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Volume 47, Number 5, 2000
Volume 1443, 1998
Volume 1600, 1999
Volume 1601, 1999
Volume 1602, 1999
Volume 1603, 1999
Volume 1604, 1999
Volume 1605, 1999
Volume 1608, 1999
Volume 1609, 1999
Volume 1610, 1999
Volume 1611, 1999
Volume 1612, 1999
Volume 1613, 1999
Volume 1614, 1999
Volume 1615, 1999
Volume 1616, 1999
Volume 1617, 1999
Volume 1618, 1999
Volume 1619, 1999
Volume 1620, 1999
Volume 1621, 1999
Volume 1622, 1999
Volume 1625, 1999
Volume 1626, 1999
Volume 1627, 1999
Volume 1628, 1999
Volume 1631, 1999
Volume 1632, 1999
Volume 1633, 1999
Volume 1634, 1999
Volume 1636, 1999
Volume 1638, 1999
Volume 1639, 1999
Volume 1640, 1999
Volume 1642, 1999
Volume 1643, 1999
Volume 1644, 1999
Volume 1645, 1999
Volume 1647, 1999
Volume 1648, 1999
Volume 1649, 1999
Volume 1650, 1999
Volume 1651, 1999
Volume 1652, 1999
Volume 1653, 1999
Volume 1654, 1999
Volume 1657, 1999
Volume 1661, 1999
Volume 1662, 1999
Volume 1663, 1999
Volume 1666, 1999
Volume 1668, 1999
Volume 1671, 1999
Volume 1674, 1999
Volume 1686, 1999
Volume 1694, 1999
Volume 1707, 1999
Volume 1739, 1999
Volume 1743, 1999
Volume 1748, 1999


Journal of the ACM
Volume 47, Number 5, 2000

                  Tao Jiang and   
                    Ming Li and   
            Paul Vitányi   A lower bound on the average-case
                                  complexity of Shellsort  . . . . . . . . 905--911


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1443, 1998

                      A. Tiskin   Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Multiplication
                                  of Boolean Matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 494


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1600, 1999

                    Ruth Aylett   Behavioural Virtual Agents . . . . . . . 1
                   Franz Baader   Logic-Based Knowledge Representation . . 13
           Maria Paola Bonacina   A Taxonomy of Theorem-Proving Strategies 43
                     Jim Blythe   An Overview of Planning Under
                                  Uncertainty  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
                Craig Boutilier   Knowledge Representation for Stochastic
                                  Decision Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 111
                     Alan Bundy   A Survey of Automated Deduction  . . . . 153
           Paolo Ciancarini and   
           Robert Tolksdorf and   
                   Fabio Vitali   The World Wide Web as a Place for Agents 175
              Clark Elliott and   
                Jeff Rickel and   
                   James Lester   Lifelike Pedagogical Agents and
                                  Affective Computing: An Exploratory
                                  Synthesis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
             Rune M. Jensen and   
              Manuela M. Veloso   OBDD-Based Universal Planning:
                                  Specifying and Solving Planning Problems
                                  for Synchronized Agents in
                                  Non-deterministic Domains  . . . . . . . 213
                   Alon Y. Levy   Combining Artificial Intelligence and
                                  Databases for Data Integration . . . . . 249
            Carlos Martinho and   
                      Ana Paiva   ``Underwater Love'': Building Tristão and
                                  Isolda's Personalities . . . . . . . . . 269
                 Michael Mateas   An Oz-Centric Review of Interactive
                                  Drama and Believable Agents  . . . . . . 297
              Simon Parsons and   
             Ola Pettersson and   
       Alessandro Saffiotti and   
             Michael Wooldridge   Robots with the Best of Intentions . . . 329
             Charles Petrie and   
            Sigrid Goldmann and   
                 Andreas Raquet   Agent-Based Project Management . . . . . 339
              Henry Prakken and   
                Giovanni Sartor   A System for Defeasible Argumentation,
                                  with Defeasible Priorities . . . . . . . 365
           Alessandro Saffiotti   Handling Uncertainty in Control of
                                  Autonomous Robots  . . . . . . . . . . . 381
                Murray Shanahan   The Event Calculus Explained . . . . . . 409
                 Paul Tarau and   
                  Veronica Dahl   Towards a Logic Programming
                                  Infrastructure for Internet Programming  431
            Daniel Thalmann and   
                 Hansrudi Noser   Towards Autonomous, Perceptive, and
                                  Intelligent Virtual Actors . . . . . . . 457
                     Yang Xiang   Temporally Invariant Junction Tree for
                                  Inference in Dynamic Bayesian Network    473
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1601, 1999

              Bengt Jonsson and   
                        Wang Yi   Fully Abstract Characterization of
                                  Probabilistic May Testing  . . . . . . . 1--18
            Annabelle K. McIver   Quantitative Program Logic and
                                  Performance in Probabilistic Distributed
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--33
             Christel Baier and   
                Bettina Engelen   Establishing Qualitative Properties for
                                  Probabilistic Lossy Channel Systems: An
                                  Algorithmic Approach . . . . . . . . . . 34--52
    Mariëlle Stoelinga and   
               Frits Vaandrager   Root Contention in IEEE 1394 . . . . . . 53--74
          Marta Kwiatkowska and   
              Gethin Norman and   
             Roberto Segala and   
                Jeremy Sproston   Automatic Verification of Real-Time
                                  Systems with Discrete Probability
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--95
  Vicky Hartonas-Garmhausen and   
              Sergio Campos and   
                      Ed Clarke   ProbVerus: Probabilistic Symbolic Model
                                  Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--110
                  Suzana Andova   Process Algebra with Probabilistic
                                  Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--129
     Manuel Núñez   An Axiomatization of Probabilistic
                                  Testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--150
               Frits Vaandrager   Verification of Hybrid Systems . . . . . 151
                    Karl Lermer   A Parallel Operator for Real-Time
                                  Processes with Predicate Transformer
                                  Semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--171
                Lars Jenner and   
                  Walter Vogler   Comparing the Efficiency of Asynchronous
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--191
                Karl Lermer and   
                    Colin Fidge   A Formal Model of Real-Time Program
                                  Compilation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--210
               Graham Clark and   
            Stephen Gilmore and   
                  Jane Hillston   Specifying Performance Measures for PEPA 211--227
       Henrik C. Bohnenkamp and   
         Boudewijn R. Haverkort   Semi-numerical Solution of Stochastic
                                  Process Algebra Models . . . . . . . . . 228--243
            Holger Hermanns and   
                  Markus Siegle   Bisimulation Algorithms for Stochastic
                                  Process Algebras and Their BDD-Based
                                  Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--264
                 Moshe Y. Vardi   Probabilistic Linear-Time Model
                                  Checking: An Overview of the
                                  Automata-Theoretic Approach  . . . . . . 265--276
             Klaus Havelund and   
      Kim Guldstrand Larsen and   
                      Arne Skou   Formal Verification of a Power
                                  Controller Using the Real-Time Model
                                  Checker UPPAAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--298
               Stavros Tripakis   Verifying Progress in Timed Systems  . . 299--314
                 Paul Z. Kolano   Proof Assistance for Real-Time Systems
                                  Using an Interactive Theorem Prover  . . 315--333
                  Howard Bowman   Modelling Timeouts without Timelocks . . 334--354


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1602, 1999

                   H. Fusen and   
                         W. Jie   A Parallel Implementation of the
                                  Everglades Landscape Fire Model in
                                  Networks of Workstations . . . . . . . . 1--15
                  P. Steenkiste   Adaptation Models for Network-Aware
                                  Distributed Computations . . . . . . . . 16--31
               L. Yerosheva and   
                    P. M. Kogge   Prototyping Execution Models for HTMT
                                  Petaflop Machine in Java . . . . . . . . 32--46
                   F. Silla and   
                       J. Duato   Is It Worth the Flexibility Provided by
                                  Irregular Topologies in Networks of
                                  Workstations?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--61
                B. Caminero and   
               F. J. Quiles and   
                   Y. Duato and   
                     D. S. Love   Performance Evaluation of the Multimedia
                                  Router with MPEG-2 Video Traffic . . . . 62--76
                R. Canonico and   
               R. Cristaldi and   
                    G. Iannello   A Scalable Flow Control Algorithm for
                                  the Fast Messages Communication Library  77--90
                 H. V. Shah and   
                      C. Pu and   
        R. S. Madukkarumukumana   High Performance Sockets and RPC over
                                  Virtual Interface (VI) Architecture  . . 91--107
                I. R. Philp and   
                    Y.-L. Liong   The Scheduled Transfer (ST) Protocol . . 108--121
                  P. Watson and   
                S. Parastatidis   The NIP Parallel Object-Oriented
                                  Computational Model  . . . . . . . . . . 122--136
                     M. Herlihy   The Aleph Toolkit: Support for Scalable
                                  Distributed Shared Objects . . . . . . . 137--149
                D. R. Kumar and   
                   W. A. Najjar   Combining Adaptive and Deterministic
                                  Routing: Evaluation of a Hybrid Router   150--164
                  R. Casado and   
               F. J. Quiles and   
              J. L. Sanchez and   
                       J. Duato   Deadlock-Free Routing in Irregular
                                  Networks with Dynamic Reconfiguration    165--180
                  D. Brooks and   
                   M. Martonosi   Implementing Application-Specific
                                  Cache-Coherence Protocols in
                                  Configurable Hardware  . . . . . . . . . 181--195
                    W. Karl and   
               M. Leberecht and   
                      M. Schulz   Supporting Shared Memory and Message
                                  Passing on Clusters of PCs with a SMiLE  196--210
                M. Jacunski and   
                 V. Moorthy and   
                 P. P. Ware and   
                      M. Pillai   Low Latency Message-Passing for
                                  Reflective Memory Networks . . . . . . . 211--224


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1603, 1999

                  V. Swarup and   
                  J. T. Fabrega   Trust: Benefits, Models, and Mechanisms  3--18
                       M. Abadi   Protection in Programming-Language
                                  Translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--34
                  M. Ancona and   
                 W. Cazzola and   
                E. B. Fernandez   Reflective Authorization Systems:
                                  Possibilities, Benefits, and Drawbacks   35--50
                    L. Cardelli   Abstractions for Mobile Computations . . 51--94
               M. Hennessey and   
                       J. Riely   Type-Safe Execution of Mobile Agents in
                                  Anonymous Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 95--116
               R. De Nicola and   
                 G. Ferrari and   
                    R. Pugliese   Types as Specifications of Access
                                  Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--146
                   X. Leroy and   
                      F. Rouaix   Security Properties of Typed Applets . . 147--184
                   M. Blaze and   
              J. Feigenbaum and   
               J. Ioannidis and   
                A. D. Keromytis   The Role of Trust Management in
                                  Distributed Systems Security . . . . . . 185--210
                        T. Aura   Distributed Access-Rights Management
                                  with Delegation Certificates . . . . . . 211--236
                       G. Brose   A View-Based Access Control Model for
                                  CORBA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--252
                    C. Tschudin   Apoptosis --- the Programmed Death of
                                  Distributed Services . . . . . . . . . . 253--260
                      B. S. Yee   A Sanctuary for Mobile Agents  . . . . . 261--274
                        V. Roth   Mutual Protection of Co-operating Agents 275--288
                      T. Jaeger   Access Control in Configurable Systems   289--316
                   R. Grimm and   
                  B. N. Bershad   Providing Policy-Neutral and Transparent
                                  Access Control in Extensible Systems . . 317--338
                    M. B. Jones   Interposition Agents: Transparently
                                  Interposing User Code at the System
                                  Interface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--368
              T. Von Eicken and   
                C.-C. Chang and   
              G. Czajkowski and   
                  C. Hawblitzel   J-Kernel: A Capability-Based Operating
                                  System for Java  . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--394
               L. Van Doorn and   
                   M. Abadi and   
                 M. Burrows and   
                      E. Wobber   Secure Network Objects . . . . . . . . . 395--412
                 G. Edjlali and   
                 A. Acharya and   
                   V. Chaudhary   History-Based Access Control for Mobile
                                  Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--432
            D. S. Alexander and   
              W. A. Arbaugh and   
            A. D. Keromytis and   
                    J. M. Smith   Security in Active Networks  . . . . . . 433--452
                  J. Hulaas and   
                A. Villazon and   
                       J. Harms   Using Interfaces to Specify Access
                                  Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--468
              U. G. Wilhelm and   
                S. Staamann and   
                     L. Buttyan   Introducing Trusted Third Parties to the
                                  Mobile Agent Paradigm  . . . . . . . . . 469--492


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1604, 1999

               Minoru Asada and   
             Manuela Veloso and   
               Milind Tambe and   
                Itsuki Noda and   
             Hiroaki Kitano and   
        Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar   Overview of RoboCup-98 . . . . . . . . . 1
                Kim Binsted and   
                      Sean Luke   Character Design for Soccer Commentary   22
          Hitoshi Matsubara and   
                  Ian Frank and   
        Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and   
                Itsuki Noda and   
         Hideyuki Nakashima and   
             Kôiti Hasida   Automatic Soccer Commentary and RoboCup  34
                 Dirk Voelz and   
     Elisabeth André and   
                Gerd Herzog and   
                    Thomas Rist   Rocco: A RoboCup Soccer Commentator
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
                Peter Stone and   
             Manuela Veloso and   
                  Patrick Riley   The CMUnited-98 Champion Simulator Team  61
             Manuela Veloso and   
            Michael Bowling and   
                Sorin Achim and   
                   Kwun Han and   
                    Peter Stone   The CMUnited-98 Champion Small-Robot
                                  Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
              J.-S. Gulmann and   
                 W. Hatzack and   
                I. Herrmann and   
                       B. Nebel   The CS Freiburg Robotic Soccer Team:
                                  Reliable Self-Localization, Multirobot
                                  Sensor Integration, and Basic Soccer
                                  Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
       Jens-Steffen Gutmann and   
           Wolfgang Hatzack and   
          Immanuel Herrmann and   
             Bernhard Nebel and   
            Frank Rittinger and   
           Augustinus Topor and   
               Thilo Weigel and   
                   Bruno Welsch   The CS Freiburg Robotic Soccer Team:
                                  Reliable Self-localization, Multirobot
                                  Sensor Integration, and Basic Soccer
                                  Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
                 Igor M. Verner   The Survey of RoboCup '98: Who, How and
                                  Why  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
          Silvia Coradeschi and   
                    Jacek Malec   How to Make a Challenging AI Course
                                  Enjoyable Using the RoboCup Soccer
                                  Simulation System  . . . . . . . . . . . 120
            Masahiro Fujita and   
            Stephane Zrehen and   
                 Hiroaki Kitano   A Quadruped Robot for RoboCup Legged
                                  Robot Challenge in Paris '98 . . . . . . 125
         Henrik Hautop Lund and   
               Luigi Pagliarini   Robot Soccer with LEGO Mindstorms  . . . 141
              Kazuaki Maeda and   
           Akinori Kohketsu and   
             Tomoichi Takahashi   Ball-Receiving Skill Dependent on
                                  Centering in Soccer Simulation Games . . 152
                   K. Marda and   
                A. Kohketsu and   
                   T. Takahashi   Ball-Receiving Skill Dependent on
                                  Centering in Soccer Simulation Games . . 152
                Jan Lubbers and   
               Rogier R. Spaans   The Priority/Confidence Model as a
                                  Framework for Soccer Agents  . . . . . . 162
                Paul Scerri and   
          Silvia Coradeschi and   
              Anders Törne   A User Oriented System for Developing
                                  Behavior Based Agents  . . . . . . . . . 173
         Tomoichi Takahashi and   
                 Tadashi Naruse   From Play Recognition to Good Plays
                                  Detection --- Reviewing RoboCup 97 Teams
                                  from Logfile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
             Kurt Driessens and   
                Nico Jacobs and   
         Nathalie Cossement and   
          Patrick Monsieurs and   
                   Luc De Raedt   Inductive Verification and Validation of
                                  the KULRoT RoboCup Team  . . . . . . . . 193
              Christoph G. Jung   Layered and Resource-Adapting Agents in
                                  the RoboCup Simulation . . . . . . . . . 207--220
               Nobuhiro Ito and   
           Kouichi Nakagawa and   
                Xiaoyong Du and   
                  Naohiro Ishii   A Description-Processing System for
                                  Soccer Agents and NIT Stones 98  . . . . 221
             Stacy Marsella and   
                Jafar Adibi and   
           Yaser Al-Onaizan and   
                  Ali Erdem and   
               Randall Hill and   
             Gal A. Kaminka and   
                   Zhun Qiu and   
                   Milind Tambe   Using an Explicit Teamwork Model and
                                  Learning in RoboCup  . . . . . . . . . . 237
               F. Tortcrolo and   
                      C. Carbay   A Hybrid Agent Model, Mixing Short Term
                                  and Long Term Memory Abilities. An
                                  Application to RoboCup Competition . . . 246
           Fausto Torterolo and   
               Catherine Garbay   A Hybrid Agent Model, Mixing Short Term
                                  and Long Term Memory Abilities . . . . . 246
                Peter Stone and   
                 Manuela Veloso   Team-Partitioned, Opaque-Transition
                                  Reinforcement Learning . . . . . . . . . 261
                Eiji Uchibe and   
          Masateru Nakamura and   
                   Minoru Asada   Cooperative Behavior Acquisition in a
                                  Multiple Mobile Robot Environment by
                                  Co-evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
               Wei-Min Shen and   
                Jafar Adibi and   
           Rogelio Adobbati and   
             Srini Lanksham and   
                Hadi Moradi and   
              Behnam Salemi and   
                  Sheila Tejada   Integrated Reactive Soccer Agents  . . . 286
            Andrew R. Price and   
                   Trevor Jones   An Innovative Approach to Vision,
                                  Localization and Orientation Using
                                  Omnidirectional Radial Signature
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
              Sho'ji Suzuki and   
             Tatsunori Kato and   
           Hiroshi Ishizuka and   
         Yasutake Takahashi and   
                Eiji Uchibe and   
                   Minoru Asada   An Application of Vision-Based Learning
                                  in RoboCup for a Real Robot with an
                                  Omnidirectional Vision System and the
                                  Team Description of Osaka University
                                  ``Trackies'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
          Takayuki Nakamura and   
            Kazunori Terada and   
            Atsushi Shibata and   
                 Hideaki Takeda   The RoboCup-NAIST: A Cheap
                                  Multisensor-Based Mobile Robot with
                                  Visual Learning Capability . . . . . . . 326
                       T. Andou   Andhill-98: A RoboCup Team which
                                  Reinforces Positioning with Observation  338
                David Andre and   
                   Astro Teller   Evolving Team Darwin United  . . . . . . 346
               Magnus Boman and   
         Helena Åberg and   
      Åsa Åhman and   
             Jens Andreasen and   
             Mats Danielson and   
        Carl-Gustaf Jansson and   
            Johan Kummeneje and   
             Harko Verhagen and   
                   Johan Walter   UBU: Utility-Based Uncertainty Handling
                                  in Synthetic Soccer  . . . . . . . . . . 352
             P. Gugenberger and   
                 J. Wendler and   
               K. Schroeter and   
                 H.-D. Burkhard   AT Humboldt in RoboCup-98  . . . . . . . 358
          Harukazu Igarashi and   
               Shougo Kosue and   
             Masatoshi Miyahara   Individual Tactical Play and Pass with
                                  Communication between Players --- Team
                                  Descriptions of Team Miya2 . . . . . . . 364--370
       A. C. P. L. Da Costa and   
                 G. Bittencourt   UFSC-team: A Cognitive Multi-Agent
                                  Approach to the RoboCup'98 Simulator
                                  League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
              Takeshi Matsumura   Description of Team Erika  . . . . . . . 377
                 E. Pagello and   
              F. Montesello and   
                 F. Garelli and   
                  F. Candon and   
                P. Chioetto and   
                     S. Griggio   Getting Global Performance through Local
                                  Information in PaSo-Team'98  . . . . . . 384
              Daniel Polani and   
               Stefan Weber and   
                 Thomas Uthmann   A Direct Approach to Robot Soccer
                                  Agents: Description for the Team MAINZ
                                  ROLLING BRAINS Simulation League of
                                  RoboCup'98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
               Jukka Riekki and   
               Jussi Pajala and   
       Antti Tikanmäki and   
               Juha Röning   CAT Finland: Executing Primitive Tasks
                                  in Parallel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
                   Y. Zhang and   
                A. K. Mackworth   A Multi-level Constraint-Based
                                  Controller for the Dynamo98 Robot Soccer
                                  Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
               Andreas Birk and   
               Thomas Walle and   
              Tony Belpaeme and   
               Johan Parent and   
            Tom De Vlaminck and   
                    Holger Kenn   The Small League RoboCup Team of the VUB
                                  AI-Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
                      T. Braunl   CHPS Glory --- Soccer Robots with Local
                                  Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
                A. Rowstron and   
                B. Bradshaw and   
                  D. Crosby and   
                 T. Edmonds and   
                  S. Hodges and   
                  A. Hopper and   
                   S. Lloyd and   
                    J. Wang and   
                        S. Wray   The Cambridge University Robot Football
                                  Team Description . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
               Gordon Wyeth and   
             Brett Browning and   
                    Ashley Tews   The UQ RoboRoos Small-Size League Team
                                  Description for RoboCup '98  . . . . . . 428
      Pedro Aparício and   
            Rodrigo Ventura and   
                 Pedro Lima and   
          Carlos Pinto-Ferreira   ISocRob --- Team Description . . . . . . 434
         E. González and   
                  H. Loaiza and   
           A. Suárez and   
                      C. Moreno   Real MagiCol 98: Team Description and
                                  Results  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
            Michael Klupsch and   
 Maximilian Lückenhaus and   
            Christoph Zierl and   
                Ivan Laptev and   
           Thorsten Bandlow and   
                Marc Grimme and   
             Ignaz Kellerer and   
               Fabian Schwarzer   Agilo RoboCuppers: RoboCup Team
                                  Description  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--451
    Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar and   
             Stefan Enderle and   
      Stefan Sablatnög and   
           Thomas Boß and   
             Mark Dettinger and   
             Hans Braxmayer and   
             Heiko Folkerts and   
            Markus Klingler and   
            Dominik Maschke and   
                 Gerd Mayer and   
         Markus Müller and   
          Alexander Neubeck and   
              Marcus Ritter and   
               Heiner Seidl and   
           Robert Wörz and   
              Günther Palm   The Ulm Sparrows: Research into
                                  Sensorimotor Integration, Agency,
                                  Learning, and Multiagent Cooperation . . 452
              Daniele Nardi and   
           Giorgio Clemente and   
                 Enrico Pagello   ART Azzurra Robot Team . . . . . . . . . 458
             Michael Plagge and   
              Boris Diebold and   
       Richard Günther and   
        Jörn Ihlenburg and   
                  Dirk Jung and   
               Keyan Zahedi and   
                   Andreas Zell   Design and Evaluation of the T-Team of
                                  the University of Tuebingen for
                                  RoboCup'98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--472
                A. Sicgberg and   
              A. Bredenfeld and   
                H. Guenther and   
                 H. U. Kobialka   Team Description of the GMD RoboCup-Team 473
                A. Siegberg and   
              A. Bredenfeld and   
                H. Guenther and   
             H. U. Kobialka and   
                B. Klaassen and   
                   U. Licht and   
                 K. L. Paap and   
              P. G. Ploeger and   
                 H. Streich and   
                 J. Vollmer and   
                 J. Wilberg and   
                   R. Worst and   
                 T. Christaller   Team Description of the GMD RoboCup-Team 473
                  K. Yokota and   
                   K. Ozaki and   
                N. Watanabe and   
               A. Matsumoto and   
                  D. Koyama and   
                T. Ishikawa and   
                K. Kawabata and   
                  H. Kaetsu and   
                       H. Asama   UTTORI United: Cooperative Team Play
                                  Based on Communication . . . . . . . . . 479
              Vincent Hugel and   
             Patrick Bonnin and   
Jean Christophe Bouramoué and   
             Didier Solheid and   
            Pierre Blazevic and   
               Dominique Duhaut   Quadruped Robot Guided by Enhanced
                                  Vision System and Supervision Modules    485
             Manuela Veloso and   
                  William Uther   The CMTrio-98 Sony Legged Robot Team . . 491
          Noriaki Mitsunaga and   
               Minoru Asada and   
                Chizuko Mishima   BabyTigers-98: Osaka Legged Robot Team   498
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1605, 1999

              C. Capellmann and   
                  H. Dibold and   
                      U. Herzog   Using High-Level Petri Nets in the Field
                                  of Intelligent Networks  . . . . . . . . 1
                   C. Lakos and   
                        J. Lamp   The Incremental Modelling of the Z39.50
                                  Protocol with Object Petri Nets  . . . . 37
                     G. Wheeler   The Modelling and Analysis of IEEE
                                  802.6's Configuration Control Protocol
                                  with Coloured Petri Nets . . . . . . . . 69
             A. Ben Mnaouer and   
               T. Sekiguchi and   
                   Y. Fujii and   
                         T. Ito   Coloured Petri Nets Based Modelling and
                                  Simulation of the Static and Dynamic
                                  Allocation Policies of the Asynchronous
                                  Bandwidth in the Fieldbus Protocol . . . 93
                 H.-J. Moon and   
                 S. Y. Moon and   
                     W. H. Kwon   Parameter Region for the Proper
                                  Operation of the IEEE 802.2 LLC Type 3
                                  Protocol: A Petri Net Approach . . . . . 131
                    M. Reid and   
                  W. M. Zuberek   Timed Petri Net Models of ATM LANs . . . 150
                B. R. Haverkort   Performance Evaluation of Polling-Based
                                  Communication Systems Using SPNs . . . . 176
            B. R. Haverkort and   
                  H. P. Idzenga   Structural Decomposition and Serial
                                  Solution of SPN Models of the ATM GAUSS
                                  Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
                 H. De Meer and   
         O.-R. Duesterhoeft and   
                     S. Fischer   COSTPN for Modelling and Control of
                                  Telecommunication Systems  . . . . . . . 232
           G. Franceschinis and   
               A. Fumagalli and   
                 A. Silinguelli   Stochastic Coloured Petri Net Models for
                                  Rainbow Optical Networks . . . . . . . . 273


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1608, 1999

                  L. Augusteijn   Sorting Morphisms  . . . . . . . . . . . 1
               R. Backhouse and   
                 P. Jansson and   
                 J. Jeuring and   
                    L. Meertens   Generic Programming --- An Introduction  28
                 O. De Moor and   
                 G. Sittampalam   Generic Program Transformation . . . . . 116
            S. D. Swierstra and   
           P. R. A. Alcocer and   
                     J. Saraiva   Designing and Implementing Combinator
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
                      T. Sheard   Using MetaML: A Staged Programming
                                  Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
                  L. Augustsson   Cayenne --- A Language with Dependent
                                  Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
                  D. Leijen and   
                  E. Meijer and   
                        J. Hook   Haskell as an Automation Controller  . . 268


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1609, 1999

                    W. Kloesgen   Applications and research problems of
                                  subgroup mining  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                   Y. Kodratoff   Knowledge discovery in texts: A
                                  definition and applications  . . . . . . 16
                 R. A. Meersman   Semantic ontology tools in IS design . . 30
             V. S. Subrahmanian   Heterogeneous agent systems  . . . . . . 46
                  G. Wiederhold   Information systems that really support
                                  decision-making  . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
                        J. Chen   A class of stratified programs in
                                  autoepistemic logic of knowledge and
                                  belief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
                A. Giordana and   
                      L. Saitta   On-line estimation of matching
                                  complexity in first order logic  . . . . 76
                   C.-M. Wu and   
                       Y. Zhang   Implementing prioritized logic
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
                       A. Badia   Extending description logics with
                                  generalized quantification . . . . . . . 94
                F. Esposito and   
                 D. Malerba and   
                     F. A. Lisi   Machine learning for intelligent
                                  document processing: The WISDOM system   103
             A. H. Alsaffar and   
               J. S. Deogun and   
             V. V. Raghavan and   
                       H. Sever   Concept based retrieval by minimal term
                                  sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
                 P. Lambrix and   
               N. Shahmehri and   
                    S. Jacobsen   Querying document bases by content,
                                  structure and properties . . . . . . . . 123
                  F. Sebastiani   Total knowledge and partial knowledge in
                                  logical models of information retrieval  133
                 S. M. Deen and   
                  C. A. Johnson   Towards a theoretical foundation for
                                  cooperating knowledge based systems  . . 144
                B. C. Desai and   
                R. Shinghal and   
                  N. Shayan and   
                        Y. Zhou   CINDI: A system for cataloguing,
                                  searching, and annotating electronic
                                  documents in digital libraries . . . . . 154
                  S. Ohsuga and   
                        T. Aida   Externalization of human idea and
                                  problem description for automatic
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
                  B. Predki and   
                        S. Wilk   Rough set based data exploration using
                                  ROSE system  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
                  D. Pacholczyk   Towards an intelligent system dealing
                                  with nuanced information expressed in
                                  affirmative or negative forms  . . . . . 181
                      B. Thomas   Logic programs for intelligent Web
                                  search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
                  R. Basili and   
                M. Di Nanni and   
                 M. T. Pazienza   Representing document content via an
                                  object-oriented paradigm . . . . . . . . 199
                G. Semeraro and   
            M. F. Costabile and   
                F. Esposito and   
                     N. Fanizzi   A learning server for inducing user
                                  classification rules in the digital
                                  library service  . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
                       S. Kundu   A better fitness measure of a
                                  text-document for a given set of
                                  keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
                G. P. Zarri and   
                 E. Bertino and   
                   B. Black and   
                     A. Brasher   CONCERTO, an environment for the
                                  `intelligent' indexing, querying and
                                  retrieval of digital documents . . . . . 226
                    H. Wang and   
                   H. S. Nguyen   Text classification using lattice
                                  machine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
                  M. Merzbacher   Discovering semantic proximity for Web
                                  pages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
                       I. Weber   A declarative language bias for
                                  levelwise search of first-order
                                  regularities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
                   P. Ejdys and   
                        G. Gora   The more we learn the less we know? On
                                  inductive learning from examples . . . . 262
                 P. Doherty and   
             W. Lukaszewicz and   
            E. Madalinska-Bugaj   Computing MPMA updates using Dijkstra's
                                  semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
                   M. Mukaidono   Several extensions of truth values in
                                  fuzzy logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
                   R. Bejar and   
                       F. Manya   Phase transitions in the regular random
                                  $3$-SAT problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
                 L. Brisoux and   
                E. Gregoire and   
                       L. Saies   Improving backtrack search for SAT by
                                  means of redundancy  . . . . . . . . . . 301
               H. S. Nguyen and   
               S. H. Nguyen and   
                     A. Skowron   Decomposition of task specification
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
                      A. An and   
              N. J. Cercone and   
                        C. Chan   ORTES: The design of a real-time control
                                  expert system  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
            B. G. T. Lowden and   
                    J. Robinson   A statistical approach to rule selection
                                  in semantic query optimisation . . . . . 330
                M.-S. Hacid and   
                     C. Rigotti   Representing and reasoning on conceptual
                                  queries over image databases . . . . . . 340
                     S. Tsumoto   Knowledge discovery in clinical
                                  databases --- An experiment with rule
                                  induction and statistics . . . . . . . . 349
             M. Michalewicz and   
             M. A. Klopotek and   
                S. T. Wierzchon   Reasoning and acquisition of knowledge
                                  in a system for hand wound diagnosis and
                                  prognosis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
               A. Wieczorkowska   Rough Sets as a tool for audio signal
                                  classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
                 D. Brindle and   
                      W. Ziarko   Experiments with rough sets approach to
                                  speech recognition . . . . . . . . . . . 376
                     N. Abe and   
                  K. Tanaka and   
                        H. Taki   A system for understanding a mechanical
                                  assembly instruction manual using
                                  virtual space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
                     W. Skarbek   Perceptual convergence of discrete
                                  clamped fractal operator . . . . . . . . 395
                 W. Skarbek and   
              A. Pietrowcew and   
                      R. Sikora   Modified Oja-RLS algorithm ---
                                  stochastic convergence analysis and
                                  application for image compression  . . . 402
              K. A. Kaufman and   
                R. S. Michalski   Learning from inconsistent and noisy
                                  data: The AQ18 approach  . . . . . . . . 411
                J. J. Zhang and   
              N. J. Cercone and   
                 H. J. Hamilton   Learning English grapheme segmentation
                                  using the iterated version space
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
                 L. Iwanska and   
                    N. Mata and   
                      K. Kruger   Fully automatic acquisition of taxonomic
                                  knowledge from large corpora of texts:
                                  Limited-syntax knowledge representation
                                  system based on natural language . . . . 430
                      F. Botana   A fuzzy measure of similarity for
                                  instance-based learning  . . . . . . . . 439
                     R. Susmaga   Computation of minimal cost reducts  . . 448
                   J. Stepaniuk   Rough set data mining of diabetes data   457
                 D. Michaut and   
                    P. Baptiste   Selection of a relevant feature subset
                                  for induction tasks  . . . . . . . . . . 466
                  J. Calmer and   
                    P. Kullmann   A data structure for subsumption-based
                                  tabling in top-down resolution engines
                                  for data-intensive logic applications    475
                    M. A. Orgun   Modelling and reasoning about
                                  multi-dimensional information  . . . . . 484
             M. A. Klopotek and   
                S. T. Wierzchon   An interpretation for the conditional
                                  belief function in the theory of
                                  evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
            L. M. Sztandera and   
                    C. Bock and   
               M. Trachtman and   
                       J. Velga   Artificial neural networks aid the
                                  design of non-carcinogenic azo dyes  . . 503
                     K. De Jong   Evolving in a changing world . . . . . . 512
                 C. Anglano and   
                A. Giordana and   
                    G. Lo Bello   High-performance data mining on networks
                                  of workstations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
              J. J. Mulawka and   
               P. Wasiewicz and   
                      K. Pietak   Virus-enhanced genetic algorithms
                                  inspired by DNA computing  . . . . . . . 529
             K. Trojanowski and   
                 Z. Michalewicz   Evolutionary approach to non-stationary
                                  optimization tasks . . . . . . . . . . . 538
                    J. Cwik and   
               J. Koronacki and   
                   J. M. Zytkow   On discovering functional relationships
                                  when observations are noisy: $2$D case   547
               J. F. Peters and   
                     L. Han and   
                     S. Ramanna   Approximate time rough software cost
                                  decision system: Multicriteria
                                  decision-making approach . . . . . . . . 556
           M. A. De Almeida and   
                      S. Matwin   Machine learning method for software
                                  quality model building . . . . . . . . . 565
                   S. H. Nguyen   Discovery of generalized patterns  . . . 574
            M. Kryszkiewicz and   
                    H. Rybinski   Incomplete database issues for
                                  representative association rules . . . . 583
                S. Puuronen and   
                V. Terziyan and   
                     A. Tsymbal   A dynamic integration algorithm for an
                                  ensemble of classifiers  . . . . . . . . 592
                   G. Fiol-Roig   UIB-IK: A computer system for decision
                                  trees induction  . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
       J. W. Grzymala-Busse and   
              L. K. Goodwin and   
                       X. Zhang   Preterm birth risk assessed by a new
                                  method of classification using selective
                                  partial matching . . . . . . . . . . . . 612
                    J. Dong and   
                   N. Zhong and   
                      S. Ohsuga   Probabilistic rough induction: The
                                  GDT-RS methodology and algorithms  . . . 621
      C. H. M. Van Kemenade and   
                      J. N. Kok   Cluster evolution strategies for
                                  constrained numerical optimization . . . 630
                F. Mansanne and   
                 F. Carrere and   
                 A. Ehinger and   
                  M. Schoenauer   Evolutionary algorithms as fitness
                                  function debuggers . . . . . . . . . . . 639
                     M. Schmidt   Solving real-life time-tabling problems  648
                     R. Jonsson   On measures of search features . . . . . 657
                 J. Jelonek and   
                  M. Komosinski   Genetic algorithms in constructive
                                  induction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1610, 1999

               Karen Aardal and   
            Robert E. Bixby and   
          Cor A. J. Hurkens and   
           Arjen K. Lenstra and   
                Job W. Smeltink   Market Split and Basis Reduction:
                                  Towards a Solution of the
                                  Cornuejols-Dawande Instances . . . . . . 1
         Alexander A. Ageev and   
            Maxim I. Sviridenko   Approximation Algorithms for Maximum
                                  Coverage and Max Cut with Given Sizes of
                                  Parts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
          Ravindra K. Ahuja and   
          Dorit S. Hochbaum and   
                 James B. Orlin   Solving the Convex Cost Integer Dual
                                  Network Flow Problem . . . . . . . . . . 31
             Edoardo Amaldi and   
            Marc E. Pfetsch and   
         Leslie E. Trotter, Jr.   Some Structural and Algorithmic
                                  Properties of the Maximum Feasible
                                  Subsystem Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 45
               A. Atamtuerk and   
            G. L. Nemhauser and   
           M. W. P. Savelsbergh   Valid Inequalities for Problems with
                                  Additive Variable Upper Bounds . . . . . 60
        Alper Atamtürk and   
        George L. Nemhauser and   
       Martin W. P. Savelsbergh   Valid Inequalities for Problems with
                                  Additive Variable Upper Bounds . . . . . 60
              Mao-cheng Cai and   
               Xiaotie Deng and   
                     Wenan Zang   A Min-Max Theorem on Feedback Vertex
                                  Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
            Alberto Caprara and   
           Matteo Fischetti and   
              Adam N. Letchford   On the Separation of Maximally Violated
                                  mod- $k$ Cuts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
    Fabián A. Chudak and   
            David P. Williamson   Improved Approximation Algorithms for
                                  Capacitated Facility Location Problems   99
      William H. Cunningham and   
                  Lawrence Tang   Optimal $3$-Terminal Cuts and Linear
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
           Dragos Cvetkovic and   
         Mirjana Cangalovic and   
          Vera Kovacevic-Vujcic   Semidefinite Programming Methods for the
                                  Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem . . 126
       Friedrich Eisenbrand and   
              Andreas S. Schulz   Bounds on the Chvatal Rank of Polytopes
                                  in the $ 0 / 1 $-Cube  . . . . . . . . . 137
                 Lisa Fleischer   Universally Maximum Flow with
                                  Piecewise-Constant Capacities  . . . . . 151
               Jean Fonlupt and   
              Ali Ridha Mahjoub   Critical Extreme Points of the $2$-Edge
                                  Connected Spanning Subgraph Polytope . . 166
        András Frank and   
        Tibor Jordán and   
          Zoltán Szigeti   An Orientation Theorem with Parity
                                  Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
        András Frank and   
    Zoltán Király   Parity Constrained $k$-Edge-Connected
                                  Orientations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
              Eran Halperin and   
                      Uri Zwick   Approximation Algorithms for MAX $4$-SAT
                                  and Rounding Procedures for Semidefinite
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
              Mark Hartmann and   
          Maurice Queyranne and   
                  Yaoguang Wang   On the Chvátal Rank of Certain
                                  Inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
               David Hartvigsen   The Square-Free $2$-Factor Problem in
                                  Bipartite Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
             Christoph Helmberg   The $m$-Cost ATSP  . . . . . . . . . . . 242
               Satoru Iwata and   
        S. Thomas McCormick and   
                  Maiko Shigeno   A Strongly Polynomial Cut Canceling
                                  Algorithm for the Submodular Flow
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
            Tibor Jordán   Edge-Splitting Problems with Demands . . 273
          Kenji Kashiwabara and   
          Masataka Nakamura and   
             Takashi Takabatake   Integral Polyhedra Associated with
                                  Certain Submodular Functions Defined on
                                  $ 012 $-Vectors  . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
             Gunnar W. Klau and   
                   Petra Mutzel   Optimal Compaction of Orthogonal Grid
                                  Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
               Philip Klein and   
                     Neal Young   On the Number of Iterations for
                                  Dantzig-Wolfe Optimization and
                                  Packing-Covering Approximation
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
    Stavros G. Kolliopoulos and   
                 Clifford Stein   Experimental Evaluation of Approximation
                                  Algorithms for Single-Source
                                  Unsplittable Flow  . . . . . . . . . . . 328
          Vardges Melkonian and   
              Éva Tardos   Approximation Algorithms for a Directed
                                  Network Design Problem . . . . . . . . . 345
               Petra Mutzel and   
        René Weiskircher   Optimizing over All Combinatorial
                                  Embeddings of a Planar Graph . . . . . . 361
          Hiroshi Nagamochi and   
              Toshihide Ibaraki   A Fast Algorithm for Computing Minimum
                                  $3$-Way and $4$-Way Cuts . . . . . . . . 377
                  John Noga and   
                   Steve Seiden   Scheduling Two Machines with Release
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
        András Sebö   An Introduction to Empty Lattice
                                  Simplices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
                       A. Seboe   An Introduction to Empty Lattice
                                  Simplices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
          Zoltán Szigeti   On Optimal Ear-Decompositions of Graphs  415
             Chung-Piaw Teo and   
             Jay Sethuraman and   
                   Wee-Peng Tan   Gale--Shapley Stable Marriage Problem
                                  Revisited: Strategic Issues and
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
              Eduardo Uchoa and   
  Marcus Poggi de Aragão   Vertex-Disjoint Packing of Two Steiner
                                  Trees: Polyhedra and Branch-and-Cut  . . 439


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1611, 1999

              F. S. C. Da Silva   Formalisations of Uncertain Reasoning    1
                 N. R. Jennings   Agent-Oriented Software Engineering  . . 4
                    I. H. Osman   A Unified-Metaheuristic Framework  . . . 11
                 S.-L. Wang and   
                       Y.-H. Wu   A Fuzzy Knowledge Representation and
                                  Acquisition Scheme for Diagnostic
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
              G. Y. C. Wong and   
                     H. W. Chun   Modeling Fuzzy Sets Using
                                  Object-Oriented Techniques . . . . . . . 23
                   H. Zreak and   
                   M. Alwan and   
                    M. Khaddour   A Fuzzy Approach to Map Building . . . . 33
                  D. Pacholczyk   Towards an Affirmative Interpretation of
                                  Linguistically Denied Fuzzy Properties
                                  in Knowledge-Based Systems . . . . . . . 43
                 R. Sendelj and   
                    V. Devedzic   Representational Hierarchy of Fuzzy
                                  Logic Concepts in the OBOA Model . . . . 54
                  H.-K. Fan and   
                    C. Chen and   
                     C.-M. Hong   Design of Fuzzy Sliding Controller Based
                                  on Cerebellar Learning Model . . . . . . 64
                 T.-P. Hong and   
                     T.-T. Wang   A New Fuzzy Flexible Flow-Shop Algorithm
                                  for Continuous Fuzzy Domain  . . . . . . 74
                Y. Dakroury and   
                A. A. El Al and   
                        O. Badr   Testing the Performance of a Neural
                                  Networks-Based Adaptive Call Admission
                                  Controller with Multimedia Traffic . . . 80
                D. Manrique and   
                    J. Rios and   
                   A. Vilarrasa   A Combined Neural Network and
                                  Mathematical Morphology Method for
                                  Computerized Detection of
                                  Microcalcifications  . . . . . . . . . . 92
                A. Martinez and   
             J. Castellanos and   
               C. Hernandez and   
                    F. De Mingo   Study of Weight Importance in Neural
                                  Networks Working With Colineal Variables
                                  in Regression Problems . . . . . . . . . 101
                  G. Murray and   
               T. Hendtlass and   
                     J. Podlena   The Parallel Path Artificial Micronet    111
                   A. Ezzat and   
                 N. Inuzuka and   
                        H. Itoh   A Generation Method to Produce GA with
                                  GP Capabilities for Signal Modeling  . . 118
                   M. Rocha and   
                       J. Neves   Preventing Premature Convergence to
                                  Local Optima in Genetic Algorithms via
                                  Random Offspring Generation  . . . . . . 127
              M. El-Beltagy and   
                       A. Keane   Using Self Organizing Maps and Genetic
                                  Algorithms for Model Selection in
                                  Multilevel Optimization  . . . . . . . . 137
                 F. Guillet and   
                   P. Kuntz and   
                        R. Lehn   A Genetic Algorithm for Visualizing
                                  Networks of Association Rules  . . . . . 145
                 S. Shazely and   
                  H. Baraka and   
             A. Abdel-Wahab and   
                       H. Kamal   Genetic Algorithms in Solving Graph
                                  Partitioning Problem . . . . . . . . . . 155
               A. I. Baaleh and   
                     A. F. Sakr   Application of Genetic Algorithms in
                                  Power System Stabilizer Design . . . . . 165
             E. B. Mansilla and   
               A. Mekaouche and   
                  J. M. G. Guiu   A Study of a Genetic Classifier System
                                  Based on the Pittsburgh Approach on a
                                  Medical Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
                 C.-M. Chen and   
                 C.-M. Hong and   
                         H. Fan   A New Gradient-Based Search Method:
                                  Grey-Gradient Search Method  . . . . . . 185
       D. A. L. Piriyakumar and   
                        P. Levi   An Improvised $ A* $ Algorithm for
                                  Mobile Robots to Find the Optimal Path
                                  in an Unknown Environment with Minimized
                                  Search Efforts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
                A. R. Appas and   
              A. M. Darwish and   
             A. El-Dessouki and   
                  S. I. Shaheen   Speeding the Vector Search Algorithm for
                                  Regional Color Channel Features Based
                                  Indexing and Retrieval Systems . . . . . 205
                    S. Kato and   
                    S. Oono and   
                    H. Seki and   
                        H. Itoh   Cost-Based Abduction Using Binary
                                  Decision Diagrams  . . . . . . . . . . . 215
                      F. Wotawa   New Directions in Debugging Hardware
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
                     G. Ligozat   Reasoning with Diagrams: The Semantics
                                  of Arrows  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
                   H. Milde and   
                    L. Hotz and   
                    J. Kahl and   
                     B. Neumann   MAD: A Real World Application of
                                  Qualitative Model-Based Decision Tree
                                  Generation for Diagnosis . . . . . . . . 246
            F. Van Harmelen and   
                J. Van der Meer   WebMaster: Knowledge-Based Verification
                                  of Web-Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
                   G. Peter and   
                     D. Roesner   Towards Task-Oriented User Support for
                                  Failure Mode and Effects Analysis  . . . 266
              P. G. Chander and   
                R. Shinghal and   
               T. Radhakrishnan   Incremental and Integrated Evaluation of
                                  Rule-Based Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 276
              M. H. Ibrahim and   
                  F. A. Cummins   A Model of Reflection for Developing AI
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
               C. M. Jonker and   
                       J. Treur   A Compositional Process Control Model
                                  and Its Application to Biochemical
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
               C. M. Jonker and   
                  R. Kremer and   
             P. Van Leeuwen and   
                         D. Pan   Visual and Textual Knowledge
                                  Representation in DESIRE . . . . . . . . 306
                  J. Santos and   
                   L. Faria and   
                   C. Ramos and   
                     Z. A. Vale   Verification of Knowledge Based-Systems
                                  for Power System Control Centers . . . . 316
                M. K. Kundu and   
                      N. R. Pal   Self-Crossover and Its Application to
                                  the Traveling Salesman Problem . . . . . 326
                N. Malheiro and   
                 Z. A. Vale and   
                   C. Ramos and   
                      J. Santos   Enabling Client-Server Explanation
                                  Facilities in a Real Time Expert System  333
               P. Froehlich and   
                   W. Nejdl and   
               M. Schroeder and   
                     C. Damasio   Using Extended Logic Programming for
                                  Alarm-Correlation in Cellular Phone
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
             V. Y. Terziyan and   
                    S. Puuronen   Knowledge Acquisition Based on Semantic
                                  Balance of Internal and External
                                  Knowledge  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
                R. N. Smith and   
                  W. J. Frawley   Alex: A Computer Aid for Treating
                                  Alexithymia  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
                E. Kounalis and   
                        P. Urso   Mechanizing Proofs of Integrity
                                  Constraints in the Situation Calculus    372
                      G. Saward   Using Cases for Process Modelling: An
                                  Example from the Water Supply Industry   382
                 E. Aiemeur and   
                     K. Boudina   Financial Analysis by Case Based
                                  Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
                S. Belanger and   
            M. A. Thibodeau and   
                     E. Aiemeur   Training of the Learner in Criminal Law
                                  by Case-Based Reasoning  . . . . . . . . 398
                  B. H. Ooi and   
                    A. K. Ghose   Constraint-Based Agent Specification for
                                  a Multi-Agent Stock Brokering System . . 409
                C. Piccardi and   
                      F. Wotawa   A Communication Language and the Design
                                  of a Diagnosis Agent --- Towards a
                                  Framework for Mobile Diagnosis Agents    420
               C. M. Jonker and   
                       J. Treur   Information Brokering Agents in
                                  Intelligent Websites . . . . . . . . . . 430
               T. Gavrilova and   
                  A. Voinov and   
                    I. Lescheva   Learner-Model Approach to Multi-agent
                                  Intelligent Distance Learning System for
                                  Program Testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
                   B. Bauer and   
                       C. Klein   A Multi-agent Solution for Advanced Call
                                  Centers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
                   J. Cuena and   
                      M. Molina   A Multi-agent System for Emergency
                                  Management in Floods . . . . . . . . . . 460
               K. S. Barber and   
                    A. Goel and   
                     D. Han and   
                         J. Kim   Problem-Solving Frameworks for Sensible
                                  Agents in an Electronic Market . . . . . 470
                     C. Bel and   
                 W. Van Stokkum   A Model for Distributed Multi-agent
                                  Traffic Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
                  R. Gustavsson   Smart Equipment Creating New Electronic
                                  Business Opportunities . . . . . . . . . 490
                  S. Aknine and   
                      S. Pinson   Agent Oriented Conceptual Modeling of
                                  Parallel Workflow Systems  . . . . . . . 500
                       D. Deugo   A Distributed Algorithm as Mobile Agents 510
          F. S. C. Da Silva and   
       W. Weber Vasconcelos and   
                  J. Agusti and   
                   D. Robertson   Why Ontologies are Not Enough for
                                  Knowledge Sharing  . . . . . . . . . . . 520
                 K. Mostafa and   
              S. I. Shaheen and   
              A. M. Darwish and   
                       I. Farag   A Novel Approach for Detecting and
                                  Correcting Segmentation and Recognition
                                  Errors in Arabic OCR Systems . . . . . . 530
                M. E. Ragab and   
              A. M. Darwish and   
                 E. M. Abed and   
                  S. I. Shaheen   Face Recognition Using Principal
                                  Component Analysis Applied to an
                                  Egyptian Face Database . . . . . . . . . 540
                 A. Verikas and   
                A. Gelzinis and   
                   K. Malmqvist   Using Labeled and Unlabeled Data to
                                  Train a Multilayer Perceptron for Color
                                  Classification in Graphic Arts . . . . . 550
            M. A. Rodrigues and   
                         Y. Liu   A Novel $3$D-$2$D Computer Vision
                                  Algorithm for Automatic Inspection of
                                  Filter Components  . . . . . . . . . . . 560
               E. Zangrouba and   
                 T. Hedidar and   
                       A. Jaoua   A Robust and Unified Algorithm for
                                  Indoor and Outdoor Scenes Based on
                                  Region Segmentation  . . . . . . . . . . 570
               F. Ramparany and   
                       F. Sandt   SAPIA: A Model Based Satellite Image
                                  Interpretation System  . . . . . . . . . 580
                    S. Shah and   
                 J. K. Aggarwal   Hierarchical Multifeature Integration
                                  for Automatic Object Recognition in
                                  Forward Looking Infrared Images  . . . . 590
                A. C. Kakas and   
                     A. Michael   Air-Crew Scheduling through Abduction    600
                   R. Salem and   
                     K. Bsaiees   Unfold/Fold Inductive Proof: An
                                  Extension of a Folding Technique . . . . 612
               B. J. Oommen and   
                  T. D. Roberts   On Solving the Capacity Assignment
                                  Problem Using Continuous Learning
                                  Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622
                    M. Link and   
                    M. Ishitobi   Supervised Parameter Optimization of a
                                  Modular Machine Learning System  . . . . 632
              H. M. Sellami and   
                       A. Jaoua   Non-supervised Rectangular
                                  Classification of Binary Data  . . . . . 642
                M. S. Hamdi and   
                      K. Kaiser   Synthesizing Intelligent Behavior: A
                                  Learning Paradigm  . . . . . . . . . . . 649
              Z. J. Viharos and   
                   L. Monostori   Automatic Input-output Configuration and
                                  Generation of ANN-based Process Models
                                  and Their Application in Machining . . . 659
             S. M. Abu-Soud and   
                    M. R. Tolun   DCL: A Disjunctive Learning Algorithm
                                  for Rule Extraction  . . . . . . . . . . 669
                      A. Osmani   Modeling and Simulating Breakdown
                                  Situation in Telecommunication Networks  679
                S. Puuronen and   
                     H. Kaikova   Handling Context-Sensitive Temporal
                                  Knowledge from Multiple Differently
                                  Ranked Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688
                      A. Osmani   Introduction to Reasoning About Cyclic
                                  Intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698
              H. W. Guesgen and   
                       D. Mitra   A Multiple-Platform Decentralized Route
                                  Finding System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707
                H. Hamilton and   
                  D. J. Randall   Heuristic Selection of
                                  Aggregated-Temporal Data for Knowledge
                                  Discovery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714
               D. Chitchian and   
              S. Sariyildiz and   
                   H. Koppelaar   Architectural Knowledge Representation
                                  Using the Galois Lattice Technique . . . 724
                    F. Capkovic   Automated Solving of the DEDS Control
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735
                    J. Kahl and   
                    L. Hotz and   
                   H. Milde and   
                      S. Wessel   A More Efficient Knowledge
                                  Representation for Allen's Algebra and
                                  Point Algebra  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747
               H. H. Baraka and   
                     S. Eid and   
                   H. Kamal and   
               A. H. AbdelWahab   Unified Chromosome Representation for
                                  Large Scale Problems . . . . . . . . . . 753
                H. A. Hefny and   
             A. Abdel Wahab and   
            A. A. Bahnasawi and   
                  S. I. Shaheen   A Novel Framework for Hybrid Intelligent
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761
                 H. W. Chun and   
                  S. H. C. Chan   The Design of a Multi-tiered Bus
                                  Timetabling System . . . . . . . . . . . 771
                P. Van Bael and   
                   M. Rijckaert   Scheduling of a Production Unit via
                                  Critical Block Neighborhood Structures   780
                   N. Tomii and   
                 L. J. Zhou and   
                    N. Fukumura   An Algorithm for Station Shunting
                                  Scheduling Problems Combining
                                  Probabilistic Local Search and PERT  . . 788
                 D. Popovic and   
                    V. Devedzic   Designing an Intelligent Tutoring
                                  Systems in the Domain of Formal
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798
               E. El-Sheikh and   
                    J. Sticklen   Leveraging a Task-Specific Approach for
                                  Intelligent Tutoring System Generation:
                                  Comparing the Generic Tasks and KADS
                                  Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809
                C. Schaefer and   
                       O. Lopez   An Object-Oriented Robot Model and Its
                                  Integration into Flexible Manufacturing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820
                    E. Gide and   
                     F. Soliman   The Economic Benefits of Internet-Based
                                  Business Operations in Manufacturing . . 830
                 A. Elkeran and   
                   M. A. El-Baz   CNC Manufacturing of Complex Surfaces
                                  Based on Solid Modeling  . . . . . . . . 841
                T. El-Fouly and   
                N. Zerhoini and   
                  M. Ferney and   
                   A. El Moundi   Analysis of Manufacturing Lines Using a
                                  Phase Space Algorithm: Open Line Case    849
                B. Gargouri and   
                  M. Jmaiel and   
                 A. Ben Hamadou   A Formal Approach to Lingware
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859
               D. E. Herlea and   
               C. M. Jonker and   
                   J. Treur and   
            N. J. E. Wijngaards   A Formal Knowledge Level Process Model
                                  of Requirements Engineering  . . . . . . 869
                   J. Cakic and   
                    V. Devedzic   Pieces of Mind: Component-Based Software
                                  Development of Artificial Intelligence   879
            T. T. El-Midany and   
                 A. Elkeran and   
                   H. T. Radwan   CNC Automatic Programming System for
                                  Wire-EDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1612, 1999

                R. Bergmann and   
                   S. Breen and   
                  M. Goeker and   
                      M. Manago   Developing Industrial Case-Based
                                  Reasoning Applications: The INRECA
                                  Methodology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--xx, 1--888


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1613, 1999

          Michael F. Insana and   
              Larry T. Cook and   
               Pawan Chaturvedi   Analytical Study of Bioelasticity
                                  Ultrasound Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 1
             John C. Mosher and   
           Richard M. Leahy and   
          David W. Shattuck and   
                Sylvain Baillet   MEG Source Imaging Using Multipolar
                                  Expansions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
          Bruno M. Carvalho and   
            Gabor T. Herman and   
               Samuel Matej and   
           Claudia Salzberg and   
                    Eilat Vardi   Binary Tomography for Triplane
                                  Cardiography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
          Oskar M. Skrinjar and   
                James S. Duncan   Real Time $3$D Brain Shift Compensation  42
    Bart M. ter Haar Romeny and   
              Bart Titulaer and   
          Stiliyan Kalitzin and   
    Gabriëlle Scheffer and   
            Frank Broekmans and   
                 Joes Staal and   
                Egbert te Velde   Computer Assisted Human Follicle
                                  Analysis for Fertility Prospects with 3D
                                  Ultrasound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
      B. M. Ter Haar Romeny and   
                B. Titulaer and   
                S. Kalitzin and   
                    G. Scheffer   Computer Assisted Human Follicle
                                  Analysis for Fertility Prospects with
                                  $3$D Ultrasound  . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
              Graham Treece and   
             Richard Prager and   
                 Andrew Gee and   
                Laurence Berman   Volume Measurement in Sequential
                                  Freehand $3$-D Ultrasound  . . . . . . . 70
          George D. Stetten and   
               Stephen M. Pizer   Automated Identification and Measurement
                                  of Objects via Populations of Medial
                                  Primitives, with Application to Real
                                  Time $3$D Echocardiography . . . . . . . 84
          Thomas E. Nichols and   
                   Jinyi Qi and   
               Richard M. Leahy   Continuous Time Dynamic PET Imaging
                                  Using List Mode Data . . . . . . . . . . 98
                 Yanlin Guo and   
                 Baba C. Vemuri   Hybrid Geometric Active Models for Shape
                                  Recovery in Medical Images . . . . . . . 112
            Liana M. Lorigo and   
           Olivier Faugeras and   
           W. E. L. Grimson and   
             Renaud Keriven and   
                Ron Kikinis and   
            Carl-Fredrik Westin   Co-dimension 2 Geodesic Active Contours
                                  for MRA Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . 126
              Dzung L. Pham and   
                Jerry L. Prince   An Adaptive Fuzzy Segmentation Algorithm
                                  for Three-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance
                                  Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
                  David Rey and   
       Gérard Subsol and   
    Hervé Delingette and   
                Nicholas Ayache   Automatic Detection and Segmentation of
                                  Evolving Processes in $3$D Medical
                                  Images: Application to Multiple
                                  Sclerosis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
                 Haili Chui and   
                James Rambo and   
               James Duncan and   
             Robert Schultz and   
               Anand Rangarajan   Registration of Cortical Anatomical
                                  Structures via Robust $3$D Point
                                  Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
              Marc Vaillant and   
            Christos Davatzikos   Hierarchical Matching of Cortical
                                  Features for Deformable Brain Image
                                  Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
                  A. Caunce and   
                   C. J. Taylor   Using Local Geometry to Build $3$D
                                  Sulcal Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
           D. Louis Collins and   
          Alex P. Zijdenbos and   
     Wim F. C. Baaré and   
                  Alan C. Evans   ANIMAL+INSECT: Improved Cortical
                                  Structure Segmentation . . . . . . . . . 210
            Gary E. Christensen   Consistent Linear-Elastic
                                  Transformations for Image Matching . . . 224
                Hava Lester and   
           Simon R. Arridge and   
          Kalvis M. Jansons and   
              Louis Lemieux and   
           Joseph V. Hajnal and   
                Anjela Oatridge   Non-linear Registration with the
                                  Variable Viscosity Fluid Algorithm . . . 238
                  Karl Rohr and   
             Mike Fornefett and   
            H. Siegfried Stiehl   Approximating Thin-Plate Splines for
                                  Elastic Registration: Integration of
                                  Landmark Errors and Orientation
                                  Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
           Jacob K. Laading and   
            Colin McCulloch and   
           Valen E. Johnson and   
           David R. Gilland and   
             Ronald J. Jaszczak   A Hierarchical Feature Based Deformation
                                  Model Applied to $4$D Cardiac SPECT Data 266
              Nico Karssemeijer   Local Orientation Distribution as a
                                  Function of Spatial Scale for Detection
                                  of Masses in Mammograms  . . . . . . . . 280
           Frithjof Kruggel and   
             D. Yves von Cramon   Physiologically Oriented Models of the
                                  Hemodynamic Response in Functional MRI   294
          Elizabeth Bullitt and   
            Stephen Aylward and   
                   Alan Liu and   
              Jeffrey Stone and   
         Suresh K. Mukherji and   
               Chris Coffey and   
                Guido Gerig and   
               Stephen M. Pizer   $3$D Graph Description of the
                                  Intracerebral Vasculature from Segmented
                                  MRA and Tests of Accuracy by Comparison
                                  with X-ray Angiograms  . . . . . . . . . 308
               T. F. Cootes and   
                 C. Beeston and   
              G. J. Edwards and   
                   C. J. Taylor   A Unified Framework for Atlas Matching
                                  Using Active Appearance Models . . . . . 322
           Michael L. Goris and   
      Robert L. Van Uitert, Jr.   An Integral Method for the Analysis of
                                  Wall Motion in Gated Myocardial SPECT
                                  Studies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
               Wiro Niessen and   
Alexander Montauban van Swijndregt and   
             Bernard Elsman and   
                  Onno Wink and   
              Max Viergever and   
                    Willem Mali   Enhanced Artery Visualization in Blood
                                  Pool MRA: Results in the Peripheral
                                  Vasculature  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
              Jiantao Huang and   
                  Amir A. Amini   Four-Dimensional LV Tissue Tracking from
                                  Tagged MRI with a $4$D B-Spline Model    346
      Xenophon Papademetris and   
              Pengcheng Shi and   
            Donald P. Dione and   
          Albert J. Sinusas and   
          R. Todd Constable and   
                James S. Duncan   Recovery of Soft Tissue Object
                                  Deformation from $3$D Image Sequences
                                  Using Biomechanical Models . . . . . . . 352
               Gregory J. Klein   Forward Deformation of PET Volumes Using
                                  Non-uniform Elastic Material Constraints 358
              Martin Styner and   
              Thomas Coradi and   
                    Guido Gerig   Brain Morphometry by Distance
                                  Measurement in a Non-Euclidean,
                                  Curvilinear Space  . . . . . . . . . . . 364
               Nicolae Duta and   
                Milan Sonka and   
                   Anil K. Jain   Learning Shape Models from Examples
                                  Using Automatic Shape Clustering and
                                  Procrustes Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . 370
                A. D. Brett and   
                   C. J. Taylor   A Framework for Automated Landmark
                                  Generation for Automated $3$D
                                  Statistical Model Construction . . . . . 376
             Polina Golland and   
         W. Eric L. Grimson and   
                    Ron Kikinis   Statistical Shape Analysis Using Fixed
                                  Topology Skeletons: Corpus Callosum
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
        Michael E. Leventon and   
             Sarah F. F. Gibson   Model Generation from Multiple Volumes
                                  Using Constrained Elastic SurfaceNets    388
          S. D. Olabarriaga and   
         A. W. M. Smeulders and   
       A. C. A. Marijnissen and   
                  K. L. Vincken   An Intelligent Interactive Segmentation
                                  Method for the Joint Space in
                                  Osteoarthritic Ankles  . . . . . . . . . 394
 Boudewijn P. F. Lelieveldt and   
                Milan Sonka and   
            Lizann Bolinger and   
           Thomas D. Scholz and   
          Hein W. M. Kayser and   
       Rob J. van der Geest and   
             Johan H. C. Reiber   Anatomical Modeling with Fuzzy Implicit
                                  Surfaces: Application to Automated
                                  Localization of the Heart and Lungs in
                                  Thoracic MR Images . . . . . . . . . . . 400
           Reyer Zwiggelaar and   
      Christopher J. Taylor and   
           Caroline M. E. Rubin   Detection of the Central Mass of
                                  Spiculated Lesions --- Signature
                                  Normalisation and Model Data Aspects . . 406
      Márton Csapodi and   
Ágota Petrányi and   
         György Liszka and   
 Ákos Zarándy and   
             Tamás Roska   Noise Estimation and Measures for
                                  Detection of Clustered
                                  Microcalcifications  . . . . . . . . . . 412
          M. E. Díaz and   
                       G. Ayala   Measuring the Spatial Homogeneity in
                                  Corneal Endotheliums by Means of a
                                  Randomization Test . . . . . . . . . . . 418
                M.-H. Horng and   
                  Y.-N. Sun and   
                      X.-Z. Lin   The Assessment of Chronic Liver Diseases
                                  by Sonography  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
             S. L. Hartmann and   
                M. H. Parks and   
                 H. Schlack and   
                  W. Riddle and   
                R. R. Price and   
               P. R. Martin and   
                   B. M. Dawant   Automatic Computation of Brain and
                                  Cerebellum Volumes in Normal Subjects
                                  and Chronic Alcoholics . . . . . . . . . 430
            Arkadiusz Sitek and   
      Edward V. R. Di Bella and   
              Grant T. Gullberg   Reconstruction from Slow Rotation
                                  Dynamic SPECT Using a Factor Model . . . 436
                   I. Buvat and   
                  S. Hapdey and   
                  H. Benali and   
           A. Todd-Pokropek and   
                    R. Di Paola   Spectral Factor Analysis for
                                  Multi-isotope Imaging in Nuclear
                                  Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
             Olivier Coulon and   
       Jean-Francois Mangin and   
       Jean-Baptiste Poline and   
             Vincent Frouin and   
                 Isabelle Bloch   Structural Group Analysis of Functional
                                  Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
            Colin Studholme and   
          R. Todd Constable and   
                James S. Duncan   Incorporating an Image Distortion Model
                                  in Non-rigid Alignment of EPI with
                                  Conventional MRI . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
                Jay B. West and   
         J. Michael Fitzpatrick   The Distribution of Target Registration
                                  Error in Rigid-Body, Point-Based
                                  Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
                   Xu Meihe and   
     Rajagopalan Srinivasan and   
            Wieslaw L. Nowinski   A Fast Mutual Information Method for
                                  Multi-modal Registration . . . . . . . . 466
                      M. Xu and   
              R. Srinivasan and   
                 W. L. Nowinski   A Fast Mutual Information Method for
                                  Multi-modal Registration . . . . . . . . 466
                Mark Holden and   
           Derek L. G. Hill and   
         Erika R. E. Denton and   
               Jo M. Jarosz and   
              Tim C. S. Cox and   
                David J. Hawkes   Voxel Similarity Measures for $3$D
                                  Serial MR Brain Image Registration . . . 472
             Robert Rohling and   
                 Andrew Gee and   
            Laurence Berman and   
                  Graham Treece   Radial Basis Function Interpolation for
                                  Freehand $3$D Ultrasound . . . . . . . . 478
      Geoffrey J. M. Parker and   
          Julia A. Schnabel and   
               Gareth J. Barker   Nonlinear Smoothing of MR Images Using
                                  Approximate Entropy --- A Local Measure
                                  of Signal Intensity Irregularity . . . . 484
László G. Nyúl and   
               Jayaram K. Udupa   New Variants of a Method of MRI Scale
                                  Normalization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
       Alexei M. C. Machado and   
         Mario F. M. Campos and   
                   James C. Gee   Method for Estimating the Intensity
                                  Mapping between MRI Images . . . . . . . 496


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1614, 1999

                M. Leissler and   
                  M. Hemmje and   
                  E. J. Neuhold   Supporting Image-Retrieval by Database
                                  Driven Interactive $3$D
                                  Information-Visualization  . . . . . . . 1
                R. M. Bolle and   
                    A. Hampapur   Video Libraries: From Ingest to
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
                S.-K. Chang and   
             G. Costagliola and   
                     E. Jungert   Querying Multimedia Data Sources and
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
                 P. L. Stanchev   General Image Database Model . . . . . . 29
                  R. Chbeir and   
                  Y. Amghar and   
                       A. Flory   System for Medical Image Retrieval: The
                                  MIMS Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
                  J. Meddes and   
                    E. McKenzie   An Agent-Based Visualisation
                                  Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
                   A. Ferro and   
                   G. Gallo and   
                      R. Giugno   Error-Tolerant Database for Structured
                                  Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
                  A. Soffer and   
                       H. Samet   Query Processing and Optimization for
                                  Pictorial Query Trees  . . . . . . . . . 60
                 K. Porkaew and   
                S. Mehrotra and   
                  M. Ortega and   
                 K. Chakrabarti   Similarity Search Using Multiple
                                  Examples in MARS . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
              D. Androutsos and   
          K. N. Plataniotis and   
          A. N. Venetsanopoulos   Excluding Specified Colors from Image
                                  Queries Using a Multidimensional Query
                                  Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
              C. A. Lindley and   
               A.-M. Vercoustre   Generic Viewer Interaction Semantics for
                                  Dynamic Virtual Video Synthesis  . . . . 83
                H. Shiohara and   
                  Y. Iizuka and   
                T. Maruyama and   
                       S. Isobe   Category Oriented Analysis for Visual
                                  Data Mining  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
              N. Ikonomakis and   
          K. N. Plataniotis and   
          A. N. Venetsanopoulos   User Interaction in Region-Based Color
                                  Image Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . 99
                  G. Ciocca and   
                   R. Schettini   Using a Relevance Feedback Mechanism to
                                  Improve Content-Based Image Retrieval    107
                   J. Malki and   
                N. Boujemaa and   
                  C. Nastar and   
                      A. Winter   Region Queries without Segmentation for
                                  Image Retrieval by Content . . . . . . . 115
             E. Di Sciascio and   
                G. Mingolla and   
                   M. Mongiello   Content-Based Image Retrieval over the
                                  Web Using Query by Sketch and Relevance
                                  Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
                J. M. Buijs and   
                      M. S. Lew   Visual Learning of Simple Semantics in
                                  ImageScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
                   S. L. Hibino   Task Analysis for Information
                                  Visualization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
                 J. Vendrig and   
                 M. Worring and   
             A. W. M. Smeulders   Filter Image Browsing: Exploiting
                                  Interaction in Image Retrieval . . . . . 147
                 A. Hiroike and   
                   Y. Musha and   
                A. Sugimoto and   
                        Y. Mori   Visualization of Information Spaces to
                                  Retrieve and Browse Image Data . . . . . 155
                  J. I. Helfman   Mandala: An Architecture for Using
                                  Images to Access and Organize Web
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
                   C. Baldi and   
                 C. Colombo and   
                   A. Del Bimbo   A Compact and Retrieval-Oriented Video
                                  Representation Using Mosaics . . . . . . 171
                  E. Paquet and   
                       M. Rioux   Crawling, Indexing and Retrieval of
                                  Three-Dimensional Data on the Web in the
                                  Framework of MPEG-7  . . . . . . . . . . 179
                  J.-R. Ohm and   
                F. Bunjamin and   
                 W. Liebsch and   
                       B. Makai   A Visual Search Engine for Distributed
                                  Image and Video Database Retrieval
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
                 B. Eberman and   
                  B. Fidler and   
                R. Iannucci and   
                       C. Joerg   Indexing Multimedia for the Internet . . 195
                     J. Cho and   
                   S. Mukherjea   Crawling for Images on the WWW . . . . . 203
            V. Konstantinou and   
                     A. Psarrou   A Dynamic JAVA-Based Intelligent
                                  Interface for Online Image Database
                                  Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
                  R. Fablet and   
                    P. Bouthemy   Motion-Based Feature Extraction and
                                  Ascendant Hierarchical Classification
                                  for Video Indexing and Retrieval . . . . 221
                A. Hanjalic and   
            R. L. Lagendijk and   
                     J. Biemond   Automatically Segmenting Movies into
                                  Logical Story Units  . . . . . . . . . . 229
              J. M. Sanchez and   
                  X. Binefa and   
                  J. Vitria and   
                      P. Radeva   Local Color Analysis for Scene Break
                                  Detection Applied to TV Commercials
                                  Recognition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
                P. Bouthemy and   
                  C. Garcia and   
                 R. Ronfard and   
                    G. Tziritas   Scene Segmentation and Image Feature
                                  Extraction for Video Indexing and
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
                 S. Fischer and   
                   I. Rimac and   
                   R. Steinmetz   Automatic Recognition of Camera Zooms    253
                  M. Gelgon and   
                P. Bouthemy and   
                      T. Dubois   A Region Tracking Method with Failure
                                  Detection for an Interactive Video
                                  Indexing Environment . . . . . . . . . . 261
           S. M. Bhandarkar and   
                Y. S. Warke and   
               A. A. Khombhadia   Integrated Parsing of Compressed Video   269
                    W. Kong and   
                    X. Ding and   
                      H. Lu and   
                          S. Ma   Improvement of Shot Detection Using
                                  Illumination Invariant Metric and
                                  Dynamic Threshold Selection  . . . . . . 277
               E. Ardizzone and   
                  C. Lodato and   
                       S. Lopes   Temporal Segmentation of MPEG Video
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
                   H. B. Lu and   
                    Y. J. Zhang   Detecting Abrupt Scene Change Using
                                  Neural Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
              U. Srinivasan and   
                     C. Lindley   Multi-Modal Feature-Map: An Approach to
                                  Represent Digital Video Sequences  . . . 299
                    M. Liao and   
                      Y. Li and   
                      S. Ma and   
                          H. Lu   Robust Tracking of Video Objects through
                                  Topological Constraint on Homogeneous
                                  Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
               G. S. Iwerks and   
                       H. Samet   The Spatial Spreadsheet  . . . . . . . . 317
       M.-A. Aufure-Portier and   
                    C. Bonhomme   A High Level Visual Language for Spatial
                                  Data Management  . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
              S. G. Nikolov and   
                 D. R. Bull and   
              C. N. Canagarajah   A Global Graph Model of Image
                                  Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
                   S. Aksoy and   
                 R. M. Haralick   A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Image
                                  Database Retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . 341
                     C. Pan and   
                          S. Ma   Motion Capture of Arm from a Monocular
                                  Image Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
               I. Gagliardi and   
                       B. Zonta   Comparing Dictionaries for the Automatic
                                  Generation of Hypertextual Links: A Case
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
                      J.-H. Lim   Categorizing Visual Contents by Matching
                                  Visual ``Keywords''  . . . . . . . . . . 367
               M. Katsumoto and   
                   S.-I. Iisaku   Design of the Presentation Language for
                                  Distributed Hypermedia System  . . . . . 375
              H. Rehatschek and   
                     H. Mueller   A Generic Annotation Model for Video
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
                    H. Yang and   
                     H. Kim and   
                        J. Yang   Design and Implementation of COIRS (a
                                  COncept-Based Image Retrieval System)    391
                 D. Sutanto and   
                 C. H. C. Leung   Automatic Index Expansion for
                                  Concept-Based Image Query  . . . . . . . 399
                  A. M. Tam and   
                 C. H. C. Leung   Structured High-Level Indexing of Visual
                                  Data Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
                 M. Palhang and   
                      A. Sowmya   Feature Extraction: Issues, New
                                  Features, and Symbolic Representation    418
                    S. Bres and   
                    J.-M Jolion   Detection of Interest Points for Image
                                  Indexation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
                 R. Alferez and   
                     Y.-F. Wang   Highly Discriminative Invariant Features
                                  for Image Matching . . . . . . . . . . . 435
                    X. Ding and   
                    W. Kong and   
                      C. Hu and   
                          S. Ma   Image Retrieval Using Schwarz
                                  Representation of One-Dimensional
                                  Feature  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
                      M. Do and   
                    S. Ayer and   
                    M. Vetterli   Invariant Image Retrieval Using Wavelet
                                  Maxima Moment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
                 D. Chetverikov   Detecting Regular Structures for
                                  Invariant Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . 459
                     N. Nes and   
               M. C. D'Ornellas   Color Image Texture Indexing . . . . . . 467
               S. M. Rahman and   
             G. C. Karmaker and   
                  R. J. Bignall   Improving Image Classification Using
                                  Extended Run Length Features . . . . . . 475
          B. A. M. Schouten and   
                 P. M. De Zeeuw   Feature Extraction Using Fractal Codes   483
              T. Tuytelaars and   
                    L. Van Gool   Content-Based Image Retrieval Based on
                                  Local Affinely Invariant Regions . . . . 493
                     L. Jia and   
                     L. Kitchen   A Framework for Object-Based Image
                                  Retrieval at the Semantic Level  . . . . 501
                  C. Carson and   
                  M. Thomas and   
                S. Belongie and   
              J. M. Hellerstein   Blobworld: A System for Region-Based
                                  Image Indexing and Retrieval . . . . . . 509
                  B. A. Maxwell   A Physics-Based Approach to Interactive
                                  Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
                       A. Dimai   Assessment of Effectiveness of Content
                                  Based Image Retrieval Systems  . . . . . 525
                    R. Egas and   
            D. P. Huijsmans and   
                     M. Lew and   
                        N. Sebe   Adapting $k$-$d$ Trees to Visual
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
               J. Laaksonen and   
                 M. Koskela and   
                         E. Oja   Content-Based Image Retrieval Using
                                  Self-Organizing Maps . . . . . . . . . . 541
                  D. Squire and   
                 W. Mueller and   
                     H. Mueller   Relevance Feedback and Term Weighting
                                  Schemes for Content-Based Image
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
              D. Y.-M. Chan and   
                        I. King   Genetic Algorithm for Weights Assignment
                                  in Dissimilarity Function for Trademark
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
              F. Mokhtarian and   
                      S. Abbasi   Retrieval of Similar Shapes under Affine
                                  Transform  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
                J. Vleugels and   
                    R. Veltkamp   Efficient Image Retrieval through
                                  Vantage Objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
               L. Schomaker and   
                 E. De Leau and   
                    L. Vuurpijl   Using Pen-Based Outlines for
                                  Object-Based Annotation and Image-Based
                                  Queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
                  T. Gevers and   
             A. W. M. Smeulders   Interactive Query Formulation for Object
                                  Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
                     L. Liu and   
                    S. Sclaroff   Automatic Deformable Shape Segmentation
                                  for Image Database Search Applications   601
             G. Iannizzotto and   
                        L. Vita   A Multiscale Turning Angle
                                  Representation of Object Shapes for
                                  Image Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
              L. J. Latecki and   
                   R. Lakaemper   Contour-Based Shape Similarity . . . . . 617
                   F. Banfi and   
                      R. Ingold   Computing Dissimilarity Between Hand
                                  Drawn-Sketches and Digitized Images  . . 625
                 K. Van Deemter   Document Generation and Picture
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
         G. Van der Heijden and   
                  G. Polder and   
                  J. W. Van Eck   FLORES: A JAVA Based Image Database for
                                  Ornamentals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
                C. Saraceno and   
                  M. Reiter and   
                P. Kammerer and   
                       E. Zolda   Pictorial Portrait Indexing Using
                                  View-Based Eigen-Eyes  . . . . . . . . . 649
                S. H. Jeong and   
                 J. D. Yang and   
                 H. J. Yang and   
                     J. H. Choi   Image Retrieval Using Fuzzy Triples  . . 657
                   S. Sahni and   
               B. C. Vemuri and   
                    F. Chen and   
                      C. Kapoor   Variable-Bit-Length Coding: An Effective
                                  Coding Method  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
                    Z. Wang and   
                     Z. Chi and   
                    D. Deng and   
                          Y. Yu   Block-Constrained Fractal Coding Scheme
                                  for Image Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . 673
                    F. Chen and   
                   S. Sahni and   
                   B. C. Vemuri   Efficient Algorithms for Lossless
                                  Compression of $2$D/$3$D Images  . . . . 681
              C. S. Pingali and   
                    Y. Jean and   
                     I. Carlbom   Lucent Vision: A System for Enhanced
                                  Sports Viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689
                  R. Fraile and   
                  S. J. Maybank   Building $3$D Models of Vehicles for
                                  Computer Vision  . . . . . . . . . . . . 697
               A. Biancardi and   
                      V. Moccia   Integrating Applications into
                                  Interactive Virtual Environments . . . . 703
                    B. Huet and   
                  E. R. Hancock   Structural Sensitivity for Large-Scale
                                  Line-Pattern Recognition . . . . . . . . 711
                 S. Bhonsle and   
                   A. Gupta and   
                 S. Santini and   
                     M. Worring   Complex Visual Activity Recognition
                                  Using a Temporally Ordered Database  . . 719
                 S. Santini and   
                 M. Worring and   
                  E. Hunter and   
                 V. Kouznetsova   Image Database Assisted Classification   727
                      U. Xu and   
                      J. Wu and   
                          S. Ma   Visual Processing System for Facial
                                  Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735
              P. Androutsos and   
                 H. E. Ruda and   
          A. N. Venetsanopoulos   Semi-interactive Structure and Fault
                                  Analysis of $ (111)7 x7 $ Silicon
                                  Micrographs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745
                   R. Huele and   
                    J. N. Ciano   Using Wavelet Transforms to Match
                                  Photographs of Individual Sperm Whales
                                  Identified by Contour of the Trailing
                                  Edge of the Fluke  . . . . . . . . . . . 753
            R. Stiefelhagen and   
                   M. Finke and   
                    J. Yang and   
                      A. Waibel   From Gaze to Focus of Attention  . . . . 761
                G. Frederix and   
                  E. J. Pauwels   Automatic Interpretation Based on Robust
                                  Segmentation and Shape-Extraction  . . . 769
              S. C. Y. Chan and   
                    P. H. Lewis   A Pre-filter Enabling Fast Frontal Face
                                  Detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777
              C. Demetrescu and   
                    I. Finocchi   A Technique for Generating Graphical
                                  Abstractions of Program Data Structures  785
                  R. Moreno and   
                    R. E. Mayer   Visual Presentations in Multimedia
                                  Learning: Conditions that Overload
                                  Visual Working Memory  . . . . . . . . . 793
                 C. Shahabi and   
               A. E. Dashti and   
                   C. Burns and   
             S. Ghandeharizadeh   Visualization of Spatial Neuroanatomical
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801
                 M. C. Erie and   
                  C. H. Chu and   
                   R. D. Sidman   Visualization of the Cortical Potential
                                  Field by Medical Imaging Data Fusion . . 809
                     P. Janecek   Applying Visualization Research Towards
                                  Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1615, 1999

                        G. Bell   Supercomputing !D Looking Ahead  . . . . 1
                    G. Lonsdale   An Introduction to DRAMA Project . . . . 3
              H. A. G. Wijshoff   An Introduction to OCEANS Project  . . . 5
                     J. Labarta   An Introduction to NANOS Project . . . . 7
                     H. P. Zima   An Introduction to HPF+ Project  . . . . 9
            P. F. Fluekiger and   
                S. Portmann and   
                   H. P. Luethi   Synchronous Communication of Molecular
                                  and Electronic Structure Information in
                                  a Distributed Computing Environment  . . 11
                        T. Sato   Profile-Based Selection of Load Value
                                  and Address Predictors . . . . . . . . . 17
              K. W. Cameron and   
                     Y. Luo and   
                 J. Scharzmeier   Instruction-Level Microprocessor
                                  Modeling of Scientific Applications  . . 29
                     O. Hammami   Neural Network Classifiers Execution on
                                  Superscalar Microprocessors  . . . . . . 41
                   Y. Kanoh and   
                M. Nakamura and   
                  T. Hirose and   
                      T. Hosomi   Message Passing Communication in a
                                  Parallel Computer Cenju-4  . . . . . . . 55
                    S. Ryan and   
               J. N. Amaral and   
                     G. Gao and   
                        Z. Ruiz   Coping with very High Latencies in
                                  Petaflop Computer Systems  . . . . . . . 71
                       A. Cohen   Parallelization via Constrained Storage
                                  Mapping Optimization . . . . . . . . . . 83
                  K. Kusano and   
                        M. Sato   A Comparison of Automatic Parallelizing
                                  Compiler and Improvements by Compiler
                                  Directives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
                    M. Voss and   
                   R. Eigenmann   Dynamically Adaptive Parallel Programs   109
                  T. Kisuki and   
       P. M. W. Knijnenburg and   
           M. F. P. O'Boyle and   
                       F. Bodin   A Feasibility Study in Iterative
                                  Compilation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
                   H. Saito and   
               N. Stavrakos and   
            C. Polychronopoulos   Multithreading Runtime Support for Loop
                                  and Functional Parallelism . . . . . . . 133
                A. Imparato and   
                M. Giordano and   
                  M. M. Furnari   Parallelization and Vectorization
                                  Effects on a Code Simulating a Vitreous
                                  Lattice Model with Constrained Dynamics  145
                    F. Xiao and   
                   T. Ebisuzaki   Multi-phase Hydrodynamic Simulations on
                                  Parallel Computer  . . . . . . . . . . . 157
                    F. Munz and   
                  T. Ludwig and   
                 S. Ziegler and   
                 P. Bartenstein   Kinetic Analysis of Functional Images:
                                  The Case for a Practical Approach to
                                  Performance Prediction . . . . . . . . . 169
                  A. Uejima and   
                    K. Yamazaki   Parallel Radiosity: Evaluation of
                                  Parallel Form Factor Calculations and a
                                  Static Load Balancing Algorithm  . . . . 181
                    M. Miki and   
                T. Hiroyasu and   
                       T. Ikeda   Parallel Distributed Optimization by
                                  Resource Addition and Reduction  . . . . 194
                  O. Schenk and   
                K. Gaertner and   
                    W. Fichtner   Application of Parallel Sparse Direct
                                  Methods in Semiconductor Device and
                                  Process Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . 206
                 Y. Akiyama and   
                 K. Onizuka and   
                 T. Noguchi and   
                        M. Ando   Biological- and Chemical-Parallel
                                  Applications on a PC Cluster . . . . . . 220
               A. Chowdhury and   
                     O. Frieder   Unnoticeable Jitter in ATM Workstation
                                  Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
                 H. Gobioff and   
                   D. Nagle and   
                      G. Gibson   Integrity and Performance in Network
                                  Attached Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
                C. Kyriacou and   
                   S. Evripidou   Network Interface for a Data Driven
                                  Network of Workstations (D02NOW) . . . . 257
                M. Yokokawa and   
                  S. Habata and   
                   S. Kawai and   
                         H. Ito   Basic Design of the Earth Simulator  . . 269
                  Y. Tanaka and   
                    N. Goto and   
                   M. Kakei and   
                       T. Inoue   Parallel Computational Design of NJR
                                  Global Climate Models  . . . . . . . . . 281
                  M. Iizuka and   
                H. Nakamura and   
                K. Garatani and   
                     K. Nkajima   GeoFEM: High-Performance Parallel FEM
                                  for Geophysical Applications . . . . . . 292
                 A. Harwood and   
                        H. Shen   Generalized Networks . . . . . . . . . . 304
                M. Giordano and   
                  M. M. Furnari   HTGviz: A Graphics Tool for the
                                  Synthesis of Automatic and User-Driven
                                  Program Parallelization in the
                                  Compilation Process  . . . . . . . . . . 312
                  Z. Nemeth and   
                H. Tomiyasu and   
                  P. Kacsuk and   
                     M. Amamiya   Multithreaded LOGFLOW on KUMP\slash D    320
                     H. Jin and   
                      J. He and   
                    Q. Chen and   
                       K. Hwang   Grouped RAID Accesses to Reduce False
                                  Sharing Effect in Cluster with Single
                                  I/O Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
                T. Oshitani and   
                    T. Watanabe   Parallel Map Recognition by Pipeline
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
                  K. Moriya and   
                      T. Nodera   Parallelization of ILU Decomposition for
                                  Elliptic Boundary Value Problem of the
                                  PDE on AP3000  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
                     T.-S. Chen   Task Migration in $2$D Wormhole-Routed
                                  Mesh Multicomputers  . . . . . . . . . . 354
                S. Furuyama and   
                   T. Matsuzawa   A Suitable Domain Decomposition for the
                                  Adaptive Mesh Refinement Method  . . . . 363
                      H. Oi and   
                 N. Ranganathan   Utilization of Cache Area in On-Chip
                                  Multiprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
               N. Stankovic and   
                       K. Zhang   A Parallel Programming Environment for
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
                   T. Urata and   
                   H. Nishikawa   Emulation Facility for Data-Driven
                                  Real-Time Multi-processing . . . . . . . 391
                 C. Y. Park and   
                  J.-M. Gil and   
                  Y.-H. Han and   
                    C.-S. Hwang   Failure Restoration for Location Server
                                  with User Movement Learning and
                                  Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1616, 1999

              John A. Stankovic   Reflection in Real-Time Systems  . . . . 1
                  Ian Welch and   
                  Robert Stroud   From Dalang to Kava --- the Evolution of
                                  a Reflective Java Extension  . . . . . . 2
               Michael Golm and   
     Jürgen Kleinöder   Jumping to the Meta Level: Behavioral
                                  Reflection Can Be Fast and Flexible  . . 22
             H. Moessenboek and   
                     C. Steindl   The Oberon-2 Reflection Model and Its
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Hanspeter Mössenböck and   
              Christoph Steindl   The Oberon-2 Reflection Model and Its
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
  Stéphane Demphlous and   
               Franck Lebastard   Designing Persistence Libraries in
                                  Reflective Models with Intercession
                                  Property for a Client-Server Environment 54
                Bert Robben and   
              Bart Vanhaute and   
              Wouter Joosen and   
               Pierre Verbaeten   Non-functional Policies  . . . . . . . . 74
           Jean-Bernard Stefani   On the Reflective Structure of
                                  Information Networks . . . . . . . . . . 93
              Wayne Robbins and   
           Nicolas D. Georganas   Reflective Media Space Management Using
                                  RASCAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
            Gordon S. Blair and   
         Fábio Costa and   
              Geoff Coulson and   
            Fabien Delpiano and   
               Hector Duran and   
               Bruno Dumant and   
       François Horn and   
         Nikos Parlavantzas and   
           Jean-Bernard Stefani   The Design of a Resource-Aware
                                  Reflective Middleware Architecture . . . 115
         Inge M. C. Lemmens and   
           Peter J. Braspenning   A Formal Analysis of Smithsonian
                                  Computational Reflection . . . . . . . . 135
               Noriki Amano and   
                 Takuo Watanabe   Reflection for Dynamic Adaptability: A
                                  Linguistic Approach Using LEAD++ . . . . 138
             Frank Matthijs and   
               Peter Kenens and   
              Wouter Joosen and   
               Pierre Verbaeten   Networking and Reflection: A Strong
                                  Combination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
                  Petr Tuma and   
            Valerie Issarny and   
               Apostolos Zarras   Towards Systematic Synthesis of
                                  Reflective Middleware  . . . . . . . . . 144
              Renaud Pawlak and   
           Laurence Duchien and   
           Gérard Florin   An Automatic Aspect Weaver with a
                                  Reflective Programming Language  . . . . 147
     Marc-Olivier Killijian and   
    Juan-Carlos Ruiz-Garcia and   
             Jean-Charles Fabre   Using Compile-Time Reflection for
                                  Objects'State Capture  . . . . . . . . . 150
                Yasuhiko Yokote   Past, Present, and Future of Aperios . . 153
        Kenneth R. Anderson and   
              Timothy J. Hickey   Reflecting Java into Scheme  . . . . . . 154
            Murat Karaorman and   
            Urs Hölzle and   
                     John Bruno   jContractor: A Reflective Java Library
                                  to Support Design by Contract  . . . . . 175
                  Thomas Ledoux   OpenCorba: A Reflective Open Broker  . . 197
             Yukihiko Sohda and   
             Hirotaka Ogawa and   
               Satoshi Matsuoka   OMPC++ --- A Portable High-Performance
                                  Implementation of DSM using OpenC++
                                  Reflection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
               Tristan Cazenave   Metaprogramming Domain Specific
                                  Metaprograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
               K. De Volder and   
                     T. D'Hondt   Aspect-Oriented Logic Meta Programming   250
             Kris De Volder and   
                   Theo D'Hondt   Aspect-Oriented Logic Meta Programming   250
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1617, 1999

                   R. E. Bryant   Microprocessor Verification Using
                                  Efficient Decision Procedures for a
                                  Logic of Equality with Uninterpreted
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                    F. Massacci   Design and Results of the Tableaux-99
                                  Non-classical (Modal) Systems Comparison 14
      P. F. Patel-Schneider and   
                    I. Horrocks   DLP and FaCT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
                V. Haarslev and   
                     R. Moeller   Applying an ALC ABox Consistency Tester
                                  to Modal Logic SAT Problems  . . . . . . 24
                V. Boyapati and   
                        R. Gore   KtSeqC: System Description . . . . . . . 29
                    F. Massacci   Automated Reasoning and the Verification
                                  of Security Protocols  . . . . . . . . . 32
                 R. Haehnle and   
                     B. Beckert   Proof Confluent Tableau Calculi  . . . . 34
                    M. Baaz and   
                C. G. Femueller   Analytic Calculi for Projective Logics   36
             P. Baumgartner and   
               J. D. Horton and   
                     B. Spencer   Merge Path Improvements for Minimal
                                  Model Hyper Tableaux . . . . . . . . . . 51
                   K. Broda and   
                      D. Gabbay   CLDS for Propositional Intuitionistic
                                  Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
                    J. Caldwell   Intuitionisitic Tableau Extracted  . . . 82
                 D. Cantone and   
                    C. G. Zarba   A Tableau-Based Decision Procedure for a
                                  Fragment of Set Theory Involving a
                                  Restricted Form of Quantification  . . . 97
                  A. Ciabattoni   Bounded Contraction in Systems with
                                  Linearity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
                   P. De Groote   The Non-associative Lambek Calculus with
                                  Product in Polynomial Time . . . . . . . 128
                       S. Demri   Sequent Calculi for Nominal Tense
                                  Logics: A Step Towards Mechanization?    140
                   S. Demri and   
                        R. Gore   Cut-Free Display Calculi for Nominal
                                  Tense Logics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
                   M. Giese and   
                     W. Ahrendt   Hilbert's Epsilon-Terms in Automated
                                  Theorem Proving  . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
                  P. C. Gilmore   Partial Functions in an Impredicative
                                  Simple Theory of Types . . . . . . . . . 186
            J. Goubault-Larrecq   A Simple Sequent System for First-Order
                                  Logic with Free Constructors . . . . . . 202
                  H. Mantel and   
                       J. Otten   linTAP: A Tableau Prover for Linear
                                  Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
                         W. May   A Tableau Calculus for a Temporal Logic
                                  with Temporal Connectives  . . . . . . . 232
                    C. Monz and   
                    M. De Rijke   A Tableaux Calculus for Pronoun
                                  Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
                     H. Schuetz   Generating Minimal Herbrand Models Step
                                  by Step  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
                     M. Tzakova   Tableau Calculi for Hybrid Logics  . . . 278
                    C.-P. Wirth   Full First-Order Free Variable Sequents
                                  and Tableaux in Implicit Induction . . . 293
                     U. Endriss   An Interactive Theorem Proving Assistant 308
                     U. Endriss   A Time Efficient KE Based Theorem Prover 313
                    A. Wolf and   
                     J. Draeger   Strategy Parallel Use of Model
                                  Elimination with Lemmata --- System
                                  Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1618, 1999

                 J. Bezivin and   
                    P.-A Muller   UML: The Birth and Rise of a Standard
                                  Modeling Notation  . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                    M. Hitz and   
                      G. Kappel   Developing with UML --- Some Pitfalls
                                  and Workarounds  . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
                    C. Atkinson   Supporting and Applying the UML
                                  Conceptual Framework . . . . . . . . . . 21
                      B. Morand   Modeling: Is it Turning Informal into
                                  Formal?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
                  F. Arnold and   
                      G. Podehl   Best of Both Worlds --- A Mapping from
                                  EXPRESS-G to UML . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
                   A. Olive and   
                    M.-R Sancho   Porting ROSES to UML --- An Experience
                                  Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
                  J. Suzuki and   
                    Y. Yamamoto   Making I. UML Models Interoperable with
                                  UXF  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
                 M. Gogolla and   
                    M. Richters   Transformation Rules for UML Class
                                  Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
                    K. Lano and   
                  J. Bicarregui   Semantics and Transformations for UML
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
                     P. Desfray   Automation of Design Pattern: Concepts,
                                  Tools and Practices  . . . . . . . . . . 120
                  I. Khriss and   
                M. Elkoutbi and   
                   R. K. Keller   Automating the Synthesis of UML
                                  StateChart Diagrams from Multiple
                                  Collaboration Diagrams . . . . . . . . . 132
                  A. Kleppe and   
                  J. Warmer and   
                        S. Cook   Informal Formality? The Object
                                  Constraint Language and Its Application
                                  in the UML Metamodel . . . . . . . . . . 148
                   A. Hamie and   
                 F. Civello and   
                   J. Howse and   
                        S. Kent   Reflections on the Object Constraint
                                  Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
                          Y. Ou   On Using UML Class Diagrams for
                                  Object-Oriented Database Design
                                  Specification of Integrity Constraints   173
                   J. Arlow and   
                W. Emmerich and   
                       J. Quinn   Literate Modelling --- Capturing
                                  Business Knowledge with the UML  . . . . 189
           M. Mancona Kande and   
                 S. Mazaher and   
                  O. Prnjat and   
                       L. Sacks   Applying UML to Design an Inter-domain
                                  Service Management Application . . . . . 200
                A. Korthaus and   
                     S. Kuhlins   BOOSTER*Process: A Software Development
                                  Process Model Integrating Business
                                  Object Technology and UML  . . . . . . . 215
                E. Bourdeau and   
                 P. Lugagne and   
                      P. Roques   Hierarchical Context Diagram with UML:
                                  An Experience Report on Satellite Ground
                                  System Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
                  J. Seeman and   
          J. Wolff v. Gudenberg   Extension of UML Sequence Diagrams for
                                  Real-Time Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 240
                   S. Kovacevic   UML and User Interface Modeling  . . . . 253
                       B. Paech   On the Role of Activity Diagrams in UML
                                  --- A User Task Centered Development
                                  Process for UML  . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
                       P. Hruby   Structuring UML Design Deliverables  . . 278
                     K. Kivisto   Considerations of and Suggestions for a
                                  UML-Specific Process Model . . . . . . . 294
               S. J. Mellor and   
               S. R. Tockey and   
                 R. Arthaud and   
                     P. Leblanc   An Action Language for UML: Proposal for
                                  a Precise Execution Semantics  . . . . . 307
                 A. Lanusse and   
                  S. Gerard and   
                     F. Terrier   Real-Time Modeling with UML: The ACCORD
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
                   A. Evans and   
                  R. France and   
                    K. Lano and   
                       B. Rumpe   The UML as a Formal Modeling Notation    336
           B. Henderson-Sellers   OML: Proposals to Enhance UML  . . . . . 349
             J.-M. Jezequel and   
              A. Le Guennec and   
                 F. Pennaneac'h   Validating Distributed Software Modeled
                                  with the Unified Modeling Language . . . 365
                    T. Mens and   
                   C. Lucas and   
                    P. Steyaert   Supporting Disciplined Reuse and
                                  Evolution of UML Models  . . . . . . . . 378
               N. G. Lester and   
               F. G. Wilkie and   
                  D. W. Bustard   Applying UML Extensions to Facilitate
                                  Software Reuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
              G. Oevergaard and   
                   K. Palmkvist   A Formal Approach to Use Cases and Their
                                  Relationships  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
                       P. Allen   A Practical Framework for Applying UML   419
                 M. Saksena and   
      M. M. Larrondo-Petrie and   
               R. B. France and   
                    M. P. Evett   Extending Aggregation Constructs in UML  434


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1619, 1999

              R. L. Milidiu and   
               A. A. Pessoa and   
                    E. S. Laber   Efficient implementation of the WARM-UP
                                  algorithm for the construction of
                                  length-restricted prefix codes . . . . . 1--17
       M. Mueller-Hannemann and   
                    A. Schwartz   Implementing weighted $b$-matching
                                  algorithms: Insights from a
                                  computational study  . . . . . . . . . . 18--36
               D. R. Helman and   
                        J. Jaja   Designing practical efficient algorithms
                                  for symmetric multiprocessors  . . . . . 37--56
                  J. M. Six and   
                   I. G. Tollis   Circular drawings of biconnected graphs  57--73
               M. Stallmann and   
                  F. Brglez and   
                        D. Gosh   Heuristics and experimental design for
                                  bigraph crossing number minimization . . 74--93
                D. M. Mount and   
                       F.-T. Pu   Binary space partitions in Pluecker
                                  space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--113
               R. J. Walker and   
                    J. Snoeyink   Practical point-in-polygon tests using
                                  CSG representations of polygons  . . . . 114--123
             M. T. Goodrich and   
                   M. Handy and   
                  B. Hudson and   
                    R. Tamassia   Accessing the internal organization of
                                  data structures in the JDSL library  . . 124--139
                M. Pizzonia and   
                 G. Di Battista   Object-Oriented design of graph oriented
                                  data structures  . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--155
                     S. Schirra   A case study on the cost of geometric
                                  computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--176
             A. E. Caldwell and   
                A. B. Kahng and   
                   I. L. Markov   Design and implementation of the
                                  Fiduccia-Mattheyses heuristic for VLSI
                                  netlist partitioning . . . . . . . . . . 177--193
                 S. Cwilich and   
                    M. Deng and   
                D. F. Lynch and   
                 S. J. Phillips   Algorithms for restoration planning in a
                                  telecommunications network . . . . . . . 194--209
                     T. Shibuya   Computing the $ n \times m $ shortest
                                  paths efficiently  . . . . . . . . . . . 210--225
             G. L. Heileman and   
               C. E. Pizano and   
                 C. T. Abdallah   Image watermarking for copyright
                                  protections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--245
                  J. Csirik and   
              D. S. Johnson and   
                  C. Kenyon and   
                     P. W. Shor   A self organizing bin packing heuristic  246--265
                   M. S. Levine   Finding the right cutting planes for the
                                  TSP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--281
             M. Zachariasen and   
                      P. Winter   Obstacle-avoiding Euclidean Steiner
                                  Trees in the plane: An exact algorithm   282--295
                 A. Acharya and   
                     H. Zhu and   
                        K. Shen   Adaptive algorithms for cache-efficient
                                  trie search  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--311
                     P. Sanders   Fast priority queues for cached memory   312--327
                    L. Arge and   
             K. H. Hinrichs and   
              J. Vahrenhold and   
                   J. S. Vitter   Efficient bulk operations on dynamic
                                  $R$-trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--348


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1620, 1999

               Gianpaolo Molino   From Clinical Guidelines to Decision
                                  Support  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
                  M. Stefanelli   Artificial Intelligence for Building
                                  Learning Health Care Organizations . . . 13
                   Yuval Shahar   Timing Is Everything: Temporal Reasoning
                                  and Temporal Data Maintenance in
                                  Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
                    Nada Lavrac   Machine Learning for Data Mining in
                                  Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
                S. Quaglini and   
                   C. Mossa and   
                 C. Fassino and   
              M. Stefanelli and   
               A. Cavallini and   
                     G. Micieli   Guidelines-Based Workflow Systems  . . . 65
   Brigitte Séroussi and   
             Jacques Bouaud and   
    Éric-Charles Antoine   Enhancing Clinical Practice Guideline
                                  Compliance by Involving Physicians in
                                  the Decision Process . . . . . . . . . . 76
               C. Sauvagnac and   
                  J. Stines and   
                   A. Lesur and   
                  P. Falzon and   
                         P. Bey   Application of Therapeutic Protocols: A
                                  Tool to Manage Medical Knowledge . . . . 86
         Benedict du Boulay and   
             Briony Teather and   
           George du Boulay and   
             Nathan Jeffrey and   
              Derek Teather and   
              Mike Sharples and   
                  Lisa Cuthbert   From Description to Decision: Towards a
                                  Decision Support Training System for MR
                                  Radiology of the Brain . . . . . . . . . 93
               B. Du Boulay and   
                 B. Teather and   
               G. Du Boulay and   
                     N. Jeffrey   From Description to Decision: Towards a
                                  Decision Support Training System for MR
                                  Radiology of the Brain . . . . . . . . . 93
                 H. P. Eich and   
                      C. Ohmann   Internet-Based Decision-Support Server
                                  for Acute Abdominal Pain . . . . . . . . 103
           Stefania Montani and   
          Riccardo Bellazzi and   
            Luigi Portinale and   
               Alberto Riva and   
               Mario Stefanelli   Multi-modal Reasoning in Diabetic
                                  Patient Management . . . . . . . . . . . 113
             Rainer Schmidt and   
          Bernhard Pollwein and   
                   Lothar Gierl   Experiences with Case-Based Reasoning
                                  Methods and Prototypes for Medical
                                  Knowledge-Based Systems  . . . . . . . . 124
                   Samir Aknine   Exploiting Social Reasoning of Open
                                  Multi-agent Systems to Enhance
                                  Cooperation in Hospitals . . . . . . . . 133
              Concha Bielza and   
    Sixto Ríos-Insua and   
            Manuel Gómez   Influence Diagrams for Neonatal Jaundice
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
                I. R. Clark and   
             B. A. McCauley and   
                I. M. Young and   
          P. G. Nightingale and   
                  M. Peters and   
             N. T. Richards and   
                         D. Adu   Electronic Drug Prescribing and
                                  Administration --- Bedside Medical
                                  Decision Making  . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
                Werner Horn and   
            Christian Popow and   
          Christoph Stocker and   
                  Silvia Miksch   Neonatal Ventilation Tutor (VIE-NVT), a
                                  Teaching Program for the Mechanical
                                  Ventilation of Newborn Infants . . . . . 148
                     Ying-Lie O   A Life-Cycle Based Authorisation Expert
                                  Database System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--157
              Mauro Torchio and   
          Stefania Battista and   
               Fabrizio Bar and   
            Cristina Pollet and   
            Marina Marzuoli and   
        Maria Cesira Bucchi and   
              Roberto Pagni and   
               Gianpaolo Molino   A Decision-Support System for the
                                  Identification, Staging, and Functional
                                  Evaluation of Liver Diseases (HEPASCORE) 158
                G. Carrault and   
              M.-O. Cordier and   
        René Quiniou and   
                 M. Garreau and   
            J. J. Bellanger and   
                      A. Bardou   A Model-Based Approach for Learning to
                                  Identify Cardiac Arrhythmias . . . . . . 165
                Peter Lucas and   
              Astrid Tholen and   
                Geeske van Oort   An Model-Based System for Pacemaker
                                  Reprogramming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
                 Jorge Cruz and   
             Pedro Barahona and   
Frédéric Benhamou   Integrating Deep Biomedical Models into
                                  Medical Decision Support Systems: An
                                  Interval Constraint Approach . . . . . . 185
           Steen Andreassen and   
          Leonard Leibovici and   
Henrik C. Schònheyder and   
           Brian Kristensen and   
          Christian Riekehr and   
    Anders Geill Kjær and   
             Kristian G. Olesen   A Decision Theoretic Approach to
                                  Empirical Treatment of Bacteraemia
                                  Originating from the Urinary Tract . . . 197
            E. A. Fernandez and   
                 J. Presedo and   
                       S. Barro   An ECG Ischemic Detection System Based
                                  on Self-Organizing Maps and a Sigmoid
                                  Function Pre-processing Stage  . . . . . 207
              Martti Juhola and   
           Jorma Laurikkala and   
                Kati Viikki and   
           Yrjö Auramo and   
               Erna Kentala and   
             Ilmari Pyykkö   Neural Network Recognition of
                                  Otoneurological Vertigo Diseases with
                                  Comparison of Some Other Classification
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
             Georg Dorffner and   
              Ernst Leitgeb and   
                   Heinz Koller   A Comparison of Linear and Non-linear
                                  Classifiers for the Detection of
                                  Coronary Artery Disease in Stress-ECG    227
            Wayne Goodridge and   
              Hadrian Peter and   
                   Akin Abayomi   The Case-Based Neural Network Model and
                                  Its Use in Medical Expert Systems  . . . 232
      Domenico M. Pisanelli and   
               Aldo Gangemi and   
                     Geri Steve   A Medical Ontology Library That
                                  Integrates the UMLS Metathesaurus\TM . . 239
             Soumeya Achour and   
               Michel Dojat and   
          Jean-Marc Brethon and   
                  Gil Blain and   
                    Eric Lepage   The Use of the UMLS Knowledge Sources
                                  for the Design of a Domain Specific
                                  Ontology: A Practical Experience in
                                  Blood Transfusion  . . . . . . . . . . . 249
           Paolo Terenziani and   
              Paolo Raviola and   
              Oscar Bruschi and   
              Mauro Torchio and   
            Marina Marzuoli and   
               Gianpaolo Molino   Representing Knowledge Levels in
                                  Clinical Guidelines  . . . . . . . . . . 254
                R. Bellazzi and   
                 C. Larizza and   
                   P. Magni and   
                 S. Montani and   
                  G. De Nicolao   Intelligent Analysis of Clinical Time
                                  Series by Combining Structural Filtering
                                  and Temporal Abstractions  . . . . . . . 261
                 Jim Hunter and   
                  Neil McIntosh   Knowledge-Based Event Detection in
                                  Complex Time Series Data . . . . . . . . 271
              Silvia Miksch and   
            Andreas Seyfang and   
                Werner Horn and   
                Christian Popow   Abstracting Steady Qualitative
                                  Descriptions over Time from Noisy,
                                  High-Frequency Data  . . . . . . . . . . 281
              Robert Kosara and   
                  Silvia Miksch   Visualization Techniques for
                                  Time-Oriented, Skeletal Plans in Medical
                                  Therapy Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
                Carlo Combi and   
              Luisa Portoni and   
            Francesco Pinciroli   Visualizing Temporal Clinical Data on
                                  the WWW  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
               Matjaz Kukar and   
                  Ciril Groselj   Machine Learning in Stepwise Diagnostic
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
             Subramani Mani and   
            Malcolm B. Dick and   
         Michael J. Pazzani and   
             Evelyn L. Teng and   
             Daniel Kempler and   
            I. Maribell Taussig   Refinement of Neuro-psychological Tests
                                  for Dementia Screening in a Cross
                                  Cultural Population Using Machine
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
                 A. McQuatt and   
           P. J. D. Andrews and   
                 D. Sleeman and   
                V. Corruble and   
                    P. A. Jones   The Analysis of Head Injury Data Using
                                  Decision Tree Techniques . . . . . . . . 336
                 Blaz Zupan and   
               Janez Demsar and   
          Michael W. Kattan and   
             J. Robert Beck and   
                      I. Bratko   Machine Learning for Survival Analysis:
                                  A Case Study on Recurrence of Prostate
                                  Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
             Daniel Calvelo and   
          Marie-C. Chambrin and   
             Denis Pomorski and   
                  Pierre Ravaux   ICU Patient State Characterization Using
                                  Machine Learning in a Time Series
                                  Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
           Dragan Gamberger and   
                Nada Lavrac and   
                  Ciril Groselj   Diagnostic Rules of Increased
                                  Reliability for Critical Medical
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
             Basilio Sierra and   
     Nicolás Serrano and   
     Pedro Larrañaga and   
        Eliseo J. Plasencia and   
          Iñaki Inza and   
Juan José Jiménez and   
Jose María De la Rosa and   
        María Luisa Mora   Machine Learning Inspired Approaches to
                                  Combine Standard Medical Measures at an
                                  Intensive Care Unit  . . . . . . . . . . 366
                    Ping Wu and   
             Kok Liang Heng and   
             Shuo Wang Yang and   
               Yi Feng Chen and   
   Ravuru Subramanyam Mohan and   
            Peter Huat Chye Lim   A Screening Technique for Prostate
                                  Cancer by Hair Chemical Analysis and
                                  Artificial Intelligence  . . . . . . . . 372
              Alison Cawsey and   
            Floriana Grasso and   
                      Ray Jones   A Conversational Model for Health
                                  Promotion on the World Wide Web  . . . . 379
                Ehud Reiter and   
             Roma Robertson and   
                    Liesl Osman   Types of Knowledge Required to
                                  Personalise Smoking Cessation Letters    389--399
            Martin Romacker and   
              Stefan Schulz and   
                       Udo Hahn   Small Is Beautiful --- Compact Semantics
                                  for Medical Language Processing  . . . . 400
               D. J. Barker and   
                S. C. Lynch and   
              D. S. Simpson and   
                  W. A. Corbett   Speech Driven Natural Language
                                  Understanding for Hands-Busy Recording
                                  of Clinical Information  . . . . . . . . 411
         Pierre Zweigenbaum and   
                 Natalia Grabar   Automatic Acquisition of Morphological
                                  Knowledge for Medical Language
                                  Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
           Laurence Germond and   
               Michel Dojat and   
               Chris Taylor and   
               Catherine Garbay   A Multi-agent System for MRI Brain
                                  Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
     Gabriella Kókai and   
  Zoltán Tóth and   
     Róbert Ványi   Modelling Blood Vessels of the Eye with
                                  Parametric $L$-Systems Using
                                  Evolutionary Algorithms  . . . . . . . . 433
              Peter Hammond and   
                 Paul Wells and   
                  Sanjay Modgil   Animating Medical and Safety Knowledge   443
              Tim J. Hutton and   
              Peter Hammond and   
              John C. Davenport   Active Shape Models for Customised
                                  Prosthesis Design  . . . . . . . . . . . 448


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1621, 1999

                  D. E. O'Leary   Reengineering and Knowledge Management   1
           M. P. Papazoglou and   
              J. Hoppenbrouwers   Knowledge Navigation in Networked
                                  Digital Libraries  . . . . . . . . . . . 13
            V. R. Benjamins and   
                B. Wielinga and   
              J. Wielemaker and   
                      D. Fensel   Towards Brokering Problem-Solving
                                  Knowledge on the Internet  . . . . . . . 33
                  B. Biebow and   
                     S. Szulman   Terminae: A Linguistics-Based Tool for
                                  the Building of a Domain Ontology  . . . 49
                    A. Birk and   
                 D. Surmann and   
                  K.-D. Althoff   Applications of Knowledge Acquisition in
                                  Experimental Software Engineering  . . . 67
                    L. Crow and   
                    N. Shadbolt   Acquiring and Structuring Web Content
                                  with Knowledge Level Models  . . . . . . 85
                J. Domingue and   
                       E. Motta   A Knowledge-Based News Server Supporting
                                  Ontology-Driven Story Enrichment and
                                  Knowledge Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . 103
                F. Goasdoue and   
                     C. Reynaud   Modeling Information Sources for
                                  Information Integration  . . . . . . . . 121
             A. Gomez-Perez and   
                 D. Rojas-Amaya   Ontological Reengineering for Reuse  . . 139
                   P. Groot and   
               A. Ten Teije and   
                F. Van Harmelen   Formally Verifying Dynamic Properties of
                                  Knowledge Based Systems  . . . . . . . . 157
               D. E. Herlea and   
               C. M. Jonker and   
                   J. Treur and   
            N. J. E. Wijngaards   Integration of Behavioural Requirements
                                  Specification within Knowledge
                                  Engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
                B. Hoefling and   
                  T. Liebig and   
                 D. Roesner and   
                       L. Webel   Towards an Ontology for Substances and
                                  Related Actions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
               Y. Kalfoglou and   
                   D. Robertson   Use of Formal Ontologies to Support
                                  Error Checking in Specifications . . . . 207
                M. Oussalah and   
                   K. Messaadia   The Ontologies of Semantic and Transfer
                                  Links  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
              T. Parmentier and   
                    D. Ziebelin   Distributed Problem Solving Environment
                                  Dedicated to DNA Sequence Annotation . . 243
                S. Puuronen and   
                    V. Terziyan   Knowledge Acquisition from Multiple
                                  Experts Based on Semantics of Concepts   259
                      G. Stumme   Acquiring Expert Knowledge for the
                                  Design of Conceptual Information Systems 275
                   S. White and   
                     D. Sleeman   A Constraint-Based Approach to the
                                  Description of Competence  . . . . . . . 291
                 G. Beydoun and   
                    A. Hoffmann   Holism and Incremental Knowledge
                                  Acquisition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
                     J. Breuker   Indexing Problem Solving Methods for
                                  Reuse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
                   O. Cairo and   
                J. Barreiro and   
                     F. Solsona   Software Methodologies at Risk . . . . . 323
                   D. Faure and   
                    C. Nedellec   Knowledge Acquisition of Predicate
                                  Argument Structures from Technical Texts
                                  Using Machine Learning: The System ASIUM 329
                   N. Izumi and   
                A. Maruyama and   
                  A. Suzuki and   
                   T. Yamaguchi   An Interoperative Environment for
                                  Developing Expert Systems  . . . . . . . 335
               M. G. Jansen and   
                        P. Beys   On the Use of Meaningful Names in
                                  Knowledge-Based Systems  . . . . . . . . 341
          R. Martinez-Bejar and   
      F. Ibañez-Cruz and   
                L.-G. Thong and   
                      T. M. Cao   FMR: An Incremental Knowledge
                                  Acquisition System for Fuzzy Domains . . 349
                     P. Parpola   Applying SeSKA to Sisyphus III . . . . . 355
                     R. Perkuhn   Describing Similar Control Flows for
                                  Families of Problem-Solving Methods  . . 361
                       F. Puppe   Meta Knowledge for Extending Diagnostic
                                  Consultation to Critiquing Systems . . . 367
             A. Rabarijoana and   
                   R. Dieng and   
                       O. Corby   Exploitation of XML for Corporate
                                  Knowledge Management . . . . . . . . . . 373
             F. Schmalhofer and   
                    L. Van Elst   An Oligo-Agents System with Shared
                                  Responsibilities for Knowledge
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
                 F. Sellini and   
                    P.-A. Yvars   Veri-KoMoD: Verification of Knowledge
                                  Models in the Mechanical Design Field    385
          H. Stuckenschmidt and   
                    K. C. Ranze   A Flexible Framework for Uncertain
                                  Expertise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
                     R. P. Wolf   Elicitation of Operational Track Grids   397


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1622, 1999

              M. G. Harbour and   
             J. A. De la Puente   Reliable Software Technologies
                                  Ada-Europe '99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--xiii, 1--449


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1625, 1999

                 R. F. Albrecht   Topological Theory of Fuzziness  . . . . 1
                      S. Kovacs   Similarity Based System Reconfiguration
                                  by Fuzzy Classification and Hierarchical
                                  Interpolate Fuzzy Reasoning  . . . . . . 12
              J. F. Skinner and   
            Y. M. Garibaldi and   
                 E. C. Ifeachor   A Fuzzy System for Fetal Heart Rate
                                  Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
               N. Drechsler and   
                W. Guenther and   
                   R. Drechsler   Efficient Graph Coloring by Evolutionary
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
               A. Takahashi and   
                     A. Borisov   Determination of Decision Rules on the
                                  Basis of Genetic Algorithms  . . . . . . 40
                      R. Habtom   Modeling a Refrigeration System Using
                                  Recurrent Neural Networks  . . . . . . . 47
                     Y. Tan and   
                    P. Fang and   
                   Y. Zhang and   
                        S. Yang   Evaluating Nugget Sizes of Spot Welds by
                                  Using Artificial Neural Network  . . . . 53
                     T. Kohonen   Spotting Relevant Information in
                                  Extremely Large Document Collections . . 59
                    I. Borgulya   Fuzzy Controller Generation with a Fuzzy
                                  Classification Method  . . . . . . . . . 62
               F. Fernandez and   
                   J. Gutierrez   Transformation and Optimization of Fuzzy
                                  Controllers Using Signal Processing
                                  Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
               K.-D. Kramer and   
               J. Kirschner and   
                   S. Woehlbier   Fuzzy-Control Design Tool for Low-Cost
                                  Microcontrollers (FHFC-Tool) . . . . . . 88
                   J. Lacan and   
                   P. Chatonnay   Search of Optimal Error Correcting Codes
                                  with Genetic Algorithms  . . . . . . . . 93
                    K. Imai and   
                 N. Kamiura and   
                        Y. Hata   An Unsupervised Clustering with
                                  Evolutionary Strategy to Estimate the
                                  Cluster Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
               N. Drechsler and   
               R. Drechsler and   
                      B. Becker   Multi-objective Optimization in
                                  Evolutionary Algorithms Using
                                  Satisfiability Classes . . . . . . . . . 108
                     J. Martyna   Neural Network Approach to Design of
                                  Distributed Hard Real-Time Systems . . . 118
                 C. Ungerer and   
               D. Stuebener and   
               C. Kirchmair and   
                       M. Sturm   Supporting Traditional Controller of
                                  Combustion Engines by Means of Neural
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
                    M. Bongards   Controlling Biological Wastewater
                                  Treatment Plants Using Fuzzy Control and
                                  Neural Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
               M. B. Menhaj and   
                     F. Razzazi   A New Fuzzy Character Segmentation
                                  Algorithm for Persian \slash Arabic
                                  Typed Texts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
                  A. Canuto and   
                 G. Howells and   
                   M. Fairhurst   RePART: A Modified Fuzzy ARTMAP for
                                  Pattern Recognition  . . . . . . . . . . 159
                  F. Farbiz and   
               M. B. Menhaj and   
                 S. A. Motamedi   An Adaptive $ {C} $-Average Fuzzy
                                  Control Filter for Image Enhancement . . 169
       A. F. Gomez-Skarmeta and   
                 F. Jimenez and   
               J. Ibañez   Pareto-optimality in Scheduling Problems 177
                     Y. Cao and   
                         L. Cao   Controlled Markov Chain Optimization of
                                  Genetic Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 186
                   C. Cotta and   
                    J. M. Troya   Tackling Epistatic Problems Using
                                  Dynastically Optimal Recombination . . . 197
                   N. Kopco and   
                  P. Sincak and   
                     H. Veregin   Extended Methods for Classification of
                                  Remotely Sensed Images Based on ARTMAP
                                  Neural Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
            P. Brandstetter and   
                    M. Skotnica   Application of Artificial Neural Network
                                  in Control of Vector Pulse-Width
                                  Modulation Inverter  . . . . . . . . . . 220
                E. D. Schmitter   Modeling Multiple Microstructure
                                  Transformations in Steels with a
                                  Boltzmann Neural Net . . . . . . . . . . 225
                     K. De Jong   Evolutionary Computation: Where We Are
                                  and where We're Headed . . . . . . . . . 230
                M. Ivanescu and   
                      V. Stoian   Fuzzy Controllers by Unconventional
                                  Technologies for Tentacle Arms . . . . . 232
                M. Bonkovic and   
              D. Stipanicev and   
                       M. Stula   Control of Robot Arm Approach by Fuzzy
                                  Pattern Comparison Technique . . . . . . 246
                    N. Varachiu   A Fuzzy Shapes Characterization for
                                  Robotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
                G. Attolico and   
                    A. Itta and   
               G. Cicirelli and   
                    T. D'Orazio   ART-based Automatic Generation of
                                  Membership Functions for Fuzzy
                                  Controllers in Robotics  . . . . . . . . 259
              G. Trajkovski and   
                       B. Cukic   On Two Types of L0M Fuzzy Lattices . . . 272
                      R. Mesiar   Generated Connectives in Many Valued
                                  Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
               M. Baczynski and   
                    J. Drewniak   Conjugacy Classes of Fuzzy Implications  287
                   M. Baczynski   Characterization of Dienes Implication   299
                I. N. Aizenberg   Neural Networks Based on Multi-valued
                                  and Universal Binary Neurons: Theory,
                                  Application to Image Processing and
                                  Recognition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
                 A. Shabani and   
               M. B. Menhaj and   
                  H. B. Tabrizi   Modeling of Thermal Two Dimensional Free
                                  Turbulent Jet by a Three Layer Two Time
                                  Scale Cellular Neural Network  . . . . . 317
                  V. Neagoe and   
                   M. Valcu and   
                       B. Sabac   A Neural Approach for Detection of Road
                                  Direction in Autonomous Navigation . . . 324
                  V. Neagoe and   
                     I. Fratila   A Neural Segmentation of Multispectral
                                  Satellite Images . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
                  Y. J. Cao and   
                  N. Ireson and   
                    L. Bull and   
                       R. Miles   Design of a Traffic Junction Controller
                                  Using Classifier System and Fuzzy Logic  342
                 J. Niittymaeki   Using Fuzzy Logic to Control Traffic
                                  Signals at Multi-phase Intersections . . 354
                     W. Gharieb   Fuzzy Control to Non-minimal Phase
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
          K. R. S. Kodagoda and   
             W. S. Wijesoma and   
                     E. K. Teoh   Robust Un-coupled Fuzzy Controller for
                                  Longitudinal and Lateral Control of an
                                  AGV  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
               R.-E. Precup and   
                  S. Preitl and   
                      S. Solyom   Center Manifold Theory Approach to the
                                  Stability Analysis of Fuzzy Control
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
                     R. Knicker   Stability Analysis of Fuzzy and Other
                                  Nonlinear Systems Based on the Method of
                                  Convex Decomposition . . . . . . . . . . 391
                    H. Deng and   
                       C.-H Yeh   Fuzzy Utilities Comparison in
                                  Multicriteria Analysis . . . . . . . . . 401
                E. Huellermeier   A Possibilistic Formalization of
                                  Case-Based Reasoning and Decision Making 411
                  M. Thomas and   
                   C. Pacha and   
                       K. Goser   Parameter Determination for Nano-Scale
                                  Modelling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
                I. Gilsdorf and   
                      W. Brauer   Optimizing Routing Algorithms in
                                  Telecommunication Networks with Neural
                                  Networks and Fuzzy Logic . . . . . . . . 427
                   L. Nolle and   
               A. Armstrong and   
                 A. Hopgood and   
                        A. Ware   Optimum Work Roll Profile Selection in
                                  the Hot Rolling of Wide Steel Strip
                                  Using Computational Intelligence . . . . 435
                  M. Reuter and   
                       C. Zemke   Analysing Epileptic Events On-Line by
                                  Soft-Computing-Systems . . . . . . . . . 453
                J. Kacprzyk and   
                    S. Zadrozny   On Interactive Linguistic Summarization
                                  of Databases via a Fuzzy-Logic-Based
                                  Querying Add-On to Microsoft Access[R]   462
                   M. Ahmed and   
                 E. Damiani and   
            A. G. B. Tettamanzi   A General-Purpose Fuzzy Engine for Crop
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
                      J. Vascak   Fuzzy Control of a Physical Double
                                  Inverted Pendulum Model  . . . . . . . . 482
             W. S. Wijesoma and   
              K. R. S. Kodagoda   Synthesis of Stable Fuzzy PD/PID Control
                                  Laws for Robotic Manipulators from a
                                  Variable Structure Systems Standpoint    495
                    P. Bosc and   
                  O. Pivert and   
                     L. Ughetto   On Data Summaries Based on Gradual Rules 512
                P. Marshall and   
                      Z. Bandar   Working Towards Connectionist Modeling
                                  of Term Formation  . . . . . . . . . . . 522
                      M. Reuter   A Quantization-Model of the Neural Nets  530
                B.-J. Falkowski   Risk Analysis Using Perceptrons and
                                  Quadratic Programming  . . . . . . . . . 543
                 J. Praczyk and   
                  H. Kiendl and   
                   T. Slawinski   Finding Relevant Process Characteristics
                                  with a Method for Data-Based Complexity
                                  Reduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
                     J. Martyna   Traffic Control in ail ATM Network Using
                                  Rough Set Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
           B. S. Butkiewicz and   
                 T. Mroczek and   
                  M. W. Grzybek   Evaluation of Characteristic
                                  Temperatures of Materials Using an
                                  Approximate Reasoning Method . . . . . . 569
             R. Castelletti and   
                 E. Damiani and   
                 G. Righini and   
                      R. Khosla   A Human Centered Architecture for
                                  Distributed Retrieval of Medical Images  578
                  M. Reuter and   
               D. P. F. Moeller   Representing the Real-Time Behaviour of
                                  Technical Processes in Neural Nets by
                                  Using the Phase-Space-Flow of the
                                  Degrees of Freedom of the Nets . . . . . 589
                      T. Kromer   Spatial Neural Networks Based on Fractal
                                  Algorithms Biomorph Nets of Nets of  . . 603
                     L. Dafinca   Adaptive Control Systems Based on Neural
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615
                M. Buzoianu and   
                  F. Oltean and   
                      A. Agapie   Function Approximation Using Tensor
                                  Product Bernstein Polynomials --- Neuro
                                  and Evolutionary Approaches  . . . . . . 625
                   I. Filip and   
                O. Prostean and   
                      D. Curiac   Tuning Considerations above a Fuzzy
                                  Controller Used for the Synchronous
                                  Generator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
               M. T. Lamata and   
               J. I. Pelaez and   
               J. C. Sierra and   
                    J. M. Bravo   A Sectoring Genetic Algorithm for the
                                  Urban Waste Collection Problem . . . . . 642
                  C. Kraeht and   
                   H. Geyer and   
                   P. Ulbig and   
                      S. Schulz   Parameter Optimization of Group
                                  Contribution Methods in High Dimensional
                                  Solution Spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
              R. Djamschidi and   
                    A. Bruckner   Applying Heuristic Algorithms on
                                  Structuring Europeanwide Distribution
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
             Ovidiu Grigore and   
               Octavian Grigore   The Control of a Nonlinear System Using
                                  Neural Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
                      P. Krause   Demonstration of the Use of
                                  Hyperinference: Position Control Using
                                  an Electric Disc-Motor . . . . . . . . . 671
              S. V. Astanin and   
             T. G. Kalashnikova   Synthesis of Knowledges Based on
                                  Inductive Generalization . . . . . . . . 676
                 A. Halinka and   
                M. Szewczyk and   
                       B. Witek   ANN-Based Fault Type and Location
                                  Identification System for Autonomous
                                  Preventive-Restoration Control of
                                  Complex Electrical Power System Plants   682
               P. Bachiller and   
                R. M. Perez and   
                P. Martinez and   
                  P. L. Aguilar   Optimal Hidden Structure for Feedforward
                                  Neural Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 684
                  H. Uchida and   
                    Y. Hata and   
                    K. Suei and   
                    H. Nakagawa   Relation Between the IADL and Physical
                                  Fitness Tests Focusing on Uncertainty of
                                  Answering Questionnaire in Elderly Women 686
          C. Doeben-Henisch and   
                J. P. Hasebrook   A Toolbox of Artificial Brain Cells to
                                  Simulate Classical and Operant Learning
                                  Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689
                 A. Halinka and   
                M. Szewczyk and   
                       B. Witek   Intelligent, ANN-Based Identification
                                  System of Complex Generating Sets
                                  Operating Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692
                 M. De Cock and   
                F. Vynckier and   
                    E. E. Kerre   A Neural Network Based on Linguistic
                                  Modifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694
                C.-D. Neagu and   
                      V. Palade   Fuzzy Computing in a MultiPurpose Neural
                                  Network Implementation . . . . . . . . . 697
                A. Yardimci and   
                   A. S. Onural   Fuzzy Logic Control of Child Blood
                                  Pressure During Anesthesia . . . . . . . 701
                A. H. Dediu and   
                  A. Agapie and   
                    N. Varachiu   Soft Computing Genetic Tool V 3.0 ---
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704
              V. Varshavsky and   
                 V. Marakhovsky   Learning Experiments with CMOS
                                  Artificial Neuron  . . . . . . . . . . . 706


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1626, 1999

                  Ivar Jacobsen   The Unified Process for Component-Based
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
      August-Wilhelm Scheer and   
               Michael Hoffmann   From Business Process Model to
                                  Application System --- Developing an
                                  Information System with the House of
                                  Business Engineering (HOBE)  . . . . . . 2
           Laurence Melloul and   
          Dorothea Beringer and   
                Neal Sample and   
                 Gio Wiederhold   CPAM, A Protocol for Software
                                  Composition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
            Florian Matthes and   
                Holm Wegner and   
                   Patrick Hupe   A Process-Oriented Approach to Software
                                  Component Definition . . . . . . . . . . 26
  Willem-Jan van den Heuvel and   
            Mike Papazoglou and   
            Manfred A. Jeusfeld   Configuring Business Objects from Legacy
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
              Denis Verhoef and   
               Marcel Franckson   Risk Management for IT in the Large  . . 57
      Alistair G. Sutcliffe and   
                Shailey Minocha   Linking Business Modelling to
                                  Socio-technical System Design  . . . . . 73
              Gregor Joeris and   
                 Otthein Herzog   Towards Flexible and High-Level Modeling
                                  and Enacting of Processes  . . . . . . . 88
       Jolita Ralyté and   
            Colette Rolland and   
        Véronique Plihon   Method Enhancement with Scenario Based
                                  Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--118
   Ulrike Becker-Kornstaedt and   
                Dirk Hamann and   
              Ralf Kempkens and   
           Peter Rösch and   
             Martin Verlage and   
              Richard Webby and   
               Jörg Zettel   Support for the Process Engineer: The
                                  Spearmint Approach to Software Process
                                  Definition and Process Guidance  . . . . 119
               Dirk Ansorge and   
              Klaus Bergner and   
               Bernd Deifel and   
          Nicolas Hawlitzky and   
            Christoph Maier and   
              Barbara Paech and   
             Andreas Rausch and   
               Marc Sihling and   
           Veronika Thurner and   
                   Sascha Vogel   Managing Componentware Development ---
                                  Software Reuse and the $V$-Modell
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
                   Frank Wietek   Modelling Multidimensional Data in a
                                  Dataflow-Based Visual Data Analysis
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
          Panos Vassiliadis and   
         Mokrane Bouzeghoub and   
                 Christoph Quix   Towards Quality-Oriented Data Warehouse
                                  Usage and Evolution  . . . . . . . . . . 164
        Dimitri Theodoratos and   
      Spyros Ligoudistianos and   
                   Timos Sellis   Designing the Global Data Warehouse with
                                  SPJ Views  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
                Wasim Sadiq and   
              Maria E. Orlowska   Applying Graph Reduction Techniques for
                                  Identifying Structural Conflicts in
                                  Process Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
             Wolfgang Hesse and   
                Jörg Noack   A Multi-variant Approach to Software
                                  Process Modelling  . . . . . . . . . . . 210
                Peter Green and   
               Michael Rosemann   An Ontological Analysis of Integrated
                                  Process Modelling  . . . . . . . . . . . 225
            Thomas Sandholm and   
                 Stefan Tai and   
                 Dirk Slama and   
                   Eamon Walshe   Design of Object Caching in a CORBA OTM
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
                Kim Jungfer and   
                  Ulf Leser and   
 Patricia Rodriguez-Tomé   Constructing IDL Views on Relational
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
                      Am-suk Oh   The Design of Cooperative Transaction
                                  Model by Using Client-Server
                                  Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
              Myong H. Kang and   
         Judith N. Froscher and   
              Amit P. Sheth and   
             Krys J. Kochut and   
                 John A. Miller   A Multilevel Secure Workflow Management
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
                Johann Eder and   
          Euthimios Panagos and   
             Michael Rabinovich   Time Constraints in Workflow Systems . . 286
      Jürgen Sellentin and   
                 Aiko Frank and   
             Bernhard Mitschang   TOGA --- A Customizable Service for
                                  Data-Centric Collaboration . . . . . . . 301
     F. De Ferreira Rezende and   
                 U. Hewnsen and   
          G. De Sa Oliveira and   
               R. C. G. Pereira   A Practical Approach to Access
                                  Heterogeneous and Distributed Databases  317
Fernando de Ferreira Rezende and   
             Ulrich Hermsen and   
Georgiane de Sá Oliveira and   
Renata Costa Guedes Pereira and   
          Jochen Rütschlin   A Practical Approach to Access
                                  Heterogeneous and Distributed Databases  317
            Peter Mc. Brien and   
        Alexandra Poulovassilis   A Uniform Approach to Inter-model
                                  Transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
                 P. McBrien and   
               A. Poulovassilis   A Uniform Approach to Inter-model
                                  Transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
             Franck Barbeau and   
           José Martinez   OTHY: Object To HYpermedia . . . . . . . 349
     Yves Lespérance and   
             Todd G. Kelley and   
            John Mylopoulos and   
                  Eric S. K. Yu   Modeling Dynamic Domains with ConGolog   365
         Nasreddine Aoumeur and   
                   Gunter Saake   Towards an Object Petri Nets Model for
                                  Specifying and Validating Distributed
                                  Information Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 381
            Antoni Olivé   Relationship Reification: A Temporal
                                  View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
           Jörg Becker and   
        Michael zur Mühlen   Towards a Classification Framework for
                                  Application Granularity in Workflow
                                  Management Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 411
          Justus Klingemann and   
     Jürgen Wäsch and   
                    Karl Aberer   Adaptive Outsourcing in
                                  Cross-Organizational Workflows . . . . . 417
              Yan-Nong Huan and   
                Ming-Chien Shan   Policy-Based Resource Management . . . . 422
                Y.-N. Huang and   
                     M.-C. Shan   Policy-Based Resource Management . . . . 422
             Naveen Prakash and   
                     Ritu Sibal   Modelling Method Heuristics for Better
                                  Quality Products . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
            Diego Calvanese and   
        Giuseppe De Giacomo and   
             Maurizio Lenzerini   Queries and Constraints on
                                  Semi-structured Data . . . . . . . . . . 434
     Christof Bornhövd and   
          Alejandro P. Buchmann   A Prototype for Metadata-Based
                                  Integration of Internet Sources  . . . . 439
                  Mathias Weske   Workflow Management Through Distributed
                                  and Persistent CORBA Workflow Objects    446
                  Stan Jarzabek   Component Criteria for Information
                                  System Families  . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
      Marianthi Svinterikou and   
             Babis Theodoulidis   TUML: A Method for Modelling Temporal
                                  Information Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 456
               Choong-ho Yi and   
               Paul Johannesson   Beyond Goal Representation: Checking
                                  Goal-Satisfaction by Temporal Reasoning
                                  with Business Processes  . . . . . . . . 462
                 Lex Wedemeijer   Design the Flexibility, Maintain the
                                  Stability of Conceptual Schemas  . . . . 467
          Oscar Díaz and   
                 Mario Piattini   Metrics for Active Database
                                  Maintainability  . . . . . . . . . . . . 472


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1627, 1999

           Jon M. Kleinberg and   
                 Ravi Kumar and   
         Prabhakar Raghavan and   
        Sridhar Rajagopalan and   
              Andrew S. Tomkins   The Web as a Graph: Measurements, Models
                                  and Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                  Jun Tarui and   
                 Seinosuke Toda   Some Observations on the Computational
                                  Complexity of Graph Accessibility
                                  Problem (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . 18
          Hiroshi Nagamochi and   
              Toshihide Ibaraki   An Approximation for Finding a Smallest
                                  $2$-Edge-Connected Subgraph Containing a
                                  Specified Spanning Tree  . . . . . . . . 31
                  Tadao Takaoka   Theory of $2$-$3$ Heaps  . . . . . . . . 41
           David Hutchinson and   
            Anil Maheshwari and   
                    Norbert Zeh   An External Memory Data Structure for
                                  Shortest Path Queries (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
               Wing-Kai Hon and   
                    Tak-Wah Lam   Approximating the Nearest Neighbor
                                  Interchange Distance for Evolutionary
                                  Trees with Non-uniform Degrees . . . . . 61
                Guo-Hui Lin and   
                   Guoliang Xue   Signed Genome Rearrangement by Reversals
                                  and Transpositions: Models and
                                  Approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
           Atsuko Yamaguchi and   
               Akihiro Sugimoto   An Approximation Algorithm for the
                                  Two-Layered Graph Drawing Problem  . . . 81
                 Xuemin Lin and   
                    Peter Eades   Area Minimization for Grid Visibility
                                  Representation of Hierarchically Planar
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
          Josep Díaz and   
          Mathew D. Penrose and   
                Jordi Petit and   
             María Serna   Layout Problems on Lattice Graphs  . . . 103
                     Jin-Yi Cai   A New Transference Theorem in the
                                  Geometry of Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . 113
               Carsten Damm and   
                Ki Hang Kim and   
                     Fred Roush   On Covering and Rank Problems for
                                  Boolean Matrices and Their Applications  123
              Meena Mahajan and   
           P. R. Subramanya and   
                       V. Vinay   A Combinatorial Algorithm for Pfaffians  134
            Enrico Nardelli and   
             Guido Proietti and   
                 Peter Widmayer   How to Swap a Failing Edge of a Single
                                  Source Shortest Paths Tree . . . . . . . 144
             S. L. Bezrukov and   
           R. Elsässer and   
                U.-P. Schroeder   On Bounds for the $k$-Partitioning of
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
          Hiroshi Nagamochi and   
           Shigeki Katayama and   
              Toshihide Ibaraki   A Faster Algorithm for Computing Minimum
                                  $5$-way and $6$-way Cuts in Graphs . . . 164--173
            Andris Ambainis and   
             Richard Bonner and   
           Rusins Freivalds and   
                Arnolds Kikusts   Probabilities to Accept Languages by
                                  Quantum Finite Automata  . . . . . . . . 174
              Lance Fortnow and   
                   A. Pavan and   
                 Alan L. Selman   Distributionally-Hard Languages  . . . . 184
            Pierre McKenzie and   
            Klaus Reinhardt and   
                       V. Vinay   Circuits and Context-Free Languages  . . 194
             Kazuyuki Amano and   
              Akira Maruoka and   
                      Jun Tarui   On the Negation-Limited Circuit
                                  Complexity of Merging  . . . . . . . . . 204
        Peter Bro Miltersen and   
        N. V. Vinodchandran and   
                 Osamu Watanabe   Super-Polynomial versus Half-Exponential
                                  Circuit Size in the Exponential
                                  Hierarchy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
                 Henning Fernau   Efficient Learning of Some Linear Matrix
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
               Xiaotie Deng and   
                  Yuzhong Zhang   Minimizing Mean Response Time in Batch
                                  Processing System  . . . . . . . . . . . 231
                 D. Xiaotie and   
                     Z. Yuzhong   Minimizing Mean Resoponse Time in Batch
                                  Processing System  . . . . . . . . . . . 231
               Piotr Krysta and   
              Roberto Solis-Oba   Approximation Algorithms for Bounded
                                  Facility Location  . . . . . . . . . . . 241
                   Satoshi Tayu   Scheduling Trees onto Hypercubes and
                                  Grids Is $ \cal N P $-complete . . . . . 251
Magnús M. Halldórsson   Approximations of Weighted Independent
                                  Set and Hereditary Subset Problems . . . 261
Magnús M. Halldórsson and   
               Guy Kortsarz and   
           Andrzej Proskurowski   Multi-coloring Trees . . . . . . . . . . 271
      Andrea E. F. Clementi and   
        Pierluigi Crescenzi and   
                 Gianluca Rossi   On the Complexity of Approximating
                                  Colored-Graph Problems . . . . . . . . . 281
            Anna Bernasconi and   
               Carsten Damm and   
            Igor E. Shparlinski   On the Average Sensitivity of Testing
                                  Square-Free Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . 291
                     Z. Xizhong   Binary Enumerability of Real Numbers . . 300
                  Xizhong Zheng   Binary Enumerability of Real Numbers . . 300
             Gene Cooperman and   
              Sandra Feisel and   
     Joachim von zur Gathen and   
                   George Havas   GCD of Many Integers . . . . . . . . . . 310
          Tomasz Jurdzinski and   
      Miros\law Kuty\lowski and   
                Krzysztof Lorys   Multi-party Finite Computations  . . . . 318
              Toshio Nakata and   
         Hiroshi Imahayashi and   
             Masafumi Yamashita   Probabilistic Local Majority Voting for
                                  the Agreement Problem on Finite Graphs   330
            Ambros Marzetta and   
           Adrian Brüngger   A Dynamic Programming Bound for the
                                  Quadratic Assignment Problem . . . . . . 339
                    Takeaki Uno   A New Approach for Speeding Up
                                  Enumeration Algorithms and Its
                                  Application for Matroid Bases  . . . . . 349
                 Jin-Yi Cai and   
               George Havas and   
               Bernard Mans and   
              Ajay Nerurkar and   
        Jean-Pierre Seifert and   
               Igor Shparlinski   On Routing in Circulant Graphs . . . . . 360
         Akira Matsubayashi and   
                     Ryo Takasu   Minimum Congestion Embedding of Complete
                                  Binary Trees into Tori . . . . . . . . . 370
         Francis Y. L. Chin and   
                Cao An Wang and   
                    Fu Lee Wang   Maximum Stabbing Line in $2$D Plane  . . 379
             Jeet Chaudhuri and   
                Subhas C. Nandy   Generalized Shooter Location Problem . . 389
                  Sung-Pil Hong   A Competitive Online Algorithm for the
                                  Paging Problem with ``Shelf'' Memory . . 400
                Kazuo Iwama and   
                 Kouki Yonezawa   Using Generalized Forecasts for Online
                                  Currency Conversion  . . . . . . . . . . 409
                 Friedrich Otto   On $S$-regular Prefix-Rewriting Systems
                                  and Automatic Structures . . . . . . . . 422
             Kouichi Hirata and   
               Keizo Yamada and   
                 Masateru Harao   Tractable and Intractable Second-Order
                                  Matching Problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 432
               Sung-Woo Lee and   
              Hyun-Sung Kim and   
              Jung-Joon Kim and   
               Tae-Geun Kim and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Efficient Fixed-Size Systolic Arrays for
                                  the Modular Multiplication . . . . . . . 442
              Ka Wong Chong and   
                  Yijie Han and   
         Yoshihide Igarashi and   
                    Tak Wah Lam   Improving Parallel Computation with Fast
                                  Integer Sorting  . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
               Sajal K. Das and   
           Bhabani P. Sinha and   
             Rajarshi Chaudhuri   A Combinatorial Approach to Performance
                                  Analysis of a Shared-Memory
                                  Multiprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
        Joachim Gudmundsson and   
           Christos Levcopoulos   A Fast Approximation Algorithm for TSP
                                  with Neighborhoods and Red-Blue
                                  Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
                  H. Y. Lau and   
                     H. F. Ting   The Greedier the Better: An Efficient
                                  Algorithm for Approximating Maximum
                                  Independent Set  . . . . . . . . . . . . 483


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1628, 1999

             C. A. R. Hoare and   
                      He Jifeng   A Trace Model for Pointers and Objects   1
        Krzysztof Czarnecki and   
           Ulrich W. Eisenecker   Synthesizing Objects . . . . . . . . . . 18
               Viviana Bono and   
                 Amit Patel and   
               Vitaly Shmatikov   A Core Calculus of Classes and Mixins    43
                     Erik Ernst   Propagating Class and Method Combination 67
            Sylvia Dieckman and   
                Urs Hölzle   A Study of the Allocation Behavior of
                                  the SPECjvm98 Java Benchmarks  . . . . . 92--115
                Wim De Pauw and   
                  Gary Sevitsky   Visualizing Reference Patterns for
                                  Solving Memory Leaks in Java . . . . . . 116
      Raimondas Lencevicius and   
            Urs Hölzle and   
                 Ambuj K. Singh   Dynamic Query-Based Debugging  . . . . . 135
           Atsushi Igarashi and   
             Benjamin C. Pierce   Foundations for Virtual Types  . . . . . 161
        Kresten Krab Thorup and   
                 Mads Torgersen   Unifying Genericity: Combining the
                                  Benefits of Virtual Types and
                                  Parameterized Classes  . . . . . . . . . 186
           Aaron Greenhouse and   
                   John Boyland   An Object-Oriented Effects System  . . . 205
             Barbara Liskov and   
              Miguel Castro and   
               Liuba Shrira and   
                      Atul Adya   Providing Persistent Objects in
                                  Distributed Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 230
              David Detlefs and   
                     Ole Agesen   Inlining of Virtual Methods  . . . . . . 258
             Todd Millstein and   
                 Craig Chambers   Modular Statically Typed Multimethods    279
                 Candy Pang and   
                 Wade Holst and   
              Yuri Leontiev and   
                  Duane Szafron   Multi-method Dispatch Using Multiple Row
                                  Displacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
                      T. Kuehne   Internal Iteration Externalized  . . . . 329
              Thomas Kühne   Internal Iteration Externalized  . . . . 329
           Günther Kniesel   Type-Safe Delegation for Run-Time
                                  Component Adaptation . . . . . . . . . . 351
         Ulrik Pagh Schultz and   
            Julia L. Lawall and   
             Charles Consel and   
                  Gilles Muller   Towards Automatic Specialization of Java
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
                 Manuel Serrano   Wide Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
              Elisa Bertino and   
          Giovanna Guerrini and   
             Isabella Merlo and   
                   Marco Mesiti   An Approach to Classify Semi-Structured
                                  Objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
                      Jim Waldo   Object-Oriented Programming on the
                                  Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
                Raju Pandey and   
                   Brant Hashii   Providing Fine-Grained Access Control
                                  for Java Programs  . . . . . . . . . . . 449
        Rémi Bastide and   
                 Ousmane Sy and   
              Philippe Palanque   Formal Specification and Prototyping of
                                  CORBA Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
              Mauro Gaspari and   
            Gianluigi Zavattaro   A Process Algebraic Specification of the
                                  New Asynchronous CORBA Messaging Service 495
                Andrew P. Black   Object-Oriented Programming: Regaining
                                  the Excitement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1631, 1999

         Robert Nieuwenhuis and   
      José Miguel Rivero   Solved Forms for Path Ordering
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
          Nachum Dershowitz and   
                  Subrata Mitra   Jeopardy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
                   Eelco Visser   Strategic Pattern Matching . . . . . . . 30
                   P. De Groote   On the Strong Normalization of Natural
                                  Deduction with Permutation-Conversions   45
             Philippe de Groote   On the Strong Normalization of Natural
                                  Deduction with Permutation-Conversions   45
            Vincent van Oostrom   Normalization in Weakly Orthogonal
                                  Rewriting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
                 V. Van Oostrom   Normalization in Weakly Orthogonal
                                  Rewriting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
           Roberto Di Cosmo and   
               Stefano Guerrini   Strong Normalization of Proof Nets
                                  Modulo Structural Congruences  . . . . . 75
                R. Di Cosmo and   
                    S. Guerrini   Strong Normalization of Proof Nets
                                  Modulo Structural Congruences  . . . . . 75
                Bruno Courcelle   Hierarchical Graph Decompositions
                                  Defined by Grammars and Logical Formulas 90
             Jerzy Marcinkowski   Undecidability of the $ \exists x x
                                  \forall x x $ Part of the Theory of
                                  Ground Term Algebra Modulo an AC Symbol  92
   Anne-Cécile Caron and   
           Franck Seynhaeve and   
               Sophie Tison and   
                   Marc Tommasi   Deciding the Satisfiability of
                                  Quantifier Free Formulae on One-Step
                                  Rewriting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
     Sébastien Limet and   
             Pierre Réty   A New Result about the Decidability of
                                  the Existential One-Step Rewriting
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
                   Albert Rubio   A Fully Syntactic AC-RPO . . . . . . . . 133
             Jürgen Stuber   Theory Path Orderings  . . . . . . . . . 148
         Hél\`ene Touzet   A Characterisation of Multiply Recursive
                                  Functions with Higman's Lemma  . . . . . 163
               Franz Baader and   
                 Cesare Tinelli   Deciding the Word Problem in the Union
                                  of Equational Theories Sharing
                                  Constructors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
                L. Bachmair and   
         C. R. Ramakrishnan and   
         I. V. Ramakrishnan and   
                      A. Tiwari   Normalization via Rewrite Closures . . . 190
            Dieter Hofbauer and   
                    Maria Huber   Test Sets for the Universal and
                                  Existential Closure of Regular Tree
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
            Femke van Raamsdonk   Higher-Order Rewriting . . . . . . . . . 220
               F. Van Raamsdonk   1Higher-Order Rewriting  . . . . . . . . 220
                  M. Clavel and   
            F. Durán and   
                    S. Eker and   
                 P. Lincoln and   
      N. Martí-Oliet and   
                J. Meseguer and   
                  J. F. Quesada   The Maude System . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
 F. J. López Fraguas and   
J. Sánchez Hernández   $ {\cal {TOY}} $: A Multiparadigm
                                  Declarative System . . . . . . . . . . . 244
        F. J. Lopez-Fraguas and   
           J. Sanchez-Hernandez   TOY: A Multiparadigm Declarative System  244
             Stephan Kepser and   
               Jörn Richts   UniMoK: A System for Combining
                                  Equational Unification Algorithms  . . . 248
               Rakesh Verma and   
            Shalitha Senanayake   $ \bar {LR}^2 $: A Laboratory for Rapid
                                  Term Graph Rewriting . . . . . . . . . . 252
             Takashi Nagaya and   
               Yoshihito Toyama   Decidability for Left-Linear Growing
                                  Term Rewriting Systems . . . . . . . . . 256
          Jürgen Giesl and   
                Aart Middeldorp   Transforming Context-Sensitive Rewrite
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
          M. C. F. Ferreira and   
                  A. L. Ribeiro   Context-Sensitive AC-Rewriting . . . . . 286
Frédéric Blanqui and   
      Jean-Pierre Jouannaud and   
                Mitsuhiro Okada   The Calculus of Algebraic Constructions  301
               Gilles Dowek and   
    Thér\`ese Hardin and   
                Claude Kirchner   HOL-$ \lambda \sigma $: An Intentional
                                  First-Order Expression of Higher-Order
                                  Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
                 Friedrich Otto   On the Connections between Rewriting and
                                  Formal Language Theory . . . . . . . . . 332
         Christiane Frougny and   
            Jacques Sakarovitch   A Rewrite System Associated with
                                  Quadratic Pisot Units  . . . . . . . . . 356
             Manfred Göbel   Fast Rewriting of Symmetric Polynomials  371
                      M. Goebel   Fast Rewriting of Symmetric Polynomials  371
Frédéric Saubion and   
            Igor Stéphan   On Implementation of Tree Synchronized
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1632, 1999

                   P. De Groote   A Dynamic Programming Approach to
                                  Categorial Deduction . . . . . . . . . . 1
                   S. Demri and   
                        R. Gore   Tractable Transformations from Modal
                                  Provability Logics into First-Order
                                  Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
                     E. Graedel   Invited Talk: Decision Procedures for
                                  Guarded Logics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
                      S. Tobies   A PSpace Algorithm for Graded Modal
                                  Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
         M. Schmidt-Schauss and   
                   K. U. Schulz   Solvability of Context Equations with
                                  Two Context Variables Is Decidable . . . 67
                  T. Wierzbicki   Complexity of the Higher Order Matching  82
                     R. Pichler   Solving Equational Problems Efficiently  97
                A. A. Adams and   
             H. Gottliebsen and   
               S. A. Linton and   
                      U. Martin   VSDITLU: A Verifiable Symbolic Definite
                                  Integral Table Look-Up . . . . . . . . . 112
                 P. Janicic and   
                   A. Bundy and   
                       I. Green   A Framework for the Flexible Integration
                                  of a Class of Decision Procedures into
                                  Theorem Provers  . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
                     H. Horacek   Presenting Proofs in a Human-Oriented
                                  Way  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
        V. Sofronie-Stokkermans   On the Universal Theory of Varieties of
                                  Distributive Lattices with Operators:
                                  Some Decidability and Complexity Results 157
                 U. Hustadt and   
                  R. A. Schmidt   Maslov's Class $K$ Revisited . . . . . . 172
                  C. Areces and   
              H. De Nivelle and   
                    M. De Rijke   Prefixed Resolution: A Resolution Method
                                  for Modal and Description Logics . . . . 187
                F. Pfenning and   
                  C. Schuermann   System Description: Twelf --- A
                                  Meta-Logical Framework for Deductive
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
                S. Autexier and   
                  D. Hutter and   
                  H. Mantel and   
                    A. Schairer   System Description: inka 5.0 --- A Logic
                                  Voyager  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
                    M. Baaz and   
                 A. Leitsch and   
                       G. Moser   System Description: CutRes 0.1: Cut
                                  Elimination by Resolution  . . . . . . . 212
                  A. Franke and   
                    M. Kohlhase   System Description: MathWeb, an
                                  Agent-Based Communication Layer for
                                  Distributed Automated Theorem Proving    217
        E. Pascal Gribomont and   
                     N. Salloum   System Description: Using OBDD's for the
                                  Validation of Skolem Verification
                                  Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
                      J. Hickey   Fault-Tolerant Distributed Theorem
                                  Proving  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
             T. Hillenbrand and   
                  A. Jaeger and   
                    B. Loechner   System Description: Waldmeister ---
                                  Improvements in Performance and Ease of
                                  Use  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
                A. P. Felty and   
                 D. J. Howe and   
                A. Roychoudhury   Formal Metatheory Using Implicit Syntax,
                                  and an Application to Data Abstraction
                                  for Asynchronous Systems . . . . . . . . 237
                       F. Prost   A Formalization of Static Analyses in
                                  System F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
                  S. N. Artemov   On Explicit Reflection in Theorem
                                  Proving and Formal Verification  . . . . 267
                  K. Konrad and   
                  D. A. Wolfram   System Description: Kimba, A Model
                                  Generator for Many-Valued First-Order
                                  Logics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
                G. Nadathur and   
                 D. J. Mitchell   System Description: Teyjus --- A
                                  Compiler and Abstract Machine Based
                                  Implementation of lambdaProlog . . . . . 287
                A. Riazanov and   
                    A. Voronkov   Vampire  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
                      S. Schulz   System Abstract: E0.3  . . . . . . . . . 297
                 R. Nieuwenhuis   Invited Talk: Rewrite-Based Deduction
                                  and Symbolic Constraints . . . . . . . . 302
                  C. Weidenbach   Towards an Automatic Analysis of
                                  Security Protocols in First-Order Logic  314
             P. Baumgartner and   
                N. Eisinger and   
                     U. Furbach   A Confluent Connection Calculus  . . . . 329
                   M. Fuchs and   
                       D. Fuchs   Abstraction-Based Relevancy Testing for
                                  Model Elimination  . . . . . . . . . . . 344
                      M. Bishop   A Breadth-First Strategy for Mating
                                  Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
                  D. Hutter and   
                       A. Bundy   The Design of the CADE-16 Inductive
                                  Theorem Prover Contest . . . . . . . . . 374
              C. Weidenbach and   
               B. Afshordel and   
                   U. Brahm and   
                       C. Cohrs   System Description: Spass Version 1.0.0  378
                    A. Voronkov   KK: A Theorem Prover for K . . . . . . . 383
                 J. Whittle and   
                   A. Bundy and   
                 R. Boulton and   
                        H. Lowe   System Description: C0YNTHIA . . . . . . 388
                        Z. Jian   System Description: MCS: Model-Based
                                  Conjecture Searching . . . . . . . . . . 393
                      T. Nipkow   Invited Talk: Embedding Programming
                                  Languages in Theorem Provers . . . . . . 398
                 C. Benzmueller   Extensional Higher-Order Paramodulation
                                  and RUE-Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . 399
                 R. H. C. Lopes   Automatic Generation of Proof Search
                                  Strategies for Second-Order Logic  . . . 414


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1633, 1999

                     D. L. Dill   Alternative Approaches to Hardware
                                  Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                     J. Sifakis   The Compositional Specification of Timed
                                  Systems --- A Tutorial . . . . . . . . . 2
                        R. Alur   Timed Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
                  G. Staalmarck   Staalmarck's Method with Extensions to
                                  Quantified Boolean Formulas  . . . . . . 23
                   Z. Manna and   
                    H. B. Sipma   Verification of Parameterized Systems by
                                  Dynamic Induction on Diagrams  . . . . . 25
                    E. Brinksma   Formal Methods for Conformance Testing:
                                  Theory Can Be Practical! . . . . . . . . 44
               R. Hosabettu and   
                  M. Srivas and   
              G. Gopalakrishnan   Proof of Correctness of a Processor with
                                  Reorder Buffer Using the Completion
                                  Functions Approach . . . . . . . . . . . 47
                   A. Biere and   
                  E. Clarke and   
                   R. Raimi and   
                         Y. Zhu   Verifying Safety Properties of a PowerPC
                                  Microprocessor Using Symbolic Model
                                  Checking without BDDs  . . . . . . . . . 60
             J. Baumgartner and   
                  T. Heyman and   
                 V. Singhal and   
                        A. Aziz   Model Checking the IBM Gigahertz
                                  Processor: An Abstraction Algorithm for
                                  High-Performance Netlists  . . . . . . . 72
                  S. Ramesh and   
                     P. Bhaduri   Validation of Pipelined Processor
                                  Designs Using Esterel Tools  . . . . . . 84
                  B. Berard and   
                    L. Fribourg   Automated Verification of a Parametric
                                  Real-Time Program: The ABR Conformance
                                  Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
                   T. Jeron and   
                       P. Morel   Test Generation Derived from
                                  Model-Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
              L. P. Carloni and   
             K. L. McMillan and   
  A. L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli   Latency Insensitive Protocols  . . . . . 123
              P. A. Abdulla and   
               A. Bouajjani and   
                 B. Jonsson and   
                     M. Nilsson   Handling Global Conditions in
                                  Parametrized System Verification . . . . 134
              P. A. Abdulla and   
               A. Annichini and   
                S. Bensalem and   
                   A. Bouajjani   Verification of Infinite-State Systems
                                  by Combining Abstraction and
                                  Reachability Analysis  . . . . . . . . . 146
                     S. Das and   
                 D. L. Dill and   
                        S. Park   Experience with Predicate Abstraction    160
               O. Kupferman and   
                    M. Y. Vardi   Model Checking of Safety Properties  . . 172
                R. Langerak and   
                    E. Brinksma   A Complete Finite Prefix for Process
                                  Algebra  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
                     C.-T. Chou   The Mathematical Foundation of Symbolic
                                  Trajectory Evaluation  . . . . . . . . . 196
            T. A. Henzinger and   
                  S. Qadeer and   
                 S. K. Rajamani   Assume-Guarantee Refinement between
                                  Different Time Scales  . . . . . . . . . 208
                   R. Bloem and   
                    K. Ravi and   
                     F. Somenzi   Efficient Decision Procedures for Model
                                  Checking of Linear Time Logic Properties 222
                    K. Etessami   Stutter-Invariant Languages,
                                  omega-Automata, and Temporal Logic . . . 236
                 M. Daniele and   
             F. Giunchiglia and   
                    M. Y. Vardi   Improved Automata Generation for Linear
                                  Temporal Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
                   M. Bozga and   
                       O. Maler   On the Representation of Probabilities
                                  over Structured Domains  . . . . . . . . 261
                   G. Bruns and   
                   P. Godefroid   Model Checking Partial State Spaces with
                                  $3$-Valued Temporal Logics . . . . . . . 274
                J. Matthews and   
                  J. Launchbury   Elementary Microarchitecture Algebra . . 288
            T. A. Henzinger and   
                  S. Qadeer and   
                 S. K. Rajamani   Verifying Sequential Consistency on
                                  Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Systems . . 301
            J. Lind-Nielsen and   
                 H. R. Andersen   Stepwise CTL Model Checking of
                                  State/Event Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 316
                    B. Yang and   
                 R. Simmons and   
               R. E. Bryant and   
               D. R. O'Hallaron   Optimizing Symbolic Model Checking for
                                  Constraint-Rich Models . . . . . . . . . 328
                G. Behrmann and   
               K. G. Larsen and   
                 J. Pearson and   
                       C. Weise   Efficient Timed Reachability Analysis
                                  Using Clock Difference Diagrams  . . . . 341
                 M. Glusman and   
                        S. Katz   Mechanizing Proofs of Computation
                                  Equivalence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
                P. Manolios and   
             K. S. Namjoshi and   
                     R. Sumners   Linking Theorem Proving and
                                  Model-Checking with Well-Founded
                                  Bisimulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
                      P. Bjesse   Automatic Verification of Combinational
                                  and Pipelined FFT Circuits . . . . . . . 380
             K. S. Namjoshi and   
                  R. P. Kurshan   Efficient Analysis of Cyclic Definitions 394
                    N. Klarlund   A Theory of Restrictions for Logics and
                                  Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
                 V. Boppana and   
                S. P. Rajan and   
                K. Takayama and   
                      M. Fujita   Model Checking Based on Sequential ATPG  418
                   M. Spielmann   Automatic Verification of Abstract State
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
                  H. Saiedi and   
                     N. Shankar   Abstract and Model Check while You Prove 443
                  A. Pnueli and   
                   Y. Rodeh and   
              O. Shtrichman and   
                      M. Siegel   Deciding Equality Formulas by Small
                                  Domains Instantiations . . . . . . . . . 455
               R. E. Bryant and   
                  S. German and   
                    M. N. Velev   Exploiting Positive Equality in a Logic
                                  of Equality with Uninterpreted Functions 470
                P. Buchholz and   
                      P. Kemper   A Toolbox for the Analysis of Discrete
                                  Event Dynamic Systems  . . . . . . . . . 483
                H. Hermanns and   
            V. Mertsiotakis and   
                      M. Siegle   TIPPtool: Compositional Specification
                                  and Analysis of Markovian Performance
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
                   D. Basin and   
               S. Friedrich and   
                 J. Posegga and   
                        H. Vogt   Java Bytecode Verification by Model
                                  Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
                 A. Cimatti and   
                  E. Clarke and   
             F. Giunchiglia and   
                      M. Roveri   NuSMV: A New Symbolic Model Verifier . . 495
                    J. Schumann   PIL/SETHEO: A Tool for the Automatic
                                  Analysis of Authentication Protocols . . 500


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1634, 1999

                  Daphne Koller   Probabilistic Relational Models  . . . . 3
                 Heikki Mannila   Inductive Databases (Abstract) . . . . . 14
                  J. R. Quinlan   Some Elements of Machine Learning
                                  (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . 15
                Liviu Badea and   
                 Monica Stanciu   Refinement Operators Can Be (Weakly)
                                  Perfect  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
                H. Bostroem and   
                       L. Asker   Combining Divide-and-Conquer and
                                  Separate-and-Conquer for Efficient and
                                  Effective Rule Induction . . . . . . . . 33
        Henrik Boström and   
                     Lars Asker   Combining Divide-and-Conquer and
                                  Separate-and-Conquer for Efficient and
                                  Effective Rule Induction . . . . . . . . 33
                    Ivan Bratko   Refining Complete Hypotheses in ILP  . . 44
               Kazuya Chiba and   
              Hayato Ohwada and   
                Fumio Mizoguchi   Acquiring Graphic Design Knowledge with
                                  Nonmonotonic Inductive Learning  . . . . 56
              James Cussens and   
          Sa\vso D\vzeroski and   
                Toma\vz Erjavec   Morphosyntactic Tagging of Slovene Using
                                  Progol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
          Sa\vso D\vzeroski and   
           Hendrik Blockeel and   
              Boris Kompare and   
              Stefan Kramer and   
        Bernhard Pfahringer and   
                   Wim Van Laer   Experiments in Predicting
                                  Biodegradability . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
                Peter Flach and   
               Nicolas Lachiche   1BC: A First-Order Bayesian Classifier   92
                 Alan M. Frisch   Sorted Downward Refinement: Building
                                  Background Knowledge into a Refinement
                                  Operator for Inductive Logic Programming 104
 J. Hernández-Orallo and   
  M. J. Ramírez-Quintana   A Strong Complete Schema for Inductive
                                  Functional Logic Programming . . . . . . 116
Tamás Horváth and   
       Zoltán Alexin and   
      Tibor Gyimóthy and   
                  Stefan Wrobel   Application of Different Learning
                                  Methods to Hungarian Part-of-Speech
                                  Tagging  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
                Dimitar Kazakov   Combining \sc Lapis and WordNet for the
                                  Learning of LR Parsers with Optimal
                                  Semantic Constraints . . . . . . . . . . 140
            Dimitar Kazakov and   
           Suresh Manandhar and   
                Toma\vz Erjavec   Learning Word Segmentation Rules for Tag
                                  Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
        Boonserm Kijsirikul and   
             Sukree Sinthupinyo   Approximate ILP Rules by Backpropagation
                                  Neural Network: A Result on Thai
                                  Character Recognition  . . . . . . . . . 162
              Nada Lavra\vc and   
                Peter Flach and   
                     Blaz Zupan   Rule Evaluation Measures: A Unifying
                                  View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
           Nikolaj Lindberg and   
                Martin Eineborg   Improving Part-of-Speech Disambiguation
                                  Rules by Adding Linguistic Knowledge . . 186
                Eric Martin and   
                    Arun Sharma   On Sufficient Conditions for
                                  Learnability of Logic Programs from
                                  Positive Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
               Herman Midelfart   A Bounded Search Space of Clausal
                                  Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
         Tetsuhiro Miyahara and   
          Takayoshi Shoudai and   
            Tomoyuki Uchida and   
           Tetsuji Kuboyama and   
          Kenichi Takahashi and   
                   Hiroaki Ueda   Discovering New Knowledge from Graph
                                  Data Using Inductive Logic Programming   222
          Stephen Muggleton and   
                   Michael Bain   Analogical Prediction  . . . . . . . . . 234
   Shan-Hwei Nienhuys-Cheng and   
               Wim Van Laer and   
                  Jan Ramon and   
                   Luc De Raedt   Generalizing Refinement Operators to
                                  Learn Prenex Conjunctive Normal Forms    245
              Rupert Parson and   
                Khalid Khan and   
              Stephen Muggleton   Theory Recovery  . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
                  Jan Ramon and   
                   Luc De Raedt   Instance Based Function Learning . . . . 268
                  Chiaki Sakama   Some Properties of Inverse Resolution in
                                  Normal Logic Programs  . . . . . . . . . 279
          Ashwin Srinivasan and   
               Ross D. King and   
             Douglas W. Bristol   An Assessment of ILP-Assisted Models for
                                  Toxicology and the PTE-3 Experiment  . . 291
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1636, 1999

              Scott Contini and   
           Ronald L. Rivest and   
           M. J. B. Robshaw and   
                 Yiqun Lisa Yin   Improved Analysis of Some Simplified
                                  Variants of RC6  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
                Johan Borst and   
               Bart Preneel and   
                Joos Vandewalle   Linear Cryptanalysis of RC5 and RC6  . . 16--30
                  Chae Hoon Lim   A Revised Version of \sc Crypton --- \sc
                                  Crypton V1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--45
             Carl D'Halluin and   
               Gert Bijnens and   
             Vincent Rijmen and   
                   Bart Preneel   Attack on Six Rounds of \sc Crypton  . . 46--59
                   Stefan Lucks   On the Security of the $ 128 $-Bit Block
                                  Cipher DEAL  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--70
             Mitsuru Matsui and   
                  Toshio Tokita   Cryptanalysis of a Reduced Version of
                                  the Block Cipher E2  . . . . . . . . . . 71--80
            Lars R. Knudsen and   
                 Vincent Rijmen   On the Decorrelated Fast Cipher (DFC)
                                  and Its Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--94
           Markus Jakobsson and   
            Julien P. Stern and   
                      Moti Yung   Scramble All, Encrypt Small  . . . . . . 95--111
                   Stefan Lucks   Accelerated Remotely Keyed Encryption    112--123
                  Eli Biham and   
              Alex Biryukov and   
                     Adi Shamir   Miss in the Middle Attacks on IDEA and
                                  Khufu  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--138
                John Kelsey and   
             Bruce Schneier and   
                   David Wagner   Mod $n$ Cryptanalysis, with Applications
                                  Against RC5P and M6  . . . . . . . . . . 139--155
                   David Wagner   The Boomerang Attack . . . . . . . . . . 156--170
               Sarvar Patel and   
            Zulfikar Ramzan and   
          Ganapathy S. Sundaram   Towards Making Luby-Rackoff Ciphers
                                  Optimal and Practical  . . . . . . . . . 171--185
              Anne Canteaut and   
            Pascale Charpin and   
                 Hans Dobbertin   A New Characterization of Almost Bent
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--200
            Kenneth G. Paterson   Imprimitive Permutation Groups and
                                  Trapdoors in Iterated Block Ciphers  . . 201--214
           Helena Handschuh and   
                   Bart Preneel   On the Security of Double and $2$-key
                                  Triple Modes of Operation  . . . . . . . 215--230
              Mihir Bellare and   
                Phillip Rogaway   On the Construction of
                                  Variable-Input-Length Ciphers  . . . . . 231--244
              Alex Biryukov and   
                   David Wagner   Slide Attacks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--259
                 Serge Vaudenay   On the Security of CS-Cipher . . . . . . 260--274
               Shiho Moriai and   
          Takeshi Shimoyama and   
               Toshinobu Kaneko   Interpolation Attacks of the Block
                                  Cipher: SNAKE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--289
             William Aiello and   
             S. Rajagopalan and   
         Ramarathnam Venkatesan   High-Speed Pseudorandom Number
                                  Generation with Small Memory . . . . . . 290--304
      Daniel Bleichenbacher and   
                   Sarvar Patel   SOBER Cryptanalysis  . . . . . . . . . . 305--316
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1638, 1999

              Grigoris Antoniou   On the Dynamics of Default Reasoning . . 1
                Ofer Arieli and   
                    Arnon Avron   Nonmonotonic and Paraconsistent
                                  Reasoning: From Basic Entailments to
                                  Plausible Relations  . . . . . . . . . . 11
  Ramón Béjar and   
                  Felip Many\`a   A comparison of systematic and local
                                  search algorithms for regular CNF
                                  formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
              F. Benhammadi and   
                 P. Nicolas and   
                      T. Schaub   Query-Answering in Prioritized Default
                                  Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
     Boutheina Ben Yaghlane and   
                Khaled Mellouli   Updating Directed Belief Networks  . . . 43
           Philippe Besnard and   
            Marie-Odile Cordier   Inferring Causal Explanations  . . . . . 55
          Christian Borgelt and   
                   Rudolf Kruse   A Critique of Inductive Causation  . . . 68
           Rachel A. Bourne and   
                  Simon Parsons   Connecting lexicographic with maximum
                                  entropy entailment . . . . . . . . . . . 80
                S. Bruening and   
                      T. Schaub   Avoiding non-ground variables  . . . . . 92
        Stefan Brüning and   
                 Torsten Schaub   Avoiding Non-ground Variables  . . . . . 92
          Silvia Coradeschi and   
           Alessandro Saffiotti   Anchoring Symbols to Vision Data by
                                  Fuzzy Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
             Corine Cossart and   
              Catherine Tessier   Filtering vs Revision and Update: Let Us
                                  Debate!  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
         Fabio Gagliardi Cozman   Irrelevance and independence axioms in
                                  quasi-Bayesian theory  . . . . . . . . . 128
              Didier Dubois and   
            Michel Grabisch and   
                    Henri Prade   Assessing the value of a candidate: A
                                  qualitative possibilistic approach . . . 137
      Béatrice Duval and   
                 Pascal Nicolas   Learning Default Theories  . . . . . . . 148
                 Peter A. Flach   Knowledge Representation for Inductive
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
           Eric Grégoire   Handling inconsistency efficiently in
                                  the incremental construction of
                                  stratified belief bases  . . . . . . . . 168
                 J. W. Guan and   
                     D. A. Bell   Rough Knowledge Discovery and
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
             Finn Verner Jensen   Gradient Descent Training of Bayesian
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
               Michael Kaminski   Open Default Theories over Closed
                                  Domains (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . 201
         Jeffrey O. Kephart and   
               Amy R. Greenwald   Shopbot Economics  . . . . . . . . . . . 208
    Fédia Khalfallah and   
                Khaled Mellouli   Optimized algorithm for learning
                                  Bayesian network from data . . . . . . . 221
 Sébastien Konieczny and   
 Ramón Pino Pérez   Merging with Integrity Constraints . . . 233
                  Ivan Kramosil   Boolean-like interpretation of Sugeno
                                  integral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
            Norbert Lehmann and   
                    Rolf Haenni   An alternative to outward propagation
                                  for Dempster-Shafer belief functions . . 256
               Thomas Linke and   
                 Torsten Schaub   On bottom-up pre-processing techniques
                                  for automated default reasoning  . . . . 268
         Thomas Lukasiewicz and   
         Gabriele Kern-Isberner   Probabilistic Logic Programming under
                                  Maximum Entropy  . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
           Anders L. Madsen and   
               Bruce D'Ambrosio   Lazy propagation and independence of
                                  causal influence . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
       Serafín Moral and   
        Antonio Salmerón   A Monte Carlo algorithm for combining
                                  Dempster-Shafer belief based on
                                  approximate pre-computation  . . . . . . 305
              Daniel Pacholczyk   An extension of a linguistic negation
                                  model allowing us to deny nuanced
                                  property combinations  . . . . . . . . . 316
              Simon Parsons and   
                     Shaw Green   Argumentation and Qualitative Decision
                                  Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
         Simon Petit-Renaud and   
               Thierry Den\oeux   Handling different forms of uncertainty
                                  in regression analysis: A fuzzy belief
                                  structure approach . . . . . . . . . . . 340
          Mich\`ele Rombaut and   
               Iman Jarkass and   
               Thierry Den\oeux   State recognition in discrete dynamical
                                  systems using Petri nets and evidence
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
            Murray Shanahan and   
                 Mark Witkowski   Robot navigation and map building with
                                  the event calculus . . . . . . . . . . . 362
            Stefan Siekmann and   
         Jörg Gebhardt and   
                   Rudolf Kruse   Information fusion in the context of
                                  stock index prediction . . . . . . . . . 363
         Leendert van der Torre   Defeasible Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
         Leendert van der Torre   Defeasible Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
                 Nic Wilson and   
     Jérôme Mengin   Logical deduction using the local
                                  computation framework  . . . . . . . . . 386
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1639, 1999

                     P. Varaiya   Design, Simulation, and Implementation
                                  of Hybrid Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                A. S. Miner and   
                      G. Ciardo   Efficient Reachability Set Generation
                                  and Storage Using Decision Diagrams  . . 6
                  E. Pastor and   
              J. Cortadella and   
              M. A. Peña   Structural Methods to Improve the
                                  Symbolic Analysis of Petri Nets  . . . . 26
                     K. Schmidt   Stubborn Sets for Standard Properties    46
                 R. Bastide and   
                P. Palanque and   
                      O. Sy and   
                       D.-H. Le   Petri Net Based Behavioural
                                  Specification of CORBA Systems . . . . . 66
                  O. Kummer and   
                   D. Moldt and   
                    F. Wienberg   Symmetric Communication between Coloured
                                  Petri Net Simulations and Java-Processes 86
                    B. H. Krogh   Recent Developments in Modeling and
                                  Analysis of Hybrid Dynamic Systems . . . 106
                 L. Recalde and   
                  E. Teruel and   
                       M. Silva   Autonomous Continuous P/T Systems  . . . 107
               A. Tokmakoff and   
                  J. Billington   An Approach to the Analysis of
                                  Interworking Traders . . . . . . . . . . 127
                S. Allmaier and   
                    D. Kreische   Parallel Approaches to the Numerical
                                  Transient Analysis of Stochastic Reward
                                  Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
                   L. Capra and   
                   R. Gaeta and   
                       O. Botti   SWN Nets as a Framework for the
                                  Specification and the Analysis of FT
                                  Techniques Adopted in Electric Plant
                                  Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
          C. N. Hadjicostis and   
                 G. C. Verghese   Monitoring Discrete Event Systems Using
                                  Petri Net Embeddings . . . . . . . . . . 188
                   M. Sgroi and   
                 L. Lavagno and   
                Y. Watanabe and   
     A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli   Quasi-Static Scheduling of Embedded
                                  Software Using Equal Conflict Nets . . . 208
                  S. Haddad and   
                  D. Poitrenaud   Theoretical Aspects of Recursive Petri
                                  Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
               C. Schneider and   
                      J. Wehler   Petri Net Theory --- Problems Solved by
                                  Commutative Algebra  . . . . . . . . . . 248
        P. Chrzastowski-Wachtel   Testing Undecidability of the
                                  Reachability in Petri Nets with the Help
                                  of 10th Hilbert Problem  . . . . . . . . 268
                 G. De Michelis   Net Theory and Workflow Models . . . . . 282
                      W. Vogler   Concurrent Implementation of
                                  Asynchronous Transition Systems  . . . . 284
                     J. Fanchon   Trace Channel Nets . . . . . . . . . . . 304
                       G. Juhas   Reasoning about Algebraic Generalisation
                                  of Petri Nets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
                    E. Best and   
               R. Devillers and   
                      M. Koutny   The Box Algebra --- A Model of Nets and
                                  Process Expressions  . . . . . . . . . . 344
             J.-M. Couvreur and   
                  D. Poitrenaud   Detection of Illegal Behaviours Based on
                                  Unfoldings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
               T.-Y. Cheung and   
                          Y. Lu   Five Classes of Invariant-Preserving
                                  Transformations on Colored Petri Nets    384
                    T. Baar and   
                 E. Kindler and   
                     H. Voelzer   Verifying Intuition --- ILF Checks DAWN
                                  Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1640, 1999

                        J. Sowa   Conceptual Graphs: Draft Proposed
                                  American National Standard . . . . . . . 1
                   G. W. Mineau   Constraints on Processes: Essential
                                  Elements for the Validation and
                                  Execution of Processes . . . . . . . . . 66
                 A. Nenkova and   
                    G. Angelova   User Modeling as an Application of
                                  Actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
                     J. Brennan   Spatial Universals as the Human Spatial
                                  Notion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
               K. Messaadia and   
                    M. Oussalah   Knowledge Engineering with Semantic and
                                  Transfer Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
                  J. Farkas and   
                       J. Sarbo   A Peircean Framework of Syntactic
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
                    J. Hess and   
                     W. R. Cyre   A CG-Based Behavior Extraction System    127
                  B. Moulin and   
                   H. Irandoust   Extending the Conceptual Graph Approach
                                  to Represent Evaluative Attitudes in
                                  Discourse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
                   S. Dogru and   
                   J. R. Slagle   Implementing a Semantic Lexicon  . . . . 154
                  B. Moulin and   
                  M. Gouiaa and   
                     S. Delisle   Analysis of Task-Oriented Conversations
                                  into Conceptual Graph Structures . . . . 168
                   J. Racky and   
                      M. Pandit   Using Conceptual Graphs as a Common
                                  Representation for Data and
                                  Configuration in an Active Image
                                  Processing System  . . . . . . . . . . . 176
                T. Braeuner and   
                  C. Donner and   
                  P. Oehrstroem   A Software System for Learning Peircean
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
                      A. Kabbaj   Synergy: A Conceptual Graph
                                  Activation-Based Language  . . . . . . . 198
                  P.-W. Fun and   
                     R. H. Kemp   On Developing Case-Based Tutorial
                                  Systems with Conceptual Graphs . . . . . 214
                  P. Martin and   
                      P. Eklund   Embedding Knowledge in Web Documents:
                                  CGs Versus XML-based Metadata Languages  230
                      A. Kabbaj   Synergy as an Hybrid Object-Oriented
                                  Conceptual Graph Language  . . . . . . . 247
                 F. Southey and   
                  J. G. Linders   NOTIO --- A Java API for Developing CG
                                  Tools  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
           T. Thanitsukkarn and   
                 A. Finkelstein   Multiperspective Analysis of the
                                  Sisyphus-I Room Allocation Task Modeled
                                  in a CG Meta-Representation Language . . 272
               S. Damianova and   
                   K. Toutanova   Using Conceptual Graphs to Solve a
                                  Resource Allocation Task . . . . . . . . 297
                  P. Martin and   
                      P. Eklund   WebKB and the Sisyphus-I Problem . . . . 315
                   G. W. Mineau   Constraints and Goals under the
                                  Conceptual Graph Formalism: One Way to
                                  Solve SCG-1 Problem  . . . . . . . . . . 334
                J. F. Baget and   
                  D. Genest and   
                  M. L. Mugnier   A Pure Graph-Based Solution to the SCG-1
                                  Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
                  B. Ganter and   
                       R. Wille   Contextual Attribute Logic . . . . . . . 377
                    B. Groh and   
                      P. Eklund   Algorithms for Creating Relational Power
                                  Context Families from Conceptual Graphs  389
                S. Prediger and   
                       R. Wille   The Lattice of Concept Graphs of a
                                  Relationally Scaled Context  . . . . . . 401
                   R. Raban and   
                      B. Garner   Contexts in Information Systems
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
               G. W. Mineau and   
                  G. Stumme and   
                       R. Wille   Conceptual Structures Represented by
                                  Conceptual Graphs and Formal Concept
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
                    J.-F. Baget   A Simulation of Co-identity with Rules
                                  in Simple and Nested Graphs  . . . . . . 442
                T. Braeuner and   
              J. F. Nilsson and   
                   A. Rasmussen   Conceptual Graphs as Algebras --- With
                                  an Application to Analogical Reasoning   456
                 D. Corbett and   
                    R. Woodbury   Unification over Constraints in
                                  Conceptual Structures  . . . . . . . . . 470
                  F. Baader and   
                 R. Molitor and   
                      S. Tobies   Tractable and Decidable Fragments of
                                  Conceptual Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 480
                    G. Kerdiles   Dynamic Semantics for Conceptual Graphs  494
                     D. Corbett   A Case for Variable-Arity Relations:
                                  Definitions and Domains  . . . . . . . . 508
                    V. Solovyev   Graph Structures in Parametric Spaces
                                  for Representation of Verbs  . . . . . . 510
                  M. Keeler and   
                  W. Tepfenhart   PORT: Peirce Online Resource Testbed . . 511
              W. Tepfenhart and   
                      M. Holder   Assuring Computer Agent Communications   513


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1642, 1999

                Marc Sebban and   
                 Gilles Richard   From Theoretical Learnability to
                                  Statistical Measures of the Learnable    3
        Oscar Cordón and   
              Francisco Herrera   ALM: A Methodology for Designing
                                  Accurate Linguistic Models for
                                  Intelligent Data Analysis  . . . . . . . 15
               Richard Nock and   
                   Pascal Jappy   A ``Top-Down and Prune'' Induction
                                  Scheme for Constrained Decision
                                  Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
          Walter A. Kosters and   
            Elena Marchiori and   
            Ard A. J. Oerlemans   Mining Clusters with Association Rules   39
              Stephen Swift and   
               Allan Tucker and   
                    Xiaohui Liu   Evolutionary Computation to Search for
                                  Strongly Correlated Variables in
                                  High-Dimensional Time-Series . . . . . . 51
                   Tapio Elomaa   The Biases of Decision Tree Pruning
                                  Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
                  Luis Talavera   Feature Selection as Retrospective
                                  Pruning in Hierarchical Clustering . . . 75
             Rosaria Silipo and   
            Michael R. Berthold   Discriminative Power of Input Features
                                  in a Fuzzy Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
               Laura Firoiu and   
                     Paul Cohen   Learning Elements of Representations for
                                  Redescribing Robot Experiences . . . . . 99
              Xingang Huang and   
                      Feng Zhao   ``Seeing'' Objects in Spatial Datasets   111
         Kazunori Matsumoto and   
                Kazuo Hashimoto   Intelligent Monitoring Method Using Time
                                  Varying Binomial Distribution Models for
                                  Pseudo-Periodic Communication Traffic    123
              Arthur Flexer and   
                  Herbert Bauer   Monitoring Human Information Processing
                                  via Intelligent Data Analysis of EEG
                                  Recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
          Gennady Andrienko and   
              Natalia Andrienko   Knowledge-Based Visualization to Support
                                  Spatial Data Mining  . . . . . . . . . . 149
                 Thomas Hofmann   Probabilistic Topic Maps: Navigating
                                  through Large Text Collections . . . . . 161
                        Li Yang   $3$D Grand Tour for Multidimensional
                                  Data and Clusters  . . . . . . . . . . . 173
               Rob Potharst and   
                   Jan C. Bioch   A Decision Tree Algorithm for Ordinal
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
           Paola Sebastiani and   
               Marco Ramoni and   
                 Paul Cohen and   
               John Warwick and   
                    James Davis   Discovering Dynamics Using Bayesian
                                  Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
              Luis Talavera and   
            Javier Béjar   Integrating Declarative Knowledge in
                                  Hierarchical Clustering Tasks  . . . . . 211
                  Mayer Aladjem   Nonparametric Linear Discriminant
                                  Analysis by Recursive Optimization with
                                  Random Initialization  . . . . . . . . . 223
              Mark G. Kelly and   
              David J. Hand and   
                 Niall M. Adams   Supervised Classification Problems: How
                                  to Be Both Judge and Jury  . . . . . . . 235
                     Cen Li and   
                  Gautam Biswas   Temporal Pattern Generation Using Hidden
                                  Markov Model Based Unsupervised
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
                E. Huellermeier   Exploiting Similarity for Supporting
                                  Data Analysis and Problem Solving  . . . 257
          Eyke Hüllermeier   Exploiting Similarity for Supporting
                                  Data Analysis and Problem Solving  . . . 257
          Susana Nascimento and   
               Boris Mirkin and   
           Fernando Moura-Pires   Multiple Prototype Model for Fuzzy
                                  Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
           Jeroen Eggermont and   
           Agoston E. Eiben and   
             Jano I. van Hemert   A Comparison of Genetic Programming
                                  Variants for Data Classification . . . . 281
              Frank Klawonn and   
                 Annette Keller   Fuzzy Clustering Based on Modified
                                  Distance Measures  . . . . . . . . . . . 291
                 Petko Valtchev   Building Classes in Object-Based
                                  Languages by Automatic Clustering  . . . 303
         Bart J. A. Mertens and   
                  David J. Hand   Adjusted Estimation for the Combination
                                  of Classifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
                Jihoon Yang and   
              Rajesh Parekh and   
             Vasant Honavar and   
                    Drena Dobbs   Data-Driven Theory Refinement Using \em
                                  KBDistAl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
             Matthew Easley and   
              Elizabeth Bradley   Reasoning about Input-Output Modeling of
                                  Dynamical Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 343
                 Russell Almond   Undoing Statistical Advice . . . . . . . 357
  Gabriela Guimarães and   
                  Alfred Ultsch   A Method for Temporal Knowledge
                                  Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
            Daniele Gunetti and   
                Giancarlo Ruffo   Intrusion Detection through Behavioral
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
         Paula E. Macrossan and   
          Hussein A. Abbass and   
            Kerry Mengersen and   
             Michael Towsey and   
                    Gerard Finn   Bayesian Neural Network Learning for
                                  Prediction in the Australian Dairy
                                  Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
               Doug Talbert and   
                    Doug Fisher   Exploiting Sample-Data Distributions to
                                  Reduce the Cost of Nearest-Neighbor
                                  Searches with $ K d $-Trees  . . . . . . 407
            David M. J. Tax and   
             Alexander Ypma and   
              Robert P. W. Duin   Pump Failure Detection Using Support
                                  Vector Data Descriptions . . . . . . . . 415
            Thorsten Poddig and   
                    Claus Huber   Data Mining for the Detection of Turning
                                  Points in Financial Time Series  . . . . 427
      Bokyung Yang-Stephens and   
           M. Charles Swope and   
              Jeffrey Locke and   
             Isabelle Moulinier   Computer-Assisted Classification of
                                  Legal Abstracts  . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
            Yoshitomo Ikkai and   
             Kazuhisa Ikeda and   
            Norihisa Komoda and   
               Akira Yamane and   
                      Isao Tone   Sequential Control Logic Inferring
                                  Method from Observed Plant I/O Data  . . 449
             Gongxian Cheng and   
                 Kwawen Cho and   
                Xiaohui Liu and   
              George Loizou and   
                     John X. Wu   Evaluating an Eye Screening Test . . . . 461
 José M. Peña and   
  Sylvain Létourneau and   
                   Fazel Famili   Application of Rough Sets Algorithms to
                                  Prediction of Aircraft Component Failure 473
                  J. Fuernkranz   Exploiting Structural Information for
                                  Text Classification on the WWW . . . . . 487
        Johannes Fürnkranz   Exploiting Structural Information for
                                  Text Classification on the WWW . . . . . 487
               Yong S. Choi and   
                     Suk I. Yoo   Multi-agent Web Information Retrieval:
                                  Neural Network Based Approach  . . . . . 499
          Daniel R. Tauritz and   
     Ida G. Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper   Adaptive Information Filtering
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
            Nastaran Fatemi and   
                Philippe Mulhem   A Conceptual Graph Approach for Video
                                  Data Representation and Retrieval  . . . 525


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1643, 1999

                 Y. Frankel and   
                    M. Yung and   
                   P. MacKenzie   Adaptively-Secure Distributed Public-Key
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
                       B. Korte   How Long Does a Bit Live in a Computer?  28
                    R. Ravi and   
                   F. S. Salman   Approximation Algorithms for the
                                  Traveling Purchaser Problem and Its
                                  Variants in Network Design . . . . . . . 29
                    K. Diks and   
                 D. Krizanc and   
                E. Kranakis and   
                        A. Pelc   The Impact of Knowledge on Broadcasting
                                  Time in Radio Networks (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
                   K. Iwama and   
                      E. Miyano   Multipacket Routing on $2$-D Meshes and
                                  Its Application to Fault-Tolerant
                                  Routing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
               P. Crescenzi and   
                 L. Dardini and   
                      R. Grossi   IP Address Lookup Made Fast and Simple   65
                 A. Bar-Noy and   
                  A. Freund and   
                        J. Naor   On-Line Load Balancing in a Hierarchical
                                  Server Topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
        F. M. Auf der Heide and   
              M. Westermann and   
                    B. Voecking   Provably Good and Practical Strategies
                                  for Non-uniform Data Management in
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
             S. J. Phillips and   
                J. R. Westbrook   Approximation Algorithms for Restoration
                                  Capacity Planning  . . . . . . . . . . . 101
              R. Bar-Yehuda and   
                      D. Rawitz   Efficient Algorithms for Integer
                                  Programs with Two Variables per
                                  Constraint (Extended Abstract) . . . . . 116
                    M. Skutella   Convex Quadratic Programming Relaxations
                                  for Network Scheduling Problems  . . . . 127
             R. H. Moehring and   
                   F. Stork and   
                    M. Uetz and   
                   A. S. Schulz   Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling:
                                  Computing Lower Bounds by Solving
                                  Minimum Cut Problems . . . . . . . . . . 139
                 L. Epstein and   
                       J. Sgall   Approximation Schemes for Scheduling on
                                  Uniformly Related and Identical Parallel
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
                    Y. Azar and   
                       O. Regev   Off-Line Temporary Tasks Assignment  . . 163
                 S. Bischof and   
             T. Schickinger and   
                      A. Steger   Load Balancing Using Bisectors --- A
                                  Tight Average-Case Analysis  . . . . . . 172
                  T. Jansen and   
                     I. Wegener   On the Analysis of Evolutionary
                                  Algorithms --- A Proof That Crossover
                                  Really Can Help  . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
                P. Nicodeme and   
                   B. Salvy and   
                    P. Flajolet   Motif Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
                        V. Heun   Approximate Protein Folding in the HP
                                  Side Chain Model on Extended Cubic
                                  Lattices (Extended Abstract) . . . . . . 212
                 A. Crauser and   
                   P. Ferragina   On Constructing Suffix Arrays in
                                  External Memory  . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
                E. S. Laber and   
              R. L. Milidiu and   
                   A. A. Pessoa   Strategies for Searching with Different
                                  Access Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
                    C. Ting and   
                      M.-Y. Kao   On the Informational Asymmetry between
                                  Upper and Lower Bounds for Ultrametric
                                  Evolutionary Trees . . . . . . . . . . . 248
                F. Cicalese and   
                     D. Mundici   Optimal Binary Search with Two
                                  Unreliable Tests and Minimum
                                  Adaptiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
                       S. Roura   Improving Mergesort for Linked Lists . . 267
                     G. Manzini   Efficient Algorithms for On-Line Symbol
                                  Ranking Compression (Extended Abstract)  277
             E. J. Anderson and   
               A. R. Karlin and   
                 K. Hildrum and   
                      A. Rasala   On List Update and Work Function
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
                 W. W. Bein and   
              L. L. Larmore and   
                     M. Chrobak   The $3$-Server Problem in the Plane
                                  (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . 301
                   V. Berry and   
                   T. Jiang and   
                 P. Kearney and   
                          M. Li   Quartet Cleaning: Improved Algorithms
                                  and Simulations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
                    B. Gaertner   Fast and Robust Smallest Enclosing Balls 325
                E. Nardelli and   
                  M. Talamo and   
                       P. Vocca   Efficient Searching for
                                  Multi-dimensional Data Made Simple
                                  (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . 339
                    B. Chazelle   Geometric Searching over the Rationals   354
          D. V. Finocchiaro and   
                  M. Pellegrini   On Computing the Diameter of a Point Set
                                  in High Dimensional Euclidean Space  . . 366
         S. G. Kolliopoulos and   
                         S. Rao   A Nearly Linear-Time Approximation
                                  Scheme for the Euclidean $k$-median
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
                 A. Bar-Noy and   
          M. M. Halldorsson and   
                G. Kortsarz and   
                      R. Salman   Sum Multi-coloring of Graphs . . . . . . 390
                  P. Krysta and   
                       K. Lorys   Efficient Approximation Algorithms for
                                  the Achromatic Number  . . . . . . . . . 402
                   T. Ishii and   
               H. Nagamochi and   
                     T. Ibaraki   Augmenting a $ (k - 1)
                                  $-Vertex-Connected Multigraph to an
                                  $1$-Edge-Connected and
                                  $k$-Vertex-Connected Multigraph  . . . . 414
                 B. Verweij and   
                      K. Aardal   An Optimisation Algorithm for Maximum
                                  Independent Set with Applications in Map
                                  Labelling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
                  M.-Y. Kao and   
                  T.-W. Lam and   
                 W.-K. Sung and   
                      H.-F Ting   A Decomposition Theorem for Maximum
                                  Weight Bipartite Matchings with
                                  Applications to Evolutionary Trees . . . 438
                   L. Drori and   
                       D. Peleg   Faster Exact Solutions for Some NP-Hard
                                  Problems (Extended Abstract) . . . . . . 450
                       L. Moura   A Polyhedral Algorithm for Packings and
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
                      A. Akhavi   Threshold Phenomena in Random Lattices
                                  and Efficient Reduction Algorithms . . . 476
                    A. A. Ageev   On Finding the Maximum Number of
                                  Disjoint Cuts in Seymour Graphs  . . . . 490
                J. Cheriyan and   
                  T. Jordan and   
                        R. Ravi   On $2$-Coverings and $2$-Packings of
                                  Laminar Families . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
                         I. Pak   Random Cayley Graphs with $ O(\log |G|)
                                  $ Generators Are Expanders . . . . . . . 521
                    P. Hell and   
                  R. Shamir and   
                      R. Sharan   A Fully Dynamic Algorithm for
                                  Recognizing and Representing Proper
                                  Interval Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
                      X. He and   
                  M.-Y. Kao and   
                       H.-I. Lu   A Fast General Methodology for
                                  Information Theoretically Optimal
                                  Encodings of Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . 540


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1644, 1999

            Miklós Ajtai   Generating Hard Instances of the Short
                                  Basis Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                  Luca Cardelli   Wide Area Computation  . . . . . . . . . 10
           Kevin J. Compton and   
                   Scott Dexter   Proof Techniques for Cryptographic
                                  Protocols  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
                 Karl Crary and   
                 Greg Morrisett   Type Structure for Low-Level Programming
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
                  Felipe Cucker   Real Computations with Fake Numbers  . . 55
                N. G. de Bruijn   A Model for Associative Memory, a Basis
                                  for Thinking and Consciousness . . . . . 74
                N. G. De Bruijn   A Model for Associative Memory, a Basis
                                  for Thinking and Consciousness . . . . . 74
               Abbas Edalat and   
               Marko Krznari\'c   Numerical Integration with Exact Real
                                  Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--104
                Juris Hartmanis   Observations about the Nature and State
                                  of Computer Science (Keynote Address)    105
         Grzegorz Rozenberg and   
                   Arto Salomaa   DNA Computing: New Ideas and Paradigms   106
           Jeffrey Scott Vitter   Online Data Structures in External
                                  Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
                 Osamu Watanabe   From Computational Learning Theory to
                                  Discovery Science  . . . . . . . . . . . 134
              Eric Allender and   
            Andris Ambainis and   
    David A. Mix Barrington and   
                Samir Datta and   
            Huong LêThanh   Bounded Depth Arithmetic Circuits:
                                  Counting and Closure . . . . . . . . . . 149
                Rajeev Alur and   
            Kousha Etessami and   
         Salvatore La Torre and   
                    Doron Peled   Parametric Temporal Logic for ``Model
                                  Measuring``  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
                Rajeev Alur and   
             Sampath Kannan and   
             Mihalis Yannakakis   Communicating Hierarchical State
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
       Alexander E. Andreev and   
           Juri L. Baskakov and   
      Andrea E. F. Clementi and   
        José D. P. Rolim   Small Pseudo-Random Sets Yield Hard
                                  Functions: New Tight Explicit Lower
                                  Bounds for Branching Programs (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
        Marek A. Bednarczyk and   
       Andrzej M. Borzyszkowski   General Morphisms of Petri Nets
                                  (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . 190
               Piotr Berman and   
                Marek Karpinski   On Some Tighter Inapproximability
                                  Results (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . 200
            Patricia Bouyer and   
                  Antoine Petit   Decomposition and Composition of Timed
                                  Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
              Harry Buhrman and   
                  Tao Jiang and   
                    Ming Li and   
            Paul Vitányi   New Applications of the
                                  Incompressibility Method (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
              Luca Cardelli and   
             Giorgio Ghelli and   
               Andrew D. Gordon   Mobility Types for Mobile Ambients . . . 230
                    Peter Clote   Protein Folding, the Levinthal Paradox
                                  and Rapidly Mixing Markov Chains . . . . 240
          Veronique Cortier and   
           Harald Ganzinger and   
         Florent Jacquemard and   
                  Margus Veanes   Decidable Fragments of Simultaneous
                                  Rigid Reachability . . . . . . . . . . . 250
              M. Crochemore and   
                 F. Mignosi and   
                 A. Restivo and   
                      S. Salemi   Text Compression Using Antidictionaries  261
               A. De Santis and   
            G. Di Crescenzo and   
                    G. Persiano   Non-interactive Zero-Knowledge: A
                                  Low-Randomness Characterization of NP
                                  (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . 271
               A. De Santis and   
            G. Di Crescenzo and   
                    G. Persiano   Non-interactive Zero-Knowledge: A
                                  Low-Randomness Characterization of NP    271
              M. Dickhoefer and   
                       T. Wilke   Timed Alternating Tree Automata: The
                                  Automata-Theoretic Solution to the TCTL
                                  Model Checking Problem . . . . . . . . . 281
      Martin Dickhöfer and   
                   Thomas Wilke   Timed Alternating Tree Automata: The
                                  Automata-Theoretic Solution to the TCTL
                                  Model Checking Problem . . . . . . . . . 281
             Yevgeniy Dodis and   
                 Sanjeev Khanna   Space-Time Tradeoffs for Graph
                                  Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
                 C. Dufourd and   
                P. Jan\vcar and   
                Ph. Schnoebelen   Boundedness of Reset P/T Nets  . . . . . 301
           Joost Engelfriet and   
          Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom   Two-Way Finite State Transducers and
                                  Monadic Second-Order Logic . . . . . . . 311
              Sergio Flesca and   
                   Sergio Greco   Partially Ordered Regular Languages for
                                  Graph Queries (Extended Abstract)  . . . 321
               Markus Frick and   
                   Martin Grohe   Deciding First-Order Properties of
                                  Locally Tree-Decomposable Graphs . . . . 331
                  Vashti Galpin   Comparison of Process Algebra
                                  Equivalences Using Formats . . . . . . . 341
             Cyril Gavoille and   
                Nicolas Hanusse   Compact Routing Tables for Graphs of
                                  Bounded Genus (Extended Abstract)  . . . 351
              Georg Gottlob and   
               Nicola Leone and   
            Francesco Scarcello   Computing LOGCFL Certificates  . . . . . 361
             Roberto Grossi and   
           Giuseppe F. Italiano   Efficient Techniques for Maintaining
                                  Multidimensional Keys in Linked Data
                                  Structures (Extended Abstract) . . . . . 372
               Arvind Gupta and   
               Damon Kaller and   
                 Thomas Shermer   On the Complements of Partial $k$-Trees  382
              Mikael Hammar and   
               Bengt J. Nilsson   Approximation Results for Kinetic
                                  Variants of TSP  . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
              Yehuda Hassin and   
                    David Peleg   Distributed Probabilistic Polling and
                                  Applications to Proportionate Agreement  402
                   Yu Zhang and   
              Alan K. Mackworth   A Multi-level Constraint-Based
                                  Controller for the Dynamo98 Robot Soccer
                                  Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
            Yoram Hirshfeld and   
                    Mark Jerrum   Bisimulation Equivalence Is Decidable
                                  for Normed Process Algebra (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
            Yoram Hirshfeld and   
           Alexander Rabinovich   A Framework for Decidable Metrical
                                  Logics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
          Juraj Hromkovi\vc and   
                Georg Schnitger   On the Power of Las Vegas. II. Two-Way
                                  Finite Automata  . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
                Kazuo Iwama and   
              David Manlove and   
           Shuichi Miyazaki and   
                Yasufumi Morita   Stable Marriage with Incomplete Lists
                                  and Ties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
                  Tao Jiang and   
                    Ming Li and   
            Paul Vitányi   Average-Case Complexity of Shellsort
                                  (Preliminary Version)  . . . . . . . . . 453--462
              Dong Kyue Kim and   
                    Kunsoo Park   Linear-Time Construction of
                                  Two-Dimensional Suffix Trees (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--472
                 Daniel Kirsten   A Connection between the Star Problem
                                  and the Finite Power Property in Trace
                                  Monoids (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . 473
             Daniel Kirsten and   
             Jerzy Marcinkowski   Two Techniques in the Area of the Star
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
            Matthias Krause and   
        Petr Savický and   
                   Ingo Wegener   Approximations by OBDDs and the Variable
                                  Ordering Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
    Antonín Ku\vcera and   
                   Richard Mayr   Simulation Preorder on Simple Process
                                  Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
              Cosimo Laneve and   
              Björn Victor   Solos in Concert . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
              Mark Lanthier and   
            Anil Maheshwari and   
    Jörg-Rüdiger Sack   Shortest Anisotropic Paths on Terrains   524
                A. Lepistö   Relations between Local and Global
                                  Periodicity of Words . . . . . . . . . . 534
                    A. Lepistoe   Relations Between Local and Global
                                  Periodicity of Words (Extended Abstract) 534
             Andrzej Lingas and   
                Hans Olsson and   
               Anna Östlin   Efficient Merging, Construction, and
                                  Maintenance of Evolutionary Trees  . . . 544
                 Marino Miculan   Formalizing a Lazy Substitution Proof
                                  System for $ \mu $-Calculus in the
                                  Calculus of Inductive Constructions  . . 554--564
            Codrin Nichitiu and   
             Eric Rémila   Leader Election by $d$ Dimensional
                                  Cellular Automata  . . . . . . . . . . . 565
           Rolf Niedermeier and   
               Peter Rossmanith   New Upper Bounds for MaxSat  . . . . . . 575
            Vadim Olshevsky and   
                  Victor Y. Pan   Polynomial and Rational Evaluation and
                                  Interpolation (with Structured Matrices) 585
                    Rasmus Pagh   Low Redundancy in Static Dictionaries
                                  with $ O(1) $ Worst Case Lookup Time . . 595
                Timo Peichl and   
               Heribert Vollmer   Finite Automata with Generalized
                                  Acceptance Criteria  . . . . . . . . . . 605
                David Peleg and   
                   Eilon Reshef   A Variant of the Arrow Distributed
                                  Directory with Low Average Complexity
                                  (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . 615
                 John Power and   
                 Hayo Thielecke   Closed Freyd- and $ \kappa $-Categories  625
              Jon G. Riecke and   
                 Hayo Thielecke   Typed Exceptions and Continuations
                                  Cannot Macro-Express Each Other  . . . . 635
             J. J. M. M. Rutten   Automata, Power Series, and Coinduction:
                                  Taking Input Derivatives Seriously
                                  (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . 645
                  Peter Sanders   Accessing Multiple Sequences Through Set
                                  Associative Caches . . . . . . . . . . . 655
Géraud Sénizergues   $ T(A) = T(B) $? . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
                  Mario Szegedy   Many-Valued Logics and Holographic
                                  Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676
              Christopher Umans   On the Complexity and Inapproximability
                                  of Shortest Implicant Problems . . . . . 687
            Klaus Weihrauch and   
                     Ning Zhong   The Wave Propagator Is Turing Computable 697
           Gerhard J. Woeginger   An FPTAS for Agreeably Weighted Variance
                                  on a Single Machine (Extended Abstract)  707
                      A. Tiskin   Erratum: Bulk-Synchronous Parallel
                                  Multiplication of Boolean Matrices . . . 717
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1645, 1999

                Takuya Kida and   
            Masayuki Takeda and   
            Ayumi Shinohara and   
                 Setsuo Arikawa   Shift-And Approach to Pattern Matching
                                  in LZW Compressed Text . . . . . . . . . 1
            Gonzalo Navarro and   
               Mathieu Raffinot   A General Practical Approach to Pattern
                                  Matching over Ziv--Lempel Compressed
                                  Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
             Yusuke Shibata and   
            Masayuki Takeda and   
            Ayumi Shinohara and   
                 Setsuo Arikawa   Pattern Matching in Text Compressed by
                                  Using Antidictionaries . . . . . . . . . 37
             David Liben-Nowell   On the Structure of Syntenic Distance    50
          Serafim Batzoglou and   
                  Sorin Istrail   Physical Mapping with Repeated Probes:
                                  The Hypergraph Superstring Problem . . . 66
           Nadia El-Mabrouk and   
                  David Sankoff   Hybridization and Genome Rearrangement   78
               Amir Ben-Dor and   
                Itsik Pe'er and   
                 Ron Shamir and   
                   Roded Sharan   On the Complexity of Positional
                                  Sequencing by Hybridization  . . . . . . 88
            Giuseppe Lancia and   
                        R. Ravi   GESTALT: Genomic Steiner Alignments  . . 101
           Daniel S. Hirschberg   Bounds on the Number of String
                                  Subsequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
             Jeong Seop Sim and   
       Costas S. Iliopoulos and   
                Kunsoo Park and   
               William F. Smyth   Approximate Periods of Strings . . . . . 123
Gerth Stòlting Brodal and   
      Rune B. Lyngsò and   
   Christian N. S. Pedersen and   
                     Jens Stoye   Finding Maximal Pairs with Bounded Gap   134
                       H. Yakoo   A Dynamic Data Structure for Reverse
                                  Lexicographically Sorted Prefixes  . . . 150
                Hidetoshi Yokoo   A Dynamic Data Structure for Reverse
                                  Lexicographically Sorted Prefixes  . . . 150
            Gonzalo Navarro and   
            Ricardo Baeza-Yates   A New Indexing Method for Approximate
                                  String Matching  . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
              J. Karhumaeki and   
              W. Plandowski and   
                      W. Rytter   The Compression of Subsegments of Images
                                  Described by Finite Automata . . . . . . 186
      Juhani Karhumäki and   
        Wojciech Plandowski and   
                Wojciech Rytter   The Compression of Subsegments of Images
                                  Described by Finite Automata . . . . . . 186
             Strahil Ristov and   
                   Eric Laporte   Ziv Lempel Compression of Huge Natural
                                  Language Data Tries Using Suffix Arrays  196
             Tatsuya Akutsu and   
            Kyotetsu Kanaya and   
               Akira Ohyama and   
                  Asao Fujiyama   Matching of Spots in $2$D
                                  Electrophoresis Images. Point Matching
                                  Under Non-uniform Distortions  . . . . . 212
                    Carola Wenk   Applying an Edit Distance to the
                                  Matching of Tree Ring Sequences in
                                  Dendrochronology . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
            Gonzalo Navarro and   
            Ricardo Baeza-Yates   Fast Multi-dimensional Approximate
                                  Pattern Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
               Zhuozhi Wang and   
                 Kaizhong Zhang   Finding Common RNA Secondary Structures
                                  from RNA Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 258
                 W. Zhuozhi and   
                    Z. Kaizhong   Finding Common RNA Secondary Structures
                                  from RNA Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 258
              Patricia A. Evans   Finding Common Subsequences with Arcs
                                  and Pseudoknots  . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
                Z. Kaizhong and   
                 W. Lusheng and   
                         M. Bin   Computing Similarity between RNA
                                  Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
             Kaizhong Zhang and   
               Lusheng Wang and   
                         Bin Ma   Computing Similarity between RNA
                                  Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1647, 1999

                 N. R. Jennings   Agent-Oriented Software Engineering  . . 1--7
               D. E. Herlea and   
               C. M. Jonker and   
                   J. Treur and   
            N. J. E. Wijngaards   Specification of Behavioural
                                  Requirements within Compositional
                                  Multi-agent System Design  . . . . . . . 8--27
               K. S. Barber and   
                  T. H. Liu and   
                      D. C. Han   Agent-Oriented Design  . . . . . . . . . 28--40
                P. Charlton and   
                     E. Mamdani   A Developer's Perspective on Mult-agent
                                  System Design  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--51
                F. Bergenti and   
                       A. Poggi   A Development Environment for the
                                  Realization of Open and Scalable
                                  Multi-agent Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 52--62
                   V. Botti and   
              C. Carrascosa and   
                  V. Julian and   
                       J. Soler   Modelling Agents in Hard Real-Time
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--76
               M. Cremonini and   
                 A. Omicini and   
                  F. Zambonelli   Multi-agent Systems on the Internet.
                                  Extending the Scope of Coordination
                                  towards Security and Topology  . . . . . 77--88
 Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni and   
                  S. Haddad and   
                     H. Mazouzi   Protocol Engineering for Multi-agent
                                  Interaction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--101
                    J. Pitt and   
                     A. Mamdani   Designing Agent Communication Languages
                                  for Multi-agent Systems  . . . . . . . . 102--114
                  T. Carron and   
                  H. Proton and   
                    O. Boissier   A Temporal Agent Communication Language
                                  for Dynamic Multi-agent Systems  . . . . 115--127
                  A. Amandi and   
                  A. Zunino and   
                   R. Iturregui   Multi-paradigm Languages Supporting
                                  Multi-agent Development  . . . . . . . . 128--139
                   M. Schroeder   An Efficient Argumentation Framework for
                                  Negotiating Autonomous Agents  . . . . . 140--149
                  M. Barbuceanu   Negotiating Service Provisioning . . . . 150--161
               N. Griffiths and   
                        M. Luck   Cooperative Plan Selection through Trust 162--174
                   N. David and   
              J. S. Sichman and   
                      H. Coelho   Extending Social Reasoning to Cope with
                                  Multiple Partner Coalitions  . . . . . . 175--187
           C. Castelfranchi and   
                     R. Falcone   Basic Mental Attitudes of a
                                  Collaborating Agent: Cognitive
                                  Primitives for MAS . . . . . . . . . . . 188--209
                  A. Moreno and   
                  U. Cortes and   
                       T. Sales   Subjective Situations  . . . . . . . . . 210--220
               C. M. Jonker and   
                       J. Treur   Formal Analysis of Models for the
                                  Dynamics of Trust Based on Experiences   221--232


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1648, 1999

               Neil Daswani and   
                      Dan Boneh   Experimenting with Electronic Commerce
                                  on the PalmPilot . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
                  Hugo Krawczyk   Blinding of Credit Card Numbers in the
                                  SET Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--28
                      Ari Juels   Trustee Tokens: Simple and Practical
                                  Anonymous Digital Coin Tracing . . . . . 29--45
               Tomas Sander and   
                  Amnon Ta-Shma   Flow Control: A New Approach for
                                  Anonymity Control in Electronic Cash
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--61
                   Yacov Yacobi   Risk Management for E-Cash Systems with
                                  Partial Real-Time Audit  . . . . . . . . 62--71
             Kazuo J. Ezawa and   
       Gregory Napiorkowski and   
              Mariusz Kossarski   Assessment of Effectiveness of
                                  Counterfeit Transaction Detection
                                  Systems for Smart Card Based Electronic
                                  Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--85
                Reto Kohlas and   
                    Ueli Maurer   Reasoning about Public-Key
                                  Certification: On Bindings between
                                  Entities and Public Keys . . . . . . . . 86--103
                Barbara Fox and   
                Brian LaMacchia   Online Certificate Status Checking in
                                  Financial Transactions: The Case for
                                  Re-issuance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--117
                 Adi Shamir and   
              Nicko van Someren   Playing ``Hide and Seek'' with Stored
                                  Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--124
           Markus Breitbach and   
                    Hideki Imai   On Channel Capacity and Modulation of
                                  Watermarks in Digital Still Images . . . 125--139
             Michel Abdalla and   
              Yuval Shavitt and   
                   Avishai Wool   Towards Making Broadcast Encryption
                                  Practical  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--157
           David W. Kravitz and   
            David M. Goldschlag   Conditional Access Concepts and
                                  Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--172
                 Jon Callas and   
            Joan Feigenbaum and   
           David Goldschlag and   
                    Erin Sawyer   Fair Use, Intellectual Property, and the
                                  Information Economy (Panel Session
                                  Summary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--183
           Stuart Schechter and   
               Todd Parnell and   
            Alexander Hartemink   Anonymous Authentication of Membership
                                  in Dynamic Groups  . . . . . . . . . . . 184--195
          Giuseppe Ateniese and   
                    Gene Tsudik   Some Open Issues and New Directions in
                                  Group Signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--211
           Philip MacKenzie and   
               Jeffrey Sorensen   Anonymous Investing: Hiding the
                                  Identities of Stockholders . . . . . . . 212--229
      Stuart G. Stubblebine and   
               Paul F. Syverson   Fair On-Line Auctions without Special
                                  Trusted Parties  . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--240
               Yair Frankel and   
                      Moti Yung   Cryptosystems Robust against ``Dynamic
                                  Faults'' Meet Enterprise Needs for
                                  Organizational ``Change Control''  . . . 241--252
           Markus Jakobsson and   
                Joy Müller   Improved Magic Ink Signatures Using
                                  Hints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--267


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1649, 1999

                   J. D. Ullman   Some Advances in Data-Mining Techniques  1
              Z. Bar-Yossef and   
                   Y. Kanza and   
                   Y. Kogan and   
                        W. Nutt   Querying Semantically Tagged Documents
                                  on the World-WideWeb . . . . . . . . . . 2
              D. Konopnicki and   
                     O. Shmueli   WWW Exploration Queries  . . . . . . . . 20
                  P. Shoval and   
                 B. Shapira and   
                      U. Hanani   Strategies for Filtering E-mail Messages
                                  Combining Content-Based and Sociological
                                  Filtering with User-Stereotypes  . . . . 40
                C. Oliveira and   
           L. G. V. Resende and   
                     R. Lehmann   Interactive Query Expansion in a
                                  Meta-search Engine . . . . . . . . . . . 50
                 A. Henrich and   
                       S. Jamin   On the Optimization of Queries
                                  Containing Regular Path Expressions  . . 58
                     P. Baumann   A Database Array Algebra for
                                  Spatio-Temporal Data and Beyond  . . . . 76
                   A. Sapir and   
                       E. Gudes   Dynamic Relationships and Their
                                  Propagation and Concurrency Semantics in
                                  Object-Oriented Databases  . . . . . . . 94
                 O. Wolfson and   
                  P. Sistla and   
                      B. Xu and   
                        J. Zhou   Tracking Moving Objects Using Database
                                  Technology in DOMINO . . . . . . . . . . 112
                     L. Mengchi   OLOG: A Deductive Object Database
                                  Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
                       A. Motro   Multiplex: A Formal Model for
                                  Multidatabases and Its Implementation    138
                  M. Golani and   
                      O. Etzion   Temporal Active Rules  . . . . . . . . . 159
                    Y. Birk and   
                      M. Mokryn   Cost-Effective Jukebox Storage via
                                  Hybrid File-Block Caching  . . . . . . . 173
           V. Christophides and   
                 C. Houstis and   
                   S. Lalis and   
                   H. Tsalapata   Onthology-Driven Integration of
                                  Scientific Repositories  . . . . . . . . 190
              M. Schoenhoff and   
                  M. Straessler   Global Version Management for a
                                  Federated Turbine Design Environment . . 203
                   M. Peleg and   
                        D. Dori   From Object-Process Diagrams to a
                                  Natural Object-Process Language  . . . . 221
               O. Edelstein and   
                   A. Yaeli and   
                       G. Zodik   e-Colabra: An Enterprise Collaboration
                                  and Reuse Environment  . . . . . . . . . 229
                       C. Mohan   Workflow Management in the Internet Age  237
                  P. Koksal and   
                  I. Cingil and   
                       A. Dogac   A Component-Based Workflow System with
                                  Dynamic Modifications  . . . . . . . . . 238
                  N. K. Cicekli   A Temporal Reasoning Approach to Model
                                  Workflow Activities  . . . . . . . . . . 256
                  Y. Gidron and   
               I. Ben-Shaul and   
                      Y. Aridor   Dynamic Configuration and Enforcement of
                                  Access Control for Mobile Components . . 267
                J. E. Wolff and   
                  A. B. Cremers   The My VIEW Project: A Data Warehousing
                                  Approach to Personalized Digital
                                  Libraries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
                S. Nestorov and   
                        S. Tsur   Integrating Data Mining with Relational
                                  DBMS: A Tightly-Coupled Approach . . . . 295
                  D. Carmel and   
                   Y. S. Maarek   Morphological Disambiguation for Hebrew
                                  Search Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1650, 1999

   Josep Lluís Arcos and   
    Dolores Cañamero and   
Ramon López de Mántaras   Affect-Driven CBR to Generate Expressive
                                  Music  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
           Enrico Blanzieri and   
                Francesco Ricci   Probability Based Metrics for Nearest
                                  Neighbor Classification and Case-Based
                                  Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
               L. Karl Branting   Active Exploration in Instance-Based
                                  Preference Modeling  . . . . . . . . . . 29
           L. Karl Branting and   
                         Yi Tao   A Multiple-Domain Evaluation of
                                  Stratified Case-Based Reasoning  . . . . 44
            S. Brueninghaus and   
                   K. D. Ashley   Bootstrapping Case Base Development with
                                  Annotated Case Summaries . . . . . . . . 59
  Stefanie Brüninghaus and   
                Kevin D. Ashley   Bootstrapping Case Base Development with
                                  Annotated Case Summaries . . . . . . . . 59
          Christina Carrick and   
                 Qiang Yang and   
             Irene Abi-Zeid and   
                 Luc Lamontagne   Activating CBR Systems through
                                  Autonomous Information Gathering . . . . 74
Juan Manuel Adán Coello and   
      Ronaldo Camilo dos Santos   Integrating CBR and Heuristic Search for
                                  Learning and Reusing Solutions in
                                  Real-Time Task Scheduling  . . . . . . . 89
      Béatrice Fuchs and   
                Jean Lieber and   
                Alain Mille and   
                  Amedeo Napoli   Towards a Unified Theory of Adaptation
                                  in Case-Based Reasoning  . . . . . . . . 104
      Béatrice Fuchs and   
                    Alain Mille   A Knowledge-Level Task Model of
                                  Adaptation in Case-Based Reasoning . . . 118
                  M. Goeker and   
              T. Roth-Berghofer   Development and Utilization of a
                                  Case-Based Help-Desk Support System in a
                                  Corporate Environment  . . . . . . . . . 132
          Mehmet Göker and   
          Thomas Roth-Berghofer   Development and Utilization of a
                                  Case-Based Help-Desk Support System in a
                                  Corporate Environment  . . . . . . . . . 132
Mercedes Gómez-Albarrán and   
Pedro A. González-Calero and   
Belén Díaz-Agudo and   
  Carlos Fernández-Conde   Modelling the CBR Life Cycle Using
                                  Description Logics . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Andrés Gómez de Silva Garza and   
                 Mary Lou Maher   An Evolutionary Approach to Case
                                  Adaptation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
    A. Gomez de Silva Garza and   
                    M. L. Maher   An Evolutionary Approach to Case
                                  Adaptation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
       C. Gresse von Wangenheim   REMEX --- A Case-Based Approach for
                                  Reusing Software Measurement
                                  Experienceware . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim   REMEX --- A Case-Based Approach for
                                  Reusing Software Measurement
                                  Experienceware . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
            James H. Lawton and   
              Roy M. Turner and   
                Elise H. Turner   A Unified Long-Term Memory System  . . . 188
             David B. Leake and   
                David C. Wilson   Combining CBR with Interactive Knowledge
                                  Acquisition, Manipulation, and Reuse . . 203
             David B. Leake and   
                David C. Wilson   When Experience Is Wrong: Examining CBR
                                  for Changing Tasks and Environments  . . 218
              Celestino Lei and   
               Otakar Babka and   
        Laurinda A. G. Garanito   Case Library Reduction Applied to Pile
                                  Foundations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
              Bruce McLaren and   
                Kevin D. Ashley   Case Representation, Acquisition, and
                                  Retrieval in SIROCCO . . . . . . . . . . 248
                Erica Melis and   
                Carsten Ullrich   Flexibly Interleaving Processes  . . . . 263
Héctor Muñoz-Avila   A Case Retention Policy Based on
                                  Detrimental Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . 276
Héctor Muñoz-Avila and   
        Daniel C. McFarlane and   
               David W. Aha and   
                Len Breslow and   
            James A. Ballas and   
                    Dana S. Nau   Using Guidelines to Constrain
                                  Interactive Case-Based HTN Planning  . . 288
            Luigi Portinale and   
             Pietro Torasso and   
                   Paolo Tavano   Speed-Up, Quality, and Competence in
                                  Multi-modal Case-Based Reasoning . . . . 303
                Alexander Seitz   A Case-Based Methodology for Planning
                                  Individualized Case Oriented Tutoring    318
                Barry Smyth and   
              Elizabeth McKenna   Building Compact Competent Case-Bases    329
                Barry Smyth and   
              Elizabeth McKenna   Footprint-Based Retrieval  . . . . . . . 343
      Iréne Abi-Zeid and   
                 Qiang Yang and   
                 Luc Lamontagne   Is CBR Applicable to the Coordination of
                                  Search and Rescue Operations? A
                                  Feasibility Study  . . . . . . . . . . . 358
                Eric Auriol and   
         Richard M. Crowder and   
            Rob MacKendrick and   
                 Roger Rowe and   
                 Thomas Knudsen   Integrating Case-Based Reasoning and
                                  Hypermedia Documentation: An Application
                                  for the Diagnosis of a Welding Robot at
                                  Odense Steel Shipyard  . . . . . . . . . 372
          Riccardo Bellazzi and   
           Stefania Montani and   
            Luigi Portinale and   
                   Alberto Riva   Integrating Rule-Based and Case-Based
                                  Decision Making in Diabetic Patient
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
           Noël Conruy and   
                  David Grosser   Managing Complex Knowledge in Natural
                                  Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
                 N. Conruyt and   
                     D. Grosser   Managing Complex Knowledge in Natural
                                  Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
               Paul Cuddihy and   
               William Cheetham   ELSI: A Medical Equipment Diagnostic
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
              Michael Fagan and   
                   Konrad Bloor   Case-Based Reasoning for Candidate List
                                  Extraction in a Marketing Domain . . . . 426
Valérie Ficet-Cauchard and   
          Christine Porquet and   
               Marinette Revenu   CBR for the Reuse of Image Processing
                                  Knowledge: A Recursive
                                  Retrieval/Adaptation Strategy  . . . . . 438
              Younghyun Han and   
                     Kunwoo Lee   Virtual Function Generators:
                                  Representing and Reusing Underlying
                                  Design Concepts in Conceptual Synthesis
                                  of Mechanisms for Function Generation    453
                Conor Hayes and   
             Padraig Cunningham   Shaping a CBR View with XML  . . . . . . 468
             David B. Leake and   
             Larry Birnbaum and   
           Kristian Hammond and   
             Cameron Marlow and   
                       Hao Yang   Integrating Information Resources: A
                                  Case Study of Engineering Design Support 482
                 Julie Main and   
               Tharam S. Dillon   A Hybrid Case-Based Reasoner for
                                  Footwear Design  . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
         Cristina Melchiors and   
            Liane M. R. Tarouco   Fault Management in Computer Networks
                                  Using Case-Based Reasoning: DUMBO System 510
                   Petra Perner   An Architecture for a CBR Image
                                  Segmentation System  . . . . . . . . . . 525
          Herbert Praehofer and   
           Josef Kerschbaummayr   Supporting Reusability in a System
                                  Design Environment by Case-Based
                                  Reasoning Techniques . . . . . . . . . . 535
             Rainer Schmidt and   
          Bernhard Pollwein and   
                   Lothar Gierl   Case-Based Reasoning for Antibiotics
                                  Therapy Advice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
                Barry Smyth and   
                    Paul Cotter   Surfing the Digital Wave: Generating
                                  Personalised TV Listings Using
                                  Collaborative, Case-Based Recommendation 561
              Hirokazu Taki and   
               Satoshi Hori and   
                  Norihjiro Abe   Case-Based Quality Management System
                                  Using Expectation Values . . . . . . . . 572
                     Anil Varma   ICARUS: Design and Deployment of a
                                  Case-Based Reasoning System for
                                  Locomotive Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . 581


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1651, 1999

      Christos H. Papadimitriou   Topological Queries  . . . . . . . . . . 3
                   Timos Sellis   Research Issues in Spatio-temporal
                                  Database Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
                    O. Guenther   Looking Both Ways: SSD 1999 10 . . . . . 12
            Oliver Günther   Looking Both Ways: SSD 1999$ \pm $10 . . 12
              John G. Stell and   
             Michael F. Worboys   Generalizing Graphs Using Amalgamation
                                  and Selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
             L. De Floriani and   
                 P. Magillo and   
                       E. Puppo   Data Structures for Simplicial
                                  Multi-complexes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
          Leila De Floriani and   
              Paola Magillo and   
                   Enrico Puppo   Data Structures for Simplicial
                                  Multi-complexes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
              M. Hoerhammer and   
                    M. Freeston   Spatial Indexing with a Scale Dimension  52
        Mike Hörhammer and   
               Michael Freeston   Spatial Indexing with a Scale Dimension  52
                   C. Boehm and   
                   G. Klump and   
                  H.-P. Kriegel   XZ-Ordering: A Space-Filling Curve for
                                  Objects with Spatial Extension . . . . . 75
        Christian Böhm and   
               Gerald Klump and   
             Hans-Peter Kriegel   XZ-Ordering: A Space-Filling Curve for
                                  Objects with Spatial Extension . . . . . 75
             Rupesh Choubey and   
                    Li Chen and   
          Elke A. Rundensteiner   GBI: A Generalized $R$-Tree
                                  Bulk-Insertion Strategy  . . . . . . . . 91
              Dieter Pfoser and   
            Christian S. Jensen   Capturing the Uncertainty of
                                  Moving-Object Representations  . . . . . 111
              Eddie C. Shek and   
         Giovanni Giuffrida and   
                Suhas Joshi and   
                     Son K. Dao   Dynamic Spatial Clustering for
                                  Intelligent Mobile Information Sharing
                                  and Dissemination  . . . . . . . . . . . 132
         Yannis Theodoridis and   
      Jefferson R. O. Silva and   
            Mario A. Nascimento   On the Generation of Spatiotemporal
                                  Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
              Xiaofang Zhou and   
              David Truffet and   
                     Jiawei Han   Efficient Polygon Amalgamation Methods
                                  for Spatial OLAP and Spatial Data Mining 167
                 Xuemin Lin and   
               Xiaomei Zhou and   
                   Chengfei Liu   Efficiently Matching Proximity
                                  Relationships in Spatial Databases . . . 188
                  L. Xuemin and   
                 Z. Xiaomei and   
                    L. Chengfei   Efficiently Matching Proximity
                                  Relationships in Spatial Databases . . . 188
             Mihael Ankerst and   
     Gabi Kastenmüller and   
         Hans-Peter Kriegel and   
                   Thomas Seidl   $3$D Shape Histograms for Similarity
                                  Search and Classification in Spatial
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
               Ho-Hyun Park and   
               Guang-Ho Cha and   
                 Chin-Wan Chung   Multi-way Spatial Joins Using $R$-Trees:
                                  Methodology and Performance Evaluation   229
             Antonio Corral and   
    Michael Vassilakopoulos and   
            Yannis Manolopoulos   Algorithms for Joining $R$-Trees and
                                  Linear Region Quadtrees  . . . . . . . . 251
              Ludger Becker and   
        André Giesen and   
          Klaus H. Hinrichs and   
                 Jan Vahrenhold   Algorithms for Performing Polygonal Map
                                  Overlay and Spatial Join on Massive Data
                                  Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
     Apostolos Papadopoulos and   
            Philippe Rigaux and   
                  Michel Scholl   A Performance Evaluation of Spatial Join
                                  Processing Strategies  . . . . . . . . . 286
                Agn\`es Voisard   Abduction and Deduction in Geologic
                                  Hypermaps  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
               Markus Schneider   Uncertainty Management for Spatial Data
                                  in Databases: Fuzzy Spatial Data Types   330
                Siva Ravada and   
                  Jayant Sharma   Oracle8i Spatial: Experiences with
                                  Extensible Databases . . . . . . . . . . 355
            Maurizio Talamo and   
             Franco Arcieri and   
            Giancarlo Conia and   
                Enrico Nardelli   SICC: An Exchange System for Cadastral
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
               Thomas Brinkhoff   Requirements of Traffic Telematics to
                                  Spatial Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . 365


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1652, 1999

             W. Truszkowski and   
                 H. Hallock and   
                      J. Kurien   Agent Technology from a NASA Perspective 1
                  T. Ishida and   
              J.-I. Akahani and   
               K. Hiramatsu and   
                    K. Isbister   Digital City Kyoto: Towards a Social
                                  Information Infrastructure . . . . . . . 34
                     E. Gelenbe   Autonomous Search for Information in an
                                  Unknown Environment  . . . . . . . . . . 47
                 A. Brodsky and   
              L. Kerschberg and   
                       S. Varas   Resource Management in Agent-based
                                  Distributed Environments . . . . . . . . 61
               C. M. Jonker and   
                  R. A. Lam and   
                       J. Treur   A Multi-Agent Architecture for an
                                  Intelligent Website in Insurance . . . . 86
                  S. Saeyor and   
                    M. Ishizuka   Formation of Cooperative Behavior among
                                  Information Agents in Web Repository
                                  Change Monitoring Service  . . . . . . . 101
                   S. Staab and   
                   C. Braun and   
                  I. Bruder and   
                A. Duesterhoeft   GETESS --- Searching the Web Exploiting
                                  German Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
               C. O'Riordan and   
                    H. Sorensen   An Agent-Based System for Intelligent
                                  Collaborative Filtering  . . . . . . . . 125
                       H. Gomaa   Inter-Agent Communication in Cooperative
                                  Information Agent-Based Systems  . . . . 137
             D. G. Sullivan and   
                   A. Glass and   
                B. J. Grosz and   
                       S. Kraus   Intention Reconciliation in the Context
                                  of Teamwork: An Initial Empirical
                                  Investigation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
                S. Puuronen and   
                    V. Terziyan   A Similarity Evaluation Technique for
                                  Cooperative Problem Solving with a Group
                                  of Agents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
                     S. M. Deen   A Computational Model for a Cooperating
                                  Agent System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
                 C. Hanachi and   
              N. Hameurlain and   
              C. Sibertin-Blanc   Mobile Agents Behaviours: From
                                  Declarative Specifications to
                                  Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
               W. Theilmann and   
                   K. Rothermel   Maintaining Specialized Search Engines
                                  through Mobile Filter Agents . . . . . . 208
                  W. Vieira and   
          L. M. Camarinha-Matos   Execution Monitoring in Adaptive Mobile
                                  Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
                Y. Kitamura and   
             Y. Mawarimichi and   
                     S. Tatsumi   Mobile-Agent Mediated Place Oriented
                                  Communication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
                  M. P. Wellman   Agents and Electronic Commerce:
                                  Mechanisms and Protocols . . . . . . . . 243
               M. P. Papazoglou   The Role of Agent Technology in Business
                                  to Business Electronic Commerce  . . . . 245
              L. Kerschberg and   
                    S. Banerjee   An Agency-Based Framework for Electronic
                                  Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
                 X. F. Wang and   
                      X. Yi and   
                  K. Y. Lam and   
                    C. Q. Zhang   Secure Agent-Mediated Auctionlike
                                  Negotiation Protocol for Internet Retail
                                  Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
                   A. Sheth and   
                 V. Kashyap and   
                        T. Lima   Semantic Information Brokering: How Can
                                  a Multi-agent Approach Help? . . . . . . 303
                   T. Tesch and   
                  P. Fankhauser   Arbitration and Matchmaking for Agents
                                  with Conflicting Interests . . . . . . . 323
                 P. Langley and   
                C. Thompson and   
                    R. Elio and   
                     A. Haddadi   An Adaptive Conversational Interface for
                                  Destination Advice . . . . . . . . . . . 347
                       M. Lewis   Anticipation, Delegation, and
                                  Demonstration: Why Talking to Agents Is
                                  Hard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
                L. Van Elst and   
                 F. Schmalhofer   A Cooperative Comprehension Assistant
                                  for Intranet-Based Information
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1653, 1999

            D. S. Alexander and   
                    J. M. Smith   The Architecture of ALIEN  . . . . . . . 1
                 S. Denazis and   
                    K. Miki and   
                 J. Vicente and   
                    A. Campbell   Designing Interfaces for Open
                                  Programmable Routers . . . . . . . . . . 13
                      P. Menage   Rcane: A Resource Controlled Framework
                                  for Active Network Services  . . . . . . 25
               R. Sivakumar and   
            N. Venkitaraman and   
                  V. Bharghavan   The Protean Programmable Network
                                  Architecture: Design and Initial
                                  Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
                   M. Rizzo and   
                 B. Briscoe and   
                  J. Tassel and   
                  K. Damianakis   A Dynamic Pricing Framework to Support a
                                  Scalable, Usage-Based Charging Model for
                                  Packet-Switched Networks . . . . . . . . 48
                I. Marshall and   
                     M. Fry and   
                 L. Velasco and   
                       A. Ghosh   Active Information Networks and XML  . . 60
                  M. Sloman and   
                        E. Lupu   Policy Specification for Programmable
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
                   G. Vanet and   
                      Y. Kiriha   A Self-Configuring Data Caching
                                  Architecture Based on Active Networking
                                  Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
               L. Delgrossi and   
                G. Di Fatta and   
                 D. Ferrari and   
                       G. Lo Re   Interference and Communications among
                                  Active Network Applications  . . . . . . 97
                 C. Baeumer and   
                    T. Magedanz   The Grasshopper Mobile Agent Platform
                                  Enabling Short-Term Active Broadband
                                  Intelligent Network Implementation . . . 109
                  R. Cardoe and   
                  J. Finney and   
                A. C. Scott and   
                 W. D. Shepherd   LARA: A Prototype System for Supporting
                                  High Performance Active Networking . . . 117
                   A. Cohen and   
                  S. Rangarajan   A Programming Interface for Supporting
                                  IP Traffic Processing  . . . . . . . . . 132
                   N. Mihai and   
                     G. Vanecek   New Generation of Control Planes in
                                  Emerging Data Networks . . . . . . . . . 144
                    C. Tschudin   An Active Networks Overlay Network
                                  (ANON) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
                   I. Busse and   
                  S. Covaci and   
                A. Leichsenring   Autonomy and Decentralization in Active
                                  Networks: A Case Study for Mobile Agents 165
                  D. C. Lee and   
                M. T. Jones and   
              S. F. Midkiff and   
                  P. M. Athanas   Towards Active Hardware  . . . . . . . . 180
                  A. Juhola and   
                I. Marshall and   
                  S. Covaci and   
                       T. Velte   The Impact of AN on Established Network
                                  Operators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
         D. P. A. Greenwood and   
                     D. Gavalas   Using Active Processes as the Basis for
                                  an Integrated Distributed Network
                                  Management Architecture  . . . . . . . . 199
                  S. Norden and   
                     K. F. Wong   ANMAC: An Architectural Framework for
                                  Network Management and Control Using
                                  Active Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
                     D. Raz and   
                     Y. Shavitt   An Active Network Approach to Efficient
                                  Network Management . . . . . . . . . . . 220
              J.-P. Redlich and   
                  M. Suzuki and   
                   S. Weinstein   Virtual Networks for Customizable
                                  Traffic Treatments . . . . . . . . . . . 232
                K. Sugauchi and   
                S. Miyazaki and   
                 K. Yoshida and   
                      K. Nakane   Flexible Network Management Using Active
                                  Network Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . 241
             A. T. Campbell and   
                 J. Vicente and   
                  D. A. Villela   Managing Spawned Virtual Networks  . . . 249
                S. Willmott and   
                    B. Faltings   Active Organisations for Routing . . . . 262
                  J.-H. Yeh and   
                    R. Chow and   
                      R. Newman   A Dynamic Interdomain Communication Path
                                  Setup in Active Network  . . . . . . . . 274
                 B. Bhushan and   
                        J. Hall   Active Network Challenges to TMN . . . . 285
                A. Kulkarni and   
                  G. Minden and   
                   V. Frost and   
                       J. Evans   Survivability of Active Networking
                                  Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
             G. Hjalmtysson and   
               S. Bhattacharjee   Control on Demand  . . . . . . . . . . . 315
              S. Karnouskos and   
                   I. Busse and   
                      S. Covaci   Agent Based Security for the Active
                                  Network Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . 330


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1654, 1999

                 K. Siddiqi and   
              A. Tannenbaum and   
                   S. W. Zucker   A Hamiltonian Approach to the Eikonal
                                  Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
          P. L. Worthington and   
                  E. R. Hancock   Topographic Surface Structure from $2$D
                                  Images Using Shape-from-Shading  . . . . 14
                   D. Zhang and   
                      M. Hebert   Harmonic Shape Images: A Representation
                                  for $3$D Free-Form Surfaces Based on
                                  Energy Minimization  . . . . . . . . . . 30
                P. Donatini and   
                 P. Frosini and   
                       C. Landi   Deformation Energy for Size Functions    44
        M. A. T. Figueiredo and   
            J. M. N. Leitao and   
                     A. K. Jain   On Fitting Mixture Models  . . . . . . . 54
              M. A. Cazorla and   
                F. Escolano and   
                D. Gallardo and   
                        R. Rizo   Bayesian Models for Finding and Grouping
                                  Junctions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
                 A. Chardin and   
                       P. Perez   Semi-iterative Inferences with
                                  Hierarchical Energy-Based Models for
                                  Image Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
               X. Descombes and   
                   E. Pechersky   Metropolis vs Kawasaki Dynamic for Image
                                  Segmentation Based on Gibbs Models . . . 99
               A. Jalobeanu and   
            L. Blanc-Feraud and   
                     J. Zerubia   Hyperparameter Estimation for Satellite
                                  Image Restoration by a MCMCML Method . . 115
                   R. D. Morris   Auxiliary Variables for Markov Random
                                  Fields with Higher Order Interactions    131
                P. Rostaing and   
              J.-N. Provost and   
                      C. Collet   Unsupervised Multispectral Image
                                  Segmentation Using Generalized Gaussian
                                  Noise Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
                  J. M. B. Dias   Adaptive Bayesian Contour Estimation: A
                                  Vector Space Representation Approach . . 157
                      T. Kubota   Adaptive Pixel-Based Data Fusion for
                                  Boundary Detection . . . . . . . . . . . 173
             J. M. Coughlan and   
                   A. L. Yuille   Bayesian Tree Search with Expected $
                                  O(N) $ Convergence Rates for Road
                                  Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
                  Y. Boykov and   
                 O. Veksler and   
                       R. Zabih   A New Algorithm for Energy Minimization
                                  with Discontinuities . . . . . . . . . . 205
             A. D. J. Cross and   
                  E. R. Hancock   Convergence of a Hill Climbing Genetic
                                  Algorithm for Graph Matching . . . . . . 221
              A. Rangarajan and   
                    H. Chui and   
                   E. Mjolsness   A New Distance Measure for Non-rigid
                                  Image Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
                A. Torsello and   
                     M. Pelillo   Continuous-Time Relaxation Labeling
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
                     L. Yin and   
                        A. Basu   Realistic Animation Using Extended
                                  Adaptive Mesh for Model Based Coding . . 269
            P. M. Q. Aguiar and   
                 J. M. F. Moura   Maximum Likelihood Inference of $3$D
                                  Structure from Image Sequences . . . . . 285
                  J. Oakley and   
                J. Missimer and   
                     G. Szekely   Magnetic Resonance Imaging Based
                                  Correction and Reconstruction of
                                  Positron Emission Tomography Images  . . 301
                 M. Svensen and   
                 F. Kruggel and   
               D. Y. Von Cramon   Markov Random Field Modelling of fMRI
                                  Data Using a Mean Field EM-algorithm . . 317


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1657, 1999

                    Peter Aczel   On Relating Type Theories and Set
                                  Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
            René Ahn and   
                  Tijn Borghuis   Communication Modelling and
                                  Context-Dependent Interpretation: An
                                  Integrated Approach  . . . . . . . . . . 19
            Thierry Coquand and   
                 Henrik Persson   Gröbner Bases in Type Theory  . . . . . . 33
     Joëlle Despeyroux and   
                   Pierre Leleu   A Modal Lambda Calculus with Iteration
                                  and Case Constructs  . . . . . . . . . . 47
               Gilles Dowek and   
                Benjamin Werner   Proof Normalization Modulo . . . . . . . 62
Jean-Christophe Filliâtre   Proof of Imperative Programs in Type
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
              Daniel Fridlender   An Interpretation of the Fan Theorem in
                                  Type Theory  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
          Jean Goubault-Larrecq   Conjunctive Types and SKInT  . . . . . . 106
         Florian Kammüller   Modular Structures as Dependent Types in
                                  Isabelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
                Thomas Kleymann   Metatheory of Verification Calculi in
                                  LEGO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
                  Luigi Liquori   Bounded Polymorphism for Extensible
                                  Objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
           Maria Emilia Maietti   About Effective Quotients in
                                  Constructive Type Theory . . . . . . . . 164
             Frank Pfenning and   
         Carsten Schürmann   Algorithms for Equality and Unification
                                  in the Presence of Notational
                                  Definitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
            Giovanni Sambin and   
               Silvia Gebellato   A Preview of the Basic Picture: A New
                                  Perspective on Formal Topology . . . . . 194


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1661, 1999

            Rüdiger Wehner   Large-Scale Navigation: The Insect Case  1
                      T. Roefer   Route navigation using motion analysis   21
              Thomas Röfer   Route Navigation Using Motion Analysis   21
           Molly E. Sorrows and   
              Stephen C. Hirtle   The nature of landmarks for real and
                                  electronic spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . 37
            Barbara Tversky and   
                    Paul U. Lee   Pictorial and Verbal Tools for Conveying
                                  Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
        Kristin L. Lovelace and   
               Mary Hegarty and   
             Daniel R. Montello   Elements of good route directions in
                                  familiar and unfamiliar environments . . 65
            Sylvie Fontaine and   
                   Michel Denis   The production of route instructions in
                                  underground and urban environments . . . 83
                Andrew U. Frank   One step up the abstraction ladder:
                                  Combining algebras --- from functional
                                  pieces to a whole  . . . . . . . . . . . 95
            Emilio Remolina and   
          Juan A. Fernandez and   
           Benjamin Kuipers and   
                Javier Gonzalez   Formalizing regions in the spatial
                                  semantic hierarchy: An AH-graphs
                                  implementation approach  . . . . . . . . 109
                   Sabine Timpf   Abstraction, levels of detail, and
                                  hierarchies in map series  . . . . . . . 125
                 Stephan Winter   Topological Relations in Hierarchical
                                  Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
              Carola Eschenbach   A predication calculus for qualitative
                                  spatial representations  . . . . . . . . 157
          Gérard Ligozat   Simple Models for Simple Calculi . . . . 173
                 R. Moeller and   
                      M. Wessel   Terminological default reasoning about
                                  spatial information: A first step  . . . 189
           Ralf Möller and   
                 Michael Wessel   Terminological Default Reasoning about
                                  Spatial Information: A First Step  . . . 189
                 Lars Kulik and   
              Alexander Klippel   Reasoning about cardinal directions
                                  using grids as qualitative geographic
                                  coordinates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
                 Nicola Guarino   The Role of Identity Conditions in
                                  Ontology Design  . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
             Claudio Masolo and   
                     Laure Vieu   Atomicity vs. Infinite Divisibility of
                                  Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
                  Antony Galton   The Mereotopology of Discrete Space  . . 251
                    Barry Smith   Agglomerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
              David M. Mark and   
                Barry Smith and   
                Barbara Tversky   Ontology and Geographic Objects: An
                                  Empirical Study of Cognitive
                                  Categorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
                 A. G. Cohn and   
                    A. C. Varzi   Modes of Connection  . . . . . . . . . . 299
                   John S. Gero   Representation and reasoning about
                                  shapes: Cognitive and computational
                                  studies in visual reasoning in design    315
                    Werner Kuhn   An Algebraic Interpretation of Semantic
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
          Gennady Andrienko and   
              Natalia Andrienko   Data characterization schema for
                                  intelligent support in visual data
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
        Hanspeter A. Mallot and   
             Sabine Gillner and   
           Sibylle D. Steck and   
              Matthias O. Franz   Recognition-triggered response and the
                                  view-graph approach to spatial cognition 367
              Martin Raubal and   
                Michael Worboys   A formal model of the process of
                                  wayfinding in built environments . . . . 381
              Driss Kettani and   
                 Bernard Moulin   A spatial model based on the notions of
                                  spatial conceptual map and of object's
                                  influence areas  . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
                  John G. Stell   Granulation for Graphs . . . . . . . . . 417
                 Thomas Bittner   On Ontology and Epistemology of Rough
                                  Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
       Christopher D. Ellis and   
            Douglas M. Johnston   Qualitative spatial representation for
                                  situational awareness and spatial
                                  decision support . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
            Alexandra Musto and   
                Klaus Stein and   
             Kerstin Schill and   
          Andreas Eisenkolb and   
                Wilfried Brauer   Qualitative Motion Representation in
                                  Egocentric and Allocentric Frames of
                                  Reference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--476


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1662, 1999

                  R. Aversa and   
                N. Mazzocca and   
                     U. Villano   Analytical Modeling of Parallel
                                  Application in Heterogeneous Computing
                                  Environments: A Study of Cholesky
                                  Factorization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                   B. Bacci and   
                S. Gorlatch and   
                C. Lengauer and   
                   S. Pelagatti   Skeletons and Transformations in an
                                  Integrated Parallel Programming
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
                  C.-H. Chi and   
                     J.-L. Yuan   Sequential Unification and Aggressive
                                  Lookahead Mechanisms for Data Memory
                                  Accesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
           A. E. Doroshenko and   
            I. S. Kononenko and   
                  A. Y. Korotun   A Coordination Model and Facilities for
                                  Efficient Parallel Computation . . . . . 42
               A. Godlevsky and   
                   M. Gazak and   
                      L. Hluchy   Parallelizing of Sequential Programs on
                                  the Basis of Pipeline and Speculative
                                  Features of the Operators  . . . . . . . 48
                K. O. Gorbunova   Kinetic Model of Parallel Data
                                  Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
                    P. Hartmann   PSA Approach to Population Models for
                                  Parallel Genetic Algorithms  . . . . . . 60
              V. N. Konshin and   
                 V. A. Garanzha   Highly Accurate Numerical Methods for
                                  Incompressible $3$D Fluid Flows on
                                  Parallel Architectures . . . . . . . . . 68
                   S. Maric and   
                   Z. Jovanovic   Dynamic Task Scheduling with Precedence
                                  Constraints and Communication Delays . . 77
                 N. A. Likhoded   Two-Dimensional Scheduling of Algorithms
                                  with Uniform Dependencies  . . . . . . . 92
              A. Mostefaoui and   
                  M. Raynal and   
                    M. Takizawa   Consistent Lamport Clocks for
                                  Asynchronous Groups with Process Crashes 98
                       S. Pudov   Comparative Analysis of Learning Methods
                                  of Cellular-Neural Associative Memory    108
                 A. V. Selikhov   Emergence and Propagation of Round
                                  Autowave in Cellular Neural Network  . . 120
         I. B. Virbitskaite and   
                   E. A. Pokozy   Parametric Behaviour Analysis for Time
                                  Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
                   H. Wanek and   
                    E. Schikuta   A Blackboard Approach for the Automatic
                                  Optimization of Parallel I/O Operations  141
                  C.-H. Yeh and   
           E. A. Varvarigos and   
                         H. Lee   Routing and Embeddings in Super Cayley
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
                 S. Bandini and   
                 G. Erbacci and   
                       G. Mauri   Implementing Cellular Automata Based
                                  Models on Parallel Architectures: The
                                  CAPP Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
                O. Bessonov and   
                 D. Fougere and   
                 K. D. Quoc and   
                        B. Roux   Methods for Achieving Peak Computational
                                  Rates for Linear Algebra Operations on
                                  Superscalar RISC Processors  . . . . . . 180
                   L. Birov and   
               A. Prokofiev and   
                Y. Bartenev and   
                      A. Vargin   The Parallel Mathematical Libraries
                                  Project (PMLP): Overview, Design
                                  Innovations, and Preliminary Results . . 186
              A. V. Bystrov and   
             I. B. Virbitskaite   Implementing Model Checking and
                                  Equivalence Checking for Time Petri Nets
                                  by the RT-MEC Tool . . . . . . . . . . . 194
                G. Capretti and   
               M. R. Lagana and   
                       L. Ricci   Learning Concurrent Programming: A
                                  Constructionist Approach . . . . . . . . 200
                      D. Dalton   The Speedup Performance of an
                                  Associative Memory Based Logic Simulator 207
                W. K. Giloi and   
                 H. W. Pohl and   
                     A. Schramm   A High-Level Programming Environment for
                                  Distributed Memory Architectures . . . . 217
               A. Konovalov and   
               V. Samofalov and   
                      S. Scharf   Virtual Shared Files: Towards
                                  User-Friendly Inter-Process
                                  Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
                    M. Krajecki   An Object Oriented Environment to Manage
                                  the Parallelism of the FIIT Applications 229
                      J. Li and   
                    J. Wang and   
                      H. Kameda   Performance Studies of Shared-Nothing
                                  Parallel Transaction Processing Systems  235
                  T. Ludwig and   
                J. Trinitis and   
                  R. Wismueller   Synergetic Tool Environments . . . . . . 248
              A. Mostefaoui and   
                  M. Raynal and   
                   P. Verissimo   Logically Instantaneous Communication on
                                  Top of Distributed Memory Parallel
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
             K. T. Pedretti and   
             T. L. Casavant and   
                R. C. Braun and   
                  T. E. Scheetz   Three Complementary Approaches to
                                  Parallelization of Local BLAST Service
                                  on Workstation Clusters  . . . . . . . . 271
                   Y. Peter and   
                    H. Guyennet   An Implementation of the Lifecycle
                                  Service Object Mobility on CORBA . . . . 283
                   J. Serot and   
                  D. Ginhac and   
                   J.-P Derutin   SKIPPER: A Skeleton-Based Parallel
                                  Programming Environment for Real-Time
                                  Image Processing Applications  . . . . . 296
                 V. Vlassov and   
                   A. Kraynikov   A Queuing Model of a Multi-threaded
                                  Architecture: A Case Study . . . . . . . 306
                   W. Zheng and   
                    S. Khan and   
                         H. Xie   BSP Performance Analysis and Prediction:
                                  Tools and Application  . . . . . . . . . 313
                 S. Sancese and   
              P. Ciancarini and   
                     A. Messina   Message Passing vs Tuple Space
                                  Coordination in an Aerodynamics
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
                 S. M. Achasova   Two Examples of Distributed Architecture
                                  for Solving Combinatorial Optimization
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
                F. Cappello and   
                 O. Richard and   
                    D. Etiemble   Performance of the NAS Benchmarks on a
                                  Cluster of SMP PCs Using a
                                  Parallelization of the MPI Programs with
                                  OpenMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--350
                  M. Dorojevets   COOL Approach to Petaflops Computing . . 351
                B. Goossens and   
                  H. Essafi and   
                         M. Pic   Hardware and Software Optimizations for
                                  Multimedia Databases . . . . . . . . . . 365
                     V. Markova   Cellular Recursive Algorithm
                                  Architecture for Long Integers
                                  Multiplication in Arrays of Restricted
                                  Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
                 S. Bandini and   
                   G. Mauri and   
                  G. Pavesi and   
                      C. Simone   A Parallel Model Based on Cellular
                                  Automata for the Simulation of Pesticide
                                  Percolation in the Soil  . . . . . . . . 383
                  O. L. Bandman   Comparative Study of Cellular-Automata
                                  Diffusion Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
               K. Bolshakov and   
               A. Borshchev and   
               A. Filippoff and   
                      Y. Karpov   Creating and Running Mobile Agents with
                                  XJ DOME  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
                 H. Haefner and   
              W. Schoenauer and   
                       R. Weiss   Parallelization and Integration of the $
                                  L U $ and $ I L U $ Algorithm in the
                                  LINSOL Program Package . . . . . . . . . 417
              C. Hochberger and   
                 R. Hoffman and   
                 S. Waldschmidt   CDL++ for the Description of Moving
                                  Objects in Cellular Automata . . . . . . 428
              I. E. Kaporin and   
                  I. N. Konshin   Parallel Solution of Large Sparse SPD
                                  Linear Systems Based on Overlapping
                                  Domain Decomposition . . . . . . . . . . 436
                  Y.-C. Kim and   
                      Y.-K. Jun   Restructuring Parallel Programs for
                                  On-the-Fly Race Detection  . . . . . . . 446
                       D. Petcu   Solving Initial Value Problems with a
                                  Multiprocessor Code  . . . . . . . . . . 452
             A. Ruiz-Andino and   
                  L. Araujo and   
                   F. Saenz and   
                         J. Ruz   Parallel Implementation of Constraint
                                  Solving  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
                  R. Aversa and   
                  B. Di Martino   Experiences on Parallelization of Divide
                                  and Conquer Algorithms with Parallel
                                  Paradigms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
                       C. Cerin   Differentiating Message Passing
                                  Interface and Bulk Synchronous Parallel
                                  Computation Models . . . . . . . . . . . 477
                   T. Farid and   
                     D. Zerbino   Realization of Complex Arithmetic on
                                  Cellular Automata  . . . . . . . . . . . 479
               S. I. Katkov and   
                    E. Y. Ruban   Parallel Programming System Based on
                                  Super Pascal Language  . . . . . . . . . 481
                  O. V. Klimova   Group-Theoretic Methods for Parallel
                                  Computation of Convolution . . . . . . . 483
                B. McCollum and   
                P. Milligan and   
                     P. H. Corr   Knowledge Exploitation for Improved Data
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
          P. J. P. McMullan and   
                P. Milligan and   
                     P. H. Corr   An Expert System Approach to Data
                                  Distribution and Distribution Analysis   487
                  P. J. Parsons   Automated Communication Analysis and
                                  Code Generation for Non-contiguous
                                  Partitions of Two-Dimensional Arrays . . 489
                D. Beletkov and   
             M. Ostapkevich and   
                S. Piskunov and   
                     I. Zhileev   WinALT, a Software Tool for Fine-Grain
                                  Algorithms and Structures Synthesis and
                                  Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
               K. Bolshakov and   
                  Y. Karpov and   
                   A. Sintotski   DEALed --- A Tool Suite for Distributed
                                  Real-Time Systems Development  . . . . . 497
                    C. Lang and   
                  M. Trehel and   
                    P. Baptiste   PLATINUM: A Placement Tool Based on
                                  Process Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . 503


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1663, 1999

               A. Andrzejak and   
                      K. Fukuda   Optimization over $k$-set Polytopes and
                                  Efficient $k$-set Enumeration  . . . . . 1
                       G. Neyer   Line Simplification with Restricted
                                  Orientations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
                  P. Berman and   
                A. B. Kahng and   
                 D. Vidhani and   
                  A. Zelikovsky   The $T$-join Problem in Sparse Graphs:
                                  Applications to Phase Assignment Problem
                                  in VLSI Mask Layout  . . . . . . . . . . 25
                 A. Brodnik and   
                S. Carlsson and   
              E. D. Demaine and   
                    J. I. Munro   Resizable Arrays in Optimal Time and
                                  Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
                        R. Pagh   Hash and Displace: Efficient Evaluation
                                  of Minimal Perfect Hash Functions  . . . 49
                C. E. Leiserson   Invited Talk: Design and Analysis of
                                  Algorithms for Shared-Memory
                                  Multiprocessors  . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
                  M. Patrignani   On the Complexity of Orthogonal
                                  Compaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
                G. Barequet and   
                    P. Bose and   
                M. T. Dickerson   Optimizing Constrained Offset and Scaled
                                  Polygonal Annuli . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
                   J. Boyar and   
               K. S. Larsen and   
                  M. N. Nielsen   The Accommodating Function --- A
                                  Generalization of the Competitive Ratio  74
               M. A. Bender and   
                     C. Chekuri   Performance Guarantees for the TSP with
                                  a Parameterized Triangle Inequality  . . 80
                    X. Deng and   
                  E. Milios and   
                    A. Mirzaian   Robot Map Verification of a Graph World  86
             C. A. Broecker and   
                   S. Schuierer   Searching Rectilinear Streets Completely 98
                  K. Jansen and   
                    L. Porkolab   General Multiprocessor Task Scheduling:
                                  Approximate Solutions in Linear Time . . 110
                E. M. Arkin and   
               M. A. Bender and   
          J. S. B. Mitchell and   
                   S. S. Skiena   The Lazy Bureaucrat Scheduling Problem   122
       N. Magnenat-Thalmann and   
                     W. Lee and   
                  P. Beylot and   
                     D. Sankoff   Invited Talk: Generating $3$D Virtual
                                  Populations from Pictures of a Few
                                  Individuals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
                    P. Bose and   
                       P. Morin   Testing the Quality of Manufactured
                                  Balls  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
             S. R. Kosaraju and   
            T. M. Przytycka and   
                   R. Borgstrom   On an Optimal Split Tree Problems  . . . 157
                  D. Benoit and   
              E. D. Demaine and   
                J. I. Munro and   
                       V. Raman   Representing Trees of Higher Degree  . . 169
                    A. Amir and   
                D. Keselman and   
               G. M. Landau and   
                  M. Lewenstein   Indexing and Dictionary Matching with
                                  One Error  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
                   T. Lukovszki   New Results on Fault Tolerant Geometric
                                  Spanners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
             M. T. Goodrich and   
                    J. G. Kloss   Tiered Vectors: Efficient Dynamic Arrays
                                  for Rank-Based Sequences . . . . . . . . 205
                 U. V. Vazirani   Invited Talk: Go-with-the-Winner
                                  Heuristic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
                G. Barequet and   
            M. T. Dickerson and   
              R. L. S. Drysdale   $2$-Point Site Voronoi Diagrams  . . . . 219
                    F. Chin and   
                  D. T. Lee and   
                     C. A. Wang   A Parallel Algorithm for Finding the
                                  Constrained Voronoi Diagram of Line
                                  Segments in the Plane  . . . . . . . . . 231
             C. A. Broecker and   
                 A. Lopez-Ortiz   Position-Independent Street Searching    241
             S. Chakraborty and   
                      S. Biswas   Approximation Algorithms for $3$-D
                                  Common Substructure Identification in
                                  Drug and Protein Molecules . . . . . . . 253
                 C. A. Wang and   
                        B. Yang   A Tight Bound for Beta-Skeleton of
                                  Minimum Weight Triangulations  . . . . . 265
           S. Bespamyatnikh and   
                       M. Segal   Rectilinear Static and Dynamic Discrete
                                  $2$-Center Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 276
                       U. Stege   Gene Trees and Species Trees: The
                                  Gene-Duplication Problem is
                                  Fixed-Parameter Tractable  . . . . . . . 288
                  A. Czumaj and   
                   I. Finch and   
               L. Gasieniec and   
                     A. Gibbons   Efficient Web Searching Using Temporal
                                  Factors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
               C. Iturriaga and   
                       A. Lubiw   Elastic Labels Around The Perimeter of a
                                  Map  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
           S. Bespamyatnikh and   
                   K. Kedem and   
                       M. Segal   Optimal Facility Location under Various
                                  Distance Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 318
                D. Gusfield and   
                      C. Martel   Thresholds for Sports Elimination
                                  Numbers: Algorithms and Complexity . . . 330
               G. S. Brodal and   
                   R. Fagerberg   Dynamic Representations of Sparse Graphs 342
                   J. S. Vitter   Invited Talk: Online Data Structures in
                                  External Memory  . . . . . . . . . . . . 352


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1666, 1999

Jean-Sébastien Coron and   
             David Naccache and   
                Julien P. Stern   On the Security of RSA Padding . . . . . 1--18
               Aviad Kipnis and   
                     Adi Shamir   Cryptanalysis of the HFE Public Key
                                  Cryptosystem by Relinearization  . . . . 19--30
               Phong Nguyen and   
                  Jacques Stern   The Hardness of the Hidden Subset Sum
                                  Problem and Its Cryptographic
                                  Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--46
                    Ueli Maurer   Information-Theoretic Cryptography
                                  (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . 47--64
             Yonatan Aumann and   
               Michael O. Rabin   Information Theoretically Secure
                                  Communication in the Limited Storage
                                  Space Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--79
                Amos Beimel and   
                 Tal Malkin and   
                  Silvio Micali   The All-or-Nothing Nature of Two-Party
                                  Secure Computation . . . . . . . . . . . 80--97
                Ran Canetti and   
            Rosario Gennaro and   
         Stanis\law Jarecki and   
              Hugo Krawczyk and   
                      Tal Rabin   Adaptive Security for Threshold
                                  Cryptosystems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--115
                     Niv Gilboa   Two Party RSA Key Generation (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--129
                   Masayuki Abe   Robust Distributed Multiplication
                                  without Interaction  . . . . . . . . . . 130--147
             Berry Schoenmakers   A Simple Publicly Verifiable Secret
                                  Sharing Scheme and Its Application to
                                  Electronic Voting  . . . . . . . . . . . 148--164
            Lars R. Knudsen and   
           M. J. B. Robshaw and   
                   David Wagner   Truncated Differentials and Skipjack . . 165--180
           Thomas Johansson and   
           Fredrik Jönsson   Fast Correlation Attacks Based on Turbo
                                  Code Techniques  . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--197
            Subhamoy Maitra and   
                  Palash Sarkar   Highly Nonlinear Resilient Functions
                                  Optimizing Siegenthaler's Inequality . . 198--215
                   J. Black and   
                  S. Halevi and   
                H. Krawczyk and   
                 T. Krovetz and   
                     P. Rogaway   UMAC: Fast and Secure Message
                                  Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--233
                 Mark Etzel and   
               Sarvar Patel and   
                Zulfikar Ramzan   \sc Square Hash: Fast Message
                                  Authentication via Optimized Universal
                                  Hash Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--251
                 Jee Hea An and   
                  Mihir Bellare   Constructing VIL-MACs from FIL-MACs:
                                  Message Authentication under Weakened
                                  Assumptions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--269
              Mihir Bellare and   
             Oded Goldreich and   
                  Hugo Krawczyk   Stateless Evaluation of Pseudorandom
                                  Functions: Security Beyond the Birthday
                                  Barrier  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--287
                   Phong Nguyen   Cryptanalysis of the
                                  Goldreich-Goldwasser-Halevi Cryptosystem
                                  from Crypto '97  . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--304
                Don Coppersmith   Weakness in Quaternion Signatures  . . . 305--314
                   D.-F. Ye and   
                  K.-Y. Lam and   
                      Z.-D. Dai   Cryptanalysis of ``$ 2 R $'' Schemes . . 315--325
               Ye Ding-Feng and   
               Lam Kwok-Yan and   
                   Dai Zong-Duo   Cryptanalysis of ``2R'' Schemes  . . . . 315
                  Dan Boneh and   
               Glenn Durfee and   
           Nick Howgrave-Graham   Factoring $ N = p^r q $ for Large $r$    326--337
                  Dan Boneh and   
               Matthew Franklin   An Efficient Public Key Traitor Scheme
                                  (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . 338--353
                  Amos Fiat and   
                    Tamir Tassa   Dynamic Traitor Tracing  . . . . . . . . 354--371
                  Eli Gafni and   
            Jessica Staddon and   
                 Yiqun Lisa Yin   Efficient Methods for Integrating
                                  Traceability and Broadcast Encryption    372--387
                Paul Kocher and   
               Joshua Jaffe and   
                   Benjamin Jun   Differential Power Analysis  . . . . . . 388--397
               Suresh Chari and   
         Charanjit S. Jutla and   
             Josyula R. Rao and   
                 Pankaj Rohatgi   Towards Sound Approaches to Counteract
                                  Power-Analysis Attacks . . . . . . . . . 398--412
              Jan Camenisch and   
                 Markus Michels   Separability and Efficiency for Generic
                                  Group Signature Schemes (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--430
              Mihir Bellare and   
                  Sara K. Miner   A Forward-Secure Digital Signature
                                  Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--448
              Juan A. Garay and   
           Markus Jakobsson and   
               Philip MacKenzie   Abuse-Free Optimistic Contract Signing   449--466
             Oded Goldreich and   
                 Amit Sahai and   
                   Salil Vadhan   Can Statistical Zero Knowledge Be Made
                                  Noninteractive? or On the Relationship
                                  of SZK and NISZK . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--484
            G. Di Crescenzo and   
                   R. Ostrovsky   On Concurrent Zero-Knowledge with
                                  Pre-processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--502
      Giovanni Di Crescenzo and   
               Rafail Ostrovsky   On Concurrent Zero-Knowledge with
                                  Pre-processing (Extended Abstract) . . . 485
                   Victor Boyko   On the Security Properties of OAEP as an
                                  All-or-Nothing Transform . . . . . . . . 503--518
              Mihir Bellare and   
                     Amit Sahai   Non-malleable Encryption: Equivalence
                                  between Two Notions, and an
                                  Indistinguishability-Based
                                  Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--536
          Eiichiro Fujisaki and   
               Tatsuaki Okamoto   Secure Integration of Asymmetric and
                                  Symmetric Encryption Schemes . . . . . . 537--554
               Tomas Sander and   
                  Amnon Ta-Shma   Auditable, Anonymous Electronic Cash
                                  (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . 555--572
                  Moni Naor and   
                   Benny Pinkas   Oblivious Transfer with Adaptive Queries 573--590
                 Niv Gilboa and   
                    Yuval Ishai   Compressing Cryptographic Resources
                                  (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . 591--608
                 Ravi Kumar and   
        Sridhar Rajagopalan and   
                     Amit Sahai   Coding Constructions for Blacklisting
                                  Problems without Computational
                                  Assumptions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--623
              R. Poovendran and   
                    J. S. Baras   An Information Theoretic Analysis of
                                  Rooted-Tree Based Secure Multicast Key
                                  Distribution Schemes . . . . . . . . . . 624--638
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1668, 1999

             Andrew V. Goldberg   Selecting Problems for Algorithm
                                  Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                    Bill McColl   BSP Algorithms --- ``Write Once, Run
                                  Anywhere'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
                  Kurt Mehlhorn   Ten Years of LEDA: Some Thoughts . . . . 14
   Victor M. Jiménez and   
           Andrés Marzal   Computing the $ {K} $ Shortest Paths: A
                                  New Algorithm and an Experimental
                                  Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
           Robert Giegerich and   
               Stefan Kurtz and   
                     Jens Stoye   Efficient Implementation of Lazy Suffix
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
             Shlomit Dascal and   
                    Uzi Vishkin   Experiments with List Ranking for
                                  Explicit Multi-Threaded (XMT)
                                  Instruction Parallelism (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
  Renato Fonseca F. Werneck and   
 João Carlos Setubal and   
Arlindo F. da Conceição   Finding Minimum Congestion Spanning
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
      Dimitris J. Kavvadias and   
          Elias C. Stavropoulos   Evaluation of an Algorithm for the
                                  Transversal Hypergraph Problem . . . . . 72
                Fred Glover and   
              Gregory Gutin and   
                 Anders Yeo and   
               Alexey Zverovich   Construction Heuristics and Domination
                                  Analysis for the Asymmetric TSP  . . . . 85
                  K. Hatzis and   
                G. Pentaris and   
                P. Spirakis and   
                    B. Tampakas   Counting in Mobile Networks: Theory and
                                  Experimentation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
               Frank Schulz and   
            Dorothea Wagner and   
                  Karsten Weihe   Dijkstra's Algorithm On-Line: An
                                  Empirical Case Study from Public
                                  Railroad Transport . . . . . . . . . . . 110
         Panagiota Fatourou and   
              Paul Spirakis and   
       Panagiotis Zarafidis and   
                     Anna Zoura   Implementation and Experimental
                                  Evaluation of Graph Connectivity
                                  Algorithms Using LEDA  . . . . . . . . . 124
              Yuval Aharoni and   
               Dan Halperin and   
               Iddo Hanniel and   
           Sariel Har-Peled and   
                  Chaim Linhart   On-Line Zone Construction in
                                  Arrangements of Lines in the Plane . . . 139
                 Eyal Flato and   
               Dan Halperin and   
               Iddo Hanniel and   
                Oren Nechushtan   The Design and Implementation of Planar
                                  Maps in C GAL  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
               Jochen Comes and   
                Mark Ziegelmann   An Easy to Use Implementation of Linear
                                  Perturbations within C GAL . . . . . . . 169
               Naila Rahman and   
                   Rajeev Raman   Analysing Cache Effects in Distribution
                                  Sorting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
            Gonzalo Navarro and   
               Mathieu Raffinot   Fast Regular Expression Search . . . . . 198--212
              Maureen Korda and   
                   Rajeev Raman   An Experimental Evaluation of Hybrid
                                  Data Structures for Searching  . . . . . 213
            Andreas Crauser and   
                  Kurt Mehlhorn   LEDA-SM: Extending LEDA to Secondary
                                  Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
             Michael L. Fredman   A Priority Queue Transform . . . . . . . 243
        Athanasios Bouganis and   
        Ioannis Caragiannis and   
            Christos Kaklamanis   Implementation Issues and Experimental
                                  Study of a Wavelength Routing Algorithm
                                  for Irregular All-Optical Networks . . . 258
            Daniel H. Huson and   
            Kelly Ann Smith and   
                Tandy J. Warnow   Estimating Large Distances in
                                  Phylogenetic Reconstruction  . . . . . . 271
                   Sabine Hanke   The Performance of Concurrent Red-Black
                                  Tree Algorithms  . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
             Jesper Bojesen and   
           Jyrki Katajainen and   
                      Maz Spork   Performance Engineering Case Study: Heap
                                  Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
       Massimiliano Caramia and   
                Paolo Dell'Olmo   A Fast and Simple Local Search for Graph
                                  Coloring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
         Nicolas Boghossian and   
          Oliver Kohlbacher and   
              Hans-Peter Lenhof   BALL: Biochemical Algorithms Library . . 330
              Klaus Brengel and   
            Andreas Crauser and   
            Paolo Ferragina and   
                   Ulrich Meyer   An Experimental Study of Priority Queues
                                  in External Memory . . . . . . . . . . . 345
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1671, 1999

               A. Z. Broder and   
                M. Mitzenmacher   Completeness and Robustness Properties
                                  of Min-Wise Independent Permutations . . 1
                    M. Saks and   
              A. Srinivasan and   
                    S. Zhou and   
                   D. Zuckerman   Low Discrepancy Sets Yield Approximate
                                  Min-Wise Independent Permutation
                                  Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
                    N. Alon and   
                    U. Arad and   
                        Y. Azar   Independent Sets in Hypergraphs with
                                  Applications to Routing via Fixed Paths  16
             J. Gudmundsson and   
             C. Levcopoulos and   
                  G. Narasimhan   Approximating Minimum Manhattan Networks 28
                   B. Doerr and   
                   A. Srivastav   Approximation of Multi-color Discrepancy 39
                    H. Kellerer   A Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme
                                  for the Multiple Knapsack Problem  . . . 51
                      M. Mihail   Set Cover with Requirements and Costs
                                  Evolving over Time . . . . . . . . . . . 63
          M. M. Halldorsson and   
                    G. Kortsarz   Multicoloring Planar Graphs and Partial
                                  $k$-Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
                  M. Parnas and   
                         D. Ron   Testing the Diameter of Graphs . . . . . 85
                   Y. Dodis and   
               O. Goldreich and   
                  E. Lehman and   
               S. Raskhodnikova   Improved Testing Algorithms for
                                  Monotonicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
                  Y. Aumann and   
                 J. Haastad and   
                M. O. Rabin and   
                       M. Sudan   Linear Consistency Testing . . . . . . . 109
                   B. J. Morris   Improved Bounds for Sampling Contingency
                                  Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
                   A. Wigderson   Probabilistic and Deterministic
                                  Approximations of the Permanent  . . . . 130
               O. Goldreich and   
                   A. Wigderson   Improved Derandomization of BPP Using a
                                  Hitting Set Generator  . . . . . . . . . 131
                   A. Baltz and   
                  T. Schoen and   
                   A. Srivastav   Probabilistic Construction of Small
                                  Strongly Sum-Free Sets via Large Sidon
                                  Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
             R. H. Moehring and   
               A. S. Schulz and   
                        M. Uetz   Stochastic Machine Scheduling:
                                  Performance Guarantees for LP-based
                                  Priority Policies  . . . . . . . . . . . 144
              D. A. Fotakis and   
                 P. G. Spirakis   Efficient Redundant Assignments under
                                  Fault-Tolerance Constraints  . . . . . . 156
                   C. Imreh and   
                        J. Noga   Scheduling with Machine Cost . . . . . . 168
                  K. Jansen and   
               R. Solis-Oba and   
                  M. Sviridenko   A Linear Time Approximation Scheme for
                                  the Job Shop Scheduling Problem  . . . . 177
                       U. Feige   Randomized Rounding for Semidefinite
                                  Programs --- Variations on the MAX CUT
                                  Example  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
          A. E. F. Clementi and   
                   P. Penna and   
                   R. Silvestri   Hardness Results for the Power Range
                                  Assignment Problem in Packet Radio
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
                    C. T. Cheng   A New Approximation Algorithm for the
                                  Demand Routing and Slotting Problem with
                                  Unit Demands on Rings  . . . . . . . . . 209
               A. E. Condon and   
                     R. M. Karp   Algorithms for Graph Partitioning on the
                                  Planted Partition Model  . . . . . . . . 221
                  S. Pettie and   
                V. Ramachandran   A Randomized Time-Work Optimal Parallel
                                  Algorithm for Finding a Minimum Spanning
                                  Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
                    T. Batu and   
               R. Rubinfeld and   
                       P. White   Fast Approximate PCPs for
                                  Multidimensional Bin-Packing Problems    245
               R. A. Martin and   
                     D. Randall   Pfaffian Algorithms for Sampling
                                  Routings on Regions with Free Boundary
                                  Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
                  S. Albers and   
                     G. Schmidt   Scheduling with Unexpected Machine
                                  Breakdowns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
                  F. Afrati and   
                  E. Bampis and   
                  C. Kenyon and   
                       I. Mills   Scheduling on a Constant Number of
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1674, 1999

                 Tomohito Andou   Andhill-98: A RoboCup Team Which
                                  Reinforces Positioning with Observation  338


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1686, 1999

               Peter Sewell and   
    Pawe\l T. Wojciechowski and   
             Benjamin C. Pierce   Location-Independent Communication for
                                  Mobile Agents: A Two-Level Architecture  1
              Peter Van Roy and   
                  Per Brand and   
                Seif Haridi and   
            Raphaël Collet   A Lightweight Reliable Object Migration
                                  Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
                  Jan Vitek and   
              Giuseppe Castagna   Seal: A Framework for Secure Mobile
                                  Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
            Antony Rowstron and   
                    Stuart Wray   A Run-Time System for WCL  . . . . . . . 78
         J. Christopher Ramming   PML: A Language Interface to Distributed
                                  Voice-Response Units . . . . . . . . . . 97
                 Dominic Duggan   Derivatives: A Construct for Internet
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
              Michael Hicks and   
              Pankaj Kakkar and   
          Jonathan T. Moore and   
             Carl A. Gunter and   
                  Scott Nettles   Network Programming Using PLAN . . . . . 127


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1694, 1999

Augusto Cesar Pinto Loureiro da Costa and   
          Guilherme Bittencourt   UFSC-Team: A Cognitive Multi-agent
                                  Approach to the RoboCup '98 Simulator
                                  League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Augusto Cesar Pinto Loureiro da Costa and   
          Guilherme Bittencourt   UFSC-Team: A Cognitive Multi-agent
                                  Approach to the RoboCup '98 Simulator
                                  League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1707, 1999

                   H. Thimbleby   Design Probes for Handheld and
                                  Ubiquitous Computing . . . . . . . . . . 1
                  S. P. Stenton   Maintaining Context and Control in a
                                  Digital World  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
                   Ch. Schmandt   Everywhere Messaging . . . . . . . . . . 22
                      M. Susani   Mobile, Ubiquitous and the Sense of
                                  Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
                  B. Mikhak and   
                  F. Martin and   
                 M. Resnick and   
                    R. Berg and   
                   B. Silverman   The Children's Machines: Handheld and
                                  Wearable Computers Too . . . . . . . . . 31
                A. B. Brody and   
                 E. J. Gottsman   Pocket BargainFinder: A Handheld Device
                                  for Augmented Commerce . . . . . . . . . 44
             R. José and   
                      N. Davies   Scalable and Flexible Location-Based
                                  Services for Ubiquitous Information
                                  Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
                 P. Couderc and   
                A.-M. Kermarrec   Enabling Context-Awareness from
                                  Network-Level Location Tracking  . . . . 67
                    A. Pentland   Perceptual Intelligence  . . . . . . . . 74
                 A. Schmidt and   
                K. A. Aidoo and   
               A. Takaluoma and   
                 U. Tuomela and   
           K. Van Laerhoven and   
                W. Van de Velde   Advanced Interaction in Context  . . . . 89
                   M. Fjeld and   
               F. Voorhorst and   
                 M. Bichsel and   
                  K. Lauche and   
              M. Rauterberg and   
                     H. Krueger   Exploring Brick-Based Navigation and
                                  Composition in an Augmented Reality  . . 102
                    J. P. Allen   Handheld Computing Predictions: What
                                  Went Wrong?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
     T. Stabell-Kulò and   
                 F. Dillema and   
                     T. Fallmyr   The Open-End Argument for Private
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
            M. Román and   
                 A. Singhai and   
                D. Carvalho and   
                   Ch. Hess and   
                 R. H. Campbell   Integrating PDAs into Distributed
                                  Systems: 2K and PalmORB  . . . . . . . . 137
                M. J. Silva and   
                   A. P. Afonso   Designing Information Appliances Using a
                                  Resource Replication Model . . . . . . . 150
             J. F. McCarthy and   
                   E. S. Meidel   A CTIVE M AP : A Visualization Tool for
                                  Location Awareness to Support Informal
                                  Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
                 G. Kortuem and   
                  Z. Segall and   
           Th.G. Cowan Thompson   Close Encounters: Supporting Mobile
                                  Collaboration Through Interchange of
                                  User Profiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
                 O. Liechti and   
                    T. Ichikawa   A Digital Photography Framework
                                  Supporting Social Interaction and
                                  Affective Awareness  . . . . . . . . . . 186
                K. Cheverst and   
                  N. Davies and   
                K. Mitchell and   
                      A. Friday   The Role of Connectivity in Supporting
                                  Context-Sensitive Applications . . . . . 193
                  J. Pascoe and   
                    N. Ryan and   
                       D. Morse   Issues in Developing Context-Aware
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
                  M. Ancona and   
                  G. Dodero and   
                    V. Gianuzzi   RAMSES: A Mobile Computing System for
                                  Field Archaeology  . . . . . . . . . . . 222
            L. E. Holmquist and   
           J. Redström and   
                 P. Ljungstrand   Token-Based Access to Digital
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
                 N. Kohtake and   
                J. Rekimoto and   
                       Y. Anzai   InfoStick: An Interaction Device for
                                  Inter-appliance Computing  . . . . . . . 246
                       M. Beigl   Using Spatial Co-location for
                                  Coordination in Ubiquitous Computing
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
                    J. Falk and   
           J. Redström and   
                  S. Björk   Amplifying Reality . . . . . . . . . . . 274
           S. Kristoffersen and   
                   F. Ljungberg   Designing Interaction Styles for a
                                  Mobile Use Context . . . . . . . . . . . 281
                       T. Masui   POBox: An Efficient Text Input Method
                                  for Handheld and Ubiquitous Computers    289
                R. J. Aiken and   
                A. Abramski and   
                   J. Bates and   
                  Th. Blackadar   Middleware for Ubiquitous Computing  . . 301
                G. D. Abowd and   
                  A. K. Dey and   
                P. J. Brown and   
                  N. Davies and   
                   M. Smith and   
                    P. Steggles   Towards a Better Understanding of
                                  Context and Context-Awareness  . . . . . 304
            H.-W. Gellersen and   
                   M. Beigl and   
                       H. Krull   The MediaCup: Awareness Technology
                                  Embedded in an Everyday Object . . . . . 308
                       M. Beigl   Point & Click --- Interaction in Smart
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
                  Ch. Baber and   
               D. J. Haniff and   
                     R. Buckley   Wearable Information Appliances for the
                                  Emergency Services: HotHelmet  . . . . . 314
                      J. Hoisko   Using Wearable Computer as an
                                  Audiovisual Memory Prosthesis  . . . . . 317
                  M. Panayi and   
            W. Van de Velde and   
                     D. Roy and   
                O. Cakmakci and   
                K. De Paepe and   
                  N. O. Bernsen   Today's Stories  . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
                W. Van de Velde   On the Self Evaluation of a Wearable
                                  Assistant  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
                   S. Persa and   
                      P. Jonker   On Positioning for Augmented Reality
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
               R. Oppermann and   
                  M. Specht and   
                    I. Jaceniak   Hippie: A Nomadic Information System . . 330
           R. P. O'Rafferty and   
              M. J. O'Grady and   
                G. M. P. O'Hare   A Rapidly Configurable Location-Aware
                                  Information System for an Exterior
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
                 M. Brachtl and   
         L. Miksícek and   
               P. Slavík   Mobile Computing in Machine Engineering
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
              G. J. M. Smit and   
                     T. Bos and   
           P. J. M. Havinga and   
            S. J. Mullender and   
                        J. Smit   Chameleon --- Reconfigurability in
                                  Hand-Held Multimedia Computers . . . . . 340
                   M. Jones and   
                G. Buchanan and   
                  N. Mohd-Nasir   An Evaluation of WebTwig --- A Site
                                  Outliner for Handheld Web Access . . . . 343
               D. J. Haniff and   
                  Ch. Baber and   
                   W. Edmondson   Human Factors of Multi-modal Ubiquitous
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
                A. Donnelly and   
                   E. Barnstedt   URCP: Experimental Support for
                                  Multi-modal Interfaces . . . . . . . . . 349
                         D. Wan   Magic Medicine Cabinet: A Situated
                                  Portal for Consumer Healthcare . . . . . 352
                  K. L. Dempski   Augmented Workspace: The World as Your
                                  Desktop  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
           J. Redström and   
                P. Jaksetic and   
                 P. Ljungstrand   The ChatterBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
                  N. Glance and   
                     D. Snowdon   Pollen: Virtual Networks That Use People
                                  as Carriers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
                 Th. Kanter and   
                  H. Gustafsson   VoIP in Context-Aware Communication
                                  Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
            S. van der Meer and   
              S. Arbanowski and   
             R. Popescu-Zeletin   A Platform for Environment-Aware
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
               A. P. Afonso and   
                M. J. Silva and   
               J. P. Campos and   
                F. S. Regateiro   The Design and Implementation of the
                                  Ubidata Information Dissemination
                                  Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
                  C. Burger and   
                     O. Schramm   Co-authoring in Dynamic Teams with
                                  Mobile Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . 374
                  U. Kubach and   
                   K. Rothermel   A Universal, Location-Aware Hoarding
                                  Mechanism  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
                D. Chalmers and   
                      M. Sloman   QoS and Context Awareness for Mobile
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
   C. Molina-Jiménez and   
                    L. Marshall   Anonymous and Confidential
                                  Communications from an IP Addressless
                                  Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
                     H. Lim and   
                        Ch. Kim   Ad-hoc Network Routing for Centralized
                                  Information Sharing Systems  . . . . . . 386
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1739, 1999

             Winand H. Dittrich   Seeing Biological Motion --- Is There a
                                  Role for Cognitive Strategies? . . . . . 3
           Caroline Hummels and   
                 Kees Overbeeke   The Expressive Power of Gestures:
                                  Capturing Scent in a Spatial Shape . . . 23
           Marcelo M. Wanderley   Non-obvious Performer Gestures in
                                  Instrumental Music . . . . . . . . . . . 37
        Antonella De Angeli and   
      Fréderic Wolff and   
             Laurent Romary and   
                 Walter Gerbino   The Ecological Approach to Multimodal
                                  System Design  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
         Agn\`es Roby-Brami and   
            Mounir Mokhtari and   
           Isabelle Laffont and   
               Nezha Bennis and   
                Elena Biryukova   Analysis of Trunk and Upper Limb
                                  Synergies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
        Claudia Nölker and   
                   Helge Ritter   GREFIT: Visual Recognition of Hand
                                  Postures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
             Jochen Triesch and   
              Jan Wieghardt and   
             Eric Maël and   
     Christoph von der Malsburg   Towards Imitation Learning of Grasping
                                  Movements by an Autonomous Robot . . . . 73
            Damian M. Lyons and   
            Daniel L. Pelletier   A Line-Scan Computer Vision Algorithm
                                  for Identifying Human Body Features  . . 85
    Sébastien Marcel and   
                Olivier Bernier   Hand Posture Recognition in a Body-Face
                                  Centered Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
                    Ying Wu and   
                Thomas S. Huang   Vision-Based Gesture Recognition: A
                                  Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
        Hans-Joachim Boehme and   
      Ulf-Dietrich Braumann and   
           Andrea Corradini and   
            Horst-Michael Gross   Person Localization and Posture
                                  Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction  117
                  J. Martin and   
                    D. Hall and   
                  J. L. Crowley   Statistical Gesture Recognition Through
                                  Modelling of Parameter Trajectories  . . 129
         A. Jonathan Howell and   
                  Hilary Buxton   Gesture Recognition for Visually
                                  Mediated Interaction . . . . . . . . . . 141
              Rachid Gherbi and   
              Annelies Braffort   Interpretation of Pointing Gesture: The
                                  PoG System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
  Jean-François Kamp and   
             Franck Poirier and   
               Philippe Doignon   Control of In-vehicle Systems by
                                  Gestures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
                Christian Cuxac   French Sign Language: Proposition of a
                                  Structural Explanation by Iconicity  . . 165
              Hermann Hienz and   
               Britta Bauer and   
          Karl-Friedrich Kraiss   HMM-Based Continuous Sign Language
                                  Recognition Using Stochastic Grammars    185
            Hirohiko Sagawa and   
                Masaru Takeuchi   A Method for Analyzing Spatial
                                  Relationships Between Words in Sign
                                  Language Recognition . . . . . . . . . . 197
           Christian Vogler and   
               Dimitris Metaxas   Toward Scalability in ASL Recognition:
                                  Breaking Down Signs into Phonemes  . . . 211
          Thierry Lebourque and   
                   Sylvie Gibet   A Complete System for the Specification
                                  and the Generation of Sign Language
                                  Gestures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
             Olivier Losson and   
             Jean-Marc Vannobel   Sign Specification and Synthesis . . . . 239
                    Shan Lu and   
                      Seiji Igi   Active Character: Dynamic Reaction to
                                  the User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Frédéric Julliard and   
                   Sylvie Gibet   Reactiva'Motion Project: Motion
                                  Synthesis Based on a Reactive
                                  Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--268
                 Marc Fabri and   
             David J. Moore and   
                  Dave J. Hobbs   The Emotional Avatar: Non-verbal
                                  Communication Between Inhabitants of
                                  Collaborative Virtual Environments . . . 269
                 Ipke Wachsmuth   Communicative Rhythm in Gesture and
                                  Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
                  Timo Sowa and   
       Martin Fröhlich and   
           Marc Erich Latoschik   Temporal Symbolic Integration Applied to
                                  a Multimodal System Using Gestures and
                                  Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
          Joseph J. LaViola Jr.   A Multimodal Interface Framework for
                                  Using Hand Gestures and Speech in
                                  Virtual Environment Applications . . . . 303
             Marilyn Panayi and   
                  David Roy and   
               James Richardson   Stimulating Research into Gestural Human
                                  Machine Interaction  . . . . . . . . . . 317
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1743, 1999

         Antonio Vallecillo and   
      Juan Hernández and   
           José M. Troya   Object Interoperability  . . . . . . . . 1
               Lutz Wohlrab and   
      Francisco Ballesteros and   
             Frank Schubert and   
            Henning Schmidt and   
                 Ashish Singhai   Object-Orientation and Operating Systems 22
                Stuart Kent and   
                 Andy Evans and   
                 Bernhard Rumpe   UML Semantics FAQ  . . . . . . . . . . . 33
             Isabelle Borne and   
              Serge Demeyer and   
             Galal Hassan Galal   Object-Oriented Architectural Evolution  57
                 Ivan Tomek and   
                Alicia Diaz and   
             Ronald Melster and   
  António Rito Silva and   
             Miguel Antunes and   
               Vinny Cahill and   
            Zi\`ed Choukair and   
        Alexandro Fernandez and   
                 Mads Haahr and   
                   Eric Jul and   
            Atsushi Ohnishi and   
      Luís Rodrigues and   
           Erich R. Schmidt and   
       Cristian \cT\uapu\cs and   
      Waldemar Wieczerzycki and   
            Daniel M. Zimmerman   Multi-user Object-Oriented Environments  80
                Bart Jacobs and   
            Gary T. Leavens and   
          Peter Müller and   
          Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter   Formal Techniques for Java Programs  . . 97
               Awais Rashid and   
              David Parsons and   
                Alexandru Telea   9th Workshop for PhD Students in Object
                                  Oriented Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
                James Noble and   
                  Jan Vitek and   
                   Doug Lea and   
           Paulo Sergio Almeida   Aliasing in Object Oriented Systems  . . 136
    Stéphane Ducasse and   
                  Oliver Ciupke   Experiences in Object-Oriented
                                  Re-engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
          Clemens Szyperski and   
                  Jan Bosch and   
                  Wolfgang Weck   Component-Oriented Programming . . . . . 184
           Philippe Lalanda and   
                  Jan Bosch and   
            Ramon Lerchundi and   
                  Sophie Cherki   Object Technology for Product-Line
                                  Architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
          Giovanna Guerrini and   
             Isabella Merlo and   
              Elena Ferrari and   
               Gerti Kappel and   
            Adoracion de Miguel   Object-Oriented Databases  . . . . . . . 207
                 Bernd Mohr and   
          Federico Bassetti and   
                      Kei Davis   Parallel/High-Performance
                                  Object-Oriented Scientific Computing . . 222
               Ahmed Seffah and   
                  Cameron Hayne   Integrating Human Factors into Use Cases
                                  and Object-Oriented Methods  . . . . . . 240
               Frank S. de Boer   Object-Oriented and Constraint
                                  Programming for Time Critical
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
          Nuno Jardim Nunes and   
              Marco Toranzo and   
João Falcão e Cunha and   
             Jaelson Castro and   
           Srdjan Kovacevic and   
               Dave Roberts and   
          Jean-Claude Tarby and   
          Mark Collins-Cope and   
              Mark van Harmelen   Interactive System Design and Object
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
          Lodewijk Bergmans and   
Cristina Videira Lopes (Editors)   Aspect-Oriented Programming  . . . . . . 288
               Uwe Nestmann and   
          António Ravara   Semantics of Objects as Processes (SOAP) 314
     Fernando Brito e Abreu and   
                 Horst Zuse and   
            Houari Sahraoui and   
                  Walcelio Melo   Quantitative Approaches in
                                  Object-Oriented Software Engineering . . 326
    Erzsébet Angster and   
              Joseph Bergin and   
László Böszörményi   Introducing OO Design and Programming
                                  with Special Emphasis on Concrete
                                  Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
                   Sholom Cohen   Panel Session: Object Technology and
                                  Systematic Reuse . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
                 Carlos Baquero   Poster Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1748, 1999

                   Jin Yang and   
                Ioannis Kriaras   Wireless VoIP: Opportunities and
                                  Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
                 Y. S. Moon and   
                   H. C. Ho and   
                   Kenneth Wong   GSM Mobile Phone Based Communication of
                                  Multimedia Information: A Case Study . . 14
              Ionut D. Aron and   
            Sandeep K. S. Gupta   A Witness-Aided Routing Protocol for
                                  Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks with
                                  Unidirectional Links . . . . . . . . . . 24
          Edward Mutafungwa and   
              Kamugisha Kazaura   Assessing Opportunities for Broadband
                                  Optical Wireless Local Loops in an
                                  Unbundled Access Network . . . . . . . . 34
             Wang-Chien Lee and   
                Johnson Lee and   
                     Karen Huff   On Simulation Modeling of Information
                                  Dissemination Systems in Mobile
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
           Victor C. S. Lee and   
                Sang H. Son and   
                    Kwok-Wa Lam   On the Performance of Transaction
                                  Processing in Broadcast Environments . . 61
                  Eppie Mok and   
              Hong Va Leong and   
                     Antonio Si   Transaction Processing in an Asymmetric
                                  Mobile Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 71
           P. Krishna Reddy and   
             Masaru Kitsuregawa   Speculative Lock Management to Increase
                                  Concurrency in Mobile Environments . . . 82
           Victor C. S. Lee and   
                    Kwok-wa Lam   Optimistic Concurrency Control in
                                  Broadcast Environments: Looking Forward
                                  at the Server and Backward at the
                                  Clients  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
              Steven Gordon and   
            Jonathan Billington   Modelling the WAP Transaction Service
                                  Using Coloured Petri Nets  . . . . . . . 109
                    Hui Lei and   
               Kang-Woo Lee and   
              Marion Blount and   
                      Carl Tait   Enabling Ubiquitous Database Access with
                                  XML  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
         Shigeaki Tagashira and   
             Fumitake Inada and   
               Keizo Saisho and   
                   Akira Fukuda   Design and Evaluation of an Information
                                  Announcement Mechanism for Mobile
                                  Computers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
              Shiow-yang Wu and   
                   Shih-Hsun Ho   Active Rule System for Adaptive Mobile
                                  Data Access  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
               Se-Jin Hwang and   
                Myong-Soon Park   Preserving Smooth Traffic and High
                                  Presentation QoS for VBR-Encoded Video   156
            David H. Ratner and   
            Peter L. Reiher and   
            Gerald J. Popek and   
                 Richard G. Guy   Peer Replication with Selective Control  169
               Jianliang Xu and   
                Xueyan Tang and   
                Dik Lun Lee and   
                    Qinglong Hu   Cache Coherency in Location-Dependent
                                  Information Services for Mobile
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
            Masahiro Kuroda and   
           Takashi Sakakura and   
           Takashi Watanabe and   
                Tadanori Mizuno   An Autonomous Data Coherency Protocol
                                  for Mobile Devices . . . . . . . . . . . 194
             Chao-Chun Chen and   
                     Chiang Lee   Location Management Strategies for
                                  Reducing Both Movement Cost and Locating
                                  Cost Simultaneously  . . . . . . . . . . 209
                   Sufatrio and   
                   Kwok-Yan Lam   Internet Mobility Support Optimized for
                                  Client Access and Its Scalable
                                  Authentication Framework . . . . . . . . 220--229
             Kyung-Ah Chang and   
              Byung-Rae Lee and   
                    Tai-Yun Kim   Proxy Agent Consistency Service Based on
                                  CORBA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
                Imrich Chlamtac   Integrating Mobile Objects into the
                                  Wirelessly Wired World: The Need for
                                  Energy Efficient Algorithms  . . . . . . 243
               Michael Franklin   Databases Unplugged: Challenges in
                                  Ubiquitous Data Management . . . . . . . 244
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245