Conceptual Development Framework for Temporal Information Systems . . . . . . 43 D. Costal and A. Olive and M. R. Sancho Temporal Features of Class Populations and Attributes in Conceptual Models . . 57 I. A. Goralwalla and D. Szafron and M. T. Oezsu and R. J. Peters Managing Schema Evolution Using a Temporal Object Model . . . . . . . . . 71 S. Iyengar Distributed Object Repositories: Concepts and Standards . . . . . . . . . 85 D. Dey and S. Sarkar Extended SQL Support for Uncertain Data 102 A. C. Bloesch and T. A. Halpin Conceptual Queries Using ConQuer-II . . 113 L. Baekgaard Transaction-Based Specification of Database Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . 127 M. Schreft and M. Stumptner Behavior Consistent Refinement of Object Life Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 L. Liu and C. Pu ActivityFlow: Towards Incremental Specification and Flexible Coordination of Workflow Activities . . . . . . . . . 169 M. L. Brodie Silver Bullet Shy On Legacy Mountain: When Neat Technology Just Doesn't Work --- or --- Miracles To Save The Realm: Faustian Bargains Or Noble Pursuits . . 183 D. Moody A Multi-level Architecture for Representing Enterprise Data Models . . 184 J. Sekine and A. Kitai and Y. Ooshima and Y. Oohara Data Model for Customizing DB Schemas Based on Business Policies . . . . . . . 198 H. Dalianis and P. Johannesson Explaining Conceptual Models --- An Architecture and Design Principles . . . 215 T. Hruska and P. Kolencik Extending an Object-Oriented Model: Multiple Class Objects . . . . . . . . . 229 V. B. Misic and S. Moser Formal Approach to Metamodeling: A Generic Object-Oriented Perspective . . 243 W. W. Chu and G. Zhang Associations and Roles in Object-Oriented Modeling . . . . . . . . 257 A. Analyti and N. Spyratos and P. Constantopoulos Property Covering: A Powerful Construct for Schema Derivations . . . . . . . . . 271 M. M. Gammoudi and J. D. Mendes and W. S. Pinto Inheritance Graph Hierarchy Construction Using Rectangular Decomposition of a Binary Relation and Designer Feedback 285 K. Waiyamai and R. Taouil and L. Lakhal Towards an Object Database Approach for Managing Concept Lattices . . . . . . . 299 C. Batini and G. Longobardi and S. Fornasiero An Experience of Integration of Conceptual Schemas in the Italian Public Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 M. Albrecht and M. Altus and M. Steeg Application-Oriented Design of Behavior: A Transformational Approach Using RADD 323 D. Wu and D. Agrawai and A. El Abbadi and A. Singh A Java-Based Framework for Processing Distributed Objects . . . . . . . . . . 333 E. Malinowski and S. Chakravarthy Fragmentation Techniques for Distributing Object-Oriented Databases 347 N. Pissinou and K. Makki and M. Hong and L. Ji An Agent Based Mobile System . . . . . . 361 S. B. Navathe Is the Future of Conceptual Modeling Bleak or Bright? . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 P. Thompson and J. W. Sweitzer Successful Practices in Developing a Complex Information Model . . . . . . . 376 M. L. Lee and T. W. Ling Resolving Constraint Conflicts in the Integration of Entity-Relationship Schemas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 P. McBrien and A. Poulovassilis A Formal Framework for ER Schema Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408 U. Hohenstein and V. Plesser A Generative Approach to Database Federation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 L. Yee and C. Hsu A Virtual Reality Interface to an Enterprise Metadatabase . . . . . . . . 436 A. N. W. Dahanayake and H. G. Sol and J. L. G. Dietz A Fully Flexible CAME in a CASE Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 M. Gong and L. Scott and Y. Xiao and R. Offen A Rapid Development Model for Meta-CASE Tool Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
W. Gropp and E. Lusk Why Are PVM and MPI So Different? . . . 3--10 J. Kitowski and K. Boryczko and J. Moscinski Comparison of PVM and MPI Performance in Short-Range Molecular Dynamics Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--16 J. Piernas and A. Flores and J. M. Garcia Analyzing the Performance of MPI in a Cluster of Workstations Based on Fast Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24 M. Resch and H. Berger and T. Boenisch A Comparison of MPI Performance on Different MPPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--32 J. L. Roda and C. Rodriguez and F. Almeida and D. Gonzalez-Morales Predicting the Performance of Injection Communication Patterns on PVM . . . . . 33--40 L. P. Santos and V. Castro and A. Proenca Evaluation of the Communication Performance on a Parallel Processing System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--48 P. S. Souza and L. J. Senger and M. J. Santana and R. C. Santana Evaluating Personal High Performance Computing with PVM on Windows and LINUX Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--56 P. W. Uminski and M. R. Matuszek and H. Krawczyk Experimental Evaluation of PVM Group Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--66 J.-M. Adamo ARCH, An Object Oriented MPI-Based Library for Asynchronous and Loosely Synchronous Parallel System Programming 67--74 T. Beisel and E. Gabriel and M. Resch An Extension to MPI for Distributed Computing on MPPs . . . . . . . . . . . 75--82 C. Di Napoli and M. Giordano and M. M. Furnari Distributed and Cooperative Applications in PVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--90 G. E. Fagg and J. J. Dongarra and A. Geist Heterogeneous MPI Application Interoperation and Process Management under PVMPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--98 O. Galibert YLC, A C++ Linda System on Top of PVM 99--106 G. A. Geist Advanced Capabilities in PVM 3.4 . . . . 107--115 G. A. Geist and J. A. Kohl and P. M. Papadopoulos and S. L. Scott Beyond PVM 3.4: What We've Learned, What's Next, and Why . . . . . . . . . . 116--126 G. J. Hoyos-Rivera and V. G. Sanchez-Arias Using PVM to Build an Interface to Support Cooperative Work in a Distributed Systems Environment . . . . 127--134 S. Mintchev and V. Getov Towards Portable Message Passing in Java: Binding MPI . . . . . . . . . . . 135--142 G. Mysliwiec and J. Sipowicz and R. Schaefer Control Activities in Message Passing Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--150 P. Theodoropoulos and P. Tsanakas and G. Papakonstantinou Global Semaphores in a Parallel Programming Environment . . . . . . . . 151--158 V. Vlassov and L.- E. Thorelli A Synchronizing Shared Memory: Model and Programming Implementation . . . . . . . 159--166 K. Wolf and E. Brakkee and D. P. Ho Communication in Multi-Physics Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--176 M. Fischer and J. Simon Embedding SCI into PVM . . . . . . . . . 177--184 R. Hempel and H. Ritzdorf and F. Zimmermann Implementation of MPI on NEC's SX-4 Multi-Node Architecture . . . . . . . . 185--193 B. J. Overeinder and P. M. A. Sloot Breaking the Curse of Dynamics by Task Migration: Pilot Experiments in the Polder Metacomputer . . . . . . . . . . 194--207 J. Rough and A. Goscinski and D. De Paoli PVM on the RHODOS Distributed Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--218 F. J. Alfaro and J. A. Gallud and J. L. Sanchez A Function to Dynamic Workload Allocation in Distributed Applications 219--225 R. Baraglia and M. Cosso and D. Laforenza and M. Nicosia Integrating PVaniM into WAMM for Monitoring Meta-Applications . . . . . . 226--233 M. Bubak and W. Funika and J. Moscinski Evaluation of Parallel Application's Behavior in Message Passing Environment 234--241 J. Y. Cotronis Message-Passing Program Development by Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--249 B. Di Martino and A. Mazzeo and N. Mazzocca and U. Villano Interaction Patterns Detection in PVM Programs to Support Simulation . . . . . 250--256 W. Krotz-Vogel and H.-C. Hoppe The PALLAS Parallel Programming Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--266 T. Ludwig and R. Wismueller OMIS 2.0 --- A Universal Interface for Monitoring Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 267--276 S. Manegold and F. Waas and D. Gudlat In Quest of the Bottleneck --- Monitoring Parallel Database Systems . . 277--284 V. Sunderam and B. Topol and S. Moyer and A. Krantz Tools and Auxiliary Subsystems in PVM 285--294 R. Wismueller Debugging Message Passing Programs Using Invisible Message Tags . . . . . . . . . 295--304 V. Alexandrov and K. Chan and A. Gibbons and W. Rytter On the PVM/MPI Computations of Dynamic Programming Recurrences . . . . . . . . 305--312 J. L. Alonso and H. Schmidt and V. N. Alexandrov Parallel Branch and Bound Algorithms for Integer and Mixed Integer Linear Programming Problems under PVM . . . . . 313--320 R. Blaheta and O. Jakl and J. Stary PVM-Implementation of the PCG Method with Displacement Decomposition . . . . 321--328 R. Ciegis and R. Sablinskas and J. Wasniewski Numerical Integration on Distributed-Memory Parallel Systems . . 329--336 M. Derakhshan and S. Hammarling and A. Krommer PINEAPL: A European Project on Parallel Industrial Numerical Applications and Portable Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . 337--342 J. J. Dongarra and F. Desprez and A. Petitet and C. Randriamaro Block-Cyclic Array Redistribution on Networks of Workstations . . . . . . . . 343--350 M. Mazzariol and B. A. Gennart and V. Messerli and R. D. Hersch Performance of CAP-Specified Linear Algebra Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 351--358 G. Mysliwiec and J. Sipowicz and H. Burkhart Implementing Parallel SBS-Type Linear Solvers Using ALWAN . . . . . . . . . . 359--366 M. Peinado and R. Venkatesan Highly Parallel Cryptographic Attacks 367--374 D. Petcu Implementation of Some Multiprocessor Algorithms for ODEs Using PVM . . . . . 375--382 M. Soch and P. Tvrdik and M. Volf Parallel Graph-Partitioning Using the Mob Heuristic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--389 G. Zilli and L. Bergamaschi Truncated Block Newton and Quasi-Newton Methods for Sparse Systems of Nonlinear Equations. Experiments on Parallel Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--400 R. Aversa and G. Iannello and N. Mazzocca An MPI Driven Parallelization Strategy for Different Computing Platforms: A Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--408 P. Bala and T. Clark and P. Grochowski and B. Lesyng Parallel Version of a Quantum Classical Molecular Dynamics Code for Complex Molecular and Biomolecular Systems . . . 409--416 C. Bendtsen and Z. Zlatev Running Large-Scale Air Pollution Models on Message Passing Machines . . . . . . 417--426 G. Bozas and M. Fleischhauer and S. Zimmermann PVM Experiences in Developing the MIDAS Parallel Database System . . . . . . . . 427--434 A. Clematis and A. Coda and M. Spagnuolo and M. Mineter Developing Non-Local Iterative Parallel Algorithms for GIS on Cray T3D Using MPI 435--442 K. Demuynck and J. Broeckhove and F. Arickx Dynamic Optimization of a Distributed VR System by Network-Balancing . . . . . . 443--450 V. Di Martino and G. Ruocco Molecular Dynamics on Hybrid Memory Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--456 M. Exbrayat and H. Kosch Offering Parallelism to a Sequential Database Management System on a Network of Workstations Using PVM . . . . . . . 457 A. S. Galaktionov and P. D. Anderson and G. W. M. Peters Mixing Simulations: Tracking Strongly Deforming Fluid Volumes in $3$D Flows 463 C. Goumopoulos and E. Housos and O. Liljenzin Parallel Crew Scheduling on Workstation Networks Using PVM . . . . . . . . . . . 470--477 M. Grecki and G. Jablonski and A. Napieralski MOPS --- Parallel Environment for Simulation of Electronic Circuits Using Physical Models of Semiconductor Devices 478--485 E. Reinhard and A. Chalmers Message Handling in Parallel Radiance 486--493 R. Roy and Z. Stankovski Parallelization of Neutron Transport Solvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--501 E. Garcia Salcines and G. Cerruela Garcia and J. I. Benavides Benitez and F. Muñoz Garcia Parallel Rendering of Radiance on Distributed Memory System by PVM . . . . 502--507 M. Strietzel Parallel Turbulence Simulation: Resolving the Inertial Subrange of Kolmogorov's Spectra . . . . . . . . . . 508--516
R. Merker and U. Eckhardt and D. Fimmel and H. Schreiber A System for Designing Parallel Processor Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 C. Schaffer On the Role of Architectures in Systems Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 M. Sveda An Approach to Safety Critical Systems Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 T. Müller-Wipperfürth Extensions and Semantics of Controller State Diagrams for Practical Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 D. Auer and H. Dobler and G. Weishaar Design and Implementation of an Energy Management System for an Integrated Iron and Steel Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 A. Anaya and M. J. Rodriguez and J. Parets Representation and Management of Memory and Decision in Evolving Software Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 H. Mayr GEM --- A Generic Engineering Framework for Mechanical Engineering Based Upon Meta Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 M. Larnac and V. Chapurlat and J. Magnier and B. Chenot Formal Representation and Proof of the Interpreted Sequential Machine Model . . 95 U. Glaesser Modelling of Concurrent and Embedded Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 A. Cau and W.-P. De Roever A Dense-Time Temporal Logic with Nice Compositionality Properties . . . . . . 123 P. Cabalar and R. P. Otero and M. Cabarcos and A. Barreiro Introducing Planning in Discrete Event Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 P. Gruenbacher Moving Towards an Agent-Based Engineering Environment . . . . . . . . 314 L. Preucil and P. Stepan Experiencing Modeling and Development of an Intelligent Autonomous Robot . . . . 324 R. Probst and P. Kopacek Latest Developments in Robotics . . . . 345 R. Moreno-Diaz and J. Mira Mira Architectures for Complex Behaviour Inspired in the Nervous System . . . . . 353 J. P. Neto and H. T. Siegelmann and J. F. Costa and C. P. Suarez Araujo Turing Universality of Neural Nets (Revisited) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 W. Jacak and S. Dreiseitl Lifelong Learning Approach to Intelligent Agents Modeling . . . . . . 367 V. Marik and O. Stepankova and J. Lazansky Role of Qualitative Reasoning in a Multi-Agent System . . . . . . . . . . . 380 L. Lhotska Learning in Multi-Agent Systems: Theoretical Issues . . . . . . . . . . . 394 M. Aleman-Flores and K. N. Leibovic and R. Moreno-Diaz A Computational Model for Visual Size, Location and Movement . . . . . . . . . 406 Z. Bubnicki Logic-Algebraic Method for a Class of Knowledge Based Systems . . . . . . . . 420 J. Scharaenger Image Compression by Multilevel Polynomial Interpolation and Wavelet Texture Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431 L. Alvarez and J. Esclarin and E. Gonzalez and L. Mazorra Image Enhancement Using and Optimum Quantizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 A. Nueckel and A. Klappenecker On the Parametrization of Algebraic Discrete Fourier Transforms . . . . . . 453 M. Burge and W. Burger Learning Visual Ideals . . . . . . . . . 464 P. Medina-Rodriguez and E. Fernandez-Garcia Multiple Representation of Complex Intensity Changes for Image Segmentation 473 J. Santos and R. J. Duro Design of ANN Architectures for Handling the Temporal Dimension in Signal Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 V. M. Gulias and J. S. Jorge and J. J. Quintela and J. L. Freire From Sequential to Distributed Formal Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501 J. A. Vila and J. Presedo and M. F. Delgado and R. Iglesias Improvement in the Computational Efficiency in the Analysis of Signals by way of Adaptive Time Frequency Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514 M. Mauerkirchner Event Based Simulation of Software Development Project Planning . . . . . . 527 M. Tanabu and J.-I. Iijima and N. Shiba Application of Intelligent Worldwide DSS to Optimization Problems . . . . . . . . 541 W. Jacak and G. Jahn and J. Rozenblit System Theoretical Approach to Control and Synchronization of Teleeducation in Open Distributed Environment . . . . . . 549 W. Czarczynski and R. Klempous and J. Nikodem Multilevel Approach to Traffic Control System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561 J. Kueng and R. Wagner and W. Woess A Comparison of 4-GL Development Tools in the Area of Metadata and Dynamic User Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567 D. Schuett and F. Pichler and J. Scharinger Cryptographic Permutations Based on BOOT Decompositions of Walsh Matrices . . . . 580 M. Ceska and V. Janousek and T. Vojnar PNtalk --- a Computerized Tool for Object Oriented Petri Nets Modelling . . 591 C. Schaffer and J. Zeindl System Level Design of Microcontroller Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
M. Bellare and P. Rogaway Minimizing the use of random oracles in authenticated encryption schemes . . . . 1 G. Di Crescenzo and K. Sakurai and M. Yung Zero-knowledge proofs of decision power: new protocols and optimal round-complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 T. Koshiba Computational learning theoretic cryptanalysis of language theoretic cryptosystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Y. Bai and V. Varadharajan A language for specifying sequences of authorization transformations and its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 H.-M. Sun and B.-L. Chen On the decomposition constructions for perfect secret sharing schemes . . . . . 50 I. Biehl and S. Wetzel Traceable visual cryptography . . . . . 61 H. Ghodosi and J. Pieprzyk and R. Safavi-Naini Remarks on the multiple assignment secret sharing scheme . . . . . . . . . 72 C. Charnes and K. Martin and J. Pieprzyk and R. Safavi-Naini Secret sharing in hierarchical groups 81 T. Aura and P. Nikander Stateless connections . . . . . . . . . 87 R. Choi and J. Na and K. Lee and E. Kim Design of a security platform for CORBA based application . . . . . . . . . . . 98 A. Lioy and F. Maino and M. Mezzalama Secure document management and distribution in an open network environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 S. Obana and K. Kurosawa A02 --- code = Affine resolvable + BIBD 118 K. M. Martin and R. Safavi-Naini Multisender authentication systems with unconditional security . . . . . . . . . 130 K. Hayashi and E. Okamoto and M. Mambo Proposal of user identification scheme using mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 W. Millan and A. Ckark and E. Dawson An effective genetic algorithm for finding highly nonlinear Boolean Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 X.-M. Zhang and Y. Zheng and H. Imai Duality of Boolean functions and its cryptographic significance . . . . . . . 159 E. Dawson and C.-K Wu Construction of correlation immune Boolean functions . . . . . . . . . . . 170 M. J. Mihaljevic An improved key stream generator based on the programmable cellular automata 181 A. Joesang A Trust policy framework . . . . . . . . 192 L. Chang and I. S. Moskowitz Critical analysis of security in voice hiding techniques . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Sangjoon Park and Sangwoo Park and Kwangjo Kim and Dongho Won Two efficient RSA multisignature schemes 217--222 S. Kim and S. Park and D. Won Proxy signatures, Revisited . . . . . . 223 J. Kelsey and B. Schneier and D. Wagner Related-key cryptanalysis of $3$-WAY, Biham-DES, CAST, DES-X NewDES, RC2, and TEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--246 F. Zhu and B.-A. Guo A multiplication-addition structure against differential attack . . . . . . 247 Y. Kaneko and S. Moriai and K. Ohta On strict estimation method of provable security against differential . . . . . 258 T. Shimoyama and S. Amada and S. Moriai Improved fast software implementation of block ciphers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 M. M. Alabbadi Security comments on the Hwang--Chen algebraic-code cryptosystem . . . . . . 274 A. Miyaji and T. Ono and H. Cohen Efficient elliptic curve exponentiation 282 J. Chao and N. Matsuda and S. Tsujii Efficient construction of secure hyperelliptic discrete logarithm problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 D. Bleichenbacher and M. Joye and J.-J. Quisquater A new and optimal chosen-message attack on RSA-type cryptosystems . . . . . . . 302 Y. Sakai and K. Sakurai and I. Ishizuka On weak RSA-keys produced from Pretty Good Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314 K. Kobara and H. Imai Self-synchronized message randomization methods for subliminal channels . . . . 325 M. Chapman and D. Davida Hiding the Hidden: A software system for concealing ciphertext as innocuous text 335 C. Boyd Digital signature and public key cryptosystem in a prime order subgroup of Zn0* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 J. Patarin and L. Goubin Trapdoor one-way permutations and multivariate polynomials . . . . . . . . 356 J. Patarin and L. Goubin Asymmetric cryptography with S-Boxes . . 369 P. Camion and H. Chabanne On the powerline system . . . . . . . . 381 J. Traore Making unfair a ``fair'' blind signature scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 C. Boyd Enforcing traceability in software . . . 398 W. Mao Publicly verifiable partial key escrow 409 H. Watanabe and T. Kasami A secure code for recipient watermarking against conspiracy attacks by all users 414 J. W. Gray and K. F. Epsilon Protocols for issuing public-key certificates over the Internet . . . . . 424 A. Postma and T. Krol and E. Molenkamp Distributed cryptographic function application protocols . . . . . . . . . 435 W. Ogata and K. Kurosawa and K. Sako and K. Takatani Fault tolerant anonymous channel . . . . 440 J. D. Ferrer and R. X. Sanchez del Castillo An implementable scheme for secure delegation of computing and data . . . . 445 J. Van der Merwe and S. H. Von Solms Electronic commerce with secure intelligent trade agent . . . . . . . . 452 H. Peterson and G. Poupard Efficient scalable fair cash with off-line extortion prevention . . . . . 463 L. Chen and C. J. Mitchell An anonymous and undeniable payment scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
D. P. Williamson Gadgets, Approximation, and Linear Programming: Improving Hardness Results for Cut and Satisfiability Problems . . 1 P. Alimonti Non-Oblivious Local Search for MAX $2$-CCSP with Application to MAX DICUT 2 H. Alt and U. Fuchs and K. Kriegel On the Number of Simple Cycles in Planar Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 L. Babel and S. Olariu On the Separable-Homogeneous Decomposition of Graphs . . . . . . . . 25 L. Babel and G. J. Woeginger Pseudo-Hamiltonian Graphs . . . . . . . 38 J.-C. Bermond and M. Di Ianni and M. Flammini and S. Perennes Acyclic Orientations for Deadlock Prevention in Interconnection Networks 52 K. Bertet and J. Gustedt and M. Morvan Weak-Order Extensions of an Order . . . 65 A. Bertoni and P. Campadelli and R. Posenato An Upper Bound for the Maximum Cut Mean Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 U. Brandes and D. Handke NP-Completeness Results for Minimum Planar Spanners . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 S. Brandt Computing the Independence Number of Dense Triangle-Free Graphs . . . . . . . 100 H. J. Broersma and E. Dahlhaus and T. Kloks Algorithms for the Treewidth and Minimum Fill-In of HHD-Free Graphs . . . . . . . 109 E. Dahlhaus Minimal Elimination Ordering Inside a Given Chordal Graph . . . . . . . . . . 132 F. D'Amore and F. Iacobini On-Line Algorithms for Networks of Temporal Constraints . . . . . . . . . . 144 B. De Fluiter and H. L. Bodlaender Parallel Algorithms for Treewidth Two 157 Y. Dinitz and M. Feighelstein and S. Zaks On Optimal Graphs Embedded into Paths and Rings, with Analysis Using l1-Spheres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 F. F. Dragan On Greedy Matching Ordering and Greedy Matchable Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 T. Erlebach and K. Jansen Off-Line and On-Line Call-Scheduling in Stars and Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 P. Hlineny and J. Kratochvil Computational Complexity of the Krausz Dimension of Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 214 T. Kloks and D. Kratsch and H. Mueller Asteroidal Sets in Graphs . . . . . . . 229 J. Kratochvil and A. Proskurowski and J. A. Telle Complexity of Colored Graph Covers I. Colored Directed Multigraphs . . . . . . 242 M. Mosbah and N. Saheb A Syntactic Approach to Random Walks on Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 E. Prisner Bicliques in Graphs II: Recognizing $k$-Path Graphs and Underlying Graphs of Line Digraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 M. Sampels Large Networks with Small Diameter . . . 288 K. Skodinis The Bounded Tree-Width Problem of Context-Free Graph Languages . . . . . . 303 M. Thorup Structured Programs Have Small Tree-Width and Good Register Allocation 318 R. Uehara A Measure of Parallelization for the Lexicographically First Maximal Subgraph Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 T. Vos and D. Swierstra Make Your Enemies Transparent . . . . . 342 K. Wada and W. Chen and Y. Luo and K. Kawaguchi Optimal Fault-Tolerant ATM-Routings for Biconnected Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 354
B. A. Marsolf and A. J. C. Bik and K. A. Gallivan and H. A. G. Wijshoff The Generation of Optimized Codes Using Nonzero Structure Analysis . . . . . . . 1 G. R. Gao and V. Sarkar On the Importance of an End-To-End View of Memory Consistency in Future Computer Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 D. Gannon High Performance Distributed Object Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 A. V. Veidenbaum Instruction Cache Prefetching Using Multilevel Branch Prediction . . . . . . 51 G. Cybenko High Performance Wireless Computing . . 71 H. R. Arabnia High-Performance Computing and Applications in Image Processing and Computer Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 T. Watanabe Present and Future of HPC Technologies 73 R. J. Eickemeyer and R. E. Johnson and S. R. Kunkel and B. H. Lim Evaluation of Multithreaded Processors and Thread-Switch Policies . . . . . . . 75 P. Kacsuk and M. Amamiya A Multithreaded Implementation Concept of Prolog on Datarol-II Machine . . . . 91 S. Evripidou Thread Synchronization Unit (TSU): A Building Block for High Performance Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 T. Sato Data Dependence Path Reduction with Tunneling Load Instructions . . . . . . 119 N. Imlig and A. Tsutui Performance Estimation of Embedded Software with Pipeline and Cache Hazard Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 H. Nakajo and A. Ichikawa and Y. Kaneda An Implementation and Evaluation of a Distributed Shared-Memory System on Workstation Clusters Using Fast Serial Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 J. Ma and R. Huang and E. Tsuboi Designing and Optimizing $3$-connectivity Communication Networks Using a Distributed Genetic Algorithm 159 A. Funahashi and T. Hanawa and H. Amano and T. Kudoh Adaptive Routing on the Recursive Diagonal Torus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 C. J. Brownhill and A. Nicolau and S. Novack and C. D. Polychronopoulos Achieving Multi-level Parallelization 183 A. Kubota and S. Tatsumi and T. Tanaka and M. Goshima A Technique to Eliminate Redundant Inter-Processor Communication on Parallelizing Compiler TINPAR . . . . . 195 T. Uehara and Y. Kunieda and T. Tsuda An Automatic Vectorizing/Parallelizing Pascal Compiler V-Pascal V.3 . . . . . . 205 K. Ishizaki and H. Komatsu and T. Nakatani An Algorithm for Automatic Detection of Loop Indices for Communication Overlapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 M. Sasakura and K. Joe and K. Araki Nara View: An Interactive $3$D Visualization System for Parallelization of Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 K. Inenaga and S. Kusakabe and T. Morimoto and M. Amamiya Hybrid Approach for Non-strict Dataflow Program on Commodity Machine . . . . . . 243 Y. Nobukuni and T. Matsumoto and K. Hiraki Resource Management Methods for General Purpose Massively Parallel OS SSS-Core 255 N. Uchihira and H. Kawata and F. Tamura Scenario-Based Hypersequential Programming: Formulation of Parallelization . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Y. Akiyama and M. Saito and T. Noguchi and K. Onizuka Parallelization of Space Plasma Particle Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 E. De Sturler and D. Loher Implementing Iterative Solvers for Irregular Sparse Matrix Problems in High Performance Fortran . . . . . . . . . . 293 L. Mutenda and M. Hiyama and T. Yoshinaga and T. Baba Parallel Navigation in an A-NETL Based Parallel OODBMS . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 N. Shimizu and T. Watanabe High Performance Parallel FFT on Distributed Memory Parallel Computers 317 T. Tooyama and S. Horiguchi Parallel Computation Model LogPQ . . . . 327 T. Nanri and H. Sato and M. Shimasaki Cost Estimation of Coherence Protocols of Software Managed Cache on Distributed Shared Memory System . . . . . . . . . . 335 H. Sato and T. Nanri and M. Shimasaki A Portable Distributed Shared Memory System on the Cluster Environment: Design and Implementation Fully in Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 Y. Omori and A. Fukuda and K. Joe An Object-Oriented Framework for Loop Parallelization . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 T. Ogasawara and H. Komatsu A Method for Runtime Recognition of Collective Communication on Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors . . . 361 K. Nishi and J. Cheng and K. Ushijima Improving the Performance of Automated Forward Deduction System EnCal . . . . . 371 H. Mizuseki and K. Esfarjani and Z.-Q. Li and K. Ohno Efficiency of Parallel Machine for Large-Scale Simulation in Computational Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 K. Onizuka and T. Noguchi and M. Saito and Y. Akiyama Parallel PDB Data Retriever ``PDB Diving Booster'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 A. I. Cristea and T. Okamoto A Parallelization Method for Neural Networks with Weak Connection Design . . 397 J. Torresen and O. Landsverk and S. Mori and H. Nakashima Exploiting Parallel Computers to Reduce Neural Network Training Time of Real Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
F. L. Bauer The Might of Formulas and Their Limits 1 Heinz Zemanek Hardware --- Software: An Equivalence and a Contradiction . . . . . . . . . . 9 Wolfgang Coy Defining Discipline . . . . . . . . . . 21 Dirk Siefkes Computer Science as Cultural Development --- Toward a Broader Theory . . . . . . 37 Jozef Gruska and Roland Vollmar Towards Adjusting Informatics Education to Information Era . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Herbert Klaeren and Christiane Floyd and Friedrich Diestelmeier Informatics and Society: A Curriculum for Distance Education . . . . . . . . . 69 Alexandru Mateescu and Grzegorz Rozenberg and Arto Salomaa Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Parallelism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Ingbert Kupka Unique Fixpoints in Complete Lattices with Applications to Formal Languages and Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Georg Karner and Werner Kuich On Abstract Families of Languages, Power Series, and Elements . . . . . . . . . . 117 Klaus-Jörn Lange Are There Formal Languages Complete for SymSPACE$ (\log n) $? . . . . . . . . . 125 Matthias Jantzen On Twist-Closed Trios: A New Morphic Characterization of r.e. Sets . . . . . 135 Javier Esparza and Peter Rossmanith An Automata Approach to Some Problems on Context-Free Grammars . . . . . . . . . 143 Karel Culik and Jarkko Kari On Aperiodic Sets of Wang Tiles . . . . 153 Birgit Jenner Closure under Complementation of Logspace Complexity Classes --- A Survey 163 Bernd Kirsig A Relation Between Sparse and Printable Sets in NSPACE$ (\log n) $ . . . . . . . 177 Klaus Weihrauch A Foundation for Computable Analysis . . 185 Jürgen Schmidhuber A Computer Scientist's View of Life, the Universe, and Everything . . . . . . . . 201 Manfred Kudlek Calendars and Chronologies . . . . . . . 209 Hartmut Ehrig and Julia Padberg A Uniform Approach to Petri Nets . . . . 219 Astrid Kiehn Observing Partial Order Runs of Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 José Meseguer and Ugo Montanari and Vladimir Sassone Representation Theorems for Petri Nets 239 Volker Diekert A Remark on Trace Equations . . . . . . 251--260 Ekkart Kindler and Wolfgang Reisig Verification of Distributed Algorithms with Algebraic Petri Nets . . . . . . . 261 Walter Vogler A Short Story on Action Refinement . . . 271 Manfred Broy Interactive and Reactive Systems: States, Observations, Experiments, Input, Output, Nondeterminism, Compositionality, and all That . . . . . 279 Hans Daduna Discrete Time Analysis of a State Dependent Tandem with Different Customer Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Jörg Desel How Distributed Algorithms Play the Token Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Rolf Walter The Asynchronous Stack Revisited: Rounds Set the Twilight Reeling . . . . . . . . 307 B. Monien and P. Berenbrink and R. Lüling and M. Riedel Online Scheduling of Continuous Media Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 Hans Langmaack Contribution to Goodenough's and Gerhart's theory of software testing and verification: relation between strong compiler test and compiler implementation verification . . . . . . 321 Günter Hotz and Hongzhong Wu On the Arrangement Complexity of Uniform Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 Harold Boley A Relational-Functional Integration for Declarative Programming . . . . . . . . 351 Siegfried Kanngießer Inside and Outside the Chinese Room . . 359 Christopher Habel and Carola Eschenbach Abstract Structures in Spatial Cognition 369 Christian Freksa Spatial and Temporal Structures in Cognitive Processes . . . . . . . . . . 379 Daniel Hernándes Qualitative vs. Fuzzy Representations of Spatial Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 D. Hernandez Qualitative vs. fuzzy representations of spatial distance . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 Simone Pribbenow What's a Part? --- On Formalizing Part-Whole Relations . . . . . . . . . . 399 Claus R. Rollinger SPOCK: A Feasibility Study on the Completeness of Parts Lists . . . . . . 407 Kerstin Schill Decision Support Systems with Adaptive Reasoning Strategies . . . . . . . . . . 417 Katharina Morik Knowledge Discovery in Databases --- An Inductive Logic Programming Approach . . 429 Kurt Ammon The Composition Heuristic . . . . . . . 437 Gerhard Weiß The Job Assignment Problem: A Study in Parallel and Distributed Machine Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 Mohamed Salah Hamdi and Karl Kaiser Self-Improving Behavior Arbitration . . 455 Margit Sturm Neural Networks for Manipulator Path Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 Martin Eldracher and Thomas Pic Path Planning Using a Subgoal Graph . . 473 Christian Schittenkopf and Gustavo Deco A Nonlinear Markovian Characterization of Time Series Using Neural Networks . . 481 Gabriele Scheler Feature-Based Perception of Semantic Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489 Gerda Ruge Automatic Detection of Thesaurus Relations for Information Retrieval Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499 Leo Pfefferer and Dieter Schütt InfoSphere\TM-V: A New Approach to $3$D-Visualization of Information . . . 507
R. Feldmann Computer Chess: Algorithms and Heuristics for a Deep Look into the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 M. Van Kreveld Algorithms for Triangulated Terrains . . 19 K.-J Lange On the Distributed Realization of Parallel Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 37 J. A. Makowsky and E. V. Ravve The Fundamental Problem of Database Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 J. Nesetril and D. Turzik Solving and Approximating Combinatorial Optimization Problems (Towards MAX CUT and TSP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 P. Orponen The Computational Power of Continuous Time Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . 86 K. Weihrauch A Foundation for Computable Analysis . . 104 J. Wiedermann Towards Machines That Can Think . . . . 122 H. Wozniakowski Computational Complexity of Continuous Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 S. Zaks Path Layout in ATM Networks . . . . . . 144 S. Covaci and T. Magedanz The Mobile Agent Technology . . . . . . 161 D. A. Duce Theory and Practice in Interactionally Rich Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . 163 V. Issarny Configuration-Based Programming Systems 183 P. K. Muthukrishnan and B. R. Bryant Automatic Generation of Parallelizing Compilers for Object-Oriented Programming Languages from Denotational Semantics Specifications . . . . . . . . 201 D. Bjoerner A Formal Software Engineering Paradigm: From Domains via Requirements to Software --- Formal Specification and Design Calculi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 A. Kuntzmann-Combelles The Whole Picture to Software Process Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 W. Pree Object-Oriented Design Patterns . . . . 266 K. R. Dittrich and A. Geppert Object-Oriented DBMS and Beyond . . . . 275 M. E. Orlowska and H. Li and C. Liu On Integration of Relational and Object-Oriented Database Systems . . . . 295 M. H. Williams and N. W. Paton From OO Through Deduction to Active Databases --- ROCK, ROLL and RAP . . . . 313 J. Zara An Introduction to Virtual Reality Modeling Language . . . . . . . . . . . 331 J. Zlatuska Stepping Stones to an Information Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 L. Becchetti and C. Gaibisso Lower Bounds for the Virtual Path Layout Problem in ATM Networks . . . . . . . . 375 B. Dai and D. A. Bell and J. G. Hughes Query Processing in Temporal Evidential Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 C. De Castro A First Approach to Temporal Predicate Locking for Concurrency Detection in Temporal Relational Databases Supporting Schema Versioning . . . . . . . . . . . 391 C. Gaibisso and G. Proietti Efficient Insertion of Approximately Sorted Sequences of Items into a Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 P. Galdamez and F. D. Muñoz-Escoi and J. M. Bernabeu-Auban High Availability Support in CORBA Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 V. Glasnak On $f$-Sparse Sets in NP--P . . . . . . 415 M. Hof and H. Moessenboeck and P. Pirkelbauer Zero-Overhead Exception Handling Using Metaprogramming . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 J. Janousek and B. Melichar The Output-Store Formal Translator Directed by LR Parsing . . . . . . . . . 432 J. Kadlec Parallel Processing on Alphas Under MATLAB 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--447 P. Kolman PRAM Lower Bound for Element Distinctness Revisited . . . . . . . . . 448 I. Kopecek Optimal Trees for Searching in Codebook 456 R. Kralovic Time Optimal Self-Stabilizing Algorithms 464 P. Kroha and M. Strauss Requirements Specification Iteratively Combined with Reverse Engineering . . . 473 A. Kucera On Finite Representations of Infinite-State Behaviours . . . . . . . 481 S. Lucas Efficient Strong Sequentiality Using Replacement Restrictions . . . . . . . . 489 M. Marchiori Optimal Encodings . . . . . . . . . . . 497 F. Mraz and M. Platek and P. Jancar and J. Vogel Monotonic Rewriting Automata with a Restart Operation . . . . . . . . . . . 505 S.-H. Nienhuys-Cheng and A. De Bruin Kahn's Fixed-Point Characterization for Linear Dynamic Networks . . . . . . . . 513 K. Pala and P. Rychly and P. Smrz DESAM --- Annotated Corpus for Czech . . 523 Y. Peter Mobility Management in CORBA: A Generic Implementation of the LifeCycle Service 531 W. Pijls and A. De Bruin A Theory of Game Trees, Based on Solution Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539 H. Schroeder and A. E. May and I. Vrt'o and O. Sykora Approximation Algorithms for the Vertex Bipartization Problem . . . . . . . . . 547 H. Schroeder and O. Sykora and I. Vrt'o Optical All-to-All Communication for Some Product Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 555 D. Strupl and R. Neruda Parallelizing Self-Organizing Maps . . . 563
G. Dimauro and S. Impedovo and G. Pirlo and A. Salzo Handwriting Recognition: State of the Art and Future Trends . . . . . . . . . 1 C. Y. Suen and Z. C. Li Crucial Combinations for the Recognition of Handwritten Letters . . . . . . . . . 19 A. Amin Recognition of Printed and Handwritten Arabic Characters . . . . . . . . . . . 40 A. El-Yacoubi and M. Gilloux and R. Sabourin and C. Y. Suen Objective Evaluation of the Discriminant Power of Features in an HMM-based Word Recognition System . . . . . . . . . . . 60 W. Guerfali and R. Plamondon Effect of Variability on Letters Generation with the Vectorial Delta-Lognormal Model . . . . . . . . . 74 R. Sabourin Off-Line Signature Verification: Recent Advances and Perspectives . . . . . . . 84 R. Kasturi and H. Luo Research Advances in Graphics Recognition: An Update . . . . . . . . . 99 A. Belaid Future Trends in Retrospective Document Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 G. Borgefors and G. Ramella and G. Sanniti di Baja A. Low Level Processing Using Binary Pyramids to Create Multi-resolution Shape Descriptors . . . . . . . . . . . 129 M. Frucci and A. Marcelli Contour Pixel Classification for Character Skeletonization . . . . . . . 141 A. Belaid and Y. Chenevoy Constraint Propagation vs. Syntactical Analysis for the Logical Structure Recognition of Library References . . . 153 S. Tayeb-Bey and A. S. Saidi Grammatical Formalism for Document Understanding System: From Documents towards HTML Text . . . . . . . . . . . 165 S. Diana and E. Trupin and Y. Lecourtier and J. Labiche Document Modeling for Form Class Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 L. Duffy and F. Lebourgeois and H. Emptoz Composite Document Analysis by Means of Typographic Characteristics . . . . . . 188 J. Sauvola and H. Kauniskangas and D. Doermann and M. Pietikaeinen Techniques for the Automated Testing of Document Analysis Algorithms . . . . . . 201 J. Sauvola and H. Kauniskangas and D. Doermann and C. Shin Graphical Tools and Techniques for Querying Document Image Databases . . . 213 N. Rodrigues Gomes and L. L. Lee Handwritten Numeral Recognition via Fuzzy Logic and Local Discriminating Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 A. Leroy Unsupervised Learning of Character Prototypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Z. Wimmer and S. Garcia-Salicetli and B. Dorizzi and P. Gallinari Off-Line Cursive Word Recognition with a Hybrid Neural-HMM System . . . . . . . . 249 C. Simon and E. Levrat and R. Sabourin and J. Bremont A Fuzzy Perception for Off-Line Handwritten Signature Verification . . . 261 R. Martens and L. Claesen An Evaluation of Different Handwriting Observation Techniques from a Signature Verification Point of View . . . . . . . 273 C. De Oliveira and C. A. Kaestner and F. Bortolozzi and R. Sabourin Generation of Signatures by Deformations 283 M. Yoshimura and I. Yoshimura An Application of the Sequential Dynamic Programming Matching Method to Off-Line Signature Verification . . . . . . . . . 299 T. W. Rauber and V. B. De Souza and S. Rossetto A System for Automatic Form Reading . . 311 A. L. Koerich and L. L. Lee Automatic Extraction of Filled-in Information from Bankchecks Based on Prior Knowledge about Layout Structure 322 J. E. B. Santos and F. Bortolozzi and R. Sabourin A Simple Methodology to Bankcheck Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
J. Nievergelt Introduction to Geometric Computing: From Algorithms to Software . . . . . . 1 C. M. Gold and P. R. Remmele and T. Roos Voronoi Methods in GIS . . . . . . . . . 21 M. Van Kreveld Digital Elevation Models and TIN Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 M. De Berg Visualization of TINs . . . . . . . . . 79 R. Weibel Generalization of Spatial Data: Principles and Selected Algorithms . . . 99 J. Nievergelt and P. Widmayer Spatial Data Structures: Concepts and Design Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 E. Bugnion and T. Roos and R. Wattenhofer and P. Widmayer Space Filling Curves versus Random Walks 199 L. Arge External-Memory Algorithms with Applications in GIS . . . . . . . . . . 213 S. Schirra Precision and Robustness in Geometric Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--287
H. J. Ohlbach Efficient Data Structures for Deduction Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 P. A. Flach Inductive Logic Databases: From Extensional to Intensional Knowledge . . 3 S. Ceri and P. Fraternali and S. Paraboschi and G. Psaila Sharing Software Tools on the Web: The IDEA Web Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 G. Vossen Transactional Workflows . . . . . . . . 20 C. Baral and J. Lobo From Action Theories to Updates, Transactions, Triggers and Agents . . . 26 S. Chaudhuri and U. Dayal Data Warehousing and OLAP for Decision Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 G. Dong and K. Ramamohanarao Maintaining Constrained Transitive Closure by Conjunctive Queries . . . . . 35 D. Gluche and T. Grust and C. Mainberger and M. H. Scholl Incremental Updates for Materialized OQL Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 H. Shu View Maintenance Using Conditional Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 A. Borgida and G. Weddell Adding Uniqueness Constraints to Description Logics . . . . . . . . . . . 85 D. Toman A Point-Based Temporal Extension of SQL 103 I. S. Mumick and K. A. Ross Attribute-Oriented View Definitions in Relational and Deductive Databases . . . 122 M. Mahoui-Guerni Exploiting Semantic of Typed Objects Under an Optimistic Control in the Transactional Deferred Update Model: A Promising Approach . . . . . . . . . . . 140 D. Theodoratos Logical Updating of Object Class Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 D. Costal and E. Teniente and T. Urpi An Approach to Obtain Intensional Translations for Consistent View Updating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 E. Bertino and G. Guerrini and I. Merlo Trigger Inheritance and Overriding in Active Object Database Systems . . . . . 193 A. Sundermier and T. Ben Abdellatif and S. W. Dietrich and S. D. Urban Object Deltas in an Active Database Development Environment . . . . . . . . 211 S.-E. Lautemann and P. Eigner and C. Woehrle The COAST Project: Design and Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 C. Baral and J. Lobo and G. Trajcevski Formal Characterizations of Active Databases: Part II . . . . . . . . . . . 247 C. Zaniolo The Nonmonotonic Semantics of Active Rules in Deductive Databases . . . . . . 265 F. Giannotti and G. Manco and M. Nanni and D. Pedreschi Datalog++: A Basis for Active Object-Oriented Databases . . . . . . . 283 T. Hruska and P. Kolencik Comparison of Categorical Foundations of Object-Oriented Database Model . . . . . 302 W. May and B. Ludaescher and C. Lausen Well-Founded Semantics for Deductive Object-Oriented Database Languages . . . 320 S. Greco and D. Sacca Deterministic Semantics for Datalog: Complexity and Expressive Power . . . . 337 F. Neven and J. Van den Bussche On Implementing Structured Document Query Facilities on Top of a DOOD . . . 351 K. Jim and J. Lai and B. Wuethrich A Data Mining Algorithm Optimal for Single Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368 R. Himmeroeder and G. Lausen and B. Ludaescher and C. Schlepphorst On a Declarative Semantics for Web Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 K. Aberer and D. Che and K. Boehm Rule-Based Generation of Logical Query Plans with Controlled Complexity . . . . 399 M.-S. Hacid and P. Marcel and C. Rigotti A Rule-Based Data Manipulation Language for OLAP Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 D. Zimmer and A. Meckenstock and R. Unland A General Model for Event Specification in Active Database Management Systems 419 L. Fegaras Optimizing Large OODB Queries . . . . . 421 E. Nantajeewarawat and V. Wuwongse Nonmonotonic Inheritance Through Specialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 P. Godfrey and J. Gryz Overview of Dynamic Query Evaluation in Intensional Query Optimization . . . . . 425 P.-T Kandzia Towards Efficient Evaluation of Methods by Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
K. Tam and J. Lloyd and Y. Lesperance and H. Levesque Controlling Autonomous Robots with GOLOG 1 R. M. Bolle and B.-L. Yeo and M. M. Yeung Video Query and Retrieval . . . . . . . 13 L. Sterling On Finding Needles in WWW Haystacks . . 25 W. S. Havens Extending Dynamic Backtracking for Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 W. Pang and S. D. Goodwin Constraint-Directed Backtracking . . . . 47 J. Thornton and A. Sattar Applied Partial Constraint Satisfaction Using Weighted Iterative Repair . . . . 57 N. Ritter and R. Owens and K. Yogesan and P. Van Saarloos The Application of Mutual Information to the Registration of Stereo and Temporal Images of the Retina . . . . . . . . . . 67 J. R. Cooper and R. O. Hastings Kalman Filtering from a Phase Based Optical Flow Operator . . . . . . . . . 77 S. W. Perry and L. Guan Adaptive Constraint Restoration and Error Analysis Using a Neural Network 87 C. Grinton and L. Sonenberg and L. Sterling Exploring Agent Cooperation: Studies with a Simple Pursuit Game . . . . . . . 96 M. A. Abtroun and S. Hassas The Serializability Problem in a Parallel Rule-Based System: A Solution by Distributed Coordination . . . . . . 106 H. H. Bui and D. Kieronska and S. Venkatesh Optimal Communication Among Team Members 116 T. Schnier and J. Gero Dominant and Recessive Genes in Evolutionary Systems Applied to Spatial Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 H. J. Pierrot and R. Hinterding Using Multi-chromosomes to Solve a Simple Mixed Integer Problem . . . . . . 137 M. Mohammadian and M. Kingham Hierarchical and Feed-Forward Fuzzy Logic for Financial Modelling and Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 J. Debenham A Knowledge-Based System for Workflow Management Using the World Wide Web . . 157 R. M. Colomb and P. Y.-P. Chen Use of Partial Functional Dependencies to Make Practical Approximate Translations Among Forms of Propositional Expert Systems . . . . . . 167 G. Beydoun and A. Hoffmann NRDR for the Acquisition of Search Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 G. Lawson and D. Lukose Rapid Prototyping of Executable Problem Solving Methods Using MODEL-ECS . . . . 187 P. Peppas and M. Pagnucco and M. Prokopenko and N. Foo Preferential Semantics for Causal Fixpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 T. O'Neill and N. Foo Belief Update, the Markovian Situation Calculus, and Discrete Event Systems . . 207 R. B. H. Kwok and A. Nayak and N. Foo A Notion of Correctness with Theories Containing Theoretical Terms . . . . . . 217 N. Foo and P. Peppas and Y. Zhang Inductive Properties of States . . . . . 227 P. Jachowicz and R. Goebel Describing Plan Recognition as Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Belief Revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 C. K. MacNish and G. Antoniou Specification Morphisms for Nonmonotonic Knowledge Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 246 G. Antoniou Representation Results for Default Logics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 D. Billington Proving Quantified Literals in Defeasible Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Y. Arai and K. Hirota Fuzzy Hierarchical Pattern Recognition for Robotics Applications . . . . . . . 274 A. R. Pearce and T. Caelli and S. Goss Adaptive Curvature-Based Topography for Learning Symbolic Descriptions of Terrain Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 R. Chang and L. Guan and J. A. Burne A Computer Assisted Image Analysis System for Diagnosing Movement Disorders 290 B. Yin and T. Yu Vowel Recognition for Speaker Independent Chinese Speech Recognition 302 S. Dixon Beat Induction and Rhythm Recognition 311 H. He and Z. Huang Boosting Neural Networks in Real World Applications: An Empirical Study . . . . 321 H. J. Hamilton and N. Shan and W. Ziarko Machine Learning of Credible Classifications . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 G. J. Williams and Z. Huang Mining the Knowledge Mine: The Hot Spots Methodology for Mining Large Real World Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 B. C. Chiu and C. I. Webb and Z. Zheng Using Decision Trees for Agent Modelling: A Study on Resolving Confliction Predictions . . . . . . . . 349 B. Raskutti and A. Beitz Sample Set Assessment for Providing Personalised Recommendations . . . . . . 359 K. Min and W. H. Wilson Integrated Correction of Ill-Formed Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 T. Hirashima and N. Matsuda and T. Nomoto and J. Toyoda Information Filtering for Context-Sensitive Browsing . . . . . . . 379 V. Sauvage The T-SOM (Tree-SOM) . . . . . . . . . . 389 N. K. Treadgold and T. D. Gedeon Extending and Benchmarking the CasPer Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 R. B. Thapa and R. Sadananda Disconcepts and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps . . 407 L. Peh and C. P. Tsang Weight Sensitive Boolean Extraction Produces Compact Expressions . . . . . . 417 G. Briscoe and T. Caelli Learning Temporal Sequences in Recurrent Self-Organising Neural Nets . . . . . . 427 I. Hofman and R. Jarvis Three-Dimensional Scene Analysis Using Multiple Range Finders --- Data Capture, Coordinate Transformations and Initial Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436 R. Jarvis Sensor-Based Robotic Automation of Mushroom Farming --- Preliminary Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446 R. A. Russell Creating Adroit Mechanisms by Using Large Numbers of Simple Homogeneous Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456 R. A. Russell A Nephelometric Tactile Sensor . . . . . 466 R. O'Hagan and A. Zelinsky Finger Track --- A Robust and Real-Time Gesture Interface . . . . . . . . . . . 475 C. Liu and M. A. Orgun A Constraint Mechanism for Knowledge Specification of Simulation Systems Based on Temporal Logic . . . . . . . . 485 Y. Pisan Controlling Engineering Problem Solving 496 S. Waugh and T. Menzies and S. Goss Evaluating a Qualitative Reasoner . . . 505
S. J. Fink and S. B. Baden Run-Time Support for Multi-tier Programming of Block-Structured Applications on SMP Clusters . . . . . . 1 N. Fujinami Automatic Run-Time Code Generation in C++ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 F. Bassetti and K. Davis and D. Quinlan A Comparison of Performance-Enhancing Strategies for Parallel Numerical Object-Oriented Frameworks . . . . . . . 17 M. Weidmann Design and Performance Improvement of a Real-World, Object-Oriented C++ Solver with STL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 A. A. Chien and J. Dolby and B. Ganguly and V. Karamcheti Evaluating High Level Parallel Programming Support for Irregular Applications in ICC++ . . . . . . . . . 33 J. Jaervi Processing Sparse Vectors During Compile Time in C++ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 T. L. Veldhuizen and M. E. Jernigan Will C++ Be Faster than Fortran? . . . . 49 J. M. Squyres and B. Saphir and A. Lumsdaine The Design and Evolution of the MPI-2 C++ Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 J. W. Quittek and B. Weissman Efficient Extensible Synchronization in Sather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 W. Joosen and B. Robben and H. Van Wulpen and P. Verbaeten Experiences with an Object-Oriented Parallel Language: The CORRELATE Project 73 S. Matsuoka and A. Nikami and H. Ogawa and Y. Ishikawa Towards a Parallel C++ Programming Language Based on Commodity Object-Oriented Technologies . . . . . . 81 T. Takahashi and Y. Ishikawa and M. Sato and A. Yonezawa A Compile-Time Meta-Level Architecture Supporting Class Specific Optimization 89 M. Besch and H. Bi and G. Heber and M. Kessler An Object-Oriented Approach to the Implementation of a High-Level Data Parallel Language . . . . . . . . . . . 97 J. Gerlach and M. Sato and Y. Ishikawa A Framework for Parallel Adaptive Finite Element Methods and Its Template Based Implementation in CC++ . . . . . . . . . 105 M. Matsuda and M. Sato and Y. Ishikawa Parallel Array Class Implementation Using C++ STL Adaptors . . . . . . . . . 113 G. Loeffler A Multithreaded Java Framework for Solving Linear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations in $3$D . . . . . 121 S. Mintchev and V. Getov Automatic Binding of Native Scientific Libraries to Java . . . . . . . . . . . 129 K. Imasaki JAPE: The Java Parallel Environment . . 137 J.-P. Ang and Y.-T Tan An Architecture in Java for Mobile Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Y. Ichisugi and Y. Roudier The Extensible Java Preprocessor Kit and a Tiny Data-Parallel Java . . . . . . . 153 A. Magnus Bruaset and X. Cai and H. P. Langtangen and A. Tveito Numerical Solution of PDEs on Parallel Computers Utilizing Sequential Simulators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 C. Calvin and P. Emonot The TR/O-Unitaire Project: A Parallel CFD $3$-Dimensional Code . . . . . . . . 169 D. L. Brown and W. D. Henshaw and D. J. Quinlan Overture: An Object-Oriented Framework for Solving Partial Differential Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 W. Humphrey and S. Karmesin and F. Bassetti and J. Reynders Optimization of Data-Parallel Field Expressions in the POOMA Framework . . . 185 S. R. Lee and J. C. Cummings and S. D. Nolen and N. D. Keen MC++ and a Transport Physics Framework 195 B. C. McCandless and A. Lumsdaine The Role of Abstraction in High-Performance Computing . . . . . . . 203 T. Ohta Design of a Data Class for Parallel Scientific Computing . . . . . . . . . . 211 W.-M. Jeng and C. Lin Describing Objects in Parallel ECEM Image Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . 218 M. E. Henderson and S. E. Lyons Flow in Porous Media Using NAO Finite Difference Classes . . . . . . . . . . . 225 D. Bashford An Object-Oriented Programming Suite for Electrostatic Effects in Biological Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 C. DeLuca and C. W. Heisey and R. A. Bond and J. M. Daly A Portable, Object-Based Parallel Library and Layered Framework for Real-Time Radar Signal Processing . . . 241 J. Irwin and J.-M. Loingtier and J. R. Gilbert and G. Kiczales Aspect-Oriented Programming of Sparse Matrix Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 R. F. Haddleton and J. L. Pfaltz Client/Server Architecture in the ADAMS Parallel Object-Oriented Database System 257 S. MacDonald and J. Schaeffer and D. Szafron Pattern-Based Object-Oriented Parallel Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 P. A. Gray and V. S. Sunderam The IceT Environment for Parallel and Distributed Computing . . . . . . . . . 275 R. Ramamoorthi and A. Rifkin and B. Dimitrov and K. M. Chandy A General Resource Reservation Framework for Scientific Computing . . . . . . . . 283
M. O. Rabin Correctness of Programs and Protocols through Randomization . . . . . . . . . 1 N. Ayache Medical Image Analysis and Simulation 4 R. E. Bryant and M. N. Velev Verification of Pipelined Microprocessors by Comparing Memory Execution Sequences in Symbolic Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 S. Merz Rules for Abstraction . . . . . . . . . 32 R. Buessow and W. Grieskamp Combining Z and Temporal Interval Logics for the Formalization of Properties and Behaviors of Embedded Systems . . . . . 46 R. Ramanujam Rules for Trace Consistent Reasoning . . 57 S. Punnekkat and R. Davis and A. Burns Sensitivity Analysis of Real-Time Task Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 S.-M. Tseng and Y. H. Chin and W.-P. Yang Dynamic Multiprocessor Scheduling for Supporting Real-Time Constraints . . . . 83 Z. Huang and W.-J. Lei and C. Sun and A. Sattar Heuristic Diff Acquiring in Lazy Release Consistency Model . . . . . . . . . . . 98 T. Mizutani and S. Igarashi and K. Tomita and M. Shio Representation of Discretely Controlled Continuous Systems in Software-Oriented Formal Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 R. Wetprasit and A. Sattar and L. Khatib A Generalized Framework for Reasoning with Multi-point Events . . . . . . . . 121 Y. Georget and P. Codognet and F. Rossi Implementing Constraint Retraction for Finite Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 T. Plagemann and V. Goebel INSTANCE: The Intermediate Storage Node Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 X. Li and Dang Van Hung and Z. Tao Checking Hybrid Automata for Linear Duration Invariants . . . . . . . . . . 166 E. Mikk and Y. Lakhnech and M. Siegel Hierarchical Automata as Model for Statecharts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 M. Harao Proof Discovery in LK System by Analogy 197 N. Inuzuka and H. Seki and H. Itoh Efficient Induction of Executable Logic Programs from Examples . . . . . . . . . 212 B. Le Charlier and C. Leclere and S. Rossi and A. Cortesi Automated Verification of Behavioural Properties of Prolog Programs . . . . . 225 G. Boudol Typing the Use of Resources in a Concurrent Calculus . . . . . . . . . . 239 P. Roe An Imperative Language with Read/Write Type Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 K. Ohno and M. Ikawa and M. Goshima and S.-I. Mori Efficient Goal Scheduling in a Concurrent Logic Language Using Type-Based Dependency Analysis . . . . . 268 R. Hasegawa An Analysis of Divisibility Orderings and Recursive Path Orderings . . . . . . 283 T. B. Dinesh and S. M. Ueskuedarh Share-Where Maintenance in Visual Algebraic Specifications . . . . . . . . 297 S. Fujita A Fault Tolerant Broadcast Scheme in Star Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 K.- E. Fujita Calculus of Classical Proofs I . . . . . 321 R. Watson and E. Salzman Tracing the Evaluation of Lazy Functional Languages: A Model and Its Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 Y. Ben-Asher and E. Stein Basic Results in Automatic Transformations of Shared Memory Parallel Programs into Sequential Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 M. Kaipainen and P. Papadopoulos and P. Karhu Recurrent Oscillatory Self-organizing Map: Adapting to Complex Environmental Periodicities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 C. Lursinsap and K. Kanchanasut and T. Siriboon Basic Binary Decision Diagram Operations for Image Processing . . . . . . . . . . 368 T. Nakajima Adaptive Object Storage System for Mobile Computing Environments . . . . . 371 M. Tomohiko Structure of User Interface Module for Practical Internet Messages . . . . . . 373 M. Badonski and M. Ivanovic and Z. Budimac Software Specification Using LASS . . . 375 E. Horita and K. Mano Nepi$^2$: A Two-Level Calculus for Network Programming Based on the $ {\Pi } $-Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378 M. Lin and J. Malec and S. Nadjm-Tehrani On Semantics of Reactive Rule-Based Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 J.-R. Gagne and J. Plaice The Non-standard Semantics of Esterel 381 S. Kusakabe and K. Inenaga and M. Amamiya Hybrid Support for Lenient Implementation of Array-Comprehension 383 M. Bouzoubaa Solver for Hierarchical CSP Containing Several Constraint Types and Multi-output Constraints . . . . . . . . 385
Vijaya Ramachandran QSM: A General Purpose Shared-Memory Model for Parallel Computation . . . . . 1 Tamal K. Dey and Arunabha Roy and Nimish R. Shah Approximating Geometric Domains through Topological Triangulations . . . . . . . 6 Sanjeev Mahajan and Edgar A. Ramos and K. V. Subrahmanyam Solving Some Discrepancy Problems in NC 22 K. Cirino and S. Muthukrishnan and N. S. Narayanaswamy and H. Ramesh Graph Editing to Bipartite Interval Graphs: Exact and Asymptotic Bounds . . 37 Edmund M. Clarke Model Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 A. J. Kfoury Recursion Versus Iteration at Higher-Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 A. D. Gordon and P. D. Hankin and S. B. Lassen Compilation and Equivalence of Imperative Objects . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Massimo Marchiori On the Expressive Power of Rewriting . . 88 Deepak Kapur and M. Subramaniam Mechanizing Verification of Arithmetic Circuits: SRT Division . . . . . . . . . 103 E. Pontelli and D. Ranjan and G. Gupta On the Complexity of Parallel Implementation of Logic Programs (Extended Abstract) . . . . . . . . . . 123 Jia-Huai You and Li Yan Yuan and Randy Goebel An Abductive Semantics for Disjunctive Logic Programs and its Proof Procedure 138 Swarup Mohalik and R. Ramanujam Assumption-Commitment in Automata . . . 153 Sandeep S. Kulkarni and Anish Arora Compositional Design of Multitolerant Repetitive Byzantine Agreement . . . . . 169 Madhu Sudan Algorithmic Issues in Coding Theory . . 184 Anil Seth Sharper Results on the Expressive Power of Generalized Quantifiers . . . . . . . 200 N. V. Vinodchandran Improved Lowness Results for Solvable Black-box Group Problems . . . . . . . . 220 V. Arvind and J. Köbler On Resource-Bounded Measure and Pseudorandomness . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Moshe Y. Vardi Verification of Open Systems . . . . . . 250 F. S. de Boer and U. Hannemann and W.-P. de Roever Hoare-Style Compositional Proof Systems for Reactive Shared Variable Concurrency 267 F. S. De Boer and U. Hannemann and W.-P. De Roever Hoare-style compositional proof systems for reactive shared variable concurrency 267 Kedar S. Namjoshi A Simple Characterization of Stuttering Bisimulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 Raymond Devillers and Hanna Klaudel and Robert-C. Riemann General Refinement for High Level Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Catherine Dufourd and Alain Finkel Polynomial-time Many-one Reductions for Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 Burkhard Graves Computing Reachability Properties Hidden in Finite Net Unfoldings . . . . . . . . 327
T. Yung Kong Topology-Preserving Deletion of $1$'s from $2$-, $3$- and $4$-Dimensional Binary Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 P. Gritzmann On the Reconstruction of Finite Lattice Sets from their X- Rays . . . . . . . . 19 P. Lienhardt Aspects in Topology-Based Geometric Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 V. Kovalevsky Applications of Digital Straight Segments to Economical Image Encoding 51 G. D'Andrea and C. Fiorio Maximal Superpositions of Grids and an Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 G. Borgefors and G. Sanniti di Baja and S. Svensson Multiresolution Representation of Shapes in Binary Images II: Volume Images . . . 75 J. M. Schramm Coplanar Tricubes . . . . . . . . . . . 87 J. Vitonne and J. M. Chassery Coexistence of Tricubes in Digital Naive Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 G. Bertrand and M. Couprie Some Structural Properties of Discrete Surfacess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 S. Miguet and J. M. Nicod and D. Sarrut A Linear Algorithm for Constructing the Polygon Adjacency Relation in Iso-surfaces of $3$D Images . . . . . . 125 R. Ayala and E. Dominguez and A. R. Frances and A. Quintero Digital Lighting Functions . . . . . . . 139 P. Ptak and H. Kofler and W. Kropatsch Digital Topologies Revisited: An Approach Based on the Topological Point-Neighbourhood . . . . . . . . . . 151 A. Imiya and U. Eckhardt The Euler Characteristic of Discrete Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 A. Lenoir Fast Estimation of Mean Curvature on the Surface of a $3$D Discrete Object . . . 175 N. Sladoje and J. Zunic Ellipses Estimation from their Digitization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 S. Marchand-Maillet and Y. M. Sharaiha Topological Errors and Optimal Chamfer Distance Coefficients . . . . . . . . . 199 R. Malgouyres Homotopy in $2$-dimensional Digital Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 J. Thollot Set Manipulations of Fractal Objects Using Matrices of IFS . . . . . . . . . 223 L. Ibañez and C. Hamitouche and C. Roux Ray-tracing and $3$D Objects Representation in the BCC and FCC Grids 235 E. Andres and P. Nehlig and J. Francon Supercover of Straight Lines, Planes and Triangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Patrick Albers and Malik Ghallab Context dependent effects in temporal planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12 Naveen Ashish and Craig A. Knoblock and Alon Y. Levy Information gathering plans with sensing actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--25 Ruth Aylett and Alex M. Coddington and David P. Barnes and Robert A. Ghanea-Hercock What does a planner need to know about execution? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--38 Ruth Aylett and Gary J. Petley and Paul W. H. Chung and James K. Soutter and Andrew G. Rushton Planning and chemical plant operating procedure synthesis . . . . . . . . . . 39--51 Marco Baioletti and Stefano Marcugini and Alfredo Milani Task planning and partial order planning: a domain transformation approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--63 Michael Beetz and Drew V. McDermott Expressing transformations of structured reactive plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--76 Michael Beetz and Drew V. McDermott Fast probabilistic plan debugging . . . 77--90 Andrew Burgess and Sam Steel Quantification in generative refinement planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--103 Marcos A. Castilho and Olivier Gasquet and Andreas Herzig Modal tableaux for reasoning about actions and plans . . . . . . . . . . . 104--116 Amedeo Cesta and Cristiano Stella A time and resource problem for planning architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--129 A. Cimatti and E. Giunchiglia and F. Giunchiglia and P. Traverso Planning via model checking: a decision procedure for AR . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--142 Célia Da Costa Pereira and Frédérick Garcia and Jérôme Lang and Roger Martin-Clouaire Possibilistic planning: representation and complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--155 Giuseppe De Giacomo and Luca Iocchi and Daniele Nardi and Riccardo Rosati Planning with sensing for a mobile robot 156--168 Yannis Dimopoulos and Bernhard Nebel and Jana Koehler Encoding planning problems in non-monotonic logic programs . . . . . . 169--181 Tara A. Estlin and Steve Chien and Xuemei Wang An argument for a hybrid HTN\slash operator-based approach to planning . . 182--194 Maria Fox Natural hierarchical planning using operator decomposition . . . . . . . . . 195--207 Ramón García-Martínez and Daniel Borrajo Planning, learning, and executing in autonomous systems . . . . . . . . . . . 208--220 B. Cenk Gazen and Craig A. Knoblock Combining the expressivity of UCPOP with the efficiency of Graphplan . . . . . . 221--233 Robert Givan and Sonia M. Leach and Thomas Dean Bounded parameter Markov decision processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--246 Richard T. Hepplewhite and Jeremy W. Baxter Planning and search techniques for intelligent behaviour of battlefield entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--259 Subbarao Kambhampati and Eric Parker and Eric Lambrecht Understanding and extending Graphplan 260--272 Jana Koehler and Bernhard Nebel and Jörg Hoffmann and Yannis Dimopoulos Extending planning graphs to an ADL subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--285 Fabio Massacci Breaking security protocols as an AI planning problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--298 Silvia Miksch and Yuval Shahar and Werner Horn and Christian Popow and Franz Paky and Peter Johnson Time-oriented skeletal plans: support to design and execution . . . . . . . . . . 299--311 Ion Muslea SINERGY: a linear planner based on genetic programming . . . . . . . . . . 312--324 Hector Muñoz-Avila and Frank Weberskirch A case study on the mergeability of cases with a partial-order planner . . . 325--337 Bernhard Nebel and Yannis Dimopoulos and Jana Koehler Ignoring irrelevant facts and operators in plan generation . . . . . . . . . . . 338--350 Angelo Oddi and Amedeo Cesta A tabu search strategy to solve scheduling problems with deadlines and complex metric constraints . . . . . . . 351--363 Nilufer Onder and Martha E. Pollack Contingency selection in plan generation 364--376 Marcus V. Santos and Marcio Rillo Approaching the Plans are Programs paradigm using transaction logic . . . . 377--389 Murray Shanahan Event calculus planning revisited . . . 390--402 J. E. Spragg and G. Fozzard and D. J. Tyler Constraint-based reactive rescheduling in a stochastic environment . . . . . . 403--413 Reiko Tsuneto and Dana S. Nau and James A. Hendler Plan-refinement strategies and search-space size . . . . . . . . . . . 414--426 Xuemei Wang and Steve Chien Replanning using hierarchical task network and operator-based planning . . 427--439 Richard Washington BI-POMDP: Bounded, incremental, partially-observable Markov-model planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--451
S. B. Lamine and J. Plaice Software configuration with information systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Y. Bertot Head-tactics simplification . . . . . . 16 S. L. Bloom and Z. Esik and A. Labella and E. G. Manes Iteration $2$-theories . . . . . . . . . 30 G. Bruns and I. Sutherland Model checking and fault tolerance . . . 45 B. Buth and M. Kouvaras and J. Peleska and H. Shi Deadlock analysis for a fault-tolerant system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 P. Cenciarelli and A. Knapp and B. Reus and M. Wirsing From sequential to multi-threaded Java: An event-based operational semantics . . 75 M. Cerioli and A. Haxthausen and B. Krieg-Brueckner and T. Mossakowski Permissive subsorted partial logic in CASL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 C. Antonio and G. J. Milne Specification of timing constraints within the Circal process algebra . . . 108 Xiao Jun Chen and F. Corradini On the specification and verification of performance properties for a timed process algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 P. Cousot and R. Cousot Abstract interpretation of algebraic polynomial systems . . . . . . . . . . . 138 M. De Groot and K. Robinson Modular refinement and model building 155 G. Denker and J. Ramos and C. Caleiro and A. Sernadas A linear temporal logic approach to objects with transactions . . . . . . . 170 X. Du and K. T. McDonnell and E. Nanos and Y. S. Ramakrishna Software design, specification, and verification: Lessons learned from the Rether case study . . . . . . . . . . . 185 C. J. Fidge Refinement rules for real-time multi-tasking programs . . . . . . . . . 199 R. B. France and J.-M. Bruel and M. M. Larrondo-Petrie and E. Grant Rigorous object oriented-modeling: Integrating formal and informal notations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 R. Giacobazzi and F. Ranzato Completeness in abstract interpretation: A domain perspective . . . . . . . . . . 231 J. Harrison Floating point verification in HOL Light: The exponential function . . . . 246 J. Hooman Verification of distributed real-time and fault-tolerant protocols . . . . . . 261 B. Jacobs Invariants, bisimulations and the correctness of coalgebraic refinements 276 T. Janowski On bisimulation, fault-monotonicity and provable fault-tolerance . . . . . . . . 292 P. Katis and N. Sabadini and R. F. C. Walters Span(Graph): A categorical algebra of transition systems . . . . . . . . . . . 307 P. Katis and N. Sabadini and R. F. C. Walters Representing place/transition nets in Span(Graph) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 D. Lesens Invariants of parameterized binary tree networks as greatest fixpoints . . . . . 337 N. Levy and J. Souquieres Modelling specification construction by successive approximations . . . . . . . 351 S. Limet and F. Saubion On partial validation of logic programs 365 A. Lopes and J. L. Fiadeiro Preservation and reflection in specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 R. F. Paige Case studies in using a meta-method for formal method integration . . . . . . . 395 J. Parrow and B. Victor The update calculus . . . . . . . . . . 409 F. Piessens and E. Steegmans Selective attribute elimination for categorical data specifications . . . . 424 S. P. Rajan and M. Fujita ATM switch design: Parametric high-level modeling and formal verification . . . . 437 A. Schoenegge The hidden function question revisited 451 A. Sernadas and C. Sernadas and C. Caleiro Synchronization of logics with mixed rules: Completeness preservation . . . . 465 C. Shankland and M. Thomas Symbolic bisimulation for Full LOTOS . . 479 M. Simons and M. Sintzoff Algebraic composition and refinement of proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494 A. Telford and D. Turner Ensuring streams flow . . . . . . . . . 509 I. Ulidowski and S. Yuen Extending process languages with time 524 F. Wang and P.-A Hsiung Parametric analysis of computer systems 539 J. J. Almeida and L. S. Barbosa and F. L. Neves and J. N. Oliveira CAMILA: Prototyping and refinement of constructive specifications . . . . . . 554 B. Buth Pamela+PVS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560 A. Cerone and A. J. Cowie and G. J. Milne The Circal system . . . . . . . . . . . 563 R. Davies A refinement-type checker for Standard ML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565 J. Grundy and T. Laangbacka Recording HOL proofs in a structured browsable format . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--571 C. K. Low Analysing multi-agent system traces with IDAF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572 M. A. Ozols and K. A. Eastaughffe and A. Cant DOVE: A tool for design oriented verification and evaluation . . . . . . 574 K. Robinson The B Method and the B Toolkit . . . . . 576 T. Rus and T. Halverson and E. Van Wyk and R. Kooima An algebraic language processing environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581 O. Traynor and D. Hazel and P. Kearney and A. Martin The Cogito development system . . . . . 586
T. Ibaraki Solving NP-hard combinatorial problems in the practical sense . . . . . . . . . 1 A. Tajima and S. Misono Airline crew-scheduling problem with many irregular flights . . . . . . . . . 2 K. Hidaka and H. Okano Practical approach to a facility location problem for Large-Scale Logistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 S. Horie and O. Watanabe Hard instance generation for SAT . . . . 22 M. Kutylowski and R. Wanka Playing tetris on meshes and multi-dimensional SHEARSORT . . . . . . 32 A. Matsuura and A. Nagoya Formulation of the addition-shift-sequence problem and its complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 T. Hayashi and K. Nakano and S. Olariu Weighted and unweighted selection algorithms for k sorted sequences . . . 52 L. Bai and H. Ebara and H. Nakano and H. Maeda An adaptive distributed fault-tolerant routing algorithm for the star graph . . 62 Q.-P. Gu and H. Tamaki Multi-color routing in the undirected hypercube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 T.-H. Yeh and C.-M. Kuo and C.-L. Lei and H.-C Yen Competitive source routing on tori and meshes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 T. Uno Algorithms for enumerating all perfect, maximum and maximal matchings in bipartite graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 T. Ishii and H. Nagamochi and T. Ibaraki Augmenting edge and vertex connectivities simultaneously . . . . . 102 T. Eiter and T. Ibaraki and K. Makino Two-face Horn extensions . . . . . . . . 112 G. Ausiello and P. G. Franciosa and D. Frigioni and R. Giaccio Decremental maintenance of reachability in hypergraphs and minimum models of Horn formulae . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 C. E. Leiserson Algorithmic analysis of multithreaded algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 H. Tamaki and T. Tokuyama A characterization of planar graphs by pseudo-line arrangements . . . . . . . . 133 P. Panaite and A. Pelc Optimal fault-tolerant broadcasting in trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 T. Asano and K. Hori and T. Ono and T. Hirata A theoretical framework of hybrid approaches to MAX SAT . . . . . . . . . 153 E. Dannoura and K. Sakurai On-line versus off-line in money-making strategies with BROKERAGE . . . . . . . 173 X. Deng and C. Papadimitriou Decision-making by hierarchies of discordant agents . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Khanh Quoc Nguyen and V. Varadharajan and Y. Mu A new efficient off-line anonymous cash scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Z.-Z. Chen Approximating unweighted connectivity problems in parallel . . . . . . . . . . 202 Chung Keung Poon and V. Ramachandran A randomized linear work EREW PRAM algorithm to find a minimum spanning forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 M. J. Atallah and D. Z. Chen and O. Daescu Efficient parallel algorithms for planar st-graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 B. Ravikumar Peg-solitaire, string rewriting systems and finite automata . . . . . . . . . . 233 H. Klauck On the size of probabilistic formulae 243 B. Ryabko and A. Fionov Homophonic coding with logarithmic memory size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 R. H. Möhring and M. Müller-Hannemann Complexity and modeling aspects of mesh refinement into quadrilaterals . . . . . 263 T. Minakawa and K. Sugihara Topology oriented vs. exact arithmetic --- experience in implementing the three-dimensional convex hull algorithm 273 M. Ott and F. Stephan The complexity of learning branches and strategies from queries . . . . . . . . 283 G. Neyer and P. Widmayer Singularities make spatial join scheduling hard . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 H.-F. S. Chen and D. T. Lee A faster one-dimensional topological compaction algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 303 W.-T. Chan and F. Y. L. Chin Algorithms for finding optimal disjoint paths around a rectangle . . . . . . . . 314 Y. Kusakari and T. Nishizeki An algorithm for finding a region with the minimum total L1 distance from prescribed terminals . . . . . . . . . . 324 P. E. Haxell and M. Loebl On defect sets in bipartite graphs . . . 334 M.-S. Chang and S.-Y. Hsieh and G.-H Chen Dynamic programming on distance-hereditary graphs . . . . . . . 344 S. Cicerone and G. Di Stefano On the equivalence in complexity among basic problems on bipartite and parity graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 M.-Y. Kao and Tak Wah Lam and Wing Kin Sung and Hing Fung Ting All-cavity maximum matchings . . . . . . 364 S. V. Rao and A. Mukhopadhyay Fast algorithms for computing $ \beta $-skeletons and their relatives . . . . 374--383 Y. Kyoda and K. Imai and F. Takeuchi and A. Tajima A branch-and-cut approach for minimum weight triangulation . . . . . . . . . . 384 H. Kellerer and U. Pferschy and M. G. Speranza An efficient approximation scheme for the subset-sum problem . . . . . . . . . 394 G. E. Pantziou and G. P. Pentaris and P. G. Spirakis Competitive call control in mobile networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404 J. Oommen and J. Dong Generalized swap-with-parent schemes for self-organizing sequential linear lists 414
S. M. Abdallah and E. M. Nebot and D. C. Rye Object Recognition and Orientation via Zernike Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . I M. Abdellatif and Y. Tanaka and A. Gofuku and I. Nagai Illumination Color from the Blurred Inter-reflection of a Reference Nose . . I A. Adan and C. Cerrada and V. Feliu A Fast Mesh Deformation Method to Build Spherical Representation Models of $3$D Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I T. Akutsu and K. Arakawa and H. Murase Active Viewpoint Control for Shape from Occluding Contours . . . . . . . . . . . I V. V. Alexandrov and E. V. Laikov and B. E. Frenkel Dynamic Adaptive Data Structures for Semantic Analysis and Synthesis of Video Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I A. Bab-Hadiashar and D. Suter Robust Total least Squares Based Optic Flow Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . I X. Bai and G. Xu Improved Supervised Color Constancy for Color Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . I R. M. Bolle and N. K. Ratha and S. Pankanti Research Issues in Biometrics . . . . . I M. S. Brown and W. B. Seales Fast Stereo Matching in Compressed Video II D. Burschka and S. A. Blum Identification of $3$D Reference Structures for Video-Based Localization I A. Califano and B. Germain and S. Colville A High-Dimensional Indexing Scheme for Scalable Fingerprint-Based Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . I S.-H Cha Fast Image Template and Dictionary Matching Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . I A. Chaen and K. Yamazawa and N. Yokoya and H. Takemura Acquisition of Three-Dimensional Information Using Omnidirectional Stereo Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I J. Chai and S. Ma Robust Epipolar Geometry Estimation Using Genetic Algorithm . . . . . . . . I D. Chen and C.-M. Chang and A. Laine Detection and Enhancement of Small Masses via Precision Multiscale Analysis I Y. Chen and X. Ding and Y. Wu and M. Chen A New Nonlinear Shape Normalization Method for Off-line Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition . . . . . . . . . I S. K. Chow and M. Gillies and S. L. Chan Parallel Implementation of Fractal Image Compression Using Multiple Digital Signal Processors . . . . . . . . . . . I J.-M. Chung and N. Ohnishi Robust Matching and Hierarchical Recognition of $2$-D Shapes Using ``Chain of Circles'' . . . . . . . . . . I C. Collina and M. Ferri and P. Frosini and E. Porcellini Sketch Up: Towards Qualitative Shape Data Management . . . . . . . . . . . . I A. Cumani Efficient Contour Extraction in Color Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I M. Daum and G. Dudek Out of the Dark: Using Shadows to Reconstruct $3$D Surfaces . . . . . . . I R. Deriche and C. Bouvin and O. Faugeras Front Propagation and Level-Set Approach for Geodesic Active Stereovision . . . . I J. L. Fernandes and J. R. A. Torreao Estimating Depth Through the Fusion of Photometric Stereo Images . . . . . . . I M. Ferri and P. Frosini and A. Lovato and C. Zambelli Point Selection: A New Comparison Scheme for Size Functions (With an Application to Monogram Recognition) . . . . . . . . I T. Funahashi and T. Miyazaki and M. Yamada and H. Seki A Generating Method for $3$-dimensional Knitting Cloth Shapes . . . . . . . . . I E. Grimson Image Guided Surgical Systems . . . . . I A. Gross and L. Latecki Digital Geometric Methods in Image Analysis and Compression . . . . . . . . I M. Hanmandlu and V. Shantaram Contour Matching Technique for $3$D Object Recognition Using Kalman Filter I M. Hanmandlu and V. Shantaram Kalman Filter Based Matching Technique for $3$D Object Recognition . . . . . . I M. Hauta-Kasari and W. Wang and S. Toyooka and J. Parkkinen Unsupervised Filtering of Munsell Spectra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I L. Hong and A. Jain Integrating Faces and Fingerprints for Personal Identification . . . . . . . . I A. J. Howell and H. Buxton Learning Identity and Behaviour with Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . I W. Hu and W. B. Seales Recognition in Wavelet-Compressed Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I Q. Huang and Y. Cui and S. Samarasekera and M. Greiffenhagen Auto Cameraman Via Collaborative Sensing Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I K. Imagawa and S. Lu and S. Igi Real-Time Tracking of Human Hands from a Sign-Language Image Sequence . . . . . . I S. S. Ipson and M. Melhi and W. Booth A Novel Triangulation Procedure for Thinning Cursive Text . . . . . . . . . I Y. Iwahori and M. Murakami and R. J. Woodham and N. Ishii Sign of Surface Curvature from Shading Images Using Neural Network . . . . . . I J. Jia and K. Abe Learning and Recognizing $3$D Objects by Using Partial Planar Curve Matching Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I N. Katafuchi and M. Sano and S. Ohara and M. Okudaira A Method of Industrial Parts Surface Inspection Based on an Optics Model . . I Z. Kato and T.-C. Pong and J. C.-M. Lee Motion Compensated Color Video Classification Using Markov Random Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I S. Kaveti and Eam Khwang Teoh and H. Wang Recognition of Planar Shapes Using Algebraic Invariants from Higher Degree Implicit Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . I Hyoung Seop Kim and N. Motomura and S. Ishikawa Finding the Center of Rotational Symmetry from Noisy Forms . . . . . . . I Jin Wook Kim and Eun Yi Kim and Se Hyun Park and Hang Joon Kim Segmentation of MRF Based Image Using Hierarchical Genetic Algorithm . . . . . I R. Kimmel and R. Malladi and N. Sochen Image Processing via the Beltrami Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I R. Kimmel A Natural Norm for Color Processing . . I R. Krishnamoorthi and P. Bhattacharyya Color Edge Detection Using Orthogonal Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I K. F. Lai and H. Zhou and S. Chan Query Expansion by Raw Image Features and Text Annotations in Image Retrieval I Z.-D. Lan and R. Mohr and L. Quan Precise Matching by Robust Estimation of Deformation and Local Coherence . . . . I J. Lang and M. R. M. Jenkin Actively Building Models with VIRTUE . . I Tak Kan Lau and I. King Montage: An Image Database for the Fashion, Textile, and Clothing Industry in Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I F. Li and M. Brady Dynamic Calibration of an Active Vision System to Compute the Ground Plane Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . I S. Z. Li and Y. H. Huang and J. S. Fu and K. L. Chan Edge-Preserving Smoothing by Convex Minimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I S. X. Liao and M. Pawlak A Study of Zernike Moment Computing . . I C.-C. Lien and C.-L. Huang The Model-Based Dynamic Hand Posture Identification Using Genetic Algorithm I X. Lin and X. Ding and Y. Chen and J. Liu Evaluation and Application of Recognition Confidence in OCR . . . . . I S. H. Maes and H. S. M. Beigi Open Sesame! Speech, Password or Key to Secure Your Door? . . . . . . . . . . . I E. Marchand and F. Chaumette A Bayes Nets-Based Prediction/Verification Scheme for Active Visual Reconstruction . . . . . . I A. M. McIvor and P. T. Waltenberg Recognition of Simple Curved Surfaces from $3$D Surface Data . . . . . . . . . I S. J. McKenna and S. Gong Face Recognition from Sequences Using Models of Identity . . . . . . . . . . . I S. J. McKenna and Y. Raja and S. Gong Object Tracking Using Adaptive Color Mixture Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . I C. Menard Stereo Correspondences in Scale Space I Y. Mukaigawa and Y. Nakamura and Y. Ohta Face Synthesis with Arbitrary Pose and Expression from Several Images --- An Integration of Image-Based and Model-Based Approaches . . . . . . . . . I V. S. Nalwa Automatic On-line Signature Verification I K. Nathan Pen Computing --- An Overview . . . . . I K. Nozaki and M. Niimi and R. O. Eason and E. Kawaguchi A Large Capacity Steganography Using Color BMP Images . . . . . . . . . . . . I T. Okatani and K. Deguchi On the Classification of Singular Points for the Global Shape from Shading Problem: A Study of the Constraints Imposed by Isophotes . . . . . . . . . . I T. Okatani and K. Deguchi Determination of Sign of Gaussian Curvature of Surface Having General Reflectance Property . . . . . . . . . . I N. Oshiro and A. Nishikawa and N. Maru and F. Miyazaki Foveated Vision for Scene Exploration I C. I. Pagliari and T. J. Dennis Evolutionary Methods Applied to Binocular Disparity Estimation . . . . . I In Kyu Park and Il Dong Yun and Sang Uk Lee A Color Normalization Algorithm for Image Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . I A. Psarrou and J. Tanner Using RBF Networks to Map GWT Ridge Images to Pose . . . . . . . . . . . . . I Z. Qi and W. Gu Combining Camera and Laser Radar for ALV Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I H. Qi and W. E. Snyder and G. L. Bilbro Comparison of Mean Field Annealing and Multiresolution Analysis in Missing Data Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I Z. Qi and Z. Duric and R. S. Michalski Detecting Targets in SAR Images: A Machine Learning Approach . . . . . . . I Y. Raja and S. J. McKenna and S. Gong Segmentation and Tracking Using Color Mixture Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . I R. S. Ramakrishna and B. Vaidyanathan Error Analysis in Stereo Vision . . . . I V. Rehrmann and L. Priese Fast and Robust Segmentation of Natural Color Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I Y. Rubner and C. Tomasi and L. J. Guibas Adaptive Color-Image Embeddings for Database Navigation . . . . . . . . . . I C. Schuetz and T. Jost and H. Huegli Semi-automatic $3$D Object Digitizing System Using Range Images . . . . . . . I S. Se and M. Brady Stereo Vision-Based Obstacle Detection for Partially Sighted People . . . . . . I W. Shen Automated Fingerprint Pattern Classification Error Analysis . . . . . I N. Shimada and Y. Shirai and Y. Kuno and J. Miura $3$-D Pose Estimation and Model Refinement of an Articulated Object from a Monocular Image Sequence . . . . . . . I N. Srinivasa and N. Ahuja A Learning Approach to Fixating on $3$D Targets with Active Cameras . . . . . . I H. T. Tanaka and A. Ishizawa and H. Adachi Live Facial Expression Generation Based on Mixed Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . I C.-Y. Tang and Y.-P. Hung and Z. Chen Automatic Detection and Tracking of Human Heads Using an Active Stereo Vision System . . . . . . . . . . . . . I Y.-L. Tian and H. T. Tsui and S. Y. Yeung Spherical and Cylindrical Light Source Models for Shape Recovery . . . . . . . I Y.-L. Tian and H. T. Tsui and S. Y. Yeung Shape Recovery from One Image under Multiple Light Sources . . . . . . . . . I S. Tominaga Estimation of Reflection Parameters from a Color Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . I W. B. Tong and S. K. Tso and S. Lang and G. Z. Lu Directing Robots with Visual Primitives for Navigation and Micro-manipulation I Y.-F. Wang and R.-B. O. Alferez A Unified Framework for Image-Derived Invariants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I B. Wirtz Technical Evaluation of Biometric Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I M. Xie New Development of Stereo Vision: A Solution of Motion Stereo Correspondence I J. Yang and D. Zhang and N. Ohnishi and N. Sugie Polyhedral Shape Recovery Based on Interreflections . . . . . . . . . . . . I Kin Choong Yow and R. Cipolla Enhancing Human Face Detection Using Motion and Active Contours . . . . . . . I H. Zha and T. Hoshide and T. Hasegawa A Recursive Fitting-and-Splitting Algorithm for $3$-D Object Modeling Based on Superquadrics . . . . . . . . . I
J.-I. Hayashi and K. Kato and T. Endoh and K. Murakami On Typical Implementations of Hough Transform for Improving Its Performances 1 Y. Chen and S. Ma Hierarchical Segmentation and Representation with Dynamic Link Architecture Neural Network . . . . . . 9 N. Zhang and Wee Kheng Leow Perceptually Consistent Segmentation of Texture Using Multiple Channel Filter 17 M. Shoaib Bhuiyan and Y. Iwahori and A. Iwata Optimal Edge Detection under Difficult Imaging Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . 25 K. Ratakonda and N. Ahuja Restoring Image Quality Through Structure Preserving De-noising . . . . 33 M. Jenkinson and M. Brady Feature Saliency from Noise Variations in Invariants . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 F. Chen and D. Surer Multiscale Image Representation and Edge Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 S. R. Fountain and T. N. Tan Rotation Invariant Texture Features from Gabor Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 A. Salden Euclidean Invariants of Linear Scale-Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 F. Mokhtarian Segmenting Objects at Multiple Scales: A Robust Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 G. Qiu Multi-grid Edge Models for Magnifying Digital Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 T. Kurita and K. Hotta and T. Mishima Scale and Rotation Invariant Recognition Method Using Higher-Order Local Autocorrelation Features of Log-Polar Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 G. S. Peake and T. N. Tan Script and Language Identification from Document Images . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 H. Masai and T. Watanabe Document Categorization for Document Image Understanding . . . . . . . . . . 105 N. Yokokura and T. Watanabe Recognition of Various Bar-graph Structures Based on Layout Model . . . . 113 P.-K. Wong and C. Chan Word-Class Bigram Statistics Language Model for a Hand-Written Chinese Character Recognizer . . . . . . . . . . 121 X. Wang Log Classification by Single X-ray Scans Using Texture Features from Growth Rings 129 H. Takebe and Y. Katsuyama and S. Naoi Precise and Fast Form Identification Method by Using Adaptive Base Lines for Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 J. Zheng and X. Ding and Y. Wu and F. Guo Combinatorial Coarse Classification Method for OLCCR . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Y. Liu and T. Yamamura and N. Ohnishi and N. Sugie Detecting Characters in Grey-Scale Scene Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 A. Sugimoto Conic Based Image Transfer for $2$-D Objects: A Linear Algorithm . . . . . . 161 A. Heyden and K. Aastroem Minimal Conditions on Intrinsic Paramenters for Euclidean Reconstruction 169 J. H. M. Byne and J. A. D. W. Anderson Surface Based Hypothesis Verification in Intensity Images Using Geometric and Appearance Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 H. Zha and K. Morooka and T. Masegawa Next Best Viewpoint (NBV) Planning for Active Object Modeling Based on a Learning-by-Showing Approach . . . . . . 185 T. Lourens and R. P. Wuertz Object Recognition by Matching Symbolic Edge Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 M. E. Westling and L. S. Davis Interpretation of Complex Scenes Using Bayesian Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 201 P. Liu and W. Wu and K. Ikeuchi and M. Sakauchi Recognition of Urban Scene Using Silhouette of Buildings and City Map Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 M. Nishijima and T. Watanabe A Cooperative Inference Mechanism for Extracting Road Information Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 T. Liu and Kap Luk Chan and Stan Ziqing Li Model-Based Active Object Recognition Using MRF Matching and Sensor Planning 225 W. B. Seales and Cheng Jiun Yuan Improved Image Classification Using Morphing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 C.-H. Kim and T.-J. Suh Reconstruction of Non-manifold Objects from Two Orthographic Views . . . . . . 241 Y. Sumi and F. Tomita $3$D Object Recognition Using Segment-Based Stereo Vision . . . . . . 249 B. Funt The State of Color Vision Research . . . 257 S. Tominaga Color Vision and Color Media Processing Research in Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 S. J. Noronha and R. Nevatia Recent Advances in Detection and Description of Buildings from Multiple Aerial Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 L. Davis and S. Fejes and D. Harwood and Y. Yacoob Visual Surveillance of Human Activity 267 J. K. Aggarwal and S. Shah Bayesian Paradigm for Recognition of Objects --- Innovative Applications . . 275 R. Bolle and Y. Aloimonos and C. Fermueller Toward Motion Picture Grammars . . . . . 283 P. Bajcsy and N. Ahuja Hierarchical Texture Segmentation . . . 291 X. Jiang and H. Bunke Range Image Segmentation: Adaptive Grouping of Edges into Regions . . . . . 299 M. Mirmehdi and P. L. Palmer and J. Kittler Optimising the Complete Image Feature Extraction Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 M.-S. Lee and G. Medioni A Unified Framework for Salient Curves, Regions, and Junctions Inference . . . . 315 B. Perrin and N. Ahuja and N. Srinivasa Learning Multiscale Image Models of $2$D Object Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 M. Minoh $3$D Model Centered Framework for CV and VR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 Z. Zhang Image-Based Geometrically-Correct Photorealistic Scene/Object Modeling (IBPhM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 Y. Sato and M. D. Wheeler and K. Ikeuchi Measuring Object Surface Shape and Reflectance Properties . . . . . . . . . 350 M.-O. Berger and G. Simon Robust Image Composition Algorithms for Augmented Reality . . . . . . . . . . . 360 K.-H. Jo and Y. Kuno and Y. Shirai Context-Based Recognition of Manipulative Hand Gestures for Human Computer Interaction . . . . . . . . . . 368 M. Trajkovic and M. Hedley An Algorithm for Recursive Structure and Motion Recovery under Affine Projection 376 Z.-Y. Zhang and H.- T. Tsui Relative Affine Depth: Structure from Motion by an Uncalibrated Camera . . . . 384 M. Trajkovic and M. Hedley The Eigenspace Method for Rigid Motion Recovery from less than Eight Point Correspondences . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 Y.-F. Wang and P. Liang $3$D Shape and Motion Analysis from Image Blur and Smear: A Unified Approach 400 P. Wang and K. Ikeuchi and M. Sakauchi $3$D Line's Extraction from $2$D Spatio-temporal Image Created by Sine Slit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408 A. Bottino and A. Laurentini and P. Zuccone Toward Non-intrusive Motion Capture . . 416 K. Ohba and Y. Sato and K. Ikeuchi Appearance Based Visual Learning and Object Recognition with Illumination Invariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424 Y. Taniguchi and Y. Shirai Evidence-Based Scene Interpretation Considering Subjective Certainty of Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432 F. Jurie Robust Hypothesis Verification for Model Based Object Recognition Using Gaussian Error Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 S. Kirihara and H. Saito Shape Modeling from Multiple View Images Using GAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448 N. Jojic and J. Gu and H. C. Shen and T. S. Huang $3$-D Reconstruction of Multipart Self-Occluding Objects . . . . . . . . . 455 N. Jojic and T. S. Huang On Analysis of Cloth Drape Range Data 463 M. Shinya and T. Saito and T. Mori and N. Osumi VR Models from Epipolar Images: An Approach to Minimize Errors in Synthesized Images . . . . . . . . . . . 471 S. Yonemoto and N. Tsuruta and R.- I. Taniguchi Shape and Pose Parameter Estimation of $3$D Multi-Part Objects . . . . . . . . 479 Jiang Yu Zheng and A. Murata and N. Abe Generating $3$D Models of Objects Using Multiple Visual Cues in Image Sequences 487 T. Mita and S. Hiura and H. Kato and S. Inokuchi Strategical Tracking of Polyhedral Objects by Reactive Change of Projection Pattern --- Reactive Range Finder . . . 495 W.-S. Hwang and J. Weng Autonomous Vision-Guided Robot Manipulation Control . . . . . . . . . . 503 Q. Zhang and W. Gu and X. Ye A New Adaptive Approach on Rapid Obstacle Detection in Range Image . . . 511 K. Uchimura and Z. Hu Recognition of Shape Model for General Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 M. I. A. Lourakis and S. C. Orphanoudakis Visual Detection of Obstacles Assuming a Locally Planar Ground . . . . . . . . . 527 J.-H. Chuang and C.-H. Tsai and W.-H. Tsai and C.-Y. Yang Potential-Based Modeling of $2$D Regions Using Non-uniform Source Distributions 535 G. Xu and N. Sugimoto A Linear Algorithm for Motion from Three Weak Perspective Images Using Euler Angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543 A. R. Pearce and T. Caelli and S. Goss On Learning Spatio-Temporal Relational Structures in Two Different Domains . . 551 S. H. Or and W. S. Luk and K. H. Wong and I. King An Efficient Iterative Pose Estimation Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559 Z. Zhang A New Multistage Approach to Motion and Structure Estimation by Gradually Enforcing Geometric Constraints . . . . 567 Y. Ye and J. K. Tsotsos and K. Bennet and E. Harley Tracking a Person with Pre-recorded Image Database and a Pan, Tilt, and Zoom Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575 T. Mukai and N. Ohnishi Recovery of Motion and Structure from Optical Flow under Perspective Projection by Solving Linear Simultaneous Equations . . . . . . . . . 583 F. K. H. Quek and R. K. Bryll Vector Coherence Mapping: A Parallelizable Approach to Image Flow Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591 A. Bab-Hadiashar and D. Suter Robust Motion Segmentation Using Rank Ordering Estimators . . . . . . . . . . 599 Q. Yang and S. Ma Optical Flow in the Scale Space . . . . 607 P. M. Ngan Motion Detection in Temporal Clutter . . 615 W. Booth and J. M. Noras and D. Xu A Novel Fast Three-Step Search Algorithm for Block-Matching Motion Estimation . . 623 Y. Lu and J. Miller and Tie Qi Chen Moving Vehicle Detection and Tracking in Image Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 631 Y. Iwai and T. Hata and M. Yachida Gesture Recognition from Image Motion Based on Subspace Method and HMM . . . . 639 D. Pramadihanto and Y. Iwai and M. Yachida and H. Wu Identifying Faces under Varying Pose Using a Single Example View . . . . . . 647 A. Utsumi and H. Mori and J. Ohya and M. Yachida Multiple Camera Based Human Motion Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655 K. Murakami and M. Takai and H. Koshimizu An Autonomous Facial Caricaturing Based on a Model of Visual Illusion-Experimental Modeling of Visual Illusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663 T. Ishikawa and H. Sera and S. Morishima and D. Terzopoulos $3$D Estimation of Facial Muscle Parameter from the $2$D Marker Movement Using Neural Network . . . . . . . . . . 671 S. Gong and E.-J. Ong and P. J. Loft Appearance-Based Face Recognition under Large Head Rotations in Depth . . . . . 679 J. Yang and W. Lu and A. Waibel Skin-Color Modeling and Adaptation . . . 687 Y. Ariki and N. Ishikawa and Y. Sugiyama Human Information Retrieval by Face Extraction and Recognition on TV News Images Using Subspace Method . . . . . . 695 T. Otsuka and J. Ohya Converting Facial Expressions Using Recognition-Based Analysis of Image Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703 H. Ohta and H. Saji and H. Nakatani Muscle-Based Feature Models for Analyzing Facial Expressions . . . . . . 711 Y. Li and S. Ma and H. Lu A Morphological Method for Moving Object Segmentation and Posture Recognition . . 719 X. Jiang and M. Binkert and B. Achermann and H. Bunke Detection of Glasses in Facial Images 726 T. Nishimura and T. Mukai and R. Oka Non-monotonic Continuous Dynamic Programming for Spotting Recognition of Hesitated Gestures from Time-Varying Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734 H.-Y. M. Liao and C.-C. Han and G.-J. Yu and H.-R. Tyan Face Recognition Using a Face-Only Database: A New Approach . . . . . . . . 742
W. Lenhart and G. Liotta Drawable and Forbidden Minimum Weight Triangulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 M. Juenger and E. K. Lee and P. Mutzel and T. Odenthal A Polyhedral Approach to the Multi-Layer Crossing Minimization Problem . . . . . 13 P. Bose On Embedding an Outer-Planar Graph in a Point Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 F. Shahrokhi and O. Sykora and L. A. Szekely and I. Vrt'o Bipartite Crossing Numbers of Meshes and Hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 J. Pach and T. Thiele and G. Toth Three-dimensional Grid Drawings of Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 A. Papakostas and I. G. Tollis Incremental Orthogonal Graph Drawing in Three Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 T. Calamoneri and A. Massini On Three-Dimensional Layout of Interconnection Networks . . . . . . . . 64 T. Biedl and T. Shermer and S. Whitesides and S. Wismath Orthogonal $3$-D Graph Drawing . . . . . 76 P. Eades and M. E. Houle and R. Webber Finding the Best Viewpoints for Three-Dimensional Graph Drawings . . . . 87 M. Saidur Rahman and S.-I. Nakano and T. Nishizeki A Linear Algorithm for Optimal Orthogonal Drawings of Triconnected Cubic Plane Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 99 U. Foessmeier Interactive Orthogonal Graph Drawing: Algorithms and Bounds . . . . . . . . . 111 M. A. Garrido and A. Marquez Embedding a Graph in the Grid of a Surface with the Minimum Number of Bends is NP-hard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 U. Foessmeier and M. Kaufmann Algorithms and Area Bounds for Nonplanar Orthogonal Drawings . . . . . . . . . . 134 P. Eades and Q.-W Feng Drawing Clustered Graphs on an Orthogonal Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 F. J. Brandenburg Graph Clustering I: Circles of Cliques 158 K. C. Kakoulis and I. G. Tollis An Algorithm for Labeling Edges of Hierarchical Drawings . . . . . . . . . 169 C. Iturriaga and A. Lubiw Elastic Labels: the Two-Axis Case . . . 181 M. Juenger and S. Leipert and P. Mutzel Pitfalls of Using PQ-Trees in Automatic Graph Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 P. Valtr Graph Drawings with no k Pairwise Crossing Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 X. Lin and P. Eades Area Requirements for Drawing Hierarchically Planar Graphs . . . . . . 219 H. De Fraysseix and P. Ossona de Mendez A Short Proof of a Gauss Problem . . . . 230 U. Brandes and D. Wagner A Bayesian Paradigm for Dynamic Graph Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 H. Purchase Which Aesthetic has the Greatest Effect on Human Understanding? . . . . . . . . 248 D. P. Dobkin and E. R. Gansner and E. Koutsofios and S. C. North Implementing a General-Purpose Edge Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 S. P. Fekete and M. E. Houle and S. Whitesides The Wobbly Logic Engine: Proving Hardness of Non-rigid Geometric Graph Representation Problems . . . . . . . . 272 M. Patrignani and F. Vargiu $3$DCube: A Tool for Three Dimensional Graph Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 T. Roxborough and A. Sen Graph Clustering Using Multiway Ratio Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 C. Hundack and P. Mutzel and I. Pouchkarev and S. Thome ArchE: A Graph Drawing System for Archaeology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 S. S. Bridgeman and J. Fanto and A. Garg and R. Tamassia InteractiveGiotto: An Algorithm for Interactive Orthogonal Graph Drawing . . 303 W. Didimo and A. Leonforte GRID: An Interactive Tool for Computing Orthogonal Drawings With the Minimum Number of Bends . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 D. Tunkelang and R. J. Byrd and J. W. Cooper Lexical Navigation: Using Incremental Graph Drawing for Query Refinement . . . 316 B. Andalman and K. Ryall and W. Ruml and J. Marks Design Gallery Browsers Based on $2$D and $3$D Graph Drawing . . . . . . . . . 322 P. Eades and R. F. Cohen and Mao Lin Huang Online Animated Graph Drawing for Web Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 N. S. Barghouti and J. Mocenigo and W. Lee Grappa: A GRAPh PAckage in Java . . . . 336 H. Lauer and M. Ettrich and K. Soukup GraVis --- System Demonstration . . . . 344 P. Hlineny Touching Graphs of Unit Balls . . . . . 350 J. Czyzowicz and E. Kranakis and D. Krizanc and J. Urrutia Discrete Realizations of Contact and Intersection Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 359 P. Crescenzi and P. Penna Minimum-Area $h$-$v$ Drawings of Complete Binary Trees . . . . . . . . . 371 T. C. Biedl and B. P. Madden and I. G. Tollis The Three-Phase Method: A Unified Approach to Orthogonal Graph Drawing . . 391 G. J. Wills NicheWorks --- Interactive Visualization of Very Large Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 403 J. Seemann Extending the Sugiyama Algorithm for Drawing UML Class Diagrams: Towards Automatic Layout of Object-Oriented Software Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . 415 J. Berry and N. Dean and M. Goldberg and G. Shannon Graph Drawing and Manipulation with LINK 425 P. Eades and J. Marks and S. North Graph-Drawing Contest Report . . . . . . 438
Olaf Burkart 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Olaf Burkart 2. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Olaf Burkart 3. Pushdown Processes . . . . . . . . . 33 Olaf Burkart 4. Model Checking . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Olaf Burkart 5. Equivalence Checking . . . . . . . . 115 Olaf Burkart 6. Summary and Perspectives . . . . . . 151
A. Al-Dabbagh and M. Darnell The Theory and Application of Reciprocal Pairs of Periodic Sequences . . . . . . 1 A. K. Al Jabri and S. Al-Issa Zero-Error Codes for Correlated Information Sources . . . . . . . . . . 17 P. Benachour and G. Markarian and B. Honary Trellis Decoding Techniques and Their Performance in the Adder Channel for Synchronous and Asynchronous CCMA Codes 23 S. Blake-Wilson and D. Johnson and A. Menezes Key Agreement Protocols and Their Security Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 30 J. Bond and S. Hui and H. Schmidt Low Density Parity Check Codes Based on Sparse Matrices with No Small Cycles . . 46 K. Brincat and A. Meijer On the SAFER Cryptosystem . . . . . . . 59 K. L. Brown and M. Darnell An Adaptive Approach to $T$ of $N$ User Multi-access Communications Channel Using an Orthogonal Coded Multiplexer 69 F. L. Carter The Breaking of the Lorenz Cipher: An Introduction to the Theory behind the Operational Role of ``Colossus'' at BP 74 C. Cocks Split Knowledge Generation of RSA Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 P. Fan Analysis of Error Control in Digital Trunked Radio Systems . . . . . . . . . 96 E. Filiol Reconstruction of Convolutional Encoders over GF$ (q) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 S. Harari HCC: A Hash Function Using Error Correcting Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 E. Hess Public-Key Cryptosystems Based on Elliptic Curves --- An Evolutionary Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 B. Honary and B. Thomas and P. Coulton and M. Darnell Novel Application of Turbo Decoding for Radio Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 N. Howgrave-Graham Finding Small Roots of Univariate Modular Equations Revisited . . . . . . 131 E. Husni and P. Sweeney Robust Reed Solomon Coded MPSK Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 M. Joye and J. J. Quisquater and F. Bao and R. H. Deng RSA-type Signatures in the Presence of Transient Faults . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 G. Kabatianskii and E. Krouk and B. Smeets A Digital Signature Scheme Based on Random Error-Correcting Codes . . . . . 161 V. K. N. Lau and M. D. Macleod Variable Rate Adaptive Trellis Coded QAM for High Bandwidth Efficiency Applications under Rayleigh Fading Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 V. K. N. Lau and S. V. Maric Variable Rate Adaptive Channel Coding for Coherent and Non-coherent Rayleigh Fading Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 B. Lin and S. Shepherd LABYRINTH: a New Ultra High Speed Stream Cipher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 X. Liu and P. G. Farrell and C. A. Boyd Resisting the Bergen-Hogan Attack on Adaptive Arithmetic Coding . . . . . . . 199 G. Markarian and P. Benachour and B. Honary Novel Decoding Technique for the Synchronous and Quasi-synchronous Multiple Access Adder Channel . . . . . 209 K. M. Martin Increasing Efficiency of International Key Escrow in Mutually Mistrusting Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 J. Maucher Multi Dimensional Compartment Schemes 233 S. McManus and P. G. Farrell Evaluation of Standard Approximation to Log-likelihood Ratio Addition in the MAP Algorithm, and its Application in Block Code (Turbo) Iterative Decoding Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 W. H. Mow Multiuser Coding Based on Detecting Matrices for Synchronous-CDMA Systems 251 C. P. O'Donoghue and C. J. Burkley Enumeration of Convolutional Codes and Minimal Encoders . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 R. G. E. Pinch On Using Carmichael Numbers for Public Key Encryption Systems . . . . . . . . . 265 B. Preneel Hash Functions and MAC Algorithms Based on Block Ciphers . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 C. Radu and R. Govaerts and J. Vandewalle Witness Hiding Restrictive Blind Signature Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 M. Schneider A Note on the Construction and Upper Bounds of Correlation-Immune Functions 295 S. Sonander and B. Honary On Generalised Concatenated Codes . . . 307 A. Tandon and P. G. Farrell Error Performance Analysis of Different Interleaving Strategies Applied to Eight Track Digital Tape Systems . . . . . . . 317 A. Zuquete and P. Guedes Efficient Error-Propagating Block Chaining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
C. Keramane and A. Duda Operator Based Composition of Structured Multimedia Presentations . . . . . . . . 1 J. Tassel and B. Briscoe and A. Smith An End to End Price-Based QoS Control Component Using Reflective Java . . . . 18 V. Tschammer and M. Mendes and V. Ouzounis and M. Tschichholz SECCO --- Support Environment for Electronic Commerce . . . . . . . . . . 33 D. J. Kim and H. Namgoong and Y.-C. Lew A Bridge for Heterogeneous Communication between CORBA and DCE . . . . . . . . . 45 H. Olivir and M. Banfield and D. Hutchison Distributed Connection Management for Real-Time Multimedia Services . . . . . 59 T. Kunkelmann and T. Blecher and R. Reinema and R. Steinmetz Evaluation of Different Video Encryption Methods for a Secure Multimedia Conferencing Gateway . . . . . . . . . . 75 L. Rizzo The FreeBSD Audio Driver . . . . . . . . 90 J. Mangues-Bafalluy and J. Domingo-Pascual Cell Discarding Mechanisms with Minimum Flow Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 W. Ruppel Implementing the Digital Storage Media --- Command and Control (DSM-CC) Standard in the Framework of an On-Line Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 T. Pfeifer and S. Arbanowski and R. Popescu-Zeletin Resource Selection in Heterogeneous Communication Environments Using the Teleservice Descriptor . . . . . . . . . 132 R. Wittmann and M. Zitterbart AMnet: Active Multicasting Network . . . 154 M. Hofmann and M. Rohrmueller Impact of Virtual Group Structure on Multicast Performance . . . . . . . . . 165