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Volume 1731, 2000
Volume 1737, 2000
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Volume 1753, 2000
Volume 1754, 2000
Volume 1755, 2000
Volume 1759, 2000
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Volume 1770, 2000
Volume 1773, 2000
Volume 1777, 2000
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1731, 2000

           Jirí Matousek   The Anatomy of a Geometric Algorithm . . 1
         Stina S. Bridgeman and   
       Giuseppe Di Battista and   
              Walter Didimo and   
            Giuseppe Liotta and   
           Roberto Tamassia and   
                   Luca Vismara   Turn-Regularity and Planar Orthogonal
                                  Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
             Gunnar W. Klau and   
                   Petra Mutzel   Combining Graph Labeling and Compaction  27
                 Ashim Garg and   
                Giuseppe Liotta   Almost Bend-Optimal Planar Orthogonal
                                  Drawings of Biconnected Degree-$3$
                                  Planar Graphs in Quadratic Time  . . . . 38
                 M. Closson and   
               S. Gartshore and   
                J. Johansen and   
                  S. K. Wismath   Fully Dynamic $3$-Dimensional Orthogonal
                                  Graph Drawing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
               Vance Waddle and   
                 Ashok Malhotra   An E log E Line Crossing Algorithm for
                                  Levelled Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
        Michael Jünger and   
              Sebastian Leipert   Level Planar Embedding in Linear Time    72
           Ivan A. Lisitsyn and   
             Victor N. Kasyanov   Higres --- Visualization System for
                                  Clustered Graphs and Graph Algorithms    82
          Vladimir Batagelj and   
               Andrej Mrvar and   
               Matjaz Zaversnik   Partitioning Approach to Visualization
                                  of Large Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
             Jubin Edachery and   
               Arunabha Sen and   
           Franz J. Brandenburg   Graph Clustering Using Distance-$k$
                                  Cliques  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
               Janet M. Six and   
              Ioannis G. Tollis   A Framework for Circular Drawings of
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
                C. C. Cheng and   
               C. A. Duncan and   
             M. T. Goodrich and   
                 S. G. Kobourov   Drawing Planar Graphs with Circular Arcs 117
                    Bojan Mohar   Drawing Graphs in the Hyperbolic Plane   127
                   Robin Thomas   Graph Planarity and Related Topics . . . 137
             Kazuyuki Miura and   
           Shin-ichi Nakano and   
                Takao Nishizeki   Grid Drawings of Four-Connected Plane
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
             Christoph Dornheim   Graph Embedding with Topological
                                  Cycle-Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . 155
           Michael Kaufmann and   
                   Roland Wiese   Embedding Vertices at Points: Few Bends
                                  Suffice for Planar Graphs  . . . . . . . 165
               Petra Mutzel and   
                 Thomas Ziegler   The Constrained Crossing Minimization
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
        Christian A. Duncan and   
        Michael T. Goodrich and   
            Stephen G. Kobourov   Planarity-Preserving Clustering and
                                  Embedding for Large Planar Graphs  . . . 186
   François Bertault and   
                   Mirka Miller   An Algorithm for Drawing Compound Graphs 197
              Patrick Healy and   
                     Ago Kuusik   The Vertex-Exchange Graph: A New Concept
                                  for Multi-level Crossing Minimisation    205
      Christian Matuszewski and   
       Robby Schönfeld and   
                   Paul Molitor   Using Sifting for $k$-Layer Straightline
                                  Crossing Minimization  . . . . . . . . . 217
           Farhad Shahrokhi and   
                   Imrich Vrt'o   On $3$-Layer Crossings and Pseudo
                                  Arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
         Ala Eddine Barouni and   
                  Ali Jaoua and   
                   Nejib Zaguia   Visualizing Algorithms for the Design
                                  and Analysis of Survivable Networks  . . 232
                   Lila Behzadi   LayoutShow: A Signed Applet/Application
                                  for Graph Drawing and Experimentation    242
              Ulrik Brandes and   
              Patrick Kenis and   
                Dorothea Wagner   Centrality in Policy Network Drawings    250
           Wojciech Basalaj and   
                  Karen Eilbeck   Straight-Line Drawings of Protein
                                  Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
              Jaroslav Nesetril   Art of Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
            Hubert de Fraysseix   An Heuristic for Graph Symmetry
                                  Detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
                   Sabine Bachl   Isomorphic Subgraphs . . . . . . . . . . 286
       Giuseppe Di Battista and   
              Walter Didimo and   
        Maurizio Patrignani and   
              Maurizio Pizzonia   Orthogonal and Quasi-upward Drawings
                                  with Vertices of Prescribed Size . . . . 297
                  David R. Wood   Multi-dimensional Orthogonal Graph
                                  Drawing with Small Boxes . . . . . . . . 311
       Patrice Ossona de Mendez   Geometric Realization of Simplicial
                                  Complexes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
             Robert Babilon and   
      Helena Nyklová and   
      Ondrej Pangrác and   
             Jan Vondrák   Visibility Representations of Complete
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
               N. de Castro and   
                F. J. Cobos and   
                 J. C. Dana and   
          A. Márquez and   
                         M. Noy   Triangle-Free Planar Graphs as Segments
                                  Intersection Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . 341
       François Bertault   A Force-Directed Algorithm that
                                  Preserves Edge Crossing Properties . . . 351
              Therese Biedl and   
             Anna Bretscher and   
                    Henk Meijer   Rectangle of Influence Drawings of
                                  Graphs without Filled $3$-Cycles . . . . 359
            Giuseppe Liotta and   
                    Henk Meijer   Voronoi Drawings of Trees  . . . . . . . 369
           Camil Demetrescu and   
       Giuseppe Di Battista and   
             Irene Finocchi and   
            Giuseppe Liotta and   
        Maurizio Patrignani and   
              Maurizio Pizzonia   Infinite Trees and the Future  . . . . . 379
                Ivan Herman and   
        Guy Melançon and   
       Maurice M. de Ruiter and   
                  Maylis Delest   Latour --- A Tree Visualisation System   392
       Franz J. Brandenburg and   
        Michael Jünger and   
                  Joe Marks and   
               Petra Mutzel and   
                 Falk Schreiber   Graph-Drawing Contest Report . . . . . . 400
                  Ulrik Brandes   Hunting Down Graph B . . . . . . . . . . 410
                Ho-Lin Chen and   
                   Hsu-Chun Yen   Orthogonal and Straight-Line Drawings of
                                  Graphs with Succinct Representations . . 416
       Carl-Christian Kanne and   
             Falk Schreiber and   
         Dietrich Trümbach   Electronic Biochemical Pathways  . . . . 418


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1737, 2000

             Christopher Jaynes   View Alignment of Aerial and Terrestrial
                                  Imagery in Urban Environments  . . . . . 3
             Peter Doucette and   
              Peggy Agouris and   
             Mohamad Musavi and   
             Anthony Stefanidis   Automated Extraction of Linear Features
                                  from Aerial Imagery Using Kohonen
                                  Learning and GIS Data  . . . . . . . . . 20
                  U. Stilla and   
                  K. Jurkiewicz   Reconstruction of Building Models from
                                  Maps and Laser Altimeter Data  . . . . . 34
                  Volker Walter   Comparison of the Potential of Different
                                  Sensors for an Automatic Approach for
                                  Change Detection in GIS Databases  . . . 47
                 H. Schultz and   
               D. Slaymaker and   
                  C. Holmes and   
                  F. Stolle and   
                  A. Hanson and   
                 E. Riseman and   
                 M. Delaney and   
                      M. Powell   Cost-Effective Determination of Biomass
                                  from Aerial Images . . . . . . . . . . . 67
             Shashi Shekhar and   
        Ranga Raju Vatsavai and   
              Sanjay Chawla and   
                 Thomas E. Burk   Spatial Pictogram Enhanced Conceptual
                                  Data Models and Their Translation to
                                  Logical Data Models  . . . . . . . . . . 77
                      Ben Gorte   Change Detection by Classification of a
                                  Multi-temporal Image . . . . . . . . . . 105
       Christopher B. Jones and   
               J. Mark Ware and   
                David R. Miller   A Probabilistic Approach to
                                  Environmental Change Detection with
                                  Area-Class Map Data  . . . . . . . . . . 122
     Jörn Möltgen and   
              Benno Schmidt and   
                    Werner Kuhn   Landscape Editing with Knowledge-Based
                                  Measure Deductions for Ecological
                                  Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
                    Zarine Kemp   Framework for Integrating GIS and
                                  Digital Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
             Thomas Bittner and   
                 Stephan Winter   On Ontology in Image Analysis  . . . . . 168
            N. A. Lorentzos and   
                 N. Tryfona and   
            J. R. Rios Viqueira   Relational Algebra for Spatial Data
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
             Amarnath Gupta and   
           Richard Marciano and   
             Ilya Zaslavsky and   
                 Chaitanya Baru   Integrating GIS and Imagery Through
                                  XML-Based Information Mediation  . . . . 211
          Pedja Bogdanovich and   
                    Hanan Samet   The AT REE : A Data Structure to Support
                                  Very Large Scientific Databases  . . . . 235
                Yongjian Fu and   
                   Jui-Che Teng   Improving High-Dimensional Indexing with
                                  Heuristics for Content-Based Image
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
                Andy Wilson and   
             Dinesh Manocha and   
                    Ming C. Lin   Representation and Interactive
                                  Manipulation of Massive CAD Databases    268
              Silvia Nittel and   
              Kenneth W. Ng and   
               Richard R. Muntz   Conquest: CONcurrent QUEries over Space
                                  and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
                   Timos Sellis   CHOROCHRONOS --- Research on
                                  Spatio-temporal Database Systems . . . . 308
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1752, 2000

     Paulo Veríssimo and   
                  Michel Raynal   Time in Distributed System Models and
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
           Rachid Guerraoui and   
              Michel Hurfin and   
          Achour Mostefaoui and   
         Riucarlos Oliveira and   
              Michel Raynal and   
                  Andre Schiper   Consensus in Asynchronous Distributed
                                  Systems: A Concise Guided Tour . . . . . 33
      Özalp Babao\uglu and   
               Renzo Davoli and   
              Alberto Montresor   Group Communication in Partitionable
                                  Distributed Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 48
       Paul D. Ezhilchelvan and   
         Santosh K. Shrivastava   Enhancing Replica Management Services to
                                  Cope with Group Failures . . . . . . . . 79
               Marc Shapiro and   
         Fabrice Le Fessant and   
                 Paulo Ferreira   Recent Advances in Distributed Garbage
                                  Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
      Luís Rodrigues and   
         Paulo Veríssimo   Topology-Aware Algorithms for
                                  Large-Scale Communication  . . . . . . . 127
             Fabio Panzieri and   
                 Marco Roccetti   Responsive Protocols for Distributed
                                  Multimedia Applications  . . . . . . . . 157
      Özalp Babao\uglu and   
            Alberto Bartoli and   
                  Gianluca Dini   Programming Partition-Aware Network
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
           Steve J. Caughey and   
            Daniel Hagimont and   
                David B. Ingham   Deploying Distributed Objects on the
                                  Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
             Mark C. Little and   
         Santosh K. Shrivastava   Integrating Group Communication with
                                  Transactions for Implementing Persistent
                                  Replicated Objects . . . . . . . . . . . 238
              Pascal Felber and   
           Rachid Guerraoui and   
           André Schiper   Replication of CORBA Objects . . . . . . 254
            David B. Ingham and   
             Fabio Panzieri and   
         Santosh K. Shrivastava   Constructing Dependable Web Services . . 277
François J. N. Cosquer and   
     Paulo Veríssimo and   
            Sacha Krakowiak and   
               Lo\"\ic Decloedt   Support for Distributed CSCW
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
     Valérie Issarny and   
             Luc Bellissard and   
             Michel Riveill and   
               Apostolos Zarras   Component-Based Programming of
                                  Distributed Applications . . . . . . . . 327
          Stuart M. Wheater and   
     Santosh K. Shrivastava and   
                 Frederic Ranno   OPENflow: A CORBA Based Transactional
                                  Workflow System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
           Jean-Marc Menaud and   
     Valérie Issarny and   
           Michel Banâtre   Improving the Effectiveness of Web
                                  Caching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
           Paolo Ciancarini and   
          Andrea Giovannini and   
                   Davide Rossi   Mobility and Coordination for
                                  Distributed Java Applications  . . . . . 402
             Paulo Ferreira and   
               Marc Shapiro and   
             Xavier Blondel and   
             Olivier Fambon and   
         João Garcia and   
          Sytse Kloosterman and   
             Nicolas Richer and   
              Marcus Robert and   
              Fadi Sandakly and   
           George Coulouris and   
             Jean Dollimore and   
               Paulo Guedes and   
            Daniel Hagimont and   
                Sacha Krakowiak   PerDiS: Design, Implementation, and Use
                                  of a PERsistent DIstributed Store  . . . 427
             Mark C. Little and   
          Stuart M. Wheater and   
            David B. Ingham and   
            C. Richard Snow and   
            Harry Whitfield and   
         Santosh K. Shrivastava   The University Student Registration
                                  System: A Case Study in Building a
                                  High-Availability Distributed
                                  Application Using General Purpose
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
     Valérie Issarny and   
       Michel Banâtre and   
             Boris Charpiot and   
               Jean-Marc Menaud   Quality of Service and Electronic
                                  Newspaper: The Etel Solution . . . . . . 472
             Richard Hayton and   
                 Andrew Herbert   FlexiNet: A Flexible, Component-Oriented
                                  Middleware System  . . . . . . . . . . . 497
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1753, 2000

                   Mark Tullsen   First Class Patterns . . . . . . . . . . 1
              John Peterson and   
            Valery Trifonov and   
               Andrei Serjantov   Parallel Functional Reactive Programming 16
           Tyng-Ruey Chuang and   
                  Shin-Cheng Mu   Out-of-Core Functional Programming with
                                  Type-Based Primitives  . . . . . . . . . 32
                  Michael Hanus   A Functional Logic Programming Approach
                                  to Graphical User Interfaces . . . . . . 47
        Julio Mariño and   
Juan José Moreno-Navarro   Using Static Analysis to Compile
                                  Non-sequential Functional Logic Programs 63
                Daniel Diaz and   
              Philippe Codognet   GNU Prolog: Beyond Compiling Prolog to C 81
                Bart Demoen and   
           Konstantinos Sagonas   Heap Garbage Collection in XSB: Practice
                                  and Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
               Neng-Fa Zhou and   
               Yi-Dong Shen and   
                Li-Yan Yuan and   
                   Jia-Huai You   Implementation of a Linear Tabling
                                  Mechanism  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Juan José Moreno-Navarro and   
Susana Muñoz-Hernández   How to Incorporate Negation in a Prolog
                                  Compiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
           Salvador Pinto Abreu   A Logic-Based Information System . . . . 141
             Chris J. Hinde and   
          Richard J. Reader and   
                    Kath Phelps   HIPPO --- A Declarative Graphical
                                  Modelling System . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
               Zhenjiang Hu and   
              Wei-Ngan Chin and   
                Masato Takeichi   Calculating a New Data Mining Algorithm
                                  for Market Basket Analysis . . . . . . . 169
              Tee Yong Chew and   
                Martin Henz and   
                     Ka Boon Ng   A Toolkit for Constraint-Based Inference
                                  Engines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
              Timothy J. Hickey   CLIP: A CLP(Intervals) Dialect for
                                  Metalevel Constraint Solving . . . . . . 200
              Christian Schulte   Programming Deep Concurrent Constraint
                                  Combinators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
         Stefano Bistarelli and   
          Philippe Codognet and   
                Yan Georget and   
                Francesca Rossi   Labeling and Partial Local Consistency
                                  for Soft Constraint Programming  . . . . 230
      Shriram Krishnamurthi and   
            Kathryn E. Gray and   
                Paul T. Graunke   Transformation-by-Example for XML  . . . 249
                 Peter Thiemann   Modeling HTML in Haskell . . . . . . . . 263
                 Ching-Long Yeh   A Logic Programming Approach to
                                  Supporting the Entries of XML Documents
                                  in an Object Database  . . . . . . . . . 278
            Tallys H. Yunes and   
           Arnaldo V. Moura and   
                Cid C. de Souza   A Hybrid Approach for Solving Large
                                  Scale Crew Scheduling Problems . . . . . 293
                Gopal Gupta and   
              Shameem F. Akhter   Knowledgesheet: A Graphical Spreadsheet
                                  Interface for Interactively Developing a
                                  Class of Constraint Programs . . . . . . 308
             I. V. Ramakrishnan   Current Trends in Logic Programming:
                                  Prospects and Promises . . . . . . . . . 324
                      Peter Lee   Production-Quality Proof-Carrying Code   325


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1754, 2000

  Jouko Väänänen   Generalized Quantifiers, an Introduction 1
              Leonid Libkin and   
                  Juha Nurmonen   Counting and Locality over Finite
                                  Structures: A Survey . . . . . . . . . . 18
                Iain A. Stewart   A Perspective on Lindström Quantifiers
                                  and Oracles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
               Thomas Eiter and   
              Georg Gottlob and   
                   Helmut Veith   Generalized Quantifiers in Logic
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
               Heribert Vollmer   A Generalized Quantifier Concept in
                                  Computational Complexity Theory  . . . . 99
                  Kerkko Luosto   Ramsey Theory Is Needed for Solving
                                  Definability Problems of Generalized
                                  Quantifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1755, 2000

                Donald Sannella   The Common Framework Initiative for
                                  Algebraic Specification and Development
                                  of Software (Invited Talk) . . . . . . . 1
      Margarita V. Korovina and   
                Oleg V. Kudinov   A Logical Approach to Specification of
                                  Hybrid Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
        Marie-Claude Gaudel and   
              Alexandre Zamulin   Algebraic Imperative Specifications
                                  (Invited Talk) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
           Matthias Anlauff and   
          Philipp W. Kutter and   
            Alfonso Pierantonio   Enhanced Control Flow Graphs in Montages 40
        Asuman Sünbül   Abstract State Machines for the
                                  Composition of Architectural Styles  . . 54
                  Neil D. Jones   The Essence of Program Transformation by
                                  Partial Evaluation and Driving (Invited
                                  Talk)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
       Niels H. Christensen and   
          Robert Glück and   
           Sòren Laursen   Binding-Time Analysis in Partial
                                  Evaluation: One Size Does Not Fit All    80
          Robert Glück and   
               Michael Leuschel   Abstraction-Based Partial Deduction for
                                  Solving Inverse Problems --- A
                                  Transformational Approach to Software
                                  Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
            Jonathan Martin and   
               Michael Leuschel   Sonic Partial Deduction  . . . . . . . . 101
          Jens Peter Secher and   
   Morten Heine Sòrensen   On Perfect Supercompilation  . . . . . . 113
       Torben Æ. Mogensen   Linear Time Self-Interpretation of the
                                  Pure Lambda Calculus . . . . . . . . . . 128
                Denis L. Uvarov   An Optimal Algorithm for Purging Regular
                                  Schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
           Martin Plümicke   Polymorphism in OBJ--P . . . . . . . . . 149
                Paul Gibson and   
          Dominique Méry   Formal Modelling of Services for Getting
                                  a Better Understanding of the Feature
                                  Interaction Problem (Invited Talk) . . . 155
            Dmitri Chkliaev and   
               Jozef Hooman and   
             Peter van der Stok   Serializability Preserving Extensions of
                                  Concurrency Control Protocols  . . . . . 180
               Yury V. Chelomin   Platform Independent Approach for
                                  Detecting Shared Memory Parallelism  . . 194
                A. P. Ustimenko   Hierarchical Cause-Effect Structures . . 198
          Irina A. Lomazova and   
           Philippe Schnoebelen   Some Decidability Results for Nested
                                  Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
            Gabriel Ciobanu and   
       Emanuel Florentin Olariu   Abstract Structures for Communication
                                  between Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 221
        Michael I. Dekhtyar and   
     Alexander Ja. Dikovsky and   
                 Mars K. Valiev   Applying Temporal Logic to Analysis of
                                  Behavior of Cooperating Logic Programs   228
                    Man Lin and   
                Jacek Malec and   
            Simin Nadjm-Tehrani   On Semantics and Correctness of Reactive
                                  Rule-Based Programs  . . . . . . . . . . 235
                   Mads Dam and   
                   Dilian Gurov   Compositional Verification of CCS
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
                 Elena Trichina   Compositional Style of Programming FPGAs 257
              Victor Basili and   
              Forrest Shull and   
               Filippo Lanubile   Using Experiments to Build a Body of
                                  Knowledge (Invited Talk) . . . . . . . . 265
           Gregory Kucherov and   
       Michaël Rusinowitch   Patterns in Words versus Patterns in
                                  Trees: A Brief Survey and New Results    283
           Rafael Caballero and   
Francisco J. López-Fraguas   Extensions: A Technique for Structuring
                                  Functional-Logic Programs  . . . . . . . 297
                  S. S. Kobilov   Language Tools and Programming Systems
                                  in Educational Informatics . . . . . . . 311
            Ronald Morrison and   
       Richard C. H. Connor and   
           Quintin I. Cutts and   
                Alan Dearle and   
                Alex Farkas and   
         Graham N. C. Kirby and   
          Robert McGettrick and   
            Evangelos Zirintsis   Current Directions in Hyper-Programming
                                  (Invited Talk) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
                     Lars Frank   Integration of Different
                                  Commit/Isolation Protocols in CSCW
                                  Systems with Shared Data . . . . . . . . 341
                Sima Asgari and   
                 Naoki Yonezaki   A General Object-Oriented Model for
                                  Spatial Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
 Hanspeter Mössenböck   Twin --- A Design Pattern for Modeling
                                  Multiple Inheritance . . . . . . . . . . 358
              Kazem Lellahi and   
                   Rachid Souah   A Partial Semantics for Object Data
                                  Models with Static Binding . . . . . . . 370
             Volker Simonis and   
                   Roland Weiss   Heterogeneous, Nested STL Containers in
                                  C ++ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
      Vladimir I. Shelekhov and   
             Sergey V. Kuksenko   Data Flow Analysis of Java Programs in
                                  the Presence of Exceptions . . . . . . . 389
                     Markus Hof   Late Adaptation of Method Invocation
                                  Semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
              Carlos Castro and   
                   Eric Monfroy   A Control Language for Designing
                                  Constraint Solvers . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Frédéric Benhamou and   
Frédéric Goualard and   
Éric Languénou and   
                  Marc Christie   An Algorithm to Compute Inner
                                  Approximations of Relations for Interval
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
           Vladimir Sidorov and   
            Vitaly Telerman and   
                 Dmitry Ushakov   Constraint Programming Techniques for
                                  Solving Problems on Graphs . . . . . . . 424
             Tatyana Yakhno and   
                 Evgueni Petrov   Extensional Set Library for ECLiPSe  . . 434
            Klaus Schneider and   
               Viktor Sabelfeld   Introducing Mutual Exclusion in Esterel  445
        Richard J. Anderson and   
                 Paul Beame and   
               William Chan and   
                   David Notkin   Experiences with the Application of
                                  Symbolic Model Checking to the Analysis
                                  of Software Specifications . . . . . . . 460
                  Axel Dold and   
                Vincent Vialard   Formal Verification of a Compiler
                                  Back-End Generic Checker Program . . . . 470
            Andreas Heberle and   
                 Thilo Gaul and   
           Wolfgang Goerigk and   
               Gerhard Goos and   
                Wolf Zimmermann   Construction of Verified Compiler
                                  Front-Ends with Program-Checking . . . . 481
         Claudio de la Riva and   
                Javier Tuya and   
        José R. de Diego   Translating SA/RT Models to Synchronous
                                  Reactive Systems: An Approximation to
                                  Modular Verification Using the SMV Model
                                  Checker  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
          Fedor A. Kolushev and   
          Alexander A. Bogdanov   Multi-agent Optimal Path Planning for
                                  Mobile Robots in Environment with
                                  Obstacles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
         Irina S. Kononenko and   
              Ivan G. Popov and   
              Yury A. Zagorulko   Approach to Understanding Weather
                                  Forecast Telegrams with Agent-Based
                                  Technique  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
        George B. Cheblakov and   
        Farida G. Dinenberg and   
            David Ya. Levin and   
              Ivan G. Popov and   
              Yury A. Zagorulko   Approach to Development of a System for
                                  Speech Interaction with an Intelligent
                                  Robot  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
            Susantha Herath and   
                 Chie Saito and   
                 Ajantha Herath   Analysis of Sign Languages: A Step
                                  Towards Multi-lingual Machine
                                  Translation for Sign Languages . . . . . 530


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1759, 2000

               Mohammed J. Zaki   Parallel and Distributed Data Mining: An
                                  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
            Graham Williams and   
                Irfan Altas and   
               Sergey Bakin and   
             Peter Christen and   
             Markus Hegland and   
             Alonso Marquez and   
                Peter Milne and   
         Rajehndra Nagappan and   
                Stephen Roberts   The Integrated Delivery of Large-Scale
                                  Data Mining: The ACSys Data Mining
                                  Project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
              Stuart Bailey and   
                Emory Creel and   
            Robert Grossman and   
              Srinath Gutti and   
             Harinath Sivakumar   A High Performance Implementation of the
                                  Data Space Transfer Protocol (DSTP)  . . 55
   Srinivasan Parthasarathy and   
          Sandhya Dwarkadas and   
              Mitsunori Ogihara   Active Mining in a Distributed Setting   65
            Mahesh V. Joshi and   
         Eui-Hong (Sam) Han and   
             George Karypis and   
                    Vipin Kumar   Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Mining
                                  Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
         Shinichi Morishita and   
                 Akihiro Nakaya   Parallel Branch-and-Bound Graph Search
                                  for Correlated Association Rules . . . . 127
          Takahiko Shintani and   
             Masaru Kitsuregawa   Parallel Generalized Association Rule
                                  Mining on Large Scale PC Cluster . . . . 145
               Mohammed J. Zaki   Parallel Sequence Mining on
                                  Shared-Memory Machines . . . . . . . . . 161
               D. B. Skillicorn   Parallel Predictor Generation  . . . . . 190
                Sanjay Goil and   
                 Alok Choudhary   Efficient Parallel Classification Using
                                  Dimensional Aggregates . . . . . . . . . 197
           Lawrence O. Hall and   
              Nitesh Chawla and   
            Kevin W. Bowyer and   
           W. Philip Kegelmeyer   Learning Rules from Distributed Data . . 211
            Erik L. Johnson and   
                Hillol Kargupta   Collective, Hierarchical Clustering from
                                  Distributed, Heterogeneous Data  . . . . 221
        Inderjit S. Dhillon and   
            Dharmendra S. Modha   A Data-Clustering Algorithm on
                                  Distributed Memory Multiprocessors . . . 245
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1761, 2000

                   Gilles Dowek   Automated Theorem Proving in First-Order
                                  Logic Modulo: On the Difference between
                                  Type Theory and Set Theory . . . . . . . 1
                 Melvin Fitting   Higher-Order Modal Logic --- A Sketch    23
               Deepak Kapur and   
                   G. Sivakumar   Proving Associative-Commutative
                                  Termination Using RPO-Compatible
                                  Orderings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
              Alexander Leitsch   Decision Procedures and Model Building,
                                  or How to Improve Logical Information in
                                  Automated Deduction  . . . . . . . . . . 62
          David A. Plaisted and   
                    Yunshan Zhu   Replacement Rules with Definition
                                  Detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
         Thierry Boy de la Tour   On the Complexity of Finite Sorted
                                  Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
           Domenico Cantone and   
      Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo   A Further and Effective Liberalization
                                  of the $ \delta $-Rule in Free Variable
                                  Semantic Tableaux  . . . . . . . . . . . 109
           Domenico Cantone and   
              Calogero G. Zarba   A New Fast Tableau-Based Decision
                                  Procedure for an Unquantified Fragment
                                  of Set Theory  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
                      Ingo Dahn   Interpretation of a Mizar-Like Logic in
                                  First Order Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . 137
    Christian G. Fermüller   Implicational Completeness of Signed
                                  Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
           Andrea Formisano and   
                 Eugenio Omodeo   An Equational Re-engineering of Set
                                  Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Stéphane Demriand Rajeev Goré   An $ \mathcal {O}((n \cdot n)^2) $-Time
                                  Transformation from Grz into Decidable
                                  Fragments of Classical First-Order Logic 152
            Ullrich Hustadt and   
              Renate A. Schmidt   Issues of Decidability for Description
                                  Logics in the Framework of Resolution    191
               Reinhard Pichler   Extending Decidable Clause Classes via
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
               Reinhard Pichler   Completeness and Redundancy in
                                  Constrained Clause Logic . . . . . . . . 221
      Aida Pliu\vskevi\vcien\.e   Effective Properties of Some First Order
                                  Intuitionistic Modal Logics  . . . . . . 236
             Grigore Ro\csu and   
                  Joseph Goguen   Hidden Congruent Deduction . . . . . . . 251
   Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans   Resolution-Based Theorem Proving for \em
                                  SH$_n$ -Logics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
              Claus-Peter Wirth   Full First-Order Sequent and Tableau
                                  Calculi with Preservation of Solutions
                                  and the Liberalized $ \delta $-Rule but
                                  without Skolemization  . . . . . . . . . 282
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1765, 2000

            William J. Mitchell   Designing the Digital City . . . . . . . 1
                    Toru Ishida   Understanding Digital Cities . . . . . . 7
    Peter van den Besselaar and   
               Isabel Melis and   
                 Dennis Beckers   Digital Cities: Organization, Content,
                                  and Use  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
              Alessandro Aurigi   Digital City or Urban Simulator? . . . . 33
                    Artur Serra   Next Generation Community Networking:
                                  Futures for Digital Cities . . . . . . . 45
                      Eric Mino   Experiences of European Digital Cities   58
                  Bruno Peeters   The Information Society in the City of
                                  Antwerp  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
              Risto Linturi and   
      Marja-Riitta Koivunen and   
                  Jari Sulkanen   Helsinki Arena 2000 --- Augmenting a
                                  Real City to a Virtual One . . . . . . . 83
              Guido Bolatto and   
              Adriano Sozza and   
                Ivano Gauna and   
              Maddalena Rusconi   The Geographic Information System (GIS)
                                  of Turin Municipality  . . . . . . . . . 97
             Annelies de Bruine   Digital City Bristol: A Case Study . . . 110
                  Ding Peng and   
              Mao Wei Liang and   
                Rao Ruo Nan and   
              Sheng Huan Ye and   
                Ma Fan Yuan and   
                    Toru Ishida   Digital City Shanghai: Towards
                                  Integrated Information & Service
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
               Lech Krzanik and   
Minna Mäkäräinen   Experiments in the Digital `Engineering
                                  City Oulu' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
          Noshir Contractor and   
            Ann Peterson Bishop   Reconfiguring Community Networks: The
                                  Case of PrairieKNOW  . . . . . . . . . . 151
             Shoko Miyagawa and   
                   Ikuyo Kaneko   The Mutual Development of Role, Rule,
                                  and Tool Through the VCOM Project  . . . 165
              Richard Lowenberg   Davis Community Network (DCN): A
                                  Regional Community Networking Initiative
                                  in North-Central California  . . . . . . 179
           Keith N. Hampton and   
                  Barry Wellman   Examining Community in the Digital
                                  Neighborhood: Early Results from
                                  Canada's Wired Suburb  . . . . . . . . . 194
                 Agneta Ranerup   On-Line Forums as an Arena for Political
                                  Discussions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
            Fusako Kusunoki and   
          Masanori Sugimoto and   
            Hiromichi Hashizume   Towards the Integration of Physical and
                                  Virtual Worlds for Supporting Group
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
              Haruo Hayashi and   
             Satoshi Tanaka and   
             Kazunori Urabe and   
           Haruhide Yoshida and   
              Satoshi Inoue and   
               Hideki Shima and   
              Nobuhisa Deki and   
                 Jun Kasagi and   
           Takahiro Nishino and   
             Masasuke Takashima   Digital City for Disaster Reduction ---
                                  Development of Pictogram System for
                                  Disaster Management  . . . . . . . . . . 236
                Scott Robertson   The Digital City's Public Library:
                                  Support for Community Building and
                                  Knowledge Sharing  . . . . . . . . . . . 246
          Takayoshi Asakura and   
        Takahiro Shiroshima and   
             Toshiaki Miyashita   Agent Community with Social Interactions
                                  for Worker and Job Hunting . . . . . . . 261
            Ken Tsutsuguchi and   
          Kazuhiro Sugiyama and   
                Noboru Sonehara   The Motion Generation of Pedestrians as
                                  Avatars and Crowds of People . . . . . . 275
             Masahiko Tsukamoto   Image-Based Pseudo-$3$D Visualization of
                                  Real Space on WWW  . . . . . . . . . . . 288
          Hiroaki Kawagishi and   
                Kengo Koiso and   
                 Katsumi Tanaka   Dynamic Zone Retrieval and Landmark
                                  Computation for Spatial Data . . . . . . 303
              Hiroshi Tsuji and   
             Takaaki Yamada and   
                Maki Tamano and   
               Tsuneo Sobue and   
                 Shuji Kitazawa   Environment for Spatial Information
                                  Sharing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
             Brian K. Smith and   
           Erik Blankinship and   
         Alfred Ashford III and   
              Michael Baker and   
                 Timothy Hirzel   Image Maps: Exploring Urban History
                                  through Digital Photography  . . . . . . 326
              Kensaku Fujii and   
              Shigeru Nagai and   
          Yasuhiko Miyazaki and   
              Kazuhiro Sugiyama   Navigation Support in a Real City Using
                                  City Metaphors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
            Hiroyuki Tarumi and   
              Ken Morishita and   
              Yahiko Kambayashi   Public Applications of SpaceTag and
                                  Their Impacts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
          Katsumi Takahashi and   
               Seiji Yokoji and   
                 Nobuyuki Miura   Location Oriented Integration of
                                  Internet Information --- Mobile Info
                                  Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
               Takao Terano and   
        Toshikazu Nishimura and   
                Yoko Ishino and   
                  Eiji Murakami   Fairy in a Smart IC Card: Interfacing
                                  People, Town, and Digital City . . . . . 378
             Katherine Isbister   A Warm Cyber-Welcome: Using an Agent-Led
                                  Group Tour to Introduce Visitors to
                                  Kyoto  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
          Antonietta Grasso and   
               Dave Snowdon and   
                   Michael Koch   Extending the Services and the
                                  Accessibility of Community Networks  . . 401
            Toshiyuki Asahi and   
               Hisashi Noda and   
              Daigo Taguchi and   
              Kazuhiro Ishihara   Creative Contents Community  . . . . . . 416
            Shintaro Azechi and   
          Nobuhiko Fujihara and   
                 Kaoru Sumi and   
             Takashi Hirata and   
              Hiroyuki Yano and   
                Toyoaki Nishida   Public Opinion Channel: A Challenge for
                                  Interactive Community Broadcasting . . . 427
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1767, 2000

           Giorgio Ausiello and   
           Stefano Leonardi and   
   Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela   On Salesmen, Repairmen, Spiders, and
                                  Other Traveling Agents . . . . . . . . . 1
               Narsingh Deo and   
                  Ayman Abdalla   Computing a Diameter-Constrained Minimum
                                  Spanning Tree in Parallel  . . . . . . . 17
            Joshua Redstone and   
                Walter L. Ruzzo   Algorithms for a Simple Point Placement
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
                    Shmuel Zaks   Duality in ATM Layout Problems . . . . . 44
        W. Fernandez de la Vega   The Independence Number of Random
                                  Interval Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
                Peter Damaschke   Online Strategies for Backups  . . . . . 63
Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer and   
            Juraj Hromkovic and   
               Ralf Klasing and   
          Sebastian Seibert and   
                   Walter Unger   Towards the Notion of Stability of
                                  Approximation for Hard Optimization
                                  Tasks and the Traveling Salesman Problem 72
            Fabrice Noilhan and   
                  Miklos Santha   Semantical Counting Circuits . . . . . . 87
          Sebastian Seibert and   
                   Walter Unger   The Hardness of Placing Street Names in
                                  a Manhattan Type Map . . . . . . . . . . 102
             Gabriele Neyer and   
                   Frank Wagner   Labeling Downtown  . . . . . . . . . . . 113
        Dietrich Hauptmeier and   
             Sven O. Krumke and   
               Jörg Rambau   The Online Dial-a-Ride Problem under
                                  Reasonable Load  . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
               Michiel Blom and   
             Sven O. Krumke and   
            Willem de Paepe and   
                   Leen Stougie   The Online-TSP against Fair Adversaries  137
           Domenico Cantone and   
              Gianluca Cincotti   QuickHeapsort, an Efficient Mix of
                                  Classical Sorting Algorithms . . . . . . 150
                Cao An Wang and   
            Francis Y. Chin and   
                    Boting Yang   Triangulations without Minimum-Weight
                                  Drawing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
                 Jens Gramm and   
               Rolf Niedermeier   Faster Exact Solutions for
                                  M\smallAX2S\smallAT  . . . . . . . . . . 174
            Subhas C. Nandy and   
          Tomohiro Harayama and   
                   Tetsuo Asano   Dynamically Maintaining the Widest
                                  $k$-Dense Corridor . . . . . . . . . . . 187
             Elena Barcucci and   
              Sara Brunetti and   
          Alberto Del Lungo and   
                  Maurice Nivat   Reconstruction of Discrete Sets from
                                  Three or More X-Rays . . . . . . . . . . 199
          Donatella Merlini and   
            Renzo Sprugnoli and   
               M. Cecilia Verri   Modified Binary Searching for Static
                                  Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
        Sebastiano Battiato and   
           Domenico Cantone and   
             Dario Catalano and   
          Gianluca Cincotti and   
                    Micha Hofri   An Efficient Algorithm for the
                                  Approximate Median Selection Problem . . 226
            Emanuele Covino and   
              Giovanni Pani and   
             Salvatore Caporaso   Extending the Implicit Computational
                                  Complexity Approach to the
                                  Sub-elementary Time-Space Classes  . . . 239
               Sabine Hanke and   
        Eljas Soisalon-Soininen   Group Updates for Red-Black Trees  . . . 253
                     Irit Dinur   Approximating SVP$ \infty $ to within
                                  Almost-Polynomial Factors Is NP-Hard . . 263
   Kathleen Steinhöfel and   
           Andreas Albrecht and   
                 Chak-Kuen Wong   Convergence Analysis of Simulated
                                  Annealing-Based Algorithms Solving Flow
                                  Shop Scheduling Problems . . . . . . . . 277
        Valentin E. Brimkov and   
            Bruno Codenotti and   
           Valentino Crespi and   
                 Mauro Leoncini   On the Lovász Number of Certain Circulant
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
             Yusuke Shibata and   
                Takuya Kida and   
          Shuichi Fukamachi and   
            Masayuki Takeda and   
            Ayumi Shinohara and   
          Takeshi Shinohara and   
                 Setsuo Arikawa   Speeding Up Pattern Matching by Text
                                  Compression  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1770, 2000

            M. Amin Shokrollahi   Codes and Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
        Thomas A. Henzinger and   
                 Rupak Majumdar   A Classification of Symbolic Transition
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
                  Pascal Koiran   Circuits versus Trees in Algebraic
                                  Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
          Kaustubh Deshmukh and   
              Priti Shankar and   
           Amitava Dasgupta and   
                B. Sundar Rajan   On the Many Faces of Block Codes . . . . 53
               Edward A. Hirsch   A New Algorithm for MAX-2-SAT  . . . . . 65
               Jack H. Lutz and   
              Martin J. Strauss   Bias Invariance of Small Upper Spans . . 74
              Eric Allender and   
                  Meena Mahajan   The Complexity of Planarity Testing  . . 87
Gwénaël Richomme and   
              Francis Wlazinski   About Cube-Free Morphisms  . . . . . . . 99
                    Jarkko Kari   Linear Cellular Automata with Multiple
                                  State Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
                Lucian Ilie and   
            Wojciech Plandowski   Two-Variable Word Equations  . . . . . . 122
            Andris Ambainis and   
                 Ronald de Wolf   Average-Case Quantum Query Complexity    133
            Juraj Hromkovic and   
               Martin Sauerhoff   Tradeoffs between Nondeterminism and
                                  Complexity for Communication Protocols
                                  and Branching Programs . . . . . . . . . 145
                 Sven Kosub and   
                Klaus W. Wagner   The Boolean Hierarchy of NP-Partitions   157
            Hesham Al-Ammal and   
        Leslie Ann Goldberg and   
                 Phil MacKenzie   Binary Exponential Backoff Is Stable for
                                  High Arrival Rates . . . . . . . . . . . 169
              Nicolas Schabanel   The Data Broadcast Problem with
                                  Preemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
            Jessica H. Fong and   
              Martin J. Strauss   An Approximate $ L^p $-Difference
                                  Algorithm for Massive Data Streams . . . 193
                    Paolo Penna   Succinct Representations of Model Based
                                  Belief Revision  . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
                  Leonid Libkin   Logics Capturing Local Properties  . . . 217
             Edith Hemaspaandra   The Complexity of Poor Man's Logic . . . 230
                      Yijie Han   Fast Integer Sorting in Linear Space . . 242
            Stefan Edelkamp and   
                   Ingo Wegener   On the Performance of WEAK--HEAPSORT . . 254
                 Luca Aceto and   
  Zoltán Ésik and   
Anna Ingólfsdóttir   On the Two-Variable Fragment of the
                                  Equational Theory of the Max-Sum Algebra
                                  of the Natural Numbers . . . . . . . . . 267
                   Catalin Dima   Real-Time Automata and the Kleene
                                  Algebra of Sets of Real Numbers  . . . . 279
              Marcin Jurdzinski   Small Progress Measures for Solving
                                  Parity Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
 Frédéric Magniez   Multi-linearity Self-Testing with
                                  Relative Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
            Vikraman Arvind and   
       Johannes Köbler and   
            Martin Mundhenk and   
            Jacobo Torán   Nondeterministic Instance Complexity and
                                  Hard-to-Prove Tautologies  . . . . . . . 314
               Jack H. Lutz and   
              Vikram Mhetre and   
             Sridhar Srinivasan   Hard Instances of Hard Problems  . . . . 324
                Petr Jancar and   
      Antonín Kucera and   
                   Faron Moller   Simulation and Bisimulation over
                                  One-Counter Processes  . . . . . . . . . 334
               Alain Finkel and   
          Grégoire Sutre   Decidability of Reachability Problems
                                  for Classes of Two Counters Automata . . 346
          Marcin Jurdzinski and   
                 Mogens Nielsen   Hereditary History Preserving
                                  Bisimilarity Is Undecidable  . . . . . . 358
              Michael Elkin and   
                    David Peleg   The Hardness of Approximating Spanner
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer and   
            Juraj Hromkovic and   
               Ralf Klasing and   
          Sebastian Seibert and   
                   Walter Unger   An Improved Lower Bound on the
                                  Approximability of Metric TSP and
                                  Approximation Algorithms for the TSP
                                  with Sharpened Triangle Inequality . . . 382
         Hans L. Bodlaender and   
                  Ton Kloks and   
             Richard B. Tan and   
                Jan van Leeuwen   $ \lambda $-Coloring of Graphs . . . . . 395
              Harry Buhrman and   
               Steve Fenner and   
              Lance Fortnow and   
           Dieter van Melkebeek   Optimal Proof Systems and Sparse Sets    407
          Klaus Ambos-Spies and   
            Wolfgang Merkle and   
                Jan Reimann and   
          Sebastiaan A. Terwijn   Almost Complete Sets . . . . . . . . . . 419
            Vikraman Arvind and   
           Johannes Köbler   Graph Isomorphism Is Low for ZPP(NP) and
                                  Other Lowness Results  . . . . . . . . . 431
           Evripidis Bampis and   
         Rodolphe Giroudeau and   
         Jean-Claude König   An Approximation Algorithm for the
                                  Precedence Constrained Scheduling
                                  Problem with Hierarchical Communications 443
               Klaus Jansen and   
            Maxim I. Sviridenko   Polynomial Time Approximation Schemes
                                  for the Multiprocessor Open and Flow
                                  Shop Scheduling Problem  . . . . . . . . 455
                     Ulf Lorenz   Controlled Conspiracy-$2$ Search . . . . 466
         Vincent D. Blondel and   
            Olivier Bournez and   
              Pascal Koiran and   
             John N. Tsitsiklis   The Stability of Saturated Linear
                                  Dynamical Systems Is Undecidable . . . . 479
            Julien Cervelle and   
                   Bruno Durand   Tilings: Recursivity and Regularity  . . 491
   Vincent Bouchitté and   
                   Ioan Todinca   Listing All Potential Maximal Cliques of
                                  a Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
                Michal Katz and   
                Nir A. Katz and   
                    David Peleg   Distance Labeling Schemes for
                                  Well-Separated Graph Classes . . . . . . 516
        Jean-Marc Lanlignel and   
            Olivier Raynaud and   
                   Eric Thierry   Pruning Graphs with Digital Search
                                  Trees. Application to Distance
                                  Hereditary Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 529
           Joost Engelfriet and   
               Sebastian Maneth   Characterizing and Deciding
                                  MSO-Definability of Macro Tree
                                  Transductions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
     Christian Glaßer and   
                  Heinz Schmitz   Languages of Dot-Depth $ 3 / 2 $ . . . . 555
            Alberto Bertoni and   
      Massimiliano Goldwurm and   
                Massimo Santini   Random Generation and Approximate
                                  Counting of Ambiguously Described
                                  Combinatorial Structures . . . . . . . . 567
          Elias Koutsoupias and   
              David Scot Taylor   The CNN Problem and Other $k$-Server
                                  Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
              Marek Chrobak and   
              Jirí Sgall   The Weighted $2$-Server Problem  . . . . 593
                Yair Bartal and   
              Elias Koutsoupias   On the Competitive Ratio of the Work
                                  Function Algorithm for the $k$-Server
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
            Mikael Goldmann and   
              Alexander Russell   Spectral Bounds on General Hard Core
                                  Predicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614
          Annalisa De Bonis and   
              Alfredo De Santis   Randomness in Visual Cryptography  . . . 626
           Norbert Ascheuer and   
             Sven O. Krumke and   
               Jörg Rambau   Online Dial-a-Ride Problems: Minimizing
                                  the Completion Time  . . . . . . . . . . 639
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
      Andrea E. F. Clementi and   
                Paolo Penna and   
             Riccardo Silvestri   The Power Range Assignment Problem in
                                  Radio Networks on the Plane  . . . . . . 651


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1773, 2000

              Ralf Schenkel and   
             Gerhard Weikum and   
   Norbert Weißenberg and   
                      Xuequn Wu   Federated Transaction Management with
                                  Snapshot Isolation . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                 Ekkart Kindler   Serializability, Concurrency Control,
                                  and Replication Control  . . . . . . . . 26
                Alfred Fent and   
     Carl-Alexander Wichert and   
               Burkhard Freitag   Logical Update Queries as Open Nested
                                  Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
              Elisa Bertino and   
          Giovanna Guerrini and   
                 Danilo Montesi   Inheritance in a Deductive Object
                                  Database Language with Updates . . . . . 67
             Nasreddine Aoumeur   Specifying Distributed and Dynamically
                                  Evolving Information Systems Using an
                                  Extended \sc Co-nets Approach  . . . . . 91--111
          Leopoldo Bertossi and   
                   Javier Pinto   Specifying Active Rules for Database
                                  Maintenance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
                Anne Doucet and   
  Stephane Gançarski and   
        Claudia León and   
                    Marta Rukoz   Nested Transactions with Integrity
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
                  Bert De Brock   Declarative Specifications of Complex
                                  Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
                Malik Saheb and   
               Ramzi Karoui and   
                Simone Sedillot   Open Nested Transactions: A Support for
                                  Increasing Performance and Multi-tier
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
              Heiko Schuldt and   
            Andrei Popovici and   
           Hans-Jörg Schek   Execution Guarantees in Electronic
                                  Commerce Payments  . . . . . . . . . . . 193
               Jari Veijalainen   Transactions in Mobile Electronic
                                  Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
              Heiko Schuldt and   
                Andrei Popovici   Transactions and Electronic Commerce . . 225
               Alfs T. Berztiss   Transactional Computation: Overview and
                                  Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1777, 2000

               Stefano Ceri and   
           Piero Fraternali and   
             Stefano Paraboschi   XML: Current Developments and Future
                                  Challenges for the Database Community    3
                Roger Weber and   
              Klemens Böhm   Trading Quality for Time with
                                  Nearest-Neighbor Search  . . . . . . . . 21
        Christian Böhm and   
             Hans-Peter Kriegel   Dynamically Optimizing High-Dimensional
                                  Index Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
         Caetano Traina Jr. and   
                Agma Traina and   
            Bernhard Seeger and   
             Christos Faloutsos   Slim-Trees: High Performance Metric
                                  Trees Minimizing Overlap between Nodes   51
Manuel Rodríguez-Martínez and   
              Nick Roussopoulos   Automatic Deployment of
                                  Application-Specific Metadata and Code
                                  in MOCHA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
            Prasenjit Mitra and   
             Gio Wiederhold and   
                 Martin Kersten   A Graph-Oriented Model for Articulation
                                  of Ontology Interdependencies  . . . . . 86
       Birgitta König-Ries   An Approach to the Semi-automatic
                                  Generation of Mediator Specifications    101
            Ernesto Damiani and   
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati and   
         Stefano Paraboschi and   
            Pierangela Samarati   Securing XML Documents . . . . . . . . . 121
      Daniel Barbará and   
                 Rajni Goel and   
                 Sushil Jajodia   Using Checksums to Detect Data
                                  Corruption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
     Bertram Ludäscher and   
    Yannis Papakonstantinou and   
                 Pavel Velikhov   Navigation-Driven Evaluation of Virtual
                                  Mediated Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
        Prasad M. Deshpande and   
            Jeffrey F. Naughton   Aggregate Aware Caching for
                                  Multi-dimensional Queries  . . . . . . . 167
           Michael Gillmann and   
        Jeanine Weissenfels and   
             Gerhard Weikum and   
                   Achim Kraiss   Performance and Availability Assessment
                                  for the Configuration of Distributed
                                  Workflow Management Systems  . . . . . . 183
            Olga Kapitskaia and   
              Raymond T. Ng and   
              Divesh Srivastava   Evolution and Revolutions in LDAP
                                  Directory Caches . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
                  Ambuj Shatdal   Order Based Analysis Functions in NCR
                                  Teradata Parallel RDBMS  . . . . . . . . 219--223
         Sivakumar Harinath and   
         Robert L. Grossman and   
       K. Bernhard Schiefer and   
                    Xun Xue and   
                   Sadique Syed   Performance of DB2 Enterprise-Extended
                                  Edition on NT with Virtual Interface
                                  Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
             Joachim Thomas and   
          Prithwish Kangsabanik   A Database Perspective on Building Large
                                  Applications --- Experience Report . . . 229
             Steven Geffner and   
           Divakant Agrawal and   
                  Amr El Abbadi   The Dynamic Data Cube  . . . . . . . . . 237
              Uwe Röhm and   
          Klemens Böhm and   
           Hans-Jörg Schek   OLAP Query Routing and Physical Design
                                  in a Database Cluster  . . . . . . . . . 254
                Amit Shukla and   
        Prasad M. Deshpande and   
            Jeffrey F. Naughton   Materialized View Selection for
                                  Multi-cube Data Models . . . . . . . . . 269
           Sihem Amer-Yahia and   
             H. V. Jagadish and   
      Laks V. S. Lakshmanan and   
              Divesh Srivastava   On Bounding-Schemas for LDAP Directories 287
               Qiu Yue Wang and   
              Jeffrey Xu Yu and   
                   Kam-Fai Wong   Approximate Graph Schema Extraction for
                                  Semi-structured Data . . . . . . . . . . 302
                Mengchi Liu and   
                  Tok Wang Ling   A Data Model for Semistructured Data
                                  with Partial and Inconsistent
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
         Giovanni Giuffrida and   
              Wesley W. Chu and   
          Dominique M. Hanssens   Mining Classification Rules from
                                  Datasets with Large Number of
                                  Many-Valued Attributes . . . . . . . . . 335
      Stéphane Lopes and   
            Jean-Marc Petit and   
                   Lotfi Lakhal   Efficient Discovery of Functional
                                  Dependencies and Armstrong Relations . . 350
             Rakesh Agrawal and   
            Roberto Bayardo and   
           Ramakrishnan Srikant   Athena: Mining-Based Interactive
                                  Management of Text Databases . . . . . . 365
       Harald Schöning and   
         Jürgen Wäsch   Tamino --- An Internet Database System   383
              Christoph Bussler   A Systematic Approach for Informal
                                  Communication During Workflow Execution  388
                   Jun Yang and   
                 Jennifer Widom   Temporal View Self-Maintenance . . . . . 395
                  Lars Arge and   
         Octavian Procopiuc and   
          Sridhar Ramaswamy and   
               Torsten Suel and   
             Jan Vahrenhold and   
           Jeffrey Scott Vitter   A Unified Approach for Indexed and
                                  Non-indexed Spatial Joins  . . . . . . . 413
                Mengchu Cai and   
            Dinesh Keshwani and   
                Peter Z. Revesz   Parametric Rectangles: A Model for
                                  Querying and Animation of Spatiotemporal
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
               Mark Papiani and   
            Jasmin L. Wason and   
                Denis A. Nicole   An Architecture for Archiving and
                                  Post-Processing Large, Distributed,
                                  Scientific Data Using SQL/MED and XML    447
             Roger S. Barga and   
             David B. Lomet and   
                Thomas Baby and   
                 Sanjay Agrawal   Persistent Client-Server Database
                                  Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
              Michael Carey and   
               Serge Rielau and   
                   Bennet Vance   Object View Hierarchies in DB2 UDB . . . 478
     Jochen van den Bercken and   
           Martin Schneider and   
                Bernhard Seeger   Plug&Join: An Easy-to-Use Generic
                                  Algorithm for Efficiently Processing
                                  Equi and Non-equi Joins  . . . . . . . . 495
              Sergio Flesca and   
                   Sergio Greco   Querying Graph Databases . . . . . . . . 510
             Randeep Bhatia and   
            Rakesh K. Sinha and   
                 Chung-Min Chen   Hierarchical Declustering Schemes for
                                  Range Queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1782, 2000

                 Martin Odersky   Functional Nets  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
              Torben Amtoft and   
                Franklyn Turbak   Faithful Translations between
                                  Polyvariant Flows and Polymorphic Types  26
                 Nadia Busi and   
            Gianluigi Zavattaro   On the Expressiveness of Event
                                  Notification in Data-Driven Coordination
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
               Henry Cejtin and   
         Suresh Jagannathan and   
                  Stephen Weeks   Flow-Directed Closure Conversion for
                                  Typed Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
              Witold Charatonik   Directional Type Checking for Logic
                                  Programs: Beyond Discriminative Types    72
                  Olivier Danvy   Formalizing Implementation Strategies
                                  for First-Class Continuations  . . . . . 88
                Ewen Denney and   
                  Thomas Jensen   Correctness of Java Card Method Lookup
                                  via Logical Relations  . . . . . . . . . 104
              Jacob Elgaard and   
       Anders Mòller and   
        Michael I. Schwartzbach   Compile-Time Debugging of C Programs
                                  Working on Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
            Kathleen Fisher and   
                 John Reppy and   
                  Jon G. Riecke   A Calculus for Compiling and Linking
                                  Classes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
              Andrew Heaton and   
           Patricia M. Hill and   
                      Andy King   Abstract Domains for Universal and
                                  Existential Properties . . . . . . . . . 150
                 Martin Hofmann   A Type System for Bounded Space and
                                  Functional In-Place Update--Extended
                                  Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
                Kohei Honda and   
          Vasco Vasconcelos and   
                 Nobuko Yoshida   Secure Information Flow as Typed Process
                                  Behaviour  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
              Jacob M. Howe and   
                      Andy King   Implementing Groundness Analysis with
                                  Definite Boolean Functions . . . . . . . 200
                    John Hughes   The Correctness of Type Specialisation   215
                  Mark P. Jones   Type Classes with Functional
                                  Dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
            Julia L. Lawall and   
               Harry G. Mairson   Sharing Continuations: Proofnets for
                                  Languages with Explicit Control  . . . . 245
           Elena Machkasova and   
             Franklyn A. Turbak   A Calculus for Link-Time Compilation . . 260
              Laurent Mauborgne   Improving the Representation of Infinite
                                  Trees to Deal with Sets of Trees . . . . 275
     Markus Müller-Olm and   
                   Andreas Wolf   On the Translation of Procedures to
                                  Finite Machines  . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
           Flemming Nielson and   
         Hanne Riis Nielson and   
                    Mooly Sagiv   A Kleene Analysis of Mobile Ambients . . 305
        François Pottier   A $3$-Part Type Inference Engine . . . . 320
               Claudio V. Russo   First-Class Structures for Standard ML   336
               Helmut Seidl and   
               Bernhard Steffen   Constraint-Based Inter-Procedural
                                  Analysis of Parallel Programs  . . . . . 351
            Frederick Smith and   
               David Walker and   
                 Greg Morrisett   Alias Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
             Scott F. Smith and   
                    Tiejun Wang   Polyvariant Flow Analysis with
                                  Constrained Types  . . . . . . . . . . . 382
                 Hayo Thielecke   On Exceptions Versus Continuations in
                                  the Presence of State  . . . . . . . . . 397
                J. B. Wells and   
        René Vestergaard   Equational Reasoning for Linking with
                                  First-Class Primitive Modules  . . . . . 412
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1783, 2000

          W\ladys\law M. Turski   Essay on Software Engineering at the
                                  Turn of Century  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
             Richard Mark Soley   Memex Is Not Enough  . . . . . . . . . . 21--21
                    David Harel   From Play-In Scenarios to Code: An
                                  Achievable Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
             Paul Z. Kolano and   
        Richard A. Kemmerer and   
                 Dino Mandrioli   Parallel Refinement Mechanisms for
                                  Real-Time Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 35
              Carsten Sühl   Applying RT--Z to Develop
                                  Safety-Critical Systems  . . . . . . . . 51
                 Henning Dierks   A Process Algebra for Real-Time Programs 66
        Giovanna Dondossola and   
                   Oliver Botti   System Fault Tolerance Specification:
                                  Proposal of a Method Combining
                                  Semi-formal and Formal Approaches  . . . 82
                    K. Lano and   
         K. Androutsopoulos and   
                       D. Clark   Structuring and Design of Reactive
                                  Systems Using RSDS and B . . . . . . . . 97
           Matthias Anlauff and   
          Philipp W. Kutter and   
        Alfonso Pierantonio and   
        Asuman Sünbül   Using Domain-Specific Languages for the
                                  Realization of Component Composition . . 112
                  G. Reggio and   
               E. Astesiano and   
                  C. Choppy and   
                    H. Hussmann   Analysing UML Active Classes and
                                  Associated State Machines --- A
                                  Lightweight Formal Approach  . . . . . . 127
José Hernández-Orallo and   
Maria José Ramírez-Quintana   Software as Learning: Quality Factors
                                  and Life-Cycle Revised . . . . . . . . . 147
                Hidetaka Kondoh   What Is `Mathematicalness' in Software
                                  Engineering? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
            Alexander Egyed and   
               Nenad Medvidovic   A Formal Approach to Heterogeneous
                                  Software Modeling  . . . . . . . . . . . 178
          Gunnar Övergaard   Formal Specification of Object-Oriented
                                  Meta-modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
               Kees Huizing and   
               Ruurd Kuiper and   
                           SOOP   Verification of Object Oriented Programs
                                  Using Class Invariants . . . . . . . . . 208--221
                Pablo Gruer and   
            Vincent Hilaire and   
                   Abder Koukam   Verification of Object-Z Specifications
                                  by Using Transition Systems: Application
                                  to the Radiomobile Network Design
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
             Torsten Nelson and   
               Donald Cowan and   
                  Paulo Alencar   A Model for Describing Object-Oriented
                                  Systems from Multiple Perspectives . . . 237
                 J. Padberg and   
                K. Hoffmann and   
                    M. Gajewsky   Stepwise Introduction and Preservation
                                  of Safety Properties in Algebraic
                                  High-Level Net Systems . . . . . . . . . 249
Françoise Bellegarde and   
           Jacques Julliand and   
              Olga Kouchnarenko   Ready-Simulation Is Not Ready to Express
                                  a Modular Refinement Relation  . . . . . 266
            Marieke Huisman and   
                    Bart Jacobs   Java Program Verification via a Hoare
                                  Logic with Abrupt Termination  . . . . . 284
  Francesco Parisi-Presicce and   
              Alexander L. Wolf   Foundations for Software Configuration
                                  Management Policies Using Graph
                                  Transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
              Pascal Fradet and   
     Valérie Issarny and   
             Siegfried Rouvrais   Analyzing Non-functional Properties of
                                  Mobile Agents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
                 Heike Wehrheim   Specification of an Automatic
                                  Manufacturing System: A Case Study in
                                  Using Integrated Formal Methods  . . . . 334
                Thomas Hune and   
                Anders Sandholm   A Case Study on Using Automata in
                                  Control Synthesis  . . . . . . . . . . . 349
             Michael Balser and   
              Wolfgang Reif and   
         Gerhard Schellhorn and   
               Kurt Stenzel and   
                  Andreas Thums   Formal System Development with KIV . . . 363
        Christoph Lüth and   
                 Burkhart Wolff   More About TAS and IsaWin --- Tools for
                                  Formal Program Development . . . . . . . 367
              Manuel Clavel and   
     Fransisco Durán and   
                Steven Eker and   
            Patrick Lincoln and   
 Narciso Martí-Oliet and   
              Jose Meseguer and   
                Jose F. Quesada   Using Maude  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1784, 2000

             Christel Baier and   
        Mariëlle Stoelinga   Norm Functions for Probabilistic
                                  Bisimulations with Delays  . . . . . . . 1
              Gilles Barthe and   
            Femke van Raamsdonk   Constructor Subtyping in the Calculus of
                                  Inductive Constructions  . . . . . . . . 17
     Beatrice Bérard and   
               Anne Labroue and   
           Philippe Schnoebelen   Verifying Performance Equivalence for
                                  Timed Basic Parallel Processes . . . . . 35
                  Didier Caucal   On Word Rewriting Systems Having a
                                  Rational Derivation  . . . . . . . . . . 48
           Roberto Di Cosmo and   
               Delia Kesner and   
            Emmanuel Polonovski   Proof Nets and Explicit Substitutions    63
              Ferruccio Damiani   Typing Local Definitions and Conditional
                                  Expressions with Rank $2$ Intersection   82
               Frank Drewes and   
          Berthold Hoffmann and   
                   Detlef Plump   Hierarchical Graph Transformation  . . . 98
             Kai Engelhardt and   
         Ron van der Meyden and   
                    Yoram Moses   A Program Refinement Framework
                                  Supporting Reasoning about Knowledge and
                                  Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
              Jo Erskine Hannay   A Higher-Order Simulation Relation for
                                  System F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
      Oltea Mihaela Herescu and   
           Catuscia Palamidessi   Probabilistic Asynchronous $ \pi
                                  $-Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
              Furio Honsell and   
               John Longley and   
            Donald Sannella and   
               Andrzej Tarlecki   Constructive Data Refinement in Typed
                                  Lambda Calculus  . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Jean-François Husson and   
              Rémi Morin   On Recognizable Stable Trace Languages   177
François Laroussinie and   
           Philippe Schnoebelen   The State Explosion Problem from Trace
                                  to Bisimulation Equivalence  . . . . . . 192
                 Huimin Lin and   
                        Wang Yi   A Proof System for Timed Automata  . . . 208
       Maria Emilia Maietti and   
           Valeria de Paiva and   
                    Eike Ritter   Categorical Models for Intuitionistic
                                  and Linear Type Theory . . . . . . . . . 223
                  Massimo Merro   Locality and Polyadicity in Asynchronous
                                  Name-Passing Calculi . . . . . . . . . . 238
              Christophe Morvan   On Rational Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 252
              Jorge Sousa Pinto   Sequential and Concurrent Abstract
                                  Machines for Interaction Nets  . . . . . 267
              Paola Quaglia and   
                   David Walker   On Synchronous and Asynchronous Mobile
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
                Aleksy Schubert   Type Inference for First-Order Logic . . 297
                 Peter Thiemann   An Algebraic Foundation for Adaptive
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
                   Ralf Treinen   Predicate Logic and Tree Automata with
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
                  Yih-Kuen Tsay   Compositional Verification in
                                  Linear-Time Temporal Logic . . . . . . . 344
              Hongseok Yang and   
                  Uday S. Reddy   On the Semantics of Refinement Calculi   359
                  Pascal Zimmer   Subtyping and Typing Algorithms for
                                  Mobile Ambients  . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1792, 2000

              Daniele Nardi and   
                Riccardo Rosati   Generalized Default Logic: Minimal
                                  Knowledge, Autoepistemic, and Default
                                  Reasoning Reconciled . . . . . . . . . . 1
        Eugenio Di Sciascio and   
        Francesco M. Donini and   
               Marina Mongiello   A Description Logic for Image Retrieval  13
                    Peter Lucas   Certainty-Factor-Like Structures in
                                  Bayesian Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 25
      Linda C. van der Gaag and   
      Veerle M. H. Coupé   Sensitivity Analysis for Threshold
                                  Decision Making with Bayesian Belief
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
               Fariba Sadri and   
                 Francesca Toni   Abduction with Negation as Failure for
                                  Active and Reactive Rules  . . . . . . . 49
              A. Ciampolini and   
                   E. Lamma and   
                   P. Mello and   
              C. Stefanelli and   
                     P. Torroni   An Implementation for Abductive Logic
                                  Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
             Michela Milano and   
                    Andrea Roli   Solving the Satisfiability Problem
                                  through Boolean Networks . . . . . . . . 72
         Enrico Giunchiglia and   
             Roberto Sebastiani   Applying the Davis--Putnam Procedure to
                                  Non-clausal Formulas . . . . . . . . . . 84
         Enrico Giunchiglia and   
         Fausto Giunchiglia and   
              Armando Tacchella   The SAT-Based Approach for Classical
                                  Modal Logics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
               Nicola Leone and   
               Simona Perri and   
                 Pasquale Rullo   Local Search Techniques for Disjunctive
                                  Logic Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
          Guido Governatori and   
               Alessandro Luppi   Labelled Tableaux for Non-normal Modal
                                  Logics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
        Massimo Franceschet and   
               Angelo Montanari   Pairing Transitive Closure and Reduction
                                  to Efficiently Reason about Partially
                                  Ordered Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
               Amedeo Cesta and   
                Angelo Oddi and   
                    Angelo Susi   TimeNetManager --- A Software Tool for
                                  Generating Random Temporal Networks  . . 143
                S. Badaloni and   
                    M. Giacomin   A Fuzzy Extension of Allen's Interval
                                  Algebra  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
                  Andrea Panati   Non Binary CSPs and Heuristics for
                                  Modeling and Diagnosing Dynamic Systems  166
                   M. Botta and   
                A. Giordana and   
                  L. Saitta and   
                       M. Sebag   Relational Learning: Hard Problems and
                                  Phase Transitions  . . . . . . . . . . . 178
          Floriana Esposito and   
             Donato Malerba and   
              Luigi Di Pace and   
                     Pietro Leo   A Machine Learning Approach to Web
                                  Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
            Fosca Giannotti and   
             Giuseppe Manco and   
             Dino Pedreschi and   
                  Franco Turini   Experiences with a Logic-Based Knowledge
                                  Discovery Support Environment  . . . . . 202
                F. Esposito and   
                G. Semeraro and   
                 N. Fanizzi and   
                     S. Ferilli   Conceptual Change in Learning Naive
                                  Physics: The Computational Model as a
                                  Theory Revision Process  . . . . . . . . 214
                  S. Gaglio and   
                  G. Pilato and   
                F. Sorbello and   
                    G. Vassallo   Using the Hermite Regression Formula to
                                  Design a Neural Architecture with
                                  Automatic Learning of the ``Hidden''
                                  Activation Functions . . . . . . . . . . 226
            Emanuele Pianta and   
                Lucia M. Tovena   XIG: Generating from Interchange Format
                                  Using Mixed Representations  . . . . . . 238
             Clara Bagnasco and   
            Amedeo Cappelli and   
           Bernardo Magnini and   
                 Diego Zamatteo   Natural Language Access to Public
                                  Administration Data: The TAMIC--P System 249
          Liliana Ardissono and   
               Luca Console and   
                   Ilaria Torre   On the Application of Personalization
                                  Techniques to News Servers on the WWW    261
               Rino Falcone and   
        Cristiano Castelfranchi   Levels of Delegation and Levels of
                                  Adoption as the Basis for Adjustable
                                  Autonomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
            Alessandro Agostini   Notes on Formalizing Coordination  . . . 285
               N. Monekosso and   
                   P. Remagnino   Autonomous Spacecraft Resource
                                  Management: A Multi-agent Approach . . . 297
               P. Remagnino and   
                  J. Orwell and   
                    G. A. Jones   Multi-agent Scene Interpretation . . . . 309
          Francesco Amigoni and   
                    Mauro Villa   An Algorithm for Recruitment of Agents
                                  in Agency Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
             Antonio Chella and   
          Marcello Frixione and   
               Salvatore Gaglio   Towards a Conceptual Representation of
                                  Actions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
            Giovanni Adorni and   
            Stefano Cagnoni and   
               Monica Mordonini   Cellular Automata Based Inverse
                                  Perspective Transform as a Tool for
                                  Indoor Robot Navigation  . . . . . . . . 345
           Alfonso Gerevini and   
                    Ivan Serina   On Plan Adaptation through Planning
                                  Graph Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
           Maurizio Piaggio and   
              Antonio Sgorbissa   Real-Time Motion Planning in Autonomous
                                  Vehicles: A Hybrid Approach  . . . . . . 368
             Andrea Schaerf and   
                  Amnon Meisels   Solving Employee Timetabling Problems by
                                  Generalized Local Search . . . . . . . . 380
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1799, 2000

                 Wolfgang Goebl   A Survey and a Categorization Scheme of
                                  Automatic Programming Systems  . . . . . 1
               Maja D'Hondt and   
         Wolfgang De Meuter and   
                     Roel Wuyts   Using Reflective Logic Programming to
                                  Describe Domain Knowledge as an Aspect   16
           Uwe Aßmann and   
                 Andreas Ludwig   Aspect Weaving with Graph Rewriting  . . 24
       E. Pulvermüller and   
                 H. Klaeren and   
                       A. Speck   Aspects in Distributed Environments  . . 37
                  Sam Kamin and   
           Miranda Callahan and   
                   Lars Clausen   Lightweight and Generative Components I:
                                  Source-Level Components  . . . . . . . . 49
         Yannis Smaragdakis and   
                     Don Batory   Scoping Constructs for Software
                                  Generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
            Mario Friedrich and   
          Holger Papajewski and   
Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat and   
              Olaf Spinczyk and   
                   Ute Spinczyk   Efficient Object-Oriented Software with
                                  Design Patterns  . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
               Simon Dobson and   
                Paddy Nixon and   
               Vincent Wade and   
            Sotirios Terzis and   
                    John Fuller   Vanilla: An Open Language Framework  . . 91
      Shriram Krishnamurthi and   
         Matthias Felleisen and   
                  Bruce F. Duba   From Macros to Reusable Generative
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
               Oege de Moor and   
         Simon Peyton-Jones and   
                   Eric Van Wyk   Aspect-Oriented Compilers  . . . . . . . 121
               Linda Seiter and   
                Mira Mezini and   
                Karl Lieberherr   Dynamic Component Gluing . . . . . . . . 134
          Rémi Forax and   
                 Gilles Roussel   Recursive Types and Pattern-Matching in
                                  Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
              Jaakko Järvi   C++ Function Object Binders Made Easy    165
              Joachim Bayer and   
                Dirk Muthig and   
                    Tanya Widen   Customizable Domain Analysis . . . . . . 178
                  Hans de Bruin   A Grey-Box Approach to Component
                                  Composition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
               Omer F. Rana and   
                 Maozhen Li and   
            David W. Walker and   
                Matthew Shields   An XML Based Component Model for
                                  Generating Scientific Applications and
                                  Performing Large Scale Simulations in a
                                  Meta-computing Environment . . . . . . . 210
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1800, 2000

                  G. Chiola and   
                   G. Conte and   
                  L. V. Mancini   Workshop on Personal Computer Based
                                  Networks of Workstations . . . . . . . . 1
                Mario Trams and   
              Wolfgang Rehm and   
           Daniel Balkanski and   
             Stanislav Simeonov   Memory Management in a Combined VIA/SCI
                                  Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
             Markus Fischer and   
        Ulrich Brüning and   
            Jörg Kluge and   
          Lars Rzymianowicz and   
             Patrick Schulz and   
                  Mathias Waack   ATOLL, a New Switched, High Speed
                                  Interconnect in Comparison to Myrinet
                                  and SCI  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
               Raymond R. Hoare   ClusterNet: An Object-Oriented Cluster
                                  Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
                 Mark Baker and   
              Stephen Scott and   
                   Al Geist and   
                   Logan Browne   GigaBit Performance under NT . . . . . . 39
            Hsiang Ann Chen and   
         Yvette O. Carrasco and   
                    Amy W. Apon   MPI Collective Operations over IP
                                  Multicast  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
               Spyros Lalis and   
           Alexandros Karipidis   An Open Market-Based Architecture for
                                  Distributed Computing  . . . . . . . . . 61
             Marcos Barreto and   
        Rafael Ávila and   
                Philippe Navaux   The MultiCluster Model to the Integrated
                                  Use of Multiple Workstation Clusters . . 71
             Sang-Hwa Chung and   
             Hyuk-Chul Kwon and   
             Kwang Ryel Ryu and   
              Han-Kook Jang and   
               Jin-Hyuk Kim and   
                   Cham-Ah Choi   Parallel Information Retrieval on an
                                  SCI-Based PC--NOW  . . . . . . . . . . . 81
          Matthieu Exbrayat and   
                  Lionel Brunie   A PC--NOW Based Parallel Extension for a
                                  Sequential DBMS  . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
                Koji Nakano and   
                 Stephan Olariu   Workshop on Advances in Parallel and
                                  Distributed Computational Models . . . . 101
        Tiffani L. Williams and   
             Rebecca J. Parsons   The Heterogeneous Bulk Synchronous
                                  Parallel Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
         Gianfranco Bilardi and   
           Kieran T. Herley and   
       Andrea Pietracaprina and   
                  Geppino Pucci   On Stalling in LogP  . . . . . . . . . . 109
           Akihiro Fujiwara and   
              Michiko Inoue and   
            Toshimitsu Masuzawa   Parallelizability of Some P-Complete
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
             Chin-Hsiung Wu and   
             Shi-Jinn Horng and   
               Pei-Zong Lee and   
            Shung-Shing Lee and   
                  Shih-Ying Lin   A New Computation of Shape Moments via
                                  Quadtree Decomposition . . . . . . . . . 123
              Shing-Tsaan Huang   The Fuzzy Philosophers . . . . . . . . . 130
          Kensuke Miyashita and   
                Reiji Hashimoto   A Java Applet to Visualize Algorithms on
                                  Reconfigurable Mesh  . . . . . . . . . . 137
                    M. Imai and   
                Y. Hayakawa and   
                H. Kawanaka and   
                    W. Chen and   
                    K. Wada and   
             C. D. Castanho and   
                 Y. Okajima and   
                     H. Okamoto   A Hardware Implementation of PRAM and
                                  Its Performance Evaluation . . . . . . . 143
                   Rong Lin and   
               James L. Schwing   A Non-binary Parallel Arithmetic
                                  Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
                     J. Cui and   
               J. L. Bordim and   
                  K. Nakano and   
                 T. Hayashi and   
                       N. Ishii   Multithreaded Parallel Computer Model
                                  with Performance Evaluation  . . . . . . 155
    Sethuraman Panchanathan and   
                    Andreas Uhl   Workshop on Parallel and Distributed
                                  Computing in Image Processing, Video
                                  Processing, and Multimedia (PDIVM 2000)  161
         Subramania Sudharsanan   MAJC-5200: A High Performance
                                  Microprocessor for Multimedia Computing  163
                 Zhang Yong and   
                      Min Zhang   A Novel Superscalar Architecture for
                                  Fast DCT Implementation  . . . . . . . . 171
                     Yi Pan and   
                   Yamin Li and   
                     Jie Li and   
                   Keqin Li and   
                  Si-Qing Zheng   Computing Distance Maps Efficiently
                                  Using an Optical Bus . . . . . . . . . . 178
         Chidamber Kulkarni and   
           Francky Catthoor and   
                    Hugo De Man   Advanced Data Layout Optimization for
                                  Multimedia Applications  . . . . . . . . 186
    Suchendra M. Bhandarkar and   
      Shankar R. Chandrasekaran   Parallel Parsing of MPEG Video in a
                                  Multi-threaded Multiprocessor
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
        Nathan DeBardeleben and   
                Adam Hoover and   
              William Jones and   
                   Walter Ligon   Parallelization Techniques for
                                  Spatial-Temporal Occupancy Maps from
                                  Multiple Video Streams . . . . . . . . . 202
                Xiaobo Zhou and   
       Reinhard Lüling and   
                         Li Xie   Heuristic Solutions for a Mapping
                                  Problem in a TV-Anytime Server Network   210
              Daisaku Arita and   
              Yoshio Hamada and   
           Satoshi Yonemoto and   
           Rin-ichiro Taniguchi   RPV: A Programming Environment for
                                  Real-Time Parallel Vision ---
                                  Specification and Programming
                                  Methodology -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
         Cristina Nicolescu and   
                  Pieter Jonker   Parallel Low-Level Image Processing on a
                                  Distributed-Memory System  . . . . . . . 226
                   Harish Sethu   Congestion-Free Routing of Streaming
                                  Multimedia Content in BMIN-Based
                                  Parallel Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
                   Y. Chung and   
                    K. Park and   
                    W. Hahn and   
                    N. Park and   
                 V. K. Prasanna   Performance of On-Chip Multiprocessors
                                  for Vision Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
           Piyush Jamkhandi and   
             Amar Mukherjee and   
            Kunal Mukherjee and   
            Robert Franceschini   Parallel Hardware-Software Architecture
                                  for Computation of Discrete Wavelet
                                  Transform Using the Recursive Merge
                                  Filtering Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . 250
                  Martin Schulz   Workshop on High-Level Parallel
                                  Programming Models and Supportive
                                  Environments (HIPS 2000) . . . . . . . . 257
       E. Christopher Lewis and   
                Lawrence Snyder   Pipelining Wavefront Computations:
                                  Experiences and Performance  . . . . . . 261
             Michael Gerndt and   
          Hans-Georg Eßer   Specification Techniques for Automatic
                                  Performance Analysis Tools . . . . . . . 269
                Xian-He Sun and   
                      Xingfu Wu   PDRS: A Performance Data Representation
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
              Frank Mueller and   
            Jörg Nolte and   
            Alexander Schlaefer   Clix --- A Hybrid Programming
                                  Environment for Distributed Objects and
                                  Distributed Shared Memory  . . . . . . . 285
              Yvon Jégou   Controlling Distributed Shared Memory
                                  Consistency from High Level Programming
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
            Yoshihiro Oyama and   
              Kenjiro Taura and   
               Akinori Yonezawa   Online Computation of Critical Paths for
                                  Multithreaded Languages  . . . . . . . . 301
   Daniel C. Stanzione, Jr. and   
            Walter B. Ligon III   Problem Solving Environment
                                  Infrastructure for High Performance
                                  Computer Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
              Wolf Pfannenstiel   Combining Fusion Optimizations and
                                  Piecewise Execution of Nested
                                  Data-Parallel Programs . . . . . . . . . 324
             Rafael Ramirez and   
              Andrew E. Santosa   Declarative Concurrency in Java  . . . . 332
               Yong-Kee Jun and   
            Charles E. McDowell   Scalable Monitoring Technique for
                                  Detecting Races in Parallel Programs . . 340
           Mohammed J. Zaki and   
                Vipin Kumar and   
            David B. Skillicorn   Workshop on High Performance Data Mining 348
                R. Baraglia and   
               D. Laforenza and   
          Salvatore Orlando and   
               P. Palmerini and   
                Raffaele Perego   Implementation Issues in the Design of
                                  I/O Intensive Data Mining Applications
                                  on Clusters of Workstations  . . . . . . 350
        William A. Maniatty and   
               Mohammed J. Zaki   A Requirements Analysis for Parallel KDD
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
              Masato Oguchi and   
             Masaru Kitsuregawa   Parallel Data Mining on ATM-Connected PC
                                  Cluster and Optimization of Its
                                  Execution Environments . . . . . . . . . 366
           Jennifer Seitzer and   
           James P. Buckley and   
                     Yi Pan and   
                   Lee A. Adams   The Parallelization of a Knowledge
                                  Discovery System with Hypergraph
                                  Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
              Primo Becuzzi and   
            Massimo Coppola and   
         Salvatore Ruggieri and   
                Marco Vanneschi   Parallelisation of C4.5 as a Particular
                                  Divide and Conquer Computation . . . . . 382
                    D. Foti and   
                  D. Lipari and   
                 C. Pizzuti and   
                       D. Talia   Scalable Parallel Clustering for Data
                                  Mining on Multicomputers . . . . . . . . 390
   Srinivasan Parthasarathy and   
              Mitsunori Ogihara   Exploiting Dataset Similarity for
                                  Distributed Mining . . . . . . . . . . . 399
   Hércules A. Prado and   
          Stephen C. Hirtle and   
                 Paulo M. Engel   Scalable Model for Extensional and
                                  Intensional Descriptions of Unclassified
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
               Roy Sterritt and   
              Kenny Adamson and   
           C. Mary Shapcott and   
                Edwin P. Curran   Parallel Data Mining of Bayesian
                                  Networks from Telecommunications Network
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
               Sartaj Sahni and   
              Timothy Davis and   
    Sanguthevar Rajasekeran and   
                   Sanjay Ranka   Irregular 2000 --- Workshop on Solving
                                  Irregularly Structured Problems in
                                  Parallel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
               William W. Hager   Load Balancing and Continuous Quadratic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
               Xavier Cavin and   
                 Laurent Alonso   Parallel Management of Large Dynamic
                                  Shared Memory Space: A Hierarchical FEM
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
          Siegfried Benkner and   
                 Thomas Brandes   Efficient Parallelization of
                                  Unstructured Reductions on Shared Memory
                                  Parallel Architectures . . . . . . . . . 435
               Bruce Carter and   
            Chuin-Shan Chen and   
               L. Paul Chew and   
        Nikos Chrisochoides and   
               Guang R. Gao and   
                 Gerd Heber and   
        Antony R. Ingraffea and   
              Roland Krause and   
                Chris Myers and   
                Demian Nave and   
             Keshav Pingali and   
             Paul Stodghill and   
            Stephen Vavasis and   
              Paul A. Wawrzynek   Parallel FEM Simulation of Crack
                                  Propagation --- Challenges, Status, and
                                  Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
               Hans P. Zima and   
             Thomas L. Sterling   Support for Irregular Computations in
                                  Massively Parallel PIM Arrays, Using an
                                  Object-Based Execution Model . . . . . . 450
          Vara Ramakrishnan and   
              Isaac D. Scherson   Executing Communication-Intensive
                                  Irregular Programs Efficiently . . . . . 457
              Dongming Peng and   
                          Mi Lu   Non-Memory-Based and Real-Time Zerotree
                                  Building for Wavelet Zerotree Coding
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
                Vipin Kumar and   
             Kirk Schloegel and   
                 George Karypis   Graph Partitioning for Dynamic,
                                  Adaptive, and Multi-phase Computations   476
             Suely Oliveira and   
                    Takako Soma   A Multilevel Algorithm for Spectral
                                  Partitioning with Extended Eigen-Models  477
               Jarmo Rantakokko   An Integrated Decomposition and
                                  Partitioning Approach for Irregular
                                  Block-Structured Applications  . . . . . 485
              Leonid Oliker and   
                  Xiaoye Li and   
                 Gerd Heber and   
                   Rupak Biswas   Ordering Unstructured Meshes for Sparse
                                  Matrix Computations on Leading Parallel
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
             Renata M. Aiex and   
          Panos M. Pardalos and   
      Leonidas S. Pitsoulis and   
         Mauricio G. C. Resende   A GRASP for Computing Approximate
                                  Solutions for the Three-Index Assignment
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
          Lisa K. Fleischer and   
          Bruce Hendrickson and   
                      Ali Pinar   On Identifying Strongly Connected
                                  Components in Parallel . . . . . . . . . 505
                 Alan Stagg and   
            Jackie Hallberg and   
                 Joseph Schmidt   A Parallel, Adaptive Refinement Scheme
                                  for Tetrahedral and Triangular Grids . . 512
        Pascal Hénon and   
               Pierre Ramet and   
                     Jean Roman   PaStiX: A Parallel Sparse Direct Solver
                                  Based on a Static Scheduling for Mixed
                                  $1$D/$2$D Block Distributions  . . . . . 519
              Denis Caromel and   
            Serge Chaumette and   
               Geoffrey Fox and   
                   Peter Graham   Workshop on Java for Parallel and
                                  Distributed Computing  . . . . . . . . . 526
          Guillaume Chelius and   
             Éric Fleury   An IP Next Generation Compliant Java\TM
                                  Virtual Machine  . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
                M. Di Santo and   
             F. Frattolillo and   
                   W. Russo and   
                       E. Zimeo   An Approach to Asynchronous
                                  Object-Oriented Parallel and Distributed
                                  Computing on Wide-Area Systems . . . . . 536
                Paul Murray and   
                 Todd Smith and   
            Suresh Srinivas and   
                 Matthias Jacob   Performance Issues for Multi-language
                                  Java Applications  . . . . . . . . . . . 544
                 Mark Baker and   
                Bryan Carpenter   MPJ: A Proposed Java Message Passing API
                                  and Environment for High Performance
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552
            Gabriel Antoniu and   
           Luc Bougé and   
             Philip Hatcher and   
               Mark MacBeth and   
             Keith McGuigan and   
                 Raymond Namyst   Implementing Java Consistency Using a
                                  Generic, Multithreaded DSM Runtime
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
           Albert Y. Zomaya and   
               Fikret Ercal and   
                 Stephan Olariu   Workshop on Bio-Inspired Solutions to
                                  Parallel Processing Problems (BioSP3)    568
               Z. Frank Qiu and   
                          Mi Lu   Take Advantage of the Computing Power of
                                  DNA Computers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570
  Ladislau Bölöni and   
               Dan C. Marinescu   Agent Surgery: The Case for Mutable
                                  Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
              Tadeusz Szuba and   
               Mohammed Almulla   Was Collective Intelligence before Life
                                  on Earth?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586
                 Domenico Talia   Solving Problems on Parallel Computers
                                  by Cellular Programming  . . . . . . . . 595
           Jerzy P. Nowacki and   
             Grzegorz Pycka and   
          Franciszek Seredynski   Multiprocessor Scheduling with Support
                                  by Genetic Algorithms-Based Learning
                                  Classifier System  . . . . . . . . . . . 604
               Miguel Rocha and   
               Carla Vilela and   
               Paulo Cortez and   
              José Neves   Viewing Scheduling Problems through
                                  Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms  . . 612
             Reginald L. Walker   Dynamic Load Balancing Model:
                                  Preliminary Assessment of a Biological
                                  Model for a Pseudo-search Engine . . . . 620
           Vincent Bachelet and   
               El-Ghazali Talbi   A Parallel Co-evolutionary Metaheuristic 628
         Azzedine Boukerche and   
Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare   Neural Fraud Detection in Mobile Phone
                                  Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636--644
          Martin Middendorf and   
             Frank Reischle and   
                Hartmut Schmeck   Information Exchange in Multi Colony Ant
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
               Z. Frank Qiu and   
                          Mi Lu   A Surface-Based DNA Algorithm for the
                                  Expansion of Symbolic Determinants . . . 653
         Reinhard Schneider and   
                 Reinhold Weiss   Hardware Support for Simulated Annealing
                                  and Tabu Search  . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
                 Kenji Toda and   
              Sang Hyuk Son and   
            Maarten Boasson and   
                Yoshiaki Kakuda   Workshop on Parallel and Distributed
                                  Real-Time Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 668
                    Lui Sha and   
                   Danbing Seto   A Distributed Real Time Coordination
                                  Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
         P. Krishna Gummadi and   
  Jnana Pradeep Madhavarapu and   
                Siva Ram Murthy   A Segmented Backup Scheme for Dependable
                                  Real Time Communication in Multihop
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678
    Theophilos A. Limniotes and   
         George A. Papadopoulos   Real-Time Coordination in Distributed
                                  Multimedia Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 685
               Kwei-Jay Lin and   
                  Yu-Chung Wang   Supporting Fault-Tolerant Real-Time
                                  Applications Using the RED-Linux General
                                  Scheduling Framework . . . . . . . . . . 692
           Pascal Chevochot and   
              Antoine Colin and   
            David Decotigny and   
                 Isabelle Puaut   Are COTS Suitable for Building
                                  Distributed Fault-Tolerant Hard
                                  Real-Time Systems? . . . . . . . . . . . 699
             Hideo Hanamura and   
                  Isao Kaji and   
                     Kinji Mori   Autonomous Consistency Technique in
                                  Distributed Database with Heterogeneous
                                  Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706
                Kwok-wa Lam and   
           Victor C. S. Lee and   
                    Sang H. Son   Real-Time Transaction Processing Using
                                  Two-Stage Validation in Broadcast Disks  713
            Tiina Niklander and   
              Kimmo Raatikainen   Using Logs to Increase Availability in
                                  Real-Time Main-Memory Database . . . . . 720
          M. R. V. Chaudron and   
                     E. de Jong   Components Are from Mars . . . . . . . . 727
               Hans Hansson and   
     Christer Norström and   
            Sasikumar Punnekkat   $ 2 + 10 \succ 1 + 50 $ !  . . . . . . . 734
             Jin-Young Choi and   
              Hee-Hwan Kwak and   
                      Insup Lee   A Framework for Embedded Real-Time
                                  System Design  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738
                A. Striegel and   
                   G. Manimaran   Best-Effort Scheduling of $ (m, k)
                                  $-Firm Real-Time Streams in Multihop
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743
                 Costas Mourlas   Predictability and Resource Management
                                  in Distributed Multimedia Presentations  750
       Charles D. Cavanaugh and   
            Lonnie R. Welch and   
         Behrooz A. Shirazi and   
                Eui-nam Huh and   
                  Shafqat Anwar   Quality of Service Negotiation for
                                  Distributed, Dynamic Real-Time Systems   757
             Thorsten Kramp and   
            Matthias Adrian and   
                  Rainer Koster   An Open Framework for Real-Time
                                  Scheduling Simulation  . . . . . . . . . 766
               Devesh Bhatt and   
                Lonnie R. Welch   Workshop on Embedded/Distributed HPC
                                  Systems and Applications (EHPC 2000) . . 773
           Timothy Osmulski and   
        Jeffrey T. Muehring and   
                Brian Veale and   
               Jack M. West and   
                Hongping Li and   
       Sirirut Vanichayobon and   
               Seok-Hyun Ko and   
            John K. Antonio and   
             Sudarshan K. Dhall   A Probabilistic Power Prediction Tool
                                  for the Xilinx 4000-Series FPGA  . . . . 776
           George D. Hadden and   
            Peter Bergstrom and   
                Tariq Samad and   
       Bonnie Holte Bennett and   
     George J. Vachtsevanos and   
                   Joe Van Dyke   Application Challenges: System Health
                                  Management for Complex Systems . . . . . 784
                     E. Huh and   
                L. R. Welch and   
              B. A. Shirazi and   
               B. C. Tjaden and   
                C. D. Cavanaugh   Accommodating QoS Prediction in an
                                  Adaptive Resource Management Framework   792
      Kazi M. Jahirul Islam and   
         Behrooz A. Shirazi and   
            Lonnie R. Welch and   
            Brett C. Tjaden and   
          Charles Cavanaugh and   
                  Shafqat Anwar   Network Load Monitoring in Distributed
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
           Randall S. Janka and   
                 Linda M. Wills   A Novel Specification and Design
                                  Methodology of Embedded Multiprocessor
                                  Signal Processing Systems Using
                                  High-Performance Middleware  . . . . . . 808
            Minesh I. Patel and   
                Karl Jordan and   
               Mattew Clark and   
                   Devesh Bhatt   Auto Source Code Generation and Run-Time
                                  Infrastructure and Environment for High
                                  Performance, Distributed Computing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816
            David B. Pierce and   
                 Diane T. Rover   Developing an Open Architecture for
                                  Performance Data Mining  . . . . . . . . 823
             Bruce Schulman and   
                Gerald Pechanek   A $ 90 k $ Gate ``CLB'' for Parallel
                                  Distributed Computing  . . . . . . . . . 831
             Osman S. Unsal and   
               Israel Koren and   
                C. Mani Krishna   Power-Aware Replication of Data
                                  Structures in Distributed Embedded
                                  Real-Time Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 839
           Brian Van Voorst and   
                  Steven Seidel   Comparison of MPI Implementations on a
                                  Shared Memory Machine  . . . . . . . . . 847
               Jack M. West and   
                John K. Antonio   A Genetic Algorithm Approach to
                                  Scheduling Communications for a Class of
                                  Parallel Space-Time Adaptive Processing
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855
                Pamela Yang and   
           Timothy M. Kunau and   
       Bonnie Holte Bennett and   
               Emmett Davis and   
                      Bill Wren   Reconfigurable Parallel Sorting and Load
                                  Balancing on a Beowulf Cluster:
                                  HeteroSort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862
             Hossam ElGindy and   
         Viktor K. Prasanna and   
            Hartmut Schmeck and   
                 Oliver Diessel   Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop
                                  (RAW 2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870
             Steven A. Guccione   Run-Time Reconfiguration at Xilinx . . . 873
                    Eric Keller   JRoute: A Run-Time Routing API for FPGA
                                  Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874
         Steven A. Guccione and   
                 Delon Levi and   
                   Daniel Downs   A Reconfigurable Content Addressable
                                  Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882
                  O. Brosch and   
                  J. Hesser and   
              C. Hinkelbein and   
              K. Kornmesser and   
                 T. Kuberka and   
                   A. Kugel and   
             R. Männer and   
                H. Singpiel and   
                  B. Vettermann   ATLANTIS --- A Hybrid FPGA/RISC Based
                                  Re-configurable System . . . . . . . . . 890
       Christian Hochberger and   
              Rolf Hoffmann and   
  Klaus-Peter Völkmann and   
             Stefan Waldschmidt   The Cellular Processor Architecture
                                  CEPRA-1X and Its Configuration by CDL    898
          Kiran Bondalapati and   
             Viktor K. Prasanna   Loop Pipelining and Optimization for Run
                                  Time Reconfiguration . . . . . . . . . . 906
             Oliver Diessel and   
                   George Milne   Compiling Process Algebraic Descriptions
                                  into Reconfigurable Logic  . . . . . . . 916
    Preetham Lakshmikanthan and   
        Sriram Govindarajan and   
           Vinoo Srinivasan and   
                   Ranga Vemuri   Behavioral Partitioning with Synthesis
                                  for Multi-FPGA Architectures under
                                  Interconnect, Area, and Latency
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924
              Xue-jie Zhang and   
                    Kam-wing Ng   Module Allocation for Dynamically
                                  Reconfigurable Systems . . . . . . . . . 932
              Xianfeng Zhou and   
             Margaret Martonosi   Augmenting Modern Superscalar
                                  Architectures with Configurable Extended
                                  Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941
                 Wenyi Feng and   
              Fred J. Meyer and   
              Fabrizio Lombardi   Complexity Bounds for Lookup Table
                                  Implementation of Factored Forms in FPGA
                                  Technology Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . 951
            Camel Tanougast and   
             Yves Berviller and   
                    Serge Weber   Optimization of Motion Estimator for
                                  Run-Time-Reconfiguration Implementation  959
                         Yi Pan   Constant-Time Hough Transform on a $3$D
                                  Reconfigurable Mesh Using Fewer
                                  Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966
            Beverly Sanders and   
          Dominique Méry   Workshop on Formal Methods for Parallel
                                  Programming (FMPPTA 2000)  . . . . . . . 974
          Jean Goubault-Larrecq   A Method for Automatic Cryptographic
                                  Protocol Verification  . . . . . . . . . 977
         Rajnish P. Ghughal and   
       Ganesh C. Gopalakrishnan   Verification Methods for Weaker Shared
                                  Memory Consistency Models  . . . . . . . 985
                Michael Mislove   Models Supporting Nondeterminism and
                                  Probabilistic Choice . . . . . . . . . . 993
          Kenneth J. Turner and   
      F. Javier Argul-Marin and   
               Stephen D. Laing   Concurrent Specification and Timing
                                  Analysis of Digital Hardware Using SDL   1001
             Nelson S. Rosa and   
         George R. R. Justo and   
              Paulo R. F. Cunha   Incorporating Non-functional
                                  Requirements into Software Architectures 1009
Luiz Henrique Castelo Branco and   
 Antonio Francisco do Prado and   
   Wanderley Lopes de Souza and   
              Marcelo Sant'Anna   Automatic Implementation of Distributed
                                  Systems Formal Specifications  . . . . . 1019
              Mamoun Filali and   
            Philippe Mauran and   
       Gérard Padiou and   
   Philippe Quéinnec and   
                Xavier Thirioux   Refinement Based Validation of an
                                  Algorithm for Detecting Distributed
                                  Termination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027
          Dominique Cansell and   
      Dominique Méry and   
           Christophe Tabacznyj   Tutorial 1: Abstraction and Refinement
                                  of Concurrent Programs and Formal
                                  Specification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037
              Jean-Paul Bahsoun   Tutorial 2: A Foundation for Composing
                                  Concurrent Objects . . . . . . . . . . . 1039
             Fouad Kiamilev and   
               Jeremy Ekman and   
           Alfonso Ferreira and   
               Sadik Esener and   
                     Yi Pan and   
                       Keqin Li   Workshop on Optics and Computer Science
                                  (WOCS 2000)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1042
           Anu G. Bourgeois and   
                Jerry L. Trahan   Fault Tolerant Algorithms for a Linear
                                  Array with a Reconfigurable Pipelined
                                  Bus System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1044
                       Keqin Li   Fast and Scalable Parallel Matrix
                                  Computations with Optical Buses  . . . . 1053
                   Jun Ohta and   
             Akihiro Uehara and   
             Takashi Tokuda and   
             Masahiro Nunoshita   Pulse-Modulated Vision Chips with
                                  Versatile-Interconnected Pixels  . . . . 1063
              Haldun M. Ozaktas   Connectivity Models for Optoelectronic
                                  Computing Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 1072
        Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy   Optoelectronic-VLSI Technology:
                                  Terabit/s I/O to a VLSI Chip . . . . . . 1089
              Dennis W. Prather   Three Dimensional VLSI-Scale
                                  Interconnects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1092
               Sadik Esener and   
              Philippe Marchand   Present and Future Needs of Free-Space
                                  Optical Interconnects  . . . . . . . . . 1104
              Amitava Datta and   
                Robyn Owens and   
        Subbiah Soundaralakshmi   Fast Sorting on a Linear Array with a
                                  Reconfigurable Pipelined Bus System  . . 1110
           Keiichiro Kagawa and   
              Kouichi Nitta and   
               Yusuke Ogura and   
                 Jun Tanida and   
                Yoshiki Ichioka   Architecture Description and Prototype
                                  Demonstration of Optoelectronic
                                  Parallel-Matching Architecture . . . . . 1118
                   J. Ekman and   
                  C. Berger and   
                F. Kiamilev and   
                    X. Wang and   
             H. Spaanenburg and   
                P. Marchand and   
                      S. Esener   A Distributed Computing Demonstration
                                  System Using FSOI Inter-processor
                                  Communication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1126
        Donald M. Chiarulli and   
              Steven P. Levitan   Optoelectronic Multi-chip Modules Based
                                  on Imaging Fiber Bundle Structures . . . 1132
                        Yue Liu   VCSEL Based Smart Pixel Array Technology
                                  Enables Chip-to-Chip Optical
                                  Interconnect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133
                 Ron Olsson and   
          Laxmikant V. Kale and   
               Pete Beckman and   
                 Matthew Haines   Workshop on Run-Time Systems for
                                  Parallel Programming (RTSPP) . . . . . . 1134
             Olivier Aumage and   
           Luc Bougé and   
                 Raymond Namyst   A Portable and Adaptative Multi-protocol
                                  Communication Library for Multithreaded
                                  Runtime Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136
               Thomas Barth and   
               Gerd Flender and   
           Bernd Freisleben and   
             Manfred Grauer and   
                    Frank Thilo   CORBA Based Runtime Support for Load
                                  Distribution and Fault Tolerance . . . . 1144
       Milind A. Bhandarkar and   
          Robert K. Brunner and   
       Laxmikant V. Kalé   Run-Time Support for Adaptive Load
                                  Balancing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152
            Vincent Danjean and   
             Raymond Namyst and   
              Robert D. Russell   Integrating Kernel Activations in a
                                  Multithreaded Runtime System on Top of L
                                  INUX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1160
             Etienne Godard and   
              Sanjeev Setia and   
                Elizabeth White   DyRecT: Software Support for Adaptive
                                  Parallelism on NOWs  . . . . . . . . . . 1168
             Thilo Kielmann and   
               Henri E. Bal and   
                  Kees Verstoep   Fast Measurement of LogP Parameters for
                                  Message Passing Platforms  . . . . . . . 1176
        Steven H. Samorodin and   
                    Raju Pandey   Supporting Flexible Safety and Sharing
                                  in Multi-threaded Environments . . . . . 1184
                 Min-You Wu and   
                    Wei Shu and   
                      Yong Chen   A Runtime System for Dynamic DAG
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1192
             Dimiter R. Avresky   Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and
                                  Distributed Systems (FTPDS 2000) . . . . 1200
                    I. Levendel   Certification of System Architecture
                                  Dependability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1202
           Vasken Bohossian and   
             Charles C. Fan and   
           Paul S. LeMahieu and   
             Marc D. Riedel and   
                   Lihao Xu and   
                 Jehoshua Bruck   Computing in the RAIN: A Reliable Array
                                  of Independent Nodes . . . . . . . . . . 1204
                Jon B. Weissman   Fault Tolerant Wide-Area Parallel
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1214
               Juan A. Carrasco   Transient Analysis of
                                  Dependability/Performability Models by
                                  Regenerative Randomization with Laplace
                                  Transform Inversion  . . . . . . . . . . 1226
                Holger Pals and   
               Stefan Petri and   
                    Claus Grewe   FANTOMAS: Fault Tolerance for Mobile
                                  Agents in Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . 1236
              P. M. Irey IV and   
             B. L. Chappell and   
                 R. W. Hott and   
               D. T. Marlow and   
           K. F. O'Donoghue and   
                 T. R. Plunkett   Metrics, Methodologies, and Tools for
                                  Analyzing Network Fault Recovery
                                  Performance in Real-Time Distributed
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248
       Fabíola Greve and   
              Michel Hurfin and   
      Raimundo Macêdo and   
                  Michel Raynal   Consensus Based on Strong Failure
                                  Detectors: A Time and Message-Efficient
                                  Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1258
     Andreas C. Döring and   
                 Gunther Lustig   Implementation of Finite Lattices in
                                  VLSI for Fault-State Encoding in
                                  High-Speed Networks  . . . . . . . . . . 1266
          Srinivasan Ramani and   
     Balakrishnan Dasarathy and   
              Kishor S. Trivedi   Building a Reliable Message Delivery
                                  System Using the CORBA Event Service . . 1276
            Abdur Chowdhury and   
              Ophir Frieder and   
                  Paul Luse and   
                   Peng-Jun Wan   Network Survivability Simulation of a
                                  Commercially Deployed Dynamic Routing
                                  System Protocol  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1281
                Diana Hecht and   
           Constantine Katsinis   Fault-Tolerant Distributed-Shared-Memory
                                  on a Broadcast-Based Interconnection
                                  Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1286
                R. Al-Omari and   
               G. Manimaran and   
                 Arun K. Somani   An Efficient Backup-Overloading for
                                  Fault-Tolerant Scheduling of Real-Time
                                  Tasks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1291
              Niki Pissinou and   
                 Bhagyavati and   
                      Kia Makki   Mobile Agents to Automate Fault
                                  Management in Wireless and Mobile
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296--1300
         Viktor K. Prasanna and   
         Cauligi S. Raghavendra   Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW
                                  2000)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1307


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1806, 2000

         Gerrit K. Janssens and   
                Jan Verelst and   
                      Bart Weyn   Techniques for Modelling Workflows and
                                  Their Support of Reuse . . . . . . . . . 1
          Gerhard Knolmayer and   
                Rainer Endl and   
                 Marcel Pfahrer   Modeling Processes and Workflows by
                                  Business Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
           Jörg Becker and   
           Michael Rosemann and   
          Christoph von Uthmann   Guidelines of Business Process Modeling  30
     Chrysanthos Dellarocas and   
                     Mark Klein   A Knowledge-Based Approach for Designing
                                  Robust Business Processes  . . . . . . . 50
                 Anatol W. Holt   The ``Organized Activity'' Foundation
                                  for Business Processes and Their
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
               Michael Zapf and   
                   Armin Heinzl   Evaluation of Generic Process Design
                                  Patterns: An Experimental Study  . . . . 83
         Anastasia Pagnoni Holt   Management-Oriented Models of Business
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
                Jörg Desel   Validation of Process Models by
                                  Construction of Process Nets . . . . . . 110
            Jörg Desel and   
                   Thomas Erwin   Modeling, Simulation and Analysis of
                                  Business Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 129
            Kees M. van Hee and   
                Hajo A. Reijers   Using Formal Analysis Techniques in
                                  Business Process Redesign  . . . . . . . 142
        Wil M. P. van der Aalst   Workflow Verification: Finding
                                  Control-Flow Errors Using
                                  Petri-Net-Based Techniques . . . . . . . 161
                 Marc Voorhoeve   Compositional Modeling and Verification
                                  of Workflow Processes  . . . . . . . . . 184
          Clarence A. Ellis and   
                  Karim Keddara   A Workflow Change Is a Workflow  . . . . 201
        Alessandra Agostini and   
            Giorgio De Michelis   Improving Flexibility of Workflow
                                  Management Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 218
             Ekkart Kindler and   
               Axel Martens and   
                Wolfgang Reisig   Inter-operability of Workflow
                                  Applications: Local Criteria for Global
                                  Soundness  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
               Daniel Moldt and   
              Rüdiger Valk   Object Oriented Petri Nets in Business
                                  Process Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
               Wolfgang Deiters   Information Gathering and Process
                                  Modeling in a Petri Net Based Approach   274
             Stef M. M. Joosten   Why Modellers Wreck Workflow Innovations 289
                    Peter Kueng   The Effects of Workflow Systems on
                                  Organizations: A Qualitative Study . . . 301
                   Martin Meyer   On the Practical Relevance of an
                                  Integrated Workflow Management System
                                  --- Results of an Empirical Study  . . . 317
         Mike P. Papazoglou and   
      Willem-Jan van den Heuvel   Configurable Business Objects for
                                  Building Evolving Enterprise Models and
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
               Stefan Jablonski   Workflow Management Between Formal
                                  Theory and Pragmatic Approaches  . . . . 345
                  Ronald M. Lee   Documentary Petri Nets: A Modeling
                                  Representation for Electronic Trade
                                  Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
      August-Wilhelm Scheer and   
           Markus Nüttgens   ARIS Architecture and Reference Models
                                  for Business Process Management  . . . . 376
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1807, 2000

          Stefania Cavallar and   
               Bruce Dodson and   
           Arjen K. Lenstra and   
               Walter Lioen and   
        Peter L. Montgomery and   
               Brian Murphy and   
            Herman te Riele and   
               Karen Aardal and   
             Jeff Gilchrist and   
     Gérard Guillerm and   
               Paul Leyland and   
         Joël Marchand and   
     François Morain and   
               Alec Muffett and   
               Chris Putnam and   
               Craig Putnam and   
                Paul Zimmermann   Factorization of a $ 512 $-Bit RSA
                                  Modulus  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
                Pierrick Gaudry   An Algorithm for Solving the Discrete
                                  Log Problem on Hyperelliptic Curves  . . 19
           Arjen K. Lenstra and   
                     Adi Shamir   Analysis and Optimization of the TWINKLE
                                  Factoring Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
      Daniel Bleichenbacher and   
                Phong Q. Nguyen   Noisy Polynomial Interpolation and Noisy
                                  Chinese Remaindering . . . . . . . . . . 53
          François Grieu   A Chosen Messages Attack on the ISO/IEC
                                  9796-1 Signature Scheme  . . . . . . . . 70
               Marc Girault and   
  Jean-François Misarsky   Cryptanalysis of Countermeasures
                                  Proposed for Repairing ISO 9796-1  . . . 81
Jean-Sébastien Coron and   
                 David Naccache   Security Analysis of the
                                  Gennaro-Halevi-Rabin Signature Scheme    91
                 Michael Walker   On the Security of 3GPP Networks . . . . 102
           Eyal Kushilevitz and   
               Rafail Ostrovsky   One-Way Trapdoor Permutations Are
                                  Sufficient for Non-trivial Single-Server
                                  Private Information Retrieval  . . . . . 104
      Giovanni Di Crescenzo and   
                 Tal Malkin and   
               Rafail Ostrovsky   Single Database Private Information
                                  Retrieval Implies Oblivious Transfer . . 122
              Mihir Bellare and   
          David Pointcheval and   
                Phillip Rogaway   Authenticated Key Exchange Secure
                                  against Dictionary Attacks . . . . . . . 139
               Victor Boyko and   
           Philip MacKenzie and   
                   Sarvar Patel   Provably Secure Password-Authenticated
                                  Key Exchange Using Diffie--Hellman . . . 156
          Guillaume Poupard and   
                  Jacques Stern   Fair Encryption of RSA Keys  . . . . . . 172
             Dario Catalano and   
            Rosario Gennaro and   
                    Shai Halevi   Computing Inverses over a Shared Secret
                                  Modulus  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
                   Victor Shoup   Practical Threshold Signatures . . . . . 207
          Stanis aw Jarecki and   
               Anna Lysyanskaya   Adaptively Secure Threshold
                                  Cryptography: Introducing Concurrency,
                                  Removing Erasures (Extended Abstract)    221
              Jan Camenisch and   
                 Markus Michels   Confirmer Signature Schemes Secure
                                  against Adaptive Adversaries (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
              Mihir Bellare and   
        Alexandra Boldyreva and   
                  Silvio Micali   Public-Key Encryption in a Multi-user
                                  Setting: Security Proofs and
                                  Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
                   Victor Shoup   Using Hash Functions as a Hedge against
                                  Chosen Ciphertext Attack . . . . . . . . 275
            Gilles Brassard and   
    Norbert Lütkenhaus and   
                    Tal Mor and   
               Barry C. Sanders   Security Aspects of Practical Quantum
                                  Cryptography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
                Paul Dumais and   
             Dominic Mayers and   
                  Louis Salvail   Perfectly Concealing Quantum Bit
                                  Commitment from any Quantum One-Way
                                  Permutation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
              Ronald Cramer and   
         Ivan Damgård and   
                    Ueli Maurer   General Secure Multi-party Computation
                                  from any Linear Secret-Sharing Scheme    316
                  Donald Beaver   Minimal-Latency Secure Function
                                  Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
                Ueli Maurer and   
                    Stefan Wolf   Information-Theoretic Key Agreement:
                                  From Weak to Strong Secrecy for Free . . 351
Jean-Sébastien Coron and   
                  Marc Joye and   
             David Naccache and   
                Pascal Paillier   New Attacks on PKCS#1 v1.5 Encryption    369
      Éliane Jaulmes and   
                   Antoine Joux   A NICE Cryptanalysis . . . . . . . . . . 382
           Nicolas Courtois and   
           Alexander Klimov and   
            Jacques Patarin and   
                     Adi Shamir   Efficient Algorithms for Solving
                                  Overdefined Systems of Multivariate
                                  Polynomial Equations . . . . . . . . . . 392
                      Eli Biham   Cryptanalysis of Patarin's $2$-Round
                                  Public Key System with S Boxes ($2$R)    408
                Anthony E. Sale   Colossus and the German Lorenz Cipher
                                  --- Code Breaking in WW II . . . . . . . 417
             Ivan Damgård   Efficient Concurrent Zero-Knowledge in
                                  the Auxiliary String Model . . . . . . . 418
                 Fabrice Boudot   Efficient Proofs that a Committed Number
                                  Lies in an Interval  . . . . . . . . . . 431
                   Victor Shoup   A Composition Theorem for Universal
                                  One-Way Hash Functions . . . . . . . . . 445
                Ran Canetti and   
             Yevgeniy Dodis and   
                Shai Halevi and   
           Eyal Kushilevitz and   
                     Amit Sahai   Exposure-Resilient Functions and
                                  All-or-Nothing Transforms  . . . . . . . 453
                   Stefan Lucks   The Sum of PRPs Is a Secure PRF  . . . . 470
              Palash Sarkar and   
                Subhamoy Maitra   Construction of Nonlinear Boolean
                                  Functions with Important Cryptographic
                                  Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
              Anne Canteaut and   
              Claude Carlet and   
            Pascale Charpin and   
              Caroline Fontaine   Propagation Characteristics and
                                  Correlation-Immunity of Highly Nonlinear
                                  Boolean Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . 507
          Shinichi Kawamura and   
             Masanobu Koike and   
              Fumihiko Sano and   
                 Atsushi Shimbo   Cox-Rower Architecture for Fast Parallel
                                  Montgomery Multiplication  . . . . . . . 523
                Martin Hirt and   
                     Kazue Sako   Efficient Receipt-Free Voting Based on
                                  Homomorphic Encryption . . . . . . . . . 539
                Yvo Desmedt and   
                 Kaoru Kurosawa   How to Break a Practical MIX and Design
                                  a New One  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
              Anne Canteaut and   
           Michaël Trabbia   Improved Fast Correlation Attacks Using
                                  Parity-Check Equations of Weight $4$ and
                                  $5$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
              Alex Biryukov and   
                   David Wagner   Advanced Slide Attacks . . . . . . . . . 589
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1813, 2000

            John H. Holland and   
           Lashon B. Booker and   
           Marco Colombetti and   
               Marco Dorigo and   
          David E. Goldberg and   
          Stephanie Forrest and   
              Rick L. Riolo and   
            Robert E. Smith and   
            Pier Luca Lanzi and   
         Wolfgang Stolzmann and   
              Stewart W. Wilson   What Is a Learning Classifier System?    3
            Pier Luca Lanzi and   
                  Rick L. Riolo   A Roadmap to the Last Decade of Learning
                                  Classifier System Research . . . . . . . 33
              Stewart W. Wilson   State of XCS Classifier System Research  63
                Andrea Bonarini   An Introduction to Learning Fuzzy
                                  Classifier Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 83
            Andrea Bonarini and   
           Claudio Bonacina and   
               Matteo Matteucci   Fuzzy and Crisp Representations of
                                  Real-Valued Input for Learning
                                  Classifier Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 107
               Lashon B. Booker   Do We Really Need to Estimate Rule
                                  Utilities in Classifier Systems? . . . . 125
                     Tim Kovacs   Strength or Accuracy? Fitness
                                  Calculation in Learning Classifier
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
                 Claude Lattaud   Non-homogeneous Classifier Systems in a
                                  Macro-evolution Process  . . . . . . . . 161
             Wolfgang Stolzmann   An Introduction to Anticipatory
                                  Classifier Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 175
             Andy Tomlinson and   
                     Larry Bull   A Corporate XCS  . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
              Stewart W. Wilson   Get Real! XCS with Continuous-Valued
                                  Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
                Shaun Saxon and   
                    Alwyn Barry   XCS and the Monk's Problems  . . . . . . 223
                 John H. Holmes   Learning Classifier Systems Applied to
                                  Knowledge Discovery in Clinical Research
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
          Sonia Schulenburg and   
                     Peter Ross   An Adaptive Agent Based Economic Model   263
            Robert E. Smith and   
                 B. A. Dike and   
            B. Ravichandran and   
               A. El-Fallah and   
                    R. K. Mehra   The Fighter Aircraft LCS: A Case of
                                  Different LCS Goals and Techniques . . . 283
         Wolfgang Stolzmann and   
                    Martin Butz   Latent Learning and Action Planning in
                                  Robots with Anticipatory Classifier
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
                 Tim Kovacs and   
                Pier Luca Lanzi   A Learning Classifier Systems
                                  Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1816, 2000

                David L. Parnas   Invited Talk: A Software Engineering
                                  Program of Lasting Value . . . . . . . . 1
              Jeannette M. Wing   Invited Talk: Weaving Formal Methods
                                  into the Undergraduate Computer Science
                                  Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
                David L. Parnas   Invited Talk: Making Mathematical
                                  Methods More Practical for Software
                                  Developers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
              Max Breitling and   
                   Jan Philipps   Step by Step to Histories  . . . . . . . 11
                   Sofia Guerra   Distance Functions for Defaults in
                                  Reactive Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
             Bernhard Heinemann   Generalizing the Modal and Temporal
                                  Logic of Linear Time . . . . . . . . . . 41
                 Antonio Cerone   Process Algebra versus Axiomatic
                                  Specification of a Real-Time Protocol    57
               Mark Lawford and   
             Jeff McDougall and   
              Peter Froebel and   
                      Greg Moum   Practical Application of Functional and
                                  Relational Methods for the Specification
                                  and Verification of Safety Critical
                                  Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
               Manfred Broy and   
                 Martin Wirsing   Invited Talk: Algebraic State Machines   89
                   Eric Van Wyk   Meta Languages in Algebraic Compilers    119
                   Martin Erwig   Random Access to Abstract Data Types . . 135
                Bart Jacobs and   
                      Erik Poll   A Monad for Basic Java Semantics . . . . 150
           Christine Choppy and   
              Pascal Poizat and   
              Jean-Claude Royer   A Global Semantics for Views . . . . . . 165
           Patricia M. Hill and   
                   Fausto Spoto   Analysis of Downward Closed Properties
                                  of Logic Programs  . . . . . . . . . . . 181
                  Yuri Gurevich   Invited Talk: ASM Formalware in the
                                  Software Engineering Cycle . . . . . . . 197
                 Nadia Busi and   
           Roberto Gorrieri and   
            Gianluigi Zavattaro   Process Calculi for Coordination: From
                                  Linda to JavaSpaces  . . . . . . . . . . 198
                 Colin J. Fidge   The Algebra of Multi-tasking . . . . . . 213
                Simone Tini and   
      Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini   A Causal Semantics for Timed Default
                                  Concurrent Constraint Programming  . . . 228
              Gianna Reggio and   
                Lorenzo Repetto   C\smallASL-C\smallHART: A Combination of
                                  Statecharts and of the Algebraic
                                  Specification Language C\smallASL  . . . 243
           Riccardo Focardi and   
           Roberto Gorrieri and   
               Fabio Martinelli   Message Authentication through Non
                                  Interference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
           Egidio Astesiano and   
              Maura Cerioli and   
                  Gianna Reggio   Invited Talk: Plugging Data Constructs
                                  into Paradigm-Specific Languages:
                                  Towards an Application to UML  . . . . . 273
           Egon Börger and   
         Alessandra Cavarra and   
              Elvinia Riccobene   An ASM Semantics for UML Activity
                                  Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
             Mingsheng Ying and   
                 Martin Wirsing   Approximate Bisimilarity . . . . . . . . 309
                  Suzana Andova   Time and Probability in Process Algebra  323
            Rocco De Nicola and   
                 Michele Loreti   A Modal Logic for K\smallLAIM  . . . . . 339
           Jules Desharnais and   
       Bernhard Möller and   
                 Fairouz Tchier   Kleene under a Demonic Star  . . . . . . 355
               Oege de Moor and   
                 Jeremy Gibbons   Invited Talk: Pointwise Relational
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
             Carolyn L. Talcott   Towards a Toolkit for Actor System
                                  Specification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
     Christiano de O. Braga and   
        E. Hermann Haeusler and   
       José Meseguer and   
                Peter D. Mosses   Maude Action Tool: Using Reflection to
                                  Map Action Semantics to Rewriting Logic  407
         Francisco Durán   The Extensibility of Maude's Module
                                  Algebra  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
             Sophie Coudert and   
                Pascale Le Gall   A Reuse-Oriented Framework for
                                  Hierarchical Specifications  . . . . . . 438
                  Davide Ancona   MIX(FL): A Kernel Language of Mixin
                                  Modules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
            Clemens Fischer and   
                 Heike Wehrheim   Behavioural Subtyping Relations for
                                  Object-Oriented Formalisms . . . . . . . 469
              Michael Healy and   
               Keith Williamson   Invited Talk: Applying Category Theory
                                  to Derive Engineering Software from
                                  Encoded Knowledge  . . . . . . . . . . . 484
                  Kamel Adi and   
             Mourad Debbabi and   
                  Mohamed Mejri   A New Logic for Electronic Commerce
                                  Protocols  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
             Marielle Doche and   
                 Virginie Wiels   Extended Institutions for Testing  . . . 514
  Patrícia D. L. Machado   Testing from Structured Algebraic
                                  Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1818, 2000

             Kaveh Pahlavan and   
                 Xinrong Li and   
            Mika Ylianttila and   
               Ranvir Chana and   
                Matti Latva-aho   An Overview of Wireless Indoor
                                  Geolocation Techniques and Systems . . . 1
                    Yu Wang and   
                 Brahim Bensaou   Priority Based Multiple Access for
                                  Service Differentiation in Wireless
                                  Ad-Hoc Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
               Krishna Paul and   
         Romit RoyChoudhuri and   
       Somprakash Bandyopadhyay   Survivability Analysis of Ad Hoc
                                  Wireless Network Architecture  . . . . . 31
              Rao Jianqiang and   
            Jiang Shengming and   
                     He Dajiang   A Token Passing Tree MAC Scheme for
                                  Wireless Ad Hoc Networks to Support
                                  Real-Time Traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . 47
           Prathima Agrawal and   
             Jyh-Cheng Chen and   
              Cormac J. Sreenan   Challenges for Mobile Voice-over-IP  . . 58
                Theo Kanter and   
               Per Lindtorp and   
            Christian Olrog and   
          Gerald Q. Maguire Jr.   Smart Delivery of Multimedia Content for
                                  Wireless Applications  . . . . . . . . . 70
                     Sathya Rao   IPv6: The Solution for Future Universal
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
               Henri Tobiet and   
                  Pascal Lorenz   Performance Measurement Methodologies
                                  and Quality of Service Evaluation in
                                  VoIP and Desktop Videoconferencing
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
                    Xin Liu and   
          Edwin K. P. Chong and   
                 Ness B. Shroff   Efficient Network Utilization for
                                  Multimedia Wireless Networks . . . . . . 108
               Do Van Thanh and   
            Sverre Steensen and   
                Jan A. Audestad   Mobility Management and Roaming with
                                  Mobile Agents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
         Noriteru Shinagawa and   
         Takehiko Kobayashi and   
             Keisuke Nakano and   
               Masakazu Sengoku   Traffic Characteristics in Adaptive
                                  Prioritized-Handoff Control Method
                                  Considering Reattempt Calls  . . . . . . 138
               Linfeng Yang and   
                Jouni Karvo and   
    Teemu Tynjälä and   
                     Hannu Kari   Threshold-Based Registration (TBR) in
                                  Mobile IPv6  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
                Baher Esmat and   
         Mikhail N. Mikhail and   
                    Amr El Kadi   Enhanced Mobile IP Protocol  . . . . . . 158
            Djamel H. Sadok and   
      Carlos de M. Cordeiro and   
                  Judith Kelner   A Reliable Subcasting Protocol for
                                  Wireless Environments  . . . . . . . . . 174


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1822, 2000

         Jonathan Schaeffer and   
                     Aske Plaat   Unifying Single-Agent and Two-Player
                                  Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
             Jack van Rijswijck   Are Bees Better than Fruitflies? . . . . 13
        Sivakumar Nagarajan and   
              Scott Goodwin and   
                   Abdul Sattar   A Constraint Directed Model for Partial
                                  Constraint Satisfaction Problems . . . . 26
                 Ken Barker and   
               Nadia Cornacchia   Using Noun Phrase Heads to Extract
                                  Document Keyphrases  . . . . . . . . . . 40
        Caroline Barri\`ere and   
                  Fred Popowich   Expanding the Type Hierarchy with
                                  Nonlexical Concepts  . . . . . . . . . . 53
             Bernard Moulin and   
              Driss Kettani and   
          Benjamin Gauthier and   
                   Walid Chaker   Using Object Influence Areas to
                                  Quantitatively Deal with Neighborhood
                                  and Perception in Route Descriptions . . 69
              Petr Pp Kubon and   
              Fred Popowich and   
                  Gordon Tisher   An Extendable Natural Language Interface
                                  to a Consumer Service Database . . . . . 82
                Marc Sebban and   
                   Richard Nock   Identifying and Eliminating Irrelevant
                                  Instances Using Information Theory . . . 90
                 Qiang Yang and   
                        Jing Wu   Keep It Simple: A Case-Base Maintenance
                                  Policy Based on Clustering and
                                  Information Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 102
        Aida Vitória and   
               Margarida Mamede   On the Integration of Recursive $
                                  {\mathcal {ALN}} $-Theories  . . . . . . 115
             Scott McDonald and   
             Davide Turcato and   
            Paul McFetridge and   
              Fred Popowich and   
                   Janine Toole   Collocation Discovery for Optimal
                                  Bilingual Lexicon Development  . . . . . 126
         Elizabeth Scarlett and   
                Stan Szpakowicz   The Power of the TSNLP: Lessons from a
                                  Diagnostic Evaluation of a
                                  Broad-Coverage Parser  . . . . . . . . . 138
             Charles Hannon and   
                     Diane Cook   A Parallel Approach to Unified Cognitive
                                  Modeling of Language Processing within a
                                  Visual Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
          Yannick Lallement and   
                    Mark S. Fox   Interact: A Staged Approach to Customer
                                  Service Automation . . . . . . . . . . . 164
                   Udo Hahn and   
                  Stefan Schulz   Towards Very Large Terminological
                                  Knowledge Bases: A Case Study from
                                  Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
             Ramiro Liscano and   
            Katherine Baker and   
                     John Meech   The Use of Ontologies and Meta-knowledge
                                  to Facilitate the Sharing of Knowledge
                                  in a Multi-agent Personal Communication
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
               Kay C. Wiese and   
           Scott D. Goodwin and   
            Sivakumar Nagarajan   ASERC --- A Genetic Sequencing Operator
                                  for Asymmetric Permutation Problems  . . 201
               Jianchao Han and   
                   Aijun An and   
                   Nick Cercone   CViz: An Interactive Visualization
                                  System for Rule Induction  . . . . . . . 214
                 Yang Xiang and   
                 Xiaohua Hu and   
        Nicholas J. Cercone and   
             Howard J. Hamilton   Learning Pseudo-independent Models:
                                  Analytical and Experimental Results  . . 227
              M. Afzal Upal and   
                     Renee Elio   Learning Rewrite Rules versus Search
                                  Control Rules to Improve Plan Quality    240
               Gernot Stenz and   
                   Andreas Wolf   Scheduling Methods for Parallel
                                  Automated Theorem Proving  . . . . . . . 254
                Jianjun Yan and   
             Naoyuki Tokuda and   
               Juichi Miyamichi   Simulating Competing Alife Organisms by
                                  Constructive Compound Neural Networks    267--279
                 Todd Eavis and   
             Nathalie Japkowicz   A Recognition-Based Alternative to
                                  Discrimination-Based Multi-layer
                                  Perceptrons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
            Ali A. Ghorbani and   
                     Lila Bayat   Accelerated Backpropagation Learning:
                                  Extended Dynamic Parallel Tangent
                                  Optimization Algorithm . . . . . . . . . 293
            Kayvan Najarian and   
              Guy A. Dumont and   
          Michael S. Davies and   
               Nancy E. Heckman   Neural ARX Models and PAC Learning . . . 305
    Jean-Christophe Baillie and   
          Jean-Gabriel Ganascia   Qualitative Descriptors and Action
                                  Perception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
                 Jeff Bowes and   
               Eric Neufeld and   
               Jim E. Greer and   
                     John Cooke   A Comparison of Association Rule
                                  Discovery and Bayesian Network Causal
                                  Inference Algorithms to Discover
                                  Relationships in Discrete Data . . . . . 326
               Mark Garzone and   
               Robert E. Mercer   Towards an Automated Citation Classifier 337
               Jianchao Han and   
                   Nick Cercone   Typical Example Selection for Learning
                                  Classifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
          Mahmoud F. Hussin and   
         Badr M. Abouelnasr and   
                Amin A. Shoukry   Comparative Study of Neural Network
                                  Controllers for Nonlinear Dynamic
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
                  Kamran Karimi   The Iterative Multi-agent Method for
                                  Solving Complex Search Problems  . . . . 369
              Johanne Morin and   
                    Stan Matwin   Relational Learning with Transfer of
                                  Knowledge Between Domains  . . . . . . . 379
               Matthias Scheutz   Surviving in a Hostile Multi-agent
                                  Environment: How Simple Affective States
                                  Can Aid in the Competition for Resources 389
                 Qihua Situ and   
                 Eleni Stroulia   Task-Structure Based Mediation: The
                                  Travel-Planning Assistant Example  . . . 400
           Matthew Suderman and   
                James Delgrande   Considerations on Compositional Update
                                  Operators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
            Ahmed Y. Tawfik and   
                  Trevor Barrie   The Degeneration of Relevance in
                                  Uncertain Temporal Domains: An Empirical
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
               Huajie Zhang and   
            Charles X. Ling and   
                    Zhiduo Zhao   The Learnability of Naive Bayes  . . . . 432
                Eugene Charniak   Parsing to Meaning, Statistically  . . . 442
                  Jan M. Zytkow   Automated Discovery: A Fusion of
                                  Multidisciplinary Principles . . . . . . 443
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1825, 2000

           Jordi Cortadella and   
        Michael Kishinevsky and   
            Alex Kondratyev and   
            Luciano Lavagno and   
                  Alex Yakovlev   Hardware and Petri Nets: Application to
                                  Asynchronous Circuit Design  . . . . . . 1
             Philippe Darondeau   Region Based Synthesis of P/T-Nets and
                                  Its Potential Applications . . . . . . . 16
              Gregor Engels and   
               Reiko Heckel and   
                   Stefan Sauer   UML --- A Universal Modeling Language?   24
          Kim Guldstrand Larsen   Verification of Timed and Hybrid Systems 39
            Paolo Ballarini and   
          Susanna Donatelli and   
         Giuliana Franceschinis   Parametric Stochastic Well-Formed Nets
                                  and Compositional Modelling  . . . . . . 43
                  Eike Best and   
                   Harro Wimmel   Reducing $k$-Safe Petri Nets to
                                  Pomset-Equivalent $1$-Safe Petri Nets    63
              Roberto Bruni and   
                  Ugo Montanari   Executing Transactions in Zero-Safe Nets 83
          Gianfranco Ciardo and   
        Gerald Lüttgen and   
               Radu Siminiceanu   Efficient Symbolic State-Space
                                  Construction for Asynchronous Systems    103
       Jean-Michel Couvreur and   
    Sébastien Grivet and   
               Denis Poitrenaud   Designing a LTL Model-Checker Based on
                                  Unfolding Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
            Jörg Desel and   
       Gabriel Juhás and   
                  Robert Lorenz   Process Semantics of Petri Nets over
                                  Partial Algebra  . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
          Mohammed Elkoutbi and   
               Rudolf K. Keller   User Interface Prototyping Based on UML
                                  Scenarios and High-Level Petri Nets  . . 166
     David de Frutos Escrig and   
Valentín Valero Ruiz and   
   Olga Marroquín Alonso   Decidability of Properties of Timed-Arc
                                  Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
              Steven Gordon and   
            Jonathan Billington   Analysing the WAP Class $2$ Wireless
                                  Transaction Protocol Using Coloured
                                  Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
                Kevin X. He and   
              Michael D. Lemmon   Liveness Verification of Discrete Event
                                  Systems Modeled by $n$-Safe Ordinary
                                  Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
              Nisse Husberg and   
    Teemu Tynjälä and   
              Kimmo Varpaaniemi   Modelling and Analysing the SDL
                                  Description of the ISDN--DSS1 Protocol   244
               Jetty Kleijn and   
                  Maciej Koutny   Process Semantics of P/T-Nets with
                                  Inhibitor Arcs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
    Lars Michael Kristensen and   
                  Antti Valmari   Improved Question-Guided Stubborn Set
                                  Methods for State Properties . . . . . . 282
                  Maciej Koutny   A Compositional Model of Time Petri Nets 303
                  Charles Lakos   Composing Abstractions of Coloured Petri
                                  Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
           Louise Lorentsen and   
        Lars Michael Kristensen   Modelling and Analysis of a DANFOSS
                                  Flowmeter System Using Coloured Petri
                                  Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
             Kjeld H. Mortensen   Automatic Code Generation Method Based
                                  on Coloured Petri Net Models Applied on
                                  an Access Control System . . . . . . . . 367
           Denis Poitrenaud and   
Jean-François Pradat-Peyre   Pre- and Post-agglomerations for LTL
                                  Model Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
       Philippe Schnoebelen and   
               Natalia Sidorova   Bisimulation and the Reduction of Petri
                                  Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
                  Walter Vogler   Efficiency of Asynchronous Systems That
                                  Communicate Asynchronously . . . . . . . 424
             Jochen Beister and   
            Gernot Eckstein and   
                 Ralf Wollowski   CASCADE: A Tool Kernel Supporting a
                                  Comprehensive Design Method for
                                  Asynchronous Controllers . . . . . . . . 445
    Wil M. P. van der Aalst and   
         Poul J. N. de Crom and   
    Roy R. H. M. J. Goverde and   
            Kees M. van Hee and   
             Wout J. Hofman and   
            Hajo A. Reijers and   
        Robert A. van der Toorn   Ex\em Spect 6.4: An Executable
                                  Specification Tool for Hierarchical
                                  Colored Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . 455
                Karsten Schmidt   LoLA: A Low Level Analyser . . . . . . . 465
               Eric Verbeek and   
        Wil M. P. van der Aalst   Woflan 2.0: A Petri-Net-Based Workflow
                                  Diagnosis Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1832, 2000

                 Gio Wiederhold   Precision in Processing Data from
                                  Heterogeneous Resources  . . . . . . . . 1
            Sharma Chakravarthy   Just-in-Time Information: To Push or Not
                                  to Push  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
               J. K. Lawder and   
                  P. J. H. King   Using Space-Filling Curves for
                                  Multi-dimensional Indexing . . . . . . . 20
            Stefan Manegold and   
           Arjan Pellenkoft and   
                 Martin Kersten   A Multi-query Optimizer for Monet  . . . 36
               Florian Waas and   
               Arjan Pellenkoft   Join Order Selection (Good Enough Is
                                  Easy)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
       Henrik Engström and   
        Sharma Chakravarthy and   
                    Brian Lings   A User-Centric View of Data Warehouse
                                  Maintenance Issues . . . . . . . . . . . 68
            Norman W. Paton and   
         M. Howard Williams and   
            Kosmas Dietrich and   
                 Olive Liew and   
                Andrew Dinn and   
                   Alan Patrick   VESPA: A Benchmark for Vector Spatial
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
           Peter M. D. Gray and   
          Graham J. L. Kemp and   
         Patrick Brunschwig and   
                 Suzanne Embury   Collection Views: Dynamically Composed
                                  Views Which Inherit Behaviour  . . . . . 102
            Can Türker and   
            Kerstin Schwarz and   
                   Gunter Saake   Global Transaction Termination Rules in
                                  Composite Database Systems . . . . . . . 122
            Muhammed Younas and   
           Barry Eagelstone and   
                     Rob Holton   A Review of Multidatabase Transactions
                                  on the Web: From the ACID to the SACReD  140
            Edward C. Cheng and   
                  George Loizou   A Publish/Subscribe Framework: Push
                                  Technology in E-Commerce . . . . . . . . 153
                  Peter Buneman   Characterizing Data Provenance . . . . . 171
                   Ralf Behrens   A Grammar Based Model for XML Schema
                                  Integration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
          Graham J. L. Kemp and   
         Chris J. Robertson and   
           Peter M. D. Gray and   
             Nicos Angelopoulos   CORBA and XML: Design Choices for
                                  Database Federations . . . . . . . . . . 191
                  Peter T. Wood   Rewriting XQL Queries on XML
                                  Repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1834, 2000

                Bruce Damer and   
                Stuart Gold and   
               Jan de Bruin and   
              Dirk-Jan de Bruin   Conferences and Trade Shows in Inhabited
                                  Virtual Worlds: A Case Study of
                                  Avatars98 & 99  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                 Lili Cheng and   
                Linda Stone and   
             Shelly Farnham and   
            Ann Marie Clark and   
                   Melora Zaner   HutchWorld: Lessons Learned --- A
                                  Collaborative Project: Fred Hutchinson
                                  Cancer Research Center & Microsoft
                                  Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--23
            Koen Bruynseels and   
                      Johan Vos   Organisation and Visualisation of Tacit
                                  Knowledge in Virtual Communities . . . . 24
     Stéphane Sikora and   
            David Steinberg and   
                 Claude Lattaud   Integration of Simulation Tools in
                                  On-Line Virtual Worlds . . . . . . . . . 32
               Axel Buendia and   
             Jean-Claude Heudin   Towards Digital Creatures in Real-Time
                                  $3$D Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
                Yoann Fabre and   
            Guillaume Pitel and   
        Laurent Soubrevilla and   
          Emmanuel Marchand and   
      Thierry Géraud and   
                  Akim Demaille   A Framework to Dynamically Manage
                                  Distributed Virtual Environments . . . . 54
              Thierry Duval and   
                  David Margery   Using GASP for Collaborative Interaction
                                  within $3$D Virtual Worlds . . . . . . . 65
             Hansrudi Noser and   
            Christian Stern and   
               Peter Stucki and   
                Daniel Thalmann   Generic $3$D Ball Animation Model for
                                  Networked Interactive VR Environments    77
Antonia Lucinelma Pessoa Albuquerque and   
                Jonas Gomes and   
                     Luiz Velho   An Overview on Virtual Sets  . . . . . . 91
                     Ken Perlin   Creating Emotive Responsive Characters
                                  Within Virtual Worlds  . . . . . . . . . 99
              Jeffrey Ventrella   Avatar Physics and Genetics  . . . . . . 107
                    Michel Bret   Virtual Living Beings  . . . . . . . . . 119
Jean-Sébastien Monzani and   
                Daniel Thalmann   A Sound Propagation Model for
                                  Interagents Communication  . . . . . . . 135
        Cédric Sanza and   
             Cyril Panatier and   
                    Yves Duthen   Communication and Interaction with
                                  Learning Agents in Virtual Soccer  . . . 147
             Takao Furukawa and   
                     Jin Gu and   
                WonSook Lee and   
        Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann   $3$D Clothes Modeling from Photo Cloned
                                  Human Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
           Luigi Pagliarini and   
            Claudio Locardi and   
                   Vedran Vucic   Toward Alive Art . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
                   Rodney Berry   In Search of Vital Presence --- Evolving
                                  Virtual Musics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
                      Andy Best   Birth of a New World Order: IceBorg  . . 192
     Bernardo Uribe Mendoza and   
            Rodolfo Ramirez and   
               Neslson Cruz and   
    Manuel Guillermo Forero and   
             Patricia Cervantes   A `Virtual Worlds' Theatre of Memory
                                  (Scheme for a Contemporary Museum) . . . 205
              Maciej Komosinski   The World of Framsticks: Simulation,
                                  Evolution, Interaction . . . . . . . . . 214
              Auke Jan Ijspeert   A $3$-D Biomechanical Model of the
                                  Salamander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
                Eric Jallas and   
              Pierre Martin and   
           Ronaldo Sequeira and   
               Sammy Turner and   
            Michel Cretenet and   
       Edward Gérardeaux   Virtual COTONS$^\reg $, the Firstborn of
                                  the Next Generation of Simulation Model  235
           Terry Bossomaier and   
    Llewylyn Sibley-Punnett and   
                     Tim Cranny   Basins of Attraction and the Density
                                  Classification Problem for Cellular
                                  Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
           Udit Kumar Goyal and   
              Ashish Kapoor and   
                     Prem Kalra   Text-to-Audiovisual Speech Synthesizer   256
     Sudhanshu Kumar Semwal and   
           Debra Lee Evans-Kamp   Virtual Environments for Visually
                                  Impaired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
               Motonori Doi and   
              Takeshi Takai and   
               Kunihiro Chihara   VR American Football Simulator with
                                  Cylindrical Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 286
             Hiroshi Sasaki and   
            Tomohiro Kuroda and   
          Yoshitsugu Manabe and   
               Kunihiro Chihara   Augmented Reality Based Input Interface
                                  for Wearable Computers . . . . . . . . . 294
               Haruo Takeda and   
           Satoshi Kiyohara and   
           Kunihiro Chihara and   
             Hiroshi Kawase and   
               Yuji Matsuda and   
                Masami Yamasaki   Multi Screen Environment with a Motion
                                  Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1835, 2000

          Anna Maria Di Sciullo   Parsing Asymmetries  . . . . . . . . . . 1
                   Julien Quint   Universal Segmentation of Text with the
                                  Sumo Formalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--26
       Evangelos Papakitsos and   
          Maria Gregoriadou and   
                  Angella Ralli   Functional Decomposition and Lazy
                                  Word-Parsing in Modern Greek . . . . . . 27
              Goran Nenadic and   
                   Irena Spasic   Recognition and Acquisition of Compound
                                  Names from Corpora . . . . . . . . . . . 38
                 A. Ntoulas and   
                  S. Stamou and   
                  I. Tsakou and   
               Ch. Tsalidis and   
              M. Tzagarakis and   
                   A. Vagelatos   Use of a Morphosyntactic Lexicon as the
                                  Basis for the Implementation of the
                                  Greek Wordnet  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
    Françoise Gayral and   
          Nathalie Pernelle and   
           Patrick Saint-Dizier   On Verb Selectional Restrictions:
                                  Advantages and Limitations . . . . . . . 57
                  Alda Mari and   
           Patrick Saint-Dizier   Some Principles for Implementing
                                  Underspecification in NLP Systems  . . . 69
               Alexandra Kinyon   HYPERTAGS: Beyond POS Tagging  . . . . . 81
            Christer Samuelsson   A Theory of Stochastic Grammars  . . . . 92
Jean-Cédric Chappelier and   
                  Martin Rajman   Monte-Carlo Sampling for NP-Hard
                                  Maximization Problems in the Framework
                                  of Weighted Parsing  . . . . . . . . . . 106
              Mark-Jan Nederhof   Preprocessing for Unification Parsing of
                                  Spoken Language  . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
          Mohamed Zakaria Kurdi   A Semantic Based Approach for
                                  Spontaneous Spoken Dialogue
                                  Understanding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
              E. Stamatatos and   
               N. Fakotakis and   
                  G. Kokkinakis   A Practical Chunker for Unrestricted
                                  Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
          João Balsa and   
                  Gabriel Lopes   A Distributed Approach for a Robust and
                                  Evolving NLP System  . . . . . . . . . . 151
                    Dan Cristea   An Incremental Discourse Parser
                                  Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
                  S. Gerard and   
                J. P. Sansonnet   A Spatio-temporal Model for the
                                  Representation of Situations Described
                                  in Narrative Texts . . . . . . . . . . . 176
          Constantin Orasan and   
              Richard Evans and   
                  Ruslan Mitkov   Enhancing Preference-Based Anaphora
                                  Resolution with Genetic Algorithms . . . 185
                 M. Palomar and   
       P. Martínez-Barco   Anaphora Resolution through Dialogue
                                  Adjacency Pairs and Topics . . . . . . . 196
     Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda and   
                 Manuel Palomar   Semantic Knowledge-Driven Method to
                                  Solve Pronominal Anaphora in Spanish
                                  Texts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
        Rafael Muñoz and   
                 Manuel Palomar   Processing of Spanish Definite
                                  Descriptions with the Same Head  . . . . 212
                Philippe Blache   Constraints, Linguistic Theories and
                                  Natural Language Processing  . . . . . . 221
                  Richard Evans   A Comparison of Rule-Based and Machine
                                  Learning Methods for Identifying
                                  Non-nominal It . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
          Catherine Clouzot and   
         Georges Antoniadis and   
             Agnés Tutin   Constitution and Exploitation of an
                                  Annotation System of Electronic Corpora:
                                  Toward Automatic Generation of
                                  Understandable Pronouns in French
                                  Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--251
         Jesús Peral and   
       Antonio Ferrández   Generation of Spanish Zero-Pronouns into
                                  English  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
           Uwe Küssner and   
                     Dan Tidhar   Combining Different Translation Sources  261
                    Eric Wehrli   Parsing and Collocations . . . . . . . . 272
               Stephan Koch and   
           Uwe Küssner and   
              Manfred Stede and   
                     Dan Tidhar   Contextual Reasoning in Speech-to-Speech
                                  Translation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
            Yevgeny Ludovik and   
                  Ron Zacharski   Improving the Accuracy of Speech
                                  Recognition Systems for Professional
                                  Translators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
    Christopher Laenzlinger and   
   Sébastien L'haire and   
                    Juri Mengon   Generic Parsing and Hybrid Transfer in
                                  Automatic Translation  . . . . . . . . . 304
           Laurence Balicco and   
        Salaheddine Ben-Ali and   
              Claude Ponton and   
       Stéphanie Pouchot   Two Applications for a Non-context
                                  French Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
          Gérard Ligozat   From Language to Motion, and Back:
                                  Generating and Using Route Descriptions  328
           Zygmunt Vetulani and   
                Jacek Marciniak   Corpus Based Methodology in the Study
                                  and Design of Systems with Emulated
                                  Linguistic Competence  . . . . . . . . . 346
         Rieks op den Akker and   
                  Anton Nijholt   Dialogues for Embodied Agents in Virtual
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
           Dimitrios Kokkinakis   Concordancing Revised or How to Aid the
                                  Recognition of New Senses in Very Large
                                  Corpora  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
         Georgios Paliouras and   
       Vangelis Karkaletsis and   
        Ion Androutsopoulos and   
     Constantine D. Spyropoulos   Learning Rules for Large-Vocabulary Word
                                  Sense Disambiguation: A Comparison of
                                  Various Classifiers  . . . . . . . . . . 383
                John Kontos and   
           Ioanna Malagardi and   
       Christina Alexandris and   
              Maria Bouligaraki   Greek Verb Semantic Processing for Stock
                                  Market Text Mining . . . . . . . . . . . 395
             Udo Kruschwitz and   
              Anne De Roeck and   
                 Paul Scott and   
                  Sam Steel and   
                 Ray Turner and   
                      Nick Webb   Extracting Semistructured Data ---
                                  Lessons Learnt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
          Kalliopi Zervanou and   
                  John McNaught   A Term-Based Methodology for Template
                                  Creation in Information Extraction . . . 418
            Sotiris Boutsis and   
              Iason Demiros and   
               Voula Giouli and   
              Maria Liakata and   
        Harris Papageorgiou and   
              Stelios Piperidis   A System for Recognition of Named
                                  Entities in Greek  . . . . . . . . . . . 424
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1836, 2000

                 Dan Murray and   
                  Kevan Durrell   Inferring Demographic Attributes of
                                  Anonymous Internet Users . . . . . . . . 7
                Yongjian Fu and   
         Kanwalpreet Sandhu and   
                   Ming-Yi Shih   A Generalization-Based Approach to
                                  Clustering of Web Usage Sessions . . . . 21
                 Philip K. Chan   Constructing Web User Profiles: A
                                  Non-invasive Learning Approach . . . . . 39
                 Alan J. Broder   Data Mining, the Internet, and Privacy   56
        Matthias Baumgarten and   
       Alex G. Büchner and   
          Sarabjot S. Anand and   
        Maurice D. Mulvenna and   
                 John G. Hughes   User-Driven Navigation Pattern Discovery
                                  from Internet Data . . . . . . . . . . . 74
         José Borges and   
                    Mark Levene   Data Mining of User Navigation Patterns  92
                    Bin Lan and   
    Stéphane Bressan and   
              Beng Chin Ooi and   
                      Y. C. Tay   Making Web Servers Pushier . . . . . . . 112
              Juhnyoung Lee and   
             Mark Podlaseck and   
            Edith Schonberg and   
                Robert Hoch and   
                 Stephen Gomory   Analysis and Visualization of Metrics
                                  for Online Merchandising . . . . . . . . 126
          Myra Spiliopoulou and   
              Carsten Pohle and   
             Lukas C. Faulstich   Improving the Effectiveness of a Web
                                  Site with Web Usage Mining . . . . . . . 142
              Robert Cooley and   
              Pang-Ning Tan and   
             Jaideep Srivastava   Discovery of Interesting Usage Patterns
                                  from Web Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
                      Anonymous   Author Index in PDF  . . . . . . . . . . 183


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1839, 2000

              Peter Brusilovsky   Adaptive Hypermedia: From Intelligent
                                  Tutoring Systems to Web-Based Education  1
                   Tak-Wai Chan   Infrastructure for Future Network
                                  Learning (Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . 8
             Benedict du Boulay   Can We Learn from ITSs?  . . . . . . . . 9
                   Eric Horvitz   Uncertainty, Utility, and Understanding
                                  (Abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
                       Judy Kay   Stereotypes, Student Models and
                                  Scrutability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
                 Gordon McCalla   Life and Learning in the Electronic
                                  Village: The Importance of Localization
                                  for the Design of Environments to
                                  Support Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
           Rajaram Ganeshan and   
           W. Lewis Johnson and   
                  Erin Shaw and   
                Beverly P. Wood   Tutoring Diagnostic Problem Solving  . . 33
 José Luis Los Arcos and   
            Wolfgang Muller and   
               Oscar Fuente and   
          Leire Orúe and   
                Eder Arroyo and   
        Igor Leaznibarrutia and   
                Judit Santander   LAHYSTOTRAIN: Integration of Virtual
                                  Environments and ITS for Surgery
                                  Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
             Gordon McCalla and   
           Julita Vassileva and   
                  Jim Greer and   
                     Susan Bull   Active Learner Modelling . . . . . . . . 53
          Michael S. Miller and   
                Jianwen Yin and   
            Richard A. Volz and   
          Thomas R. Ioerger and   
                       John Yen   Training Teams with Collaborative Agents 63
          Antonija Mitrovic and   
           Pramuditha Suraweera   Evaluating an Animated Pedagogical Agent 73
              Chhaya Mudgal and   
               Julita Vassileva   Multi-agent Negotiation to Support an
                                  Economy for Online Help and Tutoring . . 83
             Toshio Okamoto and   
                Toshinobu Kasai   The Collaborative System with Situated
                                  Agents for Activating Observation
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
        Jorge A. Ramirez Uresti   Should I Teach My Computer Peer? Some
                                  Issues in Teaching a Learning Companion  103
       Marc-Andre Thibodeau and   
             Simon Belanger and   
                 Claude Frasson   WHITE RABBIT --- Matchmaking of User
                                  Profiles Based on Discussion Analysis
                                  Using Intelligent Agents . . . . . . . . 113
                Vladan Devedzic   Applying Patterns to ITS Architectures   123
         Abigail S. Gertner and   
                   Kurt VanLehn   Andes: A Coached Problem Solving
                                  Environment for Physics  . . . . . . . . 133
                 Ruddy Lelouche   A Collection of Pedagogical Agents . . . 143
          R. Charles Murray and   
                   Kurt VanLehn   DT Tutor: A Decision-Theoretic, Dynamic
                                  Approach for Optimal Selection of
                                  Tutorial Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
          Marilyne Rosselle and   
           Monique Grandbastien   Experimenting Features from Distinct
                                  Software Components on a Single Platform 163
                  Brendon Towle   Using Student Task and Learning Goals to
                                  Drive the Construction of an Authoring
                                  Tool for Educational Simulations . . . . 173
          Shaaron Ainsworth and   
             Jean Underwood and   
               Shirley Grimshaw   Using an ITS Authoring Tool to Explore
                                  Educators' Use of Instructional
                                  Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
             Yusuke Hayashi and   
              Mitsuru Ikeda and   
              Kazuhisa Seta and   
              Osamu Kakusho and   
             Riichiro Mizoguchi   Is What You Write What You Get?: An
                                  Operational Model of Training Scenario   192
        Wouter R. van Joolingen   Designing for Collaborative Discovery
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
               Byung-In Cho and   
            Joel A. Michael and   
            Allen A. Rovick and   
                Martha W. Evens   An Analysis of Multiple Tutoring
                                  Protocols  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
             Rafael Morales and   
                 Helen Pain and   
                     Tom Conlon   Understandable Learner Models for a
                                  Sensorimotor Control Task  . . . . . . . 222
   Patricia Azevedo Tedesco and   
                      John Self   Using Meta-Cognitive Conflicts to
                                  Support Group Problem Solving  . . . . . 232
         Marta C. Rosatelli and   
               John A. Self and   
                 Marcello Thiry   LeCS: A Collaborative Case Study System  242
             Frank Tewissen and   
            Andreas Lingnau and   
                H. Ulrich Hoppe   ``Today's Talking Typewriter''
                                  Supporting Early Literacy in a Classroom
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
            Aurora Vizcaino and   
             Juan Contreras and   
               Jesus Favela and   
                  Manuel Prieto   An Adaptive, Collaborative Environment
                                  to Develop Good Habits in Programming    262
           Gregory Bourguin and   
                  Alain Derycke   A Reflective CSCL Environment with
                                  Foundations Based on the Activity Theory 272
                Akiko Inaba and   
          Thepchai Supnithi and   
              Mitsuru Ikeda and   
         Riichiro Mizoguchi and   
                Jun'ichi Toyoda   How Can We Form Effective Collaborative
                                  Learning Groups? . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
             Vincent Aleven and   
           Kenneth R. Koedinger   Limitations of Student Control: Do
                                  Students Know When They Need Help? . . . 292
            Cristina Conati and   
                   Kurt VanLehn   Further Results from the Evaluation of
                                  an Intelligent Computer Tutor to Coach
                                  Self-Explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
             Albert Corbett and   
           Megan McLaughlin and   
   K. Christine Scarpinatto and   
                 William Hadley   Analyzing and Generating Mathematical
                                  Models: An Algebra II Cognitive Tutor
                                  Design Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Maria de los Angeles Constantino-González and   
              Daniel D. Suthers   A Coached Collaborative Learning
                                  Environment for Entity-Relationship
                                  Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
                  Aude Dufresne   Model of an Adaptive Support Interface
                                  for Distance Learning  . . . . . . . . . 334
             Kenji Matsuura and   
              Hiroaki Ogata and   
                     Yoneo Yano   Agent's Contribution for an Asynchronous
                                  Virtual Classroom  . . . . . . . . . . . 344
                Trude Heift and   
               Devlan Nicholson   Theoretical and Practical Considerations
                                  for Web-Based Intelligent Language
                                  Tutoring Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
                  L. Moreno and   
      C. S. González and   
              R. M. Aguilar and   
          J. Estévez and   
          J. Sánchez and   
                     C. Barroso   Adaptive Multimedia Interface for Users
                                  with Intellectual and Cognitive
                                  Handicaps  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
                 Tom Murray and   
           Janette Piemonte and   
                 Samia Khan and   
                  Tina Shen and   
                   Chris Condit   Evaluating the Need for Intelligence in
                                  an Adaptive Hypermedia System  . . . . . 373
               Brent Martin and   
              Antonija Mitrovic   Tailoring Feedback by Correcting Student
                                  Answers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
             Gerard Tisseau and   
           Hel\`ene Giroire and   
 Françoise Le Calvez and   
              Marie Urtasun and   
                   Jacques Duma   Design Principles for a System to Teach
                                  Problem Solving by Modelling . . . . . . 393
              Janine Willms and   
               Claus Möbus   Evolution of the Hypotheses Testing
                                  Approach in Intelligent Problem Solving
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
        Violetta Cavalli-Sforza   The Impact of Representation on Coaching
                                  Argument Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . 413
           Marek Czarkowski and   
                       Judy Kay   Bringing Scrutability to Adaptive
                                  Hypertext Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . 423
              Reva Freedman and   
Carolyn Penstein Rosé and   
      Michael A. Ringenberg and   
                   Kurt VanLehn   ITS Tools for Natural Language Dialogue:
                                  A Domain-Independent Parser and Planner  433
            G. Gouard\`eres and   
                   A. Minko and   
                     L. Richard   Cooperative Agents to Track Learner's
                                  Cognitive Gap  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
              Hiroaki Ogata and   
                  Yuqin Liu and   
                 Youji Ochi and   
                     Yoneo Yano   Agent-Mediated Language-Learning
                                  Environment Based on Communicative Gaps  454
                  Rui Prada and   
             Isabel Machado and   
                      Ana Paiva   TEATRIX: Virtual Environment for Story
                                  Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
               Kurt VanLehn and   
              Reva Freedman and   
              Pamela Jordan and   
             Charles Murray and   
                 Remus Osan and   
         Michael Ringenberg and   
               Carolyn Rose and   
                Kay Schulze and   
              Robert Shelby and   
              Donald Treacy and   
           Anders Weinstein and   
               Mary Wintersgill   Fading and Deepening: The Next Steps for
                                  Andes and other Model-Tracing Tutors . . 474
               Maria Virvou and   
               Katerina Kabassi   An Intelligent Learning Environment for
                                  Novice Users of a GUI  . . . . . . . . . 484
         Geraint A. Wiggins and   
                   Shari Trewin   A System for Concerned Teaching of
                                  Musical Aural Skills . . . . . . . . . . 494
             Kevin A. Gluck and   
           John R. Anderson and   
              Scott A. Douglass   Broader Bandwidth in Student Modeling:
                                  What if ITS Were ``Eye''TS?  . . . . . . 504
                       Judy Kay   Accretion Representation for Scrutable
                                  Student Modelling  . . . . . . . . . . . 514
               Michael Mayo and   
              Antonija Mitrovic   Using a Probabilistic Student Model to
                                  Control Problem Difficulty . . . . . . . 524
          Eva Millán and   
José Luis Pérez-de-la-Cruz and   
              Eva Suárez   Adaptive Bayesian Networks for
                                  Multilevel Student Modelling . . . . . . 534
   Juan-Diego Zapata-Rivera and   
                   Jim E. Greer   Inspecting and Visualizing Distributed
                                  Bayesian Student Models  . . . . . . . . 544
                 Amal Zouaq and   
             Claude Frasson and   
                  Khalid Rouane   The Explanation Agent  . . . . . . . . . 554
       Patricia L. Albacete and   
                   Kurt VanLehn   The Conceptual Helper: An Intelligent
                                  Tutoring System for Teaching Fundamental
                                  Physics Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
                Ivon Arroyo and   
             Joseph E. Beck and   
         Beverly Park Woolf and   
             Carole R. Beal and   
                  Klaus Schultz   Macroadapting Animalwatch to Gender and
                                  Cognitive Differences with Respect to
                                  Hint Interactivity and Symbolism . . . . 574
             Joseph E. Beck and   
             Beverly Park Woolf   High-Level Student Modeling with Machine
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584
                     Susan Bull   Individualized Recommendations for
                                  Learning Strategy Use  . . . . . . . . . 594
             Ricardo Conejo and   
          Eva Millán and   
José-Luis Pérez-de-la-Cruz and   
           Mónica Trella   An Empirical Approach to On-Line
                                  Learning in SIETTE . . . . . . . . . . . 604
                      John Cook   Cooperative Problem-Seeking Dialogues in
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615
              Peter Brusilovsky   Course Sequencing for Static Courses?
                                  Applying ITS Techniques in Large-Scale
                                  Web-Based Education  . . . . . . . . . . 625
               Maria Virvou and   
               Maria Moundridou   Modelling the Instructor in a Web-Based
                                  Authoring Tool for Algebra-Related ITSs  635
                  Greg Aist and   
                    Jack Mostow   Improving Story Choice in a Reading
                                  Tutor That Listens . . . . . . . . . . . 645
                Burkhard Alpers   Using Computer Algebra for Rapid
                                  Development of ITS Components in
                                  Engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
              Safia Belkada and   
             Toshio Okamoto and   
              Alexandra Cristea   Supporting Discovery Learning in
                                  Building Neural Network Models . . . . . 647
             Laurence Capus and   
                Nicole Tourigny   A Cognitive Model for Automatic
                                  Narrative Summarization in a
                                  Self-Educational System  . . . . . . . . 648
          Michel Chambreuil and   
         Panita Bussapapach and   
                      John Fynn   Didactic Situations as Multifaceted
                                  Theoretical Objects  . . . . . . . . . . 649
     Sophiana Chua Abdullah and   
                Roger E. Cooley   The Use of Constraint Logic Programming
                                  in the Development of Adaptive Tests . . 650
            Stephane Crozat and   
               Philippe Trigano   An Ontological Approach for Design and
                                  Evaluation of Tutoring Systems . . . . . 651
                 Luiz Faria and   
                  Zita Vale and   
               Carlos Ramos and   
       António Silva and   
                 Albino Marques   Training Scenarios Generation Tools for
                                  an ITS to Control Center Operators . . . 652
               Bego Ferrero and   
Isabel Fernández-Castro and   
            Maite Urretavizcaya   Multiple Paradigms for a Generic
                                  Diagnostic Proposal  . . . . . . . . . . 653
              Fabrice Issac and   
               Olivier Hû   A Description Formalism for Complex
                                  Questionnaires . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654
                 Kohji Itoh and   
               Makoto Itami and   
            Masaru Fujihira and   
           Takaaki Kawamura and   
                Kiyoto Kawakami   Assisting Planning in Computer-Mediated
                                  Explorative Problem-Solving  . . . . . . 655
          Akihiro Kashihara and   
           Shinobu Hasegawa and   
                Jun'ichi Toyoda   Annotating Exploration History and
                                  Knowledge Mapping for Learning with
                                  Web-Based Resources  . . . . . . . . . . 656
              Tomoko Kojiri and   
              Toyohide Watanabe   Collaborative Learning Environment which
                                  Enforces Students to Induce Ideas  . . . 657
             Jaakko Kurhila and   
                Leena Paasu and   
                  Erkki Sutinen   Adaptive Support for Brain Deficits in
                                  Special Education  . . . . . . . . . . . 658
         A. Martínez and   
         M. A. Simón and   
              J. A. Maestro and   
            M. López and   
                      C. Alonso   Student Modelling and Interface Design
                                  in SIAL  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
             Noboru Matsuda and   
                   Kurt VanLehn   A Reification of a Strategy for Geometry
                                  Theorem Proving  . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
        Elpida S. Tzafestas and   
            Platon A. Prokopiou   VLab : An Environment for Teaching
                                  Behavioral Modeling  . . . . . . . . . . 661
             Benedict du Boulay   W1 --- Modeling Human Teaching Tactics
                                  and Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
                Christoph Peylo   W2 --- Adaptive and Intelligent
                                  Web-Based Education Systems  . . . . . . 663
                    Joseph Beck   W3 --- Applying Machine Learning to ITS
                                  Design/Construction  . . . . . . . . . . 664
           Wouter van Joolingen   W4 --- Collaborative Discovery Learning
                                  in the Context of Simulations  . . . . . 665
                 Esma A\"\imeur   W5 --- Case-Based Reasoning in
                                  Intelligent Training Systems . . . . . . 666
    Jean-François Nicaud   W6 --- Learning Algebra with the
                                  Computer, a Transdisciplinary Workshop   667
                Mike Dobson and   
                   Mike Spector   W7 --- Advanced Instructional Design for
                                  Complex Safety Critical & Emergency
                                  Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668
                      Anonymous   Young Researchers Track  . . . . . . . . 669
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1849, 2000

               Carol Strohecker   Cognitive Zoom: From Object to Path and
                                  Back Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                    Connie Blok   Monitoring Change: Characteristics of
                                  Dynamic Geo-spatial Phenomena for Visual
                                  Exploration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
              Stephen C. Hirtle   The Use of Maps, Images and ``Gestures''
                                  for Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
           Thomas Barkowsky and   
         Longin Jan Latecki and   
            Kai-Florian Richter   Schematizing Maps: Simplification of
                                  Geographic Shape by Discrete Curve
                                  Evolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
             Hernan Casakin and   
           Thomas Barkowsky and   
          Alexander Klippel and   
               Christian Freksa   Schematic Maps as Wayfinding Aids  . . . 54
                Barbara Tversky   Some Ways that Maps and Diagrams
                                  Communicate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
                Andrew U. Frank   Spatial Communication with Maps:
                                  Defining the Correctness of Maps Using a
                                  Multi-Agent Simulation . . . . . . . . . 80
           Christian Freksa and   
            Reinhard Moratz and   
               Thomas Barkowsky   Schematic Maps for Robot Navigation  . . 100
            Alexandra Musto and   
                Klaus Stein and   
          Andreas Eisenkolb and   
          Thomas Röfer and   
            Wilfried Brauer and   
                 Kerstin Schill   From Motion Observation to Qualitative
                                  Motion Representation  . . . . . . . . . 115
          Carola Eschenbach and   
           Ladina Tschander and   
          Christopher Habel and   
                     Lars Kulik   Lexical Specifications of Paths  . . . . 127
          Andreas Eisenkolb and   
             Kerstin Schill and   
      Florian Röhrbein and   
               Volker Baier and   
            Alexandra Musto and   
                Wilfried Brauer   Visual Processing and Representation of
                                  Spatio-temporal Patterns . . . . . . . . 145
          Robin Hörnig and   
              Klaus Eyferth and   
            Holger Gärtner   Orienting and Reorienting in Egocentric
                                  Mental Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
             Steffen Werner and   
                 Thomas Schmidt   Investigating Spatial Reference Systems
                                  through Distortions in Visual Memory . . 169
                Jochen Renz and   
              Reinhold Rauh and   
                  Markus Knauff   Towards Cognitive Adequacy of
                                  Topological Spatial Relations  . . . . . 184
        Christoph Schlieder and   
                Cornelius Hagen   Interactive Layout Generation with a
                                  Diagrammatic Constraint Language . . . . 198
            Sylvia Wiebrock and   
            Lars Wittenburg and   
                 Ute Schmid and   
                 Fritz Wysotzki   Inference and Visualization of Spatial
                                  Relations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
                  Amar Isli and   
Lledó Museros Cabedo and   
           Thomas Barkowsky and   
                Reinhard Moratz   A Topological Calculus for Cartographic
                                  Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
              Reinhold Rauh and   
                     Lars Kulik   The Influence of Linear Shapes on
                                  Solving Interval-Based Configuration
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
      Patrick Péruch and   
          Lo\"\ic Belingard and   
         Catherine Thinus-Blanc   Transfer of Spatial Knowledge from
                                  Virtual to Real Environments . . . . . . 253
           Rolf Müller and   
          Thomas Röfer and   
              Axel Lankenau and   
            Alexandra Musto and   
                Klaus Stein and   
              Andreas Eisenkolb   Coarse Qualitative Descriptions in Robot
                                  Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
            Gabriele Janzen and   
              Theo Herrmann and   
                Steffi Katz and   
                Karin Schweizer   Oblique Angled Intersections and
                                  Barriers: Navigating through a Virtual
                                  Maze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
             Steffen Werner and   
  Bernd Krieg-Brückner and   
                  Theo Herrmann   Modelling Navigational Knowledge by
                                  Route Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
             Chris Christou and   
      Heinrich H. Bülthoff   Using Realistic Virtual Environments in
                                  the Study of Spatial Encoding  . . . . . 317
                  Roy A. Ruddle   Navigating Overlapping Virtual Worlds:
                                  Arriving in One Place and Finding that
                                  You're Somewhere Else  . . . . . . . . . 333
          Sabine Schumacher and   
      Karl Friedrich Wender and   
               Rainer Rothkegel   Influences of Context on Memory for
                                  Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
             Monika Wagener and   
 Silvia Mecklenbräuker and   
             Werner Wippich and   
      Jörg E. Saathoff and   
            André Melzer   Preparing a Cup of Tea and Writing a
                                  Letter: Do Script-Based Actions
                                  Influence the Representation of a Real
                                  Environment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
            Bernhard Hommel and   
                    Lothar Knuf   Action Related Determinants of Spatial
                                  Coding in Perception and Memory  . . . . 387
               Bernd Leplow and   
            Doris Höll and   
                Lingju Zeng and   
             Maximilian Mehdorn   Investigation of Age and Sex Effects in
                                  Spatial Cognitions as Assessed in a
                                  Locomotor Maze and in a $2$-D Computer
                                  Maze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1850, 2000

            Ole Lehrmann Madsen   Towards a Unified Programming Language   1
       Christian Heide Damm and   
        Klaus Marius Hansen and   
            Michael Thomsen and   
                Michael Tyrsted   Creative Object-Oriented Modelling:
                                  Support for Intuition, Flexibility, and
                                  Collaboration in CASE Tools  . . . . . . 27
        Gerson Sunyé and   
           Alain Le Guennec and   
Jean-Marc Jézéquel   Design Patterns Application in UML . . . 44
            Marcus Fontoura and   
              Wolfgang Pree and   
                 Bernhard Rumpe   UML-F: A Modeling Language for
                                  Object-Oriented Frameworks . . . . . . . 63
            Kathleen Fisher and   
                     John Reppy   Extending Moby with Inheritance-Based
                                  Subtyping  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
     João Costa Seco and   
             Luís Caires   A Basic Model of Typed Components  . . . 108
           Atsushi Igarashi and   
             Benjamin C. Pierce   On Inner Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
              Davide Ancona and   
           Giovanni Lagorio and   
                    Elena Zucca   Jam --- A Smooth Extension of Java with
                                  Mixins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
                 Dominic Duggan   A Mixin-Based, Semantics-Based Approach
                                  to Reusing Domain-Specific Programming
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
          Martin Büchi and   
                  Wolfgang Weck   Generic Wrappers . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
              Peter Grogono and   
                Markku Sakkinen   Copying and Comparing: Problems and
                                  Solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
                        Li Gong   Developing Security Systems in the Real
                                  World  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
        Patrick Th. Eugster and   
           Rachid Guerraoui and   
                    Joe Sventek   Distributed Asynchronous Collections:
                                  Abstractions for Publish/Subscribe
                                  Interaction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
      Pertti Kellomäki and   
                 Tommi Mikkonen   Design Templates for Collective Behavior 277
               Simon Dobson and   
                 Brian Matthews   Ionic Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
                  Shigeru Chiba   Load-Time Structural Reflection in Java  313
            Scott Malabarba and   
                Raju Pandey and   
                 Jeff Gragg and   
                  Earl Barr and   
                J. Fritz Barnes   Runtime Support for Type-Safe Dynamic
                                  Java Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
             Hirotaka Ogawa and   
              Kouya Shimura and   
           Satoshi Matsuoka and   
          Fuyuhiko Maruyama and   
             Yukihiko Sohda and   
                Yasunori Kimura   OpenJIT: An Open-Ended, Reflective JIT
                                  Compiler Framework for Java  . . . . . . 362
               Munir Cochinwala   Using Objects for Next Generation
                                  Communication Services . . . . . . . . . 388
              Natalie Eckel and   
             Joseph (Yossi) Gil   Empirical Study of Object-Layout
                                  Strategies and Optimization Techniques   394
               Manish Gupta and   
             Jong-Deok Choi and   
                   Michael Hind   Optimizing Java Programs in the Presence
                                  of Exceptions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
                   Karen Renaud   HERCULE: Non-invasively Tracking Java TM
                                  Component-Based Application Activity . . 447
        Peter Fröhlich and   
                  Johannes Link   Automated Test Case Generation from
                                  Dynamic Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1851, 2000

              Mikkel Thorup and   
                David R. Karger   Dynamic Graph Algorithms with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                    Uriel Feige   Coping with the NP-Hardness of the Graph
                                  Bandwidth Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 10
                   Esko Ukkonen   Toward Complete Genome Data Mining in
                                  Computational Biology  . . . . . . . . . 20
                    Rasmus Pagh   A New Trade-Off for Deterministic
                                  Dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
                    John Iacono   Improved Upper Bounds for Pairing Heaps  32
            Stephen Alstrup and   
                 Jacob Holm and   
                  Mikkel Thorup   Maintaining Center and Median in Dynamic
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Gerth Stòlting Brodal and   
                     Riko Jacob   Dynamic Planar Convex Hull with Optimal
                                  Query Time and $ {O}(\log n \cdot \log
                                  \log n) $ Update Time  . . . . . . . . . 57
     Lyudmil G. Aleksandrov and   
              Hristo N. Djidjev   A Dynamic Algorithm for Maintaining
                                  Graph Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
          Michael A. Bender and   
             Saurabh Sethia and   
                  Steven Skiena   Data Structures for Maintaining Set
                                  Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
               Jochen Alber and   
         Hans L. Bodlaender and   
             Henning Fernau and   
               Rolf Niedermeier   Fixed Parameter Algorithms for P LANAR D
                                  OMINATING S ET and Related Problems  . . 97
               Arvind Gupta and   
            Naomi Nishimura and   
       Andrzej Proskurowski and   
                Prabhakar Ragde   Embeddings of $k$-Connected Graphs of
                                  Pathwidth $k$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
            Naomi Nishimura and   
            Prabhakar Ragde and   
          Dimitrios M. Thilikos   On Graph Powers for Leaf-Labeled Trees   125
                 Anne Berry and   
           Jean-Paul Bordat and   
                Pinar Heggernes   Recognizing Weakly Triangulated Graphs
                                  by Edge Separability . . . . . . . . . . 139
       Bala Kalyanasundaram and   
                  John Noga and   
                 Kirk Pruhs and   
              Gerhard Woeginger   Caching for Web Searching  . . . . . . . 150
                 Yossi Azar and   
                   Leah Epstein   On-Line Scheduling with Precedence
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
            Vincenzo Liberatore   Scheduling Jobs Before Shut-Down . . . . 175
                 Yossi Azar and   
               Leah Epstein and   
                   Rob van Stee   Resource Augmentation in Load Balancing  189
                 Yossi Azar and   
                 Joan Boyar and   
          Lene M. Favrholdt and   
              Kim S. Larsen and   
              Morten N. Nielsen   Fair versus Unrestricted Bin Packing . . 200
                   Piotr Berman   A $ d / 2 $ Approximation for Maximum
                                  Weight Independent Set in $d$-Claw Free
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
                    David Peleg   Approximation Algorithms for the
                                  Label-Cover$_{MAX}$ and Red-Blue Set
                                  Cover Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
              Refael Hassin and   
              Shlomi Rubinstein   Approximation Algorithms for Maximum
                                  Linear Arrangement . . . . . . . . . . . 231
          Srinivas R. Doddi and   
          Madhav V. Marathe and   
                 S. S. Ravi and   
          David Scot Taylor and   
                 Peter Widmayer   Approximation Algorithms for Clustering
                                  to Minimize the Sum of Diameters . . . . 237
              Refael Hassin and   
              Shlomi Rubinstein   Robust Matchings and Maximum Clustering  251
           Robert W. Irving and   
           David F. Manlove and   
                    Sandy Scott   The Hospitals/Residents Problem with
                                  Ties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
               Yefim Dinitz and   
                Ronit Nossenson   Incremental Maintenance of the
                                  $5$-Edge-Connectivity Classes of a Graph 272
            Toshimasa Ishii and   
              Hiroshi Nagamochi   On the Minimum Augmentation of an
                                  $l$-Connected Graph to a $k$-Connected
                                  Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
                Kouji Arata and   
               Satoru Iwata and   
            Kazuhisa Makino and   
               Satoru Fujishige   Locating Sources to Meet Flow Demands in
                                  Undirected Networks  . . . . . . . . . . 300
        Joachim Gudmundsson and   
       Christos Levcopoulos and   
                Giri Narasimhan   Improved Greedy Algorithms for
                                  Constructing Sparse Geometric Spanners   314
          Pankaj K. Agarwal and   
         Leonidas J. Guibas and   
           Sariel Har-Peled and   
      Alexander Rabinovitch and   
                   Micha Sharir   Computing the Penetration Depth of Two
                                  Convex Polytopes in $3$D . . . . . . . . 328
         Leonidas J. Guibas and   
              Jack Snoeyink and   
                       Li Zhang   Compact Voronoi Diagrams for Moving
                                  Convex Polygons  . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
                 Sunil Arya and   
             Siu-Wing Cheng and   
             David M. Mount and   
                      H. Ramesh   Efficient Expected-Case Algorithms for
                                  Planar Point Location  . . . . . . . . . 353
                Leonidas Palios   A New Competitive Strategy for Reaching
                                  the Kernel of an Unknown Polygon . . . . 367
              Ming-Yang Kao and   
                Jared Samet and   
                  Wing-Kin Sung   The Enhanced Double Digest Problem for
                                  DNA Physical Mapping . . . . . . . . . . 383
                 Tetsuo Shibuya   Generalization of a Suffix Tree for RNA
                                  Structural Pattern Matching  . . . . . . 393
                     Claus Rick   Efficient Computation of All Longest
                                  Common Subsequences  . . . . . . . . . . 407
      Gayathri Venkataraman and   
               Sartaj Sahni and   
          Srabani Mukhopadhyaya   A Blocked All-Pairs Shortest-Paths
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
                  Lars Arge and   
Gerth Stòlting Brodal and   
                     Laura Toma   On External-Memory MST, SSSP, and
                                  Multi-way Planar Graph Separation  . . . 433
                  Lars Arge and   
                   Jakob Pagter   I/O-Space Trade-Offs . . . . . . . . . . 448
               Subhash Suri and   
            Tuomas Sandholm and   
        Priyank Ramesh Warkhede   Optimal Flow Aggregation . . . . . . . . 462
               Tetsuo Asano and   
              Tomomi Matsui and   
               Takeshi Tokuyama   On the Complexities of the Optimal
                                  Rounding Problems of Sequences and
                                  Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
                Shlomo Ahal and   
                Yuri Rabinovich   On the Complexity of the Sub-permutation
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
                Peter Damaschke   Parallel Attribute-Efficient Learning of
                                  Monotone Boolean Functions . . . . . . . 504
            Kazuhisa Makino and   
         Masafumi Yamashita and   
                    Tiko Kameda   Max- and Min-Neighborhood Monopolies . . 513
         Andreas Björklund   Optimal Adaptive Fault Diagnosis of
                                  Hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
            Grzegorz Stachowiak   Fibonacci Correction Networks  . . . . . 535
        Ferdinando Cicalese and   
            Daniele Mundici and   
                    Ugo Vaccaro   Least Adaptive Optimal Search with
                                  Unreliable Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1853, 2000

                Samson Abramsky   Invited Talk: Game Semantics:
                                  Achievements and Prospects . . . . . . . 1
           Lars Engebretsen and   
                 Jonas Holmerin   Clique Is Hard to Approximate within $
                                  n^{1 - o (1)} $  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
        Michael Krivelevich and   
                      Van H. Vu   Approximating the Independence Number
                                  and the Chromatic Number in Expected
                                  Polynomial Time  . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
         Cristiano Calcagno and   
              Eugenio Moggi and   
                     Walid Taha   Closed Types as a Simple Approach to
                                  Safe Imperative Multi-stage Programming  25
               Alan Mycroft and   
                  Richard Sharp   A Statically Allocated Parallel
                                  Functional Language  . . . . . . . . . . 37
                Seth Pettie and   
            Vijaya Ramachandran   An Optimal Minimum Spanning Tree
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
                 Torben Hagerup   Improved Shortest Paths on the Word RAM  61
            Stephen Alstrup and   
                     Jacob Holm   Improved Algorithms for Finding Level
                                  Ancestors in Dynamic Trees . . . . . . . 73
             Gordon Plotkin and   
                 John Power and   
            Donald Sannella and   
                 Robert Tennent   Lax Logical Relations  . . . . . . . . . 85
               Dan R. Ghica and   
                   Guy McCusker   Reasoning about Idealized A LGOL Using
                                  Regular Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . 103
                    Keye Martin   The Measurement Process in Domain Theory 116
              Gregor Engels and   
                   Reiko Heckel   Invited Talk: Graph Transformation as a
                                  Conceptual and Formal Framework for
                                  System Modeling and Model Evolution  . . 127
            Albert Atserias and   
              Nicola Galesi and   
               Ricard Gavald\`a   Monotone Proofs of the Pigeon Hole
                                  Principle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
        Gerald Lüttgen and   
                Michael Mendler   Fully-Abstract Statecharts Semantics via
                                  Intuitionistic Kripke Models . . . . . . 163
              Roberto Bruni and   
              Vladimiro Sassone   Algebraic Models for Contextual Nets . . 175
               Beate Bollig and   
                   Ingo Wegener   Asymptotically Optimal Bounds for OBDDs
                                  and the Solution of Some Basic OBDD
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
            Juraj Hromkovic and   
      Juhani Karhumäki and   
             Hartmut Klauck and   
            Georg Schnitger and   
              Sebastian Seibert   Measures of Nondeterminism in Finite
                                  Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
             Volker Diekert and   
                    Paul Gastin   LTL Is Expressively Complete for
                                  Mazurkiewicz Traces  . . . . . . . . . . 211
              Ben C. Moszkowski   An Automata-Theoretic Completeness Proof
                                  for Interval Temporal Logic  . . . . . . 223
                J. Håstad   Invited Talk: Which NP-Hard Optimization
                                  Problems Admit Non-trivial Efficient
                                  Approximation Algorithms?  . . . . . . . 235
             Evgeny Dantsin and   
             Andreas Goerdt and   
           Edward A. Hirsch and   
              Uwe Schöning   Deterministic Algorithms for $k$-SAT
                                  Based on Covering Codes and Local Search 236
           Johannes Blömer   Closest Vectors, Successive Minima, and
                                  Dual HKZ-Bases of Lattices . . . . . . . 248
                  Leonid Libkin   Variable Independence, Quantifier
                                  Elimination, and Constraint
                                  Representations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
          Andrei A. Bulatov and   
          Andrei A. Krokhin and   
                  Peter Jeavons   Constraint Satisfaction Problems and
                                  Finite Algebras  . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
               Steven S. Seiden   An Optimal Online Algorithm for Bounded
                                  Space Variable-Sized Bin Packing . . . . 283
        János Csirik and   
           Gerhard J. Woeginger   Resource Augmentation for Online Bounded
                                  Space Bin Packing  . . . . . . . . . . . 296
      Christoph Ambühl and   
         Bernd Gärtner and   
           Bernhard von Stengel   Optimal Projective Algorithms for the
                                  List Update Problem  . . . . . . . . . . 305
          Antonín Kucera   Efficient Verification Algorithms for
                                  One-Counter Processes  . . . . . . . . . 317
                   Richard Mayr   On the Complexity of Bisimulation
                                  Problems for Basic Parallel Processes    329
               Denis Lugiez and   
           Philippe Schnoebelen   Decidable First-Order Transition Logics
                                  for PA-Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
           Riccardo Focardi and   
           Roberto Gorrieri and   
               Fabio Martinelli   Invited Talk: Non Interference for the
                                  Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols  . . 354
                 Ali Akhavi and   
         Brigitte Vallée   Average Bit-Complexity of Euclidean
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
            Cyril Banderier and   
          Philippe Flajolet and   
           Gilles Schaeffer and   
                Mich\`ele Soria   Planar Maps and Airy Phenomena . . . . . 388
             Barbara König   Analysing Input/Output-Capabilities of
                                  Mobile Processes with a Generic Type
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
           Matthew Hennessy and   
                    James Riely   Information Flow vs. Resource Access in
                                  the Asynchronous Pi-Calculus . . . . . . 415
                Richard M. Karp   Award Talk: The Genomics Revolution and
                                  Its Challenges for Algorithmic Research  428
                Zohar Manna and   
                 Henny B. Sipma   Invited Talk: Alternating the Temporal
                                  Picture for Safety . . . . . . . . . . . 429
          Alfredo De Santis and   
      Giovanni Di Crescenzo and   
              Giuseppe Persiano   Necessary and Sufficient Assumptions for
                                  Non-interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs of
                                  Knowledge for All NP Relations . . . . . 451
             William Aiello and   
              Sandeep Bhatt and   
           Rafail Ostrovsky and   
            S. Raj. Rajagopalan   Fast Verification of Any Remote
                                  Procedure Call: Short
                                  Witness-Indistinguishable One-Round
                                  Proofs for NP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
             Javier Esparza and   
                 Keijo Heljanko   A New Unfolding Approach to LTL Model
                                  Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
               B. Meenakshi and   
                   R. Ramanujam   Reasoning about Message Passing in
                                  Finite State Environments  . . . . . . . 487
            Olivier Baudron and   
          David Pointcheval and   
                  Jacques Stern   Extended Notions of Security for
                                  Multicast Public Key Cryptosystems . . . 499
           Christian Cachin and   
              Jan Camenisch and   
                 Joe Kilian and   
                Joy Müller   One-Round Secure Computation and Secure
                                  Autonomous Mobile Agents . . . . . . . . 512
        Birgit Baum-Waidner and   
                Michael Waidner   Round-Optimal and Abuse-Free Optimistic
                                  Multi-party Contract Signing . . . . . . 524
      Juhani Karhumäki and   
                      Ion Petre   On the Centralizer of a Finite Set . . . 536
                Frank Neven and   
              Thomas Schwentick   On the Power of Tree-Walking Automata    547
   Marie-Pierre Béal and   
                 Olivier Carton   Determinization of Transducers over
                                  Infinite Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
                  Kurt Mehlhorn   Invited Talk: Constraint Programming and
                                  Graph Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
                  Noga Alon and   
                Haim Kaplan and   
        Michael Krivelevich and   
              Dahlia Malkhi and   
                   Julien Stern   Scalable Secure Storage when Half the
                                  System Is Faulty . . . . . . . . . . . . 576
                Endre Boros and   
           Vladimir Gurvich and   
           Leonid Khachiyan and   
                Kazuhisa Makino   Generating Partial and Multiple
                                  Transversals of a Hypergraph . . . . . . 588
José Espírito Santo   Revisiting the Correspondence between
                                  Cut Elimination and Normalisation  . . . 600
               Reinhard Pichler   Negation Elimination from Simple
                                  Equational Formulae  . . . . . . . . . . 612
           V. S. Anil Kumar and   
                 Sunil Arya and   
                      H. Ramesh   Hardness of Set Cover with Intersection
                                  1  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624
              Michael Elkin and   
                    David Peleg   Strong Inapproximability of the Basic
                                  $k$-Spanner Problem  . . . . . . . . . . 636
                 Dietrich Kuske   Infinite Series-Parallel Posets: Logic
                                  and Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648
       Tomasz Fryderyk Urbanski   On Deciding if Deterministic Rabin
                                  Language Is in Büchi Class  . . . . . . . 663
        Jesper G. Henriksen and   
            Madhavan Mukund and   
           K. Narayan Kumar and   
              P. S. Thiagarajan   On Message Sequence Graphs and Finitely
                                  Generated Regular MSC Languages  . . . . 675
                 Oded Goldreich   Invited Talk: Pseudorandomness . . . . . 687
        Leslie Ann Goldberg and   
                Mark Jerrum and   
             Sampath Kannan and   
                  Mike Paterson   A Bound on the Capacity of Backoff and
                                  Acknowledgement-Based Protocols  . . . . 705
          Bogdan S. Chlebus and   
           Leszek Gasieniec and   
           Anna Östlin and   
            John Michael Robson   Deterministic Radio Broadcasting . . . . 717
              W. J. Fokkink and   
                   S. P. Luttik   An $ \omega $-Complete Equational
                                  Specification of Interleaving  . . . . . 729
                M. Bravetti and   
                    R. Gorrieri   A Complete Axiomatization for
                                  Observational Congruence of Prioritized
                                  Finite-State Behaviors . . . . . . . . . 744
                Micah Adler and   
                 Faith Fich and   
        Leslie Ann Goldberg and   
                  Mike Paterson   Tight Size Bounds for Packet Headers in
                                  Narrow Meshes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756
            Luciano Margara and   
                    Janos Simon   Wavelength Assignment Problem on
                                  All-Optical Networks with $k$ Fibres per
                                  Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768
             Christel Baier and   
        Boudewijn Haverkort and   
            Holger Hermanns and   
            Joost-Pieter Katoen   On the Logical Characterisation of
                                  Performability Properties  . . . . . . . 780
            Olivier Bournez and   
                     Oded Maler   On the Representation of Timed Polyhedra 793
               Andrei Z. Broder   Invited Talk: Min-wise Independent
                                  Permutations: Theory and Practice  . . . 808
          Michael A. Bender and   
                       Dana Ron   Testing Acyclicity of Directed Graphs in
                                  Sublinear Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809
              Hristo N. Djidjev   Computing the Girth of a Planar Graph    821
      Hervé Fournier and   
                  Pascal Koiran   Lower Bounds Are Not Easier over the
                                  Reals: Inside PH . . . . . . . . . . . . 832
              Ganesh Baliga and   
                  John Case and   
            Wolfgang Merkle and   
                  Frank Stephan   Unlearning Helps . . . . . . . . . . . . 844
               Artur Czumaj and   
                 Andrzej Lingas   Fast Approximation Schemes for Euclidean
                                  Multi-connectivity Problems  . . . . . . 856
            Michelangelo Grigni   Approximate TSP in Graphs with Forbidden
                                  Minors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869
               Klaus Jansen and   
                Lorant Porkolab   Polynomial Time Approximation Schemes
                                  for General Multiprocessor Job Shop
                                  Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878
            Pierre McKenzie and   
          Thomas Schwentick and   
       Denis Thérien and   
               Heribert Vollmer   The Many Faces of a Translation  . . . . 890
                   Jack H. Lutz   Gales and the Constructive Dimension of
                                  Individual Sequences . . . . . . . . . . 902
                Wolfgang Merkle   The Global Power of Additional Queries
                                  to $p$-Random Oracles  . . . . . . . . . 914
      Josh Buresh-Oppenheim and   
            Toniann Pitassi and   
                 Matt Clegg and   
            Russell Impagliazzo   Homogenization and the Polynomial
                                  Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1857, 2000

           Thomas G. Dietterich   Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning . . 1
          Robert P. W. Duin and   
                David M. J. Tax   Experiments with Classifier Combining
                                  Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
       Amanda J. C. Sharkey and   
            Noel E. Sharkey and   
                Uwe Gerecke and   
                G. O. Chandroth   The ``Test and Select'' Approach to
                                  Ensemble Combination . . . . . . . . . . 30
                 Sargur Srihari   A Survey of Sequential Combination of
                                  Word Recognizers in Handwritten Phrase
                                  Recognition at CEDAR . . . . . . . . . . 45
              Ching Y. Suen and   
                     Louisa Lam   Multiple Classifier Combination
                                  Methodologies for Different Output
                                  Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
            Eugene M. Kleinberg   A Mathematically Rigorous Foundation for
                                  Supervised Learning  . . . . . . . . . . 67
                     Louisa Lam   Classifier Combinations: Implementations
                                  and Theoretical Issues . . . . . . . . . 77
                   Wenxin Jiang   Some Results on Weakly Accurate Base
                                  Learners for Boosting Regression and
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
                     Tin Kam Ho   Complexity of Classification Problems
                                  and Comparative Advantages of Combined
                                  Classifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
          Francesco Masulli and   
              Giorgio Valentini   Effectiveness of Error Correcting Output
                                  Codes in Multiclass Learning Problems    107
        El\.zbieta Pekalska and   
          Marina Skurichina and   
              Robert P. W. Duin   Combining Fisher Linear Discriminants
                                  for Dissimilarity Representations  . . . 117
        Katsuhiko Takahashi and   
                   Atsushi Sato   A Learning Method of Feature Selection
                                  for Rough Classification . . . . . . . . 127
             Mark D. Happel and   
                     Peter Bock   Analysis of a Fusion Method for
                                  Combining Marginal Classifiers . . . . . 137
               Shimon Cohen and   
                Nathan Intrator   A Hybrid Projection Based and Radial
                                  Basis Function Architecture  . . . . . . 147
         Ji\vrí Grim and   
              Josef Kittler and   
                Pavel Pudil and   
                     Petr Somol   Combining Multiple Classifiers in
                                  Probabilistic Neural Networks  . . . . . 157
         Claudio Conversano and   
          Roberta Siciliano and   
                 Francesco Mola   Supervised Classifier Combination
                                  through Generalized Additive Multi-model 167
           Giorgio Giacinto and   
                     Fabio Roli   Dynamic Classifier Selection . . . . . . 177
          Marina Skurichina and   
              Robert P. W. Duin   Boosting in Linear Discriminant Analysis 190
            Patrice Latinne and   
             Olivier Debeir and   
         Christine Decaestecker   Different Ways of Weakening Decision
                                  Trees and Their Impact on Classification
                                  Accuracy of DT Combination . . . . . . . 200
Juan J. Rodríguez Diez and   
Carlos J. Alonso González   Applying Boosting to Similarity Literals
                                  for Time Series Classification . . . . . 210
          Cesare Furlanello and   
                 Stefano Merler   Boosting of Tree-Based Classifiers for
                                  Predictive Risk Modeling in GIS  . . . . 220
                S. Impedovo and   
                       A. Salzo   A New Evaluation Method for Expert
                                  Combination in Multi-expert System
                                  Designing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
                Wenjia Wang and   
              Phillis Jones and   
                Derek Partridge   Diversity between Neural Networks and
                                  Decision Trees for Building Multiple
                                  Classifier Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 240
             Niall Griffith and   
                Derek Partridge   Self-Organizing Decomposition of
                                  Functions in the Context of a Unified
                                  Framework for Multiple Classifier
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
                 Terry Windeatt   Classifier Instability and Partitioning  260
             Shailesh Kumar and   
              Joydeep Ghosh and   
                 Melba Crawford   A Hierarchical Multiclassifier System
                                  for Hyperspectral Data Analysis  . . . . 270
      Jon Atli Benediktsson and   
          Johannes R. Sveinsson   Consensus Based Classification of
                                  Multisource Remote Sensing Data  . . . . 280
           Lorenzo Bruzzone and   
              Roberto Cossu and   
  Diego Fernández Prieto   Combining Parametric and Nonparametric
                                  Classifiers for an Unsupervised Updating
                                  of Land-Cover Maps . . . . . . . . . . . 290
                Weijian Wan and   
                  Donald Fraser   A Multiple Self-Organizing Map Scheme
                                  for Remote Sensing Classification  . . . 300
         Petr Slavík and   
                 V. Govindaraju   Use of Lexicon Density in Evaluating
                                  Word Recognizers . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
                V. Di Lecce and   
                 G. Dimauro and   
               A. Guerriero and   
                S. Impedovo and   
                   G. Pirlo and   
                       A. Salzo   A Multi-expert System for Dynamic
                                  Signature Verification . . . . . . . . . 320
             L. P. Cordella and   
                  P. Foggia and   
                 C. Sansone and   
              F. Tortorella and   
                       M. Vento   A Cascaded Multiple Expert System for
                                  Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
               Kr. Ianakiev and   
                 V. Govindaraju   Architecture for Classifier Combination
                                  Using Entropy Measures . . . . . . . . . 340
          Raffaele Cappelli and   
                 Dario Maio and   
                 Davide Maltoni   Combining Fingerprint Classifiers  . . . 351
        Bernhard Fröba and   
            Constanze Rothe and   
        Christian Küblbeck   Statistical Sensor Calibration for
                                  Fusion of Different Classifiers in a
                                  Biometric Person Recognition Framework   362
         Anna Maria Fanelli and   
        Giovanna Castellano and   
       C. Alessandro Buscicchio   A Modular Neuro-Fuzzy Network for
                                  Musical Instruments Classification . . . 372
               Xiaoyi Jiang and   
                   Keren Yu and   
                    Horst Bunke   Classifier Combination for
                                  Grammar-Guided Sentence Recognition  . . 383
                 Itsuo Kumazawa   Shape Matching and Extraction by an
                                  Array of Figure-and-Ground Classifiers   393
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1858, 2000

      Christos H. Papadimitriou   Theoretical Problems Related to the
                                  Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
               Richard P. Brent   Recent Progress and Prospects for
                                  Integer Factorisation Algorithms . . . . 3
          Franz Aurenhammer and   
                Naoki Katoh and   
           Hiromichi Kojima and   
              Makoto Ohsaki and   
                     Yinfeng Xu   Approximating Uniform Triangular Meshes
                                  in Polygons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
          William Duckworth and   
        Nicholas C. Wormald and   
                   Michele Zito   Maximum Induced Matchings of Random
                                  Cubic Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
                  Gill Barequet   A Duality between Small-Face Problems in
                                  Arrangements of Lines and Heilbronn-Type
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
            Carmen Hernando and   
           Michael E. Houle and   
                 Ferran Hurtado   On Local Transformation of Polygons with
                                  Visibility Properties  . . . . . . . . . 54
       Giuseppe Di Battista and   
            Giuseppe Liotta and   
                 Anna Lubiw and   
                 Sue Whitesides   Embedding Problems for Paths with
                                  Direction Constrained Edges  . . . . . . 64
              Patrick Healy and   
                 Ago Kuusik and   
              Sebastian Leipert   Characterization of Level Non-planar
                                  Graphs by Minimal Patterns . . . . . . . 74
          Md. Saidur Rahman and   
           Shin-ichi Nakano and   
                Takao Nishizeki   Rectangular Drawings of Plane Graphs
                                  Without Designated Corners . . . . . . . 85
               Petra Mutzel and   
        René Weiskircher   Computing Optimal Embeddings for Planar
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
                 Zhi-Zhong Chen   Approximation Algorithms for Independent
                                  Sets in Map Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 105
             Zhi-Zhong Chen and   
                         Xin He   Hierarchical Topological Inference on
                                  Planar Disc Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
               Yaw-Ling Lin and   
              Fang Rong Hsu and   
                    Yin-Te Tsai   Efficient Algorithms for the Minimum
                                  Connected Domination on Trapezoid Graphs 126
               Subhash Khot and   
                Venkatesh Raman   Parameterized Complexity of Finding
                                  Subgraphs with Hereditary Properties . . 137
                Yuriy A. Reznik   Some Results on Tries with Adaptive
                                  Branching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
        Ferdinando Cicalese and   
                Daniele Mundici   Optimal Coding with One Asymmetric
                                  Error: Below the Sphere Packing Bound    159
                  Xizhong Zheng   Closure Properties of Real Number
                                  Classes under Limits and Computable
                                  Operators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
         Michael J. Dinneen and   
                      Liu Xiong   A Characterization of Graphs with Vertex
                                  Cover Six  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
               Mirka Miller and   
                         Slamin   On the Monotonicity of Minimum Diameter
                                  with Respect to Order and Maximum
                                  Out-Degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Magnús M. Halldórsson and   
                Kazuo Iwama and   
           Shuichi Miyazaki and   
                 Shiro Taketomi   Online Independent Sets  . . . . . . . . 202
             Satoshi Fujita and   
                   Takeshi Hada   Two-Dimensional On-Line Bin Packing
                                  Problem with Rotatable Items . . . . . . 210
                  Eric Bach and   
                 Joan Boyar and   
                  Tao Jiang and   
              Kim S. Larsen and   
                    Guo-Hui Lin   Better Bounds on the Accommodating Ratio
                                  for the Seat Reservation Problem . . . . 221
                  Zhiyi Tan and   
                        Yong He   Ordinal On-Line Scheduling on Two
                                  Uniform Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
                  Sukumar Ghosh   Agents, Distributed Algorithms, and
                                  Stabilization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
          Shyue-Horng Shiau and   
                Chang-Biau Yang   A Fast Sorting Algorithm and Its
                                  Generalization on Broadcast
                                  Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
              Sung-Ryul Kim and   
                    Kunsoo Park   Efficient List Ranking Algorithms on
                                  Reconfigurable Mesh  . . . . . . . . . . 262
               Alexandre Tiskin   Tripods Do Not Pack Densely  . . . . . . 272
                Subhas C. Nandy   An Efficient $k$ Nearest Neighbor
                                  Searching Algorithm for a Query Line . . 281
                Cao An Wang and   
                    Boting Yang   Tetrahedralization of Two Nested Convex
                                  Polyhedra  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
              Sung Kwon Kim and   
                   Chan-Su Shin   Efficient Algorithms for Two-Center
                                  Problems for a Convex Polygon  . . . . . 299
               Xiaotie Deng and   
                Zhongfei Li and   
                  Shouyang Wang   On Computation of Arbitrage for Markets
                                  with Friction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
              Zhongping Qin and   
                 Yinfeng Xu and   
                     Binhai Zhu   On Some Optimization Problems in
                                  Obnoxious Facility Location  . . . . . . 320
               Frank Ruskey and   
                     Joe Sawada   Generating Necklaces and Strings with
                                  Forbidden Substrings . . . . . . . . . . 330
             Gunnar W. Klau and   
                   Petra Mutzel   Optimal Labelling of Point Features in
                                  the Slider Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
           Alan A. Bertossi and   
            M. Cristina Pinotti   Mappings for Conflict-Free Access of
                                  Paths in Elementary Data Structures  . . 351
                  Tadao Takaoka   Theory of Trinomial Heaps  . . . . . . . 362
              Marcus Oswald and   
                Gerhard Reinelt   Polyhedral Aspects of the Consecutive
                                  Ones Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
               Stephan Weis and   
          Rüdiger Reischuk   The Complexity of Physical Mapping with
                                  Strict Chimerism . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
               Hirotaka Ono and   
            Kazuhisa Makino and   
              Toshihide Ibaraki   Logical Analysis of Data with
                                  Decomposable Structures  . . . . . . . . 396
           Shirley Cheung H. C.   Learning from Approximate Data . . . . . 407--415
      Reihaneh Safavi-Naini and   
                    Yejing Wang   A Combinatorial Approach to Asymmetric
                                  Traitor Tracing  . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
          Giovanni Di Crescenzo   Removing Complexity Assumptions from
                                  Concurrent Zero-Knowledge Proofs . . . . 426
          Tomohiro Yamasaki and   
         Hirotada Kobayashi and   
             Yuuki Tokunaga and   
                   Hiroshi Imai   One-Way Probabilistic Reversible and
                                  Quantum One-Counter Automata . . . . . . 436
               Zhuhan Jiang and   
                Bruce Litow and   
                 Olivier de Vel   Similarity Enrichment in Image
                                  Compression through Weighted Finite
                                  Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
               Hiroaki Yamamoto   On the Power of Input-Synchronized
                                  Alternating Finite Automata  . . . . . . 457
           Masaki Nakanishi and   
         Kiyoharu Hamaguchi and   
          Toshinobu Kashiwabara   Ordered Quantum Branching Programs Are
                                  More Powerful than Ordered Probabilistic
                                  Branching Programs under a Bounded-Width
                                  Restriction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1861, 2000

             John Alan Robinson   Computational Logic: Memories of the
                                  Past and Challenges for the Future . . . 1
                     David Page   ILP: Just Do It  . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
                 Melvin Fitting   Databases and Higher Types . . . . . . . 41
               Krzysztof R. Apt   A Denotational Semantics for First-Order
                                  Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
                    David Poole   Logic, Knowledge Representation, and
                                  Bayesian Decision Theory . . . . . . . . 70
                David Lacey and   
          Julian Richardson and   
                    Alan Smaill   Logic Program Synthesis in a
                                  Higher-Order Setting . . . . . . . . . . 87
           Michael Leuschel and   
                  Helko Lehmann   Coverability of Reset Petri Nets and
                                  Other Well-Structured Transition Systems
                                  by Partial Deduction . . . . . . . . . . 101
            Jan Hr\ocircuza and   
       Petr \vSt\vepánek   Binary Speed Up for Logic Programs . . . 116--130
              Daniel Cabeza and   
            Manuel Hermenegildo   A New Module System for Prolog . . . . . 131
     José J. Alferes and   
             Heinrich Herre and   
      Luís Moniz Pereira   Partial Models of Extended Generalized
                                  Logic Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
                 Kewen Wang and   
                 Lizhu Zhou and   
                   Fangzhen Lin   Alternating Fixpoint Theory for Logic
                                  Programs with Priority . . . . . . . . . 164
Francisco J. López-Fraguas and   
Jaime Sánchez-Hernández   Proving Failure in Functional Logic
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
             Annalisa Bossi and   
              Sandro Etalle and   
                   Sabina Rossi   Semantics of Input-Consuming Logic
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
               Michael J. Maher   A Denotational Semantics of Defeasible
                                  Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
               Kung-Kiu Lau and   
                  Mario Ornaghi   Isoinitial Semantics for Logic Programs  223
                    Dale Miller   Abstract Syntax for Variable Binders: An
                                  Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
              James Harland and   
            Tatjana Lutovac and   
               Michael Winikoff   Goal-Directed Proof Search in
                                  Multiple-Conclusioned Intuitionistic
                                  Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
           Yoshitaka Kameya and   
                   Taisuke Sato   Efficient EM Learning with Tabulation
                                  for Parameterized Logic Programs . . . . 269
         Reiner Hähnle and   
             Ryuzo Hasegawa and   
                Yasuyuki Shirai   Model Generation Theorem Proving with
                                  Finite Interval Constraints  . . . . . . 285
             Rachid Echahed and   
                 Wendelin Serwe   Combining Mobile Processes and
                                  Declarative Programming  . . . . . . . . 300
                  Ben Curry and   
         Geraint A. Wiggins and   
                  Gillian Hayes   Representing Trees with Constraints  . . 315
              Denys Duchier and   
                Joachim Niehren   Dominance Constraints with Set Operators 326
                 Petra Hofstedt   Better Communication for Tighter
                                  Cooperation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
                Rosella Gennari   Arc Consistency Algorithms via
                                  Iterations of Subsumed Functions . . . . 358
            Gilles Audemard and   
            Belaid Benhamou and   
                  Pierre Siegel   AVAL: An Enumerative Method for SAT  . . 373
                Ulf Nilsson and   
              Johan Lübcke   Constraint Logic Programming for Local
                                  and Symbolic Model-Checking  . . . . . . 384
             Arnaud Gotlieb and   
            Bernard Botella and   
                  Michel Rueher   A CLP Framework for Computing Structural
                                  Test Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
          Francisco Azevedo and   
                 Pedro Barahona   Modelling Digital Circuits Problems with
                                  Set Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
             Tobias Müller   Promoting Constraints to First-Class
                                  Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
               Kit-ying Hui and   
               Peter M. D. Gray   Developing Finite Domain Constraints ---
                                  A Data Model Approach  . . . . . . . . . 448
              David Gilbert and   
           Catuscia Palamidessi   Concurrent Constraint Programming with
                                  Process Mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
                 Baoqiu Cui and   
                David S. Warren   A System for Tabled Constraint Logic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
           Edgar Altamirano and   
    Gonçal Escalada-Imaz   Finding Tractable Formulas in NNF  . . . 493
          Peter Baumgartner and   
                 Fabio Massacci   The Taming of the (X)OR  . . . . . . . . 508
Regimantas Pliu\vskeviçius   On an $ \omega $-Decidable Deductive
                                  Procedure for Non-Horn Sequents of a
                                  Restricted FTL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--537
                   Marco Benini   Representing Object Code . . . . . . . . 538
          Tommi A. Junttila and   
             Ilkka Niemelä   Towards an Efficient Tableau Method for
                                  Boolean Circuit Satisfiability Checking  553
               Dexter Kozen and   
          Maria-Cristina Patron   Certification of Compiler Optimizations:
                                  Using Kleene Algebra with Tests  . . . . 568
                Michael Dierkes   An Application of Model Building in a
                                  Resolution Decision Procedure for
                                  Guarded Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
      Supratik Mukhopadhyay and   
               Andreas Podelski   Model Checking for Timed Logic Processes 598
         Alberto Pettorossi and   
              Maurizio Proietti   Perfect Model Checking via Unfold/Fold
                                  Transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
         Richard J. Boulton and   
                   Konrad Slind   Automatic Derivation and Application of
                                  Induction Schemes for Mutually Recursive
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
                Erica Melis and   
                  Andreas Meier   Proof Planning with Multiple Strategies  644
          Paliath Narendran and   
            Michael Rusinowitch   The Theory of Total Unary RPO Is
                                  Decidable  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
              Zbigniew Lonc and   
       Miros\law Truszczy\'nski   On the Problem of Computing the
                                  Well-Founded Semantics . . . . . . . . . 673
               David Pearce and   
Inmaculada P. de Guzmán and   
        Agustín Valverde   Computing Equilibrium Models Using
                                  Signed Formulas  . . . . . . . . . . . . 688
                  Marc Denecker   Extending Classical Logic with Inductive
                                  Definitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703
                  Katsumi Inoue   A Simple Characterization of Extended
                                  Abduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718
      Hans-Peter Störr and   
             Michael Thielscher   A New Equational Foundation for the
                                  Fluent Calculus  . . . . . . . . . . . . 733
    Steffen Hölldobler and   
          Hans-Peter Störr   Solving the Entailment Problem in the
                                  Fluent Calculus Using Binary Decision
                                  Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747
              Helko Lehmann and   
               Michael Leuschel   Decidability Results for the
                                  Propositional Fluent Calculus  . . . . . 762
              Vincenzo Pallotta   A Meta-logical Semantics for Features
                                  and Fluents Based on Compositional
                                  Operators over Normal Logic Programs . . 777
           Phan Minh D\~ung and   
                   Tran Cao Son   Default Reasoning with Specificity . . . 792--806
               Thomas Eiter and   
             Wolfgang Faber and   
               Nicola Leone and   
             Gerald Pfeifer and   
                  Axel Polleres   Planning under Incomplete Knowledge  . . 807
                 Esra Erdem and   
         Vladimir Lifschitz and   
              Martin D. F. Wong   Wire Routing and Satisfiability Planning 822
            Tommi Syrjänen   Including Diagnostic Information in
                                  Configuration Models . . . . . . . . . . 837
                  Tomi Janhunen   Comparing the Expressive Powers of Some
                                  Syntactically Restricted Classes of
                                  Logic Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852
           Michael Dekhtyar and   
         Alexander Dikovsky and   
                 Sergey Dudakov   On Complexity of Updates through
                                  Integrity Constraints  . . . . . . . . . 867
               Chitta Baral and   
                Le-Chi Tuan and   
          Raúl Trejo and   
              Vladik Kreinovich   Computational Complexity of Planning
                                  Based on Partial Information about the
                                  System's Present and Past States . . . . 882
               Yves Moinard and   
                Raymond Rolland   Smallest Equivalent Sets for Finite
                                  Propositional Formula Circumscription    897
               Jan Broersen and   
              Roel Wieringa and   
               John-Jules Meyer   A Semantics for Persistency in
                                  Propositional Dynamic Logic  . . . . . . 912
             Marcelo Arenas and   
          Leopoldo Bertossi and   
                  Michael Kifer   Applications of Annotated Predicate
                                  Calculus to Querying Inconsistent
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926
            Alexander Celle and   
              Leopoldo Bertossi   Querying Inconsistent Databases:
                                  Algorithms and Implementation  . . . . . 942
           Francesco Bonchi and   
            Fosca Giannotti and   
                 Dino Pedreschi   On Verification in Logic Database
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957
               Yves Bastide and   
           Nicolas Pasquier and   
               Rafik Taouil and   
                Gerd Stumme and   
                   Lotfi Lakhal   Mining Minimal Non-redundant Association
                                  Rules Using Frequent Closed Itemsets . . 972
              Rada Chirkova and   
          Michael R. Genesereth   Linearly Bounded Reformulations of
                                  Conjunctive Databases (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987
           Paolo Mancarella and   
           Gianluca Nerbini and   
      Alessandra Raffaet\`a and   
                  Franco Turini   MuTACLP: A Language for Declarative GIS
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002
         Vitaliy L. Khizder and   
                David Toman and   
                  Grant Weddell   Reasoning about Duplicate Elimination
                                  with Description Logic (Preliminary
                                  Report)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017
Sébastien Ferré and   
                 Olivier Ridoux   A File System Based on Concept Analysis  1033
            Enrico Franconi and   
               Fabio Grandi and   
             Federica Mandreoli   A Semantic Approach for Schema Evolution
                                  and Versioning in Object-Oriented
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048
                   Stefan Brass   SLDMagic --- The Real Magic: (With
                                  Applications to Web Queries) . . . . . . 1063
               Guizhen Yang and   
                  Michael Kifer   FLORA: Implementing an Efficient DOOD
                                  System Using a Tabling Logic Engine  . . 1078
              Hasan Davulcu and   
               Guizhen Yang and   
              Michael Kifer and   
             I. V. Ramakrishnan   Design and Implementation of the
                                  Physical Layer in WebBases: The XRover
                                  Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1094
               James Bailey and   
    Alexandra Poulovassilis and   
                   Peter Newson   A Dynamic Approach to Termination
                                  Analysis for Active Database Rules . . . 1106
              Saumya Debray and   
                 Timothy Hickey   Constraint-Based Termination Analysis
                                  for Cyclic Active Database Rules . . . . 1121
              Geert Jan Bex and   
           Sebastian Maneth and   
                    Frank Neven   A Formal Model for an Expressive
                                  Fragment of XSLT . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137
                  Peter T. Wood   On the Equivalence of XML Patterns . . . 1152
            Barbara Oliboni and   
                  Letizia Tanca   Querying XML Specified WWW Sites: Links
                                  and Recursion in XML--GL (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167
              Seung-Jin Lim and   
                     Yiu-Kai Ng   A Heuristic Approach for Converting HTML
                                  Documents to XML Documents . . . . . . . 1182
             Laurent Allain and   
                     Pascal Yim   Specification of an Active Database
                                  System Application Using Dynamic
                                  Relation Nets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197
           Mutsumi Nakamura and   
                   Chitta Baral   Invariance, Maintenance, and Other
                                  Declarative Objectives of Triggers --- A
                                  Formal Characterization of Active
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1210
                     Paul Tarau   Fluents: A Refactoring of Prolog for
                                  Uniform Reflection and Interoperation
                                  with External Objects  . . . . . . . . . 1225
                Bart Demoen and   
              Phuong-Lan Nguyen   So Many WAM Variations, So Little Time   1240
                Nancy Mazur and   
             Gerda Janssens and   
             Maurice Bruynooghe   A Module Based Analysis for Memory Reuse
                                  in Mercury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1255
María García de la Banda and   
           Peter J. Stuckey and   
             Warwick Harvey and   
                   Kim Marriott   Mode Checking in HAL . . . . . . . . . . 1270
 Inês de Castro Dutra and   
  Vítor Santos Costa and   
              Ricardo Bianchini   The Impact of Cache Coherence Protocols
                                  on Parallel Logic Programming Systems    1285
                   Steve Barker   Data Protection by Logic Programming . . 1300
                    Chuck Liang   A Deterministic Shift-Reduce Parser
                                  Generator for a Logic Programming
                                  Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315
            Pablo Gervás   A Logic Programming Application for the
                                  Analysis of Spanish Verse  . . . . . . . 1330
            Manuel Hermenegildo   A Documentation Generator for (C)LP
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345
             Joseph Gartner and   
             Terrance Swift and   
                 Allen Tien and   
Carlos Viegas Damásio and   
      Luís Moniz Pereira   Psychiatric Diagnosis from the Viewpoint
                                  of Computational Logic . . . . . . . . . 1362
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1377


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1864, 2000

                 Patrick Cousot   Partial Completeness of Abstract
                                  Fixpoint Checking  . . . . . . . . . . . 1
           Thomas G. Dietterich   An Overview of MAXQ Hierarchical
                                  Reinforcement Learning . . . . . . . . . 26
                Richard E. Korf   Recent Progress in the Design and
                                  Analysis of Admissible Heuristic
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
       Stefano Spaccapietra and   
           Christine Parent and   
            Christelle Vangenot   GIS Databases: From Multiscale to
                                  MultiRepresentation  . . . . . . . . . . 57
         Stefano Bistarelli and   
          Philippe Codognet and   
                Francesca Rossi   An Abstraction Framework for Soft
                                  Constraints and Its Relationship with
                                  Constraint Propagation . . . . . . . . . 71
          Isabelle Bournaud and   
    Mélanie Courtine and   
             Jean-Daniel Zucker   Abstractions for Knowledge Organization
                                  of Relational Descriptions . . . . . . . 87
            Carlos Carreras and   
         Manuel V. Hermenegildo   Grid-Based Histogram Arithmetic for the
                                  Probabilistic Analysis of Functions  . . 107
                   Rui Chen and   
                 Min Ouyang and   
                Peter Z. Revesz   Approximating Data in Constraint
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
              Rada Chirkova and   
          Michael R. Genesereth   Linearly Bounded Reformulations of Unary
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
        Christophe Lecoutre and   
            Sylvain Merchez and   
Frédéric Boussemart and   
           Eric Grégoire   A CSP Abstraction Framework  . . . . . . 164
            Gordon S. Novak Jr.   Interactions of Abstractions in
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
                Peter Z. Revesz   Reformulation and Approximation in Model
                                  Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
        William T. B. Uther and   
              Manuela M. Veloso   The Lumberjack Algorithm for Learning
                                  Linked Decision Forests  . . . . . . . . 219
                     Toby Walsh   Reformulating Propositional
                                  Satisfiability as Constraint
                                  Satisfaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
                  Eyal Amir and   
               Sheila McIlraith   Improving the Efficiency of Reasoning
                                  Through Structure-Based Reformulation    247
           Marie desJardins and   
                Lise Getoor and   
                  Daphne Koller   Using Feature Hierarchies in Bayesian
                                  Network Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--270
               Jeremy Frank and   
      Ari K. Jónsson and   
                    Paul Morris   On Reformulating Planning as Dynamic
                                  Constraint Satisfaction  . . . . . . . . 271
István T. Hernádvölgyi and   
                Robert C. Holte   Experiments with Automatically Created
                                  Memory-Based Heuristics  . . . . . . . . 281
             Lorenza Saitta and   
             Jean-Daniel Zucker   Abstraction and Phase Transitions in
                                  Relational Learning  . . . . . . . . . . 291
          Terrence P. Fries and   
                James H. Graham   An Agent-Based Approach to Robust
                                  Switching Between Abstraction Levels for
                                  Fault Diagnosis  . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
             T. K. Satish Kumar   A Compositional Approach to Causality    309
             Yoshiaki Okubo and   
           Makoto Haraguchi and   
                 Yan Fang Zheng   A Method for Finding Consistent
                                  Hypotheses Using Abstraction . . . . . . 313
                  Thomas Ellman   Program Synthesis and Transformation
                                  Techniques for Simulation, Optimization,
                                  and Constraint Satisfaction  . . . . . . 317
                    David Furcy   Using and Learning Abstraction
                                  Hierarchies for Planning . . . . . . . . 320
                    Lise Getoor   Learning Probabilistic Relational Models 322
             T. K. Satish Kumar   Synergy between Compositional Modeling
                                  and Bayesian Networks  . . . . . . . . . 324
        Christophe Lecoutre and   
            Sylvain Merchez and   
Frédéric Boussemart and   
           Eric Grégoire   A CSP Abstraction Framework  . . . . . . 326
                        Chen Li   Answering Queries with Database
                                  Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
            Gordon S. Novak Jr.   Research Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1866, 2000

                     David Page   ILP: Just Do It  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
                Marta Arias and   
                   Roni Khardon   A New Algorithm for Learning Range
                                  Restricted Horn Expressions  . . . . . . 21
                Liviu Badea and   
       Shan-Hwei Nienhuys-Cheng   A Refinement Operator for Description
                                  Logics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
           Hendrik Blockeel and   
                Luc Dehaspe and   
                Bart Demoen and   
             Gerda Janssens and   
                  Jan Ramon and   
             Henk Vandecasteele   Executing Query Packs in ILP . . . . . . 60
                   Luc De Raedt   A Logical Database Mining Query Language 78
          Floriana Esposito and   
             Donato Malerba and   
              Francesca A. Lisi   Induction of Recursive Theories in the
                                  Normal ILP Setting: Issues and Solutions 93
            Mathias Kirsten and   
                  Stefan Wrobel   Extending K-Means Clustering to
                                  First-Order Representations  . . . . . . 112
       Stephen H. Muggleton and   
          Christopher H. Bryant   Theory Completion Using Inverse
                                  Entailment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
            Tomofumi Nakano and   
               Nobuhiro Inuzuka   Solving Selection Problems Using
                                  Preference Relation Based on Bayesian
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
              Hayato Ohwada and   
         Hiroyuki Nishiyama and   
                Fumio Mizoguchi   Concurrent Execution of Optimal
                                  Hypothesis Search for Inverse Entailment 165
                  Mark Reid and   
                   Malcolm Ryan   Using ILP to Improve Planning in
                                  Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning  . . 174
    Céline Rouveirol and   
        Véronique Ventos   Towards Learning in CARIN-$ \cal {ALN} $ 191
                  Chiaki Sakama   Inverse Entailment in Nonmonotonic Logic
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
  Vítor Santos Costa and   
          Ashwin Srinivasan and   
                    Rui Camacho   A Note on Two Simple Transformations for
                                  Improving the Efficiency of an ILP
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
   Alireza Tamaddoni-Nezhad and   
           Stephen H. Muggleton   Searching the Subsumption Lattice by a
                                  Genetic Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . 243
               Akihiro Yamamoto   New Conditions for the Existence of
                                  Least Generalizations under Relative
                                  Subsumption  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1877, 2000

              Natarajan Shankar   Combining Theorem Proving and Model
                                  Checking through Symbolic Analysis . . . 1
                    Ed Brinksma   Verification Is Experimentation! . . . . 17
                Eugene W. Stark   Compositional Performance Analysis Using
                                  Probabilistic I/O Automata . . . . . . . 25
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and   
                Marco Sgroi and   
                Luciano Lavagno   Formal Models for Communication-Based
                                  Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
            Rocco De Nicola and   
          GianLuigi Ferrari and   
               Rosario Pugliese   Programming Access Control: The KLAIM
                                  Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
                    Rajeev Alur   Exploiting Hierarchical Structure for
                                  Efficient Formal Verification  . . . . . 66
               Philippa Gardner   From Process Calculi to Process
                                  Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
             C. R. Ramakrishnan   Verification Using Tabled Logic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
             Orna Kupferman and   
              P. Madhusudan and   
          P. S. Thiagarajan and   
                 Moshe Y. Vardi   Open Systems in Reactive Environments:
                                  Control and Synthesis  . . . . . . . . . 92
                 Keijo Heljanko   Model Checking with Finite Complete
                                  Prefixes Is PSPACE-Complete  . . . . . . 108
          Marta Kwiatkowska and   
              Gethin Norman and   
             Roberto Segala and   
                Jeremy Sproston   Verifying Quantitative Properties of
                                  Continuous Probabilistic Timed Automata  123
              Franck Cassez and   
                     Kim Larsen   The Impressive Power of Stopwatches  . . 138
            Kousha Etessami and   
             Gerard J. Holzmann   Optimizing Büchi Automata . . . . . . . . 153
                Glenn Bruns and   
              Patrice Godefroid   Generalized Model Checking: Reasoning
                                  about Partial State Spaces . . . . . . . 168
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
              Tevfik Bultan and   
                     Jianwen Su   Reachability Analysis for Some Models of
                                  Infinite-State Transition Systems  . . . 183
                 Radu Negulescu   Process Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
           Frank S. de Boer and   
         Rogier M. van Eijk and   
         Wiebe van der Hoek and   
           John-Jules Ch. Meyer   Failure Semantics for the Exchange of
                                  Information in Multi-Agent Systems . . . 214
Erika Ábrahám-Mumm and   
               Frank S. de Boer   Proof-Outlines for Threads in Java . . . 229
            James J. Leifer and   
                   Robin Milner   Deriving Bisimulation Congruences for
                                  Reactive Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
              Roberto Bruni and   
     David de Frutos-Escrig and   
 Narciso Martí-Oliet and   
                  Ugo Montanari   Bisimilarity Congruences for Open Terms
                                  and Term Graphs via Tile Logic . . . . . 259
             Irek Ulidowski and   
                     Shoji Yuen   Process Languages for Rooted Eager
                                  Bisimulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
                  Arend Rensink   Action Contraction . . . . . . . . . . . 290
             Marco Bernardo and   
               Rance Cleaveland   A Theory of Testing for Markovian
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
             Parosh Abdulla and   
             Christel Baier and   
         Purushothaman Iyer and   
                  Bengt Jonsson   Reasoning about Probabilistic Lossy
                                  Channel Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
             Anna Philippou and   
                  Insup Lee and   
                  Oleg Sokolsky   Weak Bisimulation for Probabilistic
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
                Michael Mislove   Nondeterminism and Probabilistic Choice:
                                  Obeying the Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
              Luca Cardelli and   
             Giorgio Ghelli and   
               Andrew D. Gordon   Secrecy and Group Creation . . . . . . . 365
          Roberto M. Amadio and   
                   Denis Lugiez   On the Reachability Problem in
                                  Cryptographic Protocols  . . . . . . . . 380
               Jan Jürjens   Secure Information Flow for Concurrent
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
            Victor Khomenko and   
                  Maciej Koutny   LP Deadlock Checking Using Partial Order
                                  Dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
             Dietrich Kuske and   
              Rémi Morin   Pomsets for Local Trace Languages ---
                                  Recognizability, Logic & Petri Nets . . . 426
               Paolo Baldan and   
                 Nadia Busi and   
           Andrea Corradini and   
               G. Michele Pinna   Functional Concurrent Semantics for
                                  Petri Nets with Read and Inhibitor Arcs  442
             Luca de Alfaro and   
        Thomas A. Henzinger and   
              Freddy Y. C. Mang   The Control of Synchronous Systems . . . 458
      António Ravara and   
           Vasco T. Vasconcelos   Typing Non-uniform Concurrent Objects    474
            Naoki Kobayashi and   
                 Shin Saito and   
                   Eijiro Sumii   An Implicitly-Typed Deadlock-Free
                                  Process Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
           Michele Bugliesi and   
          Giuseppe Castagna and   
                   Silvia Crafa   Typed Mobile Objects . . . . . . . . . . 504
            Madhavan Mukund and   
           K. Narayan Kumar and   
                  Milind Sohoni   Synthesizing Distributed Finite-State
                                  Systems from MSCs  . . . . . . . . . . . 521
                 Dietrich Kuske   Emptiness Is Decidable for Asynchronous
                                  Cellular Machines  . . . . . . . . . . . 536
    Bernadette Charron-Bost and   
                  Sam Toueg and   
                   Anindya Basu   Revisiting Safety and Liveness in the
                                  Context of Failures  . . . . . . . . . . 552
               Alain Finkel and   
         Purushothaman Iyer and   
                 Gregoire Sutre   Well-Abstracted Transition Systems
                                  (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . 566
              Ranko Lazi\'c and   
                    David Nowak   A Unifying Approach to Data-Independence 581
                    Yuxi Fu and   
                  Zhenrong Yang   Chi Calculus with Mismatch . . . . . . . 596
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1878, 2000

                    Mike Spivey   Invited talk: Meeting the Challenge of
                                  Object-Oriented Programming  . . . . . . 1
            Soon-Kyeong Kim and   
               David Carrington   A Formal Mapping between UML Models and
                                  Object-Z Specifications  . . . . . . . . 2
       Régine Laleau and   
                    Amel Mammar   A Generic Process to Refine a B
                                  Specification into a Relational Database
                                  Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
                   Graeme Smith   Recursive Schema Definitions in Object-Z 42
                    I. Toyn and   
            S. H. Valentine and   
                    D. A. Duffy   On Mutually Recursive Free Types in Z    59
             David A. Duffy and   
                       Ian Toyn   Reasoning Inductively about Z
                                  Specifications via Unification . . . . . 75
                   Ken Robinson   Reconciling Axiomatic and Model-Based
                                  Specifications Using the B Method  . . . 95
            Theo Dimitrakos and   
            Juan Bicarregui and   
             Brian Matthews and   
                    Tom Maibaum   Compositional Structuring in the
                                  B-Method: A Logical Viewpoint of the
                                  Static Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
             Pierre Bontron and   
              Marie-Laure Potet   Automatic Construction of Validated B
                                  Components from Structured Developments  127
          Dominique Cansell and   
          Dominique Méry   Invited talk: Playing with Abstraction
                                  and Refinement for Managing Features
                                  Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
             Mark d'Inverno and   
              Koen Hindriks and   
                   Michael Luck   A Formal Architecture for the 3APL Agent
                                  Programming Language . . . . . . . . . . 168
             Helen Treharne and   
                Steve Schneider   How to Drive a B Machine . . . . . . . . 188
               Nestor Lopez and   
           Marianne Simonot and   
Veronique Viguié Donzeau-Gouge   Deriving Software Specifications from
                                  Event Based Models . . . . . . . . . . . 209
              F. Bellegarde and   
                  C. Darlot and   
                J. Julliand and   
                O. Kouchnarenko   Reformulate Dynamic Properties during B
                                  Refinement and Forget Variants and Loop
                                  Invariants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
        Samuel H. Valentine and   
                   Ian Toyn and   
              Susan Stepney and   
                     Steve King   Type-Constrained Generics for Z  . . . . 250
                   Ian Toyn and   
        Samuel H. Valentine and   
              Susan Stepney and   
                     Steve King   Typechecking Z . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
               Ralph Miarka and   
               Eerke Boiten and   
                   John Derrick   Guards, Preconditions, and Refinement in
                                  Z  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
                  R. Banach and   
                   M. Poppleton   Retrenchment, Refinement, and Simulation 304
             Michael Butler and   
                Mairead Meagher   Performing Algorithmic Refinement before
                                  Data Refinement in B . . . . . . . . . . 324
           Martin C. Henson and   
                   Steve Reeves   Program Development and Specification
                                  Refinement in the Schema Calculus  . . . 344
               Jean-Louis Lanet   Invited talk: Are Smart Cards the Ideal
                                  Domain for Applying Formal Methods?  . . 363
              Susan Stepney and   
                   David Cooper   Formal Methods for Industrial Products   374
                  Bill Stoddart   An Execution Architecture for GSL  . . . 394
             Wolfgang Grieskamp   A Computation Model for Z Based on
                                  Concurrent Constraint Resolution . . . . 414--432
                   R. D. Arthan   Analysis of Compiled Code: A Prototype
                                  Formal Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
                  David Everett   Invited talk: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 450
               David Cooper and   
                  Susan Stepney   Segregation with Communication . . . . . 451
             David A. Duffy and   
              Jürgen Giesl   Closure Induction in a Z-Like Language   471
             Chris Matthews and   
                Paul A. Swatman   Fuzzy Concepts and Formal Methods: A
                                  Fuzzy Logic Toolkit for Z  . . . . . . . 491
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1880, 2000

           Arjen K. Lenstra and   
                Eric R. Verheul   The XTR Public Key System  . . . . . . . 1
      Éliane Jaulmes and   
                   Antoine Joux   A Chosen-Ciphertext Attack against NTRU  20
             Yehuda Lindell and   
                   Benny Pinkas   Privacy Preserving Data Mining . . . . . 36
                Amos Beimel and   
                Yuval Ishai and   
                     Tal Malkin   Reducing the Servers Computation in
                                  Private Information Retrieval: PIR with
                                  Preprocessing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
             Yevgeniy Dodis and   
                  Silvio Micali   Parallel Reducibility for
                                  Information-Theoretically Secure
                                  Computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
           Christian Cachin and   
                  Jan Camenisch   Optimistic Fair Secure Computation . . . 93
             Yevgeniy Dodis and   
                Shai Halevi and   
                      Tal Rabin   A Cryptographic Solution to a Game
                                  Theoretic Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 112
               Ingrid Biehl and   
                Bernd Meyer and   
             Volker Müller   Differential Fault Attacks on Elliptic
                                  Curve Cryptosystems  . . . . . . . . . . 131
           Tatsuaki Okamoto and   
             Keisuke Tanaka and   
             Shigenori Uchiyama   Quantum Public-Key Cryptosystems . . . . 147
               Ki Hyoung Ko and   
               Sang Jin Lee and   
             Jung Hee Cheon and   
                Jae Woo Han and   
               Ju-sung Kang and   
                  Choonsik Park   New Public-Key Cryptosystem Using Braid
                                  Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
            Don Coppersmith and   
            Lars R. Knudsen and   
              Chris J. Mitchell   Key Recovery and Forgery Attacks on the
                                  MacDES MAC Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 184
                 John Black and   
                Phillip Rogaway   CBC MACs for Arbitrary-Length
                                  Messages:The Three-Key Constructions . . 197
                Michael Semanko   L-collision Attacks against Randomized
                                  MACs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
    Jean-Sébastien Coron   On the Exact Security of Full Domain
                                  Hash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
                  Dan Boneh and   
                      Moni Naor   Timed Commitments  . . . . . . . . . . . 236
          Giuseppe Ateniese and   
              Jan Camenisch and   
                  Marc Joye and   
                    Gene Tsudik   A Practical and Provably Secure
                                  Coalition-Resistant Group Signature
                                  Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
               Masayuki Abe and   
               Tatsuaki Okamoto   Provably Secure Partially Blind
                                  Signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
          Rainer Steinwandt and   
              Markus Grassl and   
           Willi Geiselmann and   
                    Thomas Beth   Weaknesses in the $ \mathrm {SL}_2 (\bbb
                                  {F}_{2^n}) $ Hashing Scheme  . . . . . . 287--299
           Thomas Johansson and   
           Fredrik Jönsson   Fast Correlation Attacks through
                                  Reconstruction of Linear Polynomials . . 300
      Reihaneh Safavi-Naini and   
                    Yejing Wang   Sequential Traitor Tracing . . . . . . . 316
              Juan A. Garay and   
            Jessica Staddon and   
                   Avishai Wool   Long-Lived Broadcast Encryption  . . . . 333
            Martín Abadi   Taming the Adversary . . . . . . . . . . 353
                    Anand Desai   The Security of All-or-Nothing
                                  Encryption: Protecting against
                                  Exhaustive Key Search  . . . . . . . . . 359
            Zulfikar Ramzan and   
                  Leonid Reyzin   On the Round Security of Symmetric-Key
                                  Cryptographic Primitives . . . . . . . . 376
                    Anand Desai   New Paradigms for Constructing Symmetric
                                  Encryption Schemes Secure against
                                  Chosen-Ciphertext Attack . . . . . . . . 394
              Marc Fischlin and   
                 Roger Fischlin   Efficient Non-malleable Commitment
                                  Schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
         Ivan Damgård and   
            Jesper Buus Nielsen   Improved Non-committing Encryption
                                  Schemes Based on a General Complexity
                                  Assumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
                     Alon Rosen   A Note on the Round-Complexity of
                                  Concurrent Zero-Knowledge  . . . . . . . 451
                Rosario Gennaro   An Improved Pseudo-random Generator
                                  Based on Discrete Log  . . . . . . . . . 469
              Nicolas Gisin and   
                    Stefan Wolf   Linking Classical and Quantum Key
                                  Agreement: Is There ``Bound
                                  Information''? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
              Muxiang Zhang and   
                     Agnes Chan   Maximum Correlation Analysis of
                                  Nonlinear S-boxes in Stream Ciphers  . . 501
              Palash Sarkar and   
                Subhamoy Maitra   Nonlinearity Bounds and Constructions of
                                  Resilient Boolean Functions  . . . . . . 515
     Jürgen Bierbrauer and   
               Holger Schellwat   Almost Independent and Weakly Biased
                                  Arrays: Efficient Constructions and
                                  Cryptologic Applications . . . . . . . . 533
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1883, 2000

                R. Szeliski and   
                       R. Zabih   An Experimental Comparison of Stereo
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                    C. F. Olson   A General Method for Feature Matching
                                  and Model Extraction . . . . . . . . . . 20
              Y. G. Leclerc and   
                Q.-T. Luong and   
                         P. Fua   Characterizing the Performance of
                                  Multiple-Image Point-Correspondence
                                  Algorithms Using Self-Consistency  . . . 37
                     H. Tao and   
              H. S. Sawhney and   
                       R. Kumar   A Sampling Algorithm for Tracking
                                  Multiple Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
                T. Drummond and   
                     R. Cipolla   Real-Time Tracking of Complex Structures
                                  for Visual Servoing  . . . . . . . . . . 69
                   M. Irani and   
                 P. Anandan and   
                       M. Cohen   Direct Recovery of Planar-Parallax from
                                  Multiple Frames  . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
           W. B. Culbertson and   
              T. Malzbender and   
                    G. Slabaugh   Generalized Voxel Coloring . . . . . . . 100
                   M. Urban and   
                  T. Pajdla and   
             V. Hlavá\vc   Projective Reconstruction from N Views
                                  Having One View in Common  . . . . . . . 116
                    Y. Genc and   
                       J. Ponce   Point- and Line-Based Parameterized
                                  Image Varieties for Image-Based
                                  Rendering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
   P. R. S. Mendonça and   
                 K. K. Wong and   
                     R. Cipolla   Recovery of Circular Motion from
                                  Profiles of Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . 149
        J. Ko\vcecká and   
                      Y. Ma and   
                      S. Sastry   Optimization Criteria, Sensitivity and
                                  Robustness of Motion and Structure
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
               P. F. McLauchlan   Gauge Independence in Optimization
                                  Algorithms for $3$D Vision . . . . . . . 183
               D. D. Morris and   
                K. Kanatani and   
                      T. Kanade   Uncertainty Modeling for Optimal
                                  Structure from Motion  . . . . . . . . . 200
                     Z. Sun and   
                  V. Ramesh and   
                   A. M. Tekalp   Error Characterization of the
                                  Factorization Approach to Shape and
                                  Motion Recovery  . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
                   B. Matei and   
                        P. Meer   Bootstrapping Errors-in-Variables Models 236
                K. J. Hanna and   
              H. S. Sawhney and   
                   R. Kumar and   
                     Y. Guo and   
                S. Samarasekara   Annotation of Video by Alignment to
                                  Reference Imagery  . . . . . . . . . . . 253
                      L. Robert   Computer-Vision for the Post-production
                                  World: Facts and Challenges through the
                                  REALViZ Experience . . . . . . . . . . . 265
                   M. Irani and   
                     P. Anandan   About Direct Methods . . . . . . . . . . 267
              P. H. S. Torr and   
                   A. Zisserman   Feature Based Methods for Structure and
                                  Motion Estimation  . . . . . . . . . . . 278
                      Anonymous   Discussion for Direct versus Features
                                  Session  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
                  B. Triggs and   
           P. F. McLauchlan and   
              R. I. Hartley and   
               A. W. Fitzgibbon   Bundle Adjustment --- A Modern Synthesis 298
                      Anonymous   Discussion for Session on Bundle
                                  Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
                 P. Anandan and   
                O. Faugeras and   
                 R. Hartley and   
                   J. Malik and   
                       J. Mundy   Summary of the Panel Session . . . . . . 376
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1892, 2000

         Elisabeth André   Enhancing Adaptive Hypermedia
                                  Presentation Systems by Lifelike
                                  Synthetic Characters . . . . . . . . . . 1
          Liliana Ardissono and   
                       Anna Goy   Dynamic Generation of Adaptive Web
                                  Catalogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
              Antonio Baena and   
María-Victoria Belmonte and   
                Lawrence Mandow   An Intelligent Tutor for a Web-Based
                                  Chess Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
               Diana Bental and   
              Alison Cawsey and   
              Janne Pearson and   
                      Ray Jones   Adapting Web-Based Information to the
                                  Needs of Patients with Cancer  . . . . . 27
                   Johan Bollen   Group User Models for Personalized
                                  Hyperlink Recommendations  . . . . . . . 38
         Jesus G. Boticario and   
             Elena Gaudioso and   
                Felix Hernandez   Adaptive Navigation Support and Adaptive
                                  Collaboration Support in WebDL . . . . . 51
              Keith Bradley and   
             Rachael Rafter and   
                    Barry Smyth   Case-Based User Profiling for Content
                                  Personalisation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
             Keith Cheverst and   
               Nigel Davies and   
             Keith Mitchell and   
                     Paul Smith   Providing Tailored (Context-Aware)
                                  Information to City Visitors . . . . . . 73
              Luca Chittaro and   
                  Roberto Ranon   Adding Adaptive Features to Virtual
                                  Reality Interfaces for E-Commerce  . . . 86
                Paul Cotter and   
                    Barry Smyth   WAPing the Web: Content Personalisation
                                  for WAP-Enabled Devices  . . . . . . . . 98
               Nicola Henze and   
                 Wolfgang Nejdl   Extendible Adaptive Hypermedia
                                  Courseware: Integrating Different
                                  Courses and Web Material . . . . . . . . 109
           Roland Hübscher   Logically Optimal Curriculum Sequences
                                  for Adaptive Hypermedia Systems  . . . . 121
        Nicholas Kushmerick and   
                James McKee and   
                  Fergus Toolan   Towards Zero-Input Personalization:
                                  Referrer-Based Page Prediction . . . . . 133
             Paul P. Maglio and   
                Stephen Farrell   LiveInfo: Adapting Web Experience by
                                  Customization and Annotation . . . . . . 144
                 Tom Murray and   
                  Tina Shen and   
           Janette Piemonte and   
               Chris Condit and   
                Jason Thibedeau   Adaptivity for Conceptual and Narrative
                                  Flow in Hyperbooks: The MetaLinks System 155
                  Elena Not and   
              Massimo Zancanaro   The MacroNode Approach: Mediating
                                  Between Adaptive and Dynamic Hypermedia  167
             Gregory O'Hare and   
           Katherine Sewell and   
               Aidan Murphy and   
               Thomas Delahunty   ECHOES: An Immersive Training Experience 179
  Kyparisia A. Papanikolaou and   
         George D. Magoulas and   
              Maria Grigoriadou   A Connectionist Approach for Supporting
                                  Personalized Learning in a Web-Based
                                  Learning Environment . . . . . . . . . . 189
           Daniela Petrelli and   
             Daniele Baggio and   
               Giovanni Pezzulo   Adaptive Hypertext Design Environments:
                                  Putting Principles into Practice . . . . 202
             Charun Sanrach and   
           Monique Grandbastien   ECSAIWeb: A Web-Based Authoring System
                                  to Create Adaptive Learning Systems  . . 214
               Mia K. Stern and   
             Beverly Park Woolf   Adaptive Content in an Online Lecture
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
       Mónica Trella and   
             Ricardo Conejo and   
          Eduardo Guzmán   A Web-Based Socratic Tutor for Trees
                                  Recognition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
                Hongjing Wu and   
                Paul De Bra and   
                   Ad Aerts and   
               Geert-Jan Houben   Adaptation Control in Adaptive
                                  Hypermedia Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 250
         Christopher Bailey and   
                     Wendy Hall   An Agent-Based Approach to Adaptive
                                  Hypermedia Using a Link Service  . . . . 260
                Maria Barra and   
        Giuseppina Palmieri and   
          Simona Napolitano and   
           Vittorio Scarano and   
                  Luca Zitarosa   Adaptive Testing by Test++ . . . . . . . 264
               Diana Bental and   
              Alison Cawsey and   
           Patrick McAndrew and   
                     Bruce Eddy   What Does the User Want to Know About
                                  Web Resources? A User Model for Metadata 268
    Angélique Boitel and   
               Dominique Leclet   Web Information Retrieval for Designing
                                  Distance Hypermedia Courses  . . . . . . 272
                    Licia Calvi   Formative Evaluation of Adaptive
                                  CALLware: A Case Study . . . . . . . . . 276
    Rosa María Carro and   
            Estrella Pulido and   
         Pilar Rodríguez   How Adaptivity Affects the Development
                                  of TANGOW Web-Based Courses  . . . . . . 280
                Jinlin Chen and   
                Yudong Yang and   
                Hongjiang Zhang   An Adaptive Web Content Delivery System  284
          Alexandra Cristea and   
                 Toshio Okamoto   Knowledge Computing Method for Enhancing
                                  the Effectiveness of a WWW Distance
                                  Education System . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
             Maia Dimitrova and   
           Dimcho Boyadjiev and   
                Nikolai Butorin   Interface Adaptation to Style of
                                  User-Computer Interaction  . . . . . . . 293
Isabel Fernández-Anta and   
          Eva Millán and   
José-Luis Pérez-de-la-Cruz   Adaptation and Generation in a Web-Based
                                  Lisp Tutor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
      Maria Angela Ferrario and   
               Keith Waters and   
                    Barry Smyth   Collaborative Maintenance in ULYSSES . . 301
        Giovanni Fulantelli and   
             Riccardo Rizzo and   
               Marco Arrigo and   
                Rossella Corrao   An Adaptive Open Hypermedia System on
                                  the Web  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
              Johann Gamper and   
                   Judith Knapp   Towards an Adaptive Learners' Dictionary 311
             Serge Garlatti and   
         Sébastien Iksal   Concept Filtering and Spatial Filtering
                                  in an Adaptive Information System  . . . 315
            Ayse Göker and   
                      Daqing He   Analysing Web Search Logs to Determine
                                  Session Boundaries for User-Oriented
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
                 Marco Gori and   
              Marco Maggini and   
          Enrico Martinelli and   
               Franco Scarselli   Learning User Profiles in NAUTILUS . . . 323
                Paula Hatch and   
              Nicola Stokes and   
                     Joe Carthy   Lexical Chaining for Web-Based Retrieval
                                  of Breaking News . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
    Kristina Höök and   
          Jarmo Laaksolahti and   
            Martin Svensson and   
                   Annika Waern   Designing for Social Navigation of Food
                                  Recipes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
             Jatinder Hothi and   
                 Wendy Hall and   
                        Tim Sly   A Study Comparing the Use of Shaded Text
                                  and Adaptive Navigational Support in
                                  Adaptive Hypermedia  . . . . . . . . . . 335
  Charalampos Karagiannidis and   
           Demetrios G. Sampson   Layered Evaluation of Adaptive
                                  Applications and Services  . . . . . . . 343
               Mizue Kayama and   
             Toshio Okamoto and   
           Alexandra I. Cristea   Exploratory Activity Support Based on a
                                  Semantic Feature Map . . . . . . . . . . 347
             Jaakko Kurhila and   
                  Erkki Sutinen   Adaptivity in AHMED  . . . . . . . . . . 351
              Mona Laroussi and   
      Pr. Mohamed Ben Ahmed and   
                Mauro Marinilli   An Adaptive Document Generation Based on
                                  Matrix of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . 355
              Luisa Marucci and   
                Fabio Patern\`o   Logical Dimensions for the Information
                                  Provided by a Virtual Guide  . . . . . . 359
             Rachael Rafter and   
              Keith Bradley and   
                    Barry Smyth   Automated Collaborative Filtering
                                  Applications for Online Recruitment
                                  Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
                m. c. schraefel   ConTexts: Adaptable Hypermedia . . . . . 369--374
           Cornelia Seeberg and   
           Achim Steinacker and   
                 Ralf Steinmetz   Coherence in Modularly Composed Adaptive
                                  Learning Documents . . . . . . . . . . . 375
                  Marcus Specht   ACE --- Adaptive Courseware Environment  380
              Manfred Stede and   
                   Stephan Koch   The Adaptive University Calendar . . . . 384
          Carlo Strapparava and   
           Bernardo Magnini and   
                   Anna Stefani   Sense-Based User Modelling for Web Sites 388
             Ross Wilkinson and   
                 Shijian Lu and   
    François Paradis and   
        Cécile Paris and   
                Stephen Wan and   
                    MingFang Wu   Generating Personal Travel Guides from
                                  Discourse Plans  . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
                    Maria Barra   Distributed Systems for Group Adaptivity
                                  on the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
            Cristiano Chesi and   
                Francesca Rizzo   Open Multimedia Environment to Retrieve
                                  and Organise Documents: An Adaptive
                                  Web-Based IR System in the Field of
                                  Textile and Clothing Industry  . . . . . 403
            Juan E. Gilbert and   
                    Chia Y. Han   Researching Adaptive Instruction . . . . 409
                   Ilaria Torre   A Modular Approach for User Modelling    415
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1902, 2000

                Karel Oliva and   
Milena Hnátková and   
    Vladimír Petkevi and   
                   Pavel Kveton   The Linguistic Basis of a Rule-Based
                                  Tagger of Czech  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
              David Tugwell and   
                Adam Kilgarriff   Harnessing the Lexicographer in the
                                  Quest for Accurate Word Sense
                                  Disambiguation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
                 Ferran Pla and   
             Antonio Molina and   
               Natividad Prieto   An Integrated Statistical Model for
                                  Tagging and Chunking Unrestricted Text   15
               Alicia Ageno and   
       Horacio Rodríguez   Extending Bidirectional Chart Parsing
                                  with a Stochastic Model  . . . . . . . . 21
          Harald Berthelsen and   
           Beáta Megyesi   Ensemble of Classifiers for Noise
                                  Detection in PoS Tagged Corpora  . . . . 27
                  David Tugwell   Towards a Dynamic Syntax for Language
                                  Modelling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
               Gabriele Kodydek   A Word Analysis System for German
                                  Hyphenation, Full Text Search, and Spell
                                  Checking, with Regard to the Latest
                                  Reform of German Orthography . . . . . . 39
   Zden\vek \vZabokrtský   Automatic Functor Assignment in the
                                  Prague Dependency Treebank . . . . . . . 45
           Geert-Jan M. Kruijff   Categories, Constructions, and
                                  Dependency Relations . . . . . . . . . . 51
                Goran Nenadi\'c   Local Grammars and Parsing Coordination
                                  of Nouns in Serbo-Croatian . . . . . . . 57
             Marek Trabalka and   
  Mária Bieliková   Realization of Syntactic Parser for
                                  Inflectional Language Using XML and
                                  Regular Expressions  . . . . . . . . . . 63
                   Gregers Koch   A Rigoristic and Automated Analysis of
                                  Texts Applied to a Scientific Abstract
                                  by Mark Sergot and Others  . . . . . . . 69
      Eva Haji\vcová and   
                     Petr Pajas   Evaluation of Tectogrammatical
                                  Annotation of PDT  . . . . . . . . . . . 75
   Pavel Smrand AleHorák   Probabilistic Head-Driven Chart Parsing
                                  of Czech Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . 81
       Geert-Jan M. Kruijff and   
 Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová   Aggregation and Contextual Reference in
                                  Automatically Generated Instructions . . 87
  Luis Alfonso Ureña and   
José María Gómez Hidalgo and   
              Manuel de Buenaga   Information Retrieval by Means of Word
                                  Sense Disambiguation . . . . . . . . . . 93
      Gregory Y. Martynenko and   
         Tatiana Y. Sherstinova   Statistical Parameterisation of Text
                                  Corpora  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
                  Rei Oguro and   
             Kazuhiko Ozeki and   
                Yujie Zhang and   
                Kazuyuki Takagi   An Efficient Algorithm for Japanese
                                  Sentence Compaction Based on Phrase
                                  Importance and Inter-Phrase Dependency   103
                     Karel Pala   Word Senses and Semantic Representations 109
 Eva \vZáková and   
Lubo\vs Popelínský and   
                 Miloslav Nepil   Automatic Tagging of Compound Verb
                                  Groups in Czech Corpora  . . . . . . . . 115
                   Fuji Ren and   
                   Jian-Yun Nie   Sensitive Words and Their Application to
                                  Chinese Processing . . . . . . . . . . . 121
    Martin Schönhacker and   
               Gabriele Kodydek   Testing a Word Analysis System for
                                  Reliable and Sense-Conveying Hyphenation
                                  and Other Applications . . . . . . . . . 127
               Milena Slavcheva   The Challenge of Parallel Text
                                  Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Markéta Stra\vnáková   Selected Types of Pg-Ambiguity:
                                  Processing Based on Analysis by
                                  Reduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
             Yvonne Canning and   
                  John Tait and   
           Jackie Archibald and   
                    Ros Crawley   Cohesive Generation of Syntactically
                                  Simplified Newspaper Text  . . . . . . . 145
             Jan \vZi\vzika and   
              Ale\vs Bourek and   
                   Lud\vek Frey   TEA: A Text Analysis Tool for the
                                  Intelligent Text Document Filtering  . . 151
                     Petr Sojka   Competing Patterns for Language
                                  Engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
           France Miheli\vc and   
               Jerneja Gros and   
            Elmar Nöth and   
                  Volker Warnke   Recognition and Labelling of Prosodic
                                  Events in Slovenian Speech . . . . . . . 165
               Jerneja Gros and   
           France Miheli\vc and   
           Simon Dobri\vsek and   
            Toma\vz Erjavec and   
                 Mario \vZganec   Rules for Automatic
                                  Grapheme-to-Allophone Transcription in
                                  Slovene  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
           Dragos Burileanu and   
            Lucian Pascalin and   
         Corneliu Burileanu and   
                   Mihai Puchiu   An Adaptive and Fast Speech Detection
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
     Petr Motlí\vcek and   
          Jan \vCernocký   Optimal Pitch Path Tracking for More
                                  Reliable Pitch Detection . . . . . . . . 183
         György Balogh and   
               Ervin Dobler and   
  Tamás Gröbler and   
        Béla Smodics and   
        Csaba Szepesvári   FlexVoice: A Parametric Approach to
                                  High-Quality Speech Synthesis  . . . . . 189
    Tomá\vs Dub\veda and   
           Ji\vrí Hanika   The Continuous and Discontinuous Styles
                                  in Czech TTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
          Petr Horák and   
         Betty Hesounová   Automatic Speech Segmentation with the
                                  Application of the Czech TTS System  . . 201
           Eugeny E. Bovbel and   
          Igor E. Kheidorov and   
             Michael E. Kotlyar   Speaker Identification Using
                                  Autoregressive Hidden Markov Models and
                                  Adaptive Vector Quantisation . . . . . . 207
              William Byrne and   
                Jan Haji\vc and   
               Pavel Ircing and   
                Pavel Krbec and   
                   Josef Psutka   Morpheme Based Language Models for
                                  Speech Recognition of Czech  . . . . . . 211
                      Jan Nouza   A Large Czech Vocabulary Recognition
                                  System for Real-Time Applications  . . . 217
          Jind\vrich Matou\vsek   Building a New Czech Text-to-Speech
                                  System Using Triphone-Based Speech Units 223
             Hisao Kuwabara and   
             Michinori Nakamura   Acoustic and Perceptual Properties of
                                  Syllables in Continuous Speech as a
                                  Function of Speaking Rate  . . . . . . . 229
       Michael G. Malkovsky and   
             Alexey V. Subbotin   NL-Processor and Linguistic Knowledge
                                  Base in a Speech Recognition System  . . 237
      Vladimir I. Kuznetsov and   
         Tatiana Y. Sherstinova   Russian Phonetic Variability and
                                  Connected Speech Transcription . . . . . 243
       J. Gómez-Mena and   
                   M. Cardo and   
               J. L. Madrid and   
                      C. Prades   Database Processing for Spanish
                                  Text-to-Speech Synthesis . . . . . . . . 248
     Mirjam Sepesy Mau\vcec and   
              Zdravko Ka\vci\vc   Topic-Sensitive Language Modelling . . . 253
        Lud\vek Müller and   
               Josef Psutka and   
         Lubo\vs \vSmídl   Design of Speech Recognition Engine  . . 259
         Peter Jan\vcovi\vc and   
                    Ji Ming and   
               Philip Hanna and   
             Darryl Stewart and   
                     Jack Smith   Combining Multi-band and
                                  Frequency-Filtering Techniques for
                                  Speech Recognition in Noisy Environments 265
                  Pavel Skrelin   Allophone- and Suballophone-Based Speech
                                  Synthesis System for Russian . . . . . . 271
Roger Guaus i Térmens and   
            Ignasi Iriondo Sanz   Diphone-Based Unit Selection for Catalan
                                  Text-to-Speech Synthesis . . . . . . . . 277
        Sachin S. Kajarekar and   
                Hynek Hermansky   Analysis of Information in Speech and
                                  Its Application in Speech Recognition    283
Sofia Gustafson-\vCapková and   
              Jennifer Spenader   What Textual Relationships Demand
                                  Phonetic Focus?  . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
          Zden\vek \vSvenda and   
           Vlasta Radová   Speaker Identification Using Kalman
                                  Cepstral Coefficients  . . . . . . . . . 295
           Eugene I. Bovbel and   
            Dzmitry V. Tsishkou   Belarussian Speech Recognition Using
                                  Genetic Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 301
László Tóth and   
       András Kocsor and   
    Kornél Kovács   A Discriminative Segmental Speech Model
                                  and Its Application to Hungarian Number
                                  Recognition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Özgür Devrim Orman and   
                  Levent Arslan   Comparison of Frequency Bands in Closed
                                  Set Speaker Identification Performance   314
       Vlasta Radová and   
                   Josef Psutka   Recording and Annotation of the Czech
                                  Speech Corpus  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Léon J. M. Rothkrantz and   
                      A. Wojdel   A Text Based Talking Face  . . . . . . . 327
Léon J. M. Rothkrantz and   
         Robert J. van Vark and   
           Alexandra Peters and   
               Niels A. Andeweg   Dialogue Control in the Alparon System   333
               Afzal Ballim and   
Jean-Cédric Chappelier and   
              Martin Rajman and   
              Vincenzo Pallotta   ISIS: Interaction through Speech with
                                  Information Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 339
            Costanza Navarretta   Centering-Based Anaphora Resolution in
                                  Danish Dialogues . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
           Cristina Barbero and   
          Daniele Falavigna and   
            Roberto Gretter and   
              Marco Orlandi and   
                Emanuele Pianta   Some Improvements on the IRST Mixed
                                  Initiative Dialogue Technology . . . . . 351
          Alexander Gelbukh and   
            Grigori Sidorov and   
              Igor A. Bolshakov   Dictionary-Based Method for Coherence
                                  Maintenance in Man-Machine Dialogue with
                                  Indirect Antecedents and Ellipses  . . . 357
              Jörn Kreutel   Reconstructing Conversational Games in
                                  an Obligation-Driven Dialogue Model  . . 363
               Laurent Blin and   
                 Mike Edgington   Prosody Prediction from Tree-Like
                                  Structure Similarities . . . . . . . . . 369
Leandro Rodríguez Liñares and   
     Carmen García Mateo   A Speaker Authentication Module in
                                  TelCorreo  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Leandro Rodríguez Liñares and   
Antonio Cardenal López and   
 Carmen García Mateo and   
David Pérez-Piñar López and   
Eduardo Rodríguez Banga and   
Xabier Fernández Salgado   TelCorreo: A Bilingual E-mail Client
                                  over the Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . 381
                    Enzo Mumolo   A Syntactical Model of Prosody as an Aid
                                  to Spoken Dialogue Systems in Italian
                                  Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
                 Norihiro Ogata   What Do You Mean by ``What Do You
                                  Mean''?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
       Václav Matou\vsek   Simplified Processing of Elliptic and
                                  Anaphoric Utterances in a Train
                                  Timetable Information Retrieval Dialogue
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
                 James Monaghan   Pragmatic and Grammatical Aspects of the
                                  Development of Dialogue Strategies . . . 405
Patricio Martínez-Barco and   
                 Manuel Palomar   An Annotation Scheme for Dialogues
                                  Applied to Anaphora Resolution
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
             Paulo Quaresma and   
        Irene Pimenta Rodrigues   Cooperative Information Retrieval
                                  Dialogues through Clustering . . . . . . 415
           Michelina Savino and   
                   Mario Refice   Acoustic Cues for Classifying
                                  Communicative Intentions in Dialogue
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
                 Ivan Kope\vcek   Active and Passive Strategies in
                                  Dialogue Program Generation  . . . . . . 427
               Martin Fuchs and   
                 Petr Hejda and   
            Pavel Slavík   Architecture of Multi-modal Dialogue
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
              Georg Stemmer and   
            Elmar Nöth and   
               Heinrich Niemann   The Utility of Semantic-Pragmatic
                                  Information and Dialogue-State for
                                  Speech Recognition in Spoken Dialogue
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
                    Yang Li and   
                 Tong Zhang and   
            Stephen E. Levinson   Word Concept Model for Intelligent
                                  Dialogue Agents  . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
                      Anonymous   Subject Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1903, 2000

                Siegfried Reich   Introduction to OHS6 . . . . . . . . . . 1
              David Millard and   
                 Hugh Davis and   
                     Luc Moreau   Standardizing Hypertext: Where Next for
                                  OHP? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
              Niels Olof Bouvin   Experiences with OHP and Issues for the
                                  Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
                 Uffe Kock Wiil   Towards a Proposal for a Standard
                                  Component-Based Open Hypermedia System
                                  Storage Interface  . . . . . . . . . . . 23
             Yoon-Jung Rhee and   
               Nam-Sup Park and   
                    Tai-Yun Kim   Heuristic Connection Management for
                                  Improving Server-Side Performance on the
                                  Web  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
                  Joachim Feise   Accessing the History of the Web: A Web
                                  Way-Back Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
                  Ahmed Mahfouz   Web Site Interface Design: External and
                                  Internal Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
          Moritz Neumüller   Applying Computer Semiotics to Hypertext
                                  Theory and the World Wide Web  . . . . . 57
           Steven Blackburn and   
                 David De Roure   Musical Part Classification in Content
                                  Based Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
               Graham Moore and   
                     Luc Moreau   From Metadata to Links . . . . . . . . . 77
              Mark Thompson and   
              David DeRoure and   
             Danius Michaelides   Weaving the Pervasive Information Fabric 87
            Kenneth M. Anderson   Introduction to SC2  . . . . . . . . . . 96
                  Jim Rosenberg   Domain Requirements for a Cybertext
                                  Authoring System . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
             Jörg M. Haake   Structural Computing in the
                                  Collaborative Work Domain? . . . . . . . 108
      Simon Buckingham Shum and   
              John Domingue and   
                   Enrico Motta   Scholarly Discourse as Computable
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
           David E. Millard and   
                  Hugh C. Davis   Navigating Spaces: The Semantics of
                                  Cross Domain Interoperability  . . . . . 129
            Kenneth M. Anderson   Structural Computing Requirements for
                                  the Transformation of Structures and
                                  Behaviors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
                 Uffe Kock Wiil   Using the Construct Development
                                  Environment to Generate a File-Based
                                  Hypermedia Storage Service . . . . . . . 147
            Michalis Vaitis and   
    Athanasios Papadopoulos and   
         Manolis Tzagarakis and   
       Dimitris Christodoulakis   Towards Structure Specification for Open
                                  Hypermedia Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 160
                 David L. Hicks   Structural Computing: Evolutionary or
                                  Revolutionary? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
         Peter J. Nürnberg   Repositioning Structural Computing . . . 179
                      Anonymous   List of Participants . . . . . . . . . . 185
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1905, 2000

              Gerard J. M. Smit   Energy-Efficient Hand-Held Multimedia
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
              Arnaud Meylan and   
           Catherine Boutremans   Realisation of an Adaptive Audio Tool    3
               Johan Garcia and   
                 Anna Brunstrom   A Robust JPEG Coder for a Partially
                                  Reliable Transport Service . . . . . . . 14
        Nicholas J. P. Race and   
       Daniel G. Waddington and   
                  Doug Shepherd   A Dynamic RAM Cache for High Quality
                                  Distributed Video  . . . . . . . . . . . 26
           Akihito Hiromori and   
         Hirozumi Yamaguchi and   
           Keiichi Yasumoto and   
            Teruo Higashino and   
              Kenichi Taniguchi   Fast and Optimal Multicast-Server
                                  Selection Based on Receivers' Preference 40
           Chung-Ming Huang and   
                  Hsu-Yang Kung   Mcast: A Multicast Multimedia
                                  Communication Software Development
                                  Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
             Philippe Owezarski   Enforcing Multipoint Multimedia
                                  Synchronisation in Videoconferencing
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
            Dimitrios Miras and   
             Richard Jacobs and   
                  Vicky Hardman   Utility Based Inter-stream Adaptation of
                                  Layered Streams in a Multiple-Flow IP
                                  Session  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
                  Lukas Ruf and   
              Thomas Walter and   
              Bernhard Plattner   An Interaction Control Architecture for
                                  Large Chairperson-Controlled Conferences
                                  over the Internet  . . . . . . . . . . . 89
               R. Ackermann and   
            V. Darlagiannis and   
                  U. Roedig and   
                   R. Steinmetz   Using DMIF for Abstracting from
                                  IP-Telephony Signaling Protocols . . . . 104
                 J. C. Haartsen   Short-Range Connectivity with Bluetooth  116
                L. Bergmans and   
            A. van Halteren and   
          L. Ferreira Pires and   
            M. van Sinderen and   
                       M. Aksit   A QoS-Control Architecture for Object
                                  Middleware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
             L.-O. Burchard and   
                 R. Lüling   An Architecture for a Scalable
                                  Video-on-Demand Server Network with
                                  Quality-of-Service Guarantees  . . . . . 132
        João Orvalho and   
               Fernando Boavida   Augmented Reliable Multicast CORBA Event
                                  Service (ARMS): A QoS-Adaptive
                                  Middleware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
         Cristian Hesselman and   
                  Ing Widya and   
          Aart van Halteren and   
               Bart Nieuwenhuis   Middleware Support for Media Streaming
                                  Establishment Driven by User-Oriented
                                  QoS Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
              Norbert Braun and   
                 Matthias Finke   Interaction of Video on Demand Systems
                                  with Human-Like Avatars and Hypermedia   172
          Rüdiger Weis and   
          Jürgen Vogel and   
        Wolfgang Effelsberg and   
               Werner Geyer and   
                   Stefan Lucks   How to Make a Digital Whiteboard Secure
                                  --- Using Java Cards for Multimedia
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
                   Martin Mauve   How to Keep a Dead Man from Shooting . . 199
               Paul van der Vet   Building Web Resources for Natural
                                  Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
                Gordon S. Blair   On the Failure of Middleware to Support
                                  Multimedia Applications  . . . . . . . . 211
     Abdulmotaleb El Saddik and   
      Shervin Shirmohammadi and   
       Nicolas D. Georganas and   
                 Ralf Steinmetz   JASMINE: Java Application Sharing in
                                  Multiuser INteractive Environments . . . 214
          Nikolay K. Diakov and   
         Harold J. Batteram and   
              Hans Zandbelt and   
         Marten J. van Sinderen   Design and Implementation of a Framework
                                  for Monitoring Distributed Component
                                  Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
         Jürgen Hauser and   
                 Kurt Rothermel   Specification and Implementation of an
                                  Extensible Multimedia System . . . . . . 241
              Gyula Csopaki and   
Gábor András Horváth and   
     Gábor Kovács   Communication Protocol Implementation in
                                  Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
              Stefan Schmid and   
                 Joe Finney and   
               Andrew Scott and   
                  Doug Shepherd   Active Component Driven Network Handoff
                                  for Mobile Multimedia Systems  . . . . . 266
            Mauricio Cortes and   
                J. Robert Ensor   ``Mix and Match'' Media Servers  . . . . 279
              Felix Hupfeld and   
                  Michael Beigl   Spatially Aware Local Communication in
                                  the RAUM System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
     C. Müller-Schloer and   
           P. Mähönen   The UbiCampus Project: Applying
                                  Ubiquitous Computing Technologies in a
                                  University Environment . . . . . . . . . 297
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1907, 2000

              Chapman Flack and   
             Mikhail J. Atallah   Better Logging through Formality . . . . 1
          Josué Kuri and   
            Gonzalo Navarro and   
          Ludovic Mé and   
                   Laurent Heye   A Pattern Matching Based Filter for
                                  Audit Reduction and Fast Detection of
                                  Potential Intrusions . . . . . . . . . . 17
             Joachim Biskup and   
                  Ulrich Flegel   Transaction-Based Pseudonyms in Audit
                                  Data for Privacy Respecting Intrusion
                                  Detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
                  Wenke Lee and   
         Rahul A. Nimbalkar and   
                 Kam K. Yee and   
             Sunil B. Patil and   
     Pragneshkumar H. Desai and   
              Thuan T. Tran and   
            Salvatore J. Stolfo   A Data Mining and CIDF Based Approach
                                  for Detecting Novel and Distributed
                                  Intrusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
          Christoph Michael and   
                     Anup Ghosh   Using Finite Automata to Mine Execution
                                  Data for Intrusion Detection: A
                                  Preliminary Report . . . . . . . . . . . 66
             Alfonso Valdes and   
                  Keith Skinner   Adaptive, Model-Based Monitoring for
                                  Cyber Attack Detection . . . . . . . . . 80
              Anup K. Ghosh and   
          Christoph Michael and   
                 Michael Schatz   A Real-Time Intrusion Detection System
                                  Based on Learning Program Behavior . . . 93
              Andreas Wespi and   
                Marc Dacier and   
             Hervé Debar   Intrusion Detection Using
                                  Variable-Length Audit Trail Patterns . . 110
            Zakia Marrakchi and   
          Ludovic Mé and   
            Bernard Vivinis and   
                 Benjamin Morin   Flexible Intrusion Detection Using
                                  Variable-Length Behavior Modeling in
                                  Distributed Environment: Application to
                                  CORBA Objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
                    John McHugh   The 1998 Lincoln Laboratory IDS
                                  Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
           Richard Lippmann and   
           Joshua W. Haines and   
             David J. Fried and   
             Jonathan Korba and   
                      Kumar Das   Analysis and Results of the 1999 DARPA
                                  Off-Line Intrusion Detection Evaluation  162
           Dominique Alessandri   Using Rule-Based Activity Descriptions
                                  to Evaluate Intrusion-Detection Systems  183
Frédéric Cuppens and   
                Rodolphe Ortalo   LAMBDA: A Language to Model a Database
                                  for Detection of Attacks . . . . . . . . 197
              James Riordan and   
           Dominique Alessandri   Target Naming and Service Apoptosis  . . 217
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1908, 2000

                       Al Geist   PVM and MPI: What Else Is Needed for
                                  Cluster Computing? . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                    Miron Livny   Managing Your Workforce on a
                                  Computational Grid . . . . . . . . . . . 3
                     Ewing Lusk   Isolating and Interfacing the Components
                                  of a Parallel Computing Environment  . . 5
                Thomas Sterling   Symbolic Computing with Beowulf-Class PC
                                  Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
            Bernard Tourancheau   High Speed Networks for Clusters, the
                                  BIP-Myrinet Experience . . . . . . . . . 9
              Ralf Reussner and   
  Jesper Larsson Träff and   
              Gunnar Hunzelmann   A Benchmark for MPI Derived Datatypes    10
        Hermann Mierendorff and   
        Kläre Cassirer and   
              Helmut Schwamborn   Working with MPI Benchmarking Suites on
                                  ccNUMA Architectures . . . . . . . . . . 18
                K. A. Iskra and   
            Z. W. Hendrikse and   
           G. D. van Albada and   
           B. J. Overeinder and   
                 P. M. A. Sloot   Performance Measurements on
                                  Dynamite/DPVM  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
               Sergi Girona and   
       Jesús Labarta and   
                  Rosa M. Badia   Validation of Dimemas Communication
                                  Model for MPI Collective Operations  . . 39
           Antonio Espinosa and   
             Tomas Margalef and   
                   Emilio Luque   Automatic Performance Analysis of
                                  Master/Worker PVM Applications with Kpi  47
                 Lars Paul Huse   MPI Optimization for SMP Based Clusters
                                  Interconnected with SCI  . . . . . . . . 56
       Gábor Domokos and   
     Imre Szeberényi and   
                  Paul H. Steen   Parallel, Recursive Computation of
                                  Global Stability Charts for Liquid
                                  Bridges  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Isabelle Guérin Lassous and   
               Jens Gustedt and   
                  Michel Morvan   Handling Graphs According to a Coarse
                                  Grained Approach: Experiments with PVM
                                  and MPI  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
           Fabrizio Baiardi and   
                Sarah Chiti and   
                 Paolo Mori and   
                    Laura Ricci   Adaptive Multigrid Methods in MPI  . . . 80
      Hermanus P. J. Bolton and   
            Jaco F. Schutte and   
            Albert A. Groenwold   Multiple Parallel Local Searches in
                                  Global Optimization  . . . . . . . . . . 88
      J. A. González and   
             C. León and   
                 F. Piccoli and   
               M. Printista and   
                 J. L. Roda and   
        C. Rodríguez and   
                       F. Sande   Towards Standard Nested Parallelism  . . 96
     Daniel González and   
          Francisco Almeida and   
          Luz Marina Moreno and   
       Casiano Rodríguez   Pipeline Algorithms on MPI: Optimal
                                  Mapping of the Path Planing Problem  . . 104
Gustavo J. Fernández and   
       Julio Jacobo-Berlles and   
       Patricia Borensztejn and   
        Marisa Bauzá and   
                   Marta Mejail   Use of PVM for MAP Image Restoration: A
                                  Parallel Implementation of the ARTUR
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
                   E. Varin and   
                     R. Roy and   
                       G. Samba   Parallel Algorithms for the
                                  Least-Squares Finite Element Solution of
                                  the Neutron Transport Equation . . . . . 121
           Giuseppe Ciaccio and   
                Giovanni Chiola   GAMMA and MPI/GAMMA on Gigabit Ethernet  129
Vítor N. Távora and   
       Luís M. Silva and   
      João Gabriel Silva   Distributed Checkpointing Mechanism for
                                  a Parallel File System . . . . . . . . . 137
                 Thomas Nitsche   Thread Communication over MPI  . . . . . 145
            Mauro Migliardi and   
             Vaidy Sunderam and   
                Arrigo Frisiani   A Simple, Fault Tolerant Naming Space
                                  for the HARNESS Metacomputing System . . 152
               William D. Gropp   Runtime Checking of Datatype Signatures
                                  in MPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
               Ralph Butler and   
              William Gropp and   
                     Ewing Lusk   A Scalable Process-Management
                                  Environment for Parallel Programs  . . . 168
        Elson Mourão and   
                  Stephen Booth   Single Sided Communications in
                                  Multi-protocol MPI . . . . . . . . . . . 176
      Hernâni Pedroso and   
      João Gabriel Silva   MPI-2 Process Creation & Management
                                  Implementation for NT Clusters . . . . . 184
             J. Y. Cotronis and   
             Z. Tsiatsoulis and   
                   C. Kouniakis   Composition of Message Passing
                                  Applications On-Demand . . . . . . . . . 192
          Toshiyuki Imamura and   
             Yuichi Tsujita and   
              Hiroshi Koide and   
               Hiroshi Takemiya   An Architecture of Stampi: MPI Library
                                  on a Cluster of Parallel Computers . . . 200
                   Torsten Fink   Integrating MPI Components into
                                  Metacomputing Applications . . . . . . . 208
                     Dana Petcu   PVMaple: A Distributed Approach to
                                  Cooperative Work of Maple Processes  . . 216
         Ján Astalos and   
         Ladislav Hluchý   CIS --- A Monitoring System for PC
                                  Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
           Francesc Solsona and   
       Francesc Giné and   
        Josep Lérida and   
  Porfidio Hernández and   
                   Emilio Luque   Monito: A Communication Monitoring Tool
                                  for a PVM--Linux Environment . . . . . . 233
               Marian Bubak and   
        W\lodzimierz Funika and   
              Bartosz Balis and   
          Roland Wismüller   Interoperability of OCM-Based On-Line
                                  Tools  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
               Viet D. Tran and   
            Ladislav Hluchy and   
                Giang T. Nguyen   Parallel Program Model for Distributed
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
  Gábor Dózsa and   
Dániel Drótos and   
            Róbert Lovas   Translation of a High-Level Graphical
                                  Code to Message-Passing Primitives in
                                  the GRADE Programming Environment  . . . 258
                N. Mazzocca and   
                     M. Rak and   
                     U. Villano   The Transition from a PVM Program
                                  Simulator to a Heterogeneous System
                                  Simulator: The HeSSE Project . . . . . . 266
                  Marcin Neyman   Comparison of Different Approaches to
                                  Trace PVM Program Execution  . . . . . . 274
             Joanna P\lazek and   
            Krzysztof Banas and   
                 Jacek Kitowski   Scalable CFD Computations Using
                                  Message-Passing and Distributed Shared
                                  Memory Algorithms  . . . . . . . . . . . 282
               Mathias Quoy and   
                 Sorin Moga and   
          Philippe Gaussier and   
                   Arnaud Revel   Parallelization of Neural Networks Using
                                  PVM  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
                P. Laohawee and   
                A. Tangpong and   
                  A. Rungsawang   Parallel DSIR Text Indexing System:
                                  Using Multiple Master/Slave Concept  . . 297
                 Remo Suppi and   
             Fernando Cores and   
                   Emilio Luque   Improving Optimistic PDES in PVM
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
           Szabolcs Payrits and   
Zoltán Szatmáry and   
László Zalányi and   
       Péter Érdi   Use of Parallel Computers in
                                  Neurocomputing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
 Francisco Fernández and   
            Marco Tomassini and   
         Leonardo Vanneschi and   
                 Laurent Bucher   A Distributed Computing Environment for
                                  Genetic Programming Using MPI  . . . . . 322
              Adrian Rabaea and   
                  Monica Rabaea   Experiments with Parallel Monte Carlo
                                  Simulation for Pricing Options Using PVM 330
         Alessandro Bolloni and   
        Stefano Crocchianti and   
               Antonio Lagan\`a   Time Independent $3$D Quantum Reactive
                                  Scattering on MIMD Parallel Computers    338
             Graham E. Fagg and   
               Jack J. Dongarra   FT-MPI: Fault Tolerant MPI, Supporting
                                  Dynamic Applications in a Dynamic World  346
             Graham E. Fagg and   
        Sathish S. Vadhiyar and   
               Jack J. Dongarra   ACCT: Automatic Collective
                                  Communications Tuning  . . . . . . . . . 354
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1909, 2000

              Bogdan Czejdo and   
             Malcolm Taylor and   
              Catherine Putonti   Model of Summary Tables Selection for
                                  Data Warehouses  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
              Juan Trujillo and   
         Jaime Gómez and   
                 Manuel Palomar   Modeling the Behavior of OLAP
                                  Applications Using an UML Compliant
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
          Thanh Binh Nguyen and   
                A. Min Tjoa and   
                  Roland Wagner   Conceptual Multidimensional Data Model
                                  Based on MetaCube  . . . . . . . . . . . 24
         Robert M. Bruckner and   
                 Josef Schiefer   Using Portfolio Theory for Automatically
                                  Processing Information about Data
                                  Quality in Data Warehouse Environments   34
             Thanh N. Huynh and   
          Thanh Binh Nguyen and   
             Josef Schiefer and   
                    A. Min Tjoa   Representative Sample Data for Data
                                  Warehouse Environments . . . . . . . . . 44
          Elaine P. Machado and   
         Caetano Traina Jr. and   
            Myrian R. B. Araujo   Classification Abstraction: An Intrinsic
                                  Element in Database Systems  . . . . . . 57
             Giuseppe Amato and   
             Fausto Rabitti and   
            Pasquale Savino and   
                   Pavel Zezula   Estimating Proximity of Metric Ball
                                  Regions for Multimedia Data Indexing . . 71
               Jiahong Wang and   
         Masatoshi Miyazaki and   
                         Jie Li   A Technique for Upgrading Database
                                  Machines Online  . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
          Sokratis Karkalas and   
                   Nigel Martin   Automatic Semantic Object Discovery and
                                  Mapping from Non-normalised Relational
                                  Database Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
            Vladimir Ryabov and   
                 Seppo Puuronen   Estimation of Uncertain Relations
                                  between Indeterminate Temporal Points    108
 Zbyszko Królikowski and   
              Tadeusz Morzy and   
                  Bartosz Bebel   Comparison of Genetic and Tabu Search
                                  Algorithms in Multiquery Optimization in
                                  Advanced Database Systems  . . . . . . . 117
              Etsuko Yajima and   
              Takahiro Hara and   
         Masahiko Tsukamoto and   
                 Shojiro Nishio   Interval Optimization of Correlated Data
                                  Items in Data Broadcasting . . . . . . . 127
             Hiroaki Hagino and   
              Takahiro Hara and   
         Masahiko Tsukamoto and   
                 Shojiro Nishio   Store and Flood: A Packet Routing
                                  Protocol for Frequently Changing
                                  Topology with Ad-Hoc Networks  . . . . . 137
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville and   
   Rodrigo Uzun Fleischmann and   
Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco and   
          Maria Janilce Almeida   Management of Networks with End-to-End
                                  Differentiated Service QoS Capabilities  147
    Öznur Özkasap and   
              Kenneth P. Birman   Throughput Stability of Reliable
                                  Multicast Protocols  . . . . . . . . . . 159
                   Rza Bashirov   On the Rearrangeability of Multistage
                                  Networks Employing Uniform Connection
                                  Pattern  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
                 Evgueni Petrov   Numeric Constraint Resolution in Logic
                                  Programming Based on Subdefinite Models  180
            Ilié Popescu   Combining Constraints and Consistency
                                  Techniques in Knowledge-Based Expert
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
       Laurent Granvilliers and   
                   Eric Monfroy   Declarative Modelling of Constraint
                                  Propagation Strategies . . . . . . . . . 201
               Erbug Celebi and   
                  Adil Alpkocak   Clustering of Texture Features for
                                  Content-Based Image Retrieval  . . . . . 216
             Ibrahim Gokcen and   
               Adnan Yazici and   
                Bill P. Buckles   Fuzzy Content-Based Retrieval in Image
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
                     O. Kao and   
                I. la Tendresse   CLIMS --- A System for Image Retrieval
                                  by Using Colour and Wavelet Features . . 238
         Okan Arìkan and   
      U\ugur Güdükbay   An Algorithm for Progressive Raytracing  248
  Václav Sná\vsel   Fuzzy Signatures for Multimedia
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
                  Athena Vakali   Evolutionary Prefetching and Caching in
                                  an Independent Storage Units Model . . . 265
              Aylin Kantarc and   
                   Turhan Tunal   A Video Streaming Application on the
                                  Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
        Ernst-Georg Haffner and   
                   Uwe Roth and   
              Andreas Heuer and   
               Thomas Engel and   
               Christoph Meinel   What Do Hyperlink-Proposals and
                                  Request-Prediction Have in Common? . . . 285
               Fabio Grandi and   
             Federica Mandreoli   The Valid Web: An XML/XSL Infrastructure
                                  for Temporal Management of Web Documents 294
          Mehmet Emin Kucuk and   
                 Baha Olgun and   
                    Hayri Sever   Application of Metadata Concepts to
                                  Discovery of Internet Resources  . . . . 304
               Bora \.I. Kumova   Evaluation of the Object-Orientation of
                                  a Multi-agent System . . . . . . . . . . 314
        Ender Yazgan Bulgun and   
                        Alp Kut   Development of a Component Oriented
                                  Garment Design Library . . . . . . . . . 324
           Luciano Serafini and   
                 Chiara Ghidini   Using Wrapper Agents to Answer Queries
                                  in Distributed Information Systems . . . 331
         Mehmet E. Dalkilic and   
                  Cengiz Gungor   An Interactive Cryptanalysis Algorithm
                                  for the Vigen\`ere Cipher  . . . . . . . 341
        E. Domínguez and   
                   M. A. Zapata   Mappings and Interoperability: A
                                  Meta-modelling Approach  . . . . . . . . 352
               Mehmet Sahinoglu   Reliability Index Evaluations of
                                  Integrated Software Systems (Internet)
                                  for Insufficient Software Failure and
                                  Recovery Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
    Murat Osman Ünalir and   
           O\uguz Dikenelli and   
                  Erden Ba\csar   FedeRaL: A Tool for Federating Reuse
                                  Libraries over the Internet  . . . . . . 374
           Sabine Boufenara and   
        Zizette Boufa\"\ida and   
        Mahmoud Boufa\"\ida and   
              Denis Poiterenaud   Multimedia Information Systems: Towards
                                  a Design Methodology Based on
                                  Spatio-Temporal Relations, Petri Nets
                                  and ECA Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
              Amrane Hocine and   
                      Moussa Lo   Modeling and Information Retrieval on
                                  XML-Based Dataweb  . . . . . . . . . . . 398
   Mehmet E. Dönderler and   
     Özgür Ulusoy and   
      U\ugur Güdükbay   A Rule-Based Approach to Represent
                                  Spatio-Temporal Relations in Video Data  409
                P. Chountas and   
                  I. Petrounias   Factual and Temporal Imperfection  . . . 419
                Suat Ugurlu and   
                  Nadia Erdogan   An Agent-Based Information Retrieval
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
   Bülent Özdemir and   
              Ferda N. Alpaslan   An Intelligent Tutoring System for
                                  Student Guidance in Web-Based Courses    437
            Yuriy Zagorulko and   
                 Ivan Popov and   
                   Yuriy Kostov   An Approach to Embedding of Agents into
                                  Knowledge Representation and Processing
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1910, 2000

             Arno J. Knobbe and   
                Arno Siebes and   
           Hendrik Blockeel and   
     Daniël Van Der Wallen   Multi-relational Data Mining, Using UML
                                  for ILP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
           Akihiro Inokuchi and   
             Takashi Washio and   
                 Hiroshi Motoda   An Apriori-Based Algorithm for Mining
                                  Frequent Substructures from Graph Data   13
               Maurice Bernadet   Basis of a Fuzzy Knowledge Discovery
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
           Dragan Gamberger and   
                  Nada Lavra\vc   Confirmation Rule Sets . . . . . . . . . 34
                Marc Sebban and   
                   Richard Nock   Contribution of Dataset Reduction
                                  Techniques to Tree-Simplification and
                                  Knowledge Discovery  . . . . . . . . . . 44
        Ljup\vco Todorovski and   
              Sa\vso D\vzeroski   Combining Multiple Models with Meta
                                  Decision Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
              Tadeusz Morzy and   
        Marek Wojciechowski and   
              Maciej Zakrzewicz   Materialized Data Mining Views . . . . . 65
Jean-François Boulicaut and   
             Artur Bykowski and   
             Christophe Rigotti   Approximation of Frequency Queries by
                                  Means of Free-Sets . . . . . . . . . . . 75
                   C. Druet and   
                   D. Ernst and   
                    L. Wehenkel   Application of Reinforcement Learning to
                                  Electrical Power System Closed-Loop
                                  Emergency Control  . . . . . . . . . . . 86
              Paul Munteanu and   
                      Denis Cau   Efficient Score-Based Learning of
                                  Equivalence Classes of Bayesian Networks 96
            Melanie Hilario and   
            Alexandros Kalousis   Quantifying the Resilience of Inductive
                                  Classification Algorithms  . . . . . . . 106
             Alexey Tsymbal and   
                 Seppo Puuronen   Bagging and Boosting with Dynamic
                                  Integration of Classifiers . . . . . . . 116
              Carlos Soares and   
               Pavel B. Brazdil   Zoomed Ranking: Selection of
                                  Classification Algorithms Based on
                                  Relevant Performance Information . . . . 126
                  Pierre Geurts   Some Enhancements of Decision Tree
                                  Bagging  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
    Marcus-Christopher Ludl and   
                 Gerhard Widmer   Relative Unsupervised Discretization for
                                  Association Rule Mining  . . . . . . . . 148
                Jochen Hipp and   
        Ulrich Güntzer and   
        Gholamreza Nakhaeizadeh   Mining Association Rules: Deriving a
                                  Superior Algorithm by Analyzing Today's
                                  Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
            Einoshin Suzuki and   
                Jan M. \.Zytkow   Unified Algorithm for Undirected
                                  Discovery of Exception Rules . . . . . . 169
              J-H. Chauchat and   
            R. Rakotomalala and   
                      D. Robert   Sampling Strategies for Targeting Rare
                                  Groups from a Bank Customer Database . . 181
                  Jinyan Li and   
                Guozhu Dong and   
         Kotagiri Ramamohanarao   Instance-Based Classification by
                                  Emerging Patterns  . . . . . . . . . . . 191
                 Gautam Das and   
                 Heikki Mannila   Context-Based Similarity Measures for
                                  Categorical Databases  . . . . . . . . . 201
           Ngoc Binh Nguyen and   
                      Tu Bao Ho   A Mixed Similarity Measure in
                                  Near-Linear Computational Complexity for
                                  Distance-Based Methods . . . . . . . . . 211
                 S. Lallich and   
                R. Rakotomalala   Fast Feature Selection Using Partial
                                  Correlation for Multi-valued Attributes  221
          Markus M. Breunig and   
         Hans-Peter Kriegel and   
               Jörg Sander   Fast Hierarchical Clustering Based on
                                  Compressed Data and OPTICS . . . . . . . 232
                  Bin Zhang and   
                Meichun Hsu and   
                  George Forman   Accurate Recasting of Parameter
                                  Estimation Algorithms Using Sufficient
                                  Statistics for Efficient Parallel
                                  Speed-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
        Ljup\vco Todorovski and   
                Peter Flach and   
                  Nada Lavra\vc   Predictive Performance of Weighted
                                  Relative Accuracy  . . . . . . . . . . . 255
                 M. Halkidi and   
            M. Vazirgiannis and   
                  Y. Batistakis   Quality Scheme Assessment in the
                                  Clustering Process . . . . . . . . . . . 265
               Iztok Savnik and   
               Georg Lausen and   
           Hans-Peter Kahle and   
          Heinrich Spiecker and   
                 Sebastian Hein   Algorithm for Matching Sets of Time
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
               Georg Lausen and   
               Iztok Savnik and   
              Aldar Dougarjapov   MSTS: A System for Mining Sets of Time
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
   Juan J. Rodríguez and   
           Carlos J. Alonso and   
            Henrik Boström   Learning First Order Logic Time Series
                                  Classifiers: Rules and Boosting  . . . . 299
                Silvia Acid and   
              Luis M. De Campos   Learning Right Sized Belief Networks by
                                  Means of a Hybrid Methodology  . . . . . 309
               Brock Barber and   
             Howard J. Hamilton   Algorithms for Mining Share Frequent
                                  Itemsets Containing Infrequent Subsets   316
             Hilan Bensusan and   
      Christophe Giraud-Carrier   Discovering Task Neighbourhoods through
                                  Landmark Learning Performances . . . . . 325
             Leon Bobrowski and   
                Marek Kretowski   Induction of Multivariate Decision Trees
                                  by Using Dipolar Criteria  . . . . . . . 331
                 Sam Brewer and   
                    Tom Khabaza   Inductive Logic Programming in
                                  Clementine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
        Deborah R. Carvalho and   
                Alex A. Freitas   A Genetic Algorithm-Based Solution for
                                  the Problem of Small Disjuncts . . . . . 345
             Antonio Ciampi and   
              Yves Lechevallier   Clustering Large, Multi-level Data Sets:
                                  An Approach Based on Kohonen Self
                                  Organizing Maps  . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
             Antonio Ciampi and   
           Djamel A. Zighed and   
     Jérémy Clech   Trees and Induction Graphs for
                                  Multivariate Response  . . . . . . . . . 359
               Richard Cole and   
               Peter Eklund and   
                    Gerd Stumme   CEM --- A Program for Visualization and
                                  Discovery in Email . . . . . . . . . . . 367
                Chabane Djeraba   Image Access and Data Mining: An
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
              Nikos Drossos and   
       Athanasios Papagelis and   
                Dimitris Kalles   Decision Tree Toolkit: A Component-Based
                                  Library of Decision Tree Algorithms  . . 381
               Laurent Dury and   
           Laurence Leherte and   
          Daniel P. Vercauteren   Determination of Screening Descriptors
                                  for Chemical Reaction Databases  . . . . 388
                 A. J. Feelders   Prior Knowledge in Economic Applications
                                  of Data Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
              Pierre Geurts and   
                 Louis Wehenkel   Temporal Machine Learning for Switching
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
              David Grosser and   
                Jean Diatta and   
              Noël Conruyt   Improving Dissimilarity Functions with
                                  Domain Knowledge, Applications with IKBS
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
                Attila Gyenesei   Mining Weighted Association Rules for
                                  Fuzzy Quantitative Items . . . . . . . . 416
         Eui-Hong (Sam) Han and   
                 George Karypis   Centroid-Based Document Classification:
                                  Analysis and Experimental Results  . . . 424
        Robert J. Hilderman and   
             Howard J. Hamilton   Applying Objective Interestingness
                                  Measures in Data Mining Systems  . . . . 432
                Martin Hole\vna   Observational Logic Integrates Data
                                  Mining Based on Statistics and Neural
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
         Dimitar Hristovski and   
          Sa\vso D\vzeroski and   
             Borut Peterlin and   
 Anamarija Ro\vzi\'c-Hristovski   Supporting Discovery in Medicine by
                                  Association Rule Mining of Bibliographic
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
            Hillol Kargupta and   
               Weiyun Huang and   
   Krishnamoorthy Sivakumar and   
            Byung-Hoon Park and   
                    Shuren Wang   Collective Principal Component Analysis
                                  from Distributed, Heterogeneous Data . . 452
             Saori Kawasaki and   
           Ngoc Binh Nguyen and   
                      Tu Bao Ho   Hierarchical Document Clustering Based
                                  on Tolerance Rough Set Model . . . . . . 458
           Jörg Keller and   
              Valerij Bauer and   
                Wojciech Kwedlo   Application of Data-Mining and Knowledge
                                  Discovery in Automotive Data Engineering 464
             Jan Komorowski and   
        Torgeir R. Hvidsten and   
       Tor-Kristian Jenssen and   
             Dyre Tjeldvoll and   
               Eivind Hovig and   
            Arne K. Sandvik and   
           Astrid Lægreid   Towards Knowledge Discovery from cDNA
                                  Microarray Gene Expression Data  . . . . 470
           Marzena Kryszkiewicz   Mining with Cover and Extension
                                  Operators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
              Pascale Kuntz and   
            Fabrice Guillet and   
           Rémi Lehn and   
                   Henri Briand   A User-Driven Process for Mining
                                  Association Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . 483
             Carsten Lanquillon   Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled
                                  Documents: A Comparative Study on
                                  Semi-Supervised Text Classification  . . 490
                 P. A. Laur and   
               F. Masseglia and   
                    P. Poncelet   Schema Mining: Finding Structural
                                  Regularity among Semistructured Data . . 498
                   Bing Liu and   
                  Yiming Ma and   
                Ching Kian Wong   Improving an Association Rule Based
                                  Classifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
            Chung-Leung Lui and   
                   Fu-Lai Chung   Discovery of Generalized Association
                                  Rules with Multiple Minimum Supports . . 510
             Adele Marshall and   
              Sally McClean and   
              Mary Shapcott and   
                  Peter Millard   Learning Dynamic Bayesian Belief
                                  Networks Using Conditional Phase-Type
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
José Fco. Martínez-Trinidad and   
Miriam Velasco-Sánchez and   
        E. E. Contreras-Arevalo   Discovering Differences in Patients with
                                  Uveitis through Typical Testors by Class 524
               F. Masseglia and   
                P. Poncelet and   
                   M. Teisseire   Web Usage Mining: How to Efficiently
                                  Manage New Transactions and New Clients  530
Frédéric Moal and   
             Teddy Turmeaux and   
                 Christel Vrain   Mining Relational Databases  . . . . . . 536
           Maybin K. Muyeba and   
                  John A. Keane   Interestingness in Attribute-Oriented
                                  Induction (AOI): Multiple-Level Rule
                                  Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
              Takashi Okada and   
                   Mayumi Oyama   Discovery of Characteristic Subgraph
                                  Patterns Using Relative Indexing and the
                                  Cascade Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
              Gerhard Paass and   
           Jörg Kindermann   Transparency and Predictive Power
                                  Explaining Complex Classification Models 558
   Srinivasan Parthasarathy and   
              Mitsunori Ogihara   Clustering Distributed Homogeneous
                                  Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
               Petra Perner and   
                      Chid Apte   Empirical Evaluation of Feature Subset
                                  Selection Based on a Real-World Data Set 575
            Gerard Ramstein and   
             Pascal Bunelle and   
                Yannick Jacques   Discovery of Ambiguous Patterns in
                                  Sequences Application to Bioinformatics  581
            Zbigniew W. Ras and   
           Alicja Wieczorkowska   Action-Rules: How to Increase Profit of
                                  a Company  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
          Gilbert Ritschard and   
           Nicolas Nicoloyannis   Aggregation and Association in Cross
                                  Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
     Céline Robardet and   
             Fabien Feschet and   
           Nicolas Nicoloyannis   An Experimental Study of Partition
                                  Quality Indices in Clustering  . . . . . 599
              Fabrice Rossi and   
Frédérick Vautrain   Expert Constrained Clustering: A
                                  Symbolic Approach  . . . . . . . . . . . 605
               Ansaf Salleb and   
                 Christel Vrain   An Application of Association Rules
                                  Discovery to Geographic Information
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
            Dan A. Simovici and   
             Dana Cristofor and   
            Laurentiu Cristofor   Generalized Entropy and Projection
                                  Clustering of Categorical Data . . . . . 619
      Vojtech Svátek and   
                 Martin Kavalec   Supporting Case Acquisition and
                                  Labelling in the Context of Web Mining   626
              Pang-Ning Tan and   
                Vipin Kumar and   
             Jaideep Srivastava   Indirect Association: Mining Higher
                                  Order Dependencies in Data . . . . . . . 632
               Tudor Teusan and   
            Gilles Nachouki and   
               Henri Briand and   
               Jacques Philippe   Discovering Association Rules in Large,
                                  Dense Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . 638
              Peter Tselios and   
             Agapios Platis and   
                  George Vouros   Providing Advice to Website Designers
                                  Towards Effective Websites
                                  Re-organization  . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
                Shusaku Tsumoto   Clinical Knowledge Discovery in Hospital
                                  Information Systems: Two Case Studies    652
                  S. Viaene and   
                 B. Baesens and   
              T. Van Gestel and   
           J. A. K. Suykens and   
            D. Van den Poel and   
              J. Vanthienen and   
                 B. De Moor and   
                      G. Dedene   Knowledge Discovery Using Least Squares
                                  Support Vector Machine Classifiers: A
                                  Direct Marketing Case  . . . . . . . . . 657
            Sholom M. Weiss and   
             Brian F. White and   
              Chidanand V. Apte   Lightweight Document Clustering  . . . . 665
            Hsin-Chang Yang and   
                 Chung-Hong Lee   Automatic Category Structure Generation
                                  and Categorization of Chinese Text
                                  Documents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
                  Show-Jane Yen   Mining Generalized Multiple-level
                                  Association Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . 679
              Show-Jane Yen and   
                  Chung-Wen Cho   An Efficient Approach to Discovering
                                  Sequential Patterns in Large Databases   685
                 Ning Zhong and   
                Juzhen Dong and   
                  Setsuo Ohsuga   Using Background Knowledge as a Bias to
                                  Control the Rule Discovery Process . . . 691
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1911, 2000

                     Kento Aida   Effect of Job Size Characteristics on
                                  Job Scheduling Performance . . . . . . . 1
Fabricio Alves Barbosa da Silva and   
              Isaac D. Scherson   Improving Parallel Job Scheduling Using
                                  Runtime Measurements . . . . . . . . . . 18
              Larry Rudolph and   
                  Paul H. Smith   Valuation of Ultra-scale Computing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
                Adrian Wong and   
              Leonid Oliker and   
             William Kramer and   
               Teresa Kaltz and   
                   David Bailey   System Utilization Benchmark on the Cray
                                  T3E and IBM SP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
              Dror G. Feitelson   A Critique of ESP  . . . . . . . . . . . 68
                 B. B. Zhou and   
                   D. Walsh and   
                    R. P. Brent   Resource Allocation Schemes for Gang
                                  Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
           Xavier Martorell and   
     Julita Corbalán and   
  Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos and   
              Nacho Navarro and   
Eleftherios D. Polychronopoulos and   
  Theodore S. Papatheodorou and   
           Jesús Labarta   A Tool to Schedule Parallel Applications
                                  on Multiprocessors: The NANOS CPU
                                  M\smallANAGER  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
           Fabrizio Petrini and   
                   Wu-chun Feng   Time-Sharing Parallel Jobs in the
                                  Presence of Multiple Resource
                                  Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
                Quinn Snell and   
               Mark Clement and   
              David Jackson and   
                   Chad Gregory   The Performance Impact of Advance
                                  Reservation Meta-scheduling  . . . . . . 137
             A. I. D. Bucur and   
                 D. H. J. Epema   The Influence of the Structure and Sizes
                                  of Jobs on the Performance of
                                  Co-allocation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
                  S.-Y. Lee and   
                      C.-H. Cho   Load Balancing for Minimizing Execution
                                  Time of a Target Job on a Network of
                                  Heterogeneous Workstations . . . . . . . 174
             Walfredo Cirne and   
                Francine Berman   Adaptive Selection of Partition Size for
                                  Supercomputer Requests . . . . . . . . . 187
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1912, 2000

               Egon Börger   Abstract State Machines at the Cusp of
                                  the Millenium  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                  Andreas Blass   Abstract State Machines and Pure
                                  Mathematics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
              Andreas Blass and   
              Yuri Gurevich and   
            Jan Van den Bussche   Abstract State Machines and
                                  Computationally Complete Query Languages 22
                   J. Cohen and   
                   A. Slissenko   On Verification of Refinements of Timed
                                  Distributed Algorithms . . . . . . . . . 34
                 Martin Odersky   Objects + Views = Components?  . . . . . 50
               Matthias Anlauff   XASM --- An Extensible, Component-Based
                                  ASM Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
                  A. V. Zamulin   Generic Facilities in Object-Oriented
                                  ASMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
                Wolfgang Reisig   Towards an ASM Thesis for Unconventional
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
              Yuri Gurevich and   
                Dean Rosenzweig   Partially Ordered Runs: A Case Study . . 131
              Yuri Gurevich and   
            Wolfram Schulte and   
                Charles Wallace   Investigating Java Concurrency Using
                                  Abstract State Machines  . . . . . . . . 151
               Gerhard Goos and   
                Wolf Zimmermann   Verifying Compilers and ASMs . . . . . . 177
            Steven C. Cater and   
               James K. Huggins   An ASM Dynamic Semantics for Standard ML 203
           Egon Börger and   
         Alessandra Cavarra and   
              Elvinia Riccobene   Modeling the Dynamics of UML State
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
            Robert Eschbach and   
           Uwe Glässer and   
          Reinhard Gotzhein and   
                  Andreas Prinz   On the Formal Semantics of SDL-2000: A
                                  Compilation Approach Based on an
                                  Abstract SDL Machine . . . . . . . . . . 242
          Jürgen Teich and   
          Philipp W. Kutter and   
                    Ralph Weper   Description and Simulation of
                                  Microprocessor Instruction Sets Using
                                  ASMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
              Natarajan Shankar   Symbolic Analysis of Transition Systems  287
          Angelo Gargantini and   
              Elvinia Riccobene   Encoding Abstract State Machines in PVS  303
                 Marc Spielmann   Model Checking Abstract State Machines
                                  and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
                 Kirsten Winter   Towards a Methodology for Model Checking
                                  ASM: Lessons Learned from the FLASH Case
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
           Egon Börger and   
     Peter Päppinghaus and   
                 Joachim Schmid   Report on a Practical Application of
                                  ASMs in Software Design  . . . . . . . . 361
               Mike Barnett and   
           Egon Börger and   
              Yuri Gurevich and   
            Wolfram Schulte and   
                  Margus Veanes   Using Abstract State Machines at
                                  Microsoft: a Case Study  . . . . . . . . 367
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1914, 2000

                 Faith Fich and   
                   Eric Ruppert   Lower Bounds in Distributed Computing    1
          James H. Anderson and   
                   Yong-Jik Kim   Adaptive Mutual Exclusion with Local
                                  Spinning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
                  L. Higham and   
                      J. Kawash   Bounds for Mutual Exclusion with only
                                  Processor Consistency  . . . . . . . . . 44
              D. L. Detlefs and   
                C. H. Flood and   
           A. T. Garthwaite and   
               P. A. Martin and   
               N. N. Shavit and   
               G. L. Steele Jr.   Even Better DCAS-Based Concurrent Deques 59
                 Y. Atzmony and   
                       D. Peleg   Distributed Algorithms for English
                                  Auctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
                   I. Gupta and   
             R. van Renesse and   
                   K. P. Birman   A Probabilistically Correct Leader
                                  Election Protocol for Large Groups . . . 89
                   T. Eilam and   
                   S. Moran and   
                        S. Zaks   Approximation Algorithms for Survivable
                                  Optical Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
             G. G. Malewicz and   
                 A. Russell and   
               A. A. Shvartsman   Distributed Cooperation During the
                                  Absence of Communication . . . . . . . . 119
                 H. Buhrman and   
               A. Panconesi and   
               R. Silvestri and   
                     P. Vitanyi   On the Importance of Having an Identity
                                  or, Is Consensus Really Universal? . . . 134
                  H. Attiya and   
                      A. Fouren   Polynomial and Adaptive Long-Lived $ (2
                                  k - 1) $-Renaming  . . . . . . . . . . . 149
                 M. Merritt and   
                  G. Taubenfeld   Computing with Infinitely Many Processes 164
               V. Ungureanu and   
                   N. H. Minsky   Establishing Business Rules for
                                  Inter-Enterprise Electronic Commerce . . 179
                  C. Blundo and   
                A. De Bonis and   
                     B. Masucci   Metering Schemes with Pricing  . . . . . 194
                       O. Theel   Exploitation of Ljapunov Theory for
                                  Verifying Self-Stabilizing Algorithms    209
               J. Beauquier and   
                A. K. Datta and   
              M. Gradinariu and   
                   F. Magniette   Self-Stabilizing Local Mutual Exclusion
                                  and Daemon Refinement  . . . . . . . . . 223
                   P. Boldi and   
                       S. Vigna   More Lower Bounds for Weak Sense of
                                  Direction: The Case of Regular Graphs    238
                  M.-J. Lin and   
                K. Marzullo and   
                      S. Masini   Gossip versus Deterministically
                                  Constrained Flooding on Small Networks   253
             M. K. Aguilera and   
         C. Delporte-Gallet and   
              H. Fauconnier and   
                       S. Toueg   Thrifty Generic Broadcast  . . . . . . . 268
             L. M. Kirousis and   
                E. Kranakis and   
                 D. Krizanc and   
                Y. C. Stamatiou   Locating Information with Uncertainty in
                                  Fully Interconnected Networks  . . . . . 283
                   Y. Saito and   
                     H. M. Levy   Optimistic Replication for Internet Data
                                  Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
M. Patiño-Martínez and   
    R. Jiménez-Peris and   
                   B. Kemme and   
                      G. Alonso   Scalable Replication in Database
                                  Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
                   E. Gafni and   
                     L. Lamport   Disk Paxos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
                  D. Malkhi and   
                 M. Merritt and   
                  M. Reiter and   
                  G. Taubenfeld   Objects Shared by Byzantine Processes    345
                 F. E. Fich and   
                      A. Jakoby   Short Headers Suffice for Communication
                                  in a DAG with Link Failures  . . . . . . 360
                G. Chockler and   
                R. Friedman and   
                   R. Vitenberg   Consistency Conditions for a CORBA
                                  Caching Service  . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1915, 2000

         Mahmut Taylan Kandemir   A Collective I/O Scheme Based on
                                  Compiler Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                 Matt Welsh and   
                   David Culler   Achieving Robust, Scalable Cluster I/O
                                  in Java  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
              Gagan Agrawal and   
            Renato Ferreira and   
                Ruoming Jin and   
                     Joel Saltz   High Level Programming Methodologies for
                                  Data Intensive Computations  . . . . . . 32
                        Ping Hu   Static Analysis for Guarded Code . . . . 44
          Deepankar Bairagi and   
              Santosh Pande and   
              Dharma P. Agrawal   A Framework for Efficient Register
                                  Allocation through Selective Register
                                  Demotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
                Hwansoo Han and   
                 Chau-Wen Tseng   A Comparison of Locality Transformations
                                  for Irregular Codes  . . . . . . . . . . 70
  Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos and   
  Theodore S. Papatheodorou and   
Constantine D. Polychronopoulos and   
       Jesús Labarta and   
          Eduard Ayguadé   UPM LIB : A Runtime System for Tuning
                                  the Memory Performance of OpenMP
                                  Programs on Scalable Shared-Memory
                                  Multiprocessors  . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
           Yoshizumi Tanaka and   
              Kenjiro Taura and   
             Mitsuhisa Sato and   
               Akinori Yonezawa   Performance Evaluation of OpenMP
                                  Applications with Nested Parallelism . . 100
               Alex Scherer and   
               Thomas Gross and   
               Willy Zwaenepoel   Adaptive Parallelism for OpenMP Task
                                  Parallel Programs  . . . . . . . . . . . 113
              Diego Novillo and   
            Ronald C. Unrau and   
             Jonathan Schaeffer   Optimizing Mutual Exclusion
                                  Synchronization in Explicitly Parallel
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
                     Jeff Bogda   Detecting Read-Only Methods in Java  . . 143
               Eyal de Lara and   
              Y. Charlie Hu and   
                 Honghui Lu and   
                Alan L. Cox and   
               Willy Zwaenepoel   The Effect of Contention on the
                                  Scalability of Page-Based Software
                                  Shared Memory Systems  . . . . . . . . . 155
           Christopher Diaz and   
                James Griffioen   Measuring Consistency Costs for
                                  Distributed Shared Data  . . . . . . . . 170
                  Kai Zhang and   
        John Mellor-Crummey and   
               Robert J. Fowler   Compilation and Runtime Optimizations
                                  for Software Distributed Shared Memory   182
              Y. Charlie Hu and   
                  Weimin Yu and   
                Alan L. Cox and   
             Dan S. Wallach and   
               Willy Zwaenepoel   Run-Time Support for Distributed Sharing
                                  in Typed Languages . . . . . . . . . . . 192
                DeQing Chen and   
          Sandhya Dwarkadas and   
   Srinivasan Parthasarathy and   
           Eduardo Pinheiro and   
               Michael L. Scott   InterWeave: A Middleware System for
                                  Distributed Shared State . . . . . . . . 207
             Julio C. Lopez and   
            David R. O'Hallaron   Run-Time Support for Adaptive
                                  Heavyweight Services . . . . . . . . . . 221
               Abdul Waheed and   
               Warren Smith and   
                Jude George and   
                      Jerry Yan   An Infrastructure for Monitoring and
                                  Management in Computational Grids  . . . 235
             Peter A. Dinda and   
            David R. O'Hallaron   Realistic CPU Workloads through Host
                                  Load Trace Playback  . . . . . . . . . . 246
     Kritchalach Thitikamol and   
               Peter J. Keleher   Thread Migration and Load Balancing in
                                  Heterogeneous Environments . . . . . . . 260
Daniel Chavarría-Miranda and   
            John Mellor-Crummey   Toward Compiler Support for Scalable
                                  Parallelism Using Multipartitioning  . . 272
            Francis H. Dang and   
           Lawrence Rauchwerger   Speculative Parallelization of Partially
                                  Parallel Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1919, 2000

              Johan van Benthem   `On Being Informed': Update Logics for
                                  Knowledge States . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
               Thomas Eiter and   
               Michael Fink and   
         Giuliana Sabbatini and   
                   Hans Tompits   Considerations on Updates of Logic
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
           Wolfgang Ahrendt and   
                Thomas Baar and   
           Bernhard Beckert and   
               Martin Giese and   
            Elmar Habermalz and   
         Reiner Hähnle and   
             Wolfram Menzel and   
               Peter H. Schmitt   The KeY Approach: Integrating Object
                                  Oriented Design and Formal Verification  21
               Holger Sturm and   
           Nobu-Yuki Suzuki and   
               Frank Wolter and   
          Michael Zakharyaschev   Semi-qualitative Reasoning about
                                  Distances: A Preliminary Report  . . . . 37
Carlos Viegas Damásio and   
      Luís Moniz Pereira   Hybrid Probabilistic Logic Programs as
                                  Residuated Logic Programs  . . . . . . . 57
                   Marco Aiello   Topo-distance: Measuring the Difference
                                  between Spatial Patterns . . . . . . . . 73
      Antonio Frias Delgado and   
    Jose Antonio Jimenez Millan   An Abductive Mechanism for Natural
                                  Language Processing Based on Lambek
                                  Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
                  Tomi Janhunen   Capturing Stationary and Regular
                                  Extensions with Reiter's Extensions  . . 102
                    Chunping Li   Representing the Process Semantics in
                                  the Event Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Josefina Sierra-Santibáñez   Declarative Formalization of Strategies
                                  for Action Selection: Applications to
                                  Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
                    Ofer Arieli   An Algorithmic Approach to Recover
                                  Inconsistent Knowledge-Bases . . . . . . 148
                Abhaya C. Nayak   Acceptance Without Minimality  . . . . . 163
    Gloria Gutiérrez and   
   Inma P. de Guzmán and   
     Javier Martínez and   
        Manuel Ojeda-Aciego and   
        Agustín Valverde   Reduction Theorems for Boolean Formulas
                                  Using $ \Delta $-Trees . . . . . . . . . 179
     Pedro J. Martín and   
              Antonio Gavilanes   Simultaneous Rigid Sorted Unification    193
         Alexandre Riazanov and   
                Andrei Voronkov   Partially Adaptive Code Trees  . . . . . 209
                  Henry Prakken   On Dialogue Systems with Speech Acts,
                                  Arguments, and Counterarguments  . . . . 224
     Gerard A. W. Vreeswijk and   
                  Henry Prakken   Credulous and Sceptical Argument Games
                                  for Preferred Semantics  . . . . . . . . 239
         Wiebe van der Hoek and   
                Jan Jaspars and   
                  Elias Thijsse   A General Approach to Multi-agent
                                  Minimal Knowledge  . . . . . . . . . . . 254
         Rogier M. van Eijk and   
           Frank S. de Boer and   
         Wiebe van der Hoek and   
           John-Jules Ch. Meyer   A Modal Logic for Network Topologies . . 269
             Antonio Moreno and   
       Ulises Cortés and   
                      Ton Sales   Avoiding Logical Omniscience by Using
                                  Subjective Situations  . . . . . . . . . 284
         Michael Wooldridge and   
               Alessio Lomuscio   Multi-agent $ \mathcal {VSK} $ Logic . . 300
               Thomas Eiter and   
             Thomas Lukasiewicz   New Tractable Cases in Default Reasoning
                                  from Conditional Knowledge Bases . . . . 313
               Holger Sturm and   
               Frank Wolter and   
          Michael Zakharyaschev   Monodic Epistemic Predicate Logic  . . . 329
José Júlio Alferes and   
      Luís Moniz Pereira   Updates plus Preferences . . . . . . . . 345
               Paolo Liberatore   A Framework for Belief Update  . . . . . 361
         James P. Delgrande and   
             Torsten Schaub and   
                   Hans Tompits   A Compilation of Brewka and Eiter's
                                  Approach to Prioritization . . . . . . . 376
              Marina De Vos and   
                   Dirk Vermeir   A Logic for Modeling Decision Making
                                  with Dynamic Preferences . . . . . . . . 391
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1923, 2000

                    F. Muge and   
                 I. Granado and   
                M. Mengucci and   
                    P. Pina and   
                   V. Ramos and   
                 N. Sirakov and   
         J. R. Caldas Pinto and   
               A. Marcolino and   
       Mário Ramalho and   
                  P. Vieira and   
              A. Maia do Amaral   Automatic Feature Extraction and
                                  Recognition for Digital Access of Books
                                  of the Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . 1
        Suliman Al-Hawamdeh and   
                    Gul N. Khan   Content Based Indexing and Retrieval in
                                  a Digital Library of Arabic Scripts and
                                  Calligraphy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
            J. Caldas Pinto and   
                  P. Vieira and   
                 M. Ramalho and   
                M. Mengucci and   
                    P. Pina and   
                        F. Muge   Ancient Music Recovery for Digital
                                  Libraries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
                Manabu Ohta and   
            Atsuhiro Takasu and   
                     Jun Adachi   Probabilistic Automaton Model for Fuzzy
                                  English-Text Retrieval . . . . . . . . . 35
               Harith Alani and   
          Christopher Jones and   
                Douglas Tudhope   Associative and Spatial Relationships in
                                  Thesaurus-Based Retrieval  . . . . . . . 45
            Luigi Galavotti and   
        Fabrizio Sebastiani and   
                     Maria Simi   Experiments on the Use of Feature
                                  Selection and Negative Evidence in
                                  Automated Text Categorization  . . . . . 59
                    Offer Drori   The Benefits of Displaying Additional
                                  Internal Document Information on Textual
                                  Database Search Result Lists . . . . . . 69
                Roger Weber and   
          Klemens Böhm and   
                  Hans-J. Schek   Interactive-Time Similarity Search for
                                  Large Image Collections Using Parallel
                                  VA-Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
                   Ann Apps and   
                 Ross MacIntyre   Dublin Core Metadata for Electronic
                                  Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--102
                Carl Lagoze and   
                Jane Hunter and   
                   Dan Brickley   An Event-Aware Model for Metadata
                                  Interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
           Martin Heß and   
       Christian Mönch and   
                 Oswald Drobnik   QUEST --- Querying Specialized
                                  Collections on the Web . . . . . . . . . 117
José Manuel Barrueco Cruz and   
         Markus J. R. Klink and   
                 Thomas Krichel   Personal Data in a Large Digital Library 127
               Brian Cooper and   
              Arturo Crespo and   
           Hector Garcia-Molina   Implementing a Reliable Digital Object
                                  Archive  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
             Sandra Payette and   
                    Carl Lagoze   Policy-Carrying, Policy-Enforcing
                                  Digital Objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
           Christian Mönch   INDIGO --- An Approach to
                                  Infrastructures for Digital Libraries    158
                  Kurt Maly and   
            Mohammad Zubair and   
                Hesham Anan and   
                    Dun Tan and   
                 Yunchuan Zhang   Scalable Digital Libraries Based on
                                  NCSTRL/Dienst  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
        Günther Specht and   
               Michael G. Bauer   OMNIS/2: A Multimedia Meta System for
                                  Existing Digital Libraries . . . . . . . 180
              Arturo Crespo and   
           Hector Garcia-Molina   Modeling Archival Repositories for
                                  Digital Libraries  . . . . . . . . . . . 190
                 Hyowon Lee and   
            Alan F. Smeaton and   
           Catherine Berrut and   
                Noel Murphy and   
         Seán Marlow and   
               Noel E. O'Connor   Implementation and Analysis of Several
                                  Keyframe-Based Browsing Interfaces to
                                  Digital Video  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
               Florent Pasquier   Functional and Intentional Limitations
                                  of Interactivity on Content Indexing
                                  Topics: Possible Uses of Automatic
                                  Classification and Contents Extraction
                                  Systems, in Order to Create Digital
                                  Libraries Databases  . . . . . . . . . . 219
                G. Semeraro and   
                F. Esposito and   
                 N. Fanizzi and   
                     S. Ferilli   Interaction Profiling in Digital
                                  Libraries through Learning Tools . . . . 229
           David M. Nichols and   
           Duncan Pemberton and   
             Salah Dalhoumi and   
                Omar Larouk and   
             Claire Belisle and   
             Michael B. Twidale   DEBORA: Developing an Interface to
                                  Support Collaboration in a Digital
                                  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
             Yin Leng Theng and   
         Norliza Mohd Nasir and   
           Harold Thimbleby and   
            George Buchanan and   
                 Matt Jones and   
           David Bainbridge and   
                   Noel Cassidy   Children as Design Partners and Testers
                                  for a Children's Digital Library . . . . 249
Alberto Díaz Esteban and   
Pablo Gervás Gómez-Navarro and   
Antonio García Jiménez   Evaluating a User-Model Based
                                  Personalisation Architecture for Digital
                                  News Services  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
    Claudia Niederée and   
            Ulrike Steffens and   
         Joachim W. Schmidt and   
                Florian Matthes   Aging Links  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
                  Linda L. Hill   Core Elements of Digital Gazetteers:
                                  Placenames, Categories, and Footprints   280
                Jane Hunter and   
                   Darren James   The Application of an Event-Aware
                                  Metadata Model to an Online Oral History
                                  Archive  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
                 M. Landoni and   
                  R. Wilson and   
                        F. Gibb   From the Visual Book to the WEB Book:
                                  The Importance of Good Design  . . . . . 305
                 Rui Amaral and   
                Isabel Trancoso   Topic Detection in Read Documents  . . . 315
             Vitorino Ramos and   
                  Fernando Muge   Map Segmentation by Colour Cube Genetic
                                  K-Mean Clustering  . . . . . . . . . . . 319
                 Fabio Crestani   Spoken Query Processing for Information
                                  Access in Digital Libraries  . . . . . . 324
             Giuseppe Amato and   
         Donatella Castelli and   
                  Serena Pisani   A Metadata Model for Historical
                                  Documentary Films  . . . . . . . . . . . 328
             Carla Zibreira and   
               Fernando Pereira   Image Description and Retrieval Using
                                  MPEG-$7$ Shape Descriptors . . . . . . . 332
              Hiroshi Mukaiyama   A Large Scale Component-Based
                                  Multi-media Digital Library System . . . 336
         Gareth J. F. Jones and   
           David J. Quested and   
           Katherine E. Thomson   Personalised Delivery of News Articles
                                  from Multiple Sources  . . . . . . . . . 340
                 Nuno Maria and   
          Mário J. Silva   Building a Digital Library of Web News   344
             Andreas Rauber and   
         Michael Dittenbach and   
                   Dieter Merkl   Automatically Detecting and Organizing
                                  Documents into Topic Hierarchies: A
                                  Neural Network Based Approach to
                                  Bookshelf Creation and Arrangement . . . 348
        Norbert Gövert and   
               Norbert Fuhr and   
               Claus-Peter Klas   Daffodil: Distributed Agents for
                                  User-Friendly Access of Digital
                                  Libraries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
               Johan Bollen and   
              Luis Mateus Rocha   An Adaptive Systems Approach to the
                                  Implementation and Evaluation of Digital
                                  Library Recommendation Systems . . . . . 356
               Mounir A. Khalil   Are End-Users Satisfied by Using Digital
                                  Libraries? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
               Norbert Fuhr and   
       Kai Großjohann and   
               Stefan Kokkelink   CAP7: Searching and Browsing in
                                  Distributed Document Collections . . . . 364
           Yannis Stavrakas and   
       Manolis Gergatsoulis and   
              Theodoros Mitakos   Representing Context-Dependent
                                  Information Using Multidimensional XML   368
László Kovács and   
       András Micsik and   
       Balázs Pataki and   
  István Zsámboki   AQUA (Advanced Query User Interface
                                  Architecture)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
             Joaquim Macedo and   
       António Costa and   
                  Vasco Freitas   Fusion of Overlapped Result Sets . . . . 376
      João P. Campos and   
          Mário J. Silva   ActiveXML: Compound Documents for
                                  Integration of Heterogeneous Data
                                  Sources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Begoña Aguilera Caballero and   
                 Richard Lehner   newsWORKS\copyright, the Complete
                                  Solution for Digital Press Clippings and
                                  Press Reviews: Capture of Information in
                                  an Intelligent Way . . . . . . . . . . . 385
               Tek Yong Lim and   
                 Enya Kong Tang   Effects of Cognitive and Problem Solving
                                  Style on Internet Search Tool  . . . . . 389
                   Lesly Huxley   Follow the Fox to Renardus: An Academic
                                  Subject Gateway Service for Europe . . . 395
                     Kay Covert   CORC: Helping Libraries Take a Leading
                                  Role in the Digital Age  . . . . . . . . 399
           K. V. Chandrinos and   
        Ion Androutsopoulos and   
               G. Paliouras and   
              C. D. Spyropoulos   Automatic Web Rating: Filtering Obscene
                                  Content on the Web . . . . . . . . . . . 403
        Wallace C. Koehler, Jr.   The Bibliographic Management of Web
                                  Documents in Digital and Hybrid
                                  Libraries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
    Carol Hansen Montgomery and   
                 John A. Bielec   The Economic Impact of an Electronic
                                  Journal Collection on an Academic
                                  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
              Malika Mahoui and   
            Sally Jo Cunningham   A Comparative Transaction Log Analysis
                                  of Two Computing Collections . . . . . . 418
                Hans Becker and   
                   Bernd Wegner   ERAM --- Digitisation of Classical
                                  Mathematical Publications  . . . . . . . 424
                   Bernd Wegner   The Electronic Library in EMIS ---
                                  European Mathematical Information
                                  Service  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
                  Bakelli Yahia   Model for an Electronic Access to the
                                  Algerian Scientific Literature: Short
                                  Description  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
                Elaine Peterson   A Digital Library of Native American
                                  Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
       Michael Bailou Huang and   
                      Guohui Li   China Digital Library Initiative and
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
          Céline Hembise   Appropriation of Legal Information:
                                  Evaluation of Data Bases for Researchers 445
                 Paulo Leme and   
            Dilson da Costa and   
         Ricardo Baccarelli and   
    Maurício Barbosa and   
      Andréa Bolanho and   
                   Ana Reis and   
                Rose Bicudo and   
            Eduardo Barbosa and   
        Márcio Nunes and   
Innocêncio Pereira Filho and   
          Guilherme Plonski and   
        Sérgio Kobayashi   Publishing $ 30 $ Years of the
                                  Legislation of Brazil's São Paulo State
                                  in CD--ROM and Internet  . . . . . . . . 449
              Eugenio Pelizzari   Electronic Dissemination of Statistical
                                  Information at Local Level: A
                                  Cooperative Project between a University
                                  Library and Other Public Institutions    452
            Rei S. Atarashi and   
              Masakazu Imai and   
            Hideki Sunahara and   
           Kunihiro Chihara and   
                 Tadashi Katata   Building Archaeological Photograph
                                  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
                   Bernd Wegner   EULER --- A DC-Based Integrated Access
                                  to Library Catalogues and Other
                                  Mathematics Information in the Web . . . 461
               Thomas Place and   
          Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers   Decomate: Unified Access to Globally
                                  Distributed Libraries  . . . . . . . . . 467
           Scott Herrington and   
                 Philip Konomos   MADILIS, the Microsoft Access-Based
                                  Digital Library System . . . . . . . . . 471
                Dennis Brunning   Leveraging Electronic Content:
                                  Electronic Linking Initiatives at
                                  Arizona State University . . . . . . . . 475
                 Marianne Afifi   Asian Film Connection: Developing a
                                  Scholarly Multilingual Digital Library
                                  --- A Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
     Norshuhada Shiratuddin and   
                 Monica Landoni   Conceptual Model of Children's
                                  Electronic Textbook  . . . . . . . . . . 485
              Stefan Decker and   
                Jan Jannink and   
              Sergey Melnik and   
            Prasenjit Mitra and   
              Steffen Staab and   
                Rudi Studer and   
                 Gio Wiederhold   An Information Food Chain for Advanced
                                  Applications on the WWW  . . . . . . . . 490
           Patricia Dzeakou and   
           Jean-Claude Derniame   An Architecture for a Multi Criteria
                                  Exploration of a Documents Set . . . . . 494
         Sarantos Kapidakis and   
              Kostas Zorbadelos   An Open Digital Library Ordering System  498
               Martin Doerr and   
              Traugott Koch and   
            Douglas Tudhope and   
                 Repke de Vries   Special NKOS Workshop on Networked
                                  Knowledge Organization Systems . . . . . 502
          Gerrit Alewaeters and   
                Serge Gilen and   
         Paul Nieuwenhuysen and   
             Stefaan Renard and   
                Marc Verpoorten   Implementing Electronic Journals in the
                                  Library and Making them Available to the
                                  End-User: An Integrated Approach . . . . 506
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1928, 2000

                      Anonymous   On the Expected Runtime and the Success
                                  Probability of Evolutionary Algorithms   1
                      Anonymous   $n$ Points and One Line: Analysis of
                                  Randomized Games . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
             Luca Becchetti and   
            Miriam Di Ianni and   
   Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela   Approximating Call-Scheduling Makespan
                                  in All-Optical Networks  . . . . . . . . 13
         Sergei L. Bezrukov and   
       Robert Elsässer and   
            Burkhard Monien and   
               Robert Preis and   
            Jean-Pierre Tillich   New Spectral Lower Bounds on the
                                  Bisection Width of Graphs  . . . . . . . 23
              Sandeep Bhatt and   
                Shimon Even and   
            David Greenberg and   
                     Rafi Tayar   Traversing Directed Eulerian Mazes . . . 35
         Gianfranco Bilardi and   
       Andrea Pietracaprina and   
                Paolo D'Alberto   On the Space and Access Complexity of
                                  Computation DAGs . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
   Vincent Bouchitté and   
                   Ioan Todinca   Approximating the Treewidth of AT-Free
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
    Andreas Brandstädt and   
                    Van Bang Le   Split-Perfect Graphs: Characterizations
                                  and Algorithmic Use  . . . . . . . . . . 71
       Edson Cáceres and   
                Albert Chan and   
                Frank Dehne and   
              Giuseppe Prencipe   Coarse Grained Parallel Algorithms for
                                  Detecting Convex Bipartite Graphs  . . . 83
          Serafino Cicerone and   
            Gabriele Di Stefano   Networks with Small Stretch Number . . . 95
                Peter Damaschke   Efficient Dispersion Algorithms for
                                  Geometric Intersection Graphs  . . . . . 107
             Ingo Demgensky and   
         Hartmut Noltemeier and   
           Hans-Christoph Wirth   Optimizing Cost Flows by Modifying Arc
                                  Costs and Capacities . . . . . . . . . . 116
         Michael J. Dinneen and   
           Bakhadyr Khoussainov   Update Networks and Their Routing
                                  Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
                  Stefan Dobrev   Computing Input Multiplicity in
                                  Anonymous Synchronous Networks with
                                  Dynamic Faults . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
           Guillaume Fertin and   
       André Raspaud and   
        Heiko Schröder and   
       Ondrej Sýkora and   
                    Imrich Vrto   Diameter of the Knödel Graph  . . . . . . 149
                Fedor Fomin and   
             Dieter Kratsch and   
              Haiko Müller   On the Domination Search Number  . . . . 161
              Luisa Gargano and   
               Andrzej Pelc and   
          Stephane Perennes and   
                    Ugo Vaccaro   Efficient Communication in Unknown
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
 Assefaw Hadish Gebremedhin and   
Isabelle Guérin Lassous and   
               Jens Gustedt and   
                 Jan Arne Telle   Graph Coloring on a Coarse Grained
                                  Multiprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
               Frank Gurski and   
                     Egon Wanke   The Tree-Width of Clique-Width Bounded
                                  Graphs without \em K$_{n, n}$  . . . . . 196
              Dagmar Handke and   
                   Guy Kortsarz   Tree Spanners for Subgraphs and Related
                                  Tree Covering Problems . . . . . . . . . 206
  Jean Michel Hélary and   
               Giovanna Melideo   Minimal Size of Piggybacked Information
                                  for Tracking Causality: A Graph-Based
                                  Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
             Andreas Jakoby and   
          Maciej Liskiewicz and   
          Rüdiger Reischuk   The Expressive Power and Complexity of
                                  Dynamic Process Graphs . . . . . . . . . 230
                  Ton Kloks and   
             Dieter Kratsch and   
             Yvan Le Borgne and   
              Haiko Müller   Bandwidth of Split and Circular
                                  Permutation Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 243
           Ekkehard Köhler   Recognizing Graphs without Asteroidal
                                  Triples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
             Goran Konjevod and   
             Sven O. Krumke and   
                 Madhav Marathe   Budget Constrained Minimum Cost
                                  Connected Medians  . . . . . . . . . . . 267
        Daniel Král' and   
      Jan Kratochvíl and   
       Andrzej Proskurowski and   
         Heinz-Jürgen Voss   Coloring Mixed Hypertrees  . . . . . . . 279
               Sayaka Nagai and   
               Shin-Ichi Nakano   A Linear-Time Algorithm to Find
                                  Independent Spanning Trees in Maximal
                                  Planar Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
                Koichi Wada and   
                       Wei Chen   Optimal Fault-Tolerant Routings for
                                  $k$-Connected Graphs with Smaller
                                  Routing Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1931, 2000

        Romit Roy Choudhuri and   
           S. Bandyopadhyay and   
                   Krishna Paul   Topology Discovery in Ad Hoc Wireless
                                  Networks Using Mobile Agents . . . . . . 1
                 Salim Omar and   
                 Xinan Zhou and   
                    Thomas Kunz   Mobile Code, Adaptive Mobile
                                  Applications, and Network Architectures  17
               Larbi Esmahi and   
                Roger Impey and   
                 Ramiro Liscano   Toward a Mobile Work Environment . . . . 29
             Roch H. Glitho and   
          Bertrand E. Lenou and   
                  Samuel Pierre   Handling Subscription in a Mobile Agent
                                  Based Service Environment for Internet
                                  Telephony: Swapping Agents . . . . . . . 49
              Farag Sallabi and   
                 Ahmed Karmouch   Mobile Network Domain Agency for
                                  Managing Network Resources . . . . . . . 67
           Oskari Koskimies and   
              Kimmo Raatikainen   Partitioning Application with Agents . . 79
      Marcelo G. Rubinstein and   
   Otto Carlos M. B. Duarte and   
                    Guy Pujolle   Evaluating the Network Performance
                                  Management Based on Mobile Agents  . . . 95
                    Yi Wang and   
                    Thomas Kunz   Visualizing Mobile Agent Executions  . . 103
                Larry Korba and   
                      Fuhua Lin   Towards Policy-Driven Agent System
                                  Development and Management . . . . . . . 115
          Florin Muscutariu and   
           Marie-Pierre Gervais   Modeling an OMG-MASIF Compliant Mobile
                                  Agent Platform with the RM-ODP
                                  Engineering Language . . . . . . . . . . 129
   Mouhamadou Lamine Diagne and   
                Thomas Noel and   
           Jean-Jacques Pansiot   Active Networks for IPv6 Communication
                                  Redirection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
             Lidia Yamamoto and   
                      Guy Leduc   An Agent-Inspired Active Network
                                  Resource Trading Model Applied to
                                  Congestion Control . . . . . . . . . . . 151
                 Anca Rarau and   
               Ioan Salomie and   
                 Kalman Pusztai   On Synchronization in a Mobile
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
            Nicolas Rouhana and   
             Samer Boustany and   
                   Eric Horlait   YAAP: Yet Another Active Platform  . . . 185
          Natasha Kravtsova and   
                    Andre Meyer   Searching for Music with Agents  . . . . 195
             Isabel Gallego and   
              Jaime Delgado and   
          Roberto García   Use of Mobile Agents for IPR Management
                                  and Negotiation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
                    B. Thai and   
                 A. Seneviratne   The Effects of Mobile Agent Performance
                                  on MP3 Streaming Applications  . . . . . 215
             Bart De Decker and   
             Frank Piessens and   
        Erik Van Hoeymissen and   
                  Gregory Neven   Semi-trusted Hosts and Mobile Agents:
                                  Enabling Secure Distributed Computations 219
           Orazio Tomarchio and   
               Lorenzo Vita and   
              Antonio Puliafito   Nomadic Users' Support in the MAP Agent
                                  Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
                     Hui Yu and   
            Ali A. Ghorbani and   
        Virendra C. Bhavsar and   
                  Stephen Marsh   Keyphrase-Based Information Sharing in
                                  the ACORN Multi-agent Architecture . . . 243
           Henryka Jormakka and   
               Toni Jussila and   
                  Kirsi Valtari   Agents Based Implementation of
                                  Personalised News Delivery Service . . . 257
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1932, 2000

                 W. Bruce Croft   Information Retrieval Based on
                                  Statistical Language Models  . . . . . . 1
         Philip J. Emmerman and   
                   Uma Y. Movva   Intelligent Agent Battlespace
                                  Augmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
           Ryszard S. Michalski   Learning and Evolution: An Introduction
                                  to Non-darwinian Evolutionary
                                  Computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
           Attilio Giordana and   
             Lorenza Saitta and   
              Michele Sebag and   
                    Marco Botta   Can Relational Learning Scale Up?  . . . 31
             Donato Malerba and   
          Floriana Esposito and   
           Antonietta Lanza and   
              Francesca A. Lisi   Discovering Geographic Knowledge: The
                                  INGENS System  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
               Weiqiang Lin and   
                Mehmet A. Orgun   Temporal Data Mining Using Hidden
                                  Periodicity Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 49
            Ada Wai-chee Fu and   
     Renfrew Wang-wai Kwong and   
                      Jian Tang   Mining $N$-most Interesting Itemsets . . 59
                  B. Armani and   
                 E. Bertino and   
                 B. Catania and   
                  D. Laradi and   
                   B. Marin and   
                    G. P. Zarri   Repository Management in an Intelligent
                                  Indexing Approach for Multimedia Digital
                                  Libraries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
       Mohand-Sa\"\id Hacid and   
                 Farouk Toumani   Logic-Based Approach to Semistructured
                                  Data Retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
              Ronald N. Kostoff   High Quality Information Retrieval for
                                  Improving the Conduct and Management of
                                  Research and Development . . . . . . . . 86
               Essam A. El-Kwae   Signature-Based Indexing for Retrieval
                                  by Spatial Content in Large $2$D-String
                                  Image Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
                F. Esposito and   
                 N. Fanizzi and   
                 S. Ferilli and   
                    G. Semeraro   Refining Logic Theories under
                                  OI-Implication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
                   Aijun An and   
                   Nick Cercone   Rule Quality Measures Improve the
                                  Accuracy of Rule Induction: An
                                  Experimental Approach  . . . . . . . . . 119
                Alaaeldin Hafez   A Dynamic Approach for Knowledge
                                  Discovery of Web Access Patterns . . . . 130
                M. Boussouf and   
                    M. Quafafou   Data Reduction via Conflicting Data
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
    Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse and   
                    Pankaj Shah   A Comparison of Rule Matching Methods
                                  Used in AQ15 and LERS  . . . . . . . . . 148
         Jeffrey K. Bassett and   
             Kenneth A. De Jong   Evolving Behaviors for Cooperating
                                  Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
          William M. Spears and   
                Diana F. Gordon   Evolving Finite-State Machine Strategies
                                  for Protecting Resources . . . . . . . . 166
            Shuhei Kawasaki and   
                  Setsuo Ohsuga   A Method of Generating Program
                                  Specification from Description of Human
                                  Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
                   Alfredo Cruz   PLAtestGA: A CNF-Satisfiability Problem
                                  for the Generation of Test Vector for
                                  Missing Faults in VLSI Circuits  . . . . 186
 Arturo Núñez and   
     María-Cristina Riff   Evaluating Migration Strategies for an
                                  Evolutionary Algorithm Based on the
                                  Constraint-Graph That Solves CSP . . . . 196
        Jennifer Kashmirian and   
                    Lin Padgham   Relative Robustness: An Empirical
                                  Investigation of Behaviour Based and
                                  Plan Based Paradigms as Environmental
                                  Conditions Change  . . . . . . . . . . . 205
             Jörg Hoffmann   A Heuristic for Domain Independent
                                  Planning and Its Use in an Enforced
                                  Hill-Climbing Algorithm  . . . . . . . . 216
                R. Barruffi and   
                  M. Milano and   
                     P. Torroni   Planning while Executing: A
                                  Constraint-Based Approach  . . . . . . . 228
            Katsuaki Tanaka and   
        Michiko Higashiyama and   
                  Setsuo Ohsuga   Problem Decomposition and Multi-agent
                                  System Creation for Distributed Problem
                                  Solving  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
              S. K. M. Wong and   
                     C. J. Butz   A Comparative Study of Noncontextual and
                                  Contextual Dependencies  . . . . . . . . 247
         Barry G. T. Lowden and   
                Jerome Robinson   Extended Query Answering Using Integrity
                                  Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
              Kamran Karimi and   
             Howard J. Hamilton   Finding Temporal Relations: Causal
                                  Bayesian Networks vs. C4.5 . . . . . . . 266
              Johanne Morin and   
                    Stan Matwin   Learning Relational Clichés with
                                  Contextual LGG . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
               J. F. Peters and   
                 A. Skowron and   
                   Z. Suraj and   
                     L. Han and   
                     S. Ramanna   Design of Rough Neurons: Rough Set
                                  Foundation and Petri Net Model . . . . . 283
           Alicja Wieczorkowska   Towards Musical Data Classification via
                                  Wavelet Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
                James J. Lu and   
             Neil V. Murray and   
                 Erik Rosenthal   Annotated Hyperresolution for Non-Horn
                                  Regular Multiple-Valued Logics . . . . . 301
            Tomoko Ninomiya and   
                Masao Mukaidono   Fundamental Properties on Axioms of
                                  Kleene Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
                  Antonio Badia   Extending Entity-Relationship Models
                                  with Higher-Order Operators  . . . . . . 321
                   Jianhua Chen   Combining Description Logics with
                                  Stratified Logic Programs in Knowledge
                                  Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
            Mourad Oussalah and   
                Dalila Tamzalit   Emergence Measurement and Analyzes of
                                  Conceptual Abstractions During Evolution
                                  Simulation in OOD  . . . . . . . . . . . 340
           Diana R. Cundell and   
        Randy S. Silibovsky and   
              Robyn Sanders and   
               Les M. Sztandera   Using Intelligent Systems in Predictions
                                  of the Bacterial Causative Agent of an
                                  Infection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
               Rosina Weber and   
               David W. Aha and   
Hector Muñoz-Ávila and   
             Leonard A. Breslow   An Intelligent Lessons Learned Process   358
             David A. Maluf and   
                 Gio Wiederhold   What the Logs Can Tell You: Mediation to
                                  Implement Feedback in Training . . . . . 368
                  C. A. Johnson   Top-Down Query Processing in First Order
                                  Deductive Databases under the DWFS . . . 377
            Chris Fernandes and   
              Lawrence Henschen   Discovering and Resolving User Intent in
                                  Heterogeneous Databases  . . . . . . . . 389
              Sanghyun Park and   
                  Wesley W. Chu   Discovering and Matching Elastic Rules
                                  from Sequence Databases  . . . . . . . . 400
             Lorenza Saitta and   
             Jean-Daniel Zucker   Perception-Based Granularity Levels in
                                  Concept Representation . . . . . . . . . 409
             Alexey Tsymbal and   
                 Seppo Puuronen   Local Feature Selection with Dynamic
                                  Integration of Classifiers . . . . . . . 417
              Stefan Kramer and   
             Gerhard Widmer and   
        Bernhard Pfahringer and   
              Michael de Groeve   Prediction of Ordinal Classes Using
                                  Regression Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
            Ali H. Alsaffar and   
            Jitender Deogun and   
                    Hayri Sever   Optimal Queries in Information Filtering 435
             Bipin C. Desai and   
             Sami S. Haddad and   
                 Abdelbaset Ali   Automatic Semantic Header Generator  . . 444
                 Minkoo Kim and   
            Ali H. Alsaffar and   
         Jitender S. Deogun and   
              Vijay V. Raghavan   On Modeling of Concept Based Retrieval
                                  in Generalized Vector Spaces . . . . . . 453
      Cécile Boisson and   
                Nahid Shahmehri   Template Generation for Identifying Text
                                  Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
             David A. Maluf and   
                     Jiming Liu   Qualitative Discovery in Medical
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
                 Eric Louie and   
                 Tsau Young Lin   Finding Association Rules Using Fast Bit
                                  Computation: Machine-Oriented Modeling   486
               Jamil Saquer and   
             Jitender S. Deogun   Using Closed Itemsets for Discovering
                                  Representative Association Rules . . . . 495
       Marzena Kryszkiewicz and   
                Henryk Rybinski   Legitimate Approach to Association Rules
                                  under Incompleteness . . . . . . . . . . 505
           Robert Demolombe and   
    Maria del Pilar Pozos Parra   A Simple and Tractable Extension of
                                  Situation Calculus to Epistemic Logic    515
        Sai Kiran Lakkaraju and   
                      Yan Zhang   Rule Based Abduction . . . . . . . . . . 525
              E. Altamirano and   
               G. Escalada-Imaz   An Efficient Proof Method for
                                  Non-clausal Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . 534
              D. Pacholczyk and   
          F. Dupin de Saint Cyr   An Intelligent System Dealing with
                                  Complex Nuanced Information within a
                                  Statistical Context  . . . . . . . . . . 543
               Tapio Elomaa and   
                     Juho Rousu   On the Complexity of Optimal
                                  Multisplitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552
               Brock Barber and   
             Howard J. Hamilton   Parametric Algorithms for Mining Share
                                  Frequent Itemsets  . . . . . . . . . . . 562
                Shusaku Tsumoto   Discovery of Clinical Knowledge in
                                  Hospital Information Systems: Two Case
                                  Studies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
            Jan M. \.Zytkow and   
              Zbigniew W. Ra\'s   Foundations and Discovery of Operational
                                  Definitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582
               Chunnian Liu and   
                 Ning Zhong and   
                  Setsuo Ohsuga   A Multi-agent Based Architecture for
                                  Distributed KDD Process  . . . . . . . . 591
                Enric Plaza and   
       Josep-Lluís Arcos   Towards a Software Architecture for
                                  Case-Based Reasoning Systems . . . . . . 601
              R. M. Simpson and   
            T. L. McCluskey and   
                     D. Liu and   
                  D. E. Kitchin   Knowledge Representation in Planning: A
                                  PDDL to \em OCL$_h$  Translation . . . . 610
          Hiroyuki Yamauchi and   
                  Setsuo Ohsuga   A Method and Language for Constructing
                                  Multiagent Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 619
                   M. Ouerd and   
               B. J. Oommen and   
                      S. Matwin   A Formalism for Building Causal Polytree
                                  Structures Using Data Distributions  . . 629
Sébastien Musti\`ere and   
             Lorenza Saitta and   
             Jean-Daniel Zucker   Abstraction in Cartographic
                                  Generalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645


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Volume 1933, 2000

                      T. Wetter   Medical Decision Support Systems . . . . 1
             Basilio Sierra and   
          Iñaki Inza and   
         Pedro Larrañaga   Medical Bayes Networks . . . . . . . . . 4
                   M. Rosenblum   Synchronization Analysis of Bivariate
                                  Time Series and Its Application to
                                  Medical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
               Victor Maojo and   
   José Sanandrés   A Survey of Data Mining Techniques . . . 17
             Rainer Schmidt and   
                   Lothar Gierl   Prognoses for Multiparametric Time
                                  Courses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
              Ales Cernosek and   
            Vladimir Krajca and   
      Jitka Mohylová and   
    Svojmil Petránek and   
             Milos Matousek and   
                     Karel Paul   Estimation of the Time Delay of
                                  Epileptic Spikes by ICA  . . . . . . . . 34
             Gerhard Staude and   
                    Werner Wolf   Change-Point Detection in Kinetic
                                  Signals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
        Axel Wismüller and   
          Dominik R. Dersch and   
        Bernadette Lipinski and   
                 Klaus Hahn and   
                  Dorothee Auer   Hierarchical Clustering of Functional
                                  MRI Time-Series by Deterministic
                                  Annealing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
             T. Müller and   
                    T. Ball and   
          R. Kristeva-Feige and   
                 T. Mergner and   
                      J. Timmer   Classification of
                                  Electro-encephalographic Spatial
                                  Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
            Holger Steltner and   
             Richard Staats and   
              Michael Vogel and   
          Christian Virchow and   
           Heinrich Matthys and   
             Josef Guttmann and   
                    Jens Timmer   Detection and Classification of
                                  Sleep-Disordered Breathing Using
                                  Acoustic Respiratory Input Impedance and
                                  Nasal Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
               Roland Fried and   
              Ursula Gather and   
             Michael Imhoff and   
                   Marcus Bauer   Some Statistical Methods in Intensive
                                  Care Online Monitoring --- A Review  . . 67
               Niels Wessel and   
             Agnes Schumann and   
       Alexander Schirdewan and   
               Andreas Voss and   
             Jürgen Kurths   Entropy Measures in Heart Rate
                                  Variability Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
           Laura Cimponeriu and   
         Anastassios Bezerianos   Determinism and Nonlinearity of the
                                  Heart Rhythm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
          Iñaki Inza and   
              Marisa Merino and   
     Pedro Larrañaga and   
              Jorge Quiroga and   
             Basilio Sierra and   
                  Marcos Girala   Feature Subset Selection Using
                                  Probabilistic Tree Structures. A Case
                                  Study in the Survival of Cirrhotic
                                  Patients Treated with TIPS . . . . . . . 97
                  Roman Hovorka   Deconvolution and Credible Intervals
                                  Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method    111
              Carmen Lacave and   
            Roberto Atienza and   
       Francisco J. Díez   Graphical Explanation in Bayesian
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
          Jürgen Paetz and   
                Fred Hamker and   
                Sven Thöne   About the Analysis of Septic Shock
                                  Patient Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
            Thomas Villmann and   
            Wieland Hermann and   
                  Michael Geyer   Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in
                                  Medical Applications Using
                                  Self-Organizing Maps . . . . . . . . . . 138
             Werner Horbelt and   
       Thorsten Müller and   
                Jens Timmer and   
              Werner Melzer and   
                   Karl Winkler   Analysis of Nonlinear Differential
                                  Equations: Parameter Estimation and
                                  Model Selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
           Dragan Gamberger and   
             Goran Krstacic and   
                  Tomislav Smuc   Medical Expert Evaluation of Machine
                                  Learning Results for a Coronary Heart
                                  Disease Database . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
          Frank Köster and   
              Roland Radtke and   
             Bernd Westphal and   
           Michael Sonnenschein   Combining Methodical Procedures from
                                  Knowledge Discovery in Databases and
                                  Individual-Oriented Simulation . . . . . 169
           Dragan Gamberger and   
                Nada Lavrac and   
             Goran Krstacic and   
                  Tomislav Smuc   Inconsistency Tests for Patient Records
                                  in a Coronary Heart Disease Database . . 183
          Stefan Wagenpfeil and   
                Uwe Treiber and   
                 Antonie Lehmer   A MATLAB-Based Software Tool for
                                  Changepoint Detection and Nonlinear
                                  Regression in Dose-Response
                                  Relationships  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
              Lutz Fritsche and   
          Kay Schröter and   
         Gabriela Lindemann and   
                Regina Kunz and   
              Klemens Budde and   
               Hans-H. Neumayer   A Web-Based Electronic Patient Record
                                  System as a Means for Collection of
                                  Clinical Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
                 Hilde Tobi and   
       Paul B. van den Berg and   
Lolkje T. W. de Jong-van den Berg   The InterAction Database: Synergy of
                                  Science and Practice in Pharmacy . . . . 206
                   V. Maojo and   
                   L. Laita and   
           E. Roanes-Lozano and   
                  J. Crespo and   
           J. Rodriguez-Pedrosa   A New Computerized Method to Verify and
                                  Disseminate Medical Appropriateness
                                  Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
             Frieder Keller and   
                David Czock and   
              Michael Giehl and   
                Dietmar Zellner   Pharmacokinetic & -dynamic Drug
                                  Information and Dosage Adjustment System
                                  Pharmdis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
      Dino Alberto Mattucci and   
            Velio Macellari and   
          Pietro Chistolini and   
             Gianluca Frustagli   Discrete Simulations of Cadaver Kidney
                                  Allocation Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . 225
            Willi Sauerbrei and   
              Martin Schumacher   Bootstrap and Cross-Validation to Assess
                                  Complexity of Data-Driven Regression
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
         Helen Frances Gray and   
             Ross James Maxwell   Genetic Programming Optimisation of
                                  Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Pulse Shapes  242
         Christian Setzkorn and   
               Ray C. Paton and   
             Leanne Bricker and   
             Roy G. Farquharson   Application of a Genetic Programming
                                  Based Rule Discovery System to Recurring
                                  Miscarriage Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
              Roman Bittner and   
               Pavel Smrcka and   
         Petr Vysoký and   
          Karel Haná and   
             Lubomir Pousek and   
                    Petr Scheib   Detecting of Fatigue States of a Car
                                  Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
                 Arkady Bolotin   Operator Method of Fuzzification . . . . 274
                   E. Lamma and   
              M. Manservigi and   
                   P. Mello and   
                 S. Storari and   
                     F. Riguzzi   A System for Monitoring Nosocomial
                                  Infections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
         David Riaño and   
                   Susana Prado   A Data Mining Alternative to Model
                                  Hospital Operations: Filtering,
                                  Adaptation and Behaviour Prediction  . . 293
                  Martin Beibel   Selection of Informative Genes in Gene
                                  Expression Based Diagnosis: A
                                  Nonparametric Approach . . . . . . . . . 300
        Alessandro Giuliani and   
               Romualdo Benigni   Principal Component Analysis for
                                  Descriptive Epidemiology . . . . . . . . 308
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1934, 2000

             Bonnie J. Dorr and   
            Gina-Anne Levow and   
                     Dekang Lin   Building a Chinese--English Mapping
                                  between Verb Concepts for Multilingual
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
              Atsushi Fujii and   
               Tetsuya Ishikawa   Applying Machine Translation to
                                  Two-Stage Cross-Language Information
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
            Michael Fleming and   
                    Robin Cohen   Mixed-Initiative Translation of Web
                                  Pages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
     António Ribeiro and   
              Gabriel Lopes and   
              João Mexia   A Self-Learning Method of Parallel Texts
                                  Alignment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
              Chung-hye Han and   
              Benoit Lavoie and   
              Martha Palmer and   
                Owen Rambow and   
          Richard Kittredge and   
             Tanya Korelsky and   
                   Nari Kim and   
                   Myunghee Kim   Handling Structural Divergences and
                                  Recovering Dropped Arguments in a
                                  Korean/English Machine Translation
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
                 Liwei Zhao and   
               Karin Kipper and   
            William Schuler and   
           Christian Vogler and   
              Norman Badler and   
                  Martha Palmer   A Machine Translation System from
                                  English to American Sign Language  . . . 54
                   Nizar Habash   Oxygen: A Language Independent
                                  Linearization Engine . . . . . . . . . . 68
              Margo Budzikowska   Information Structure Transfer: Bridging
                                  the Information Gap in Structurally
                                  Different Languages  . . . . . . . . . . 80
             Arendse Bernth and   
              Michael C. McCord   The Effect of Source Analysis on
                                  Translation Confidence . . . . . . . . . 89
                  John S. White   Contemplating Automatic MT Evaluation    100
             Michelle Vanni and   
                Florence Reeder   How Are You Doing? A Look at MT
                                  Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
           Arantza Casillas and   
             Joseba Abaitua and   
         Raquel Martínez   Recycling Annotated Parallel Corpora for
                                  Bilingual Document Composition . . . . . 117
                   Michael Carl   Combining Invertible Example-Based
                                  Machine Translation with Translation
                                  Memory Technology  . . . . . . . . . . . 127
        Elliott Macklovitch and   
                 Graham Russell   What's Been Forgotten in Translation
                                  Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
          Barbara Gawronska and   
                   Hanna Duczak   Understanding Politics by Studying
                                  Weather: A Cognitive Approach to
                                  Representation of Polish Verbs of
                                  Motion, Appearance, and Existence  . . . 147
        Pernilla Danielsson and   
       Katarina Mühlenbock   Small but Efficient: The Misconception
                                  of High-Frequency Words in Scandinavian
                                  Translation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
    Violetta Cavalli-Sforza and   
            Krzysztof Czuba and   
            Teruko Mitamura and   
                    Eric Nyberg   Challenges in Adapting an Interlingua
                                  for Bidirectional English--Italian
                                  Translation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
          Stephen Helmreich and   
                  David Farwell   Text Meaning Representation as a Basis
                                  for Representation of Text
                                  Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
                 Achraf Chalabi   MT-Based Transparent Arabization of the
                                  Internet TARJIM.COM  . . . . . . . . . . 189
                Eric Nyberg and   
                Teruko Mitamura   The KANTOO Machine Translation
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
            John Weisgerber and   
                   Jin Yang and   
                    Pete Fisher   Pacific Rim Portable Translator  . . . . 196
             Jimmy C. M. Lu and   
         Lars Åkerman and   
                  Karin Spalink   LabelTool: A Localization Application
                                  for Devices with Restricted Display
                                  Areas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
                     Nan Decker   The LogoVista ES Translation System  . . 209
            Timothy Meekhof and   
                 David Clements   L&H Lexicography Toolkit for Machine
                                  Translation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
           Marjorie León   A New Look for the PAHO MT System  . . . 219
               David Mowatt and   
                  Harold Somers   Is MT Software Documentation Appropriate
                                  for MT Users?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
                 M. Holland and   
              C. Schlesiger and   
                        C. Tate   Evaluating Embedded Machine Translation
                                  in Military Field Exercises  . . . . . . 239
                Yu Seop Kim and   
              Sung Dong Kim and   
             Seong Bae Park and   
               Jong Woo Lee and   
             Jeong Ho Chang and   
             Kyu Baek Hwang and   
                Jang Min O. and   
                  Yung Taek Kim   Machine Translation Systems: E-K, K-E,
                                  J-K, K-J . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
                      Anonymous   Author index in PDF  . . . . . . . . . . 253


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1937, 2000

                  D. Fensel and   
                I. Horrocks and   
            F. Van Harmelen and   
                  S. Decker and   
                 M. Erdmann and   
                       M. Klein   OIL in a Nutshell  . . . . . . . . . . . 1
        Natalya Fridman Noy and   
           Ray W. Fergerson and   
                  Mark A. Musen   The Knowledge Model of Protégé-2000:
                                  Combining Interoperability and
                                  Flexibility  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
             Guus Schreiber and   
      Monica Crubézy and   
                     Mark Musen   A Case Study in Using Protégé-2000 as a
                                  Tool for CommonKADS  . . . . . . . . . . 33
            Richard Brimble and   
               Florence Sellini   The MOKA Modelling Language  . . . . . . 49
Jérôme Nobécourt and   
         Brigitte Biébow   $ M d_{\omega \varsigma } $: A Modelling
                                  Language to Build a Formal Ontology in
                                  Either Description Logics or Conceptual
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Mariano Fernández López and   
Asunción Gómez Pérez and   
María Dolores Rojas Amaya   Ontology's Crossed Life Cycles . . . . . 65
               Oscar Corcho and   
Asunción Gómez Pérez   A Roadmap to Ontology Specification
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
             Nicola Guarino and   
              Christopher Welty   A Formal Ontology of Properties  . . . . 97
         Riichiro Mizoguchi and   
               Kouji Kozaki and   
             Toshinobu Sano and   
             Yoshinobu Kitamura   Construction and Deployment of a Plant
                                  Ontology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
      Domenico M. Pisanelli and   
               Aldo Gangemi and   
                     Geri Steve   The Role of Ontologies for an Effective
                                  and Unambiguous Dissemination of
                                  Clinical Guidelines  . . . . . . . . . . 129
      Valentina A. M. Tamma and   
       Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon   Supporting Inheritance Mechanisms in
                                  Ontology Representation  . . . . . . . . 140
             Gilles Falquet and   
       Claire-Lise Mottaz Jiang   Conflict Resolution in the Collaborative
                                  Design of Terminological Knowledge Bases 156
   Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles and   
     Brigitte Biébow and   
                 Sylvie Szulman   Revisiting Ontology Design: A Method
                                  Based on Corpus Analysis . . . . . . . . 172
          Alexander Maedche and   
                  Steffen Staab   Mining Ontologies from Text  . . . . . . 189
     Gaël De Chalendar and   
                  Brigitte Grau   SVETLAN' or How to Classify Words Using
                                  Their Context  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
          Isabelle Bournaud and   
    Mélanie Courtine and   
             Jean-Daniel Zucker   KIDS: An Iterative Algorithm to Organize
                                  Relational Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . 217
         Nirmalie Wiratunga and   
                     Susan Craw   Informed Selection of Training Examples
                                  for Knowledge Refinement . . . . . . . . 233
              Robin Boswell and   
                     Susan Craw   Experiences with a Generic Refinement
                                  Toolkit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
               Jaap Gordijn and   
             Hans Akkermans and   
                 Hans Van Vliet   What's in an Electronic Business Model?  257
                  Antony Bryant   Chinese Encyclopaedias and Balinese
                                  Cockfights --- Lessons for Business
                                  Process Change and Knowledge Management  274
           Myriam Lewkowicz and   
                 Manuel Zacklad   Using Problem-Solving Models to Design
                                  Efficient Cooperative
                                  Knowledge-Management Systems Based on
                                  Formalization and Traceability of
                                  Argumentation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
               Farid Cerbah and   
    Jérôme Euzenat   Integrating Textual Knowledge and Formal
                                  Knowledge for Improving Traceability . . 296
         Sabine Dela\^\itre and   
                  Sabine Moisan   Knowledge Management by Reusing
                                  Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
        Alexander Felfernig and   
          Gerhard Friedrich and   
            Dietmar Jannach and   
                  Markus Zanker   Integrating Knowledge-Based
                                  Configuration Systems by Sharing
                                  Functional Architectures . . . . . . . . 312
    Leliane Nunes De Barros and   
                Paulo E. Santos   The Nature of Knowledge in an Abductive
                                  Event Calculus Planner . . . . . . . . . 328
               M. G. Jansen and   
           A. Th. Schreiber and   
                 B. J. Wielinga   Adapting Tableaux for Classification . . 344
               Klaus Becker and   
                Gerd Stumme and   
               Rudolf Wille and   
                  Uta Wille and   
               Monika Zickwolff   Conceptual Information Systems Discussed
                                  through an IT-Security Tool  . . . . . . 352
                 Rex B. H. Kwok   Translations of Ripple Down Rules into
                                  Logic Formalisms . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
               Paul Compton and   
                Debbie Richards   Generalising Ripple-Down Rules . . . . . 380
            Ghassan Beydoun and   
                 Achim Hoffmann   \em Monitoring Knowledge Acquisition
                                  Instead of \em Evaluating Knowledge
                                  Bases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
                Perry Groot and   
         Frank Van Harmelen and   
              Annette Ten Teije   Torture Tests: A Quantitative Analysis
                                  for the Robustness of Knowledge-Based
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
              Kieron O'Hara and   
             Nigel Shadbolt and   
                  Jeni Tennison   Certifying KBSs: Using CommonKADS to
                                  Provide Supporting Evidence for Fitness
                                  for Purpose of KBSs  . . . . . . . . . . 419
              Aurelien Slodzian   Kinesys, a Participative Approach to the
                                  Design of Knowledge Systems  . . . . . . 435
                 Joaquim Filipe   An Organizational Semiotics Model for
                                  Multi-agent Systems Design . . . . . . . 449
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1940, 2000

                    J. E. Smith   Instruction Level Distributed
                                  Processing: Adapting to Future
                                  Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
               Hans P. Zima and   
             Thomas L. Sterling   Macroservers: An Object-Based
                                  Programming and Execution Model for
                                  Processor-in-Memory Arrays . . . . . . . 7
                Brian Davis and   
                Bruce Jacob and   
                   Trevor Mudge   The New DRAM Interfaces: SDRAM, RDRAM
                                  and Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
           Henry S. Warren, Jr.   Blue Gene  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
                     Keiji Tani   Earth Simulator Project in Japan . . . . 33
           Barbara Kreaseck and   
               Dean Tullsen and   
                    Brad Calder   Limits of Task-Based Parallelism in
                                  Irregular Applications . . . . . . . . . 43
             Haitham Akkary and   
          Sébastien Hily   The Case for Speculative Multithreading
                                  on SMT Processors  . . . . . . . . . . . 59
           Timothy Sherwood and   
                    Brad Calder   Loop Termination Prediction  . . . . . . 73
                 Xiaomei Ji and   
             Dan Nicolaescu and   
       Alexander Veidenbaum and   
          Alexandru Nicolau and   
                   Rajesh Gupta   Compiler-Directed Cache Assist
                                  Adaptivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
             Tzung-Shi Chen and   
                Chih-Yung Chang   Skewed Data Partition and Alignment
                                  Techniques for Compiling Programs on
                                  Distributed Memory Multicomputers  . . . 105
         Nicholas P. Carter and   
           William J. Dally and   
                Whay S. Lee and   
         Stephen W. Keckler and   
                   Andrew Chang   Processor Mechanisms for Software Shared
                                  Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
        Mario Donato Marino and   
         Geraldo Lino de Campos   An Evaluation of Page Aggregation
                                  Technique on Different DSM Systems . . . 134
       Vasileios K. Barekas and   
  Panagiotis E. Hadjidoukas and   
Eleftherios D. Polychronopoulos and   
      Theodore S. Papatheodorou   Nanothreads vs. Fibers for the Support
                                  of Fine Grain Parallelism on Windows
                                  NT/2000 Platforms  . . . . . . . . . . . 146
               Shin-Jae Lee and   
                Minsoo Jeon and   
                Andrew Sohn and   
                  Dongseung Kim   Partitioned Parallel Radix Sort  . . . . 160
           Shigeru Obayashi and   
                Akira Oyama and   
               Takashi Nakamura   Transonic Wing Shape Optimization Based
                                  on Evolutionary Algorithms . . . . . . . 172
          Hiroyuki Yamazaki and   
             Shunji Enomoto and   
               Kazuomi Yamamoto   A Common CFD Platform UPACS  . . . . . . 182
           Thomas Fahringer and   
             Michael Gerndt and   
               Graham Riley and   
      Jesper Larsson Träff   On Performance Modeling for HPF
                                  Applications with ASL  . . . . . . . . . 191
         Jeeraporn Srisawat and   
        Nikitas A. Alexandridis   A ``Generalized $k$-Tree-Based Model to
                                  Sub-system Allocation'' for
                                  Partitionable Multi-dimensional
                                  Mesh-Connected Architectures . . . . . . 205
            H. Sarbazi-Azad and   
            L. M. Mackenzie and   
                 M. Ould-Khaoua   An Analytic Model for Communication
                                  Latency in Wormhole-Switched $k$-Ary
                                  $n$-Cube Interconnection Networks with
                                  Digit-Reversal Traffic . . . . . . . . . 218
              Xavier Molero and   
             Federico Silla and   
           Vicente Santonja and   
              José Duato   Performance Sensitivity of Routing
                                  Algorithms to Failures in Networks of
                                  Workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
             Satoshi Fujita and   
                   Yuji Kashima   Decentralized Load Balancing in
                                  Multi-node Broadcast Schemes for
                                  Hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
  José Nelson Amaral and   
                  Guang Gao and   
       Erturk Dogan Kocalar and   
            Patrick O'Neill and   
                     Xinan Tang   Design and Implementation of an
                                  Efficient Thread Partitioning Algorithm  252
  José Carlos Sancho and   
             Antonio Robles and   
              José Duato   A Flexible Routing Scheme for Networks
                                  of Workstations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
                 Austin Kim and   
                   Morris Chang   Java Bytecode Optimization with Advanced
                                  Instruction Folding Mechanism  . . . . . 268
                Fabian Breg and   
                   Mike Lew and   
           Harry A. G. Wijshoff   Performance Evaluation of a Java Based
                                  Chat System  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
             Yuh-Shyan Chen and   
                Che-Yi Chen and   
                  Yu-Chee Tseng   Multi-node Broadcasting in All-Ported
                                  $3$-D Wormhole-Routed Torus Using
                                  Aggregation-then-Distribution Strategy   284
      J. C. Martínez and   
                   F. Silla and   
            P. López and   
                       J. Duato   On the Influence of the Selection
                                  Function on the Performance of Networks
                                  of Workstations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
                 Jose Flich and   
         Pedro López and   
       Manuel. P. Malumbres and   
          José Duato and   
                    Tom Rokicki   Combining In-Transit Buffers with
                                  Optimized Routing Schemes to Boost the
                                  Performance of Networks with Source
                                  Routing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
        Hans Vandierendonck and   
              Koen De Bosschere   A Comparison of Locality-Based and
                                  Recency-Based Replacement Policies . . . 310
           Julio Sahuquillo and   
                   Ana Pont and   
             Veljko Milutinovic   The Filter Data Cache: A Tour Management
                                  Comparison with Related Split Data Cache
                                  Schemes Sensitive to Data Localities . . 319
               Mami Machida and   
            Ryoji Matsumoto and   
             Shigeki Miyaji and   
          Kenji E. Nakamura and   
                Hideaki Tonooka   Global Magneto-Hydrodynamic Simulations
                                  of Differentially Rotating Accretion
                                  Disk by Astrophysical Rotational Plasma
                                  Simulator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
  Claudia Roberta Calidonna and   
          Claudia Di Napoli and   
          Maurizio Giordano and   
            Mario Mango Furnari   Exploring Multi-level Parallelism in
                                  Cellular Automata Networks . . . . . . . 336
              Kazuhiko Ohno and   
         Shigehiro Yamamoto and   
             Takanori Okano and   
              Hiroshi Nakashima   Orgel: A Parallel Programming Language
                                  with Declarative Communication Streams   344
Frédéric Loulergue   BS$ \lambda_p $: Functional BSP Programs
                                  on Enumerated Vectors  . . . . . . . . . 355
            Yasuo Matsubara and   
              Hiroyuki Miyagawa   Ability of Classes of Dataflow Schemata
                                  with Timing Dependency . . . . . . . . . 364
          Tomoyuki Hiroyasu and   
             Mitsunori Miki and   
          Masahiro Hamasaki and   
                Yusuke Tanimura   A New Model of Parallel Distributed
                                  Genetic Algorithms for Cluster Systems:
                                  Dual Individual DGAs . . . . . . . . . . 374
             Timothy G. Mattson   An Introduction to OpenMP 2.0  . . . . . 384
         Yasunori Nishitani and   
            Kiyoshi Negishi and   
               Hiroshi Ohta and   
                  Eiji Nunohiro   Implementation and Evaluation of OpenMP
                                  for Hitachi SR8000 . . . . . . . . . . . 391
            Kazuhiro Kusano and   
            Shigehisa Satoh and   
                 Mitsuhisa Sato   Performance Evaluation of the Omni
                                  OpenMP Compiler  . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
  Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos and   
  Theodore S. Papatheodorou and   
Constantine D. Polychronopoulos and   
       Jesús Labarta and   
          Eduard Ayguadé   Leveraging Transparent Data Distribution
                                  in OpenMP via User-Level Dynamic Page
                                  Migration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
           Thomas Fahringer and   
             Michael Gerndt and   
               Graham Riley and   
      Jesper Larsson Träff   Formalizing OpenMP Performance
                                  Properties with ASL  . . . . . . . . . . 428
               Haoqiang Jin and   
            Michael Frumkin and   
                      Jerry Yan   Automatic Generation of OpenMP
                                  Directives and Its Application to
                                  Computational Fluid Dynamics Codes . . . 440
          Kazuhisa Ishizaka and   
               Motoki Obata and   
              Hironori Kasahara   Coarse-Grain Task Parallel Processing
                                  Using the OpenMP Backend of the OSCAR
                                  Multigrain Parallelizing Compiler  . . . 457
               Osamu Tatebe and   
             Mitsuhisa Sato and   
              Satoshi Sekiguchi   Impact of OpenMP Optimizations for the
                                  MGCG Method  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
            Brian Armstrong and   
              Seon Wook Kim and   
               Rudolf Eigenmann   Quantifying Differences between OpenMP
                                  and MPI Using a Large-Scale Application
                                  Suite  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
               Naoki Hirose and   
              Yuichi Matsuo and   
           Takashi Nakamura and   
               Martin Skote and   
                 Dan Henningson   Large Scale Parallel Direct Numerical
                                  Simulation of a Separating Turbulent
                                  Boundary Layer Flow over a Flat Plate
                                  Using NAL Numerical Wind Tunnel  . . . . 494
            Hajime Kimizuka and   
             Hideo Kaburaki and   
            Futoshi Shimizu and   
                Yoshiaki Kogure   Characterization of Disordered Networks
                                  in Vitreous SiO$_2$ and Its Rigidity by
                                  Molecular-Dynamics Simulations on
                                  Parallel Computers . . . . . . . . . . . 501
         Yoshinobu Yamamoto and   
             Tomoaki Kunugi and   
                 Akimi Serizawa   Direct Numerical Simulation of Coherent
                                  Structure in Turbulent Open-Channel
                                  Flows with Heat Transfer . . . . . . . . 502
           Shin-ichi Satake and   
             Tomoaki Kunugi and   
                 Ryutaro Himeno   High Reynolds Number Computation for
                                  Turbulent Heat Transfer in a Pipe Flow   514
             Yutaka Ueshima and   
              Yasuaki Kishimoto   Large-Scale Simulation System and
                                  Advanced Photon Research . . . . . . . . 524
        Katsunobu Nishihara and   
           Hirokazu Amitani and   
                Yuko Fukuda and   
              Tetsuya Honda and   
                  Y. Kawata and   
                Yuko Ohashi and   
           Hitoshi Sakagami and   
               Yoshitaka Sizuki   Parallelization, Vectorization and
                                  Visualization of Large Scale Plasma
                                  Particle Simulations and Its Application
                                  to Studies of Intense Laser Interactions 535
                    Li Chen and   
            Issei Fujishiro and   
                  Qunsheng Peng   Fast LIC Image Generation Based on
                                  Significance Map . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
              Takayuki Itoh and   
          Yasushi Yamaguchi and   
                  Koji Koyamada   Fast Isosurface Generation Using the
                                  Cell-Edge Centered Propagation Algorithm 547
                  Koji Koyamada   Fast Ray-Casting for Irregular Volumes   557
           Hidetoshi Kotera and   
              Taku Hirasawa and   
            Sasatoshi Senga and   
                   Susumu Shima   A Study on the Effect of Air on the
                                  Dynamic Motion of a MEMS Device and Its
                                  Shape Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . 573
              Hideo Miyachi and   
        Toshihiko Kobayashi and   
            Yasuhiro Takeda and   
            Hiroshi Hoshino and   
                      Xiuyi Jin   A Distributed Rendering System ``On
                                  Demand Rendering System''  . . . . . . . 585
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1941, 2000

                Karl Tombre and   
          Christian Ah-Soon and   
             Philippe Dosch and   
       Gérald Masini and   
              Salvatore Tabbone   Stable and Robust Vectorization: How to
                                  Make the Right Choices . . . . . . . . . 3
                   Dave Elliman   A Really Useful Vectorization Algorithm  19
      Sébastien Adam and   
         Rémy Mullot and   
            Jean-Marc Ogier and   
              Claude Cariou and   
           Joël Gardes and   
                Yves Lecourtier   Processing of the Connected Shapes in
                                  Raster-to-Vector Conversion Process  . . 28
              Toyohide Watanabe   Recognition in Maps and Geographic
                                  Documents: Features and Approach . . . . 39
          Jurgen den Hartog and   
       Bernardus T. Holtrop and   
        Marlies E. de Gunst and   
        Ernst-Peter Oosterbroek   Interpretation of Geographic Vector-Data
                                  in Practice  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
                  Gady Agam and   
               Its'hak Dinstein   Compound Regulated Morphological
                                  Operations and Their Application to the
                                  Analysis of Line-Drawings  . . . . . . . 58
                 Young-Bin Kwon   Detection of Black Point Houses on the
                                  Large Size Scanned Topographic Map . . . 69
         Takamasa Shimasaki and   
              Toyohide Watanabe   Recognition of Connective Relationship
                                  among House Blocks from House Maps . . . 81
            Daniel Lopresti and   
                    George Nagy   A Tabular Survey of Automated Table
                                  Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Marc Vuilleumier Stückelberg and   
                 David Doermann   Model-Based Graphics Recognition . . . . 121
            Atul K. Chhabra and   
              Juan F. Arias and   
              Theo Pavlidis and   
              Phoebe X. Pan and   
               Pedro V. Sanders   A Client-Server Architecture for
                                  Document Image Recognition . . . . . . . 133
               Ankur Lahoti and   
                Rohit Singh and   
              Amitabha Mukerjee   Multi-Dimensional Interval Algebra with
                                  Symmetry for Describing Block Layouts    143
            Tomoyuki Yamada and   
              Toyohide Watanabe   Identification of Person Objects in
                                  Four-Scenes Comics of Japanese
                                  Newspapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
             L. P. Cordella and   
                       M. Vento   Symbol and Shape Recognition . . . . . . 167
               Xiaoyi Jiang and   
        Andreas Münger and   
                    Horst Bunke   Synthesis of Representative Graphical
                                  Symbols by Computing Generalized Median
                                  Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
             Ernest Valveny and   
             Enric Martí   Deformable Template Matching within a
                                  Bayesian Framework for Hand-Written
                                  Graphic Symbol Recognition . . . . . . . 193
       Éric Anquetil and   
     Bertrand Coüasnon and   
Frédéric Dambreville   A Symbol Classifier Able to Reject Wrong
                                  Shapes for Document Recognition Systems  209
             L. P. Cordella and   
              C. De Stefano and   
                      M. Frucci   A Robust Shape Decomposition Method  . . 219
            Jean-Yves Ramel and   
         Guillaume Boissier and   
                  Hubert Emptoz   A Structural Representation Adapted to
                                  Handwritten Symbol Recognition . . . . . 228
      Sébastien Adam and   
            Jean-Marc Ogier and   
              Claude Cariou and   
           Joël Gardes and   
         Rémy Mullot and   
                Yves Lecourtier   Combination of Invariant Pattern
                                  Recognition Primitives on Technical
                                  Documents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
         Stefan Müller and   
                 Gerhard Rigoll   Engineering Drawing Database Retrieval
                                  Using Statistical Pattern Spotting
                                  Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
             Gerhard Rigoll and   
             Stefan Müller   Graphics-Based Retrieval of Color Image
                                  Databases Using Hand-Drawn Query
                                  Sketches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
           Joaquim A. Jorge and   
              Manuel J. Fonseca   A Simple Approach to Recognise Geometric
                                  Shapes Interactively . . . . . . . . . . 266
                       Dov Dori   Syntactic and Semantic Graphics
                                  Recognition: The Role of the
                                  Object-Process Methodology . . . . . . . 277
          Amitabha Mukerjee and   
            Nilanjan Sasmal and   
              D. Sridhar Sastry   Efficient Categorization of $3$D Edges
                                  from $2$D Projections  . . . . . . . . . 288
                   Yang Cao and   
                  Ruoyu Yan and   
                    Jun Tan and   
                     Shijie Cai   Automatic Interpretation of Construction
                                  Structure Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . 298
            R. T. Ritchings and   
               M. A. Berbar and   
                    D. E. Asumu   Automated Analysis of Scanned Ducting
                                  Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
             Robert M. Haralick   Performance Evaluation of Document Image
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
            Atul K. Chhabra and   
              Ihsin T. Phillips   Edit Cost Index as a Measure of
                                  Performance of Graphics Recognition
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
                 Wenyin Liu and   
                Liang Zhang and   
                  Long Tang and   
                       Dov Dori   Cost Evaluation of Interactively
                                  Correcting Recognized Engineering
                                  Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
                 Wenyin Liu and   
                Xiaoyu Wang and   
                  Long Tang and   
                       Dov Dori   Impact of Sparse Pixel Vectorization
                                  Algorithm Parameters on Line
                                  Segmentation Performance . . . . . . . . 335
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1949, 2000

                  Luca Cardelli   Semistructured Computation . . . . . . . 1
              Leonid Libkin and   
                   Limsoon Wong   On the Power of Incremental Evaluation
                                  in SQL-Like Languages  . . . . . . . . . 17
            Vasilis Aggelis and   
             Stavros Cosmadakis   Optimization of Nested SQL Queries by
                                  Tableau Equivalence  . . . . . . . . . . 31
                Haixun Wang and   
                  Carlo Zaniolo   User-Defined Aggregates in Database
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
          Gösta Grahne and   
                Emmanuel Waller   How to Make SQL Stand for String Query
                                  Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
           Sebastian Maneth and   
                    Frank Neven   Structured Document Transformations
                                  Based on XSL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
                    Frank Neven   Extensions of Attribute Grammars for
                                  Structured Document Queries  . . . . . . 99
     William J. McIver, Jr. and   
              Karim Keddara and   
              Christian Och and   
                 Roger King and   
          Clarence A. Ellis and   
                  John Todd and   
             Nathan Getrich and   
         Richard M. Osborne and   
                   Brian Temple   An Overview of Souk Nets: A
                                  Component-Based Paradigm for Data Source
                                  Integration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--128
             Tony Printezis and   
        Malcolm P. Atkinson and   
                    Mick Jordan   Defining and Handling Transient Fields
                                  in PJama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
                Guozhu Dong and   
               Richard Hull and   
               Bharat Kumar and   
                 Jianwen Su and   
                      Gang Zhou   A Framework for Optimizing Distributed
                                  Workflow Executions  . . . . . . . . . . 152
      André Bergholz and   
       Johann Christoph Freytag   Querying Semistructured Data Based on
                                  Schema Matching  . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
              Peter Buneman and   
                Benjamin Pierce   Union Types for Semistructured Data  . . 184
              Peter Buneman and   
                 Wenfei Fan and   
                Scott Weinstein   Query Optimization for Semistructured
                                  Data Using Path Constraints in a
                                  Deterministic Data Model . . . . . . . . 208
              Floris Geerts and   
                  Bart Kuijpers   Expressing Topological Connectivity of
                                  Spatial Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . 224
           Gabriel M. Kuper and   
                     Jianwen Su   A Representation Independent Language
                                  for Planar Spatial Databases with
                                  Euclidean Distance . . . . . . . . . . . 239
               James Bailey and   
        Alexandra Poulovassilis   An Abstract Interpretation Framework for
                                  Termination Analysis of Active Rules . . 252
          Gösta Grahne and   
          Laks V. S. Lakshmanan   On the Difference between Navigating
                                  Semi-structured Data and Querying It . . 271
          Tirthankar Lahiri and   
            Serge Abiteboul and   
                 Jennifer Widom   Ozone: Integrating Structured and
                                  Semistructured Data  . . . . . . . . . . 297
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1950, 2000

           Dieter van Melkebeek   Randomness and Completeness in
                                  Computational Complexity: 1 Introduction 1
           Dieter van Melkebeek   Randomness and Completeness in
                                  Computational Complexity: 2
                                  Preliminaries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
           Dieter van Melkebeek   Randomness and Completeness in
                                  Computational Complexity: 3
                                  Derandomizing Arthur--Merlin Games . . . 53
           Dieter van Melkebeek   Randomness and Completeness in
                                  Computational Complexity: 4 Sparseness
                                  of Complete Languages  . . . . . . . . . 77
           Dieter van Melkebeek   Randomness and Completeness in
                                  Computational Complexity: 5
                                  Autoreducibility of Complete Languages   113
           Dieter van Melkebeek   Randomness and Completeness in
                                  Computational Complexity: 6 The Size of
                                  Randomized Polynomial Time . . . . . . . 141
           Dieter van Melkebeek   Randomness and Completeness in
                                  Computational Complexity: 7 The
                                  Frequency of Complete Languages  . . . . 145
           Dieter van Melkebeek   Randomness and Completeness in
                                  Computational Complexity: 8 The
                                  Frequency of Autoreducible Languages . . 161
           Dieter van Melkebeek   Randomness and Completeness in
                                  Computational Complexity: References . . 183
           Dieter van Melkebeek   Randomness and Completeness in
                                  Computational Complexity: Notation Index 191
           Dieter van Melkebeek   Randomness and Completeness in
                                  Computational Complexity: Subject Index  195


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1954, 2000

                   Mark E. Dean   Trends in Computing  . . . . . . . . . . 1
             David M. Russinoff   A Case Study in Formal Verification of
                                  Register-Transfer Logic with ACL2: The
                                  Floating Point Adder of the AMD Athlon
                                  Processor  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--36
             Roderick Bloem and   
            Harold N. Gabow and   
                  Fabio Somenzi   An Algorithm for Strongly Connected
                                  Component Analysis in $ n \log n $
                                  Symbolic Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
                Rajeev Alur and   
                 Radu Grosu and   
                   Bow-Yaw Wang   Automated Refinement Checking for
                                  Asynchronous Processes . . . . . . . . . 55
                 In-Ho Moon and   
            Gary D. Hachtel and   
                  Fabio Somenzi   Border-Block Triangular Form and
                                  Conjunction Schedule in Image
                                  Computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
                David Basin and   
           Stefan Friedrich and   
      Sebastian Mödersheim   B2M: A Semantic Based Tool for BLIF
                                  Hardware Descriptions  . . . . . . . . . 91
               Mary Sheeran and   
               Satnam Singh and   
         Gunnar Stålmarck   Checking Safety Properties Using
                                  Induction and a SAT-Solver . . . . . . . 108
               Nancy A. Day and   
            Mark D. Aagaard and   
                     Byron Cook   Combining Stream-Based and State-Based
                                  Verification Techniques  . . . . . . . . 126
                Kavita Ravi and   
             Roderick Bloem and   
                  Fabio Somenzi   A Comparative Study of Symbolic
                                  Algorithms for the Computation of Fair
                                  Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
            Panagiotis Manolios   Correctness of Pipelined Machines  . . . 161
              Wolfgang Reif and   
            Jürgen Ruf and   
         Gerhard Schellhorn and   
                 Tobias Vollmer   Do You Trust Your Model Checker? . . . . 179
           Edmund M. Clarke and   
                  S. German and   
                      Y. Lu and   
              Helmuth Veith and   
                        D. Wang   Executable Protocol Specification in ESL 197
                  John Harrison   Formal Verification of Floating Point
                                  Trigonometric Functions  . . . . . . . . 217
                 Jun Sawada and   
            Warren A. Hunt, Jr.   Hardware Modeling Using Function
                                  Encapsulation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
             Antonio Cerone and   
                George J. Milne   A Methodology for the Formal Analysis of
                                  Asynchronous Micropipelines  . . . . . . 246
            Mark D. Aagaard and   
            Robert B. Jones and   
           Thomas F. Melham and   
            John W. O'Leary and   
            Carl-Johan H. Seger   A Methodology for Large-Scale Hardware
                                  Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
                  Nina Amla and   
           E. Allen Emerson and   
          Robert P. Kurshan and   
              Kedar S. Namjoshi   Model Checking Synchronous Timing
                                  Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
                    Jin Hou and   
                   Eduard Cerny   Model Reductions and a Case Study  . . . 299
Adilson Luiz Bonifácio and   
           Arnaldo Vieira Moura   Modeling and Parameters Synthesis for an
                                  Air Traffic Management System  . . . . . 316
              Kanna Shimizu and   
              David L. Dill and   
                     Alan J. Hu   Monitor-Based Formal Specification of
                                  PCI  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
                Aarti Gupta and   
               Zijiang Yang and   
               Pranav Ashar and   
                  Anubhav Gupta   SAT-Based Image Computation with
                                  Application in Reachability Analysis . . 354
                 Per Bjesse and   
                  Koen Claessen   SAT-Based Verification without State
                                  Space Traversal  . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
           Shoham Ben-David and   
               Tamir Heyman and   
              Orna Grumberg and   
                 Assaf Schuster   Scalable Distributed On-the-Fly Symbolic
                                  Model Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
                 Gordon J. Pace   The Semantics of Verilog Using
                                  Transition System Combinators  . . . . . 405
                    Gerd Ritter   Sequential Equivalence Checking by
                                  Symbolic Simulation  . . . . . . . . . . 423
           Christoph Meinel and   
             Christian Stangier   Speeding Up Image Computation by Using
                                  RTL Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
         Kiyoharu Hamaguchi and   
        Hidekazu Urushihara and   
          Toshinobu Kashiwabara   Symbolic Checking of Signal-Transition
                                  Consistency for Verifying High-Level
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
               Chris Wilson and   
              David L. Dill and   
               Randal E. Bryant   Symbolic Simulation with Approximate
                                  Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
           Randal E. Bryant and   
             Pankaj Chauhan and   
           Edmund M. Clarke and   
                      Amit Goel   A Theory of Consistency for Modular
                                  Synchronous Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 486
              Michael Jones and   
          Ganesh Gopalakrishnan   Verifying Transaction Ordering
                                  Properties in Unbounded Bus Networks
                                  through Combined Deductive/Algorithmic
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
                  Alex Tsow and   
              Steven D. Johnson   Visualizing System Factorizations with
                                  Behavior Tables  . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
               Robert Beers and   
            Rajnish Ghughal and   
                   Mark Aagaard   Applications of Hierarchical
                                  Verification in Model Checking . . . . . ??


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1955, 2000

               Thomas Eiter and   
                  Georg Gottlob   On the Complexity of Theory Curbing  . . 1
                Bruno Courcelle   Graph Operations and Monadic
                                  Second-Order Logic: A Survey . . . . . . 20
           Jean-Yves Marion and   
                    J.-Y. Moyen   Efficient First Order Functional Program
                                  Interpreter with Time Bound
                                  Certifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
         Wolfgang Grieskamp and   
                  Markus Lepper   Encoding Temporal Logics in Executable
                                  Z: A Case Study for the \sf ZETA System  43
               S\lawomir Lasota   Behavioural Constructor Implementation
                                  for Regular Algebras . . . . . . . . . . 54
            Thomas Hallgren and   
                    Aarne Ranta   An Extensible Proof Text Editor  . . . . 70
                 David Delahaye   A Tactic Language for the System \em Coq 85
           Miyuki Koshimura and   
                 Ryuzo Hasegawa   Proof Simplification for Model
                                  Generation and Its Applications  . . . . 96
Christian G. Fermüller and   
                    Georg Moser   Have SPASS with \sl OCC1N$_g^ = $  . . . 114
         Florent Jacquemard and   
   Michaël Rusinowitch and   
               Laurent Vigneron   Compiling and Verifying Security
                                  Protocols  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
           Jan Friso Groote and   
                Jaco van de Pol   Equational Binary Decision Diagrams  . . 161
Cécile Canovas-Dumas and   
                     Paul Caspi   A PVS Proof Obligation Generator for
                                  Lustre Programs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
            Roberto Bagnara and   
           Patricia M. Hill and   
                Enea Zaffanella   Efficient Structural Information
                                  Analysis for Real CLP Languages  . . . . 189
         Jean-Vincent Loddo and   
               Roberto Di Cosmo   Playing Logic Programs with the
                                  Alpha-Beta Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 207
              Nikolay Pelov and   
            Emmanuel De Mot and   
                  Marc Denecker   Logic Programming Approaches for
                                  Representing and Solving Constraint
                                  Satisfaction Problems: A Comparison  . . 225
              Matthias Baaz and   
           Agata Ciabattoni and   
                   Richard Zach   Quantified Propositional Gödel Logics . . 240
             Philippe de Groote   Proof-Search in Implicative Linear Logic
                                  as a Matching Problem  . . . . . . . . . 257
                  Dieter Spreen   A New Model Construction for the
                                  Polymorphic Lambda Calculus  . . . . . . 275
                   Rick Statman   Church's Lambda Delta Calculus . . . . . 293
               Sergio Greco and   
                  Ester Zumpano   Querying Inconsistent Databases  . . . . 308
               Ian Horrocks and   
             Ulrike Sattler and   
            Sergio Tessaris and   
                 Stephan Tobies   How to Decide Query Containment under
                                  Constraints Using a Description Logic    326
              Gilles Barthe and   
          Bernard Paul Serpette   Static Reduction Analysis stafor
                                  Imperative Object Oriented Languages . . 344
                   Roberta Gori   An Abstract Interpretation Approach to
                                  Termination of Logic Programs  . . . . . 362
              Elvira Albert and   
              Michael Hanus and   
            Germán Vidal   Using an Abstract Representation to
                                  Specialize Functional Logic Programs . . 381
                    Wim Vanhoof   Binding-Time Analysis by Constraint
                                  Solving  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
              Erich Grädel   Efficient Evaluation Methods for Guarded
                                  Logics and Datalog LITE  . . . . . . . . 417
               Jean-Marc Talbot   On the Alternation-Free Horn $ \mu
                                  $-Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
    Steffen Hölldobler and   
                 Dietrich Kuske   The Boundary between Decidable and
                                  Undecidable Fragments of the Fluent
                                  Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
              Helko Lehmann and   
               Michael Leuschel   Solving Planning Problems by Partial
                                  Deduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
   Ján \vSefránek   A Kripkean Semantics for Dynamic Logic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1956, 2000

                   Andreas Abel   Specification and Verification of a
                                  Formal System for Structurally Recursive
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
               Andreas Abel and   
            Thorsten Altenkirch   A Predicative Strong Normalisation Proof
                                  for a $ \lambda $-Calculus with
                                  Interleaving Inductive Types . . . . . . 21
          Steffen van Bakel and   
           Franco Barbanera and   
       Maribel Fernández   Polymorphic Intersection Type Assignment
                                  for Rewrite Systems with Abstraction and
                                  $ \beta $-Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
              Gertrud Bauer and   
                  Markus Wenzel   Computer-Assisted Mathematics at Work    61
            Gustavo Betarte and   
            Cristina Cornes and   
                 Nora Szasz and   
                Alvaro Tasistro   Specification of a Smart Card Operating
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
             Paul Callaghan and   
                    Zhaohui Luo   Implementation Techniques for Inductive
                                  Types in Plastic . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
       Alberto Ciaffaglione and   
          Pietro Di Gianantonio   A Co-inductive Approach to Real Numbers  114
                 David Delahaye   Information Retrieval in a \em Coq Proof
                                  Library Using Type Isomorphisms  . . . . 131
           Healfdene Goguen and   
           Richard Brooksby and   
                   Rod Burstall   Memory Management: An Abstract
                                  Formulation of Incremental Tracing . . . 148
                 Micaela Mayero   The Three Gap Theorem (Steinhaus
                                  Conjecture)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
                    Qiao Haiyan   Formalising Formulas-as-Types-as-Objects 174
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1961, 2000

                 Jean Vuillemin   Finite Digital Synchronous Circuits Are
                                  Characterized by $2$-Algebraic Truth
                                  Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
               Alain Jean-Marie   Performance Evaluation of Networks: New
                                  Problems and Challenges  . . . . . . . . 13
                  Jinyan Li and   
     Kotagiri Ramamohanarao and   
                    Guozhu Dong   Emerging Patterns and Classification . . 15
                 K. Ettikan and   
                   V. Ganapathy   IPv6 Performance Analysis on FreeBSD
                                  Workstation Using Simple Applications    33
               DongChun Lee and   
                JeomGoo Kim and   
                   JooSeok Song   Performance of Location Caching Scheme
                                  to Support Call Locality in Wireless
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
             Chong-Won Park and   
                Young-Yearl Han   A Practical Parity Scheme for Tolerating
                                  Triple Disk Failures in RAID
                                  Architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
               Der-Rong Din and   
         Shian-Shyong Tseng and   
                 Mon-Fong Jiang   Genetic Algorithm for Extended Cell
                                  Assignment Problem in Wireless ATM
                                  Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
              Silvano Dal Zilio   Spatial Congruence for Ambients Is
                                  Decidable  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
              Choon-Bo Shim and   
                  Jae-Woo Chang   A Spatio-temporal Representation Scheme
                                  for Modeling Moving Objects in Video
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
             Keiichi Kaneko and   
                  Yasuto Suzuki   Node-to-Set Disjoint Paths Problem in
                                  Rotator Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
          Antonín Kucera   On Simulation-Checking with Sequential
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
              Zhiyong Huang and   
                Binjia Jiao and   
             B. Prabhakaran and   
           Conrado R. Ruiz, Jr.   Reusing Animations in Databases for
                                  Multimedia Presentations . . . . . . . . 149
         Kumar Neeraj Verma and   
      Jean Goubault-Larrecq and   
             Sanjiva Prasad and   
                  S. Arun-Kumar   Reflecting BDDs in Coq . . . . . . . . . 162
                 Martin Leucker   On Model Checking Synchronised Hardware
                                  Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
           Pierpaolo Degano and   
             Francesca Levi and   
                   Chiara Bodei   Safe Ambients: Control Flow Analysis and
                                  Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
      M. Dezani-Ciancaglini and   
                       I. Salvo   Security Types for Mobile Safe Ambients  215
              Elvira Albert and   
         César Ferri and   
              Frank Steiner and   
            Germán Vidal   Improving Functional Logic Programs by
                                  Difference-Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
            U. Bhattacharya and   
                       R. Chaki   A New Multihop Logical Topology for
                                  Reliable Broadband Communication . . . . 255
            U. Bhattacharya and   
                       R. Chaki   A New Scalable Topology for Multihop
                                  Optical Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
            Masahiro Kimoto and   
               Masako Takahashi   On Computable Tree Functions . . . . . . 273
                   Kamal Lodaya   Sharpening the Undecidability of
                                  Interval Temporal Logic  . . . . . . . . 290
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1974, 2000

               E. Allen Emerson   Model Checking: Theory into Practice . . 1
             Mary Fernandez and   
              Jerome Simeon and   
                  Philip Wadler   An Algebra for XML Query . . . . . . . . 11
               Bernard Chazelle   Irregularities of Distribution,
                                  Derandomization, and Complexity Theory   46
                David Basin and   
              Manuel Clavel and   
           José Meseguer   Rewriting Logic as a Metalogical
                                  Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
          Martin Grötschel   Frequency Assignment in Mobile Phone
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
              Peter Buneman and   
             Sanjeev Khanna and   
                 Wang-Chiew Tan   Data Provenance: Some Basic Issues . . . 87
           Sachin B. Patkar and   
                   H. Narayanan   Fast On-Line/Off-Line Algorithms for
                                  Optimal Reinforcement of a Network and
                                  Its Connections with Principal Partition 94
      Lene Monrad Favrholdt and   
          Morten Nyhave Nielsen   On-Line Edge-Coloring with a Fixed
                                  Number of Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
               Toshihiro Fujito   On Approximability of the
                                  Independent/Connected Edge Dominating
                                  Set Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
               Igor Walukiewicz   Model Checking CTL Properties of
                                  Pushdown Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
         Salvatore La Torre and   
              Margherita Napoli   A Decidable Dense Branching-Time
                                  Temporal Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
             Orna Kupferman and   
               Nir Piterman and   
                 Moshe Y. Vardi   Fair Equivalence Relations . . . . . . . 151
            Pierre McKenzie and   
           Heribert Vollmer and   
                Klaus W. Wagner   Arithmetic Circuits and Polynomial
                                  Replacement Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 164
     Jaikumar Radhakrishnan and   
                 Pranab Sen and   
            Sundar Vishwanathan   Depth-$3$ Arithmetic Circuits for $
                                  S_n^2 (X) $ and Extensions of the
                                  Graham-Pollack Theorem . . . . . . . . . 176
                     Olivier Ly   The Bounded Weak Monadic Quantifier
                                  Alternation Hierarchy of Equational
                                  Graphs Is Infinite . . . . . . . . . . . 188
             Sergei Abramov and   
              Robert Glück   Combining Semantics with Non-standard
                                  Interpreter Hierarchies  . . . . . . . . 201
            Jan-Georg Smaus and   
      François Fages and   
               Pierre Deransart   Using Modes to Ensure Subject Reduction
                                  for Typed Logic Programs with Subtyping  214
              Marina De Vos and   
                   Dirk Vermeir   Dynamically Ordered Probabilistic Choice
                                  Logic Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . 227
         Michael R. Fellows and   
         Catherine McCartin and   
        Frances A. Rosamond and   
                   Ulrike Stege   Coordinatized Kernels and Catalytic
                                  Reductions: An Improved FPT Algorithm
                                  for Max Leaf Spanning Tree and Other
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
           Surender Baswana and   
                    Sandeep Sen   Planar Graph Blocking for External
                                  Searching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
              Dimitar P. Guelev   A Complete Fragment of Higher-Order
                                  Duration $ \mu $-Calculus  . . . . . . . 264
                 Huimin Lin and   
                        Wang Yi   A Complete Axiomatisation for Timed
                                  Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
             Pilu Crescenzi and   
          Alberto Del Lungo and   
             Roberto Grossi and   
                 Elena Lodi and   
                Linda Pagli and   
                 Gianluca Rossi   Text Sparsification via Local Maxima . . 290
               Amihood Amir and   
           Moshe Lewenstein and   
                      Ely Porat   Approximate Swapped Matching . . . . . . 302
           Rance Cleaveland and   
            Gerald Lüttgen   A Semantic Theory for Heterogeneous
                                  System Design  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
        Ekaterina Sedletsky and   
                Amir Pnueli and   
              Mordechai Ben-Ari   Formal Verification of the
                                  Ricart-Agrawala Algorithm  . . . . . . . 325
       Johannes Köbler and   
               Wolfgang Lindner   On Distribution-Specific Learning with
                                  Membership Queries versus Pseudorandom
                                  Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
           Holger Spakowski and   
                Jörg Vogel   $ \Theta_2^p $-Completeness: A Classical
                                  Approach for New Results . . . . . . . . 348
       Johannes Köbler and   
                 Jochen Messner   Is the Standard Proof System for SAT
                                  P-Optimal? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
             Barbara König   A General Framework for Types in Graph
                                  Rewriting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
                    Yuxi Fu and   
                  Zhenrong Yang   The Ground Congruence for Chi Calculus   385
      Cédric Fournet and   
              Cosimo Laneve and   
               Luc Maranget and   
             Didier Rémy   Inheritance in the Join Calculus . . . . 397
           Stefano Leonardi and   
Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela and   
               Andrea Vitaletti   Approximation Algorithms for Bandwidth
                                  and Storage Allocation Problems under
                                  Real Time Constraints  . . . . . . . . . 409
       Bala Kalyanasundaram and   
                     Kirk Pruhs   Dynamic Spectrum Allocation: The
                                  Impotency of Duration Notification . . . 421
      Pietro Di Gianantonio and   
                Gianluca Franco   The Fine Structure of Game Lambda Models 429
                 Michel Parigot   Strong Normalization of Second Order
                                  Symmetric $ \lambda $-Calculus . . . . . 442
                Foto Afrati and   
           Evripidis Bampis and   
         Aleksei V. Fishkin and   
               Klaus Jansen and   
                  Claire Kenyon   Scheduling to Minimize the Average
                                  Completion Time of Dedicated Tasks . . . 454
         Michael T. Hallett and   
                 Jens Lagergren   Hunting for Functionally Analogous Genes 465
               Bharat Adsul and   
              Aranyak Mehta and   
                  Milind Sohoni   Keeping Track of the Latest Gossip in
                                  Shared Memory Systems  . . . . . . . . . 477
           Ajay D. Kshemkalyani   Concurrent Knowledge and Logical Clock
                                  Abstractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
     Christian Glaßer and   
                  Heinz Schmitz   Decidable Hierarchies of Starfree
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
              Jens R. Woinowski   Prefix Languages of Church--Rosser
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1975, 2000

         Minoru Kuribayashi and   
               Hatsukazu Tanaka   A Watermarking Scheme Based on the
                                  Characteristic of Addition among DCT
                                  Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                Oliver Benedens   Affine Invariant Watermarks for $3$D
                                  Polygonal and NURBS Based Models . . . . 15
      René Rosenbaum and   
               Heidrun Schumann   A Steganographic Framework for Reference
                                  Colour Based Encoding and Cover Image
                                  Selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
       Francesc Sebé and   
       Josep Domingo-Ferrer and   
                  Jordi Herrera   Spatial-Domain Image Watermarking Robust
                                  against Compression, Filtering, Cropping
                                  and Scaling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
            Gareth Brisbane and   
           Rei Safavi-Naini and   
                Philip Ogunbona   Region-Based Watermarking by
                                  Distribution Adjustment  . . . . . . . . 54
        Tapio Seppänen and   
     Kaisu Mäkelä and   
              Anja Keskinarkaus   Hiding Information in Color Images Using
                                  Small Color Palettes . . . . . . . . . . 69
               Hideaki Goto and   
             Masahiro Mambo and   
          Kenjiro Matsumura and   
                 Hiroki Shizuya   An Approach to the Objective and
                                  Quantitative Evaluation of
                                  Tamper-Resistant Software  . . . . . . . 82
                 Tina Lindkvist   Characteristics of Some Binary Codes for
                                  Fingerprinting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
             Kazumasa Omote and   
                  Atsuko Miyaji   An Anonymous Auction Protocol with a
                                  Single Non-trusted Center Using Binary
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
             Toru Nakanishi and   
                  Yuji Sugiyama   Unlinkable Divisible Electronic Cash . . 121
              Sung-Ming Yen and   
                  Yuliang Zheng   Weighted One-Way Hash Chain and Its
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
              Greg Maitland and   
                 Jason Reid and   
                 Ernest Foo and   
                 Colin Boyd and   
                      Ed Dawson   Linkability in Practical Electronic Cash
                                  Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
           Gaël Hachez and   
      Laurent Den Hollander and   
             Mehrdad Jalali and   
    Jean-Jacques Quisquater and   
            Christophe Vasserot   Towards a Practical Secure Framework for
                                  Mobile Code Commerce . . . . . . . . . . 164
    Ali Aydin Selçuk and   
                Deepinder Sidhu   Probabilistic Methods in Multicast Key
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
              DongGook Park and   
                 Colin Boyd and   
                      Ed Dawson   Classification of Authentication
                                  Protocols: A Practical Approach  . . . . 194
                 Colin Boyd and   
                  Peter Kearney   Exploring Fair Exchange Protocols Using
                                  Specification Animation  . . . . . . . . 209
             Daisuke Nojiri and   
           Goichiro Hanaoka and   
                    Hideki Imai   A Practical Implementation of
                                  Hierarchically Structured Key
                                  Predistribution System and Its
                                  Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Josep Lluís Ferrer-Gomila and   
Magdalena Payeras-Capell\`a and   
 Llorenç Huguet i Rotger   An Efficient Protocol for Certified
                                  Electronic Mail  . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
               Xiaodong Lin and   
             Johnny W. Wong and   
                    Weidong Kou   Performance Analysis of Secure Web
                                  Server Based on SSL  . . . . . . . . . . 249
          Stephen P. Morgan and   
            Stephen W. Neal and   
         Melissa A. Hartman and   
                Matthew R. Laue   Sherlock: Commercial High Assurance
                                  Network Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . 262
                Christian Payne   The Role of the Development Process in
                                  Operating System Security  . . . . . . . 277
           Rei Safavi-Naini and   
                   Willy Susilo   Threshold Fail-Stop Signature Schemes
                                  Based on Discrete Logarithm and
                                  Factorization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
              Ron Steinfeld and   
                  Yuliang Zheng   A Signcryption Scheme Based on Integer
                                  Factorization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1976, 2000

              Alex Biryukov and   
                     Adi Shamir   Cryptanalytic Time/Memory/Data Tradeoffs
                                  for Stream Ciphers . . . . . . . . . . . 1
               Glenn Durfee and   
                Phong Q. Nguyen   Cryptanalysis of the RSA Schemes with
                                  Short Secret Exponent from Asiacrypt '99 14
                  Dan Boneh and   
               Antoine Joux and   
                Phong Q. Nguyen   Why Textbook ElGamal and RSA Encryption
                                  Are Insecure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
               Louis Goubin and   
            Nicolas T. Courtois   Cryptanalysis of the TTM Cryptosystem    44
                 Colin Boyd and   
                Chris Pavlovski   Attacking and Repairing Batch
                                  Verification Schemes . . . . . . . . . . 58
               Thomas A. Berson   Cryptography Everywhere  . . . . . . . . 72
        Claus Peter Schnorr and   
               Markus Jakobsson   Security of Signed ElGamal Encryption    73
Jean-Sébastien Coron and   
     François Koeune and   
                 David Naccache   From Fixed-Length to Arbitrary-Length
                                  RSA Padding Schemes  . . . . . . . . . . 90
                 Adam Young and   
                      Moti Yung   Towards Signature-Only Signature Schemes 97
             Michel Abdalla and   
                  Leonid Reyzin   A New Forward-Secure Digital Signature
                                  Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
           Goichiro Hanaoka and   
              Junji Shikata and   
              Yuliang Zheng and   
                    Hideki Imai   Unconditionally Secure Digital Signature
                                  Schemes Admitting Transferability  . . . 130
                Martin Hirt and   
                Ueli Maurer and   
              Bartosz Przydatek   Efficient Secure Multi-party Computation 143
           Markus Jakobsson and   
                      Ari Juels   Mix and Match: Secure Function
                                  Evaluation via Ciphertexts . . . . . . . 162
              Miyako Ohkubo and   
                   Masayuki Abe   A Length-Invariant Hybrid Mix  . . . . . 178
             Masashi Mitomo and   
                 Kaoru Kurosawa   Attack for Flash MIX . . . . . . . . . . 192
                  Moni Naor and   
                   Benny Pinkas   Distributed Oblivious Transfer . . . . . 205
           Arjen K. Lenstra and   
                Eric R. Verheul   Key Improvements to XTR  . . . . . . . . 220
               Safuat Hamdy and   
               Bodo Möller   Security of Cryptosystems Based on Class
                                  Groups of Imaginary Quadratic Orders . . 234
                    Seigo Arita   Weil Descent of Elliptic Curves over
                                  Finite Fields of Characteristic Three    248
                Jinhui Chao and   
              Kazuto Matsuo and   
           Hiroto Kawashiro and   
                  Shigeo Tsujii   Construction of Hyperelliptic Curves
                                  with CM and Its Application to
                                  Cryptosystems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
               Jaechul Sung and   
                Sangjin Lee and   
                 Jongin Lim and   
               Seokhie Hong and   
                  Sangjoon Park   Provable Security for the Skipjack-like
                                  Structure against Differential
                                  Cryptanalysis and Linear Cryptanalysis   274
               Shiho Moriai and   
                 Serge Vaudenay   On the Pseudorandomness of Top-Level
                                  Schemes of Block Ciphers . . . . . . . . 289
              Philip Hawkes and   
                Gregory G. Rose   Exploiting Multiples of the Connection
                                  Polynomial in Word-Oriented Stream
                                  Ciphers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
              Mihir Bellare and   
                Phillip Rogaway   Encode-Then-Encipher Encryption: How to
                                  Exploit Nonces or Redundancy in
                                  Plaintexts for Efficient Cryptography    317
              Jan Camenisch and   
             Ivan Damgård   Verifiable Encryption, Group Encryption,
                                  and Their Applications to Separable
                                  Group Signatures and Signature Sharing
                                  Schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
           Markus Jakobsson and   
                      Ari Juels   Addition of ElGamal Plaintexts . . . . . 346
                     Brian King   Improved Methods to Perform Threshold
                                  RSA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
              Matt Franklin and   
                   Tomas Sander   Committal Deniable Proofs and Electronic
                                  Campaign Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
               Wakaha Ogata and   
                 Kaoru Kurosawa   Provably Secure Metering Scheme  . . . . 388
                Hideki Imai and   
             Atsuhiro Yamagishi   CRYPTREC Project --- Cryptographic
                                  Evaluation Project for the Japanese
                                  Electronic Government  . . . . . . . . . 399
           Birgit Pfitzmann and   
             Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi   Anonymous Fingerprinting with Direct
                                  Non-repudiation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
                  Jan Camenisch   Efficient Anonymous Fingerprinting with
                                  Group Signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
            Danny Gutfreund and   
                 Michael Ben-Or   Increasing the Power of the Dealer in
                                  Non-interactive Zero-Knowledge Proof
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
                   Satoshi Hada   Zero-Knowledge and Code Obfuscation  . . 443
                  Marc Fischlin   A Note on Security Proofs in the Generic
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
              Yuliang Zheng and   
                  Xian-Mo Zhang   On Relationships among Avalanche,
                                  Nonlinearity, and Correlation Immunity   470
                   David Wagner   Cryptanalysis of the Yi-Lam Hash . . . . 483
        Mehdi-Laurent Akkar and   
         Régis Bevan and   
              Paul Dischamp and   
                  Didier Moyart   Power Analysis, What Is Now Possible
                                  \ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
                Anand Desai and   
                     Sara Miner   Concrete Security Characterizations of
                                  PRFs and PRPs: Reductions and
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
              Mihir Bellare and   
            Alexandra Boldyreva   The Security of Chaffing and Winnowing   517
              Mihir Bellare and   
           Chanathip Namprempre   Authenticated Encryption: Relations
                                  among Notions and Analysis of the
                                  Generic Composition Paradigm . . . . . . 531
             Michel Abdalla and   
                  Mihir Bellare   Increasing the Lifetime of a Key: A
                                  Comparative Analysis of the Security of
                                  Re-keying Techniques . . . . . . . . . . 546
               David Wagner and   
                   Ian Goldberg   Proofs of Security for the Unix Password
                                  Hashing Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . 560--572
                Pascal Paillier   Trapdooring Discrete Logarithms on
                                  Elliptic Curves over Rings . . . . . . . 573
                Pierre Loidreau   Strengthening McEliece Cryptosystem  . . 585
           Philip MacKenzie and   
               Sarvar Patel and   
                Ram Swaminathan   Password-Authenticated Key Exchange
                                  Based on RSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
             Wen-Guey Tzeng and   
                  Zhi-Jia Tzeng   Round-Efficient Conference Key Agreement
                                  Protocols with Provable Security . . . . 614
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1977, 2000

                 Dingyi Pei and   
                   Wenliang Qin   The Correlation of a Boolean Function
                                  with Its Variables . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                 K. Jambunathan   On Choice of Connection-Polynomials for
                                  LFSR-Based Stream Ciphers  . . . . . . . 9
            Yuriy V. Tarannikov   On Resilient Boolean Functions with
                                  Maximal Possible Nonlinearity  . . . . . 19
                    Eric Filiol   Decimation Attack of Stream Ciphers  . . 31
                  Eli Biham and   
                  Orr Dunkelman   Cryptanalysis of the A5/1 GSM Stream
                                  Cipher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
        Ali Aydin Selçuk   On Bias Estimation in Linear
                                  Cryptanalysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
                  John O. Pliam   On the Incomparability of Entropy and
                                  Marginal Guesswork in Brute-Force
                                  Attacks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
                  Eli Biham and   
                Vladimir Furman   Improved Impossible Differentials on
                                  Twofish  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
               R. Sai Anand and   
            C. E. Veni Madhavan   An Online, Transferable E-Cash Payment
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
               Ik Rae Jeong and   
                  Dong Hoon Lee   Anonymity Control in Multi-bank E-Cash
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
               K. Srinathan and   
                C. Pandu Rangan   Efficient Asynchronous Secure Multiparty
                                  Distributed Computation  . . . . . . . . 117
               K. Srinathan and   
                C. Pandu Rangan   Tolerating Generalized Mobile
                                  Adversaries in Secure Multiparty
                                  Computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
        Jaros\law Pastuszak and   
             Josef Pieprzyk and   
               Jennifer Seberry   Codes Identifying Bad Signatures in
                                  Batches  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
                      Yi Mu and   
             Vijay Varadharajan   Distributed Signcryption . . . . . . . . 155
           Rei Safavi-Naini and   
               Willy Susilo and   
                  Huaxiong Wang   Fail-Stop Signature for Long Messages    165
            Katsuyuki Okeya and   
                Kouichi Sakurai   Power Analysis Breaks Elliptic Curve
                                  Cryptosystems even Secure against the
                                  Timing Attack  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
          Johannes Buchmann and   
                   Harald Baier   Efficient Construction of
                                  Cryptographically Strong Elliptic Curves 191
         Julio López and   
                  Ricardo Dahab   High-Speed Software Multiplication in $
                                  \mathbb {f}_{2^m} $  . . . . . . . . . . 203
         A. Reyhani-Masoleh and   
                    M. A. Hasan   On Efficient Normal Basis Multiplication 213
       Sanjeev Kumar Mishra and   
                  Palash Sarkar   Symmetrically Private Information
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
                Boyeon Song and   
                    Kwangjo Kim   Two-Pass Authenticated Key Agreement
                                  Protocol with Key Confirmation . . . . . 237
      Reihaneh Safavi-Naini and   
                    Yejing Wang   Anonymous Traceability Schemes with
                                  Unconditional Security . . . . . . . . . 250
           Dong Hyeon Cheon and   
               Sang Jin Lee and   
                Jong In Lim and   
                   Sung Jae Lee   New Block Cipher DONUT Using Pairwise
                                  Perfect Decorrelation  . . . . . . . . . 262
                  Dan Boneh and   
          Nagendra Modadugu and   
                    Michael Kim   Generating RSA Keys on a Handheld Using
                                  an Untrusted Server  . . . . . . . . . . 271
                Seongan Lim and   
               Seungjoo Kim and   
                 Ikkwon Yie and   
                    Hongsub Lee   A Generalized Takagi-Cryptosystem with a
                                  Modulus of the Form $ p^r q^s $  . . . . 283
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1983, 2000

            Janne Sinkkonen and   
                   Samuel Kaski   Clustering by Similarity in an Auxiliary
                                  Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
                     Andrew Luk   Analyses on the Generalised Lotto-Type
                                  Competitive Learning . . . . . . . . . . 9
              Tsunenori Ishioka   Extended K-Means with an Efficient
                                  Estimation of the Number of Clusters . . 17
               Zhexue Huang and   
              Michael K. Ng and   
                    Tao Lin and   
                   David Cheung   An Interactive Approach to Building
                                  Classification Models by Clustering and
                                  Cluster Validation . . . . . . . . . . . 23
        D. K. Bhattacharyya and   
                         A. Das   A New Distributed Algorithm for Large
                                  Data Clustering  . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
                 T. V. Ravi and   
            K. Chidananda Gowda   A New Nonhierarchical Clustering
                                  Procedure for Symbolic Objects . . . . . 35
             Michal Skubacz and   
          Jaakko Hollmén   Quantization of Continuous Input
                                  Variables for Binary Classification  . . 42
              Xiuzhen Zhang and   
                Guozhu Dong and   
         Kotagiri Ramamohanarao   Information-Based Classification by
                                  Aggregating Emerging Patterns  . . . . . 48
                 Huma Lodhi and   
        Grigoris Karakoulas and   
              John Shawe-Taylor   Boosting the Margin Distribution . . . . 54
           Yoshimitsu Kudoh and   
               Makoto Haraguchi   Detecting a Compact Decision Tree Based
                                  on an Appropriate Abstraction  . . . . . 60
          B. Chebel-Morello and   
                  E. Lereno and   
                 B. P. Baptiste   A New Algorithm to Select Learning
                                  Examples from Learning Data  . . . . . . 71
                 Gongde Guo and   
                   Hui Wang and   
                     David Bell   Data Ranking Based on Spatial
                                  Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
              Kamran Karimi and   
             Howard J. Hamilton   Logical Decision Rules: Teaching C4.5 to
                                  Speak Prolog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
         Chris P. Rainsford and   
                John F. Roddick   Visualisation of Temporal Interval
                                  Association Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . 91
                 C. C. Fung and   
                  K. W. Law and   
                 K. W. Wong and   
                 P. Rajagopalan   Lithofacies Characteristics Discovery
                                  from Well Log Data Using Association
                                  Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
                 K. W. Wong and   
                 C. C. Fung and   
                   T. D. Gedeon   Fuzzy Hydrocyclone Modelling for
                                  Particle Separation Using Fuzzy Rule
                                  Interpolation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
         Mohannad Al-Khatib and   
                  Jean J. Saade   A Data-Driven Fuzzy Approach to Robot
                                  Navigation among Moving Obstacles  . . . 109
                         Lei Xu   Best Harmony Learning  . . . . . . . . . 116
              Hyunjung Shin and   
              Hyoungjoo Lee and   
                   Sungzoon Cho   Observational Learning with Modular
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
                Endre Boros and   
           Takashi Horiyama and   
          Toshihide Ibaraki and   
            Kazuhisa Makino and   
              Mutsunori Yagiura   Finding Essential Attributes in Binary
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
                   Keyun Hu and   
                  Lili Diao and   
                 Yuchang Lu and   
                     Chunyi Shi   A Heuristic Optimal Reduct Algorithm . . 139
              M. R. Meybodi and   
                       H. Beigy   A Note on Learning Automata Based
                                  Schemes for Adaptation of BP Parameters  145
                  Takashi Okada   A Note on Covariances for Categorical
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
                   Ying Han and   
                     Colin Fyfe   A General Class of Neural Networks for
                                  Principal Component Analysis and Factor
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
                Zhenkun Gou and   
                     Colin Fyfe   Generalised Canonical Correlation
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
               Ruixiang Sun and   
                Fugee Tsung and   
                  Liangsheng Qu   Integrating KPCA with an Improved
                                  Evolutionary Algorithm for Knowledge
                                  Discovery in Fault Diagnosis . . . . . . 174
               Weiqiang Lin and   
            Mehmet A. Orgun and   
             Graham J. Williams   Temporal Data Mining Using
                                  Multilevel-Local Polynomial Models . . . 180
          Ioan Alfred Letia and   
             Florin Craciun and   
           Zoltan Köpe and   
              Alexandru Lelutiu   First Experiments for Mining Sequential
                                  Patterns on Distributed Sites with
                                  Multi-agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
             Kah Phooi Seng and   
                Zhihong Man and   
                       H. R. Wu   Nonlinear and Noisy Time Series
                                  Prediction Using a Hybrid Nonlinear
                                  Neural Predictor . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
              Romuald Jagielski   Genetic Programming Prediction of Solar
                                  Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
          William Blackburn and   
        Miguel Segui Prieto and   
                Alfons Schuster   Interpretation of the Richardson Plot in
                                  Time Series Representation . . . . . . . 206
          M. A. H. Dempster and   
                 A. Eswaran and   
                 D. G. Richards   Wavelet Methods in PDE Valuation of
                                  Financial Derivatives  . . . . . . . . . 215
                     Amir Atiya   Fast Algorithms for Computing Corporate
                                  Default Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . 239
                Makoto Sato and   
            Shigenobu Kobayashi   Variance-Penalized Reinforcement
                                  Learning for Risk-Averse Asset
                                  Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
            Zheng Rong Yang and   
                 Mark Zwolinski   Applying Mutual Information to Adaptive
                                  Mixture Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
                 Zhengrong Yang   Stability Analysis of Financial Ratios   256
      Hans-Georg Zimmermann and   
             Ralph Neuneier and   
                Ralph Grothmann   Modeling of the German Yield Curve by
                                  Error Correction Neural Networks . . . . 262
                  L. J. Cao and   
              Francis E. H. Tay   Feature Selection for Support Vector
                                  Machines in Financial Time Series
                                  Forecasting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
                  L. J. Cao and   
              Francis E. H. Tay   $ \varepsilon $-Descending Support
                                  Vector Machines for Financial Time
                                  Series Forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . 274
               Lixiang Shen and   
              Francis E. H. Tay   Classifying Market States with WARS  . . 280
                Jinwoo Baek and   
                   Sungzoon Cho   ``Left Shoulder'' Detection in Korea
                                  Composite Stock Price Index Using an
                                  Auto-Associative Neural Network  . . . . 286
                         Wei Li   A Computational Framework for Convergent
                                  Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
                 Jiming Liu and   
                       Jian Yin   Multi-agent Integer Programming  . . . . 301
                 Zili Zhang and   
              Chengqi Zhang and   
                   Swee San Ong   Building an Ontology for Financial
                                  Investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
                Kei Shiu Ho and   
                  Hong-Va Leong   A Multi-agent Negotiation Algorithm for
                                  Load Balancing in CORBA-Based
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
                  Felix Lor and   
                    K. Y. Szeto   Existence of Minority in Multi-agent
                                  Systems Using Voronoi Tessellation . . . 320
             Kazunori Iwata and   
               Nobuhiro Ito and   
          Koichiro Yamauchi and   
                  Naohiro Ishii   Combining Exploitation-Based and
                                  Exploration-Based Approach in
                                  Reinforcement Learning . . . . . . . . . 326
               Duncan McKay and   
                     Colin Fyfe   A Probabilistic Agent Approach to the
                                  Traffic Jam Problem  . . . . . . . . . . 332
             Hong Hanh Pham and   
                   Cao Son Tran   Round-Table Architecture for
                                  Communication in Multi-agent Softbot
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
               DongChun Lee and   
             Byeongkuk Jeon and   
          Yongchul (Robert) Kim   Mobile Agents for Reliable Migration in
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
              Hanhyuk Chung and   
             Joong-min Choi and   
                  Jun-ho Yi and   
               Junghyun Han and   
                   Eun-seok Lee   A Construction of the Adapted Ontology
                                  Server in EC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
               Moon-Sik Kim and   
                   Eun-Seok Lee   A Design and Implementation of Cyber
                                  Banking Process and Settlement System
                                  for Internet Commerce  . . . . . . . . . 361
              Jaeyoung Yang and   
                Eunseok Lee and   
                  Joongmin Choi   A Shopping Agent That Automatically
                                  Constructs Wrappers for Semi-structured
                                  Online Vendors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
                     Bai Li and   
                      Ni Guohua   Real-Time Web Data Mining and
                                  Visualisation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
             Djamel Fezzani and   
               Jocelyn Desbiens   WebGuide: Filtering and Constraining
                                  Site Browsing through Web Walker
                                  Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
                Taeho C. Jo and   
               Jerry H. Seo and   
                      Hyeon Kim   Topic Spotting on News Articles with
                                  Topic Repository by Controlled Indexing  386
          Ioan Alfred Letia and   
             Florin Craciun and   
               Zoltan Köpe   Validating the Behavior of
                                  Self-Interested Agents in an Information
                                  Market Scenario  . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
                 Jiming Liu and   
       Kelvin Chi Kuen Wong and   
                   Ka Keung Hui   Discovering User Behavior Patterns in
                                  Personalized Interface Agents  . . . . . 398
               Min-Huang Ho and   
             Yue-Shan Chang and   
            Shyan-Ming Yuan and   
                     Winston Lo   An Agent-Based Personalized Search on a
                                  Multi-search Engine Based on Internet
                                  Search Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
           Masayuki Umehara and   
                   Koji Iwanuma   A Case-Based Transformation from HTML to
                                  XML  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
            Richard Edwards and   
                      Sian Hope   Persistent DOM: An Architecture for XML
                                  Repositories in Relational Databases . . 416
                  Xinbo Gao and   
                    Xiaoou Tang   Automatic News Video Caption Extraction
                                  and Recognition  . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
               Soo-Mok Jung and   
             Sung-Chul Shin and   
                Hyunki Baik and   
                Myong-Soon Park   Advanced Multilevel Successive
                                  Elimination Algorithms for Motion
                                  Estimation in Video Coding . . . . . . . 431
              Weiqiang Wang and   
                    Wen Gao and   
                  Jintao Li and   
                    Shouxun Lin   News Content Highlight via Fast Caption
                                  Text Detection on Compressed Video . . . 443
               Keechul Jung and   
                   JungHyun Han   Texture-Based Text Location for Video
                                  Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
                  DaLong Li and   
                 HanQing Lu and   
                     Dong Zhang   Video Segmentation by Two Measures and
                                  Two Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
                Thomas Kwok and   
         Michael P. Perrone and   
                Gregory Russell   Ink Retrieval from Handwritten Documents 461
                     P. K. Wong   An Off-Line Recognizer for Hand-Written
                                  Chinese Characters . . . . . . . . . . . 467
                   Lei Wang and   
                   Kap Luk Chan   Bayesian Learning for Image Retrieval
                                  Using Multiple Features  . . . . . . . . 473
                 H. Y. Kwon and   
                    H. Y. Hwang   A Content-Based Image Retrieval Method
                                  Using Third-Order Color Feature
                                  Relations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
           Wey-Shiuan Hwang and   
                    Juyang Weng   Hierarchical Discriminant Regression for
                                  Incremental and Real-Time Image
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
           K. A. Al-shalfan and   
                S. S. Ipson and   
                 J. G. B. Haigh   Distinguishing Real and Virtual Edge
                                  Intersection in Pairs of Uncalibrated
                                  Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
               Keechul Jung and   
                   JungHyun Han   Stereo Correspondence Using GA-Based
                                  Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
                K. Y. Szeto and   
                     L. Y. Fong   How Adaptive Agents in Stock Market
                                  Perform in the Presence of Random News:
                                  A Genetic Algorithm Approach . . . . . . 505
              Kiyoshi Izumi and   
                  Kazuhiro Ueda   Learning of Virtual Dealers in an
                                  Artificial Market: Comparison with
                                  Interview Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
                  Shu-Heng Chen   Toward an Agent-Based Computational
                                  Modeling of Bargaining Strategies in
                                  Double Auction Markets with Genetic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
         Edward P. K. Tsang and   
                         Jin Li   Combining Ordinal Financial Predictions
                                  with Genetic Programming . . . . . . . . 532
               Siu-Ming Cha and   
                   Lai-Wan Chan   Applying Independent Component Analysis
                                  to Factor Model in Finance . . . . . . . 538
             Man-Chung Chan and   
                Yuen-Mei Li and   
                Chi-Cheong Wong   Web-Based Cluster Analysis System for
                                  China and Hong Kong's Stock Market . . . 545
               Xiaotie Deng and   
                 Shunming Zhang   Arbitrage-Free Asset Pricing in General
                                  State Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
              Joyce C. Wong and   
                  Michael K. Ng   A Tabu Search Based Algorithm for
                                  Clustering Categorical Data Sets . . . . 559
                C. Robardet and   
                     F. Feschet   A New Methodology to Compare Clustering
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2125, 2000

             Mihalis Yannakakis   Approximation of Multiobjective
                                  Optimization Problems  . . . . . . . . . 1
             Ferran Hurtado and   
            Giuseppe Liotta and   
                    Henk Meijer   Optimal, Suboptimal, and Robust
                                  Algorithms for Proximity Graphs  . . . . 2
              Marshall Bern and   
                 David Eppstein   Optimal Möbius Transformations for
                                  Information Visualization and Meshing    14
                 Philip M. Long   Using the Pseudo-Dimension to Analyze
                                  Approximation Algorithms for Integer
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
       Samarjit Chakraborty and   
            Thomas Erlebach and   
                  Lothar Thiele   On the Complexity of Scheduling
                                  Conditional Real-Time Code . . . . . . . 38
          Pankaj K. Agarwal and   
                  Lars Arge and   
                 Jan Vahrenhold   Time Responsive External Data Structures
                                  for Moving Points  . . . . . . . . . . . 50
          Menelaos I. Karavelas   Voronoi Diagrams for Moving Disks and
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
            Naomi Nishimura and   
            Prabhakar Ragde and   
          Dimitrios M. Thilikos   Fast Fixed-Parameter Tractable
                                  Algorithms for Nontrivial
                                  Generalizations of Vertex Cover  . . . . 75
          Wolfgang Espelage and   
               Frank Gurski and   
                     Egon Wanke   Deciding Clique-Width for Graphs of
                                  Bounded Tree-Width . . . . . . . . . . . 87
                 Vladlen Koltun   Complexity Bounds for Vertical
                                  Decompositions of Linear Arrangements in
                                  Four Dimensions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
              Marshall Bern and   
                 David Eppstein   Optimization over Zonotopes and Training
                                  Support Vector Machines  . . . . . . . . 111
          Pankaj K. Agarwal and   
               Mark de Berg and   
           Sariel Har-Peled and   
           Mark H. Overmars and   
               Micha Sharir and   
                 Jan Vahrenhold   Reporting Intersecting Pairs of
                                  Polytopes in Two and Three Dimensions    122
            Amitabha Bagchi and   
          Amitabh Chaudhary and   
                 Rahul Garg and   
        Michael T. Goodrich and   
                    Vijay Kumar   Seller-Focused Algorithms for Online
                                  Auctioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
                Edith Cohen and   
                Haim Kaplan and   
                      Uri Zwick   Competitive Analysis of the LRFU Paging
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
                 Avrim Blum and   
                 Adam Kalai and   
                  Jon Kleinberg   Admission Control to Minimize Rejections 155
         Mikhail J. Atallah and   
                    Wenliang Du   Secure Multi-party Computational
                                  Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
             Prosenjit Bose and   
            Anil Maheshwari and   
                  Pat Morin and   
                 Jason Morrison   The Grid Placement Problem . . . . . . . 180
            Esther M. Arkin and   
    Sándor P. Fekete and   
             Ferran Hurtado and   
      Joseph S. B. Mitchell and   
                   Marc Noy and   
      Vera Sacristán and   
                 Saurabh Sethia   On the Reflexivity of Point Sets . . . . 192
              Refael Hassin and   
              Shlomi Rubinstein   A $ {7 \over 8} $-Approximation
                                  Algorithm for Metric Max TSP . . . . . . 205
            Thomas Erlebach and   
              Hans Kellerer and   
                Ulrich Pferschy   Approximating Multi-objective Knapsack
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
              Ulrik Brandes and   
               Sabine Cornelsen   Visual Ranking of Link Structures  . . . 222
                         Xin He   A Simple Linear Time Algorithm for
                                  Proper Box Rectangular Drawings of Plane
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
                Haim Kaplan and   
                      Tova Milo   Short and Simple Labels for Small
                                  Distances and Other Functions  . . . . . 246
     Andreas Björklund and   
                 Andrzej Lingas   Fast Boolean Matrix Multiplication for
                                  Highly Clustered Data  . . . . . . . . . 258
          Adrian Dumitrescu and   
              János Pach   Partitioning Colored Point Sets into
                                  Monochromatic Parts  . . . . . . . . . . 264
    Songrit Maneewongvatana and   
                 David M. Mount   The Analysis of a Probabilistic Approach
                                  to Nearest Neighbor Searching  . . . . . 276
            Anil Maheshwari and   
               Michiel Smid and   
                    Norbert Zeh   I/O-Efficient Shortest Path Queries in
                                  Geometric Spanners . . . . . . . . . . . 287
    Sándor P. Fekete and   
       Ekkehard Köhler and   
              Jürgen Teich   Higher-Dimensional Packing with Order
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
             Nir Menakerman and   
                    Raphael Rom   Bin Packing with Item Fragmentation  . . 313
           Feodor F. Dragan and   
            Andrew B. Kahng and   
           Ion I. M\uandoiu and   
             Sudhakar Muddu and   
           Alexander Zelikovsky   Practical Approximation Algorithms for
                                  Separable Packing Linear Programs  . . . 325
            F. Thomson Leighton   The Challenges of Delivering Content on
                                  the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
              Walter Didimo and   
              Maurizio Pizzonia   Upward Embeddings and Orientations of
                                  Undirected Planar Graphs . . . . . . . . 339
         Markus Eiglsperger and   
               Michael Kaufmann   An Approach for Mixed Upward
                                  Planarization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
             David A. Bader and   
        Bernard M. E. Moret and   
                         Mi Yan   A Linear-Time Algorithm for Computing
                                  Inversion Distance between Signed
                                  Permutations with an Experimental Study  365
             Zhi-Zhong Chen and   
                  Tao Jiang and   
                    Guo-Hui Lin   Computing Phylogenetic Roots with
                                  Bounded Degrees and Errors . . . . . . . 377
             Ivaylo Ilinkin and   
              Ravi Janardan and   
              Jayanth Majhi and   
         Jörg Schwerdt and   
               Michiel Smid and   
                     Ram Sriram   A Decomposition-Based Approach to
                                  Layered Manufacturing  . . . . . . . . . 389
            Esther M. Arkin and   
          Michael A. Bender and   
            Erik D. Demaine and   
          Martin L. Demaine and   
      Joseph S. B. Mitchell and   
             Saurabh Sethia and   
               Steven S. Skiena   When Can You Fold a Map? . . . . . . . . 401
             Rolf Fagerberg and   
             Rune E. Jensen and   
                  Kim S. Larsen   Search Trees with Relaxed Balance and
                                  Near-Optimal Height  . . . . . . . . . . 414
               Rajeev Raman and   
            Venkatesh Raman and   
               S. Srinivasa Rao   Succinct Dynamic Data Structures . . . . 426
         Binay Bhattacharya and   
         Asish Mukhopadhyay and   
                Giri Narasimhan   Optimal Algorithms for Two-Guard
                                  Walkability of Simple Polygons . . . . . 438
                  John Reif and   
                      Zheng Sun   Movement Planning in the Presence of
                                  Flows  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
                 David Eppstein   Small Maximal Independent Sets and
                                  Faster Exact Graph Coloring  . . . . . . 462
                  Lars Arge and   
               Ulrich Meyer and   
                 Laura Toma and   
                    Norbert Zeh   On External-Memory Planar Depth First
                                  Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483