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Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1451, 1998

                       H. Bunke   Error-Tolerant Graph Matching: a Formal
                                  Framework and Algorithms . . . . . . . . 1
                    D. Dori and   
                      H. Hel-Or   Semantic Content Based Image Retrieval
                                  Using Object-Process Diagrams  . . . . . 15
                  S. Antani and   
                 R. Kasturi and   
                        R. Jain   Pattern Recognition Methods in Image and
                                  Video Databases: Past, Present and
                                  Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
                    R. Mohr and   
                    P. Gros and   
                      C. Schmid   Efficient Matching with Invariant Local
                                  Descriptors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
                 R. M. Haralick   Torah Codes: New Experimental Protocols  72
                      T. Caelli   Integrating Numerical and Syntactic
                                  Learning Models for Pattern Recognition  94
                R. Alquezar and   
                A. Sanfeliu and   
                   F. Serratosa   Synthesis of Function-Described Graphs   112
                   X. Jiang and   
                       H. Bunke   Marked Subgraph Isomorphism of Ordered
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
                    G. D'Andrea   Distance Evaluation in Pattern Matching
                                  Based on Frontier Topological Graph  . . 132
                 J. Blanc-Talon   Syntactic Interpolation of Fractal
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
               W. Kropatsch and   
                       M. Burge   Minimizing the Topological Structure of
                                  Line Images  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
                   R. Myers and   
                  E. R. Hancock   Genetic Algorithms for Structural
                                  Editing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
               B. J. Oommen and   
                  R. K. S. Loke   The Noisy Subsequence Tree Recognition
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
               W. Kropatsch and   
                        P. Ptak   The Path-Connectedness in Z02 and Z03
                                  and Classical Topologies . . . . . . . . 181
                    B. Huet and   
                  E. R. Hancock   Object Recognition from Large Structural
                                  Libraries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
                   H. Bunke and   
                     M. Zumbuhl   Acquisition of $2$-D Shape Models from
                                  Scenes with Overlapping Objects Using
                                  String Matching  . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
                  P. A. R. Cole   A Taxonomy of Occlusion in View
                                  Signature II Representations: a Regular
                                  Language for the Representation of $3$-D
                                  Rigid Solid Objects  . . . . . . . . . . 210
               G. Borgefors and   
                 I. Nystrom and   
             G. Sanniti Di Baja   Skeletonizing Volume Objects Part II:
                                  From Surface to Curve Skeleton . . . . . 220
                     W. Liu and   
                        D. Dori   A Survey of Non-thinning Based
                                  Vectorization Methods  . . . . . . . . . 230
             I. T. Phillips and   
                     A. Chhabra   A Benchmark for Raster to Vector
                                  Conversion Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 242
                 C. Ah-Soon and   
                      K. Tombre   Network-Based Recognition of
                                  Architectural Symbols  . . . . . . . . . 252
                  G. Gimel'fard   Recovering Image Structure by
                                  Model-Based Interaction Map  . . . . . . 262
                   W. Huang and   
                        J.-K Wu   An Improved Scheme to Fingerprint
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
                  H. Fernau and   
                  R. Freund and   
                      M. Holzer   Character Recognition with $k$-Head
                                  Finite Array Automata  . . . . . . . . . 282
                   M. Y. Ma and   
                  P. S. P. Wang   Using Semantics in Matching Cursive
                                  Chinese Handwritten Annotations  . . . . 292
                   J.-M. Jolion   Concavity Detection Using a Binary
                                  Mask-Based Approach  . . . . . . . . . . 302
                     H. Nishida   Structural Indexing of Line Pictures
                                  with Feature Generation Models . . . . . 312
               I. D. Svalbe and   
                    C. J. Evans   Nonlinear Covariance for Multi-band
                                  Image Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
                        H. Jahn   A Neural Network for Image Smoothing and
                                  Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
             L. P. Cordella and   
                  P. Foggia and   
                   R. Genna and   
                       M. Vento   Prototyping Structural Descriptions: An
                                  Inductive Learning Approach  . . . . . . 339
                 D. Riviere and   
               J. F. Mangin and   
             J. M. Martinez and   
                     F. Chavand   Neural Network Based Learning of Local
                                  Compatibilities for Segment Grouping . . 349
                  G. M. Pagallo   Constrained Attribute Grammars for
                                  Recognition of Multi-dimensional Objects 359
                  M. Onishi and   
                   M. Izumi and   
                    K. Fukunaga   Object Recognition Using Sequential
                                  Images and Application to Active Vision  366
         J. H. Sossa-Azuela and   
        A. E. De Leon-Gutierrez   Recognizing Partially Visible $2$-D
                                  Non-rigid Wire-Shapes  . . . . . . . . . 374
                 M. Baldoni and   
                C. Baroglio and   
                   D. Cavagnino   XFF: a Simple Method to extract Fractual
                                  Features for $2$D Object Recognition . . 382
                  G. Peters and   
                   C. Eckes and   
            C. Von der Malsburg   Tracking of Rotating Objects . . . . . . 390
                    G. Agam and   
                    I. Dinstein   Efficient Implementation of Regulated
                                  Morphological Operations Based on
                                  Directional Interval Coding  . . . . . . 397
                 J. Climent and   
                    A. Grau and   
                    A. Sanfeliu   Clique-to-Clique Distance Computation
                                  Using a Specific Architecture  . . . . . 405
                A. S. Saidi and   
                   S. Tayeb-Bey   Algebraic View of Grammatical Inference  413
              E. Michaelsen and   
                      U. Stilla   Remarks on the Notation of Coordinate
                                  Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
                  P. Heroux and   
                   S. Diana and   
                  E. Trupin and   
                  Y. Lecourtier   A Structural Classifier to Automatically
                                  Identify Form Classes  . . . . . . . . . 429
                 K.-F. Chan and   
                    D.-Y. Yeung   Towards Efficient Structural Analysis of
                                  Mathematical Expressions . . . . . . . . 437
                      H. Kofler   The Topological Consistence of Path
                                  Connectedness in Regular and Irregular
                                  Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
                      S. He and   
                         N. Abe   Content-Based Image Indexing and
                                  Retrieval: A Syntactical Approach  . . . 453
               S. Ablameyko and   
               V. Bereishik and   
            O. Frantskevich and   
                     M. Homenko   Knowledge-Based Recognition of
                                  Crosshatched Areas in Engineering
                                  Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
            G. Maderlechner and   
                        P. Suda   Information Extraction from Document
                                  Images Using White Space and Graphics
                                  Analusis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
                  P. Perner and   
                   S. Trautzsch   Multi-interval Discretization Methods
                                  for Decision Tree Learning . . . . . . . 475
                   D. Lopez and   
                  J. M. Sempere   Handwritten Digit Recognition through
                                  Inferring Graph Grammars. A First
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
                    A. Amin and   
                       S. Singh   Optical Character Recognition: Neural
                                  Network Analysis of Hand-Printed
                                  Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
                      J. Hu and   
                      D. Yu and   
                         H. Yan   Structural Boundary Feature Extraction
                                  for Printed Character Recognition  . . . 500
                      J. Hu and   
                         H. Yan   Locating Segmentation Regions of
                                  Connected Handwritten Digits . . . . . . 508
                V. Delevski and   
                   S. Stankovic   Recognition of Handwritten Digits Based
                                  on their Topological and Morphological
                                  Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
              S. Madhvanath and   
                 V. Govindaraju   Perceptual Features for Off-line
                                  Handwritten Word Recognition: a
                                  Framework for Heuristic Prediction,
                                  Representation and Matching  . . . . . . 524
                 N. A. Khan and   
                     H. A. Hegt   On Structural Modelling for Omnifont and
                                  Handwritten Character Recognition  . . . 532
                  R. Chaine and   
                     S. Bouakaz   Image Segmentation by Label Anisotropic
                                  Diffusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
                    M. Kudo and   
                    J. Sklansky   Classifier-Independent Feature Selection
                                  For Two-Stage Feature Selection  . . . . 548
                    M. Sato and   
                    M. Kudo and   
                  J. Toyama and   
                      M. Shimbo   Feature Selection For a Nonlinear
                                  Classifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
              M. Skurichina and   
                  R. P. W. Duin   Regularization by Adding Redundant
                                  Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
                   P. Pudil and   
              J. Novovicova and   
                   P. Somol and   
                      R. Vrnata   Feature Selection Expert --- User
                                  Oriented Approach: Methodology and
                                  Concept of the System  . . . . . . . . . 573
                  S. Raudys and   
                 A. Saudargiene   Structures of the Covariance Matrices in
                                  the Classifier Design  . . . . . . . . . 583
               D. M. J. Tax and   
                  R. P. W. Duin   Outlier Detection Using Classifier
                                  Instability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
               D. Comaniciu and   
                        P. Meer   Distribution Free Decomposition of
                                  Multivariate Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 602
              R. P. W. Duin and   
                   D. M. J. Tax   Classifier Conditional Posterior
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
                F. J. Ferri and   
              J. S. Sanchez and   
                         F. Pla   Editing Prototypes in the Finite Sample
                                  Size Case Using Alternative
                                  Neighbourhoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620
                A. Kitamoto and   
                      M. Takagi   Image Classification Method Using
                                  Stochastic Model that Reflects the
                                  Internal Structure of Mixels . . . . . . 630
                       T. K. Ho   Nearest Neighbors in Random Subspaces    640
                S. Policker and   
                     A. B. Geva   A Model for Non-stationary Time Series
                                  Analysis with Clustering Methods . . . . 649
            G. J. McLachlan and   
                        D. Peel   Robust Cluster Analysis via Mixtures of
                                  Multivariate $t$-Distributions . . . . . 658
            A. R. Chaudhuri and   
                    A. Basu and   
             S. K. Bhandari and   
                B. B. Chaudhuri   Consistent Set Estimation in
                                  $k$-Dimensions: An efficient Approach    667
                 R. Berthilsson   A Statistical Theory of Shape  . . . . . 677
                 M. E. Diaz and   
                   G. Ayala and   
                  J. Albert and   
                    F. J. Ferri   Accurate Detection and Characterization
                                  of Corner Points Using Circular
                                  Statistics and Fuzzy Clustering  . . . . 687
                J.-C. Perez and   
                       E. Vidal   An Approximate Nearest Neighbours Search
                                  Algorithm Based on the Extended General
                                  Spacefilling Curves Heuristic  . . . . . 697
                C. Frelicot and   
                      H. Emptoz   A Pretopological Approach for Pattern
                                  Classification with Reject Options . . . 707
             L. P. Cordella and   
                  P. Foggia and   
                 C. Sansone and   
                  F. Tortorella   Optimizing the Error/Reject Trade-Off
                                  for a Multi-Expert System Using the
                                  Bayesian Combining Rule  . . . . . . . . 716
                       T. M. Ha   Optimum Decision Rules in Pattern
                                  Recognition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726
                    C. Frelicot   On Unifying Probabilistic/Fuzzy and
                                  Possibilistic Rejection-Based
                                  Classifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736
                     L. Lam and   
                     C. Y. Suen   Rejection Versus Error in a Multiple
                                  Expert Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 746
                  I. Houben and   
                    L. Wehenkel   Distance Rejection in the Context of
                                  Electric Power System Security
                                  Assessment Based on Automatic Learning   756
                    J. Grim and   
                       P. Pudil   On Virtually Binary Nature of
                                  Probabilistic Neural Networks  . . . . . 765
                     M. Aladjem   Linear Discriminant Analysis for Two
                                  Classes via Recursive Neural Network
                                  Reduction of the Class Separation  . . . 775
              H. Shimodaira and   
                   J. Rokui and   
                       M. Nakai   Modified Minimum Classification Error
                                  Learning and Its Application to Neural
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785
    L. R. Òstergaard and   
                   O. V. Larsen   Applying Voting to Segmentation of MR
                                  Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795
              P. S. Wiliams and   
                       M. Alder   Segmentation of Natural Images Using
                                  Hierarchical and Syntactic Methods . . . 805
                C. J. Evans and   
                   I. D. Svalbe   Nonlinear Variance Measures in Image
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815
              P. Scheunders and   
               S. De Backer and   
                        A. Naud   Non-linear Mapping for Feature
                                  Extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823
                 H. Tenmoto and   
                    M. Kudo and   
                      M. Shimbo   MDL-Based Selection of the Number of
                                  Components in Mixture Models for Pattern
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831
                    A. Grau and   
                  J. Aranda and   
                     J. Climent   Stepwise Selection of Perceptual Texture
                                  Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837
                  M. Pawlak and   
                         D. Siu   Pattern Classification with Noisy
                                  Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845
                S. Brechner and   
                         F. Ade   Features for the Classification of
                                  Marine Microfossils  . . . . . . . . . . 853
                    G. Yang and   
                   W. Zheng and   
                        D. Wang   A Statistical Clustering Model and
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859
                E. Schikuta and   
                      M. Erhart   BANG-Clustering: a Novel Grid-Clustering
                                  Algorithm for Huge Data Sets . . . . . . 867
                       V. Valev   Set Partition Principles revisited . . . 875
                    J. Peng and   
                       B. Bhanu   Pattern Classification Based on Local
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882
                      E. Nyssen   Comparison of Different Methods for
                                  Testing the Significance of
                                  Classification Efficiency  . . . . . . . 890
              P. B. Chapple and   
            D. C. Bertilone and   
                      S. Angeli   Non-Gaussian Stochastic Model for
                                  Analysis of Automatic
                                  Detection/Recognition  . . . . . . . . . 897
                    A. Juan and   
                       E. Vidal   Fast Median Search in Metric Spaces  . . 905
               M. Venguerov and   
                  P. Cunningham   Generalised Syntactic Pattern
                                  Recognition as a Unifying Approach in
                                  Image Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913
              A. L. N. Fred and   
                J. M. N. Leitao   Minimal Sample Size for Grammatical
                                  Inference --- A Bootstrapping Approach   921
            K. Aaström and   
                    F. Kahl and   
                  A. Heyden and   
                 R. Berthilsson   A Statistical Approach to Structure and
                                  Motion from Image Features . . . . . . . 929
               C. Rodriguez and   
                J. Muguerza and   
                 M. Navarro and   
                      A. Zarate   A Hierarchical Classifier for Multifont
                                  Digits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937
                   H. Miled and   
                 M. Cheriet and   
                     C. Olivier   Multi-level Arabic Handwritten Words
                                  Recognition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944
                     L. Bernard   Mixtures of Principal Components
                                  Gaussians for Density Estimation in High
                                  Dimension Data Spaces  . . . . . . . . . 952
                   V. Eglin and   
                    S. Bres and   
                      H. Emptoz   Characterization and Classification of
                                  Printed Text in a Multiscale Context . . 960
                S. Uchimura and   
                  K. Mizuno and   
                Y. Hamamoto and   
                      S. Tomita   Analysis of Gabor Parameters for
                                  Handwritten Numeral Recognition by
                                  Experimental Design  . . . . . . . . . . 968
               C. Rodriguez and   
                J. Muguerza and   
                 M. Navarro and   
                      A. Zarate   A New Cost Function for Typewritten
                                  Digits Segmentation  . . . . . . . . . . 975
                  G. Gimel'farb   Learning Parameters of Gibbs Random
                                  Fields Using Unconditional and
                                  Conditional MLE of Potentials  . . . . . 981
                      A. Raudys   A Nonparametric Data Mapping Technique
                                  for Active Initialization of the
                                  Multilayer Perceptron  . . . . . . . . . 989
                 G. Pajares and   
           J. M. De la Cruz and   
                    J. A. Lopez   Pattern Recognition Learning Applied to
                                  Stereovision Matching  . . . . . . . . . 997
                     R. Ito and   
                K. Nakazawa and   
                    M. Nakajima   Human Verification Using $3$D-Grey-Scale
                                  Face Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005
                B.-I. Zhang and   
                   M.-Y. Fu and   
                         H. Yan   Subject-Based Modular Eigenspace Scheme
                                  for Face Recognition . . . . . . . . . . 1013
                      M. Haindl   Unsupervised Texture Segmentation  . . . 1021
                  J. Fojtik and   
                      V. Hlavac   Invisible Modification of the Palette
                                  Color Image Enhancing Lossless
                                  Compression  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029
                 F. Mouria-Beji   A Statistical Model for an Automatic
                                  Procedure to Compress a Word
                                  Transcription Dictionary . . . . . . . . 1037


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1452, 1998

               John R. Anderson   Instructional Applications of ACT: Past,
                                  Present, and Future  . . . . . . . . . . 1
           Monique Grandbastien   Teaching Expertise and Learning
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
                      John Self   Hanging by Two Threads: The Evolution of
                                  Intelligent Tutoring Systems Research    3
               Valerie J. Shute   My Knowledge of Knowledge  . . . . . . . 4
        Wouter R. van Joolingen   Cognitive Tools to Support Discovery
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
        Wouter R. van Joolingen   Cognitive Tools to Support Discovery
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
             Joseph E. Beck and   
             Beverly Park Woolf   Using a Learning Agent with a Student
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
              Tariq M. Khan and   
            Stephen J. Paul and   
             Keith E. Brown and   
                  R. Roy Leitch   Model-Based Explanations in
                                  Simulation-Based Training  . . . . . . . 16
                  Ellen J. Bass   Towards an Intelligent Tutoring System
                                  for Situation Awareness Training in
                                  Complex, Dynamic Environments  . . . . . 26
           Brant A. Cheikes and   
                Marty Geier and   
                 Rob Hyland and   
               Frank Linton and   
                 Linda Rodi and   
            Hans-Peter Schaefer   Embedded Training for Complex
                                  Information Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 36
          Marilyne Macrelle and   
             Cyrille Desmoulins   Macro-Definitions, a Basic Component for
                                  Interoperability between ILEs at the
                                  Knowledge Level: Application to Geometry 46
         Christophe Choquet and   
Frédéric Danna and   
         Pierre Tchounikine and   
                Francky Trichet   Modelling the Knowledge-Based Components
                                  of a Learning Environment within the
                                  Task/Method Paradigm . . . . . . . . . . 56
             Kevin A. Gluck and   
           Valerie J. Shute and   
           John R. Anderson and   
               Marsha C. Lovett   Deconstructing a Computer-Based Tutor:
                                  Striving for Better Learning Efficiency
                                  in Stat Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
           William H. Bares and   
        Luke S. Zettlemoyer and   
                James C. Lester   Habitable $3$D Learning Environments for
                                  Situated Learning  . . . . . . . . . . . 76
           Angel de Vicente and   
                     Helen Pain   Motivation Diagnosis in Intelligent
                                  Tutoring Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
           Angel de Vicente and   
                     Helen Pain   Motivation Diagnosis in Intelligent
                                  Tutoring Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
              Peter C.-H. Cheng   Some Reasons Why Learning Science Is
                                  Hard: Can Computer Based Law Encoding
                                  Diagrams Make it Easier? . . . . . . . . 96
                Hugo Dufort and   
             Esma A\"\imeur and   
             Claude Frasson and   
                 Michel Lalonde   Curriculum Evaluation : a Case Study . . 106
             Jörg Caumanns   A Bottom-Up Approach to Multimedia
                                  Teachware  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
                  Steven Ritter   The Authoring Assistant  . . . . . . . . 126
         Douglas P. Metzler and   
           Cynthia J. Martincic   Explanatory Mechanisms for Intelligent
                                  Tutoring Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
           Valerie J. Shute and   
           Lisa A. Torreano and   
                 Ross E. Willis   DNA --- Uncorking the Bottleneck in
                                  Knowledge Elicitation and Organization   146
           Brenda M. Wenzel and   
         Mary T. Dirnberger and   
          Patricia Y. Hsieh and   
            Tom J. Chudanov and   
                 Henry M. Halff   Evaluating Subject Matter Experts'
                                  Learning and Use of an ITS Authoring
                                  Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
       Kenneth R. Koedinger and   
          Daniel D. Suthers and   
              Kenneth D. Forbus   Component-Based Construction of a
                                  Science Learning Space . . . . . . . . . 166
                     Susan Bull   Do It Yourself Student Models for
                                  Collaborative Student Modelling and Peer
                                  Interaction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
                 Amy Soller and   
            Bradley Goodman and   
               Frank Linton and   
                 Robert Gaimari   Promoting Effective Peer Interaction in
                                  an Intelligent Collaborative Learning
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
              Koen Veermans and   
        Wouter R. Van Joolingen   Using Induction to Generate Feedback in
                                  Simulation Based Discovery Learning
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
            S. Guepfu Tadie and   
            J.-Y. Rossignol and   
                 C. Frasson and   
                    B. Lefebvre   An Interactive Graphical Tool for
                                  Efficient Cooperative Task Acquisition
                                  Based on Monaco-T Model  . . . . . . . . 206
  Serge Guepfu Tadié and   
        Jean-Yves Rossignol and   
             Claude Frasson and   
               Bernard Lefebvre   An Interactive Graphical Tool for
                                  Efficient Cooperative Task Acquisition
                                  Based on Monaco-T Model  . . . . . . . . 206
                     Leila Alem   Learning in the Workplace: Initial
                                  Requirements of a Lessons Learned
                                  Centred Corporate Memory . . . . . . . . 216
                  Anders Bouwer   An ITS for Dutch Punctuation . . . . . . 224--233
               Marsha C. Lovett   Cognitive Task Analysis in Service of
                                  Intelligent Tutoring System Design: a
                                  Case Study in Statistics . . . . . . . . 234
             Noboru Matsuda and   
                 Toshio Okamoto   Diagrammatic Reasoning for Geometry ITS
                                  to Teach Auxiliary Line Construction
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
             Abigail S. Gertner   Providing Feedback to Equation Entries
                                  in an Intelligent Tutoring System for
                                  Physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
  Baltasar Fernandez-Manjon and   
              Juan Cigarran and   
            Antonio Navarro and   
     Alfredo Fernandez-Valmayor   Using Automatic Methods for Structuring
                                  Conceptual Knowledge in Intelligent
                                  Learning Environments  . . . . . . . . . 264
                       Jim Reye   Two-Phase Updating of Student Models
                                  Based on Dynamic Belief Networks . . . . 274
           Thierry Mengelle and   
     Charles De Léan and   
                 Claude Frasson   Teaching and Learning with Intelligent
                                  Agents: Actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
                  Elmar Schwarz   Self-Organized Goal-Oriented Tutoring in
                                  Adaptive Hypermedia Environments . . . . 294
                Rosemary Luckin   Ecolab: Exploring the Construction of a
                                  Learning Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . 304
                Judith Good and   
                      Paul Brna   Information Types and Cognitive
                                  Principles in Program Comprehension:
                                  Towards Adaptable Support for Novice
                                  Visual Programmers . . . . . . . . . . . 314
               Rhodora L. Reyes   A Domain Theory Extension of a Student
                                  Modeling System for Pascal Programming   324
      Peter Wiemer-Hastings and   
         Arthur C. Graesser and   
                   Derek Harter   The Foundations and Architecture of
                                  Autotutor  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
              Bruce Roberts and   
          Nicholas J. Pioch and   
               William Ferguson   Verbal Coaching During a Real-Time Task  344
            Philip J. Smith and   
      Jodi Heinz Obradovich and   
      Stephanie A. Guerlain and   
              Sally Rudmann and   
            Patricia Strohm and   
              Jack W. Smith and   
              John Svirbely and   
                    Larry Sachs   Successful Use of an Expert System to
                                  Teach Diagnostic Reasoning for Antibody
                                  Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
             Vincent Aleven and   
       Kenneth R. Koedinger and   
        H. Colleen Sinclair and   
                  Jaclyn Snyder   Combatting Shallow Learning in a Tutor
                                  for Geometry Problem Solving . . . . . . 364
          Albert T. Corbett and   
             Holly J. Trask and   
   K. Christine Scarpinatto and   
              William S. Hadley   A Formative Evaluation of the PACT
                                  Algebra II Tutor: Support for Simple
                                  Hierarchical Reasoning . . . . . . . . . 374
           Geoffrey I. Webb and   
                   Mark Kuzmycz   Evaluation of Data Aging: a Technique
                                  for Discounting Old Data During Student
                                  Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
                M. E. Shiri and   
               A. E. Aimeur and   
                     C. Frasson   Student Modelling by Case Based
                                  Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
       Mohammad E. Shiri A. and   
             Esma A\"\imeur and   
                 Claude Frasson   Student Modelling by Case Based
                                  Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
                       Jun Hong   Tutoring Prolog Novices Based on
                                  Programming Techniques . . . . . . . . . 404
              Antonija Mitrovic   Experiences in Implementing
                                  Constraint-Based Modeling in SQL-Tutor   414
              William R. Murray   A Practical Approach to Bayesian Student
                                  Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
               Kurt VanLehn and   
               Zhendong Niu and   
            Stephanie Siler and   
             Abigail S. Gertner   Student Modeling from Conventional Test
                                  Data: A Bayesian Approach Without Priors 434
            Henry Hamburger and   
                Gheorghe Tecuci   Toward a Unification of Human-Computer
                                  Learning and Tutoring  . . . . . . . . . 444
            Gheorghe Tecuci and   
                  Harry Keeling   Developing Intelligent Educational
                                  Agents with the Disciple Learning Agent
                                  Shell  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
          Stacy C. Marsella and   
               W. Lewis Johnson   An Instructor's Assistant for
                                  Team-Training in Dynamic Multi-Agent
                                  Virtual Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
            Stuart G. Towns and   
      Patrick J. FitzGerald and   
                James C. Lester   Visual Emotive Communication in Lifelike
                                  Pedagogical Agents . . . . . . . . . . . 474
                Jianwen Yin and   
          Magy Seif El-Nasr and   
                 Linyu Yang and   
                       John Yen   Incorporating Personality into a
                                  Multi-Agent Intelligent System for
                                  Training Teachers  . . . . . . . . . . . 484
                  Jim Greer and   
          Gordon I. McCalla and   
                 John Cooke and   
              Jason Collins and   
                 Vive Kumar and   
              Andrew Bishop and   
               Julita Vassileva   The Intelligent Helpdesk: Supporting
                                  Peer-Help in a University Course . . . . 494
            Vladan Devedzic and   
           Danijela Radovic and   
               Ljubomir Jerinic   On the Notion of Components for
                                  Intelligent Tutoring Systems . . . . . . 504
            Vladan Devedzic and   
                  John Debenham   An Intelligent Tutoring System for
                                  Teaching Formal Languages  . . . . . . . 514
               Mary A. Mark and   
       Kenneth R. Koedinger and   
              William S. Hadley   Elaborating Models of Algebraic
                                  Expression-Writing . . . . . . . . . . . 524
     Catherine Ann Connolly and   
                Jay Johnson and   
                     Chuck Lexa   AVATAR: An Intelligent Air Traffic
                                  Control Simulator and Trainer  . . . . . 534
                 W. Zachary and   
           J. Cannon-Bowers and   
                   J. Burns and   
              P. Bilazarian and   
                     D. Krecker   An Advanced Embedded Training System
                                  (AETS) for Tactical Team Training  . . . 544
              Steven Ritter and   
          Peter Brusilovsky and   
                 Olga Medvedeva   Creating More Versatile Intelligent
                                  Learning Environments with a
                                  Component-Based Architecture . . . . . . 554
               Julita Vassileva   Goal-Based Autonomous Social Agents:
                                  Supporting Adaptation and Teaching in a
                                  Distributed Environment  . . . . . . . . 564
               Mia K. Stern and   
             Beverly Park Woolf   Curriculum Sequencing in a Web-Based
                                  Tutor  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574
                  Ana Paiva and   
                 Isabel Machado   Vincent, an Autonomous Pedagogical Agent
                                  for On-the-Job Training  . . . . . . . . 584
             Claude Frasson and   
               Louis Martin and   
           Guy Gouard\`eres and   
                 Esma A\"\imeur   LANCA: a Distance Learning Architecture
                                  Based on Networked Cognitive Agents  . . 594
           Stefano A. Cerri and   
           Antonina Dattolo and   
                  Vincenzo Loia   The Extension of an Actor Language from
                                  Domain-Specific Requirements . . . . . . 604
        Terrell N. Chandler and   
                    Craig Earon   A Classification System for Web-Based
                                  Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604
        Marcello D'Agostino and   
            Marco Mondadori and   
             Ulrich Endriss and   
              Dov M. Gabbay and   
                    Jeremy Pitt   WinKE: a Pedagogic Tool for Teaching
                                  Logic and Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . 605
                Noornina Dahlan   An Interactive Intelligent Tutoring
                                  System with Tutorials Generation and
                                  English-Malay Translation Abilities  . . 605
            Suyada Dansuwan and   
             Kikuko Nishina and   
                  Kanji Akahori   Thai Learning System on the WWW Using
                                  Natural Language Processing and ITS
                                  Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606
               David Duncan and   
                      Paul Brna   Flexible ILE Development: Case Studies
                                  of an Agent-Based Software Engineering
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606
  Baltasar Fernandez-Manjon and   
            Antonio Navarro and   
              Juan Cigarran and   
     Alfredo Fernandez-Valmayor   Declarative Mark-Up Languages as a Tool
                                  for Developing Educational Hypermedia    607
        Lucia M. M. Giraffa and   
            Rosa M. Viccari and   
                      John Self   Multi-agent Based Pedagogical Games  . . 607
             Guy Gouarderes and   
C. M. Françoise Canut and   
                   Eric Sanchis   The SYSTEMIONS: Agents to Design
                                  Intelligent Tutoring Systems . . . . . . 608
                  Lynn Hall and   
                 Adrian Gordaon   An Intelligent Learning Environment for
                                  Data Modeling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608
             Julie A. Jones and   
                    Robin Taber   Lessons Learned in Developing
                                  Simulation-Based Expert Systems for
                                  Troubleshooting Training . . . . . . . . 609
          Merrill R. (Ron) Karp   Adult Learning and University Aviation
                                  Education  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
             Sofiane Labidi and   
           Jeane Silva Ferreira   Integrating the CITS and CSCL Paradigms
                                  for the Design of an Effective
                                  Collaborative Learning System  . . . . . 610
                     Tang-Ho Le   Cognitive Diagnosis in ITS Using General
                                  Pedagogical Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . 610
               Frank Linton and   
               Andy Charron and   
                     Debbie Joy   Coaching Software Skills on the Job:
                                  Laying the Groundwork  . . . . . . . . . 611
              Christopher Marsh   The F-16 C Shop Maintenance Skills Tutor 611
      E. Millan-Valldeperas and   
     J. L. Perez-de-la-Cruz and   
               F. Triguero-Ruiz   Using Bayesian Networks to Build and
                                  Handle the Student Model in
                                  Exercise-Based Domains . . . . . . . . . 612
             Sophie Millett and   
               Guy Gouard\`eres   SERAC: a Multi-Agent System for the
                                  Evaluation and Revision of Knowledge in
                                  ITS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612
              Ali Montazemi and   
                      Feng Wang   MIS-Tutor: An ITS in Support of IS
                                  Mastery Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
             Rafael Morales and   
                 Helen Pain and   
                Michael Ramscar   Modeling the Cognitive Effects of
                                  Participative Learner Modeling . . . . . 613
         Andrey R. Pimentel and   
            Alexandre I. Direne   Cognitive Measures for Visual Concept
                                  Teaching with Intelligent Tutoring
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614
           Rhodora L. Reyes and   
            Ruzelle Apostol and   
                Tiffany Kua and   
             Rowena Mendoza and   
              Carlo Antonio Tan   GURU: a Self-Extending Tutor Model for
                                  Pascal Programming . . . . . . . . . . . 614
         Nicolas van Labeke and   
        Josette Morinet-Lambert   Influence of Didactic and Computational
                                  Constraints on ILE Design  . . . . . . . 615
                    Kurt Rowley   Computational Instructional Design for
                                  Construction of Adaptive Tutors in Real
                                  Time from Distributed Learning Objects   615
         Nicolas van Labeke and   
        Josette Morinet-Lambert   Influence of Didactic and Computational
                                  Constraints on ILE Design  . . . . . . . 615
          Carol L. Redfield and   
              Benjamin Bell and   
          Patricia Y. Hsieh and   
               Joseph Lamos and   
            R. Bowen Loftin and   
                  David Palumbo   Methodologies for Tutoring in Procedural
                                  Domains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616
              Carol Horwitz and   
                Jeff Rickel and   
                Allen Munro and   
                 Craig Hall and   
               Randy Stiles and   
                   Helen Gigley   ITS Technologies in Virtual
                                  Environments: Can We Harness the
                                  Synergy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617
              Benjamin Bell and   
                  Alex Kass and   
           M. David Merrill and   
                 Tom Murray and   
               Brenda M. Wenzel   Semantics and Pedagogy in Authoring
                                  Educational Technology: Confronting the
                                  Mismatch Between Researchers'
                                  Expectations and Users'  . . . . . . . . 618
              Benjamin Bell and   
                Jan Hawkins and   
            R. Bowen Loftin and   
                  Tom Carey and   
                      Alex Kass   The Use of `War Stories' in Intelligent
                                  Learning Environments  . . . . . . . . . 619
                Kurt Rowley and   
                Kurt Steuck and   
              D'Anne Redmon and   
                    Todd Miller   Lessons Learned from Large-Scale
                                  Implementation of Adaptive Tutoring
                                  Systems: The Fundamental Skills Training
                                  Project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620
         Beverly Park Woolf and   
                   Mia K. Stern   Workshop I --- Intelligent Tutoring
                                  Systems on the Web . . . . . . . . . . . 621
             Claude Frasson and   
               Guy Gouard\`eres   Workshop II --- Pedagogical Agents . . . 622
                Allen Munro and   
        Wouter R. Van Joolingen   Workshop III --- Efficient ITS
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623
               J. Wesley Regian   Workshop IV --- The Failure of Cognitive
                                  Science in the Courseware Marketplace:
                                  If We're So Damned Smart, Why Aren't We
                                  Rich?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624
                      Anonymous   Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1453, 1998

                     J. F. Sowa   Conceptual Graph Standard and Extensions 3
                  F. Baader and   
                 A. Borgida and   
               D. L. McGuinness   Matching in Description Logics:
                                  Preliminary Results  . . . . . . . . . . 15
                      D. Kayset   Ontologically, Yours . . . . . . . . . . 35
                     W. R. Cyre   Executing Conceptual Graphs  . . . . . . 51
                   G. W. Mineau   From Actors to Processes: The
                                  Representation of Dynamic Knowledge
                                  Using Conceptual Graphs  . . . . . . . . 65
                   J. Dibie and   
               O. Haemmerle and   
                     S. Loiseau   A Semantic Validation of Conceptual
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
                     M. Ribiere   Using Viewpoints and CG for the
                                  Representation and Management of a
                                  Corporate Memory in Concurrent
                                  Engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
                 S. Pollitt and   
                  A. Burrow and   
                   P. W. Eklund   WebKB-GE --- A Visual Editor for
                                  Canonical Conceptual Graphs  . . . . . . 111
                       A. Puder   Mapping of CGIF to Operational
                                  Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
                    B. Groh and   
             S. Strahringer and   
                       R. Wille   TOSCANA-Systems Based on Thesauri  . . . 127
                   R. Dieng and   
                         S. Hug   MULTIKAT, a Tool for Comparing Knowledge
                                  of Multiple Experts  . . . . . . . . . . 139
                  D. Genest and   
                      E. Salvat   A Platform Allowing Typed Nested Graphs:
                                  How CoGITo Became CoGITaNT . . . . . . . 154
                  P. Coupey and   
                       C. Faron   Towards Correspondences between
                                  Conceptual Graphs and Description Logics 165
               S. Coulondre and   
                      E. Salvat   Piece Resolution: Towards Larger
                                  Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
                       R. Wille   Triadic Concept Graphs . . . . . . . . . 194
                  K. Biedermann   Powerset Trilattices . . . . . . . . . . 209
                    S. Prediger   Simple Concept Graphs: a Logic Approach  225
                     G. Simonet   Two FOL Semantics for Simple and Nested
                                  Conceptual Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 240
                    T. Brauener   Peircean Graphs for the Modal Logic S5   255
                  T. H. Cao and   
                   P. N. Creasy   Fuzzy Order-Sorted Logic Programming in
                                  Conceptual Graphs with a Sound and
                                  Complete Proof Procedure . . . . . . . . 270
                O. Guinaldo and   
                   O. Haemmerle   Knowledge Querying in the Conceptual
                                  Graph Model: The RAP Module  . . . . . . 287
                  B. Ganter and   
                S. O. Kuznetsov   Stepwise Construction of the
                                  Dedekind-MacNeille Completion  . . . . . 295
                   P. Jappy and   
                        R. Nock   PAC Learning Conceptual Graphs . . . . . 303
                     G. A. Mann   Procedural Renunciation and the
                                  Semi-automatic Trap  . . . . . . . . . . 319
               W. M. Tepfenhart   Ontologies and Conceptual Structures . . 334
                    G. Angelova   Manual Acquisition of Uncountable Types
                                  in Closed Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
                      B. Moulin   A Logical Framework for Modeling a
                                  Discourse from the Point of View of the
                                  Agents Involved in It  . . . . . . . . . 359
                 K. Chibout and   
                      A. Vilnat   Computational Processing of Verbal
                                  Polysemy with Conceptual Structures  . . 367
                   C. Hoede and   
                         X. Liu   Word Graphs: The Second Set  . . . . . . 375
            A.-M. Rassinoux and   
                 R. H. Baud and   
                   C. Lovis and   
                   J. C. Wagner   Tuning Up Conceptual Graph
                                  Representation for Multilingual Natural
                                  Language Processing in Medicine  . . . . 390
                   O. Gerbe and   
               R. K. Keller and   
                   G. W. Mineau   Conceptual Graphs for Representing
                                  Business Processes in Corporate Memories 401
                 A. De Moor and   
                   G. W. Mineau   Handling Specification Knowledge
                                  Evolution Using Context Lattices . . . . 416
                    H. Wing and   
               R. M. Colomb and   
                   G. W. Mineau   Using CG Formal Contexts to Support
                                  Business System Interoperations  . . . . 431


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1454, 1998

                         M. Abe   Structural monitoring of civil
                                  structures using vibration measurement
                                  current practice and future  . . . . . . 1
               M. K. Badrah and   
                 I. Macleod and   
                       B. Kumar   Object-oriented software patterns for
                                  engineering design standards processing  19
                    J. W. Baugh   Design and verification of real-time
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
               P. Christiansson   Using knowledge nodes for knowledge
                                  discovery and collaboration  . . . . . . 48
                P. Cichocki and   
                     M. Gil and   
                    J. Pokojski   Heating system design support  . . . . . 60
               E. L. Divita and   
                 J. C. Kunz and   
                  M. A. Fischer   Collaborative desktop engineering  . . . 69
                   S. J. Fenves   Towards personalized structural
                                  engineering tools  . . . . . . . . . . . 86
                     G. Fischer   Complex systems: Why do they need to
                                  evolve and how can evolution be
                                  supported  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
                 M. Fischer and   
                  F. Aalami and   
                       R. Akbas   Formalizing product model
                                  transformations: Case Examples and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
                    R. Fruchter   Internet-based Web-mediated
                                  collaborative design and learning
                                  environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
              J. H. Garrett and   
                   A. Smailagic   Wearable computers for field inspectors:
                                  Delivering data and knowledge-based
                                  support in the field . . . . . . . . . . 146
                     J. S. Gero   Conceptual designing as a sequence of
                                  situated acts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
                      K. H. Law   Some personal experience in computer
                                  aided engineering research . . . . . . . 178
                M. L. Maher and   
                   S. J. Simoff   Knowledge discovery from multimedia case
                                  libraries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
                J. C. Miles and   
                C. J. Moore and   
                     I. Bradley   Customisable knowledge bases for
                                  conceptual design  . . . . . . . . . . . 214
                 W. J. Mitchell   Articulate design of free-form
                                  structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
                C. J. Moore and   
                J. C. Miles and   
                  J. V. Cadogan   Applying quantitative constraint
                                  satisfaction in preliminary design . . . 235
                D. T. Ndumu and   
                   J. M. H. Tah   Agents in computer-assisted
                                  collaborative design . . . . . . . . . . 249
            F. Peña-Mora   A collaborative negotiation methodology
                                  for large scale civil engineering and
                                  architectural projects . . . . . . . . . 271
                M. Y. Rafiq and   
                    C. Williams   An investigation into the integration of
                                  neural networks with the structured
                                  genetic algorithm to aid conceptual
                                  design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
                 B. Raphael and   
                       I. Smith   Finding the right model for bridge
                                  diagnosis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
                W. M. K. Roddis   Knowledge-based assistants in
                                  collaborative engineering  . . . . . . . 320
             M. A. Rosenman and   
                     J. S. Gero   CAD modelling in multidisciplinary
                                  design domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
             P. Salvaneschi and   
                     M. Lazzari   A family of software components to
                                  deliver solutions for the interpretation
                                  of monitoring data . . . . . . . . . . . 348
                  R. J. Scherer   AI methods in concurrent engineering . . 359
                     G. Schmitt   A new collaborative design environment
                                  for engineers and architects . . . . . . 384
                    K. Shea and   
                       I. Smith   Intelligent Structures: a New Direction
                                  in Structural Control  . . . . . . . . . 398
                  A. Cauvin and   
                 R. Passera and   
                   G. Stagnitto   Integration of expert systems in a
                                  structural design office . . . . . . . . 411
                T. Anderson and   
                  S. C. Hartvig   Teaching knowledge engineering:
                                  Experiences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
      J. Corte-Real Andrade and   
                       J. Bento   Design support for viaducts  . . . . . . 428
               A. Borkowski and   
                     E. Grabska   Converting function into object  . . . . 434
                  S. C. Hartvig   Software agent techniques in design  . . 440
               P. Johansson and   
                      S. Popova   Case-based design process facilitating
                                  collaboration and information evolution  444
                 E. Leijten and   
                    G. Maas and   
                     E. Vastert   Shared experiences: Management of
                                  experiential knowledge in the building
                                  industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
           E. Alvez Portela and   
                       J. Bento   Dam safety: Improving management . . . . 455
                   A. Retik and   
                    G. Mair and   
                   R. Fryer and   
                    D. McGregor   Integrating virtual reality and
                                  telepresence to remotely monitor
                                  construction sites: a VIRTUE project . . 459
                 M. Salonen and   
              J. Rautakorpi and   
                    M. Heinisuo   Proposal for 4.5 dimensional design via
                                  product models and expert system . . . . 464
                     S. Scheler   A product information system based on
                                  dynamic classification . . . . . . . . . 469
                 R. Stalker and   
                       I. Smith   Structural Monitoring: Decision-Support
                                  through Multiple Data Interpretations    474
                 R. Stalker and   
                       I. Smith   Augmented Reality Applications to
                                  Structural Monitoring  . . . . . . . . . 479
                      W. Tizani   Analysis and design of the as-built
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
                        Z. Turk   On theoretical backgrounds of CAD  . . . 490


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1455, 1998

             Anthony Hunter and   
                  Simon Parsons   Chapter 1: Introduction to uncertainty
                                  formalisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
              Simon Parsons and   
                 Anthony Hunter   Chapter 2: a review of uncertainty
                                  handling formalisms  . . . . . . . . . . 8
                Paolo Magni and   
          Riccardo Bellazzi and   
               Franco Locatelli   Chapter 3: Using uncertainty management
                                  techniques in medical therapy planning:
                                  a decision-theoretic approach  . . . . . 38
               Patrick Bosc and   
     Ludovic Liétard and   
                    Henri Prade   Chapter 4: An ordinal approach to the
                                  processing of fuzzy queries with
                                  flexible quantifiers . . . . . . . . . . 58
                     K. van Dam   Chapter 5: Using uncertainty techniques
                                  in radio communication systems . . . . . 76
                     K. van Dam   Chapter 5: Using uncertainty techniques
                                  in radio communication systems . . . . . 76
                     K. Van Dam   Using uncertainty techniques in radio
                                  communication systems  . . . . . . . . . 76
              Marta Domingo and   
          Lluís Godo and   
                  Carles Sierra   Chapter 6: Handling imperfect knowledge
                                  in \em Milord II for the identification
                                  of marine sponges  . . . . . . . . . . . 88
                Paul Krause and   
                   John Fox and   
              Philip Judson and   
                   Mukesh Patel   Chapter 7: Qualitative risk assessment
                                  fulfils a need . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
                  Mounia Lalmas   Chapter 8: Information retrieval and
                                  Dempster-Shafer's theory of evidence . . 157
      Maria Fernanda N. Ramalho   Chapter 9: Uncertainty measures
                                  associated with fuzzy rules for
                                  connection admission control in ATM
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
           Alessandro Saffiotti   Chapter 10: Handling uncertainty in
                                  control of autonomous robots . . . . . . 198
              Duncan Wilson and   
             Alistair Greig and   
                 John Gilby and   
                   Robert Smith   Chapter 11: Some problems in trying to
                                  implement uncertainty techniques in
                                  automated inspection . . . . . . . . . . 225
                    John Bigham   Chapter 12: Correlation using uncertain
                                  and temporal information . . . . . . . . 242
                   John Fox and   
                  Simon Parsons   Chapter 13: Arguing about beliefs and
                                  actions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
            Frances Brazier and   
           Joeri Engelfriet and   
                      Jan Treur   Chapter 14: Analysis of
                                  multi-interpretable ecological
                                  monitoring information . . . . . . . . . 303
            Salem Benferhat and   
                 Laurent Garcia   Chapter 15: a local handling of
                                  inconsistent knowledge and default bases 325
             Pascal Nicolas and   
                 Torsten Schaub   Chapter 16: The XRay system: An
                                  implementation platform for local
                                  query-answering in default logics  . . . 354
            Ahmed Y. Tawfik and   
                   Eric Neufeld   Chapter 17: Model-based diagnosis: a
                                  probabilistic extension  . . . . . . . . 379
         Jörg Gebhardt and   
                   Rudolf Kruse   Chapter 18: Background to and
                                  perspectives on possibilistic graphical
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
                 Subrata K. Das   Chapter 19: How much does an agent
                                  believe: An extension of modal epistemic
                                  logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
                  John Bell and   
                 Zhisheng Huang   Chapter 20: Safety logics  . . . . . . . 427
                    Rolf Haenni   Chapter 21: Modeling uncertainty with
                                  propositional assumption-based systems   446
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
                      Anonymous   Subject index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1456, 1998

               S. V. Spires and   
                S. Y. Goldsmith   Exhaustive Geographic Search with Mobile
                                  Robots Along Space-Filling Curves  . . . 1
                    A. Birk and   
                    T. Belpaeme   A Multiagent System Based on
                                  Heterogeneous Robots . . . . . . . . . . 13
                 M. Occello and   
                Y. Demazeau and   
                      C. Baeijs   Designing Organized Agents for
                                  Cooperation with Real Time Constraints   25
                       L. Julia   Tasking Robots through Multimodal
                                  Interfaces: The ``Coach Metaphor'' . . . 38
      C. Rodriguez-Lucatero and   
               J. Sanchez-V and   
                  S. Castillo-V   Application of AOP for modelling a
                                  flexible manufacturing cell  . . . . . . 48
                          Y. Ye   Performance and Attention in Multi-Agent
                                  Tasks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
          O. Labbani-Lgbida and   
              J.-P. Mueller and   
                   A. Bourjault   Cirta: An Emergentist Methodology to
                                  Design and Evaluate Collective
                                  Behaviours in robots' collonies  . . . . 72
                   P. Stone and   
                      M. Veloso   Communication in Domains with
                                  Unreliable, Single-Channel,
                                  Low-Bandwidth Communication  . . . . . . 85
                  S. Rocher and   
                      D. Duhaut   MARCH: a Flexible Multi-Agent
                                  Architecture, Applied to Autonomous
                                  Robots Playing Football  . . . . . . . . 98
                I. A. Letia and   
                  M. Joldos and   
                   C. Cenan and   
                        D. Zaiu   Decision Trees and Rule Induction in
                                  Simulated Soccer Agent . . . . . . . . . 110
                      L. Magnin   Rectangles and Circles: Towards
                                  Realistic Simulation of Robots Playing
                                  Soccer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
            S. Y. Goldsmith and   
                    R. Robinett   Collective Search by Mobile Robots using
                                  Alpha-Beta Coordination  . . . . . . . . 135
                  H. Takeda and   
               N. Kobayashi and   
               Y. Matsubara and   
                     T. Nishida   An Knowledge-Level Approach for Building
                                  Human-Machine Cooperative Environment    147


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1457, 1998

                  J. R. Gilbert   Combinatorial Preconditioning for Sparse
                                  Linear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
             E. A. Schweitz and   
                  D. P. Agrawal   A Threaded Sliding Window Executor for
                                  Irregular Computation on a NOW . . . . . 5
              M. Eichstaedt and   
                      Q. Lu and   
                      S.-H Teng   Parallel Profile Matching for Large
                                  Scale Webcasting . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
                     H. Zha and   
                 O. Marques and   
                    H. D. Simon   Large-Scale SVD and Subspace-Based
                                  Methods for Information Retrieval  . . . 29
                      K. Wu and   
                    H. D. Simon   Thick-Restart Lanczos Method for
                                  Symmetric Eigenvalue Problems  . . . . . 43
              P. M. Selwood and   
                 M. Berzins and   
                 J. M. Nash and   
                      P. M. Dew   Portable Parallel Adaptation of
                                  Unstructured $3$D Meshes . . . . . . . . 56
                    T. G. Kolda   Partitioning Sparse Rectangular Matrices
                                  for Parallel Processing  . . . . . . . . 68
                     R. Garmann   Locality Preserving Load Balancing with
                                  Provably Small Overhead  . . . . . . . . 80
                 C.-J. Liao and   
                    Y.-C. Chung   Tree-Based Parallel Load Balancing
                                  Methods for Solution-Adaptive
                                  Unstructured Finite Element Models on
                                  Distributed Memory Multicomputers  . . . 92
               A. J. Cleary and   
              R. D. Falgout and   
               H. Van Emden and   
                    J. E. Jones   Coarse-Grid Selection for Parallel
                                  Algebraic Multigrid  . . . . . . . . . . 104
                   E. Gomez and   
               L. Ridgway Scott   Overlapping and Short-Cutting Techniques
                                  in Loosely Synchronous Irregular
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
                   G. L. Miller   Control Volume Meshes Using Sphere
                                  Packing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
                   G. Heber and   
                  R. Biswas and   
            P. Thulasiraman and   
                      G. R. Gao   Using Multithreading for the Automatic
                                  Load Balancing of Adaptive Finite
                                  Element Meshes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
                   X.-Y. Li and   
                     S.-H. Teng   Dynamic Load Balancing for Parallel
                                  Adaptive Mesh Refinement . . . . . . . . 144
                  J. Z. Lou and   
               C. D. Norton and   
                        T. Cwik   A Robust and Scalable Library for
                                  Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement on
                                  Unstructured Meshes  . . . . . . . . . . 156
                R. Diekmann and   
              F. Schlimbach and   
                     C. Walshaw   Quality Balancing for Parallel Adaptive
                                  FEM  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
            A. I. Shestakov and   
                 J. L. Milovich   Parallelization of an Unstructured Grid,
                                  Hydrodynamic-Diffusion Code  . . . . . . 182
                 A. Goldman and   
                D. Trystram and   
                      J. Peters   Exchange of Messages of Different Sizes  194
              W. Blochinger and   
                W. Kuechlin and   
                       A. Weber   The Distributed Object-Oriented Threads
                                  System DOTS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
                 B. Hendrickson   Graph Partitioning and Parallel Solvers:
                                  Has the Emperor No Clothes?  . . . . . . 218
              M. G. Knepley and   
                   V. Savin and   
                    A. H. Sameh   Parallel Simulation of Particulate Flows 226
                 A. Bar-Lev and   
               A. Itzkovitz and   
                   A. Raviv and   
                    A. Schuster   Parallel Vertex-To-Vertex Radiosity on a
                                  Distributed Shared Memory System . . . . 238
                 L. V. Kale and   
              M. Bhandarkar and   
                     R. Brunner   Load Balancing in Parallel Molecular
                                  Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
               J. Carretero and   
                      J. No and   
               A. Choudhary and   
                        P. Chen   COMPASSION: a Parallel I/O Runtime
                                  System Including Chunking and
                                  Compression for Irregular Applications   262
                  V. Y. Pan and   
             M. A. Tabanjeh and   
                 Z. Q. Chen and   
                  S. Providence   Transformations of Cauchy Matrices,
                                  Trummer's Problem and a Cauchy-Like
                                  Linear Solver  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
              S. L. Martins and   
              C. C. Ribeiro and   
                    M. C. Souza   A Parallel GRASP for the Steiner Problem
                                  in Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
                S.-Y. Hsieh and   
                   C.-W. Ho and   
                  T.-S. Hsu and   
                        M.-T Ko   A New Simple Parallel Tree Contraction
                                  Scheme and Its Application on
                                  Distance-Hereditary Graphs . . . . . . . 298
                 R. M. Aiex and   
              S. L. Martins and   
              C. C. Ribeiro and   
          N. D. L. R. Rodriguez   Cooperative Multi-thread Parallel Tabu
                                  Search with an Application to Circuit
                                  Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
                  D. Arapov and   
                 A. Kalinov and   
             A. Lastovetsky and   
                   I. Ledovskih   Experiments with mpC: Efficient Solving
                                  Regular Problems on Heterogeneous
                                  Networks of Computers via
                                  Irregularization . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
                    S. Brunnett   Balancing the Load in Large-Scale
                                  Distributed Entity-Level Simulations . . 344
                  L. Nyland and   
                   J. Prins and   
                  R. H. Yun and   
                     J. Hermans   Modeling Dynamic Load Balancing in
                                  Molecular Dynamics to Achieve Scalable
                                  Parallel Execution . . . . . . . . . . . 356
                      C. Xu and   
                         Y. Nie   Relaxed Implementation of Spectral
                                  Methods for Graph Partitioning . . . . . 366
                    A. Sohn and   
                    H. D. Simon   S-HARP: a Parallel Dynamic Spectral
                                  Partitioner  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
                E. P. Jiang and   
                    M. W. Berry   Information Filtering Using the
                                  Riemannian SVD (R-SVD) . . . . . . . . . 386
               N. Chvisochoides   Parallel Run-Time System for Adaptive
                                  Mesh Refinement  . . . . . . . . . . . . 396


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1458, 1998

              Kathleen F. McCoy   Interface and Language Issues in
                                  Intelligent Systems for People with
                                  Disabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
             P. L. Albacete and   
                S. K. Chang and   
                      G. Polese   Iconic Language Design for People with
                                  Significant Speech and Multiple
                                  Impairments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
          Robbin Nicole Chapman   Lexicon for Computer Translation of
                                  American Sign Language . . . . . . . . . 33
                     James Gips   On Building Intelligence into EagleEyes  50
  Christopher A. Pennington and   
              Kathleen F. McCoy   Providing Intelligent Language Feedback
                                  for Augmentative Communication Users . . 59
                  Polly K. Pook   Saliency in Human-Computer Interaction   73
               Thad Starner and   
              Joshua Weaver and   
                  Alex Pentland   A Wearable Computer Based American Sign
                                  Language Recognizer  . . . . . . . . . . 84
             Masaaki Tokuda and   
                 Manabu Okumura   Towards Automatic Translation from
                                  Japanese into Japanese Sign Language . . 97
      Peter B. Vanderheyden and   
      Christopher A. Pennington   An Augmentative Communication Interface
                                  Based on Conversational Schemata . . . . 109
                David P. Miller   Assistive Robotics: An Overview  . . . . 126
            Jill D. Crisman and   
              Michael E. Cleary   Progress on the Deictically Controlled
                                  Wheelchair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
               Takashi Gomi and   
                   Ann Griffith   Developing Intelligent Wheelchairs for
                                  the Handicapped  . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
         William S. Gribble and   
         Robert L. Browning and   
             Micheal Hewett and   
            Emilio Remolina and   
            Benjamin J. Kuipers   Integrating Vision and Spatial Reasoning
                                  for Assistive Navigation . . . . . . . . 179
                Zunaid Kazi and   
                Shoupu Chen and   
            Matthew Beitler and   
             Daniel Chester and   
                 Richard Foulds   Speech and Gesture Mediated Intelligent
                                  Teleoperation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
               Gerard Lacey and   
           Shane Mac Namara and   
         Kenneth M. Dawson-Howe   Personal Adaptive Mobility Aid for the
                                  Infirm and Elderly Blind . . . . . . . . 211--220
                 Hideo Mori and   
              Shinji Kotani and   
               Noriaki Kiyohiro   HITOMI: Design and Development of a
                                  Robotic Travel Aid . . . . . . . . . . . 221
         Richard C. Simpson and   
            Simon P. Levine and   
              David A. Bell and   
           Lincoln A. Jaros and   
                Yoram Koren and   
              Johann Borenstein   NavChair: An Assistive Wheelchair
                                  Navigation System with Automatic
                                  Adaptation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
                 Holly A. Yanco   Wheelesley: a Robotic Wheelchair System:
                                  Indoor Navigation and User Interface . . 256


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1459, 1998

          Dror G. Feitelson and   
                  Larry Rudolph   Metrics and Benchmarking for Parallel
                                  Job Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                Virginia Lo and   
                 Jens Mache and   
                  Kurt Windisch   A Comparative Study of Real Workload
                                  Traces and Synthetic Workload Models for
                                  Parallel Job Scheduling  . . . . . . . . 25
                Allen B. Downey   Lachesis: a Job Scheduler for the Cray
                                  T3E  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
            Karl Czajkowski and   
                 Ian Foster and   
               Nick Karonis and   
             Carl Kesselman and   
              Stuart Martin and   
               Warren Smith and   
                  Steven Tuecke   A Resource Management Architecture for
                                  Metacomputing Systems  . . . . . . . . . 62
            Kuniyasu Suzaki and   
                    David Walsh   Implementing the Combination of Time
                                  Sharing and Space Sharing on AP/Linux    83
                 Kento Aida and   
          Hironori Kasahara and   
               Seinosuke Narita   Job Scheduling Scheme for Pure Space
                                  Sharing Among Rigid Jobs . . . . . . . . 98
               Warren Smith and   
                 Ian Foster and   
                 Valerie Taylor   Predicting Application Run Times Using
                                  Historical Information . . . . . . . . . 122
                 B. B. Zhou and   
                R. P. Brent and   
                   D. Walsh and   
                      K. Suzaki   Job Scheduling Strategies for Networks
                                  of Workstations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
          Sissades Tongsima and   
   Chantana Chantrapornchai and   
                Edwin H.-M. Sha   Probabilistic Loop Scheduling
                                  Considering Communication Overhead . . . 158
         Uwe Schwiegelshohn and   
                Ramin Yahyapour   Improving First-Come-First-Serve Job
                                  Scheduling by Gang Scheduling  . . . . . 180
                Morris A. Jette   Expanding Symmetric Multiprocessor
                                  Capability Through Gang Scheduling . . . 199
               Atsushi Hori and   
             Hiroshi Tezuka and   
                Yutaka Ishikawa   Overhead Analysis of Preemptive Gang
                                  Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
      Patrick G. Sobalvarro and   
                Scott Pakin and   
           William E. Weihl and   
                Andrew A. Chien   Dynamic Coscheduling on Workstation
                                  Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1460, 1998

              W. Retschitzegger   Composite Event Management in TriGS ---
                                  Concepts and Implementation  . . . . . . 1
                  C. Collet and   
            G. Vargas-Solar and   
          H. Grazziotin-Ribeiro   Towards a Semantic Event Service for
                                  Distributed Active Database Applications 16
                  Y. Saygin and   
                      O. Ulusoy   Involving Fuzzy Concepts in Active
                                  Mobile Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
                K. Noervaag and   
              K. Bratbergsengen   An Analytical Study of Object Identifier
                                  Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
                 T.-W. Ling and   
                  B.-T. Wee and   
                      S. Y. Lee   DO2: Deductive Object-Oriented Database
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
                  H.-C. Kuo and   
            G. Özsoyo\uglu   Selecting Actions to Trigger in Active
                                  Database Applications  . . . . . . . . . 60
                 J. Henrard and   
               V. Englebert and   
                 J.-M. Hick and   
                      D. Roland   Program Understanding in Databases
                                  Reverse Engineering  . . . . . . . . . . 70
                  N. Masood and   
                  B. Eaglestone   Semantic Based Schema Analysis . . . . . 80
                L. Palopoli and   
                   D. Sacca and   
                      D. Ursino   Automatic Derivation of Terminological
                                  Properties from Database Schemes . . . . 90
                  C.-H. Lee and   
                    L.-F. Chien   A Novel Integration of OODBMS and
                                  Information Retrieval Techniques for a
                                  Document Repository  . . . . . . . . . . 100
                   K. Arour and   
                       A. Jaoua   Rectangular Decomposition of Signature
                                  File: Design Issues and Performance
                                  Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
         B. C. M. Wondergem and   
              P. Van Bommel and   
            T. P. Van Der Weide   Cumulative Duality in Designing
                                  Information Brokers  . . . . . . . . . . 125
       I. T. Hawryszkiewycz and   
                    J. Debenham   A Workflow System Based on Agents  . . . 135
                W. Wieczerzycki   Multiuser Transactions for Collaborative
                                  Database Applications  . . . . . . . . . 145
                     N. Tryfona   Modeling Phenomena in Spatiotemporal
                                  Databases: Desiderata and Solutions  . . 155
                   F. P. Coenen   Rulebase Checking Using a Spatial
                                  Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
                  K. Sumiya and   
                    R. Noda and   
                      K. Tanaka   Hypermedia Broadcasting with Temporal
                                  Links  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
                          W. Ng   Inferring Functional Dependencies in
                                  Linearly Ordered Databases . . . . . . . 186
                  J. Bisbal and   
                      B. Wu and   
                 D. Lawless and   
                     J. Grimson   Building Consistent Sample Databases to
                                  Support Information System Evolution and
                                  Migration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
                C. Souveyet and   
                       M. Tawbi   Process Centred Approach for Developing
                                  Tool Support of Situated Methods . . . . 206
        M. J. Aramburu-Cabo and   
            R. Berlanga-Llavori   A Retrieval Language for Historical
                                  Documents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
                   I. Ounis and   
                       M. Pasca   Modeling, Indexing and Retrieving Images
                                  Using Conceptual Graphs  . . . . . . . . 226
                     A. Henrich   Applying Document Retrieval Techniques
                                  in Software Engineering Environments . . 240
                   B. Amann and   
                D. Vodislav and   
               J. Fernandes and   
                       G. Coste   Browsing SGML Documents with Maps: The
                                  French ``Inventaire'' Experience . . . . 250
                  F. Andres and   
                  J. Buford and   
                         K. Ono   An Application-Oriented Approach for
                                  HyTime Structured Document Management    260
            B. A. El-Geresy and   
                A. I. Abdelmoty   A Qualitative Approach to Integration in
                                  Spatial Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . 280
                 S. Kaushik and   
            E. A. Rundensteiner   SVIQUEL: a Spatial Visual Query and
                                  Exploration Language . . . . . . . . . . 290
                  Z. Bellahsene   View Adaptation in Data Warehousing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
                   C. Farre and   
                E. Teniente and   
                        T. Urpi   Query Containment Checking as a View
                                  Updating Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
                F. Bentayeb and   
                     D. Laurent   View Updates Translations in Relational
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
                   E. Nonas and   
               A. Poulovassilis   Optimisation of Active Rule Agents Using
                                  a Genetic Algorithm Approach . . . . . . 332
                A. C. Ikeji and   
                     F. Fotouhi   Optimization of Constrained Queries with
                                  a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm . . . . . . . 342
                   W. Hesse and   
                     H. C. Mayr   Highlights of the SAMMOA Framework for
                                  Object-Oriented Application Modeling . . 353
             H. Afsarmanesh and   
                  C. Garita and   
              L. O. Hertzberger   Virtual Enterprises and Federated
                                  Information Sharing  . . . . . . . . . . 374
                  A. Rashid and   
                      P. Sawyer   Facilitating Virtual Representation of
                                  CAD Data Through a Learning Based
                                  Approach to Conceptual Database
                                  Evolution Employing Direct Instance
                                  Sharing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
            A. N. W. Dahanayake   Evaluation of the Strength of Computer
                                  Aided Method Engineering for Product
                                  Development Process Modeling . . . . . . 394
                  G. Kappel and   
                   B. Schroeder   Distributed Light-Weight Persistence in
                                  Java --- A Tour on RMI- and CORBA-Based
                                  Solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
           T. J. M. Bench-Capon   Specifying the Interaction Between
                                  Information Sources  . . . . . . . . . . 425
        E. M. Antunes-Uchoa and   
               S. Lifschitz and   
                     R. N. Melo   HEROS: a Heterogeneous Object-Oriented
                                  Database System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
             E. M. Boertjes and   
         P. W. P. J. Grefen and   
                    J. Vonk and   
                 P. M. G. Apers   An Architecture for Nested Transaction
                                  Support on Standard Database Systems . . 448
                     E. Pitoura   Transaction-Based Coordination of
                                  Software Agents  . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
                 T. Enokido and   
                  H. Higaki and   
                    M. Takizawa   Object-Based Group Protocol  . . . . . . 470
               M. Marazakis and   
               D. Papadakis and   
                    C. Nikolaou   Aurora: An Architecture for Dynamic and
                                  Adaptive Work Sessions in Open
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
                   M. Khair and   
                I. Mavridis and   
                    G. Pangalos   Design of Secure Distributed Medical
                                  Database Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
                 T. Shibata and   
                        T. Kato   Modeling of Subjective Interpretation
                                  for Street Landscape Image . . . . . . . 501
                        B. Wang   Extend Dexter Model to Capture More
                                  Semantics of Hypermedia  . . . . . . . . 511
                  F. Fourel and   
                  P. Mulhem and   
                  M.-F Bruandet   A Generic Framework for Structured
                                  Document Access  . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
              M. Montebello and   
                 W. A. Gray and   
                      S. Hurley   An Evolvable Personal Advisor to
                                  Optimize Internet Search Technologies    531
                 T. Bozkaya and   
            M. Özsoyo\uglu   Indexing Valid Time Intervals  . . . . . 541
              A. Nanopoulos and   
                Y. Manolopoulos   Indexing Time-Series Databases for
                                  Inverse Queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
              C. Vassilakis and   
              P. Georgiadis and   
                      T. Sellis   Implementing Embedded Valid Time Query
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
               S. K. Madria and   
                    B. Bhargava   On the Correctness of a Transaction
                                  Model for Mobile Computing . . . . . . . 573
                M. Abdallah and   
                    P. Pucheral   A Single-Phase Non-blocking Atomic
                                  Commitment Protocol  . . . . . . . . . . 584
                F. Mulatero and   
             J.-M. Thevenin and   
                       P. Bazex   A Global Garbage Collector for Federated
                                  Database Management Systems  . . . . . . 596
                       W. Woess   Rule-Based Management of Routing Plans
                                  in CIM Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610
              O. Stepankova and   
               M. Pechoucek and   
                   V. Marik and   
                    J. Lazansky   Applications of Model-Based Co-operative
                                  Agents in Production Planning  . . . . . 620
                  A. Yamani and   
             A. Al-Zobaidie and   
                     M. Ibrahim   Open Architecture for Natural Language
                                  Distributed Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 631
             S. S. Bhowmick and   
                   W.-K. Ng and   
                  E.-P. Lim and   
                   S. K. Madria   Join Processing in Web Databases . . . . 647
                    M. Welz and   
                        P. Wood   TENTACLE: a Database System for the
                                  World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
            J.-L. Chappelet and   
                    A. Le Grand   Workey: a Method and Tool to Build
                                  Web-Enabled Workflows  . . . . . . . . . 668
                J. Robinson and   
                B. G. T. Lowden   Attribute-Pair Range Rules . . . . . . . 680
             L. Bellatreche and   
              K. Karlapalem and   
                    G. K. Basak   Query-Driven Horizontal Class
                                  Partitioning for Object-Oriented
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692
                   J. A. Bakker   An Extended Meta Model for Conditional
                                  Fragmentation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702
            N. A. Lorentzos and   
                   K. A. Dondis   Query by Example for Nested Tables . . . 716
                     L. Fegaras   A New Heuristic for Optimizing Large
                                  Queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726
                      X. Du and   
                     Z. Liu and   
                       N. Ishii   Discovery of User-Interests from Range
                                  Queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736
                   J. Samos and   
                  F. Saltor and   
                  J. Sistac and   
                      A. Bardes   Database Architecture for Data
                                  Warehousing: An Evolutionary Approach    746
                  C. Gurret and   
                      P. Rigaux   An Integrated Platform for the
                                  Evaluation of Spatial Query Processing
                                  Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757
                   Z. Kouba and   
                K. Matousek and   
               P. Miksovsky and   
                  O. Stepankova   On Updating the Data Warehouse from
                                  Multiple Data Sources  . . . . . . . . . 767
                 M. Teschke and   
                     A. Ulbrich   Concurrent Warehouse Maintenance without
                                  Compromising Session Consistency . . . . 776
                    L. Shen and   
                        H. Shen   Mining Flexible Multiple-Level
                                  Association Rules in All Concept
                                  Hierarchies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786
                    X. Chen and   
                  I. Petrounias   A Framework for Temporal Data Mining . . 796
              G. Goulbourne and   
                  F. Coenen and   
                        P. Leng   KD in FM: Knowledge Discovery in
                                  Facilities Management Databases  . . . . 806
                   D. Merkl and   
                      A. Rauber   CIA's View of the World and what Neural
                                  Networks Learn from it: a Comparison of
                                  Geographical Document Space
                                  Representation Metaphors . . . . . . . . 816
                   T. Miura and   
                      I. Shioya   Learning Concepts from Databases . . . . 826
               A. De Korvin and   
              G. Quirchmayr and   
                 S. Hashemi and   
                      R. Kleyle   Rule Extraction Using Rough Sets when
                                  Membership Values are Intervals  . . . . 841
               K. Messaadia and   
                    M. Oussalah   Using Semantic Links for Reuse in
                                  Knowledge Base Systems . . . . . . . . . 851
                        J. Shao   Incremental Updating of Classification
                                  Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861
                  S. Flesca and   
                       S. Greco   Declarative Semantics for Active Rules   871
               J. Puigsegur and   
                  J. Agusti and   
                   J. A. Pastor   Towards Visual Schemas in Deductive
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881
                         M. Liu   Incorporating Methods and Encapsulation
                                  into Deductive Object-Oriented Database
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1461, 1998

                   J. S. Vitter   External Memory Algorithms . . . . . . . 1
                       E. Upfal   Design and Analysis of Dynamic
                                  Processes: A Stochastic Approach . . . . 26
                    B. Chazelle   Car-Pooling as a Data Structuring
                                  Device: The Soft Heap  . . . . . . . . . 35
                P. Bradford and   
                M. J. Golin and   
              L. L. Larmore and   
                      W. Rytter   Optimal Prefix-Free Codes for Unequal
                                  Letter Costs: Dynamic Programming with
                                  the Monge Property . . . . . . . . . . . 43
                E. Nardelli and   
                G. Proietti and   
                    P. Widmayer   Finding All the Best Swaps of a Minimum
                                  Diameter Spanning Tree under Transient
                                  Edge Failures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
                  Y. Matias and   
           S. Muthukrishnan and   
             S. C. Sahinalp and   
                         J. Ziv   Augmenting Suffix Trees, with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
                B. S. Baker and   
                   R. Giancarlo   Longest Common Subsequence from
                                  Fragments via Sparse Dynamic Programming 79
                    P. N. Klein   Computing the Edit-Distance Between
                                  Unrooted Ordered Trees . . . . . . . . . 91
                 M. Fellows and   
                 M. Hallett and   
             C. Korostensky and   
                       U. Stege   Analogs and Duals of the MAST Problem
                                  for Sequences and Trees  . . . . . . . . 103
                  F. Cucker and   
                       S. Smale   Complexity Estimates Depending on
                                  Condition and Round-Off Error  . . . . . 115
               J. Maurice Rojas   Intrinsic Near Quadratic Complexity
                                  Bounds for Real Multivariate Root
                                  Counting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
              A. Storjohann and   
                     T. Mulders   Fast Algorithms for Linear Algebra
                                  Modulo $N$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
                     J. Bloemer   A Probabilistic Zero-Test for
                                  Expressions Involving Roots of RationeS
                                  Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
                 M. Fischer and   
               T. Lukovszki and   
                     M. Ziegler   Geometric Searching in Walkthrough
                                  Animations with Weak Spanners in Real
                                  Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
                 F. D'Amore and   
            P. G. Franciosa and   
                      G. Liotta   A Robust Region Approach to the
                                  Computation of Geometric Graphs  . . . . 175
               S. Eidenbenz and   
                   C. Stamm and   
                    P. Widmayer   Positioning Guards at Fixed Height above
                                  a Terrain --- An Optimum
                                  Inapproximability Result . . . . . . . . 187
                 C.-S. Shin and   
                  J.-H. Kim and   
              Sung Kwon Kim and   
                     K.-Y. Chwa   Two-Center Problems for a Convex Polygon 199
               T. M. Murali and   
              P. K. Agarwal and   
                   J. S. Vitter   Constructing Binary Space Partitions for
                                  Orthogonal Rectangles in Practice  . . . 211
                  R. Kannan and   
                       A. Nolte   A Fast Random Greedy Algorithm for the
                                  Component Commonality Problem  . . . . . 223
         B. Kalyanasundaram and   
                       K. Pruhs   Maximizing Job Completions Online  . . . 235
                  Y. Bartal and   
                 M. Chrobak and   
                  L. L. Larmore   A Randomized Algorithm for Two Servers
                                  on the Line  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
                      P. Kolman   On Nonblocking Properties of the Benes
                                  Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
                  P. Betman and   
                    J. A. Garay   Adaptability and the Usefulness of Hints 271
                E. Kranakis and   
                 D. Krizanc and   
                        A. Pelc   Fault-Tolerant Broadcasting in Radio
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
                   K. Iwama and   
              Y. Kambayashi and   
                      E. Miyano   New Bounds for Oblivious Mesh Routing    295
                   E. Cohen and   
           B. Krishnamurthy and   
                     J. Rexford   Evaluating Server-Assisted Cache
                                  Replacement in the Web . . . . . . . . . 307
                D. Frigioni and   
    A. Marchetti-Spaccamela and   
                       U. Nanni   Fully Dynamic Shortest Paths and
                                  Negative Cycles Detection on Digraphs
                                  with Arbitrary Arc Weights . . . . . . . 320
                  J. Abello and   
            A. L. Buchsbaum and   
                J. R. Westbrook   A Functional Approach to External Graph
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
               V. Bouchitte and   
                     I. Todinca   Minimal Triangulations for Graphs with
                                  ``Few'' Minimal Separators . . . . . . . 344
                 D. Z. Chen and   
                  O. Daescu and   
                      X. Hu and   
                          J. Xu   Finding an Optimal Path without Growing
                                  the Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
                D. Frigioni and   
                  T. Miller and   
                   U. Nanni and   
                  G. Pasqualone   An Experimental Study of Dynamic
                                  Algorithms for Directed Graphs . . . . . 368
                   R. W. Irving   Matching Medical Students to Pairs of
                                  Hospitals: A New Variation on a
                                  Well-known Theme . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
                   U. Meyer and   
                     P. Sanders   Cap delta-Stepping: a Parallel Single
                                  Source Shortest Path Algorithm . . . . . 393
              Ka Wong Chong and   
                    E. A. Ramos   Improved Deterministic Parallel Padded
                                  Sorting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
                   M. Adler and   
              P. Berenbrink and   
                   K. Schroeder   Analyzing an Infinite Parallel Job
                                  Allocation Process . . . . . . . . . . . 417
                R. Diekmann and   
                 A. Frommet and   
                      B. Monien   Nearest Neighbor Load Balancing on
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
                   R. Solis-Oba   2-Approximation Algorithm for Finding a
                                  Spanning Tree with Maximum Number of
                                  Leaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
               C. S. Helvig and   
                  G. Robins and   
                  A. Zelikovsky   Moving-Target TSP and Related Problems   453
                 J. Haastad and   
                L. Ivansson and   
                   J. Lagergren   Fitting Points on the Real Line and Its
                                  Application to RH Mapping  . . . . . . . 465
             M. Krivelevich and   
                     B. Sudakov   Approximate Coloring of Uniform
                                  Hypergraphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
               D. W. Engels and   
               D. R. Karger and   
         S. G. Kolliopoulos and   
                    S. Sengupta   Techniques for Scheduling with Rejection 490
          S. V. Sevastianov and   
                I. D. Tchernykh   Computer-Aided Way to Prove Theorems in
                                  Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1462, 1998

          Daniel Bleichenbacher   Chosen Ciphertext Attacks Against
                                  Protocols Based on the RSA Encryption
                                  Standard PKCS #1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
              Ronald Cramer and   
                   Victor Shoup   A Practical Public Key Cryptosystem
                                  Provably Secure Against Adaptive Chosen
                                  Ciphertext Attack  . . . . . . . . . . . 13
              Mihir Bellare and   
                Anand Desai and   
          David Pointcheval and   
                Phillip Rogaway   Relations Among Notions of Security for
                                  Public-Key Encryption Schemes  . . . . . 26
             Steven M. Bellovin   Cryptography and the Internet  . . . . . 46
            Florent Chabaud and   
                   Antoine Joux   Differential Collisions in SHA-0 . . . . 56
              Alex Biryukov and   
               Eyal Kushilevitz   From Differential Cryptanalysis to
                                  Ciphertext-Only Attacks  . . . . . . . . 72
                      Tal Rabin   A Simplified Approach to Threshold and
                                  Proactive RSA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
             Dario Catalano and   
                Rosario Gennaro   New Efficient and Secure Protocols for
                                  Verifiable Signature Sharing and Other
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
             Matthias Fitzi and   
                Martin Hirt and   
                    Ueli Maurer   Trading Correctness for Privacy in
                                  Unconditional Multi-party Computation    121
             William Aiello and   
               Sachin Lodha and   
               Rafail Ostrovsky   Fast Digital Identity Revocation . . . . 137
             Oded Goldreich and   
           Birgit Pfitzmann and   
               Ronald L. Rivest   Self-Delegation with Controlled
                                  Propagation --- or --- What If You Lose
                                  Your Laptop  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
                 Joe Kilian and   
                   Erez Petrank   Identity Escrow  . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
             Charanjit S. Jutla   Generalized Birthday Attacks on
                                  Unbalanced Feistel Networks  . . . . . . 186
          Takeshi Shimoyama and   
               Toshinobu Kaneko   Quadratic Relation of S-box and Its
                                  Application to the Linear Attack of Full
                                  Round DES  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
                Thomas Jakobsen   Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers with
                                  Probabilistic Non-linear Relations of
                                  Low Degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
               Phong Nguyen and   
                  Jacques Stern   Cryptanalysis of the Ajtai--Dwork
                                  Cryptosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
                 Serge Vaudenay   Cryptanalysis of the Chor--Rivest
                                  Cryptosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
               Aviad Kipnis and   
                     Adi Shamir   Cryptanalysis of the Oil & Vinegar
                                  Signature Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--267
                  Moni Naor and   
                  Omer Reingold   From Unpredictability to
                                  Indistinguishability: A Simple
                                  Construction of Pseudo-Random Functions
                                  from MACs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
              Mihir Bellare and   
                Shai Halevi and   
                 Amit Sahai and   
                   Salil Vadhan   Many-to-One Trapdoor Functions and their
                                  Relation to Public-Key Cryptosystems . . 283
             Yonatan Aumann and   
               Michael O. Rabin   Authentication, Enhanced Security and
                                  Error Correcting Codes . . . . . . . . . 299
               Sarvar Patel and   
          Ganapathy S. Sundaram   An Efficient Discrete Log Pseudo Random
                                  Generator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
                Tsuyoshi Takagi   Fast RSA-type Cryptosystem Modulo $ p^k
                                  q $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
                   Neal Koblitz   An Elliptic Curve Implementation of the
                                  Finite Field Digital Signature Algorithm 327
                  Louis Salvail   Quantum Bit Commitment from a Physical
                                  Assumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
                 Kazuo Ohta and   
               Tatsuaki Okamoto   On Concrete Security Treatment of
                                  Signatures Derived from Identification   354
                 Chris Hall and   
               David Wagner and   
                John Kelsey and   
                 Bruce Schneier   Building PRFs from PRPs  . . . . . . . . 370
                  W. Aiello and   
                 M. Bellare and   
            G. Di Crescenzo and   
                  R. Venkatesan   Security Amplification by Composition:
                                  The Case of Doubly-Iterated, Ideal
                                  Ciphers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
               Satoshi Hada and   
                Toshiaki Tanaka   On the Existence of 3-Round
                                  Zero-Knowledge Protocols . . . . . . . . 408
              Ronald Cramer and   
             Ivan Damgård   Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Finite Field
                                  Arithmetic, or: Can Zero-Knowledge Be
                                  for Free?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
              Cynthia Dwork and   
                     Amit Sahai   Concurrent Zero-Knowledge: Reducing the
                                  Need for Timing Constraints  . . . . . . 442
               Damian Weber and   
                   Thomas Denny   The Solution of McCurley's Discrete Log
                                  Challenge  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
           Daniel V. Bailey and   
                  Christof Paar   Optimal Extension Fields for Fast
                                  Arithmetic in Public-Key Algorithms  . . 472
                Ahto Buldas and   
                Peeter Laud and   
              Helger Lipmaa and   
                  Jan Villemson   Time-Stamping with Binary Linking
                                  Schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486
                  Moni Naor and   
                   Benny Pinkas   Threshold Traitor Tracing  . . . . . . . 502


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1463, 1998

                   W. Bibel and   
                    D. Korn and   
                  C. Kreitz and   
                  F. Kurucz and   
                   J. Otten and   
                 S. Schmitt and   
                   G. Stolpmann   A Multi-level Approach to Program
                                  Synthesis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
             Annalisa Bossi and   
                Nicoletta Cocco   Programs Without Failures  . . . . . . . 28
           H. Bueyuekyildiz and   
                      P. Flener   Generalised Logic Program Transformation
                                  Schemas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Halime Büyükyildiz and   
                  Pierre Flener   Generalised Logic Program Transformation
                                  Schemas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
              Eric Chasseur and   
                   Yves Deville   Logic Program Schemas, Constraints and
                                  Semi-unification . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
           Henning Christiansen   Implicit Program Synthesis by a
                                  Reversible Metainterpreter . . . . . . . 90
            Stefaan Decorte and   
           Danny De Schreye and   
           Michael Leuschel and   
               Bern Martens and   
           Konstantinos Sagonas   Termination Analysis for Tabled Logic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
              Pierre Flener and   
               Kung-Kiu Lau and   
                  Mario Ornaghi   On Correct Program Schemas . . . . . . . 128
              Andrew Heaton and   
                   Pat Hill and   
                      Andy King   Analysis of Logic Programs with Delay    148
                  L. Lafave and   
                J. P. Gallagher   Constraint-Based Partial Evaluation of
                                  Rewriting-Based Functional Logic
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
           Michael Leuschel and   
               Bern Martens and   
           Konstantinos Sagonas   Preserving Termination of Tabled Logic
                                  Programs While Unfolding . . . . . . . . 189
           N. Lindenstrauss and   
                   Y. Sagiv and   
                  A. Serebrenik   Unfolding the Mystery of Mergesort . . . 206
         Alberto Momigliano and   
                  Mario Ornaghi   Towards a Logic for Reasoning About
                                  Logic Programs Transformation  . . . . . 226
                  Lee Naish and   
                  Leon Sterling   A Higher Order Reconstruction of
                                  Stepwise Enhancement . . . . . . . . . . 245
          Julian Richardson and   
               Norbert E. Fuchs   Development of Correct Transformation
                                  Schemata for Prolog Programs . . . . . . 263
        Hüseyin Saglam and   
              John P. Gallagher   Constrained Regular Approximation of
                                  Logic Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
          Giovanni Semeraro and   
          Floriana Esposito and   
             Donato Malerba and   
             Nicola Fanizzi and   
                Stefano Ferilli   A Logic Framework for the Incremental
                                  Inductive Synthesis of Datalog Theories  300
                Wim Vanhoof and   
                   Bern Martens   To Parse or Not To Parse . . . . . . . . 322


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1464, 1998

                        R. Jain   Presence Technology: Accessing Live
                                  Multimedia Information Systems . . . . . 1
                   S. Aksoy and   
                 R. M. Haralick   Content-Based Image Database Retrieval
                                  Using Variances of Gray Level Spatial
                                  Dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
                  E. Paquet and   
                       M. Rioux   Content-Based Access of VRML Libraries   20
                     G. Wei and   
                      D. Li and   
                    I. K. Sethi   Web-WISE: Compressed Image Retrieval
                                  over the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
                 J. Assfalg and   
                 C. Colombo and   
               A. Del Bimbo and   
                        P. Pala   Embodying Semiotic Cues in Video
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
               R. W. H. Lau and   
              Hong Va Leong and   
                      Q. Li and   
                          A. Si   Supporting Video Applications Through
                                  $4$DIS Temporal Framework  . . . . . . . 60
              D. A. Adjeroh and   
                    I. King and   
                      M. C. Lee   Video Sequence Similarity Matching . . . 80
                  T. Gevers and   
             A. W. M. Smeulders   Image Retrieval by Multi-scale
                                  Illumination Invariant Indexing  . . . . 96
              R. K. Srihari and   
                       Z. Zhang   Finding Pictures in Context  . . . . . . 109
                T. Sakamoto and   
                        T. Kato   Image Enhancement and Improvement of
                                  Both Color and Brightness Contrast Based
                                  on Lateral Inhibition Method . . . . . . 124
                H. H. S. Ip and   
                    D. Shen and   
                 W.-H. Wong and   
                   K. C. K. Law   An Area-Based Shape Representation for
                                  Affine Invariant Content-Based Retrieval 132
                S.-K. Chang and   
                     E. Jungert   A Spatial Query Language for Multiple
                                  Data Sources Based on $s$-Operator
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
                  C. F. Lam and   
                      M. C. Lee   Video Segmentation Using Color
                                  Difference Histogram . . . . . . . . . . 159
                    W. Kong and   
                     Y. Ren and   
                          H. Lu   A New Scene Breakpoint Detection
                                  Algorithm Using Slice of Video Stream    175
               P. K. C. Tse and   
                 C. H. C. Leung   A Low Latency Hierarchical Storage
                                  Organization for Multimedia Data
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
                  C. W. Ngo and   
                 T. C. Pong and   
                     R. T. Chin   Exploiting Image Indexing Techniques in
                                  DCT Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
                      P. Perner   Content-Based Image Indexing and
                                  Retrieval in an Image Database for
                                  Technical Domains  . . . . . . . . . . . 207
                  C. Berrut and   
                  P. Mulhem and   
                  F. Fourel and   
                    M. Mechkour   The PRIME Information Retrieval System
                                  Applied on a Medical Corpus  . . . . . . 224
                     X. Bai and   
                      G. Xu and   
                         Y. Shi   Envelope Parameter Calculation of
                                  Similarity Indexing Structure  . . . . . 242


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1465, 1998

               R. J. Lipton and   
                   R. Ostrovsky   Micropayments via Efficient
                                  Coin-Flipping  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
               M. Jakobsson and   
                       A. Juels   X-Cash: Executable Digital Cash  . . . . 16
                 D. M'Raihi and   
                 D. Pointcheval   Distributed Trustees and Revocability: a
                                  Framework for Internet Payment . . . . . 28
                    D. P. Maher   A Platform for Privately Defined
                                  Currencies, Loyalty Credits, and Play
                                  Money  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
                K. J. Ezawa and   
                G. Napiorkowski   Assessment of Threats for Smart Card
                                  Based Electronic Cash  . . . . . . . . . 58
                S. W. Smith and   
               E. R. Palmer and   
                    S. Weingart   Using a High-Performance, Programmable
                                  Secure Coprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . 73
                M. Franklin and   
                      G. Tsudik   Secure Group Barter: Multi-party Fair
                                  Exchange with Semi-Trusted Neutral
                                  Parties  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
                     E. Foo and   
                        C. Boyd   A Payment Scheme Using Vouchers  . . . . 103
                 C. Meadows and   
                    P. Syverson   A Formal Specification of Requirements
                                  for Payment Transactions in the SET
                                  Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
               M. Jakobsson and   
                        M. Yung   On Assurance Structures for WWW Commerce 141
                     B. Fox and   
                   B. LaMacchia   Certificate Revocation: Mechanics and
                                  Meaning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
                       M. Myers   Revocation: Options and Challenges . . . 165
                   P. C. Kocher   On Certificate Revocation and Validation 172
                   R. L. Rivest   Can We Eliminate Certificate Revocations
                                  Lists? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
             A. Lysyanskaya and   
                      Z. Ramzan   Group Blind Digital Signatures: a
                                  Scalable Solution to Electronic Cash . . 184
                  E. Gabber and   
               M. Jakobsson and   
                  Y. Matias and   
                       A. Mayer   Curbing Junk E-Mail via Secure
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
           D. M. Goldschlag and   
              S. G. Stubblebine   Publicly Verifiable Lotteries:
                                  Applications of Delaying Functions . . . 214
             L. R. Matheson and   
             S. G. Mitchell and   
              T. G. Shamoon and   
                   R. E. Tarjan   Robustness and Security of Digital
                                  Watermarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
                 Y. Frankel and   
              D. W. Kravitz and   
           C. T. Montgomery and   
                        M. Yung   Beyond Identity: Warranty-Based Digital
                                  Signature Transactions . . . . . . . . . 241
                   M. Blaze and   
              J. Feigenbaum and   
                     M. Strauss   Compliance Checking in the Policy Maker
                                  Trust Management System  . . . . . . . . 254
              A. De Solages and   
                      J. Traore   An Efficient Fair Off-Line Electronic
                                  Cash System with Extensions to Checks
                                  and Wallets with Observers . . . . . . . 275
                S. Miyazaki and   
                     K. Sakurai   A More Efficient Untraceable E-Cash
                                  System with Partially Blind Signatures
                                  Based on the Discrete Logarithm Problem  296
                    C. Hall and   
                  J. Kelsey and   
                B. Schneier and   
                      D. Wagner   Cryptanalysis of SPEED . . . . . . . . . 309--310


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1466, 1998

                    M. Y. Vardi   Sometimes and Not Never Re-revisited: On
                                  Branching Versus Linear Time . . . . . . 1
              P. Madhusudan and   
              P. S. Thiagarajan   Controllers for Discrete Event Systems
                                  via Morphisms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
          R. Van der Meyden and   
                    M. Y. Vardi   Synthesis from Knowledge-Based
                                  Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
                  D. Lugiez and   
                 P. Schnoebelen   The Regular Viewpoint on PA-Processes    50
                    W. Damm and   
                  A. Pnueli and   
                        S. Ruah   Herbrand Automata for Hardware
                                  Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
                   C. Bodei and   
                  P. Degano and   
                 F. Nielson and   
                  H. R. Nielson   Control Flow Analysis for the
                                  pi-calculus  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
                  J. Parrow and   
                      B. Victor   The Tau-Laws of Fusion . . . . . . . . . 99
                J.-L. Vivas and   
                         M. Dam   From Higher-Order pi-Calculus to
                                  pi-Calculus in the Presence of Static
                                  Operators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
                     N. Yoshida   Minimality and Separation Results on
                                  Asynchronous Mobile Processes:
                                  Representability Theorems by Concurrent
                                  Combinators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
                     P. Stevens   Abstract Games for Infinite State
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
                    R. Alur and   
            T. A. Henzinger and   
               O. Kupferman and   
                    M. Y. Vardi   Alternating Refinement Relations . . . . 163
                S. Veglioni and   
                   R. De Nicola   Possible Worlds for Process Algebras . . 179
             J. J. M. M. Rutten   Automata and Coinduction (an Exercise in
                                  Coalgebra) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
               J.-F. Raskin and   
            P.-Y. Schobbens and   
                T. A. Henzinger   Axioms for Real-Time Logics  . . . . . . 219
                H. Hermanns and   
                      M. Lohrey   Priority and Maximal Progress are
                                  Completely Axiomatisable . . . . . . . . 237
              P. A. Abdulla and   
                      K. Cerans   Simulation is Decidable for One-counter
                                  Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
                      P. Sewell   From Rewrite Rules to Bisimulation
                                  Congruences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
                  F. S. De Boer   Reasoning about Asynchronous
                                  Communication in Dynamically Evolving
                                  Object Structures  . . . . . . . . . . . 285
               R. M. Amadio and   
                      S. Prasad   Modelling IP Mobility  . . . . . . . . . 301
                   E. Cohen and   
                     L. Lamport   Reduction in TLA . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
                L. Fajstrup and   
                E. Goubault and   
                     M. Raussen   Detecting Deadlocks in Concurrent
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
                  S. Etalle and   
              M. Gabbrielli and   
                      M. C. Meo   Unfold/Fold Transformations of CCP
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
                   B. C. Pierce   Type Systems for Concurrent Calculi  . . 364
                      U. Herzog   Stochastic Process Algebras: Benefits
                                  for Performance Evaluation and
                                  Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
              A. Benveniste and   
                    C. Jard and   
                     S. Gaubert   Algebraic Techniques for Timed Systems   373
               A. Philippou and   
              R. Cleaveland and   
                     I. Lee and   
                      S. Smolka   Probabilistic Resource Failure in
                                  Real-Time Process Algebra  . . . . . . . 389
                M. Bravetti and   
                M. Bernardo and   
                    R. Gorrieri   Towards Performance Evaluation with
                                  General Distributions in Process
                                  Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
                   L. De Alfaro   Stochastic Transition Systems  . . . . . 423
                T. A. Henzinger   It's About Time: Real-Time Logics
                                  Reviewed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
              F. Demichelis and   
                    W. Zielonka   Controlled Timed Automata  . . . . . . . 455
                  E. Asarin and   
                   O. Maler and   
                      A. Pnueli   On Discretization of Delays in Timed
                                  Automata and Digital Circuits  . . . . . 470
               J. Bengtsson and   
                 B. Jonsson and   
                  J. Lilius and   
                          W. Yi   Partial Order Reductions for Timed
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
                  W. Vogler and   
                 A. Semenov and   
                    A. Yakovlev   Unfolding and Finite Prefix for Nets
                                  with Read Arcs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
                       D. Kuske   Asynchronous Cellular Automata and
                                  Asynchronous Automata for Pomsets  . . . 517
                   P. Darondeau   Deriving Unbounded Petri Nets from
                                  Formal Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
                       R. Morin   Decompositions of Asynchronous Systems   549
          M. Pietkiewicz-Koutny   Synthesis of ENI-systems Using Minimal
                                  Regions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
              G. L. Cattani and   
                   J. Power and   
                     G. Winskel   A Categorical Axiomatics for
                                  Bisimulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
                    E. W. Stark   Fibrational Semantics of Dataflow
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
             T. Hildebrandt and   
              P. Panangaden and   
                     G. Winskel   A Relational Model of Non-deterministic
                                  Dataflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
               J. F. Groote and   
                   F. Monin and   
               J. C. Van de Pol   Checking Verifications of Protocols and
                                  Distributed Systems by Computer  . . . . 629


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1467, 1998

         Simon Peyton Jones and   
              Thomas Nordin and   
                     Dino Oliva   C--: a Portable Assembly Language  . . . 1
                 Ian Holyer and   
             Eleni Spiliopoulou   The Brisk Machine: a Simplified STG
                                  Machine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
                 David Wakeling   A Haskell to Java Virtual Machine Code
                                  Compiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
                    Olaf Chitil   Common Subexpressions Are Uncommon in
                                  Lazy Functional Languages  . . . . . . . 53
               Sven-Bodo Scholz   \sc With-Loop-Folding in \sc Sac ---
                                  Condensing Consecutive Array Operations  72
                     Johan Agat   Types for Register Allocation  . . . . . 92
       Torben Æ. Mogensen   Types for 0, 1 or Many Uses  . . . . . . 112
                   Martin Erwig   Fully Persistent Graphs --- Which One To
                                  Choose?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
             Graeme E. Moss and   
                 Colin Runciman   Auburn: a Kit for Benchmarking
                                  Functional Data Structures . . . . . . . 141
                 Jan Sparud and   
                 Colin Runciman   Complete and Partial Redex Trails of
                                  Functional Computations  . . . . . . . . 160
        Hans-Wolfgang Loidl and   
                   Phil Trinder   Engineering Large Parallel Functional
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
        Hans-Wolfgang Loidl and   
             Richard Morgan and   
               Phil Trinder and   
               Sanjay Poria and   
               Chris Cooper and   
         Simon Peyton Jones and   
             Roberto Garigliano   Parallelising a Large Functional Program
                                  or: Keeping LOLITA Busy  . . . . . . . . 198
             Sahalu Junaidu and   
               Antony Davie and   
                  Kevin Hammond   Naira: a Parallel$^2$ Haskell Compiler   214--230
       Manuel M. T. Chakravarty   Lazy Thread and Task Creation in
                                  Parallel Graph Reduction . . . . . . . . 231
          Silvia Breitinger and   
              Ulrike Klusik and   
                Rita Loogen and   
Yolanda Ortega-Mallén and   
            Ricardo Peña   DREAM: The DistRibuted Eden Abstract
                                  Machine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
            Pascal R. Serrarens   Using Multicasting for Optimising
                                  Data-Parallelism . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
           Einar W. Karlsen and   
               Stefan Westmeier   Using Concurrent Haskell to Develop
                                  Views over an Active Repository  . . . . 285
               Peter Achten and   
               Rinus Plasmeijer   Interactive Functional Objects in Clean  304
              Klaus Didrich and   
         Wolfgang Grieskamp and   
           Christian Maeder and   
                   Peter Pepper   Programming in the Large: The
                                  Algebraic-Functional Language Opal $ 2
                                  \alpha $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
                  Markus Mohnen   Context Patterns, Part II  . . . . . . . 338
                Kent Boortz and   
                     Dan Sahlin   A Compacting Garbage Collector for
                                  Unidirectional Heaps . . . . . . . . . . 358


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1468, 1998

                J.-A. Meyer and   
                P. Husbands and   
                      I. Harvey   Evolutionary Robotics: a Survey of
                                  Applications and Problems  . . . . . . . 1
                   S. Nolfi and   
                    D. Floreano   How Co-Evolution can Enhance the
                                  Adaptive Power of Artificial Evolution:
                                  Implications for Evolutionary Robotics   22
                      N. Jakobi   Running Across the Reality Gap: Octopod
                                  Locomotion Evolved in a Minimal
                                  Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
                 O. Miglino and   
                  D. Denaro and   
                 G. Tascini and   
                      D. Parisi   Detour Behaviour in Evolving Robots: Are
                                  Internal Representations Necessary?  . . 59
                    P. Husbands   Evolving Robot Behaviours with Diffusing
                                  Gas Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
                     M. Wheeler   Explaining the Evolved: Homunculi,
                                  Modules, and Internal Representation . . 87
                  N. Jakobi and   
                       M. Quinn   Some Problems (and a Few Solutions) for
                                  Open-Ended Evolutionary Robotics . . . . 108
                     A. K. Seth   Noise and the Pursuit of Complexity: a
                                  Study in Evolutionary Robotics . . . . . 123
                D. Floreano and   
                     F. Mondada   Harware Solutions for Evolutionary
                                  Robotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
                 T. M. C. Smith   Blurred Vision: Simulation-Reality
                                  Transfer of a Visually Guided Robot  . . 152
                P. Dittrich and   
                 A. Buergel and   
                     W. Banzhaf   Learning to Move a Robot with Random
                                  Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
                      S. Yamada   Learning Behaviors for Environmental
                                  Modeling by Genetic Algorithm  . . . . . 179
                 H. H. Lund and   
                     O. Miglino   Evolving and Breeding Robots . . . . . . 192
               D. Keymeulen and   
                   M. Iwata and   
                  K. Konaka and   
                      R. Suzuki   Off-Line Model-Free and On-Line
                                  Model-Based Evolution for Tracking
                                  Navigation Using Evolvable Hardware  . . 211
                  J. Chavas and   
                   C. Corne and   
                  P. Horvai and   
                J. Kodjabachian   Incremental Evolution of Neural
                                  Controllers for Robust
                                  Obstacle-Avoidance in Khepera  . . . . . 227


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1469, 1998

                R. Bagrodia and   
                       M. Gerla   A Modular and Scalable Simulation Tool
                                  for Large Wireless Networks  . . . . . . 1
                  M. Litoiu and   
                   J. Rolia and   
                     G. Serazzi   Designing Process Replication and
                                  Threading Policies: A Quantitative
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
          Srinivasan Ramani and   
          Swapna S. Gokhale and   
              Kishor S. Trivedi   SREPT: Software Reliability Estimation
                                  and Prediction Tool  . . . . . . . . . . 27
      Aad P. A. van Moorsel and   
                   Yiqing Huang   Reusable Software Components for
                                  Performability Tools, and Their
                                  Utilization for Web-Based Configurable
                                  Tools  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
       A. P. A. Van Moorsel and   
                       Y. Huang   Reusable Software Components for
                                  Performability Tools and Their
                                  Utilization for Web-Based Configurable
                                  Tools  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
                H. Hermanns and   
                  U. Herzog and   
                 U. Klehmet and   
            V. Mertsiotakis and   
                      M. Siegle   Compositional Performance Modelling with
                                  the TIPPtool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--62
             Gaby Schneider and   
               Marko Schuba and   
         Boudewijn R. Haverkort   QNA-MC: a Performance Evaluation Tool
                                  for Communication Networks with
                                  Multicast Data Streams . . . . . . . . . 63
                A. J. Field and   
             P. G. Harrison and   
                       J. Parry   Response Times in Client-Server Systems  75
Rudesindo Núñez-Queija   A Queueing Model with Varying Service
                                  Rate for ABR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
               Peter Reichl and   
             Dogan Kesdogan and   
    Klaus Junghärtchen and   
                   Marko Schuba   Simulative Performance Evaluation of the
                                  Temporary Pseudonym Method for
                                  Protecting Location Information in GSM
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
       Javier García and   
   Joaquín Entrialgo and   
    Francisco Suárez and   
        Daniel F. García   A Model Driven Monitoring Approach to
                                  Support the Multi-view Performance
                                  Analysis of Parallel Responsive
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
        Alberto Valderruten and   
            Javier Mosquera and   
 Víctor M. Gulías   Instrumentation of Synchronous Reactive
                                  Systems for Performance Analysis: a Case
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
             J.-M. Fourneau and   
                      L. Mokdad   A Perturbation and Reduction Based
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Víctor Suñé and   
               Juan A. Carrasco   A Comparison of Numerical
                                  Splitting-Based Methods for Markovian
                                  Dependability and Performability Models  154
        William Knottenbelt and   
               Mark Mestern and   
             P. G. Harrison and   
                  P. Kritzinger   Probability, Parallelism and the State
                                  Space Exploration Problem  . . . . . . . 165
                   Tong Luo and   
                  K. S. Trivedi   An Improved Multiple Variable Inversion
                                  Algorithm for Reliability Calculation    180
              Martin Arlitt and   
             Rich Friedrich and   
                        Tai Jin   Performance Evaluation of Web Proxy
                                  Cache Replacement Policies . . . . . . . 193
     Giuliana Franceschinis and   
           Andrea Fumagalli and   
                 Roberto Grasso   Performance Analysis of a WDM Bus
                                  Network Based on GSPN Models . . . . . . 207
            Kevin W. Froese and   
                Richard B. Bunt   Scheduling Write Backs for
                                  Weakly-Connected Mobile Clients  . . . . 219
         Mor Harchol-Balter and   
           Mark E. Crovella and   
              Cristina D. Murta   On Choosing a Task Assignment Policy for
                                  a Distributed Server System  . . . . . . 231
          Susanna Donatelli and   
               Serge Haddad and   
                Patrice Moreaux   Structured Characterization of the
                                  Markov Chain of Phase-Type SPN . . . . . 243
                Reinhard German   Markov Regenerative Stochastic Petri
                                  Nets with General Execution Policies:
                                  Supplementary Variable Analysis and a
                                  Prototype Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
         Paul J. Schweitzer and   
           Giuseppe Serazzi and   
                  Marco Broglia   A Queue-Shift Approximation Technique
                                  for Product-Form Queueing Networks . . . 267
                   Hai Wang and   
              Kenneth C. Sevcik   Experiments with Improved Approximate
                                  Mean Value Analysis Algorithms . . . . . 280
       J. L. Anciano Martin and   
       N. N. Savino Vazquez and   
             J. A. Corbacho and   
                   R. Puigjaner   Extending SMART2 to Predict the
                                  Behaviour of PL/SQL Applications . . . . 292
   Juan Luis Anciano Martin and   
Nunzio Nicoló Savino Vázquez and   
José Antonio Corbacho and   
                Ramon Puigjaner   Extending SMART2 to Predict the
                                  Behaviour of PL/SQL-based Applications   292
               Sophie Dumas and   
            Didier Boudigue and   
               Georges Gardarin   Performance Evaluation of Distributed
                                  Object Architectures . . . . . . . . . . 306
            Connie U. Smith and   
              Lloyd G. Williams   Performance Engineering Evaluation of
                                  CORBA-based Distributed Systems with
                                  SPE$ \bullet $ED . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
                   J. Flich and   
                   P. Lopez and   
            M. P. Malumbres and   
                       J. Duato   Edinet: An Execution Driven
                                  Interconnection Network Simulator for
                                  DSM Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
                  B. Rathke and   
         Th. Assimakopoulos and   
                  R. Morich and   
                 G. Schulte and   
                      A. Wolisz   Snuffle: Integrated Measurement and
                                  Analysis Tool for Internet and Its Use
                                  in Wireless In-House Environment . . . . 340
  Tadeusz Czachórski and   
          Micha\l Pastuszka and   
                Ferhan Pekergin   A Tool to Model Network Transient States
                                  with the Use of Diffusion Approximation  344
           Murari Sridharan and   
 Srinivasan Ramasubramanian and   
                 Arun K. Somani   HIMAP: Architecture, Features, and
                                  Hierarchical Model Specification
                                  Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
                 L. De Rose and   
                   Y. Zhang and   
                     D. A. Reed   SvPablo: a Multi-language Performance
                                  Analysis System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
               Luiz De Rose and   
                 Ying Zhang and   
                 Daniel A. Reed   SvPablo: a Multi-language Performance
                                  Analysis System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
                Falko Bause and   
             Peter Buchholz and   
                   Peter Kemper   A Toolbox for Functional and
                                  Quantitative Analysis of DEDS  . . . . . 356
         Cyril Labbé and   
Frédéric Reblewski and   
               Serge Martin and   
              Jean-Marc Vincent   A Reconfigurable Hardware Tool for High
                                  Speed Network Simulation . . . . . . . . 360
               Sunil Santha and   
                      Udo Pooch   JAGATH: a Methodology and Its
                                  Application for Distributed Systems
                                  Performance Evaluation and Control . . . 365
          Tomoaki Sakaguchi and   
                 Arun K. Somani   Hierarchical Stochastic Reward Net
                                  Solver Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1470, 1998

                    R. P. Brent   Random Number Generation and Simulation
                                  on Vector and Parallel Computers . . . . 1
                   M. Vanneschi   Heterogeneous HPC Environments . . . . . 21
                 P. D. Townsend   Quantum Cryptography on Optical Fiber
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
                   G. Davenport   Very Distributed Media Stories:
                                  Presence, Time, Imagination  . . . . . . 47
                  G. C. For and   
               W. Furmanski and   
                   T. Haupt and   
                      E. Akarsu   HPcc as High Performance Commodity
                                  Computing on Top of Integrated Java,
                                  CORBA, COM and Web Standards . . . . . . 55
               C. Wadsworth and   
                    H. Burkhart   Support Tools and Environments . . . . . 75
              J. M. D. Hill and   
            S. R. Donaldson and   
                     T. Lanfear   Process Migration and Fault Tolerance of
                                  BSPlib Programs Running on Networks of
                                  Workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
                  M. Fleury and   
                  N. Safran and   
              A. C. Downton and   
                    A. F. Clark   A Parallel-System Design Toolset for
                                  Vision and Image Processing  . . . . . . 92
                 D. Crookes and   
               P. J. Morrow and   
                T. J. Brown and   
                    G. McAleese   Achieving Portability and Efficiency
                                  Through Automatic Optimisation: An
                                  Investigation in Parallel Image
                                  Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
                T. Delaitre and   
              M. J. Zemerly and   
                P. Vekariya and   
                    G. R. Justo   EDPEPPS: a Toolset for the Design and
                                  Performance Evaluation of Parallel
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
             E. W. Dempster and   
                N. T. Tomov and   
                     J. Lue and   
                      C. S. Pua   Verifying a Performance Estimator for
                                  Parallel DBMSs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
                    J. Davy and   
                       W. Essah   Generating Parallel Applications of
                                  Spatial Interaction Models . . . . . . . 136
                 T. Newhall and   
                   B. P. Miller   Performance Measurement of Interpreted
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
              J. M. D. Hill and   
               S. A. Jarvis and   
              C. Siniolakis and   
                  V. P. Vasilev   Analysing an SQL Application with a
                                  BSPlib Call-Graph Profiling Tool . . . . 157
             A. E. Abdallah and   
                         others   A Graphical Tool for the Visualization
                                  and Animation of Communicating
                                  Sequential Processes . . . . . . . . . . 165
              R. Wismueller and   
                J. Trinitis and   
                      T. Ludwig   A Universal Infrastructure for the
                                  Run-Time Monitoring of Parallel and
                                  Distributed Applications . . . . . . . . 173
               N. Neophytou and   
                   P. Evripidou   Net-dbx: a Java Powered Tool for
                                  Interactive Debugging of MPI Programs
                                  Across the Internet  . . . . . . . . . . 181
               A. D. Malony and   
                        R. Alur   Performance Evaluation and Prediction    191
                  C. Roeder and   
                  T. Ludwig and   
                        A. Bode   Configurable Load Measurement in
                                  Heterogeneous Workstation Clusters . . . 193
                 R. Hockauf and   
                    W. Karl and   
               M. Leberecht and   
                   M. Oberhuber   Exploiting Spatial and Temporal Locality
                                  of Accesses: A New Hardware-Based
                                  Monitoring Approach for DSM Systems  . . 206
                 O. Richard and   
                    F. Cappello   On the Self-Similar Nature of
                                  Workstations and WWW Servers Workload    216
               E. Hernandez and   
                         T. Hey   White-Box Benchmarking . . . . . . . . . 220
             B. B. Fraguela and   
                  R. Doallo and   
                   E. L. Zapata   Cache Misses Prediction for High
                                  Performance Sparse Algorithms  . . . . . 224
               C. Rodriguez and   
                 J. L. Roda and   
              D. G. Morales and   
                     F. Almeida   $h$-Relation Models for Current Standard
                                  Parallel Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . 234
                  K. Kubota and   
                 K. Itakura and   
                    M. Sato and   
                        T. Boku   Practical Simulation of Large-Scale
                                  Parallel Programs and Its Performance
                                  Analysis of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks  244
                    I. Kort and   
                    D. Trystram   Assessing LogP Model Parameters for the
                                  IBM-SP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
                  P. Boulet and   
                       X. Redon   Communication Pre-evaluation in HPF  . . 263
          L. Heinrich-Litan and   
                 U. Fissgus and   
                  S. Sutter and   
                     P. Molitor   Modeling the Communication Behavior of
                                  Distributed Memory Machines by Genetic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
                     R. Ramirez   Representing and Executing Real-Time
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
                    L. Lundberg   Fixed Priority Scheduling of Age
                                  Constraint Processes . . . . . . . . . . 288
               S. F. Hummel and   
                   G. Riley and   
                 R. Sakellariou   Scheduling and Load Balancing  . . . . . 297
                  R. Berrendorf   Optimizing Load Balance and
                                  Communication on Parallel Computers with
                                  Distributed Shared Memory  . . . . . . . 299
                  L. Oliker and   
                  R. Biswas and   
                    H. N. Gabow   Performance Analysis and Portability of
                                  the PLUM Load Balancing System . . . . . 307
               A. Boukerche and   
                      S. K. Das   Experimental Studies in Load Balancing   318
                  C. Rapine and   
             I. D. Scherson and   
                    D. Trystram   On-Line Scheduling of Parallelizable
                                  Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
              W. Zimmermann and   
              M. Middendoff and   
                       W. Loewe   On Optimal kappa-linear Scheduling of
                                  Tree-Like Task Graphs for LogP-Machines  328
                  C. Boeres and   
           V. E. F. Rebello and   
               D. B. Skillicorn   Static Scheduling Using Task Replication
                                  for LogP and BSP Models  . . . . . . . . 337
                R. Diekmann and   
                   R. Preis and   
              F. Schlimbach and   
                     C. Walshaw   Aspect Ratio for Mesh Partitioning . . . 347
                 K. Antonis and   
             J. Garofalakis and   
                    P. Spirakis   A Competitive Symmetrical Transfer
                                  Policy for Load Sharing  . . . . . . . . 352
                 S. Orlando and   
                      R. Perego   Scheduling Data-Parallel Computations on
                                  Heterogeneous and Time-Shared
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
     F. A. Barbosa da Silva and   
               L. M. Campos and   
                 I. D. Scherson   A Lower Bound for Dynamic Scheduling of
                                  Data Parallel Programs . . . . . . . . . 367
        G. G. H. Cavalheiro and   
               Y. Denneulin and   
                     J.-L. Roch   A General Modular Specification for
                                  Distributed Schedulers . . . . . . . . . 373
                     J. M. Bull   Feedback Guided Dynamic Loop Scheduling:
                                  Algorithms and Experiments . . . . . . . 377
                 S. Bischof and   
                   R. Ebner and   
                    T. Erlebach   Load Balancing for Problems with Good
                                  Bisectors, and Applications in Finite
                                  Element Simulations  . . . . . . . . . . 383
                      D. Li and   
                 Y. Iwahori and   
                 T. Hayashi and   
                       N. Ishii   An Efficient Strategy for Task
                                  Duplication in Multiport Message-Passing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
                M. A. R. Dantas   Evaluation of Process Migration for
                                  Parallel Heterogeneous Workstation
                                  Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
                         D. Das   Using Alternative Schedules for Fault
                                  Tolerance in Parallel Programs on a
                                  Network of Workstations  . . . . . . . . 401
                   J. Gaber and   
                     B. Toursel   Dynamic and Randomized Load Distribution
                                  in Arbitrary Networks  . . . . . . . . . 405
                  J.-F. Collard   Automatic Parallelisation and High
                                  Performance Compilers  . . . . . . . . . 411
                O. Beckmann and   
                 P. H. J. Kelly   Data Distribution at Run-Time: Re-using
                                  Execution Plans  . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
                M. Kandemir and   
               A. Choudhary and   
               J. Ramanujam and   
                      N. Shenoy   Enhancing Spatial Locality via Data
                                  Layout Optimizations . . . . . . . . . . 422
                     R. Koppler   Parallelization of Unstructured Mesh
                                  Computations Using Data Structure
                                  Forrealization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
                       J. Knoop   Parallel Constant Propagation  . . . . . 445
                J. Eisenbiegler   Optimization of SIMD Programs with
                                  Redundant Computations . . . . . . . . . 456
                A. Lachanas and   
                   P. Evripidou   Exploiting Course Grain Parallelism from
                                  FORTRAN by Mapping it to IF1 . . . . . . 463
                   P. Feautrier   A Parallelization Framework for
                                  Recursive Tree Programs  . . . . . . . . 470
                 R. Andonov and   
              S. Rajopadhye and   
                       N. Yanev   Optimal Orthogonal Tiling  . . . . . . . 480
         D. S. Nikolopoulos and   
     E. D. Polychronopoulos and   
            T. S. Papatheodorou   Enhancing the Performance of
                                  Autoscheduling in Distributed Shared
                                  Memory Multiprocessors . . . . . . . . . 491
                  L. Brunie and   
                       E. Mayer   Distributed Systems and Databases  . . . 503
                  D. Taniar and   
                   J. W. Rahayu   Collection-Intersect Join Algorithms for
                                  Parallel Object-Oriented Database
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
                  F. Pedone and   
               R. Guerraoui and   
                     A. Schiper   Exploiting Atomic Broadcast in
                                  Replicated Databases . . . . . . . . . . 513
                      Z. Lu and   
             K. S. McKinley and   
                      B. Cahoon   The Hardware/Software Balancing Act for
                                  Information Retrieval on Symmetric
                                  Multiprocessors  . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
                  F. Najjar and   
                     Y. Slimani   The Enhancement of Semijoin Strategies
                                  in Distributed Query Optimization  . . . 528
               A. Boukerche and   
             T. E. LeMaster and   
                  S. K. Das and   
                       A. Datta   Virtual Time Synchronization in
                                  Distributed Database Systems Using a
                                  Cluster of Workstations  . . . . . . . . 534
               C. Rodriguez and   
                   F. Sande and   
                    U. Leon and   
                      I. Coloma   Load Balancing and Processor Assignment
                                  Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
                G. Antonoiu and   
                  P. K. Srimani   Mutual Exclusion Between Neighboring
                                  Nodes in a Tree that Stabilizes Using
                                  Read/Write Atomicity . . . . . . . . . . 545
               P. Flocchini and   
                    E. Lodi and   
                  F. Luccio and   
                       L. Pagli   Irreversible Dynamos in Tori . . . . . . 554
                R. Rabenseifner   MPI-GLUE: Interoperable High-Performance
                                  MPI Combining Different Vendor's MPI
                                  Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
                   P. Melas and   
                  E. J. Zaluska   High Performance Protocols for Clusters
                                  of Commodity Workstations  . . . . . . . 570
             A. D. Kshemkalyani   Significance and Uses of Fine-Grained
                                  Synchronization Relations  . . . . . . . 578
               H. L. Muller and   
                         D. May   A Simple Protocol to Communicate
                                  Channels over Channels . . . . . . . . . 591
                 P. T. Koch and   
             X. Rousset de Pina   SciOS: Flexible Operating System Support
                                  for SCI Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
               J. M. Piquet and   
                    I. Visconti   Indirect Reference Listing: a Robust
                                  Distributed GC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610
                  G. Chiola and   
                     G. Ciaccio   Active Ports: a Performance-Oriented
                                  Operating System Support to Fast LAN
                                  Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620
                    H. Sips and   
                 A. Corradi and   
                        M. Cole   Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
                 T. Brandes and   
                     C. Germain   A Tracing Protocol for Optimizing Data
                                  Parallel Irregular Computations  . . . . 629
                 T. Brandes and   
                 F. Bregier and   
              M. C. Counilh and   
                       J. Roman   Contribution to Better Handling of
                                  Irregular Problems in HPF2 . . . . . . . 639
                 B. Chapman and   
                    P. Mehrotra   OpenMP and HPF: Integrating Two
                                  Paradigms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
               B. Carpenter and   
                   G. Zhang and   
                     G. Fox and   
                          X. Li   Towards a Java Environment for SPMD
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
                G. Spezzano and   
                       D. Talia   Language Constructs and Run-Time Systems
                                  for Parallel Cellular Programming  . . . 669
                    P. Hofstedt   Task Parallel Skeletons for Irregularly
                                  Structured Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 676
                 V. Vlassov and   
                 L.-E. Thorelli   Synchronizing Communication Primitives
                                  for a Shared Memory Programming Model    682
                      J. Mallet   Symbolic Cost Analysis and Automatic
                                  Data Distribution for a Skeleton-Based
                                  Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688
           D. B. Skillicorn and   
               M. Danelutto and   
               S. Pelagatti and   
                   A. Zavanella   Optimising Data-Parallel Programs Using
                                  the BSP Cost Model . . . . . . . . . . . 698
                F. O. Osoba and   
                    F. A. Rabbi   A Parallel Multigrid Skeleton Using BSP  704
                  G. Keller and   
           M. M. T. Chakravarty   Flattening Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . 709
                    F. Puntigam   Dynamic Type Information in Process
                                  Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720
                  P. Launay and   
                     J.-L Pazat   Generation of Distributed Parallel Java
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729
                      T. Gehrke   An Algebraic Semantics for an Abstract
                                  Language with Intra-Object-Concurrency   733
                   S. Lorcy and   
                    N. Plouzeau   An Object-Oriented Framework for
                                  Managing the Quality of Service of
                                  Distributed Applications . . . . . . . . 738
             J.-L. Giavitto and   
                 D. De Vito and   
                J.-P. Sansonnet   A Data Parallel Java Client-Server
                                  Architecture for Data Field Computations
                                  over $ Z_n $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742
                   M. Clint and   
                   W. Kreuchlin   Numerical and Symbolic Algorithms  . . . 747
                 V. Fraysse and   
                  L. Giraud and   
             H. Kharraz-Aroussi   On the Influence of the
                                  Orthogonalization Scheme on the Parallel
                                  Performance of GMRES . . . . . . . . . . 751
                  L. Borges and   
                    S. Oliveira   A Parallel Solver for Extreme Eigenpairs 763
                  P. Arbenz and   
                        R. Geus   Parallel Solvers for Large Eigenvalue
                                  Problems Originating from Maxwell's
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771
                   K. Ozawa and   
                      S. Yamada   Waveform Relaxation for Second Order
                                  Differential Equation y0101 = f(x, y)    780
                  T. Nodera and   
                       N. Tsuno   The Parallelization of the Incomplete LU
                                  Factorization on AP1000  . . . . . . . . 788
                       A. Kiper   An Efficient Parallel Triangular
                                  Inversion by Gauss Elimination with
                                  Sweeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793
             O. Maslennikow and   
               J. Kaniewski and   
                 R. Wyrzykowski   Fault Tolerant QR-Decomposition
                                  Algorithm and its Parallel
                                  Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798
                  A. R. Krommer   Parallel Sparse Matrix Computations
                                  Using the PINEAPL Library: a Performance
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804
                 I. De Bono and   
             D. Di Serafino and   
                     E. Ducloux   Using a General-Purpose Numerical
                                  Library to Parallelize an Industrial
                                  Application: Design of High-Performance
                                  Lasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812
                      C. Wagner   Fast Parallel Hermite Normal Form
                                  Computation of Matrices over $ F[x] $    821
            V. Santos Costa and   
                   R. Bianchini   Optimising Parallel Logic Programming
                                  Systems for Scalable Machines  . . . . . 831
                  Z. Nemeth and   
                      P. Kacsuk   Experiments with Binding Schemes in
                                  LOGFLOW  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842
                   K. Ogata and   
                  H. Hirata and   
                   S. Ioroi and   
                   K. Futatsugi   Experimental Implementation of Parallel
                                  TRAM on Massively Parallel Computer  . . 846
                R. I. Scott and   
               M. D. Fisher and   
                    J. A. Keane   Parallel Temporal Tableaux . . . . . . . 852
                  B. McColl and   
                      D. Walker   Theory and Algorithms for Parallel
                                  Computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863
            J. Eisenbiegler and   
                   W. Loewe and   
                  W. Zimmermann   BSP, LogP, and Oblivious Programs  . . . 865
                A. Ferreira and   
          I. Guerin Lassous and   
                  K. Marcus and   
                 A. Rau-Chaplin   Parallel Computation on Interval Graphs
                                  Using PC Clusters: Algorithms and
                                  Experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875
                J. Bataller and   
           J. M. Bernabeu-Auban   Adaptable Distributed Shared Memory: a
                                  Formal Definition  . . . . . . . . . . . 887
                  M. Cesati and   
                    M. Di Ianai   Parameterized Parallel Complexity  . . . 892
                       M. Marin   Asynchronous (Time-Warp) versus
                                  Synchronous (Event-Horizon) Simulation
                                  Time Advance in BSP  . . . . . . . . . . 897
                        J. Nash   Scalable Sharing Methods Can Support a
                                  Simple Performance Model . . . . . . . . 906
                 B. Schmidt and   
               M. Schimmler and   
                   H. Schroeder   Long Operarid Arithmetic on Instruction
                                  Systolic Computer Architectures and Its
                                  Application in RSA Cryptography  . . . . 916
                C. Kulkarni and   
                F. Catthoor and   
                      H. De Man   Hardware Cache Optimization for Parallel
                                  Multimedia Applications  . . . . . . . . 923
               Y. Ben-Asher and   
                       G. Haber   Parallel Solutions of Simple Indexed
                                  Recurrence Equations . . . . . . . . . . 933
                    I. Nort and   
                    D. Trystram   Scheduling Fork Graphs under LogP with
                                  an Unbounded Number of Processors  . . . 940
                  J. Jensch and   
                 R. Lueling and   
                      N. Sensen   A Data Layout Strategy for Parallel Web
                                  Servers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944
                E. Schikuta and   
                  T. Fuerle and   
                       H. Wanek   ViPIOS: The Vienna Parallel Input/Output
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953
              P. M. Dickens and   
                      R. Thakur   A Performance Study of Two-Phase I/O . . 959
                  K. Herley and   
                    D. Snelling   Architectures and Networks . . . . . . . 967
            S. R. Donaldson and   
              J. M. D. Hill and   
                D. B. Skillicom   Predictable Communication on
                                  Unpredictable Networks: Implementing BSP
                                  over TcP/IP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970
                 N. Agrawal and   
                C. P. Ravikumar   Adaptive Routing Based on Deadlock
                                  Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981
                 M. Ould-Khaoua   On the Optimal Network for
                                  Multicomputers: Torus or Hypercube?  . . 989
                A. Kautonen and   
               V. Leppaenen and   
                   M. Penttonen   Constant Thinning Protocol for Routing
                                  $h$-Relations in Complete Networks . . . 993
                   T. Gruen and   
               M. A. Hillebrand   NAS Integer Sort on Multi-threaded
                                  Shared Memory Machines . . . . . . . . . 999
           R. R. Dos Santos and   
                P. O. A. Navaux   Analysing a Multistreamed Superscalar
                                  Speculative Instruction Fetch Mechanism  1010
                  D. Fimmel and   
                      R. Merker   Design of Processor Arrays for Real-time
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018
              T. Calamoneri and   
                    M. Di Ianni   Interval Routing and Layered Cross
                                  Product: Compact Routing Schemes for
                                  Butterflies, Mesh of Trees and Fat Trees 1029
                   U. Meyer and   
                   J. F. Sibeyn   Gossiping Large Packets on Full-Port
                                  Tori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1040
                    M. Soch and   
                      P. Turdik   Time-optimal Gossip in Noncombining
                                  $2$-D Tori with Constant Buffers . . . . 1047
           M. Valero-Garcia and   
                A. Gonzalez and   
           L. Diaz de Cerio and   
                        D. Royo   Divide-and-Conquer Algorithms on
                                  Two-Dimensional Meshes . . . . . . . . . 1051
                P. Salinger and   
                      P. Tvrdik   All-to-all Scatter in Kautz Networks . . 1057
            S. A. M. Talbot and   
                 P. H. J. Kelly   Reactive Proxies: a Flexible Protocol
                                  Extension to Reduce ccNUMA Node
                                  Controller Contention  . . . . . . . . . 1062
                       T. Skeie   Handling Multiple Faults in Wormhole
                                  Mesh Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1076
         N. B. Abu-Ghazaleh and   
                   P. A. Wilsey   Shared Control --- Supporting Control
                                  Parallelism Using a SIMD-like
                                  Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1089
                 R. Perrott and   
                     C. Upstill   ESPRIT Projects  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1471, 1998

             Gerhard Brewka and   
                Jürgen Dix   Knowledge Representation with Logic
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
               Sergio Greco and   
               Nicola Leone and   
            Francesco Scarcello   DATALOG with Nested Rules  . . . . . . . 52
                 Dietmar Seipel   Partial Evidential Stable Models for
                                  Disjunctive Deductive Databases  . . . . 66
                Li-Yan Yuan and   
               Jia-Huai You and   
                   Randy Goebel   Disjunctive Logic Programming and
                                  Autoepistemic Logic  . . . . . . . . . . 85
                  E. Lamina and   
                   P. Mello and   
                  M. Milano and   
                     E. Riguzzi   A System for Abductive Learning of Logic
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
              Evelina Lamma and   
                Paola Mello and   
             Michela Milano and   
               Fabrizio Riguzzi   A System for Abductive Learning of Logic
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
                  Renwei Li and   
         Luis Moniz Pereira and   
                  Veronica Dahl   Refining Action Theories through
                                  Abductive Logic Programming  . . . . . . 123
                 Kewen Wang and   
                   Huowang Chen   Abduction, Argumentation and
                                  Bi-Disjunctive Logic Programs  . . . . . 139
            Michael Gelfond and   
                   Tran Cao Son   Reasoning with Prioritized Defaults  . . 164
       Joao Alexandre Leite and   
      Luís Moniz Pereira   Generalizing Updates: From Models to
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1472, 1998

          Anthony J. Bonner and   
                  Michael Kifer   The State of Change: a Survey  . . . . . 1
             Pascal van Eck and   
           Joeri Engelfriet and   
              Dieter Fensel and   
         Frank van Harmelen and   
                 Yde Venema and   
                   Mark Willems   Specification of Dynamics for
                                  Knowledge-Based Systems  . . . . . . . . 37
                 P. Van Eck and   
              J. Engelfriet and   
                  D. Fensel and   
                F. Van Harmelen   Specification of Dynamics for
                                  Knowledge-Based Systems  . . . . . . . . 37
               Georg Lausen and   
     Bertram Ludäscher and   
                   Wolfgang May   On Active Deductive Databases: The
                                  Statelog Approach  . . . . . . . . . . . 69
              Elisa Bertino and   
            Barbara Catania and   
           Vincenzo Gervasi and   
          Alessandra Raffaet\`a   Active-U-Datalog: Integrating Active
                                  Rules in a Logical Update Language . . . 107
     Carl-Alexander Wichert and   
           Burkhard Freitag and   
                    Alfred Fent   Logical Transactions and Serializability 134
          Anthony J. Bonner and   
                  Michael Kifer   Results on Reasoning about Updates in
                                  Transaction Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . 166
             Marcelo Arenas and   
              Leopoldo Bertossi   The Dynamics of Database Views . . . . . 197
            Eugenia Ternovskaia   Inductive Definability and the Situation
                                  Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
                 Hendrik Decker   Some Notes on Knowledge Assimilation in
                                  Deductive Databases  . . . . . . . . . . 249
             Mary-Anne Williams   Applications of Belief Revision  . . . . 287
             Hassan Bezzazi and   
      Stéphane Janot and   
 Sébastien Konieczny and   
 Ramón Pino Pérez   Analysing Rational Properties of Change
                                  Operators Based on Forward Chaining  . . 317
       Henning Christiansen and   
               Troels Andreasen   A Practical Approach to Hypothetical
                                  Database Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
                 Peter A. Flach   From Extensional to Intensional
                                  Knowledge: Inductive Logic Programming
                                  Techniques and Their Application to
                                  Deductive Databases  . . . . . . . . . . 356


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1473, 1998

                  A. Wright and   
             S. Jagannathan and   
               C. Ungureanu and   
                   A. Hertzmann   Compiling Java to a Typed
                                  Lambda-Calculus: A Preliminary Report    9
               G. Morrisett and   
                   K. Crary and   
                    N. Glew and   
                      D. Walker   Stack-Based Typed Assembly Language  . . 28
                 A. Bernard and   
                  R. Harper and   
                         P. Lee   How Generic is a Generic Back End? Using
                                  MLRISC as a Back End for the TIL
                                  Compiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
                   A. Aiken and   
              M. Faehndrich and   
               J. S. Foster and   
                          Z. Su   A Toolkit for Constructing Type- and
                                  Constraint-Based Program Analyses  . . . 78
                     A. Tolmach   Optimizing ML Using a Hierarchy of
                                  Monadic Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
                    Z. Shao and   
                    V. Trifonov   Type-Directed Continuation Allocation    116
                      M. Elsman   Polymorphic Equality --- No Tags
                                  Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
                    B. Saha and   
                        Z. Shao   Optimal Type Lifting . . . . . . . . . . 156
                    P. Thiemann   Formalizing Resource Allocation in a
                                  Compiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
                  D. Genius and   
                   M. Trapp and   
                  W. Zimmermann   An Approach to Improve Locality Using
                                  Sandwich Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
                  H. Hosoya and   
                    A. Yonezawa   Garbage Collection via Dynamic Type
                                  Inference --- A Formal Treatment . . . . 215
                   V. Balat and   
                       O. Danvy   Strong Normalization by Type-Directed
                                  Partial Evaluation and Run-Time Code
                                  Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
                    N. Fujinami   Determination of Dynamic Method
                                  Dispatches Using Run-Time Code
                                  Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
                   N. Kobayashi   Type-Based Analysis of Concurrent
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
                      D. Duggan   A Type-Based Semantics for User-Defined
                                  Marshalling in Polymorphic Languages . . 273


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1474, 1998

           Thomas Lundqvist and   
             Per Stenström   Integrating Path and Timing Analysis
                                  Using Instruction-Level Simulation
                                  Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
        Christian Ferdinand and   
               Reinhard Wilhelm   On Predicting Data Cache Behavior for
                                  Real-Time Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 16
             Yanhong A. Liu and   
                  Gustavo Gomez   Automatic Accurate Time-Bound Analysis
                                  for High-Level Languages . . . . . . . . 31
                 A. Terrasa and   
                A. Espinosa and   
        A. García-Fornes   Extending RT-Linux to Support Flexible
                                  Hard Real-Time Systems with Optional
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
                Sheayun Lee and   
              Chang-Gun Lee and   
                 Minsuk Lee and   
              Sang Lyul Min and   
                 Chong Sang Kim   Limited Preemptible Scheduling to
                                  Embrace Cache Memory in Real-Time
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
             Laurent George and   
                  Pascale Minet   A Uniform Reliable Multicast Protocol
                                  with Guaranteed Response Times . . . . . 65
               Gaurav Arora and   
               David B. Stewart   A Tool to Assist in Fine-Tuning and
                                  Debugging Embedded Real-Time Systems . . 83
                  Ken Hines and   
              Gaetano Borriello   Debugging Distributed Implementations of
                                  Modal Process Systems  . . . . . . . . . 98
             C. F. Yurkoski and   
                  L. R. Rau and   
                    B. K. Ellis   Using Inferno\TM to Execute Java\TM on
                                  Small Devices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
              Michael Weiss and   
François de Ferri\`ere and   
           Bertrand Delsart and   
            Christian Fabre and   
           Frederick Hirsch and   
          E. Andrew Johnson and   
             Vania Joloboff and   
                   Fred Roy and   
           Fridtjof Siebert and   
                Xavier Spengler   TurboJ, a Java Bytecode-to-Native
                                  Compiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
        Daniel Kästner and   
                Stephan Thesing   Cache-Sensitive Pre-runtime Scheduling   131
                 Felice Balarin   Priority Assignment for Embedded
                                  Reactive Real-Time Systems . . . . . . . 146
             Thomas Kolloch and   
              Georg Färber   Mapping an Embedded Hard Real-Time
                                  Systems SDL Specification to an
                                  Analyzable Task Network --- A Case Study 156
                Yangmin Seo and   
              Jungkeun Park and   
                  Seongsoo Hong   Efficient User-Level I/O in the ARX
                                  Real-Time Operating System . . . . . . . 166
              Norman Ramsey and   
               Jack W. Davidson   Machine Descriptions to Build Tools for
                                  Embedded Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
            Keith D. Cooper and   
             Philip J. Schielke   Non-local Instruction Scheduling with
                                  Limited Code Growth  . . . . . . . . . . 193
      Sundaram Anantharaman and   
                  Santosh Pande   An Efficient Data Partitioning Method
                                  for Limited Memory Embedded Systems  . . 208
          Bruce R. Childers and   
               Jack W. Davidson   A Design Environment for Counterflow
                                  Pipeline Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . 223
                    Seonho Choi   End-to-End Optimization in Heterogeneous
                                  Distributed Real-Time Systems  . . . . . 235
                     Bran Selic   Using UML for Modeling Complex Real-Time
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
                  Marc Campbell   Evaluating ASIC, DSP, and RISC
                                  Architectures for Embedded Applications  261


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1475, 1998

                D. Florescu and   
                        A. Levy   Recent Progress in Data Integration ---
                                  A Tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
              T. Imielinski and   
                     A. Virmani   Association Rules\ldots and What's Next?
                                  --- Towards Second Generation Data
                                  Mining Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
                       C. Mohan   Workflow Management in the Internet Age  26
            J. M. Turull Torres   Untyped Queries, Untyped Reflective
                                  Machines and Conditional Quantifiers . . 35
             N. R. Brisaboa and   
            H. J. Hernandez and   
               J. R. Parama and   
                  M. R. Penabad   Containment of Conjunctive Queries with
                                  Built-in Predicates with Variables and
                                  Constants over Any Ordered Domain  . . . 46
                  S. Flodin and   
                 K. Orsborn and   
                       T. Risch   Using Queries with Multi-directional
                                  Functions for Numerical Database
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
         A. N. Papadopoulos and   
                Y. Manolopoulos   Multiple Range Query Optimization in
                                  Spatial Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . 71
                     R. Baumann   Optimizing Command Logs by Exploiting
                                  Semantic Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . 83
                   S. Salza and   
                  G. Barone and   
                       T. Morzy   A Distributed Algorithm for Global Query
                                  Optimization in Multidatabase Systems    95
                W. Wieczerzycki   Transaction Management in Databases
                                  Supporting Collaborative Applications    107
                       M. Weske   Object-Oriented Design of a Flexible
                                  Workflow Management System . . . . . . . 119
                 K. Schwarz and   
                 C. Tuerker and   
                       G. Saake   Extending Transaction Closures by
                                  $N$-ary Termination Dependencies . . . . 131
                  R. Kramer and   
                P. C. Lockemann   Distributed Information Systems  . . . . 143
                     W. Cellary   Integrated Web-Database Applications for
                                  Electronic Business  . . . . . . . . . . 147
               K. Korpimies and   
                     E. Ukkonen   Term Weighting in Query-Based Document
                                  Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
                 H. M. Haav and   
                     M. Matskin   Discovery of Object-Oriented Schema and
                                  Schema Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
                 J. Kroeger and   
                    S. Paul and   
                       A. Heuer   On the Ordering of Rewrite Rules . . . . 157
                     J. Pokorny   Towards Data and Object Modelling  . . . 160
                        R. Motz   Propagation of Structural Modifications
                                  to an Integrated Schema  . . . . . . . . 163
                M. Matysiak and   
                   T. Morzy and   
                      B. Czejdo   Integration of Schemas Containing Data
                                  Versions and Time Components . . . . . . 175
                 C. Tuerker and   
                       G. Saake   Deriving Relationships between Integrity
                                  Constraints for Schema Comparison  . . . 188
                E. Andonoff and   
                  G. Hubert and   
                     A. Le Parc   A Database Interface Integrating a Query
                                  Language for Versions  . . . . . . . . . 200
                  L. Nawawi and   
                J. R. Getta and   
                 P. J. McKerrow   nP-Tree: Region Partitioning and
                                  Indexing for Efficient Path Planning . . 212
                  A. Vakali and   
                Y. Manolopoulos   Replication in Mirrored Disk Systems . . 224
          V. S. I. Wietrzyk and   
                    M. A. Orgun   Clustering Techniques for Minimizing
                                  Object Access Time . . . . . . . . . . . 236
            I. Nekrestyanov and   
                 B. Novikov and   
                     E. Pavlova   Designing Persistence for Real-Time
                                  Distributed Object Systems . . . . . . . 248
               M. Dobrovnik and   
                        J. Eder   Partial Replication of Object-Oriented
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
                  M. Montebello   Optimizing Knowledge Discovery over the
                                  WWW  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
                     V. Novacek   Data Mining Query Language for
                                  Object-Oriented Database . . . . . . . . 278
           M. Wojciechowski and   
                  M. Zakrzewicz   Itemset Materializing for Fast Mining of
                                  Association Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . 284
                 M. Hoeding and   
              R. Hofestaedt and   
                   G. Saake and   
                      U. Scholz   Schema Derivation for WWW Information
                                  Sources and Their Integration with
                                  Databases in Bioinformatics  . . . . . . 296
                D. Briukhov and   
                L. Kalinichenko   Component-Based Information Systems
                                  Development Tool Supporting the
                                  SYNTHESIS Design Method  . . . . . . . . 305
              A. Mostefaoui and   
                J. Kouloumdjian   Translating Relational Queries to
                                  Object-Oriented Queries According to
                                  ODMG-93  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
                D. Castelli and   
                      S. Pisani   A Flexible Framework for a Correct
                                  Database Design  . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
                       S. Zykov   Human Resources Information Systems
                                  Improvement: Involving Financial Systems
                                  and Other Sources Data . . . . . . . . . 351
                    J. Charczuk   Physical Structure Design For Relational
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
                 H. Guenzel and   
                  W. Lehner and   
                 S. Eriksen and   
                    J. Folkedal   Modeling of Census Data in a
                                  Multidimensional Environment . . . . . . 363


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1476, 1998

                   Luc De Raedt   An Inductive Logic Programming Query
                                  Language for Database Mining . . . . . . 1
                 Melvin Fitting   Bertrand Russell, Herbrand's Theorem,
                                  and the Assignment Statement . . . . . . 14
           Richmond H. Thomason   Representing and Reasoning with Context  29
         Alessandro Armando and   
                  Silvio Ranise   From Integrated Reasoning Specialists to
                                  ``Plug-and-Play'' Reasoning Components   42
           Clemens Ballarin and   
            Lawrence C. Paulson   Reasoning About Coding Theory: The
                                  Benefits We Get from Computer Algebra    55
                 Michael Beeson   Automatic Generation of Epsilon-Delta
                                  Proofs of Continuity . . . . . . . . . . 67
            Belaid Benhamou and   
               Laurent Henocque   Finite Model Search for Equational
                                  Theories (FMSET) . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
              P. G. Bertoli and   
                  J. Calmet and   
             F. Giunchiglia and   
                      K. Homann   Specification and Integration of Theorem
                                  Provers and Computer Algebra Systems . . 94
                  Carlos Castro   COLETTE, Prototyping CSP Solvers Using a
                                  Rule-Based Language  . . . . . . . . . . 107
              Martin Damsbo and   
         Peder Thusgaard Ruhoff   An Evolutionary Algorithm for Welding
                                  Task Sequence Ordering . . . . . . . . . 120
                    U. Egli and   
                     S. Schmitt   Intuitionistic Proof Transformations and
                                  Their Application to Constructive
                                  Program Synthesis  . . . . . . . . . . . 132
                   Uwe Egly and   
                Stephan Schmitt   Intuitionistic Proof Transformations and
                                  Their Application to Constructive
                                  Program Synthesis  . . . . . . . . . . . 132
    Stéphane F\`evre and   
                  Dongming Wang   Combining Algebraic Computing and
                                  Term-Rewriting for Geometry Theorem
                                  Proving  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
                     Dirk Fuchs   Cooperation Between Top-Down and
                                  Bottom-Up Theorem Provers by Subgoal
                                  Clause Transfer  . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
                Ken-etsu Fujita   Polymorphic Call-by-Value Calculus Based
                                  on Classical Proofs  . . . . . . . . . . 170
                L. M. Laita and   
           E. Roanes-Lozano and   
                       V. Maojo   Inference and Verification in Medical
                                  Appropriateness Criteria Using Gröbner
                                  Bases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
              Christopher Lynch   The Unification Problem for One Relation
                                  Thue Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
          Christopher Lynch and   
             Christelle Scharff   Basic Completion with E-cycle
                                  Simplification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
               Eric Monfroy and   
          Christophe Ringeissen   SoleX: a Domain-Independent Scheme for
                                  Constraint Solver Extension  . . . . . . 222
               Ian Horrocks and   
       Peter F. Patel-Schneider   Optimising Propositional Modal
                                  Satisfiability for Description Logic
                                  Subsumption  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
           Brigitte Pientka and   
               Christoph Kreitz   Instantiation of Existentially
                                  Quantified Variables in Inductive
                                  Specification Proofs . . . . . . . . . . 247
            Zbigniew W. Ras and   
                    Jiyun Zheng   Knowledge Discovery Objects and Queries
                                  in Distributed Knowledge Systems . . . . 259
                  Fritz Schwarz   ALLTYPES: An ALgebraic Language and TYPE
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
           J. Rafael Sendra and   
                  Franz Winkler   Real Parametrization of Algebraic Curves 284
             Zbigniew Stachniak   Non-clausal Reasoning with Propositional
                                  Definite Theories  . . . . . . . . . . . 296


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1477, 1998

                 Danny B. Lange   Present and Future Trends of Mobile
                                  Agent Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
            Joachim Baumann and   
                 Kurt Rothermel   The Shadow Approach: An Orphan Detection
                                  Protocol for Mobile Agents . . . . . . . 2
          F. M. Assis Silva and   
             R. Popescu-Zeletin   An Approach for Providing Mobile Agent
                                  Fault Tolerance  . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Flávio M. Assis Silva and   
           Radu Popescu-Zeletin   An Approach for Providing Mobile Agent
                                  Fault Tolerance  . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
                 S. Fuenfrocken   Transparent Migration of Java-Based
                                  Mobile Agents: Capturing and
                                  Reestablishing the State of Java
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
         Stefan Fünfrocken   Transparent Migration of Java-Based
                                  Mobile Agents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
               Yariv Aridor and   
                 Mitsuru Oshima   Infrastructure for Mobile Agents:
                                  Requirements and Design  . . . . . . . . 38
            Dejan Milojicic and   
             Markus Breugst and   
                 Ingo Busse and   
              John Campbell and   
              Stefan Covaci and   
             Barry Friedman and   
              Kazuya Kosaka and   
                Danny Lange and   
                Kouichi Ono and   
             Mitsuru Oshima and   
               Cynthia Tham and   
     Sankar Virdhagriswaran and   
                      Jim White   MASIF: The OMG Mobile Agent System
                                  Interoperability Facility  . . . . . . . 50
            Christian Wicke and   
             Lubomir F. Bic and   
     Michael B. Dillencourt and   
                Munehiro Fukuda   Automatic State Capture of
                                  Self-Migrating Computations in
                                  MESSENGERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
                   Dag Johansen   Mobile Agent Applicability . . . . . . . 80
           Alexander Schill and   
                Albert Held and   
           Wito Böhmak and   
            Thomas Springer and   
                 Thomas Ziegert   An Agent Based Application for
                                  Personalized Vehicular Traffic
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--111
                 A. Kuepper and   
                     A. S. Park   Stationary vs. Mobile User Agents in
                                  Future Mobile Telecommunication Networks 112
           Axel Küpper and   
                Anthony S. Park   Stationary vs. Mobile User Agents in
                                  Future Mobile Telecommunication Networks 112
           Ernö Kovacs and   
          Klaus Röhrle and   
                 Matthias Reich   Integrating Mobile Agents into the
                                  Mobile Middleware  . . . . . . . . . . . 124
            Michael Bursell and   
             Richard Hayton and   
          Douglas Donaldson and   
                 Andrew Herbert   A Mobile Object Workbench  . . . . . . . 136
              Alberto Silva and   
       Miguel Mira da Silva and   
            José Delgado   An Overview of AgentSpace: a
                                  Next-Generation Mobile Agent System  . . 148
              Gian Pietro Picco   $ \mu $CODE: a Lightweight and Flexible
                                  Mobile Code Toolkit  . . . . . . . . . . 160
         Stephane G. Belmon and   
                  Bennet S. Yee   Mobile Agents and Intellectual Property
                                  Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
               Ingrid Biehl and   
                Bernd Meyer and   
                 Susanne Wetzel   Ensuring the Integrity of Agent-Based
                                  Computations by Short Proofs . . . . . . 183
                 G. Karjoth and   
                  N. Asokan and   
             C. Gülcü   Protecting the Computation Results of
                                  Free-Roaming Agents  . . . . . . . . . . 195
                  Luca Cardelli   Wide-Area Languages  . . . . . . . . . . 208
             Anselm Lingnau and   
                 Oswald Drobnik   Agent-User Communications: Requests,
                                  Results, Interaction . . . . . . . . . . 209
                   M. T. Tu and   
                 F. Griffel and   
                    M. Merz and   
                  W. Lamersdorf   A Plug-in Architecture Providing Dynamic
                                  Negotiation Capabilities for Mobile
                                  Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
              Giacomo Cabri and   
           Letizia Leonardi and   
              Franco Zambonelli   Reactive Tuple Spaces for Mobile Agent
                                  Coordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
                Akhil Sahai and   
                Christine Morin   Enabling a Mobile Network Manager (MNM)
                                  through Mobile Agents  . . . . . . . . . 249
              Luis Bernardo and   
                    Paulo Pinto   Scalable Service Deployment Using Mobile
                                  Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
                Mario Baldi and   
          Gian Pietro Picco and   
                   Fulviu Risso   Designing a Videoconference System for
                                  Active Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 273


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1478, 1998

             Isamu Kajitani and   
            Tsutomu Hoshino and   
          Daisuke Nishikawa and   
              Hiroshi Yokoi and   
              Shougo Nakaya and   
           Tsukasa Yamauchi and   
               Takeshi Inuo and   
            Nobuki Kajihara and   
               Masaya Iwata and   
           Didier Keymeulen and   
                Tetsuya Higuchi   A Gate-Level EHW Chip: Implementing GA
                                  Operations and Reconfigurable Hardware
                                  on a Single LSI  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                Adrian Thompson   On the Automatic Design of Robust
                                  Electronics Through Artificial Evolution 13
           Julian F. Miller and   
                  Peter Thomson   Aspects of Digital Evolution: Geometry
                                  and Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
            Ernesto Damiani and   
         Valentino Liberali and   
        Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi   Evolutionary Design of Hashing Function
                                  Circuits Using an FPGA . . . . . . . . . 36
                   Paul Layzell   A New Research Tool for Intrinsic
                                  Hardware Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . 47
                   Jim Torresen   A Divide-and-Conquer Approach to
                                  Evolvable Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . 57
         Lorenz Huelsbergen and   
             Edward Rietman and   
                   Robert Slous   Evolution of Astable Multivibrators in
                                  Silico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
          Tatiana Kalganova and   
           Julian F. Miller and   
             Terence C. Fogarty   Some Aspects of an Evolvable Hardware
                                  Approach for Multiple-Valued
                                  Combinational Circuit Design . . . . . . 78
          Vesselin Vassilev and   
             Terence C. Fogarty   Adaptation in Co-evolving Non-uniform
                                  Cellular Automata  . . . . . . . . . . . 90
          Chaiyasit Manovit and   
      Chatchawit Aporntewan and   
        Prabhas Chongstitvatana   Synthesis of Synchronous Sequential
                                  Logic Circuits from Partial Input/Output
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
            Masaharu Tanaka and   
         Hidenori Sakanashi and   
             Mehrdad Salami and   
               Masaya Iwata and   
               Takio Kurita and   
                Tetsuya Higuchi   Data Compression for Digital Color
                                  Electrophotographic Printer with
                                  Evolvable Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . 106
            Tomofumi Hikage and   
              Hitoshi Hemmi and   
            Katsunori Shimohara   Comparison of Evolutionary Methods for
                                  Smoother Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . 115
              Jason D. Lohn and   
           Silvano P. Colombano   Automated Analog Circuit Synthesis Using
                                  a Linear Representation  . . . . . . . . 125
          Masahiro Murakawa and   
            Shuji Yoshizawa and   
              Toshio Adachi and   
               Shiro Suzuki and   
             Kaoru Takasuka and   
               Masaya Iwata and   
                Tetsuya Higuchi   Analogue EHW Chip for Intermediate
                                  Frequency Filters  . . . . . . . . . . . 134
         Stuart J. Flockton and   
                  Kevin Sheehan   Intrinsic Circuit Evolution Using
                                  Programmable Analogue Arrays . . . . . . 144
         Ricardo S. Zebulum and   
Marco Aurélio Pacheco and   
                Marley Vellasco   Analog Circuits Evolution in Extrinsic
                                  and Intrinsic Modes  . . . . . . . . . . 154
              Adrian Stoica and   
              Alex Fukunaga and   
               Ken Hayworth and   
          Carlos Salazar-Lazaro   Evolvable Hardware for Space
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
               Daniel Mange and   
      André Stauffer and   
              Gianluca Tempesti   Embryonics: a Macroscopic View of the
                                  Cellular Architecture  . . . . . . . . . 174
               Daniel Mange and   
      André Stauffer and   
              Gianluca Tempesti   Embryonics: a Microscopic View of the
                                  Molecular Architecture . . . . . . . . . 185
      André Stauffer and   
                   Moshe Sipper   Modeling Cellular Development Using
                                  L-Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
César Ortega-Sánchez and   
                 Andrew Tyrrell   MUXTREE Revisited: Embryonics as a
                                  Reconfiguration Strategy in
                                  Fault-Tolerant Processor Arrays  . . . . 206
                 Hiroaki Kitano   Building Complex Systems Using
                                  Developmental Process: An Engineering
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
                H. Peremans and   
               V. A. Walker and   
            G. Papadopoulos and   
                J. C. T. Hallam   Evolving Batlike Pinnae for Target
                                  Localisation by an Echolocator . . . . . 230--239
                   Roger DuBois   A Biologically Inspired Object Tracking
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
                   Ken Hayworth   The ``Modeling Clay'' Approach to
                                  Bio-inspired Electronic Hardware . . . . 248
             Michael Korkin and   
         Norberto Eiji Nawa and   
                  Hugo de Garis   A ``Spike Interval Information Coding''
                                  Representation for ATR's CAM-Brain
                                  Machine (CBM)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
                   Erol Gelenbe   Learning in Genetic Algorithms . . . . . 268
            Kazuyuki Murase and   
            Takaharu Wakida and   
            Ryoichi Odagiri and   
                     Wei Yu and   
             Hirotaka Akita and   
                   Tatsuya Asai   Back-Propagation Learning of Autonomous
                                  Behavior: A Mobile Robot Khepera Took a
                                  Lesson from the Future Consequences  . . 280
           Jean-Luc Rebourg and   
          Jean-Denis Muller and   
              Manuel Samuelides   SPIKE4096: a Neural Integrated Circuit
                                  for Image Segmentation . . . . . . . . . 287
            Ryoichi Odagiri and   
                     Wei Yu and   
               Tatsuya Asai and   
                Kazuyuki Murase   Analysis of the Scenery Perceived by a
                                  Real Mobile Robot Khepera  . . . . . . . 295
                     Marc Ebner   Evolution of a Control Architecture for
                                  a Mobile Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
            Pascal Nussbaum and   
              Bernard Girau and   
               Arnaud Tisserand   Field Programmable Processor Arrays  . . 311
              Kiyoshi Oguri and   
              Norbert Imlig and   
               Hideyuki Ito and   
             Kouichi Nagami and   
            Ryusuke Konishi and   
            Tsunemichi Shiozawa   General-Purpose Computer Architecture
                                  Based on Fully Programmable Logic  . . . 323
           Alister Hamilton and   
       Kostis Papathanasiou and   
          Morgan R. Tamplin and   
               Thomas Brandtner   Palmo: Field Programmable Analogue and
                                  Mixed-Signal VLSI for Evolvable Hardware 335
               J. M. Moreno and   
                J. Madrenas and   
                   J. Faura and   
            E. Cantó and   
               J. Cabestany and   
                 J. M. Insenser   Feasible Evolutionary and Self-Repairing
                                  Hardware by Means of the Dynamic
                                  Reconfiguration Capabilities of the
                                  FIPSOC Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
            Philippe Millet and   
             Jean-Claude Heudin   Fault Tolerance of a Large-Scale MIMD
                                  Architecture Using a Genetic Algorithm   356
                 Uwe Tangen and   
             John S. Mc Caskill   Hardware Evolution with a Massively
                                  Parallel Dynamically Reconfigurable
                                  Computer: POLYP  . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
             Jan J. Mulawka and   
           Magdalena J. Ocwieja   Molecular Inference via Unidirectional
                                  Chemical Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . 372


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1479, 1998

                      T. Nipkow   Verified Lexical Analysis  . . . . . . . 1
                  J. Von Wright   Extending Window Inference . . . . . . . 17
                  M. Benini and   
                 S. Kalvala and   
                     D. Nowotka   Program Abstraction in a Higher-Order
                                  Logic Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
                  R. J. Boulton   Generating Embeddings from Denotational
                                  Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
                 R. Boulton and   
                   K. Slind and   
                   A. Bundy and   
                      M. Gordon   An Interface between CLAM and HOL  . . . 87
                 J. L. Caldwell   Classical Propositional Decidability via
                                  Nuprl Proof Extraction . . . . . . . . . 105
               D. Griffioen and   
                     M. Huisman   A Comparison of PVS and Isabelle/HOL . . 123
                   E. L. Gunter   Adding External Decision Procedures to
                                  HOL90 Securely . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
                    J. Harrison   Formalizing Basic First Order Model
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
                    J. Harrison   Formalizing Dijkstra . . . . . . . . . . 171
              P. V. Homeier and   
                   D. F. Martin   Mechanical Verification of Total
                                  Correctness through Diversion
                                  Verification Conditions  . . . . . . . . 189
                     D. J. Howe   A Type Annotation Scheme for Nuprl . . . 207
                  P. B. Jackson   Verifying a Garbage Collection Algorithm 225
                      K. Konrad   HOT: a Concurrent Automated Theorem
                                  Prover Based on Higher-Order Tableaux    245
                       C. Liang   Free Variables and Subexpressions in
                                  Higher-Order Meta Logic  . . . . . . . . 263
               M. Lifantsev and   
                    L. Bachmair   An LPO-based Termination Ordering for
                                  Higher-Order Terms without
                                  lambda-abstraction . . . . . . . . . . . 277
              A. Mikhajlova and   
                  J. Von Wright   Proving Isomorphism of First-Order Logic
                                  Proof Systems in HOL . . . . . . . . . . 295
                       R. Moten   Exploiting Parallelism in Interactive
                                  Theorem Provers  . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
                     O. Mueller   I/O Automata and Beyond: Temporal Logic
                                  and Abstraction in Isabelle  . . . . . . 331
            W. Naraschewski and   
                      M. Wenzel   Object-Oriented Verification Based on
                                  Record Subtyping in Higher-Order Logic   349
              N. Narasimhan and   
                      R. Vemuri   On the Effectiveness of Theorem Proving
                                  Guided Discovery of Formal Assertions
                                  for a Register Allocator in a High-Level
                                  Synthesis System . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
                   D. Nowak and   
             J.-R. Beauvais and   
                    J.-P Talpin   Co-inductive Axiomatization of a
                                  Synchronous Language . . . . . . . . . . 387
                   F. Puitg and   
                  J.-F. Dufourd   Formal Specification and Theorem Proving
                                  Breakthroughs in Geometric Modeling  . . 401
                R. Ruksenas and   
                  J. Von Wright   A Tool for Data Refinement . . . . . . . 423
                H. Sawamura and   
                     D. Asanuma   Mechanizing Relevant Logics with HOL . . 443
            F. W. Von Henke and   
                    S. Pfab and   
                 H. Pfeifer and   
                       H. Ruess   Case Studies in Meta-Level Theorem
                                  Proving  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
                M. Yamamoto and   
               K. Takahashi and   
                  M. Hagiya and   
                S.-Y. Nishizaki   Formalization of Graph Search Algorithms
                                  and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . 479


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1480, 1998

             Galia Angelova and   
          Ognyan Kalaydjiev and   
               Walther von Hahn   The Gain of Failures: Using Side-Effects
                                  of Anaphora Resolution for Term
                                  Consistency Checks . . . . . . . . . . . 1
          Liliana Ardissono and   
                   Guido Boella   An Agent Model for NL Dialog Interfaces  14
         Alessandro Armando and   
                Erica Melis and   
                  Silvio Ranise   Constraint Solving in Logic Programming
                                  and in Automated Deduction: a Comparison 28
            Marco Baioletti and   
          Stefano Marcugini and   
                 Alfredo Milani   An Extension of SATPLAN for Planning
                                  with Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
                P. Balbiani and   
             J.-F. Condotta and   
L. Fariñas del Cerro and   
                      A. Osnani   Reasoning about Generalized Intervals    50
        Massimo Benerecetti and   
              Paolo Bouquet and   
                 Chiara Ghidini   Formalizing Belief Reports --- The
                                  Approach and a Case Study  . . . . . . . 62
              F. Benhammadi and   
                 P. Nicolas and   
                      T. Schaub   Extension Calculus and Query Answering
                                  in Prioritized Default Logic . . . . . . 76
         Bela\"\id Benhamou and   
                      Amar Isli   Study of Symmetry in Qualitative
                                  Temporal Interval Networks . . . . . . . 88
             C. Benzmueller and   
                       V. Sorge   A Blackboard Architecture for Guiding
                                  Interactive Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . 102
  Christoph Benzmüller and   
                   Volker Sorge   A Blackboard Architecture for Guiding
                                  Interactive Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . 102
           Brigitte Bessant and   
       Eric Grégoire and   
             Pierre Marquis and   
                Lakhdar Sa\"\is   Combining Nonmonotonic Reasoning and
                                  Belief Revision: A Practical Approach    115
              Veselka Boeva and   
           Elena Tsiporkova and   
               Bernard De Baets   Modelling Uncertainty with Kripke's
                                  Semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
          Serenella Cerrito and   
            Marta Cialdea Mayer   Using Linear Temporal Logic to Model and
                                  Solve Planning Problems  . . . . . . . . 141
               Amedeo Cesta and   
            Marcello Collia and   
               Daniela D'Aloisi   Tailorable Interactive Agents for
                                  Scheduling Meetings  . . . . . . . . . . 153
       Lassaad Cheikhrouhou and   
             Jörg Siekmann   Planning Diagonalization Proofs  . . . . 167
                  Ilyas Cicekli   Theories and Proofs in Fault Diagnosis   181
               Claudio Delrieux   Nonmonotonic Reasoning under Uncertain
                                  Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
                 Christo Dichev   Multicontext Systems with Importing
                                  Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
                M. Di Manzo and   
             E. Giunchiglia and   
                     S. Ruffino   Planning via Model Checking in
                                  Deterministic Domains: Preliminary
                                  Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
             Mauro Di Manzo and   
         Enrico Giunchiglia and   
                 Simone Ruffino   Planning via Model Checking in
                                  Determistic Domains: Preliminary Report  221
                Joachim Draeger   Acquisition of Useful Lemma-Knowledge in
                                  Automated Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . 230
         Rogier M. van Eijk and   
           Frank S. de Boer and   
         Wiebe van der Hoek and   
           John-Jules Ch. Meyer   Constructing Translations Between
                                  Individual Vocabularies in Multi-Agent
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
             R. M. Van Eijk and   
              F. S. De Boer and   
            W. Van der Hoek and   
                 J.-J. C. Meyer   Constructing Translations between
                                  Individual Vocabularies in Multi-Agent
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Luis Fariñas del Cerro and   
             Andreas Herzig and   
           Dominique Longin and   
                      Omar Rifi   Belief Reconstruction in Cooperative
                                  Dialogues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
L. Fariñas del Cerro and   
                  A. Herzig and   
                  D. Longin and   
                        O. Rifi   Belief Reconstruction in Cooperative
                                  Dialogues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
             Chiara Ghidini and   
               Luciano Serafini   Model Theoretic Semantics for
                                  Information Integration  . . . . . . . . 267
                 H. A. Guevenir   A Classification Learning Algorithm
                                  Robust to Irrelevant Features  . . . . . 281
          H. Altay Güvenir   A Classification Learning Algorithm
                                  Robust to Irrelevant Features  . . . . . 281
                Hisashi Hayashi   Knowledge Assimilation and Proof
                                  Restoration Through the Addition of
                                  Goals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
              Antonis Kakas and   
              Evelina Lamma and   
               Fabrizio Riguzzi   Learning Multiple Predicates . . . . . . 303
                Churn-Jung Liau   Modal Reasoning and Rough Set Theory . . 317
        J. G. Pereira Lopes and   
              João Balsa   Overcoming Incomplete Information in NLP
                                  Systems --- Verb Subcategorization . . . 331
        J. G. Pereira Lopes and   
                       J. Balsa   Overcoming Incomplete Information in NLP
                                  Systems --- Verb Subcategorization . . . 331
             Zdravko Markov and   
                  Nikolay Pelov   A Framework for Inductive Learning Based
                                  on Subsumption Lattices  . . . . . . . . 341
             Anatoly Nachev and   
             Niall Griffith and   
                Alexander Gerov   Dynamic Learning --- An Approach to
                                  Forgetting in ART2 Neural Networks . . . 353
              Daniel Pacholczyk   A New Approach to Linguistic Negation of
                                  Nuanced Information in Knowledge-Based
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
         Roberto Sebastiani and   
            Adolfo Villafiorita   SAT-Based Decision Procedures for Normal
                                  Modal Logics: a Theoretical Framework    377
         Evgueni N. Smirnov and   
           Peter J. Braspenning   Version Space Retraction with
                                  Instance-Based Boundary Sets . . . . . . 389
            Igor Stéphan   A New Abstract Logic Programming
                                  Language and Its Quantifier Elimination
                                  Method for Disjunctive Logic Programming 403
             Tarkan Tahseen and   
              Duncan F. Gillies   A New Approach to Learning Bayesian
                                  Network Classifiers from Data: Using
                                  Observed Statistical Frequencies . . . . 417
            Adolfo Villafiorita   Abstraction as a Form of Elaboration
                                  Tolerance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
           Ioannis Vlahavas and   
           Nick Bassiliades and   
          Ilias Sakellariou and   
              Martin Molina and   
            Sascha Ossowski and   
                  Ivan Futo and   
             Zoltan Pasztor and   
              Janos Szeredi and   
            Igor Velbitskiy and   
             Sergey Yershov and   
               Sergey Golub and   
                   Igor Netesin   System Architecture of a Distributed
                                  Expert System for the Management of a
                                  National Data Network  . . . . . . . . . 438
                   Andreas Wolf   Strategy Selection for Automated Theorem
                                  Proving  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
                 Qiang Yang and   
           Ir\`ene Abi-Zeid and   
                 Luc Lamontagne   An Agent System for Intelligent
                                  Situation Assessment . . . . . . . . . . 466
                  Yiming Ye and   
                John K. Tsotsos   Knowledge Granularity and Action
                                  Selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
                Zhong Zhang and   
                     Qiang Yang   Towards Lifetime Maintenance of Case
                                  Based Indexes for Continual Case Based
                                  Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1481, 1998

       A. Brueggemann-Klein and   
                 S. Hermann and   
                        D. Wood   Context and Caterpillars and Structured
                                  Documents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
 Anne Brüggemann-Klein and   
             Stefan Hermann and   
                    Derick Wood   Context and Caterpillars and Structured
                                  Documents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                Xinxin Wang and   
                    Derick Wood   A Conceptual Model for Tables  . . . . . 10
              Helena Ahonen and   
          Barbara Heikkinen and   
            Oskari Heinonen and   
              Jani Jaakkola and   
               Mika Klemettinen   Analysis of Document Structures for
                                  Element Type Classification  . . . . . . 24
                Mingfang Wu and   
                 Ross Wilkinson   Using Document Relationships for Better
                                  Answers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
                Javed Aslam and   
             Katya Pelekhov and   
                    Daniela Rus   Generating, Visualizing, and Evaluating
                                  High-Quality Clusters for Information
                                  Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
        Myatav Erdenechimeg and   
              Richard Moore and   
               Yumbayar Namsrai   On the Specification of the Display of
                                  Documents in Multi-lingual Computing . . 70
           Charles Nicholas and   
               Randall Dahlberg   Spotting Topics with the Singular Value
                                  Decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
                Laura A. Mather   A Linear Algebra Approach to Language
                                  Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
                   Holger Meuss   Indexed Tree Matching with Complete
                                  Answer Representations . . . . . . . . . 104
                Laure Berti and   
        Jean-Luc Damoiseaux and   
            Elisabeth Murisasco   Combining the Power of Query Languages
                                  and Search Engines for On-line Document
                                  and Information Retrieval: The QIRi@D
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
                 Bill Wadge and   
                 Gord Brown and   
            m. c. schraefel and   
                 Taner Yildirim   Intensional HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
                  Makoto Murata   Data Model for Document Transformation
                                  and Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1482, 1998

                D. Robinson and   
                G. McGregor and   
                     P. Lysaght   New CAD Framework Extends Simulation of
                                  Dynamically Reconfigurable Logic . . . . 1
                     W. Luk and   
                    S. McKeever   Pebble: a Language for Parametrised and
                                  Reconfigurable Hardware Design . . . . . 9
                V. Sklyarov and   
            R. Sal Monteiro and   
                     N. Lau and   
                        A. Meio   Integrated Development Environment for
                                  Logic Synthesis Based on Dynamically
                                  Reconfigurable FPGAs . . . . . . . . . . 19
          R. W. Hartenstein and   
                    M. Herz and   
                     F. Gilbert   Designing for Xilinx XC6200 FPGAs  . . . 29
                  J. Becker and   
              A. Kirschbaum and   
               F.-M. Renner and   
                     M. Glesner   Perspectives of Reconfigurable Computing
                                  in Research, Industry and Education  . . 39
                     G. Brebner   Field-Programmable Logic: Catalyst for
                                  New Computing Paradigms  . . . . . . . . 49
                 N. Shirazi and   
                     W. Luk and   
                P. Y. K. Cheung   Run-Time Management of Dynamically
                                  Reconfigurable Designs . . . . . . . . . 59
                M. Platzner and   
                  G. De Micheli   Acceleration of Satisfiability
                                  Algorithms by Reconfigurable Hardware    69
                J. Stohmann and   
                 K. Harbich and   
                 M. Olbrich and   
                       E. Barke   An Optimized Design Flow for Fast
                                  FPGA-Based Rapid Prototyping . . . . . . 79
                H. Krupnova and   
                 V. D. Dinh and   
                     G. Saucier   A Knowledge-Based System for Prototyping
                                  on FPGAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
               R. Macketanz and   
                        W. Karl   JVX --- A Rapid Prototyping System Based
                                  on Java and FPGAs  . . . . . . . . . . . 99
                 J. Shetler and   
                   B. Hemme and   
                    C. Yang and   
                       C. Hinsz   Prototyping New ILP Architectures Using
                                  FPGAs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
                     S. Baranov   CAD System for ASM and FSM Synthesis . . 119
               J. M. Emmert and   
                 A. Randhar and   
                      D. Bhatia   Fast Floorplanning for FPGAs . . . . . . 129
                M. Renovell and   
               J. M. Portal and   
                J. Figueras and   
                      Y. Zorian   SRAM-Based FPGAs: a Fault Model for the
                                  Configurable Logic Modules . . . . . . . 139
                    G. Haug and   
                  W. Rosenstiel   Reconfigurable Hardware as Shared
                                  Resource in Multipurpose Computers . . . 149
             S. H. Robinson and   
              M. P. Caffrey and   
                   M. E. Dunham   Reconfigurable Computer Array: The
                                  Bridge between High Speed Sensors and
                                  Low Speed Computing  . . . . . . . . . . 159
                     W. Luk and   
                 P. Andreou and   
              A. Derbyshire and   
          F. Dupont-De-Dinechin   A Reconfigurable Engine for Real-Time
                                  Video Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
               F.-M. Renner and   
                  J. Becker and   
                     M. Glesner   An FPGA Implementation of a Magnetic
                                  Bearing Controller for Mechatronic
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
          R. W. Hartenstein and   
                    M. Herz and   
                T. Hoffmann and   
                 U. Nageldinger   Exploiting Contemporary Memory
                                  Techniques in Reconfigurable
                                  Accelerators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
                      A. Donlin   Self Modifying Circuitry --- A Platform
                                  for Tractable Virtual Circuitry  . . . . 199
                  D. Bhatia and   
                  P. Kannan and   
                K. S. Simha and   
             K. M. GajjalaPurna   REACT: Reactive Environment for Runtime
                                  Reconfiguration  . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
               S. Charlwood and   
                 P. James-Roxby   Evaluation of the XC6200-series
                                  Architecture for Cryptographic
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
         A. Zakerolhosseini and   
                     P. Lee and   
                       E. Horne   An FPGA Based Object Recognition Machine 228
                   G. Acher and   
                    W. Karl and   
                   M. Leberecht   PCI-SCI Protocol Translations: Applying
                                  Microprogramming Concepts to FPGAs . . . 238
             T. J. Callahan and   
                   J. Wawrzynek   Instruction-Level Parallelism for
                                  Reconfigurable Computing . . . . . . . . 248
                G. McGregor and   
                D. Robinson and   
                     P. Lysaght   A Hardware/Software Co-design
                                  Environment for Reconfigurable Logic
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
             K. Bondalapati and   
                 V. K. Prasanna   Mapping Loops onto Reconfigurable
                                  Architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
                   S. Asaad and   
                      K. Warren   Speed Optimization of the ALR Circuit
                                  Using an FPGA with Embedded RAM: a
                                  Design Experience  . . . . . . . . . . . 278
                   R. Kress and   
                      A. Pyttel   High-Level Synthesis for Dynamically
                                  Reconfigurable Hardware/Software Systems 288
                   N. McKay and   
                       S. Singh   Dynamic Specialisation of XC6200 FPGAs
                                  by Partial Evaluation  . . . . . . . . . 298
                 S. A. Guccione   WebScope: a Circuit Debug Tool . . . . . 308
                D. Lavenier and   
                     Y. Saouter   Computing Goldbach Partitions Using
                                  Pseudo-random Bit Generator Operators on
                                  a FPGA Systolic Array  . . . . . . . . . 316
                   P. Zhong and   
               M. Martonosi and   
                   P. Ashar and   
                       S. Malik   Solving Boolean Satisfiability with
                                  Dynamic Hardware Configurations  . . . . 326
                  J. Poldre and   
               K. Tammemaee and   
                      M. Mandre   Modular Exponent Realization on FPGAs    336
                   B. Feher and   
                      G. Szedoe   Cost Effective 2x2 Inner Product
                                  Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
                T. Maruyama and   
                 T. Funatsu and   
                     T. Hoshino   A Field-Programmable Gate-Array System
                                  for Evolutionary Computation . . . . . . 356
                T. Miyazaki and   
               K. Shirakawa and   
                M. Katayama and   
                     T. Murooka   A Transmutable Telecom System  . . . . . 366
               B. Radunovic and   
                 V. Milutinovic   A Survey of Reconfigurable Computing
                                  Architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
               N. L. Miller and   
                  S. F. Quigley   A Novel Field Programmable Gate Array
                                  Architecture for High Speed Arithmetic
                                  Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
                D. MacVicar and   
                       S. Singh   Accelerating DTP with Reconfigurable
                                  Computing Engines  . . . . . . . . . . . 391
         C. N. Ojeda-Guerra and   
             R. Esper-Chain and   
        M. Estupiñan and   
                      E. Macias   Hardware Mapping of a Parallel Algorithm
                                  for Matrix-Vector Multiplication
                                  Overlapping Communications and
                                  Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
                     G. Brebner   An Interactive Datasheet for the Xilinx
                                  XC6200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
               N. Woolfries and   
                 P. Lysaght and   
                S. Marshall and   
                    G. McGregor   Fast Adaptive Image Processing in FPGAs
                                  Using Stack Filters  . . . . . . . . . . 406
                S. Sawitzki and   
                   A. Gratz and   
                  R. G. Spallek   Increasing Microprocessor Performance
                                  with Tightly-Coupled Reconfigurable
                                  Logic Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
             N. W. Bergmann and   
                   P. R. Sutton   A High-Performance Computing Module for
                                  a Low Earth Orbit Satellite Using
                                  Reconfigurable Logic . . . . . . . . . . 416
                S. Yamagiwa and   
                     M. Ono and   
                T. Yamazaki and   
                    P. Kulkasem   Maestro-Link: a High Performance
                                  Interconnect for PC Cluster  . . . . . . 421
                T. Shiozawa and   
                   K. Oguri and   
                  K. Nagami and   
                         H. Ito   A Hardware Implementation of Constraint
                                  Satisfaction Problem Based on New
                                  Reconfigurable LSI Architecture  . . . . 426
                  P. Merino and   
                J. C. Lopez and   
                      M. Jacome   A Hardware Operating System for Dynamic
                                  Reconfiguration of FPGAs . . . . . . . . 431
             E. Cerro-Prada and   
              P. B. James-Roxby   High Speed Low Level Image Processing on
                                  FPGAs Using Distributed Arithmetic . . . 436
                   T.-T. Do and   
                   H. Kropp and   
                  C. Reuter and   
                      P. Pirsch   A Flexible Implementation of
                                  High-Performance FIR Filters on Xilinx
                                  FPGAs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
                    I. Vassanyi   Implementing Processor Arrays on FPGAs   446
              S. Holmstroem and   
                        K. Sere   Reconfigurable Hardware --- A Study in
                                  Codesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
                       C. Ackad   Statechart-Based HW/SW-Codesign of a
                                  Multi-FPGA-Board and a Microprocessor    456
                 A. Touhafi and   
            W. F. Brissinck and   
                    E. F. Dirkx   Simulation of ATM Switches Using
                                  Dynamically Reconfigurable FPGA's  . . . 461
                   T. Rissa and   
            T. Maekelaeinen and   
             J. Niittylahti and   
                    J. Siirtola   Fast Prototyping Using System Emulators  466
                A. Dandalis and   
                 V. K. Prasanna   Space-efficient Mapping of 2$D$-DCT onto
                                  Dynamically Configurable Coarse-Grained
                                  Architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
               I. Lemberski and   
                    M. Ratniece   XILINX4000 Architecture-Driven Synthesis
                                  for Speed  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
                    V. Tomachev   The PLD-Implementation of Boolean
                                  Function Characterized by Minimum Delay  481
              A. Abo Shosha and   
                P. Reinhart and   
                      F. Rongen   Reconfigurable PCI-Bus Interface (RPCI)  485
                   A. Trost and   
                   A. Zemva and   
                        B. Zajc   Programmable Prototyping System for
                                  Image Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
                 J. Fischer and   
                 C. Mueller and   
                        H. Kurz   A Co-simulation Concept for an Efficient
                                  Analysis of Complex Logic Designs  . . . 495
              A. C. Doering and   
                W. Obeloeer and   
                      G. Lustig   Programming and Implementation of
                                  Reconfigurable Routers . . . . . . . . . 500
                M. J. Moure and   
               M. D. Valdes and   
                     E. Mandado   Virtual Instruments Based on
                                  Reconfigurable Logic . . . . . . . . . . 505
                 C. Siemers and   
               D. P. F. Moeller   The $>$S$<$ puter: Introducing a Novel
                                  Concept for Dispatching Instructions
                                  Using Reconfigurable Hardware  . . . . . 510
                 L. Lagadec and   
                     B. Pottier   A 6200 Model and Editor Based on Object
                                  Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
               M. Eisenring and   
                       J. Teich   Interfacing Hardware and Software  . . . 520
                   J. Hwang and   
               C. Patterson and   
                   S. Mohan and   
                   E. Dellinger   Generating Layouts for Self-implementing
                                  Modules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1483, 1998

                    D. Shepherd   ATM, Reservation and IP --- ATM, RIP?    1
                  Guru Parulkar   High Speed Packet Switching and QoS: (A)
                                  Guru's Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . 2
               Werner Geyer and   
              Rüdiger Weis   A Secure, Accountable, and Collaborative
                                  Whiteboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
                Tom Pfeifer and   
            Thomas Magedanz and   
           Stephan Hübener   Mobile Guide --- Location-Aware
                                  Applications from the Lab to the Market  15
                Cora Burger and   
             Kurt Rothermel and   
               Rolf Mecklenburg   Interactive Protocol Simulation Applets
                                  for Distance Education . . . . . . . . . 29
            J. Robert Ensor and   
       Gianpaolo U. Carraro and   
                 John T. Edmark   Visual Techniques to Accommodate Varying
                                  Network Performance in Virtual
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
             Michael Fromme and   
        Lutz Grüneberg and   
                  Helmut Pralle   An Address Resolution and Key Exchange
                                  Protocol for Conferencing Applications
                                  on the Internet  . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
           Thierry Villemur and   
    Véronique Baudin and   
  Stéphane Owezarski and   
                    Michel Diaz   An Integrated Platform for Cooperative
                                  Teleteaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
               Dirk Trossen and   
             Karl-Heinz Scharer   CCS: CORBA-Based Conferencing Service    71
        Marten van Sinderen and   
     Luís Ferreira Pires   The Application of TINA in the MESH
                                  Project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
            M. Van Sinderen and   
              L. Ferreira Pires   The Application of TINA in the MESH
                                  Project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
                  J. Deicke and   
                   U. Mayer and   
                   A. Knoll and   
                     M. Glesner   Flexible Multiplexing in MPEG-4 Systems  83
          Thomas Kunkelmann and   
                       Uwe Horn   Video Encryption Based on Data
                                  Partitioning and Scalable Coding --- A
                                  Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
               Naceur Lagha and   
                   Hossam Afifi   An Architecture for an Interactive
                                  Multimedia System Based on MPEG-2  . . . 107
              James Ze Wang and   
                     Jia Li and   
             Gio Wiederhold and   
                Oscar Firschein   Classifying Objectionable Websites Based
                                  on Image Content . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
                 J. Z. Wang and   
                      J. Li and   
              G. Wiederhold and   
                   O. Firschein   Coding for WWW, Wireless, and Mobile
                                  Environments Classifying Objectionable
                                  Websites Based on Image Content  . . . . 113
                Kathy Melih and   
                 Ruben Gonzalez   Identifying Perceptually Congruent
                                  Structures for Audio Retrieval . . . . . 125
                Edward Y. Chang   An Image Coding and Reconstruction
                                  Scheme for Mobile Computing  . . . . . . 137
                  Sami Iren and   
               Paul D. Amer and   
              Phillip T. Conrad   Network-Conscious Compressed Images over
                                  Wireless Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 149
            Tone Ingvaldsen and   
             Espen Klovning and   
                  Miles Wilkins   A Study of Delay Factors in CSCW
                                  Applications and Their Importance  . . . 159
                 Marc Boyer and   
         Philippe Owezarski and   
                    Michel Diaz   Dynamic QoS Renegotiation in the PNSVS
                                  Videoconferencing Application  . . . . . 171
      Jan Òyvind Aagedal   Towards an ODP-Compliant Object
                                  Definition Language with QoS-Support . . 183
               Sehyeong Cho and   
                  Youngmee Shin   DAVIC Goes to Internet: Multimedia
                                  Service Interworking over Heterogeneous
                                  Networking Environment . . . . . . . . . 195
              Wei Kang Tsai and   
               Lee Chuan Hu and   
                     Yuseok Kim   A Temporal-Spatial Flow Control Protocol
                                  for ABR in Integrated Networks . . . . . 207
      Jorge Martínez and   
       José R. Vidal and   
                  Luis Guijarro   A Low Complexity Congestion Control
                                  Algorithm for the ABR Class of Service   219
              Tobias Helbig and   
                Oliver Schreyer   Protocol for Browsing in Continuous Data
                                  for Cooperative Multi-server and
                                  Multi-client Applications  . . . . . . . 231
                 Reinhard Baier   Implementation of a DSM-CC-Server for a
                                  DAVIC-Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
                D. Tsirikos and   
               T. Markousis and   
               I. Mouroulis and   
             M. Hatzopoulos and   
            M. Vazirgiannis and   
                   Y. Stavrakas   A Client-Server Design for Interactive
                                  Multimedia Documents Based on Java . . . 248
               Hartmut Benz and   
              Maria Eva Lijding   Asynchronously Replicated Shared
                                  Workspaces for a Multi-media Annotation
                                  Service over Internet  . . . . . . . . . 260
                  M. Brelot and   
                      G. Privat   Object Graphs as Pivotal Representations
                                  for Hypermedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--277
                Ray-I Chang and   
              Wei-Kuan Shih and   
               Ruei-Chuan Chang   A New Real-Time Disk Scheduling
                                  Algorithm and Its Application to
                                  Distributed Multimedia Storage Systems   278
               Jihad Boulos and   
                      Kinji Ono   Continuous Data Management on Tape-Based
                                  Tertiary Storage Systems . . . . . . . . 290
     Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik and   
            Carsten Griwodz and   
                 Ralf Steinmetz   Exploiting User Behaviour in Prefetching
                                  WWW Documents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Alberto García-Martínez and   
Jesús Fernández-Conde and   
       Ángel Viña   Single Pair of Buffers: Reducing Memory
                                  Requirements in VBR Media Servers  . . . 312


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1484, 1998

                     H. Geffner   Modelling Intelligent Behaviour: The
                                  Markov Decision Process Approach . . . . 1
               C. Castelfranchi   Emergence and Cognition: Towards a
                                  Synthetic Paradigm in AI and Cognitive
                                  Science  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
                      A. Sloman   The ``Semantics'' of Evolution:
                                  Trajectories and Trade-offs in Design
                                  Space and Niche Space  . . . . . . . . . 27
              R. A. Baeza-Yates   Searching the World Wide Web: Challenges
                                  and Partial Solutions  . . . . . . . . . 39
                      E. Alonso   Groups and Societies: One and the Same
                                  Thing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
                  M. Correa and   
                      H. Coelho   From Mental States and Architectures to
                                  Agents' Programming  . . . . . . . . . . 64
                 T. Galinho and   
                  A. Cardon and   
                   J.-P. Vacher   Genetic Integration in a Multiagent
                                  System for Job-Shop Scheduling . . . . . 76
               D. Goncalves and   
                 P. Machado and   
                       A. Paiva   A New Dynamic Model for a Multi-Agent
                                  Formation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
                S. Ossowski and   
                   J. Cuena and   
              A. Garcia-Serrano   A Case of Multiagent Decision Support:
                                  Using Autonomous Agents for Urban
                                  Traffic Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
                  W. Winiwarter   Lazy Learning Algorithms for Problems
                                  with Many Binary Features and Classes    112
                 J. Lorenzo and   
               M. Hernandez and   
                      J. Mendez   GD: a Measure Based on Information
                                  Theory for Attribute Selection . . . . . 124
                   J. Roure and   
                    L. Talavera   Robust Incremental Clustering with Bad
                                  Instance Orderings: a New Strategy . . . 136
             J. I. Giraldez and   
                     D. Borrajo   Distributed Reinforcement Learning in
                                  Multi-Agent Decision Systems . . . . . . 148
                    J. Gama and   
                   L. Torgo and   
                      C. Soares   Dynamic Discretization of Continuous
                                  Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
                 J. Delgado and   
                   N. Ishii and   
                         T. Ura   Intelligent Collaborative Information
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
                  J. M. Ramirez   Analysis of Agent Programs Using Action
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
      J. G. Torres-Toledano and   
                    L. E. Sucar   Bayesian Networks for Reliability
                                  Analysis of Complex Systems  . . . . . . 195
                E. Onaindia and   
                     M. Rebollo   Temporal Representation and Reasoning
                                  for Dynamic Environments . . . . . . . . 207
                  G. De Ita and   
                D. E. Pinto and   
                 M. Nuño   Heuristics for Improving the
                                  Non-oblivious Local Search for MaxSAT    219
                  M. Osorio and   
                   B. Jayaraman   Integrating the Completion and the Well
                                  Founded Semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . 230
                  C. Orrite and   
                 A. Alcolea and   
                       A. Campo   Recognition of Partially Occluded Flat
                                  Objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
               J. R. A. Torreao   Estimating $3$D Shape from the Optical
                                  Flow of Photometric Stereo Images  . . . 253
        H. V. Rios Figueroa and   
                  J. P. Acevedo   Computer Vision Interaction for Virtual
                                  Reality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
                   J. Salas and   
                 J. L. Gordillo   Placing Artificial Visual Landmarks in a
                                  Mobile Robot Workspace . . . . . . . . . 274
               J. Galaviz-Casas   Selection Analysis in Genetic Algorithms 283
             R. Pinto-Elias and   
             J. H. Sossa-Azuela   Human Face Identification Using
                                  Invariant Descriptions and a Genetic
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
            C. A. Coello Coello   Using the Min-Max Method to Solve
                                  Multiobjective Optimization Problems
                                  with Genetic Algorithms  . . . . . . . . 303
             N. Carrasquero and   
                   J. A. Moreno   A New Genetic Operator for the Traveling
                                  Salesman Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
                 J. Aguilar and   
                J. Riquelme and   
                        M. Toro   Decision Queue Classifier for Supervised
                                  Learning Using Rotated Hyperboxes  . . . 326
C. Lourenço da Silva and   
          A. C. Bicharra Garcia   SpADD: An Active Design Documentation
                                  Framework Extension Applied to Spatial
                                  Layout Design Problems . . . . . . . . . 337
        R. De Almeida Falbo and   
        C. Silva de Menezes and   
              A. R. C. Da Rocha   A Systematic Approach for Building
                                  Ontologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
                J.-M. Nigro and   
                      P. Ricaud   A Method to Diagnose the User's Level    361
            H. Silva-Varela and   
       V. Cardeñoso-Payo   Phonetic Classification in Spanish Using
                                  a Hierarchy of Specialized ANNs  . . . . 373
                    A. Pons and   
                     R. Gil and   
                  R. Danger and   
                  J. M. Sanchiz   A Generalisation Study on Neural Corner
                                  Detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
                    P. Barahona   Defeasible Constraint Solving over the
                                  Booleans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
                L. Castillo and   
                    A. Gonzalez   A Nonlinear Planner for Solving
                                  Sequential Control Problems in
                                  Manufacturing Systems  . . . . . . . . . 409


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1485, 1998

                   H. Debar and   
                  M. Dacier and   
                 M. Nassehi and   
                       A. Wespi   Fixed vs. Variable-Length Patterns for
                                  Detecting Suspicious Process Behavior    1
                 D. Bruschi and   
                   E. Rosti and   
                       R. Banfi   A Tool for Pro-active Defense Against
                                  the Buffer Overrun Attack  . . . . . . . 17
                    S. N. Foley   A Kernelized Architecture for Multilevel
                                  Secure Application Policies  . . . . . . 33
                   C. Bidan and   
                     V. Issarny   Dealing with Multi-policy Security in
                                  Large Open Distributed Systems . . . . . 51
                      R. Ortalo   A Flexible Method for Information System
                                  Security Policy Specification  . . . . . 67
                 M. Michels and   
                 M. Stadler and   
                      H.-M. Sun   On the Security of Some Variants of the
                                  RSA Signature Scheme . . . . . . . . . . 85
                  J. Kelsey and   
                B. Schneier and   
                  D. Wagner and   
                        C. Hall   Side Channel Cryptanalysis of Product
                                  Ciphers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--110
                    R. Anderson   On the Security of Digital Tachographs   111
                 E. Bertino and   
              F. Buccafurri and   
                 E. Ferrari and   
                       P. Rullo   An Authorization Model and Its Formal
                                  Semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
                     C. Karjoth   Authorization in CORBA Security  . . . . 143
                 F. Cuppens and   
                    A. Gabillon   Rules for Designing Multilevel
                                  Object-Oriented Databases  . . . . . . . 159
                 J. Posegga and   
                        H. Vogt   Byte Code Verification for Java Smart
                                  Cards Based on Model Checking  . . . . . 175
               L. L. Kassab and   
                S. J. Greenwald   Towards Formalizing the Java Security
                                  Architecture of JDK 1.2  . . . . . . . . 191
            A. Varvitsiotis and   
                  D. Polemi and   
                       A. Marsh   EUROMED-JAVA: Trusted Third Party
                                  Services for Securing Medical Java
                                  Applets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
       J. P. M. G. Linnartz and   
                  J. C. Talstra   MPEG PTY-Marks: Cheap Detection of
                                  Embedded Copyright Data in DVD-Video . . 221
                   D. Augot and   
             J.-F. Delaigle and   
                    C. Fontaine   DHWM: a Scheme for Managing Watermarking
                                  Keys in the Aquarelle Multimedia
                                  Distributed System . . . . . . . . . . . 241
           J. P. M. G. Linnartz   The ``Ticket'' Concept for Copy Control
                                  Based on Embedded Signalling . . . . . . 257
               G. Eizenberg and   
               J.-J. Quisquater   Panel Session: Watermarking  . . . . . . 275
                    G. Horn and   
                     B. Preneel   Authentication and Payment in Future
                                  Mobile Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
                D. Kesdogan and   
                  P. Reichl and   
               K. Junghaertchen   Distributed Temporary Pseudonyms: a New
                                  Approach for Protecting Location
                                  Information in Mobile Communication
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
                   E. Franz and   
                    A. Jerichow   A Mix-Mediated Anonymity Service and Its
                                  Payment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
                     A. Joesang   A Subjective Metric of Authentication    329
                 V. Kessler and   
                     H. Neumann   A Sound Logic for Analysing Electronic
                                  Commerce Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . 345
                   G. Bella and   
                  L. C. Paulson   Kerberos Version IV: Inductive Analysis
                                  of the Secrecy Goals . . . . . . . . . . 361


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1486, 1998

                 John C. Knight   Challenges in the Utilization of Formal
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
            Constance Heitmeyer   On the Need for ``Practical'' Formal
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
                 Joseph Sifakis   A General Framework for the Composition
                                  of Timed Systems (Extended Abstract) . . 27
             Henning Dierks and   
             Ansgar Fehnker and   
             Angelika Mader and   
               Frits Vaandrager   Operational and Logical Semantics for
                                  Polling Real-Time Systems  . . . . . . . 29
      Alberto Coen-Porisini and   
            Matteo Pradella and   
           Pierluigi San Pietro   A Finite-Domain Semantics for Testing
                                  Temporal Logic Specifications  . . . . . 41
         Paritosh K. Pandya and   
                  Dang Van Hung   Duration Calculus of Weakly Monotonic
                                  Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
                R. Gotzhein and   
              M. Kronenburg and   
                       C. Peper   Reuse in Requirements Engineering:
                                  Discovery and Application of a Real-Time
                                  Requirement Pattern  . . . . . . . . . . 65
                 Radu Grosu and   
             Thomas Stauner and   
                   Manfred Broy   A Modular Visual Model for Hybrid
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
                 D. Priddin and   
                       A. Burns   Integrating Real-Time Structured Design
                                  and Formal Techniques  . . . . . . . . . 92
                S. Veloudis and   
                    N. Nissanke   Duration Calculus in the Specification
                                  of Safety Requirements . . . . . . . . . 103
           Scott D. Stoller and   
              Fred B. Schneider   Automated Stream-Based Analysis of
                                  Fault-Tolerance  . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
                Antonio Cau and   
            Chris Czarnecki and   
                  Hussein Zedan   Designing a Provably Correct Robot
                                  Control System Using a `Lean' Formal
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
           David Y. W. Park and   
    Jens U. Skakkebæk and   
                  David L. Dill   Static Analysis to Identify Invariants
                                  in RSML Specifications . . . . . . . . . 133
      Ronald Lutje Spelberg and   
              Hans Toetenel and   
               Marcel Ammerlaan   Partition Refinement in Real-Time Model
                                  Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
                      M. Siegel   Formal Verification of Stabilizing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
                Mannes Poel and   
                     Job Zwiers   Synchronizing Clocked Transition Systems 173
        Manoranjan Satpathy and   
              Dang Van Hung and   
             Paritosh K. Pandya   Some Decidability Results for Duration
                                  Calculus under Synchronous
                                  Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
                  A. Pnueli and   
                 N. Shankar and   
                   E. Singerman   Fair Synchronous Transition Systems and
                                  Their Liveness Proofs  . . . . . . . . . 198
                      Anuj Puri   Dynamical Properties of Timed Automata   210
                J. Preussig and   
              S. Kowalewski and   
                H. Wong-Toi and   
                T. A. Henzinger   An Algorithm for the Approximative
                                  Analysis of Rectangular Automata . . . . 228
               Zhao Jianhua and   
                  Dang Van Hung   On Checking Parallel Real-Time Systems
                                  for Linear Duration Properties . . . . . 241
                    J. Zhao and   
                  Dang Van Hung   On Checking Parallel Real-Time Systems
                                  for Linear Duration Properties . . . . . 241
      Rachel Cardell-Oliver and   
                     Tim Glover   A Practical and Complete Algorithm for
                                  Testing Real-Time Systems  . . . . . . . 251
                 D. Schwier and   
                   F. Von Henke   Mechanical Verification of Clock
                                  Synchronization Algorithms . . . . . . . 262
                M. Fraenzle and   
                       K. Lueth   Compiling Graphical Real-Time
                                  Specifications into Silicon  . . . . . . 272
        Martin Fränzle and   
              Karsten Lüth   Compiling Graphical Real-Time
                                  Specifications into Silicon  . . . . . . 272
          Gerardo Schneider and   
                       Qiwen Xu   Towards a Formal Semantics of Verilog
                                  Using Duration Calculus  . . . . . . . . 282
                       K. Lueth   The ICOS Synthesis Environment . . . . . 294
              Karsten Lüth   The ICOS Synthesis Environment . . . . . 294
               Marius Bozga and   
               Conrado Daws and   
                 Oded Maler and   
            Alfredo Olivero and   
           Stavros Tripakis and   
                  Sergio Yovine   KRONOS: a Model-Checking Tool for
                                  Real-Time Systems (Tool-Presentation for
                                  FTRTFT '98)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
              Mario Marrero and   
       Alvaro Suárez and   
       Elena Carrión and   
             Elsa Macías   SGLOT: a Visual Tool for Structural
                                  LOTOS Specifications . . . . . . . . . . 303
            Dragan Bosnacki and   
                    Dennis Dams   Discrete-Time Promela and Spin . . . . . 307
               Josef Tapken and   
                 Henning Dierks   \sc Moby / PLC --- Graphical Development
                                  of PLC-Automata  . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
          Gérard Le Lann   Predictability in Critical Systems . . . 315
                     G. Le Lann   Predictability in Critical Systems . . . 315
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1487, 1998

                O. Demirors and   
                    E. Demirors   Software Process Improvement in a Small
                                  Organization: Difficulties and
                                  Suggestions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                M. Koskinen and   
                    P. Marttiin   Developing a Customizable Process
                                  Modelling Environment: Lessons Learnt
                                  and Future Prospects . . . . . . . . . . 13
                   S. Rossi and   
                   T. Sillander   A Practical Approach to Software Process
                                  Modelling Language Engineering . . . . . 28
                  S. Cimpan and   
                     F. Oquendo   Fuzzy Indicators for Monitoring Software
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
             H.-U. Kobialka and   
                   C. Lewerentz   User Interfaces Supporting the Software
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
                 A. I. Wang and   
               J.-O. Larsen and   
                 R. Conradi and   
                    B. P. Munch   Improving Cooperation Support in the
                                  EPOS CM System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
                  I. Alloui and   
                     F. Oquendo   Managing Consistency in Cooperating
                                  Software Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 92
                 R. Conradi and   
                A. Fuggetta and   
                 M. L. Jaccheri   Six Theses on Software Process Research  100
                  E. Ellmer and   
               W. Ernmerich and   
                 A. Finkelstein   Process Technology Implications of
                                  Procurement Processes: Some Initial
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
                     R. Kneuper   Requirements on Software Process
                                  Technology from the Viewpoint of
                                  Commercial Software Development:
                                  Recommendations for Research Directions  111
                  V. Plekhanova   On Project Management Scheduling where
                                  Human Resource is a Critical Variable    116
         J. Fernandez Ramil and   
                   M. M. Lehman   Fuzzy Dynamics in Software Project
                                  Simulation and Support . . . . . . . . . 122
           B. Staudt Lerner and   
            L. J. Osterweil and   
               S. M. Sutton and   
                        A. Wise   Programming Process Coordination in
                                  Little-JIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
                    P. F. Tiako   Modelling the Federation of Process
                                  Sensitive Engineering Environments:
                                  Basic Concepts and Perspectives  . . . . 132
              B. C. Warboys and   
         D. Balasubramaniam and   
            R. M. Greenwood and   
                 G. N. C. Kirby   Instances and Connectors: Issues for a
                                  Second Generation Process Language . . . 137
                        Y. Yang   Issues on Supporting Distributed
                                  Software Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 143
                E. Demirors and   
                    O. Demirors   A Notation Based on Process Product
                                  Unification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
                O. Demirors and   
                  H. N. Ozguven   Assistance to Develop Indigenous
                                  Software Industry  . . . . . . . . . . . 149
                   M. M. Lehman   FEAST --- Feedback, Evolution and
                                  Software Technology  . . . . . . . . . . 150
                  G. Engels and   
             L. Groenewegen and   
                      R. Dossen   Formalization of the Software Process
                                  Modeling Language SOCCA  . . . . . . . . 151
                L. J. Osterweil   JIL and Little-JIL Process Programming
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
             J.-C. Derniame and   
                    P. F. Tiako   PCIS-II Project: Process Component
                                  Infrastructure Architecture
                                  Specification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
                  J.-C Derniame   Promoter 2 Process Modeling Techniques   154
                    P.-Y. Cunin   Process Instance Evolution --- PIE . . . 155


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1488, 1998

         Luís Macedo and   
         Amílcar Cardoso   Nested Graph-Structured Representations
                                  for Cases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
            Petri Kontkanen and   
       Petri Myllymäki and   
              Tomi Silander and   
                    Henry Tirri   On Bayesian Case Matching  . . . . . . . 13
             Ralph Bergmann and   
                    Armin Stahl   Similarity Measures for Object-Oriented
                                  Case Representations . . . . . . . . . . 25
              Bruce McLaren and   
                   Kevin Ashley   Exploring the Dialectic Between Abstract
                                  Rules and Concrete Facts:
                                  Operationalizing Principles and Cases in
                                  Engineering Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . 37
                Derek G. Bridge   Defining and Combining Symmetric and
                                  Asymmetric Similarity Measures . . . . . 52
          Riccardo Bellazzi and   
           Stefania Montani and   
                Luigi Portinale   Retrieval in a Prototype-Based Case
                                  Library: a Case Study in Diabetes
                                  Therapy Revision . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
                Erica Melis and   
                  Axel Schairer   Similarities and Reuse of Proofs in
                                  Formal Software Verification . . . . . . 76
            Francesco Ricci and   
                    Luca Senter   Structured Cases, Trees and Efficient
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
                 Jacek Jarmulak   Case-Based Classification of Ultrasonic
                                  B-Scans: Case-Base Organisation and Case
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
                 B. Raphael and   
                       I. Smith   Case-Based Model Selection for
                                  Engineering Diagnosis  . . . . . . . . . 112
                 David Sinclair   Using Example-Based Reasoning for
                                  Selective Move Generation in Two Player
                                  Adversarial Games  . . . . . . . . . . . 126
                   Ivo Vollrath   Reuse of Complex Electronic Designs:
                                  Requirements Analysis for a CBR
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
      Bjòrnar Tessem and   
         R. Alan Whitehurst and   
          Christopher L. Powell   Retrieval of Java Classes for Case-Based
                                  Reuse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
           Michel Jaczynski and   
               Brigitte Trousse   WWW Assisted Browsing by Reusing Past
                                  Navigations of a Group of Users  . . . . 160
                Erica Melis and   
                Jean Lieber and   
                  Amedeo Napoli   Reformulation in Case-Based Reasoning    172
                 David McSherry   An Adaptation Heuristic for Case-Based
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
             David B. Leake and   
                David C. Wilson   Categorizing Case-Base Maintenance:
                                  Dimensions and Directions  . . . . . . . 196
                Barry Smyth and   
              Elizabeth McKenna   Modelling the Competence of Case-Bases   208
              Frank Heister and   
                 Wolfgang Wilke   An Architecture for Maintaining
                                  Case-Based Reasoning Systems . . . . . . 221
                Jerzy Surma and   
                 Janusz Tyburcy   A Study on Competence-Preserving Case
                                  Replacing Strategies in Case-Based
                                  Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--238
                   B. D. Netten   Representation of Failure Context for
                                  Diagnosis of Technical Applications  . . 239
                   Petra Perner   Different Learning Strategies in a
                                  Case-Based Reasoning System for Image
                                  Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
               David W. Aha and   
               Tucker Maney and   
             Leonard A. Breslow   Supporting Dialogue Inferencing in
                                  Conversational Case-Based Reasoning  . . 262
                  Hideo Shimazu   A Textual Case-Based Reasoning System
                                  Using XML on the World-Wide Web  . . . . 274
             Sylvie Salotti and   
        Véronique Ventos   Study and Formalization of a Case-Based
                                  Reasoning System Using a Description
                                  Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--297
                     Mario Lenz   Defining Knowledge Layers for Textual
                                  Case-Based Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . 298
       Alessandro Micarelli and   
          Filippo Sciarrone and   
         Leonardo Ambrosini and   
               Vincenzo Cirillo   A Case-Based Approach to User Modeling   310--321
             Dong Mei Zhang and   
                     Leila Alem   A Generic Case-Based Framework for
                                  Assisting Instructional Design . . . . . 322
      Isabelle Bichindaritz and   
                 Emin Kansu and   
              Keith M. Sullivan   Case-Based Reasoning in CARE-PARTNER:
                                  Gathering Evidence for Evidence-Based
                                  Medical Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
                  M. Goeker and   
          T. Roth-Berghofer and   
                R. Bergmann and   
                    T. Pantleon   The Development of HOMER: a Case-Based
                                  CAD/CAM Help-Desk Support Tool . . . . . 346
          Mehmet Göker and   
      Thomas Roth-Berghofer and   
             Ralph Bergmann and   
            Thomas Pantleon and   
       Ralph Traphöner and   
                Stefan Wess and   
                 Wolfgang Wilke   The Development of HOMER: a Case-Based
                                  CAD/CAM Help-Desk Support Tool . . . . . 346
                 Susan Craw and   
         Nirmalie Wiratunga and   
                       Ray Rowe   Case-Based Design for Tablet Formulation 358
             Rainer Schmidt and   
                   Lothar Gierl   Experiences with Prototype Designs and
                                  Retrieval Methods in Medical Case-Based
                                  Reasoning Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 370
              Michael Fagan and   
                 Stephen Corley   CBR for the Reuse of Corporate SQL
                                  Knowledge  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
                Steve Scott and   
                    Ron Simpson   Case-Bases Incorporating Scheduling
                                  Constraint Dimensions: Experiences in
                                  Nurse Rostering  . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
                Maria Malek and   
  Marc-Philippe P. Toitgans and   
           Jean-Luc L. Wybo and   
                 Michel Vincent   An Operator Support System Based on
                                  Case-Based Reasoning for the Plastic
                                  Moulding Injection Process . . . . . . . 402
                Robert J. Aarts   A CBR Architecture for Project Knowledge
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
       Mohammad E. Shiri A. and   
             Esma A\"\imeur and   
                 Claude Frasson   SARA: a Case-Based Student Modelling
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--436
                M. E. Shiri and   
               A. E. Aimeur and   
                     C. Frasson   SARA: a Case-Based Student Modelling
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Valérie Ficet-Cauchard and   
          Christine Porquet and   
               Marinette Revenu   An Interactive Case-Based Reasoning
                                  System for the Development of Image
                                  Processing Applications  . . . . . . . . 437
                 Ian Watson and   
              Leonardo Oliveira   Virtual Reality as an Environment for
                                  CBR  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
             Ralph Bergmann and   
                 Sean Breen and   
           Emmanuelle Fayol and   
          Mehmet Göker and   
              Michel Manago and   
             Sascha Schmitt and   
     Jürgen Schumacher and   
                Armin Stahl and   
                Stefan Wess and   
                 Wolfgang Wilke   Collecting Experience on the Systematic
                                  Development of CBR Applications Using
                                  the INRECA Methodology . . . . . . . . . 460
             Patrick Renoux and   
                  Roy MacHattie   A Solution to Cure the Deviation
                                  Problems at Winders  . . . . . . . . . . 471


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1489, 1998

                  Marc Denecker   The Well-Founded Semantics \em Is the
                                  Principle of Inductive Definition  . . . 1
      Pierangelo Dell'Acqua and   
               Fariba Sadri and   
                 Francesca Toni   Combining Introspection and
                                  Communication with Rationality and
                                  Reactivity in Agents . . . . . . . . . . 17
                  Wenjin Lu and   
                 Ulrich Furbach   Disjunctive Logic Program = Horn Program
                                  + Control Program  . . . . . . . . . . . 33
                Mauricio Osorio   Semantics of Partial-Order Programs  . . 47
         Wiebe van der Hoek and   
                Jan Jaspars and   
                  Elias Thijsse   Persistence and Minimality in Epistemic
                                  Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
            W. Van der Hoek and   
                 J. Jaspars and   
                     E. Thijsse   Persistence and Minimality in Epistemic
                                  Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Leendert W. N. van der Torre and   
                    Yao-Hua Tan   Prohairetic Deontic Logic (PDL)  . . . . 77
     L. W. N. Van der Torre and   
                      Y.-H. Tan   Prohairetic Deontic Logic (PDL)  . . . . 77
   Leendert W. N. van der Torre   Phased Labeled Logics of Conditional
                                  Goals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
         L. W. N. Van der Torre   Phased Labeled Logics of Conditional
                                  Goals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
           Maria Paola Bonacina   Analysis of Distributed-Search
                                  Contraction-Based Strategies . . . . . . 107
        François Bry and   
                    Sunna Torge   A Deduction Method Complete for
                                  Refutation and Finite Satisfiability . . 122
                     Dirk Fuchs   Requirement-Based Cooperative Theorem
                                  Proving  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
             Sonia M. Leach and   
                James J. Lu and   
             Neil V. Murray and   
                 Erik Rosenthal   $ \mho $-Resolution: An Inference Rule
                                  for Regular Multiple-Valued Logics . . . 154
               Heiko Mantel and   
               Christoph Kreitz   A Matrix Characterization for \em MELL   169
              Christof Monz and   
               Maarten de Rijke   A Resolution Calculus for Dynamic
                                  Semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
               Reinhard Pichler   Algorithms on Atomic Representations of
                                  Herbrand Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
                  Tomi Janhunen   On the Intertranslatability of
                                  Autoepistemic, Default and Priority
                                  Logics, and Parallel Circumscription . . 216
               Thomas Linke and   
                 Torsten Schaub   An Approach to Query-Answering in
                                  Reiter's Default Logic and the
                                  Underlying Existence of Extensions
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
             Michael Thielscher   Towards State Update Axioms: Reifying
                                  Successor State Axioms . . . . . . . . . 248
           Jeremy E. Dawson and   
             Rajeev Goré   A Mechanised Proof System for Relation
                                  Algebra Using Display Logic  . . . . . . 264
      Stéphane Demri and   
               Beata Konikowska   Relative Similarity Logics are
                                  Decidable: Reduction to FO$^2$ with
                                  Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
             Laura Giordano and   
          Valentina Gliozzi and   
                Nicola Olivetti   A Conditional Logic for Belief Revision  294
            I. P. De Guzman and   
            M. Ojeda-Aciego and   
                    A. Valverde   Implicates and Reduction Techniques for
                                  Temporal Logics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
  Inman P. de Guzmán and   
        Manuel Ojeda-Aciego and   
       Augustín Valverde   Implicates and Reduction Techniques for
                                  Temporal Logics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
 Frédéric Koriche   A Logic for Anytime Deduction and
                                  Anytime Compilation  . . . . . . . . . . 324
                 Manfred Kerber   On Knowledge, Strings, and Paradoxes . . 342
               Marco Cadoli and   
             Luigi Palopoli and   
            Francesco Scarcello   Propositional Lower Bounds:
                                  Generalization and Algorithms  . . . . . 355
                 Jianguo Lu and   
             Masateru Harao and   
                  Masami Hagiya   Higher Order Generalization  . . . . . . 368
                 Erik Sandewall   The Logical Characterization of
                                  Goal-Directed Behavior in the Presence
                                  of Exogenous Events: Summary . . . . . . 382--384
                     Paul Tarau   Towards Inference and Computation
                                  Mobility: The Jinni Experiment . . . . . 385


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1490, 1998

                 Baoqiu Cui and   
                 Yifei Dong and   
                 Xiaoqun Du and   
           K. Narayan Kumar and   
         C. R. Ramakrishnan and   
         I. V. Ramakrishnan and   
         Abhik Roychoudhury and   
            Scott A. Smolka and   
                David S. Warren   Logic Programming and Model Checking . . 1
                Bart Demoen and   
           Konstantinos Sagonas   CAT: The Copying Approach to Tabling . . 21
            Jesper Eskilson and   
                  Mats Carlsson   SICStus MT --- A Multithreaded Execution
                                  Environment for SICStus Prolog . . . . . 36--53
                Wim Vanhoof and   
           Danny De Schreye and   
                   Bern Martens   A Framework for Bottom Up Specialisation
                                  of Logic Programs  . . . . . . . . . . . 54
            Jan-Georg Smaus and   
                   Pat Hill and   
                      Andy King   Termination of Logic Programs with block
                                  Declarations Running in Several Modes    73
             Michael Codish and   
      Harald Sòndergaard   The Boolean Logic of Set Sharing
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
               Giorgio Levi and   
                    Paolo Volpe   Derivation of Proof Methods by Abstract
                                  Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
         Maurice Bruynooghe and   
         Henk Vandecasteele and   
           D. Andre de Waal and   
                  Marc Denecker   Detecting Unsolvable Queries for
                                  Definite Logic Programs  . . . . . . . . 118
              John Hatcliff and   
              Matthew Dwyer and   
                  Shawn Laubach   Staging Static Analyses Using
                                  Abstraction-Based Program Specialization 134
               Giorgio Levi and   
                   Fausto Spoto   An Experiment in Domain Refinement: Type
                                  Domains and Type Representations for
                                  Logic Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
             Charles Consel and   
                  Renaud Marlet   Architecturing Software Using: a
                                  Methodology for Language Development . . 170
               Delia Kesner and   
Pablo E. Martínez López   Explicit Substitutions for Objects and
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
            Enrico Pontelli and   
                Desh Ranjan and   
                    Gopal Gupta   The Complexity of Late-Binding in
                                  Dynamic Object-Oriented Languages  . . . 213
      Pierre-Etienne Moreau and   
       Hél\`ene Kirchner   A Compiler for Rewrite Programs in
                                  Associative-Commutative Theories . . . . 230
               P.-E. Moteau and   
                    H. Kirchner   A Compiler for Rewrite Programs in
                                  Associative-Commutative Theories . . . . 230
                  Takahito Aoto   Solution to the Problem of Zantema on a
                                  Persistent Property of Term Rewriting
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
     Sébastien Limet and   
 Frédéric Saubion   A General Framework for $ {R}
                                  $-Unification Problems . . . . . . . . . 266
                Andrew M. Pitts   Operational Versus Denotational Methods
                                  in the Semantics of Higher Order
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
                  Conal Elliott   Functional Implementations of Continuous
                                  Modeled Animation  . . . . . . . . . . . 284
                Marc Feeley and   
                  Martin Larose   Compiling Erlang to Scheme . . . . . . . 300
          Silvia Breitinger and   
              Ulrike Klusik and   
                    Rita Loogen   From (Sequential) Haskell to (Parallel)
                                  Eden: An Implementation Point of View    318
                 David Wakeling   Mobile Haskell: Compiling Lazy
                                  Functional Programs for the Java Virtual
                                  Machine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
                    John Hannan   Program Analysis in $ \lambda $Prolog    353--354
           Roberto Di Cosmo and   
         Jean-Vincent Loddo and   
               Stephane Nicolet   A Game Semantics Foundation for Logic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
                R. Di Cosmo and   
                J.-V. Loddo and   
                     S. Nicolet   A Game Semantics Foundation for Logic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
              Michael Hanus and   
                  Frank Steiner   Controlling Search in Declarative
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
               James Lipton and   
                 Robert McGrail   Encapsulating Data in Logic Programming
                                  via Categorical Constraints  . . . . . . 391
             John G. Cleary and   
                      Lunjin Lu   Constructive Negation Using Typed
                                  Existence Properties . . . . . . . . . . 411
                 Andrea Asperti   Optimal Reduction of Functional
                                  Expressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
          P. Arenas-Sanchez and   
        F. J. Lopez-Fraguas and   
          M. Rodriguez-Artalejo   Embedding Multiset Constraints into a
                                  Lazy Functional Logic Language . . . . . 429
              Joseph Goguen and   
              Grant Malcolm and   
                       Tom Kemp   A Hidden Herbrand Theorem  . . . . . . . 445
                Farid Ajili and   
             Hendrik C. R. Lock   Integrating Constraint Propagation in
                                  Complete Solving of Linear Diophantine
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
                Philippe Refalo   Approaches to the Incremental Detection
                                  of Implicit Equalities with the Revised
                                  Simplex Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1491, 1998

                  W. Reisig and   
                   G. Rozenberg   Informal Introduction to Petri Nets  . . 1--11
               G. Rozenberg and   
                  J. Engelfriet   Elementary Net Systems . . . . . . . . . 12--121
                   J. Desel and   
                      W. Reisig   Place/Transition Petri Nets  . . . . . . 122--173
                       E. Smith   Principles of High-Level Net Theory  . . 174--210
           M. Ajmone Marsan and   
                  A. Bobbio and   
                   S. Donatelli   Petri Nets in Performance Analysis: An
                                  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--256
                       J. Desel   Basic Linear Algebraic Techniques for
                                  Place/Transition Nets  . . . . . . . . . 257--308
                   M. Silva and   
                  E. Teruel and   
                    J. M. Colom   Linear Algebraic and Linear Programming
                                  Techniques for the Analysis of
                                  Place/Transition Net Systems . . . . . . 309--373
                     J. Esparza   Decidability and Complexity of Petri Net
                                  Problems --- An Introduction . . . . . . 374--428
                     A. Valmari   The State Explosion Problem  . . . . . . 429--528
                 E. Badouel and   
                   P. Darondeau   Theory of Regions  . . . . . . . . . . . 529--586
                 M. Nielsen and   
                     V. Sassone   Petri Nets and Other Models of
                                  Concurrency  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--642
          P. S. Thiagarajan and   
                J. G. Henriksen   Distributed Versions of Linear Time
                                  Temporal Logic: A Trace Perspective  . . 643--681


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1492, 1998

                    E. Best and   
               R. Devillers and   
                      M. Koutny   Petri Nets, Process Algebras and
                                  Concurrent Programming Languages . . . . 1--84
                   M. Silva and   
                  E. Teruel and   
                 R. Valette and   
                     H. Pingaud   Petri Nets and Production Systems  . . . 85--124
             G. De Michelis and   
                    C. A. Ellis   Computer Supported Cooperative Work and
                                  Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--153
             A. V. Yakovlev and   
                 A. M. Koelmans   Petri Nets and Digital Hardware Design   154--236
                      K. Jensen   An Introduction to the Practical Use of
                                  Coloured Petri Nets  . . . . . . . . . . 237--292
                  J. Billington   Protocol Specification Using $ {P}
                                  $-Graphs, a Technique Based on Coloured
                                  Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--330
                  W. Reisig and   
                 E. Kindler and   
                  T. Vesper and   
                     H. Voelzer   Distributed Algorithms for Networks of
                                  Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--385
           G. Franceschinis and   
                     M. Ribaudo   Efficient Performance Analysis
                                  Techniques for Stochastic Well-Formed
                                  Nets and Stochastic Process Algebras . . 386--437
               S. Donatelli and   
               G. Franceschinis   Modelling and Analysis of Distributed
                                  Software Using GSPNs . . . . . . . . . . 438--477


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1493, 1998

                       K. Grimm   Industrial Requirements for the
                                  Efficient Development of Reliable
                                  Embedded Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                     C. Fischer   How to Combine Z with a Process Algebra  5
                 W. J. Stoddart   The Specification and Refinement of an
                                  Environmental Model  . . . . . . . . . . 24
                  L. Murray and   
              D. Carrington and   
                 I. MacColl and   
                    J. McDonald   Formal Derivation of Finite State
                                  Machines for Class Testing . . . . . . . 42
          I. H. Sòrensen   Using B to Specify, Verify and Design
                                  Hardware Circuits  . . . . . . . . . . . 60
                J. P. Bowen and   
                 D. Chippington   Z on the Web Using Java  . . . . . . . . 66
              P. Ciancarini and   
                 C. Mascolo and   
                      F. Vitali   Visualizing Z Notation in HTML Documents 81
                      T. Santen   On the Semantic Relation of Z and HOL    96
                   C. Lueth and   
              E. W. Karlsen and   
              H. T. Kolyang and   
                   S. Westmeier   HOL-Z in the UniForM-Workbench --- A
                                  Case Study in Tool Integration for Z . . 116
                  N. G. Leveson   Designing a Requirements Specification
                                  Language for Reactive Systems  . . . . . 135
                       J. Jacky   Analyzing a Real-Time Program with Z . . 136
                   R. D. Arthan   Recursive Definitions in Z . . . . . . . 154
               M. C. Henson and   
                      S. Reeves   A Logic for the Schema Calculus  . . . . 172
                  E.-R. Olderog   Combining Specification Techniques for
                                  Processes, Data and Time . . . . . . . . 192
                        I. Toyn   Innovations in the Notation of Standard
                                  Z  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
                    R. F. Paige   Comparing Extended Z with a
                                  Heterogeneous Notation for Reasoning
                                  about Time and Space . . . . . . . . . . 214
                S. H. Valentine   Inconsistency and Undefinedness in Z ---
                                  A Practical Guide  . . . . . . . . . . . 233
                    K. Lano and   
                     P. Kan and   
                     A. Sanchez   Compositional Specification of
                                  Controllers for Batch Process Operations 250
                 J. Derrick and   
                      E. Boiten   Testing Refinements by Refining Tests    265
                 S. Stepney and   
                  D. Cooper and   
              J. C. P. Woodcock   More Powerful Z Data Refinement: Pushing
                                  the State of the Art in Industrial
                                  Refinement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
                  B. Mahony and   
                     J. S. Dong   Network Topology and a Case Study in
                                  TCOZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
                 V. Friesen and   
                 A. Nordwig and   
                       M. Weber   Object-Oriented Specification of Hybrid
                                  Systems Using UML0h and ZimOO  . . . . . 328
                   S. Dupuy and   
                   Y. Ledru and   
              M. Chabre-Peccoud   Translating the OMT Dynamic Model into
                                  Object-Z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
                    J. P. Bowen   Select Z Bibliography  . . . . . . . . . 367
                    J. P. Bowen   comp.specification.z and Z FORUM
                                  Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . 407


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1494, 1998

                  Y. Kesten and   
                   Z. Manna and   
                      A. Pnueli   Verification of Clocked and Hybrid
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
                 M. S. Branicky   Analyzing and Synthesizing Hybrid
                                  Control Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
                      S. Yovine   Model Checking Timed Automata  . . . . . 114
                    D. Chen and   
                     A. Mok and   
                      S. Baruah   On Modeling Real-Time Task Systems . . . 153
                     S. Ren and   
                     G. A. Agha   A Modular Approach for Programming
                                  Embedded Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
                     G. Le Lann   Proof-Based System Engineering and
                                  Embedded Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
                   D. Bhatt and   
                  J. Shackleton   A Design Notation and Toolset for
                                  High-Performance Embedded Systems
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
           A. Van den Hoogenhof   The Maturity of Object-Oriented
                                  Methodologies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
                     J. Kuusela   Object Oriented Development of Embedded
                                  Systems with the Octopus Method  . . . . 304
                 A. P. Ravn and   
              T. J. Eriksen and   
               M. Holdgaard and   
                     H. Rischel   Engineering of Real-Time Systems with an
                                  Experiment in Hybrid Control . . . . . . 316
                        P. Kars   Formal Methods in the Design of a Storm
                                  Surge Barrier Control System . . . . . . 353
             B. P. Douglass and   
                   D. Harel and   
                M. Trakhtenbrot   Statecharts in Use: Structured Analysis
                                  and Object-Orientation . . . . . . . . . 368
               R. H. Bourgonjon   Embedded Systems in Consumer Products    395
           H. F. Van Rietschote   The Long Road from Research to
                                  Telecommunication Applications . . . . . 404
              F. T. G. Veltmaat   Development of Embedded Software at ICT  413


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1495, 1998

           Slim Abdennadher and   
           Heribert Schütz   CHR$^\vee $: a Flexible Query Language   1--14
        Jaume Agustí and   
            Jordi Puigsegur and   
           W. Marco Schorlemmer   Query Answering by Means of Diagram
                                  Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
          Mohammad Al-Qasem and   
                 S. Misbah Deen   Query Subsumption  . . . . . . . . . . . 29
            Philippe Bonnet and   
                Anthony Tomasic   Partial Answers for Unavailable Data
                                  Sources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
                   Patrick Bosc   On Diverse Answers Issued from Flexible
                                  Queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
    Stéphane Bressan and   
                 Cheng Hian Goh   Answering Queries in Context . . . . . . 68
          Claudio Carpineto and   
                Giovanni Romano   Effective Reformulation of Boolean
                                  Queries with Concept Lattices  . . . . . 83
               Marco Colombetti   Different Ways to Have Something in
                                  Common . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
                 Sara Comai and   
            Ernesto Damiani and   
           Roberto Posenato and   
                  Letizia Tanca   A Schema-Based Approach to Modeling and
                                  Querying WWW Data  . . . . . . . . . . . 110
              Vasilis Delis and   
              Dimitris Papadias   Querying Multimedia Documents by
                                  Spatiotemporal Structure . . . . . . . . 126
               Robert Demolombe   Answers about Validity and Completeness
                                  of Data: Formal Definitions. Usefulness
                                  and Computation Technique  . . . . . . . 138
               Thomas Eiter and   
               Nicola Leone and   
           Cristinel Mateis and   
             Gerald Pfeifer and   
            Francesco Scarcello   Progress Report on the Disjunctive
                                  Deductive Database System dlv  . . . . . 148--163
        José Galindo and   
             Juan M. Medina and   
                  Olga Pons and   
                 Juan C. Cubero   A Server for Fuzzy SQL Queries . . . . . 164
            Fosca Giannotti and   
             Giuseppe Manco and   
                Mirco Nanni and   
                 Dino Pedreschi   Query Answering in Nondeterministic,
                                  Nonmonotonic Logic Databases . . . . . . 175
               Sergio Greco and   
              Carlo Zaniolo and   
                  Sumit Ganguly   Optimization of Logic Queries with MIN
                                  and MAX Predicates . . . . . . . . . . . 188
              Kai Korpimies and   
                   Esko Ukkonen   Searching for General Documents  . . . . 203
                  P. Krisko and   
        P. Marcincák and   
            P. Mihók and   
                   J. Sabol and   
               P. Vojtás   Low Retrieval Remote Querying Dialogue
                                  with Fuzzy Conceptual, Syntactical and
                                  Linguistical Unification . . . . . . . . 215
           Henrik L. Larsen and   
           Troels Andreasen and   
           Henning Christiansen   Knowledge Discovery for Flexible
                                  Querying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
                 Mario Lenz and   
   André Hübner and   
                   Mirjam Kunze   Question Answering with Textual CBR  . . 236
                     Ye Liu and   
              Hanxiong Chen and   
              Jeffrey Xu Yu and   
                     Nobuo Ohbo   Using Stem Rules to Refine Document
                                  Retrieval Queries  . . . . . . . . . . . 248
             Christophe Marsala   Application of Fuzzy Rule Induction to
                                  Data Mining  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
M. J. Martín-Bautista and   
                     M.-A. Vila   Applying Genetic Algorithms to the
                                  Feature Selection Problem in Information
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
                    Jack Minker   An Overview of Cooperative Answering in
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
         Laura Mota-Herranz and   
   Matilde Celma-Giménez   Automatic Generation of Trigger Rules
                                  for Integrity Enforcement in Relational
                                  Databases with View Definition . . . . . 286
               Amihai Motro and   
                     Igor Rakov   Estimating the Quality of Databases  . . 298
            Mehmet A. Orgun and   
                   Chuchang Liu   Querying Clocked Databases . . . . . . . 308
                T. Roelleke and   
                        N. Fuhr   Querying for Facts and Content in
                                  Hypermedia Documents . . . . . . . . . . 320
        Thomas Rölleke and   
                   Norbert Fuhr   Querying for Facts and Content in
                                  Hypermedia Documents . . . . . . . . . . 320
               Iztok Savnik and   
                     Zahir Tari   Querying Objects with Complex Static
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
                 Dietmar Seipel   An Alternating Well-Founded Semantics
                                  for Query Answering in Disjunctive
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
              G. J. De Sena and   
                  A. Z. Furtado   Towards a Cooperative Question-Answering
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
          Galeno J. de Sena and   
             Antonio L. Furtado   Towards a Cooperative Question-Answering
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
             Gerhard Wetzel and   
                 Francesca Toni   Semantic Query Optimization through
                                  Abduction and Constraint Handling  . . . 366
                S. Zadroiny and   
                    J. Kacprzyk   Implementing Fuzzy Querying via the
                                  Internet/WWW: Java Applets. ActiveX
                                  Controls and Cookies . . . . . . . . . . 382
         S\lawomir Zadrozny and   
                Janusz Kacprzyk   Implementing Fuzzy Querying via the
                                  Internet/WWW: Java Applets, ActiveX
                                  Controls and Cookies . . . . . . . . . . 382


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1496, 1998

            Jens A. Richolt and   
          Matthias Teschner and   
              Peter Everett and   
                Bernd Girod and   
          Michael B. Millis and   
                    Ron Kikinis   Planning and Evaluation of Reorienting
                                  Osteotomies of the Proximal Femur in
                                  Cases of SCFE Using Virtual
                                  Three-Dimensional Models . . . . . . . . 1
            Zohara A. Cohen and   
         Denise M. McCarthy and   
              Hrvoje Roglic and   
              Jack H. Henry and   
          William G. Rodkey and   
        J. Richard Steadman and   
                 Van C. Mow and   
             Gerard A. Ateshian   Computer-Aided Planning of
                                  Patellofemoral Joint OA Surgery:
                                  Developing Physical Models from Patient
                                  MRI  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
                 B. Mollard and   
         S. Lavallée and   
                     G. Bettega   Computer Assisted Orthognathic Surgery   21
                  L. Tockus and   
               L. Joskowicz and   
                  A. Simkin and   
                     C. Milgrom   Computer-Aided Image-Guided Bone
                                  Fracture Surgery: Modeling,
                                  Visualization, and Preoperative Planning 29
                  C. Y. Tso and   
                R. E. Ellis and   
                   J. Rudan and   
                 M. M. Harrison   A Surgical Planning and Guidance System
                                  for High Tibial Osteotomies  . . . . . . 39
      Calvin R. Maurer, Jr. and   
           Derek L. G. Hill and   
         Robert J. Maciunas and   
            John A. Barwise and   
     J. Michael Fitzpatrick and   
                Matthew Y. Wang   Measurement of Intraoperative Brain
                                  Surface Deformation Under a Craniotomy   51
                 E. Grimson and   
                M. Leventon and   
                G. Ettinger and   
               A. Chabrerie and   
                   F. Ozlen and   
                S. Nakajima and   
                  H. Atsumi and   
                 R. Kikinis and   
                       P. Black   Clinical Experience with a High
                                  Precision Image-Guided Neurosurgery
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--73
        Alexandra Chabrerie and   
                Fatma Ozlen and   
              Shin Nakajima and   
           Michael Leventon and   
              Hideki Atsumi and   
               Eric Grimson and   
                Erwin Keeve and   
             Sandra Helmers and   
         James Riviello Jr. and   
             Gregory Holmes and   
                Frank Duffy and   
              Ferenc Jolesz and   
                Ron Kikinis and   
                    Peter Black   Three-Dimensional Reconstruction and
                                  Surgical Navigation in Pediatric
                                  Epilepsy Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
              Lionel Carrat and   
             Jerome Tonetti and   
   Stephane Lavallée and   
            Philippe Merloz and   
            Laurence Pittet and   
            Jean-Paul Chirossel   Treatment of Pelvic Ring Fractures:
                                  Percutaneous Computer Assisted
                                  Iliosacral Screwing  . . . . . . . . . . 84
              Alistair A. Young   Model Tags: Direct $3$D Tracking of
                                  Heart Wall Motion from Tagged MR Images  92--101
        Florence H. Sheehan and   
           Edward L. Bolson and   
              Roy W. Martin and   
             Gerard Bashein and   
                  John McDonald   Quantitative Three Dimensional
                                  Echocardiography: Methodology,
                                  Validation, and Clinical Applications    102
              Amir A. Amini and   
               Petia Radeva and   
           Mohamed Elayyadi and   
                      Debiao Li   Measurement of $3$D Motion of Myocardial
                                  Material Points from Explicit B-Surface
                                  Reconstruction of Tagged MRI Data  . . . 110
                   N. Navab and   
            A. Bani-Hashemi and   
                M. S. Nadar and   
                 K. Wiesent and   
                  P. Durlak and   
                 T. Brunner and   
                   K. Barth and   
                    R. Graumann   $3$D Reconstruction from Projection
                                  Matrices in a C-Arm Based
                                  $3$D-Angiography System  . . . . . . . . 119
        Alejandro F. Frangi and   
            Wiro J. Niessen and   
            Koen L. Vincken and   
               Max A. Viergever   Multiscale Vessel Enhancement Filtering  130
                    O. Wink and   
              W. J. Niessen and   
                M. A. Viergever   Fast Quantification of Abdominal Aortic
                                  Aneurysms from CTA Volumes . . . . . . . 138
              Andreas Wahle and   
         Guido P. M. Prause and   
           Steven C. DeJong and   
                    Milan Sonka   $3$-D Fusion of Biplane Angiography and
                                  Intravascular Ultrasound for Accurate
                                  Visualization and Volumetry  . . . . . . 146
           Timothy N. Jones and   
            Dimitris N. Metaxas   Patient-Specific Analysis of Left
                                  Ventricular Blood Flow . . . . . . . . . 156
              Amir A. Amini and   
               Yasheng Chen and   
                   Jean Sun and   
                     Vaidy Mani   Dense $2$D Displacement Reconstruction
                                  from SPAMM-MRI with Constrained Elastic
                                  Splines: Implementation and Validation   167
                Edith Haber and   
        Dimitris N. Metaxas and   
                      Leon Axel   Motion Analysis of the Right Ventricle
                                  from MRI Images  . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
            Albert C. Lardo and   
             Henry Halperin and   
          Christopher Yeung and   
    Pitayadet Jumrussirikul and   
               Ergin Atalar and   
                 Elliot McVeigh   Magnetic Resonance Guided Radiofrequency
                                  Ablation: Creation and Visualization of
                                  Cardiac Lesions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
           Benjamin Poulose and   
              Michael Kutka and   
       Mario Mendoza-Sagaon and   
               Aaron Barnes and   
                Calvin Yang and   
             Russell Taylor and   
                  Mark Talamini   Human Versus Robotic Organ Retraction
                                  During Laparoscopic Nissen
                                  Fundoplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
                B. Poulouse and   
                   M. Kutka and   
          M. Mendoza-Sagaon and   
                      A. Barnes   Human Versus Robotic Organ Retraction
                                  During Laparoscopic Nissen
                                  Fundoplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
           Etsuko Kobayashi and   
                Ken Masamun and   
             Takeyoshi Dohi and   
                Daijo Hashimoto   A New Laparoscope Manipulator with an
                                  Optical Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
               Ken Masamune and   
                   L. H. Ji and   
              Makoto Suzuki and   
             Takeyoshi Dohi and   
              Hiroshi Iseki and   
               Kintomo Takakura   A Newly Developed Stereotactic Robot
                                  with Detachable Drive for Neurosurgery   215
            Scott W. Hadley and   
           L. Scott Johnson and   
           Charles A. Pelizzari   Calibration of Video Cameras to the
                                  Coordinate System of a Radiation Therapy
                                  Treatment Machine  . . . . . . . . . . . 223
             Mike Blackwell and   
         Constantinos Nikou and   
         Anthony M. DiGioia and   
                   Takeo Kanade   An Image Overlay System for Medical Data
                                  Visualization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
              Ramin Shahidi and   
                   Bai Wang and   
               Marc Epitaux and   
          Robert Grzeszczuk and   
                     John Adler   Volumetric Image Guidance via a
                                  Stereotactic Endoscope . . . . . . . . . 241
                Qinghang Li and   
             Lucia Zamorano and   
              Zhaowei Jiang and   
             Fernando Vinas and   
                  Fernando Diaz   The Application Accuracy of the
                                  Frameless Implantable Marker System and
                                  Analysis of Related Affecting Factors    253
              Ivan Bricault and   
           Gilbert Ferretti and   
               Philippe Cinquin   Multi-level Strategy for
                                  Computer-Assisted Transbronchial Biopsy  261
      Guillaume Champleboux and   
              Thomas Fortin and   
                 H. Buatois and   
          Jean Loup Coudert and   
                  Eric Blanchet   A Fast, Accurate and Easy Method to
                                  Position Oral Implant Using Computed
                                  Tomography. Clinical Validations . . . . 269
            Fabrice Chassat and   
       Stephane Lavallée   Experimental Protocol of Accuracy
                                  Evaluation of $6$-D Localizers for
                                  Computer-Integrated Surgery: Application
                                  to Four Optical Localizers . . . . . . . 277
              Jianchao Zeng and   
             Charles Kaplan and   
                 John Bauer and   
         Isabell Sesterhenn and   
               Judd W. Moul and   
                   Seong K. Mun   Visualization and Evaluation of Prostate
                                  Needle Biopsy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
                 Koji Ikuta and   
            Masaki Takeichi and   
                   Takao Namiki   Virtual Endoscope System with Force
                                  Sensation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
            Kim Vang Hansen and   
             Ole Vilhelm Larsen   Using Region-of-Interest Based Finite
                                  Element Modelling for Brain-Surgery
                                  Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--316
           R. van der Weide and   
           K. J. Zuiderveld and   
            C. J. G. Bakker and   
                     C. Bos and   
             H. F. M. Smits and   
              T. Hoogenboom and   
            J. J. van Vaals and   
                M. A. Viergever   An Image Processing Environment for
                                  Guiding Vascular MR Interventions  . . . 317
           R. van der Weide and   
           K. J. Zuiderveld and   
            C. J. G. Bakker and   
                     C. Bos and   
             H. F. M. Smits and   
              T. Hoogenboom and   
            J. J. van Vaals and   
                M. A. Viergever   An Image Processing Environment for
                                  Guiding Vascular MR Interventions  . . . 317
                   Z. Yaniv and   
               L. Joskowicz and   
                  A. Simkin and   
            M. Garza-Jinich and   
                     C. Milgrom   Fluoroscopic Image Processing for
                                  Computer-Aided Orthopaedic Surgery . . . 325
            Kevin B. Inkpen and   
          Richard J. Emrich and   
              Antony J. Hodgson   Probe Design to Robustly Locate
                                  Anatomical Features  . . . . . . . . . . 335
       Wolfgang Birkfellner and   
            Franz Watzinger and   
            Felix Wanschitz and   
            Georg Enislidis and   
             Michael Truppe and   
                 Rolf Ewers and   
                Helmar Bergmann   Concepts and Results in the Development
                                  of a Hybrid Tracking System for Computer
                                  Aided Surgery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
              W. Freysinger and   
                 E. Hensler and   
               A. R. Gunkel and   
                 R. J. Bale and   
                  M. Vogele and   
                  A. Martin and   
                    T. Auer and   
              P. Eichberger and   
                 A. Szankay and   
                T. Auberger and   
          K. H. Künzel and   
                   O. Gaber and   
             W. F. Thumfart and   
                    P. H. Lukas   Computer-Assisted Interstitial
                                  Brachytherapy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
               Jianhua Xuan and   
                   Yue Wang and   
      Isabell A. Sesterhenn and   
               Judd W. Moul and   
                   Seong K. Mun   $3$-D Model Supported Prostate Biopsy
                                  Simulation and Evaluation  . . . . . . . 358
          James M. Thompson and   
        Mark P. Ottensmeyer and   
             Thomas B. Sheridan   Human Factors in Tele-inspection and
                                  Tele-surgery: Cooperative Manipulation
                                  under Asynchronous Video and Control
                                  Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
           S.-Y. James Chen and   
                John D. Carroll   Computer Assisted Coronary Intervention
                                  by Use of On-line 3d Reconstruction and
                                  Optimal View Strategy  . . . . . . . . . 377
            Brian L. Davies and   
             Sunita Chauhan and   
                Mike J. S. Lowe   A Robotic Approach to HIFU Based
                                  Neurosurgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
               Naoki Suzuki and   
              Asaki Hattori and   
            Akihiro Takatsu and   
             Takahim Kumano and   
               Akio Ikemoto and   
           Yoshitaka Adachi and   
               Akihiko Uchiyama   Virtual Surgery System Using Deformable
                                  Organ Models and Force Feedback System
                                  with Three Fingers . . . . . . . . . . . 397
            Dan Stoianovici and   
          Louis L. Whitcomb and   
          James H. Anderson and   
          Russell H. Taylor and   
              Louis R. Kavoussi   A Modular Surgical Robotic System for
                                  Image Guided Percutaneous Procedures . . 404
                 Koji Ikuta and   
               Takashi Kato and   
                  Satoru Nagata   Optimum Designed Micro Active Forceps
                                  with Built-in Fiberscope for Retinal
                                  Microsurgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
         James E. Moody Jr. and   
         Anthony M. DiGioia and   
          Branislav Jaramaz and   
             Mike Blackwell and   
               Bruce Colgan and   
             Constantinos Nikou   Gauging Clinical Practice: Surgical
                                  Navigation for Total Hip Replacement . . 421
          Simon K. Warfield and   
               Michael Kaus and   
           Ferenc A. Jolesz and   
                    Ron Kikinis   Adaptive Template Moderated Spatially
                                  Varying Statistical Classification . . . 431
             Alex Zijdenbos and   
              Reza Forghani and   
                  Alan C. Evans   Automatic Quantification of MS Lesions
                                  in $3$D MRI Brain Data Sets: Validation
                                  of INSECT  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
                K. Kanazawa and   
                  Y. Kawata and   
                    N. Niki and   
                   H. Satoh and   
                 H. Ohmatsu and   
                R. Kakinuma and   
                  M. Kaneko and   
                  K. Eguchi and   
                    N. Moriyama   Computer-Aided Diagnostic System for
                                  Pulmonary Nodules Using Helical CT
                                  Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
                 Tina Kapur and   
         W. Eric L. Grimson and   
                Ron Kikinis and   
               William M. Wells   Enhanced Spatial Priors for Segmentation
                                  of Magnetic Resonance Imagery  . . . . . 457
                Guido Gerig and   
               Daniel Welti and   
           Charles Guttmann and   
            Alan Colchester and   
    Gábor Székely   Exploring the Discrimination Power of
                                  the Time Domain for Segmentation and
                                  Characterization of Lesions in Serial MR
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
                Chenyang Xu and   
              Dzung L. Pham and   
            Jerry L. Prince and   
           Maryam E. Etemad and   
                   Daphne N. Yu   Reconstruction of the Central Layer of
                                  the Human Cerebral Cortex from MR Images 481
                  C. Poupon and   
               J.-F. Mangin and   
                  V. Frouin and   
            J. Régis and   
                  F. Poupon and   
          M. Pachot-Clouard and   
                D. Le Bihan and   
                       I. Bloch   Regularization of MR Diffusion Tensor
                                  Maps for Tracking Brain White Matter
                                  Bundles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
Miguel Ángel González Ballester and   
           Andrew Zisserman and   
                  Michael Brady   Measurement of Brain Structures Based on
                                  Statistical and Geometrical $3$D
                                  Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
   M. A. Gonzalez Ballester and   
               A. Zisserman and   
                       M. Brady   Measurement of Brain Structures Based on
                                  Statistical and Geometrical $3$D
                                  Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
        Georges Le Goualher and   
           D. Louis Collins and   
         Christian Barillot and   
                  Alan C. Evans   Automatic Identification of Cortical
                                  Sulci Using a $3$D Probabilistic Atlas   509
             G. Le Goualher and   
              D. L. Collins and   
                C. Barillot and   
                    A. C. Evans   Automatic Identification of Cortical
                                  Sulci Using a $3$D Probabilistic Atlas   509
               Xiaolan Zeng and   
          Lawrence H. Staib and   
          Robert T. Schultz and   
                James S. Duncan   Segmentation and Measurement of the
                                  Cortex from $3$D MR Images . . . . . . . 519
        Stelios K. Kyriacou and   
            Christos Davatzikos   A Biomechanical Model of Soft Tissue
                                  Deformation, with Applications to
                                  Non-rigid Registration of Brain Images
                                  with Tumor Pathology . . . . . . . . . . 531
            Wendy M. Murray and   
          Allison S. Arnold and   
             Silvia Salinas and   
     Mahidhar M. Durbhakula and   
         Thomas S. Buchanan and   
                  Scott L. Delp   Building Biomechanical Models Based on
                                  Medical Image Data: An Assessment of
                                  Model Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
          G. Székely and   
       Ch. Brechbühler and   
                  R. Hutter and   
                A. Rhomberg and   
                      P. Schmid   Modelling of Soft Tissue Deformation for
                                  Laparoscopic Surgery Simulation  . . . . 550--561
                   O. Colot and   
                 R. Devinoy and   
                   A. Sombo and   
                    D. De Brucq   A Colour Image Processing Method for
                                  Melanoma Detection . . . . . . . . . . . 562
           Reyer Zwiggelaar and   
          Christopher J. Taylor   Abnormal Masses in Mammograms: Detection
                                  Using Scale-Orientation Signatures . . . 570
      Dimitrios Ekatodramis and   
Gábor Székely and   
                    Guido Gerig   Detecting and Inferring Brain Activation
                                  from Functional MRI by
                                  Hypothesis-Testing Based on the
                                  Likelihood Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
       Erik H. W. Meijering and   
        Karel J. Zuiderveld and   
               Max A. Viergever   A Fast Technique for Motion Correction
                                  in DSA Using a Feature-Based, Irregular
                                  Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590
            Armando Manduca and   
            Kiaran P. McGee and   
             E. Brian Welch and   
            Joel P. Felmlee and   
               Richard L. Ehman   Autofocusing of Clinical Shoulder MR
                                  Images for Correction of Motion
                                  Artifacts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
            Armando Manduca and   
               Vinayak Dutt and   
             David T. Borup and   
           Raja Muthupillai and   
           Richard L. Ehman and   
             James F. Greenleaf   Reconstruction of Elasticity and
                                  Attenuation Maps in Shear Wave Imaging:
                                  An Inverse Approach  . . . . . . . . . . 606
               John G. Sled and   
                  G. Bruce Pike   Understanding Intensity Non-uniformity
                                  in MRI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614
              Pankaj Saxena and   
               Dan G. Pavel and   
       Juan Carlos Quintana and   
                  Barry Horwitz   An Automatic Threshold-Based Scaling
                                  Method for Enhancing the Usefulness of
                                  Tc-HMPAO SPECT in the Diagnosis of
                                  Alzheimer's Disease  . . . . . . . . . . 623
          Alexandre Guimond and   
               Jean Meunier and   
          Jean-Philippe Thirion   Automatic Computation of Average Brain
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631
           Oskar \vSkrinjar and   
             Dennis Spencer and   
                   James Duncan   Brain Shift Modeling for Use in
                                  Neurosurgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
            David MacDonald and   
                 David Avis and   
                  Alan C. Evans   Proximity Constraints in Deformable
                                  Models for Cortical Surface
                                  Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
              P. Hastreiter and   
            Ch. Rezk-Salama and   
                 B. Tomandl and   
         K. E. W. Eberhardt and   
                        T. Ertl   Fast Analysis of Intracranial Aneurysms
                                  Based on Interactive Direct Volume
                                  Rendering and CTA  . . . . . . . . . . . 660
              Arthur K. Liu and   
          John W. Belliveau and   
                 Anders M. Dale   Visualizing Spatial Resolution of Linear
                                  Estimation Techniques of Electromagnetic
                                  Brain Activity Localization  . . . . . . 670
           Markus A. Schill and   
         Sarah F. F. Gibson and   
               H.-J. Bender and   
                 R. Männer   Biomechanical Simulation of the Vitreous
                                  Humor in the Eye Using an Enhanced
                                  ChainMail Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . 679
                Yohan Payan and   
            Georges Bettega and   
           Bernard Raphaël   A Biomechanical Model of the Human
                                  Tongue and Its Clinical Implications . . 688
           Joseph J. Crisco and   
         Robert D. McGovern and   
                 Scott W. Wolfe   Three-Dimensional Joint Kinematics Using
                                  Bone Surface Registration: a Computer
                                  Assisted Approach with an Application to
                                  the Wrist Joint in vivo  . . . . . . . . 696
         Constantinos Nikou and   
          Branislav Jaramaz and   
             Anthony M. DiGioia   Range of Motion after Total Hip
                                  Arthroplasty: Simulation of
                                  Non-axisymmetric Implants  . . . . . . . 700
Per Rònsholt Andresen and   
               Mads Nielsen and   
                  Sven Kreiborg   $4$D Shape-Preserving Modelling of Bone
                                  Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710
                 P. Golland and   
                 R. Kikinis and   
                   C. Umans and   
                   M. Halle and   
              M. E. Shenton and   
                  J. A. Richolt   AnatomyBrowser: a Framework for
                                  Integration of Medical Information . . . 720
             Chi-Keung Tang and   
      Gérard Medioni and   
          François Duret   Automatic, Accurate Surface Model
                                  Inference for Dental CAD/CAM . . . . . . 732
               Michael Miga and   
              Keith Paulsen and   
            Francis Kennedy and   
                Jack Hoopes and   
                Alex Hartov and   
                  David Roberts   Initial In-Vivo Analysis of 3d
                                  Heterogeneous Brain Computations for
                                  Model-Updated Image-Guided Neurosurgery  743
          Chhandomay Mandal and   
             Baba C. Vemuri and   
                       Hong Qin   A New Dynamic FEM-based Subdivision
                                  Surface Model for Shape Recovery and
                                  Tracking in Medical Images . . . . . . . 753
           Guillaume Calmon and   
               Neil Roberts and   
              Paul Eldridge and   
          Jean-Philippe Thirion   Automatic Quantification of Changes in
                                  the Volume of Brain Structures . . . . . 761
              Sylvain Prima and   
      Jean-Philippe Thirion and   
       Gérard Subsol and   
                   Neil Roberts   Automatic Analysis of Normal Brain
                                  Dissymmetry of Males and Females in MR
                                  Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770
             Jacob D. Furst and   
               Stephen M. Pizer   Marching Optimal-Parameter Ridges: An
                                  Algorithm to Extract Shape Loci in $3$D
                                  Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780
              Fred L. Bookstein   Singularities as Features of Deformation
                                  Grids  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788
              Andres Kriete and   
                Henrik Watz and   
                Wigbert Rau and   
            Hans-Rainer Duncker   Morphological Analysis of Terminal Air
                                  Spaces by Means of Micro-CT and Confocal
                                  Microscopy and Simulation within a
                                  Functional Model of Lung . . . . . . . . 798
        Miguel Mulet-Parada and   
                J. Alison Noble   $2$D$+$T Acoustic Boundary Detection in
                                  Echocardiography . . . . . . . . . . . . 806
                Dale Wilson and   
            J. Alison Noble and   
             Duncan Royston and   
                    James Byrne   Automatically Finding Optimal Working
                                  Projections for the Endovascular Coiling
                                  of Intracranial Aneurysms  . . . . . . . 814
                B. Verdonck and   
              R. Nijlunsing and   
            F. A. Gerritsen and   
                  J. Cheung and   
                D. J. Wever and   
              A. Veldhuizen and   
               S. Devillers and   
                S. Makram-Ebeid   Computer Assisted Quantitative Analysis
                                  of Deformities of the Human Spine  . . . 822
              Martin Berger and   
                    Guido Gerig   Motion Measurements in Low-Contrast
                                  X-Ray Imagery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832
              D. L. G. Hill and   
                 A. Simmons and   
     A. D. Castellano Smith and   
          C. R. Maurer, Jr. and   
               T. C. S. Cox and   
                   R. Elwes and   
              M. J. Brammer and   
               D. J. Hawkes and   
                   C. E. Polkey   Pitfalls in Comparing Functional
                                  Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Invasive
                                  Electrophysiology Recordings . . . . . . 842
                B. Pflesser and   
                   U. Tiede and   
                    K.-H Hoehne   Specification, Modelling and
                                  Visualization of Arbitrarily Shaped Cut
                                  Surfaces in the Volume Model . . . . . . 853--860
              Tim McInerney and   
                    Ron Kikinis   An Object-Based Volumetric Deformable
                                  Atlas for the Improved Localization of
                                  Neuroanatomy in MR Images  . . . . . . . 861
               Kensaku Mori and   
          Jun-ichi Hasegawa and   
           Yasuhito Suenaga and   
        Jun-ichiro Toriwaki and   
              Hirofumi Anno and   
                Kazuhiro Katada   Automated Labeling of Bronchial Branches
                                  in Virtual Bronchoscopy System . . . . . 870
              Markus Fleute and   
Stéphane Lavallée   Building a Complete Surface Model from
                                  Sparse Data Using Statistical Shape
                                  Models: Application to Computer Assisted
                                  Knee Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--887
             Sarah F. F. Gibson   Constrained Elastic Surface Nets:
                                  Generating Smooth Surfaces from Binary
                                  Segmented Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888
                 R. O'Toole and   
                 R. Playter and   
                 T. Krummel and   
                   W. Blank and   
               N. Cornelius and   
                 W. Roberts and   
                    W. Bell and   
                     M. Raibert   Assessing Skill and Learning in Surgeons
                                  and Medical Students Using a Force
                                  Feedback Surgical Simulator  . . . . . . 899
            Paul F. Neumann and   
            Lewis L. Sadler and   
                     Jon Gieser   Virtual Reality Vitrectomy Simulator . . 910
            Filip Schutyser and   
   Johan Van Cleynenbreugel and   
     Vincent Vander Poorten and   
             Pierre Delaere and   
                Guy Marchal and   
                   Paul Suetens   An Experimental Image Guided Surgery
                                  Simulator for Hemicricolaryngectomy and
                                  Reconstruction by Tracheal
                                  Autotransplantation  . . . . . . . . . . 918--925
           Toshio Nakagohri and   
           Ferenc A. Jolesz and   
               Shigeo Okuda and   
             Takehide Asano and   
           Takashi Kenmochi and   
              Osamu Kainuma and   
           Yoshiharu Tokoro and   
           Hiromichi Aoyama and   
        William E. Lorensen and   
                    Ron Kikinis   Virtual Endoscopy of Mucin-Producing
                                  Pancreas Tumors  . . . . . . . . . . . . 926
                Henry Fuchs and   
         Mark A. Livingston and   
              Ramesh Raskar and   
            D'nardo Colucci and   
              Kurtis Keller and   
               Andrei State and   
        Jessica R. Crawford and   
            Paul Rademacher and   
            Samuel H. Drake and   
               Anthony A. Meyer   Augmented Reality Visualization for
                                  Laparoscopic Surgery . . . . . . . . . . 934
                Chuck Meyer and   
              Jennifer Boes and   
                 Boklye Kim and   
                   Peyton Bland   Evaluation of Control Point Selection in
                                  Automatic, Mutual Information Driven,
                                  $3$D Warping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944
                   Alan Liu and   
          Elizabeth Bullitt and   
               Stephen M. Pizer   $3$D/$2$D Registration via Skeletal Near
                                  Projective Invariance in Tubular Objects 952
                   F. Bello and   
            A. C. F. Colchester   Measuring Global and Local Spatial
                                  Correspondence Using Information Theory  964
           D. Louis Collins and   
        Georges Le Goualher and   
                  Alan C. Evans   Non-linear Cerebral Registration with
                                  Sulcal Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . 974
            Kris Verstreken and   
   Johan Van Cleynenbreugel and   
                Guy Marchal and   
     Daniel van Steenberghe and   
                   Paul Suetens   A Double Scanning Procedure for
                                  Visualisation of Radiolucent Objects in
                                  Soft Tissues: Application to Oral
                                  Implant Surgery Planning . . . . . . . . 985
               S. J. Harris and   
                 M. Jakopec and   
              R. D. Hibberd and   
                    J. Cobb and   
                   B. L. Davies   Interactive Pre-operative Selection of
                                  Cutting Constraints, and Interactive
                                  Force Controlled Knee Surgery by a
                                  Surgical Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996
                 Luis Serra and   
             Ralf A. Kockro and   
              Chua Gim Guan and   
                    Ng Hern and   
           Eugene C. K. Lee and   
                 Yen H. Lee and   
               Chumpon Chan and   
            Wieslaw L. Nowinski   Multimodal Volume-Based Tumor
                                  Neurosurgery Planning in the Virtual
                                  Workbench  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007
             Richard Prager and   
                 Andrew Gee and   
                Laurence Berman   Real-Time Tools for Freehand $3$D
                                  Ultrasound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016
       Heinrich M. Overhoff and   
            Djordje Lazovic and   
                Ute von Jan and   
                   Peter Heinze   Computer-Based Determination of the
                                  Newborn's Femoral Head Coverage using
                                  Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Scans . . . 1024
                   D. Henry and   
                 J. Troccaz and   
               J. L. Bosson and   
                      O. Pichot   Ultrasound Imaging Simulation:
                                  Application to the Diagnosis of Deep
                                  Venous Thromboses of Lower Limbs . . . . 1032
                 A. Bzostek and   
                 G. Ionescu and   
                  L. Carrat and   
                   C. Barbe and   
                O. Chavanon and   
                     J. Troccaz   Isolating Moving Anatomy in Ultrasound
                                  Without Anatomical Knowledge:
                                  Application to Computer-Assisted
                                  Pericardial Punctures  . . . . . . . . . 1041
    Alexandre Moreau-Gaudry and   
           Philippe Cinquin and   
           Jean-Philippe Baguet   A New Branching Model: Application to
                                  Carotid Ultrasonic Data  . . . . . . . . 1049
        Michael E. Leventon and   
             W. Eric L. Grimson   Multi-modal Volume Registration Using
                                  Joint Intensity Distributions  . . . . . 1057
              Nobuhiko Hata and   
             Takeyoshi Dohi and   
             Simon Warfield and   
          William Wells III and   
                Ron Kikinis and   
               Ferenc A. Jolesz   Multimodality Deformable Registration of
                                  Pre- and Intraoperative Images for
                                  MRI-Guided Brain Surgery . . . . . . . . 1067
                Ravi Bansal and   
          Lawrence H. Staib and   
                   Zhe Chen and   
           Anand Rangarajan and   
           Jonathan Knisely and   
              Ravinder Nath and   
                James S. Duncan   A Novel Approach for the Registration of
                                  $2$D Portal and $3$D CT Images for
                                  Treatment Setup Verification in
                                  Radiotherapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075
      Benjamin H. Brinkmann and   
            Richard A. Robb and   
         Terence J. O'Brien and   
        Michael K. O'Connor and   
                Brian P. Mullan   Multimodality Imaging for Epilepsy
                                  Diagnosis and Surgical Focus
                                  Localization: Three-Dimensional Image
                                  Correlation and Dual Isotope SPECT . . . 1087
                  Tom Gaens and   
              Frederik Maes and   
          Dirk Vandermeulen and   
                   Paul Suetens   Non-rigid Multimodal Image Registration
                                  Using Mutual Information . . . . . . . . 1099
              Xavier Pennec and   
     Charles R. G. Guttmann and   
          Jean-Philippe Thirion   Feature-Based Registration of Medical
                                  Images: Estimation and Validation of the
                                  Pose Accuracy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1107
               Alexis Roche and   
  Grégoire Malandain and   
              Xavier Pennec and   
                Nicholas Ayache   The Correlation Ratio as a New
                                  Similarity Measure for Multimodal Image
                                  Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115
                Yasuyo Kita and   
             Dale L. Wilson and   
                J. Alison Noble   Real-Time Registration of $3$D Cerebral
                                  Vessels to X-Ray Angiograms  . . . . . . 1125
                  F. Poupon and   
               J.-F. Mangin and   
                 D. Hasboun and   
                  C. Poupon and   
                  I. Magnin and   
                      V. Frouin   Multi-object Deformable Templates
                                  Dedicated to the Segmentation of Brain
                                  Deep Structures  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1134
                D. Rueckert and   
                   C. Hayes and   
               C. Studholme and   
                 P. Summers and   
                   M. Leach and   
                   D. J. Hawkes   Non-rigid Registration of Breast MR
                                  Images Using Mutual Information  . . . . 1144
           Graeme P. Penney and   
          Jürgen Weese and   
             John A. Little and   
               Paul Desmedt and   
           Derek L. G. Hill and   
                David J. Hawkes   A Comparison of Similarity Measures for
                                  Use in $2$D--$3$D Medical Image
                                  Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1153
               Yongmei Wang and   
              Lawrence H. Staib   Elastic Model Based Non-rigid
                                  Registration Incorporating Statistical
                                  Shape Information  . . . . . . . . . . . 1162
                      Karl Rohr   Image Registration Based on Thin-Plate
                                  Splines and Local Estimates of
                                  Anisotropic Landmark Localization
                                  Uncertainties  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174
            T. B. Sebastian and   
                     H. Tek and   
               J. J. Crisco and   
                S. W. Wolfe and   
                    B. B. Kimia   Segmentation of Carpal Bones from $3$D
                                  CT Images Using Skeletally Coupled
                                  Deformable Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 1184
            Liana M. Lorigo and   
           Olivier Faugeras and   
           W. E. L. Grimson and   
             Renaud Keriven and   
                    Ron Kikinis   Segmentation of Bone in Clinical Knee
                                  MRI Using Texture-Based Geodesic Active
                                  Contours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195
               C.-F. Westin and   
                S. Warfield and   
                A. Bhalerao and   
                     L. Mui and   
                 J. Richolt and   
                     R. Kikinis   Tensor Controlled Local Structure
                                  Enhancement of CT Images for Bone
                                  Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1205
   Jyrki Lötjönen and   
         Isabelle E. Magnin and   
       Pierre-Jean Reissman and   
              Jukka Nenonen and   
                   Toivo Katila   Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance
                                  Images Using $3$D Deformable Models  . . 1213
           Koen Van Leemput and   
              Frederik Maes and   
          Dirk Vandermeulen and   
                   Paul Suetens   Automatic Segmentation of Brain Tissues
                                  and MR Bias Field Correction Using a
                                  Digital Brain Atlas  . . . . . . . . . . 1222
               J.-F. Mangin and   
                  O. Coulon and   
                      V. Frouin   Robust Brain Segmentation Using
                                  Histogram Scale-Space Analysis and
                                  Mathematical Morphology  . . . . . . . . 1230
         Yoshitaka Masutani and   
           Thomas Schiemann and   
          Karl-Heinz Höhne   Vascular Shape Segmentation and
                                  Structure Extraction Using a Shape-Based
                                  Region-Growing Model . . . . . . . . . . 1242
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1497, 1998

                   M. Bubak and   
                  W. Funika and   
                   K. Iskra and   
                 R. Maruszewski   On-Line Performance Monitoring Using
                                  OMIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
                A. Clematis and   
                      A. Corana   Performance Analysis of Task-Based
                                  Algorithms on Heterogeneous Systems with
                                  Message Passing  . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
                A. Espinosa and   
                T. Margalef and   
                       E. Luque   Automatic Detection of PVM Program
                                  Performance Problems . . . . . . . . . . 19
                  G. Folino and   
                G. Spezzano and   
                       D. Talia   Evaluating and Modeling Communication
                                  Overhead of MPI Primitives on the Meiko
                                  CS-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
               D. Lancaster and   
                 C. Addison and   
                      T. Oliver   A Parallel I/O Test Suite  . . . . . . . 36
                    R. Lavi and   
                       A. Barak   Improving the PVM Daemon Network
                                  Performance by Direct Network Access . . 44
                R. Reussner and   
                 P. Sanders and   
                L. Prechelt and   
                     M. Mueller   SKaMPI: a Detailed, Accurate MPI
                                  Benchmark  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
                       M. Baker   MPI on NT: The Current Status and
                                  Performance of the Available
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
                    G. A. Geist   Harness: The Next Generation Beyond PVM  74
                 G. E. Fagg and   
               K. S. London and   
                 J. J. Dongarra   MPIConnect: Managing Heterogeneous MPI
                                  Applications Interoperation and Process
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96
                 M. Chetlur and   
               G. D. Sharma and   
            N. Abu-Ghazaleh and   
           U. K. V. Rajasekaran   An Active Layer Extension to MPI . . . . 97
             P. D. Medeiros and   
                    J. C. Cunha   Interconnecting PVM and MPI Applications 105
                 J. Marinho and   
                    J. G. Silva   WMPI --- Message Passing Interface for
                                  Win32 Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
                 P. Martins and   
                L. M. Silva and   
                       J. Silva   A Java Interface for WMPI  . . . . . . . 121
                   M. Bubak and   
                P. Luszczek and   
                 A. Wierzbowska   Porting CHAOS Library to MPI . . . . . . 131
               A. Carissimi and   
                       M. Pasin   Athapascan: An Experience on Mixing MPI
                                  Communications and Threads . . . . . . . 137
                    Y. Cotronis   Developing Message-Passing Applications
                                  on MPICH under Ensemble  . . . . . . . . 145
              M. Derakhshan and   
                     A. Krommer   The NAG Parallel Library and the PINEAPL
                                  Project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
                  M. Delves and   
                        H. Zima   High Performance Fortran: a Status
                                  Report or: Are We Ready to Give Up MPI?  161
                  T. Fuerle and   
                E. Schikuta and   
            C. Loeffelhardt and   
                  K. Stockinger   On the Implementation of a Portable,
                                  Client-Server Based MPI-IO Interface . . 172
                 E. Gabriel and   
                   M. Resch and   
                  T. Beisel and   
                      R. Keller   Distributed Computing in a Heterogeneous
                                  Computing Environment  . . . . . . . . . 180
                    T. Hatazaki   Rank Reordering Strategy for MPI
                                  Topology Creation Functions  . . . . . . 188
             M. Kemelmakher and   
                     O. Kremien   Scalable and Adaptive Resource Sharing
                                  in PVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
                   O. Krone and   
                    M. Raab and   
                 B. Hirsbrunner   Load Balancing for Network Based
                                  Multi-threaded Applications  . . . . . . 206
               G. M. Megson and   
                 R. S. Fish and   
                D. N. J. Clarke   Creation of Reconfigurable Hardware
                                  Objects in PVM Environments  . . . . . . 215
                K. Morimoto and   
               T. Matsumoto and   
                      K. Hiraki   Implementing MPI with the Memory-Based
                                  Communication Facilities on the SSS-CORE
                                  Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
                S. L. Scott and   
                 M. Fischer and   
                       A. Geist   PVM on Windows and NT Clusters . . . . . 231
               N. Stankovic and   
                       K. Zhang   Java and Network Parallel Processing . . 239
                R. Baraglia and   
                 R. Ferrini and   
               D. Laforenza and   
                     R. Sgherri   A Tool for the Development of
                                  Meta-Applications Supporting Several
                                  Message-Passing Programming Environments 249
                      S. Browne   Cross-Platform Parallel Debugging and
                                  Performance Analysis Tools . . . . . . . 257
           D. Kranzlmueller and   
                     J. Volkert   Debugging Point-to-Point Communication
                                  in MPI and PVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
                J. C. Cunha and   
                      V. Duarte   Monitoring PVM Programs Using the DAMS
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
                 T. Nitsche and   
                      W. Webers   Functional Message Passing with OPAL-MPI 281
                 S. Orlando and   
                      R. Perego   An MPI-based Run-Time Support to
                                  Coordinate HPF Tasks . . . . . . . . . . 289
         P. M. Papadopoulos and   
                     J. A. Kohl   Dynamic Visualization and Steering Using
                                  PVM and MPI  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
          J. Touriño and   
                      R. Doallo   A PVM-Based Library for Sparse Matrix
                                  Factorizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
                  R. Wismueller   On-Line Monitoring Support in PVM and
                                  MPI  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
              V. Alexandrov and   
                   F. Dehne and   
             A. Rau-Chaplin and   
                        K. Taft   Coarse Grained Parallel Monte Carlo
                                  Algorithms for Solving SLAE Using PVM    323
                 A. Bolloni and   
               A. Riganelli and   
             S. Crocchianti and   
                      A. Lagana   Parallel Quantum Scattering Calculations
                                  Applied to the Dynamics of Elementary
                                  Reactions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
                 K. J. Chan and   
              A. M. Gibbons and   
                    M. Pias and   
                      W. Rytter   On the PVM Computations of Transitive
                                  Closure and Algebraic Path Problems  . . 338
                   I. Dimov and   
              V. Alexandrov and   
                 A. Karaivanova   Implementation of Monte Carlo Algorithms
                                  for Eigenvalue Problem Using MPI . . . . 346
                K. Georgiev and   
                      Z. Zlatev   Running an Advection-Chemistry Code on
                                  Message Passing Computers  . . . . . . . 354
                  A. Lagana and   
                  G. Grossi and   
               A. Riganelli and   
                     C. Ferraro   A Model for Parallel One Dimensional
                                  Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions
                                  Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
         C. N. Ojeda-Guerra and   
                  E. Macias and   
                      A. Suarez   Sparse LU Factorization with Partial
                                  Pivoting Overlapping Communications and
                                  Computations on the SP-2 Multicomputer   371
                   E. Ramos and   
                    W. Diaz and   
                V. Cerveron and   
                   I. Nebot-Gil   Use of Parallel Computing to Improve the
                                  Accuracy of Calculated Molecular
                                  Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
                 J. L. Roda and   
               C. Rodriguez and   
                   F. Sande and   
                  D. G. Morales   A New Model for the Analysis of
                                  Asynchronous Parallel Algorithms . . . . 387
                   J. L. Traeff   Portable Randomized List Ranking on
                                  Multiprocessors Using MPI  . . . . . . . 395
                   E. Varin and   
                     R. Roy and   
                      T. NKaoua   A Parallel Algorithm for the
                                  Simultaneous Solution of Direct and
                                  Adjoint Multigroup Diffusion Problems    403


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1498, 1998

               Alexandru Agapie   Modelling Genetic Algorithms: From
                                  Markov Chains to Dependence with
                                  Complete Connections . . . . . . . . . . 3
              Stefan Droste and   
              Thomas Jansen and   
                   Ingo Wegener   On the Optimization of Unimodal
                                  Functions with the (1+1) Evolutionary
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
               Jeffrey Horn and   
              David E. Goldberg   A Timing Analysis of Convergence to
                                  Fitness Sharing Equilibrium  . . . . . . 23
          Ahmet Irfan Oyman and   
           Hans-Georg Beyer and   
             Hans-Paul Schwefel   Where Elitists Start Limping: Evolution
                                  Strategies at Ridge Functions  . . . . . 34
              Cyril Fonlupt and   
           Denis Robilliard and   
                 Philippe Preux   A Bit-Wise Epistasis Measure for Binary
                                  Search Spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
                   Leila Kallel   Inside GA Dynamics: Ground Basis for
                                  Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
                Bart Naudts and   
                     Jan Naudts   The Effect of Spin-Flip Symmetry on the
                                  Performance of the Simple GA . . . . . . 67
                R. J. Quick and   
        V. J. Rayward-Smith and   
                    G. D. Smith   Fitness Distance Correlation and Ridge
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
                    Alain Ratle   Accelerating the Convergence of
                                  Evolutionary Algorithms by Fitness
                                  Landscape Approximation  . . . . . . . . 87
          Richard A. Watson and   
          Gregory S. Hornby and   
              Jordan B. Pollack   Modeling Building-Block Interdependency  97
               Hans-Georg Beyer   Mutate Large, But Inherit Small! On the
                                  Analysis of Rescaled Mutations in $
                                  (\tilde 1, \tilde \lambda) $-ES with
                                  Noisy Fitness Data . . . . . . . . . . . 109--118
             Jürgen Branke   Creating Robust Solutions by Means of
                                  Evolutionary Algorithms  . . . . . . . . 119
       Samarjit Chakraborty and   
                  Kalyanmoy Deb   Analytic Curve Detection from a Noisy
                                  Binary Edge Map Using Genetic Algorithm  129
             Jonathan Lewis and   
                  Emma Hart and   
                 Graeme Ritchie   A Comparison of Dominance Mechanisms and
                                  Simple Mutation on Non-stationary
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
                 Naoki Mori and   
                Hajime Kita and   
            Yoshikazu Nishikawa   Adaptation to a Changing Environment by
                                  Means of the Feedback Thermodynamical
                                  Genetic Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . 149
              Volker Nissen and   
              Jörn Propach   Optimization with Noisy Function
                                  Evaluations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
            Günter Rudolph   On Risky Methods for Local Selection
                                  under Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
                 Conor Ryan and   
                  J. J. Collins   Polygenic Inheritance --- A Haploid
                                  Scheme that Can Outperform Diploidy  . . 178
                   Peter Stagge   Averaging Efficiently in the Presence of
                                  Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
                A. E. Eiben and   
           J. I. Van Hemert and   
               E. Marchiori and   
                A. G. Steenbeek   Solving Binary Constraint Satisfaction
                                  Problems Using Evolutionary Algorithms
                                  with an Adaptive Fitness Function  . . . 201
                S. Kazarlis and   
                    V. Petridis   Varying Fitness Functions in Genetic
                                  Algorithms: Studying the Rate of
                                  Increase of the Dynamic Penalty Terms    211
                Dae Gyu Kim and   
                  Phil Husbands   Landscape Changes and the Performance of
                                  Mapping Based Constraint Handling
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
            Slawomir Koziel and   
           Zbigniew Michalewicz   A Decoder-Based Evolutionary Algorithm
                                  for Constrained Parameter Optimization
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
             Marco Laumanns and   
        Günter Rudolph and   
             Hans-Paul Schwefel   A Spatial Predator-Prey Approach to
                                  Multi-objective Optimization: a
                                  Preliminary Study  . . . . . . . . . . . 241
                G. T. Parks and   
                      I. Miller   Selective Breeding in a Multiobjective
                                  Genetic Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . 250
           Shigeru Obayashi and   
         Shinichi Takahashi and   
             Yukihiro Takeguchi   Niching and Elitist Models for MOGAs . . 260
         Alvaro Ruiz-Andino and   
             Lourdes Araujo and   
                   Jose Ruz and   
          Fernando Sáenz   Parallel Evolutionary Optimisation with
                                  Constraint Propagation . . . . . . . . . 270
                    Tina Yu and   
                  Peter Bentley   Methods to Evolve Legal Phenotypes . . . 280
             Eckart Zitzler and   
                  Lothar Thiele   Multiobjective Optimization Using
                                  Evolutionary Algorithms --- A
                                  Comparative Case Study . . . . . . . . . 292
               Carlos Cotta and   
               Enrique Alba and   
           José M. Troya   Utilizing Dynastically Optimal Forma
                                  Recombination in Hybrid Genetic
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--314
            Hillol Kargupta and   
      Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay   Further Experimentations on the
                                  Scalability of the GEMGA . . . . . . . . 315
                 Ik Soo Lim and   
                Daniel Thalmann   Indexed Memory as a Generic Protocol for
                                  Handling Vectors of Data in Genetic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
                 Gabriela Ochoa   On Genetic Algorithms and Lindenmayer
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
       Connie Loggia Ramsey and   
         Kenneth A. De Jong and   
       John J. Grefenstette and   
                Annie S. Wu and   
                Donald S. Burke   Genome Length as an Evolutionary
                                  Self-adaptation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
               Alex S. Fukunaga   Restart Scheduling for Genetic
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
       Martina Gorges-Schleuter   A Comparative Study of Global and Local
                                  Selection in Evolution Strategies  . . . 367
           Márk Jelasity   UEGO, an Abstract Niching Technique for
                                  Global Optimization  . . . . . . . . . . 378
        Alexander Leonhardi and   
     Wolfgang Reissenberger and   
              Tim Schmelmer and   
            Karsten Weicker and   
                 Nicole Weicker   Development of Problem-Specific
                                  Evolutionary Algorithms  . . . . . . . . 388
              K. E. Mathias and   
             J. D. Schaffer and   
             L. J. Eshelman and   
                        M. Mani   The Effects of Control Parameters and
                                  Restarts on Search Stagnation in
                                  Evolutionary Programming . . . . . . . . 398
                   Ralf Salomon   Accelerating the
                                  Evolutionary-Gradient-Search Procedure:
                                  Individual Step Sizes  . . . . . . . . . 408
            Mich\`ele Sebag and   
           Antoine Ducoulombier   Extending Population-Based Incremental
                                  Learning to Continuous Search Spaces . . 418
             Shigeyoshi Tsutsui   Multi-parent Recombination in Genetic
                                  Algorithms with Search Space Boundary
                                  Extension by Mirroring . . . . . . . . . 428
              Kanta Vekaria and   
                    Chris Clack   Selective Crossover in Genetic
                                  Algorithms: An Empirical Study . . . . . 438
                      Rong Yang   Line-Breeding Schemes for Combinatorial
                                  Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
                 Shumeet Baluja   Finding Regions of Uncertainty in
                                  Learned Models: An Application to Face
                                  Detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
                     Larry Bull   On ZCS in Multi-agent Environments . . . 471
               Kim W. C. Ku and   
                      M. W. Mak   Empirical Analysis of the Factors that
                                  Affect the Baldwin Effect  . . . . . . . 481
                  Ibrahim Kuscu   Promoting Generalisation of Learned
                                  Behaviours in Genetic Programming  . . . 491--500
                Pier Luca Lanzi   Generalization in Wilson's Classifier
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
                Helmut A. Mayer   Symbiotic Coevolution of Artificial
                                  Neural Networks and Training Data Sets   511
                     C. Poetter   Information-Theoretic Analysis of a
                                  Mobile Agent's Learning in a Discrete
                                  State Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
            Clemens Pötter   Information-Theoretic Analysis of a
                                  Mobile Agent's Learning in a Discrete
                                  State Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
         Mitchell A. Potter and   
             Kenneth A. De Jong   The Coevolution of Antibodies for
                                  Concept Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
                  J. L. Shapiro   Does Data-Model Co-evolution Improve
                                  Generalization Performance of Evolving
                                  Learners?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
             Andy Tomlinson and   
                     Larry Bull   A Corporate Classifier System  . . . . . 550
                R. Paul Wiegand   Applying Diffusion to a Cooperative
                                  Coevolutionary Model . . . . . . . . . . 560
       Mathieu Capcarr\`ere and   
          Andrea Tettamanzi and   
            Marco Tomassini and   
                   Moshe Sipper   Studying Parallel Evolutionary
                                  Algorithms: The Cellular Programming
                                  Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
              Kalyanmoy Deb and   
       Dilip Kumar Pratihar and   
                 Amitabha Ghosh   Learning to Avoid Moving Obstacles
                                  Optimally for Mobile Robots Using a
                                  Genetic-Fuzzy Approach . . . . . . . . . 583
                I. De Falco and   
                A. Iazzetta and   
                  P. Natale and   
                   E. Tarantino   Evolutionary Neural Networks for
                                  Nonlinear Dynamics Modeling  . . . . . . 593
                I. De Falco and   
                A. Iazzetta and   
                  P. Natale and   
                   E. Tarantino   Evolutionary Neural Networks for
                                  Nonlinear Dynamics Modeling  . . . . . . 593
          Francisco Herrera and   
              Manuel Lozano and   
                 Claudio Moraga   Hybrid Distributed Real-Coded Genetic
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
                Wim Hordijk and   
       James P. Crutchfield and   
               Melanie Mitchell   Mechanisms of Emergent Computation in
                                  Cellular Automata  . . . . . . . . . . . 613
                   Yong Liu and   
                        Xin Yao   Towards Designing Neural Network
                                  Ensembles by Evolution . . . . . . . . . 623
            Colin R. Reeves and   
              Stewart J. Taylor   Selection of Training Data for Neural
                                  Networks by a Genetic Algorithm  . . . . 633
          Franciszek Seredynski   Discovery with Genetic Algorithm
                                  Scheduling Strategies for Cellular
                                  Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643
                   Moshe Sipper   Simple + Parallel + Local = Cellular
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
            Anne Spalanzani and   
           Harouna Kabré   Evolution, Learning and Speech
                                  Recognition in Changing Acoustic
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663
             Gianni Di Caro and   
                   Marco Dorigo   Ant Colonies for Adaptive Routing in
                                  Packet-Switched Communications Networks  673
                 G. Di Caro and   
                      M. Dorigo   Ant Colonies for Adaptive Routing in
                                  Packet-Switched Communications Networks  673
                Wael Khatib and   
               Peter J. Fleming   The Stud GA: a Mini Revolution?  . . . . 683
         René Michel and   
              Martin Middendorf   An Island Model Based Ant System with
                                  Lookahead for the Shortest Supersequence
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692
             Hidefumi Sawai and   
                    Sachio Kizu   Parameter-Free Genetic Algorithm
                                  Inspired by ``Disparity Theory of
                                  Evolution''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702
               Vanio Slavov and   
            Nikolay I. Nikolaev   Immune Network Dynamics for Inductive
                                  Problem Solving  . . . . . . . . . . . . 712
                    T. Stuetzle   Parallelization Strategies for Ant
                                  Colony Optimization  . . . . . . . . . . 722
            Thomas Stützle   Parallelization Strategies for Ant
                                  Colony Optimization  . . . . . . . . . . 722
                Richard Tateson   Self-Organising Pattern Formation: Fruit
                                  Flies and Cell Phones  . . . . . . . . . 732--741
         Raphaël Dorne and   
                    Jin-Kao Hao   A New Genetic Local Search Algorithm for
                                  Graph Coloring . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745
              Jens Gottlieb and   
                      Nico Voss   Improving the Performance of
                                  Evolutionary Algorithms for the
                                  Satisfiability Problem by Refining
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755
                 Peter Merz and   
               Bernd Freisleben   Memetic Algorithms and the Fitness
                                  Landscape of the Graph Bi-partitioning
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765
            Martin J. Oates and   
                    David Corne   Investigating Evolutionary Approaches to
                                  Adaptive Database Management Against
                                  Various Quality of Service Metrics . . . 775
                Soraya Rana and   
                Darrell Whitley   Genetic Algorithm Behavior in the MAXSAT
                                  Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785
                 Peter Ross and   
                      Emma Hart   An Adaptive Mutation Scheme for a
                                  Penalty-Based Graph-Colouring GA . . . . 795
                    Guo Tao and   
           Zbigniew Michalewicz   Inver-over Operator for the TSP  . . . . 803
                    Tim Walters   Repair and Brood Selection in the
                                  Traveling Salesman Problem . . . . . . . 813
                  J. Watson and   
                    C. Ross and   
                  V. Eisele and   
                  J. Denton and   
                    J. Bins and   
                  C. Guerra and   
                 D. Whitley and   
                        A. Howe   The Traveling Salestep Problem, Edge
                                  Assembly Crossover, and $2$-opt  . . . . 823
                     C. Gil and   
J. Ortega A. F. Díaz and   
              M. G. Montoya and   
                      A. Prieto   Load Balancing in Parallel Circuit
                                  Testing with Annealing-Based and Genetic
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835
                  Emma Hart and   
                     Peter Ross   A Heuristic Combination Method for
                                  Solving Job-Shop Scheduling Problems . . 845
           Sofiane Oussedik and   
                Daniel Delahaye   Reduction of Air Traffic Congestion by
                                  Genetic Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 855
               Ben Paechter and   
               R. C. Rankin and   
             Andrew Cumming and   
             Terence C. Fogarty   Timetabling the Classes of an Entire
                                  University with an Evolutionary
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865
      Günther R. Raidl and   
               Gabriele Kodydek   Genetic Algorithms for the Multiple
                                  Container Packing Problem  . . . . . . . 875
          Jürgen Teich and   
             Eckart Zitzler and   
           Shuvra Bhattacharyya   Buffer Memory Optimization in DSP
                                  Applications --- An Evolutionary
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885
           Christine Crisan and   
          Heinz Mühlenbein   The Breeder Genetic Algorithm for
                                  Frequency Assignment . . . . . . . . . . 897
       Christine Valenzuela and   
               Steve Hurley and   
                    Derek Smith   A Permutation Based Genetic Algorithm
                                  for Minimum Span Frequency Assignment    907
             Wilfried Jakob and   
   Martina Gorges-Schleuter and   
                    Ingo Sieber   Comparison of Evolutionary Algorithms
                                  for Design Optimization  . . . . . . . . 917
           Julian F. Miller and   
                  Peter Thomson   Aspects of Digital Evolution:
                                  Evolvability and Architecture  . . . . . 927
            Bryan A. Norman and   
             Alice E. Smith and   
           Rifat Aykut Arapoglu   Integrated Facility Design Using an
                                  Evolutionary Approach with a Subordinate
                                  Network Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . 937
             Jinn-Moon Yang and   
                  Cheng-Yan Kao   An Evolutionary Algorithm for
                                  Synthesizing Optical Thin-Film Designs   947
           Eckart Bindewald and   
         Jürgen Hesser and   
           Reinhard Männer   Implementing Genetic Algorithms with
                                  Sterical Constraints for Protein
                                  Structure Prediction . . . . . . . . . . 959
               S. K. Cheung and   
                K. S. Leung and   
                A. Albrecht and   
                     C. K. Wong   Optimal Placements of Flexible Objects:
                                  An Adaptive Simulated Annealing Approach 968
               Hannes Geyer and   
                Peter Ulbig and   
               Siegfried Schulz   Encapsulated Evolution Strategies for
                                  the Determination of Group Contribution
                                  Model Parameters in Order to Predict
                                  Thermodynamic Properties . . . . . . . . 978
              Daniel Kobler and   
        Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi   Recombination Operators for Evolutionary
                                  Graph Drawing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 988
              Martin Kreutz and   
            Anja M. Reimetz and   
          Bernhard Sendhoff and   
                Claus Weihs and   
              Werner von Seelen   Optimisation of Density Estimation
                                  Models with Evolutionary Algorithms  . . 998
               E. Paterakis and   
                V. Petridis and   
                    A. Kehagias   Genetic Algorithm in Parameter
                                  Estimation of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems  1008
J. Gonzalez Peñalver and   
                   J. J. Merelo   Optimizing Web Page Layout Using an
                                  Annealed Genetic Algorithm as
                                  Client-Side Script . . . . . . . . . . . 1018
J. González Peñalver and   
                   J. J. Merelo   Optimizing Web Page Layout Using an
                                  Annealed Genetic Algorithm as
                                  Client-Side Script . . . . . . . . . . . 1018
               Koichi Hatta and   
           Masashige Suzuki and   
      Shin'ichi Wakabayashi and   
                 Tetsushi Koide   Solving the Capacitor Placement Problem
                                  in a Radial Distribution System Using an
                                  Adaptive Genetic Algorithm . . . . . . . 1028


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1499, 1998

               P. Flocchini and   
                    B. Mans and   
                     N. Santoro   Sense of Direction in Distributed
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
          R. Van der Meyden and   
                       Y. Moses   Top-Down Considerations on Distributed
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
              S. K. Shrivastava   Inter-Task Co-ordination in Long-Lived
                                  Distributed Applications . . . . . . . . 20
                    Y. Amir and   
                A. Peterson and   
                        D. Shaw   Seamlessly Selecting the Best Copy from
                                  Internet-Wide Replicated Web Servers . . 22
             J. H. Anderson and   
                    R. Jain and   
                         D. Ott   Wait-Free Synchronization in
                                  Quantum-Based Multiprogrammed Systems    34
                  H. Attiya and   
                 A. Gorbach and   
                       S. Moran   Computing in Totally Anonymous
                                  Asynchronous Shared Memory Systems . . . 49
               J. Beauquier and   
                  S. Delaet and   
                   S. Dolev and   
                     S. Tixeuil   Transient Fault Detectors  . . . . . . . 62
              J.-C. Bermond and   
                  N. Marlin and   
                   D. Peleg and   
                    S. Perennes   Directed Virtual Path Layouts in ATM
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
                     F. Chu and   
                     J. Halpern   A Decision-Theoretic Approach to
                                  Reliable Message Delivery  . . . . . . . 89
                   I. Cidon and   
                      O. Mokryn   Propagation and Leader Election in a
                                  Multihop Broadcast Environment . . . . . 104
               M. J. Demmer and   
                  M. P. Herlihy   The Arrow Distributed Directory Protocol 119
                   M. Fitzi and   
                      U. Maurer   Efficient Byzantine Agreement Secure
                                  Against General Adversaries  . . . . . . 134
                  W. Eberly and   
                  L. Higham and   
          J. Warpechowska-Gruca   Long-lived, Fast, Waitfree Renaming with
                                  Optimal Name Space and High Throughput   149
                C. Gavoille and   
                       D. Peleg   The Compactness of Interval Routing for
                                  Almost All Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 161
                 M. Herlihy and   
                    S. Rajsbaum   A Wait-Free Classification of Loop
                                  Agreement Tasks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
                      T. Herman   A Stabilizing Repair Timer . . . . . . . 186
                  L. Higham and   
                      J. Kawash   Java: Memory Consistency and Process
                                  Coordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
                     P. Jayanti   A Complete and Constant Time Wait-Free
                                  Implementation of CAS from LL/SC and
                                  Vice Versa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
             M. K. Aguilera and   
                    W. Chen and   
                       S. Toueg   Failure Detection and Consensus in the
                                  Crash-Recovery Model . . . . . . . . . . 231
                T. Kempster and   
                C. Stirling and   
                    P. Thanisch   A More Committed Quorum-Based Three
                                  Phase Commit Protocol  . . . . . . . . . 246
                  R. Khazan and   
                  A. Fekete and   
                       N. Lynch   Multicast Group Communication as a Base
                                  for a Load-Balancing Replicated Data
                                  Service  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
                R. Kralovic and   
                   B. Rovan and   
                 P. Ruzicka and   
                 D. Stefankovic   Efficient Deadlock-Free
                                  Multi-dimensional Interval Routing in
                                  Interconnection Networks . . . . . . . . 273
               J.-M. Menaud and   
                 V. Issarny and   
                     M. Banatre   A New Protocol for Efficient Cooperative
                                  Transversal Web Caching  . . . . . . . . 288
                 M. Merritt and   
                  G. Taubenfeld   Fairness of Shared Objects . . . . . . . 303
                  F. Pedone and   
                     A. Schiper   Optimistic Atomic Broadcast  . . . . . . 318
                R. Plunkett and   
                      A. Fekete   Approximate Agreement with Mixed Mode
                                  Faults: Algorithm and Lower Bound  . . . 333
                A. Schuster and   
                      L. Shalev   Using Remote Access Histories for Thread
                                  Scheduling in Distributed Shared Memory
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
                 J. Sussman and   
                    K. Marzullo   The Bancomat Problem: An Example of
                                  Resource Allocation in a Partitionable
                                  Asynchronous System  . . . . . . . . . . 363
         F. J. Torres-Rojas and   
                  M. Ahamad and   
                      M. Raynal   Lifetime Based Consistency Protocols for
                                  Distributed Objects  . . . . . . . . . . 378
                      Y.-K Tsay   Deriving a Scalable Algorithm for Mutual
                                  Exclusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
                C. H. Young and   
         N. B. Abu-Ghazaleh and   
                   P. A. Wilsey   OFC: a Distributed Fossil-Collection
                                  Algorithm for Time-Warp  . . . . . . . . 408


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1501, 1998

                      S. Wrobel   Scalability Issues in Inductive Logic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
                    J. Case and   
                     M. Ott and   
                  A. Sharma and   
                     F. Stephan   Learning to Win Process-Control Games
                                  Watching Game-Masters  . . . . . . . . . 31
                 K. Apsitis and   
               R. Freivalds and   
             R. Simanovskis and   
                    J. Smotrovs   Closedness Properties in
                                  EX-identification of Recursive Functions 46
           V. N. Shevchenko and   
                 N. Y. Zolotykh   Lower Bounds for the Complexity of
                                  Learning Half-Spaces with Membership
                                  Queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
                    M. Fischlin   Cryptographic Limitations on
                                  Parallelizing Membership and Equivalence
                                  Queries with Applications to Random
                                  Self-Reductions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
                 G. Melideo and   
                  S. Varricchio   Learning Unary Output Two-Tape Automata
                                  from Multiplicity and Equivalence
                                  Queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
                   P. Damaschke   Computational Aspects of Parallel
                                  Attribute-Efficient Learning . . . . . . 103
                       F. Denis   PAC Learning from Positive Statistical
                                  Queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
                 A. Maruoka and   
                    E. Takimoto   Structured Weight-Based Prediction
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
       M. K. R. Krishna Rao and   
                      A. Sattar   Learning from Entailment of Logic
                                  Programs with Local Variables  . . . . . 143
                    A. Yamamoto   Logical Aspects of Several Bottom-Up
                                  Fittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
                    N. Sugimoto   Learnability of Translations from
                                  Positive Examples  . . . . . . . . . . . 169
                       K. Satoh   Analysis of Case-Based Representability
                                  of Boolean Functions by Monotone Theory  179
                    T. Head and   
               S. Kobayashi and   
                    T. Yokomori   Locality, Reversibility, and Beyond:
                                  Learning Languages from Positive Data    191
                    J. Case and   
                        S. Jain   Synthesizing Learners Tolerating
                                  Computable Noisy Data  . . . . . . . . . 205
                    M. Sato and   
                Y. Mukouchi and   
                       D. Zheng   Characteristic Sets for Unions of
                                  Regular Pattern Languages and
                                  Compactness  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
                    H. Sakamoto   Finding a One-Variable Pattern from
                                  Incomplete Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
                 H. Arimura and   
                  A. Wataki and   
                  R. Fujino and   
                     S. Arikawa   A Fast Algorithm for Discovering Optimal
                                  String Patterns in Large Text Databases  247
              E. Hirowatari and   
                     S. Arikawa   A Comparison of Identification Criteria
                                  for Inductive Inference of Recursive
                                  Real-Valued Functions  . . . . . . . . . 262
                    J. Case and   
                    S. Jain and   
                S. Kaufmann and   
                      A. Sharma   Predictive Learning Models for Concept
                                  Drift  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
                        S. Jain   Learning with Refutation . . . . . . . . 291
                       L. Meyer   Comparing the Power of Probabilistic
                                  Learning and Oracle Identification under
                                  Monotonicity Constraints . . . . . . . . 306
                 F. Stephan and   
                     Y. Ventsov   Learning Algebraic Structures from Text
                                  Using Semantical Knowledge . . . . . . . 321
                E. McCreath and   
                      A. Sharma   LIME: a System for Learning Relations    336
                     M. Schmitt   On the Sample Complexity for Neural
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
                K. A. Verbeurgt   Learning Sub-classes of Monotone DNF on
                                  the Uniform Distribution . . . . . . . . 385
                 U. Sarkans and   
                    J. Barzdins   Using Attribute Grammars for Description
                                  of Inductive Inference Search Space  . . 400
                 G. Grieser and   
               K. P. Jantke and   
                       S. Lange   Towards the Validation of Inductive
                                  Learning Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
                       W. Stein   Consistent Polynomial Identification in
                                  the Limit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1502, 1998

                    T. Dartnall   Why (a Kind of) AI Can't Be Done . . . . 1
                 R. L. Campbell   Representation by Correspondence: An
                                  Inadequate Conception of Knowledge for
                                  Artificial Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 15
                 M. H. Bickhard   Genuine Representation in Artificial
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
                 D. Corbett and   
             B.-J Van der Zwaag   Using Fuzzy Logic to Mitigate the Effect
                                  of Multiple-Sclerosis Tremors on a
                                  Wheelchair Joystick Controller . . . . . 39
                  C. Heinze and   
                   B. Smith and   
                       M. Cross   Thinking Quickly: Agents for Modeling
                                  Air Warfare  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
                      S. Au and   
                   J. Liang and   
                N. Parameswaran   Plan Execution in a Hostile Dynamic
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
                N. Bonnette and   
                        R. Gore   A Labelled Sequent System for Tense
                                  Logic Kt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
              S.-E. Bornscheuer   Integrating Reactive and Reflective
                                  Reasoning by Generating Rational Models  83
          S.-E. Bornscheuer and   
                     H. Lehmann   On the Combination of Partial Action
                                  Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
               J. E. Dawson and   
                        R. Gore   A Mechanisation of Classical Modal Tense
                                  Logics Using Isabelle  . . . . . . . . . 107
                    J. Debenham   Constructing an Intelligent Multi-Agent
                                  Workflow System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
                  I. Fabian and   
                  D. A. Lambert   First-Order Bayesian Reasoning . . . . . 131
        Mohamed Salah Hamdi and   
                      K. Kaiser   Learning Intelligent Behavior  . . . . . 143
             K. V. Hindriks and   
              F. S. De Boer and   
            W. Van der Hoek and   
                 J.-J. C. Meyer   A Formal Embedding of AgentSpeak(L) in
                                  3APL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
             S. Hoelldobler and   
                 Y. Kalinke and   
                   H.-P. Stoerr   Recurrent Neural Networks to Approximate
                                  the Semantics of Acceptable Logic
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
                 Y. Kalinke and   
                     H. Lehmann   Computation in Recurrent Neural
                                  Networks: From Counters to Iterated
                                  Function Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
               J. H. M. Lee and   
                H. F. Leung and   
                      H. W. Won   Performance of a Comprehensive and
                                  Efficient Constraint Library Based on
                                  Local Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
                 D. C. Lombardo   Helicopter Flight Condition Recognition:
                                  A Minimalist Approach  . . . . . . . . . 203
                M. J. Maher and   
                G. Antoniou and   
                  D. Billington   A Study of Provability in Defeasible
                                  Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
                 T. Menzies and   
                       S. Waugh   Lower Bounds on the Size of Test Data
                                  Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
                  A. Slater and   
                    R. Gore and   
                 J. Posegga and   
                        H. Vogt   cardT0AP: Automated Deduction on a Smart
                                  Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
                        H. Wang   Constraint Resolution within Object
                                  Hierarchies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
                   S. Waugh and   
                  B. Hanlon and   
                     T. Menzies   The Temporal QCM Modelling Language  . . 261
                     G. I. Webb   The Problem of Missing Values in
                                  Decision Tree Grafting . . . . . . . . . 273
                 G. I. Webb and   
                  M. J. Pazzani   Adjusted Probability Naive Bayesian
                                  Induction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
              J. Westendorp and   
                  P. Scerri and   
                     L. Cavedon   Strategic Behaviour-based Reasoning with
                                  Dynamic, Partial Information . . . . . . 297
                       Y. Zhang   Representing Defeasible Constraints and
                                  Observations in Action Theories  . . . . 309
                   Z. Zheng and   
                     G. I. Webb   Stochastic Attribute Selection
                                  Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1503, 1998

                    O. Ruething   Bidirectional Data Flow Analysis in Code
                                  Motion: Myth and Reality . . . . . . . . 1
                  M. Hagiya and   
                      A. Tozawa   On a New Method for Dataflow Analysis of
                                  Java Virtual Machine Subroutines . . . . 17
                  V. Sarkar and   
                       K. Knobe   Enabling Sparse Constant Propagation of
                                  Array Elements via Array SSA Form  . . . 33
                    M. Hind and   
                       A. Pioli   Assessing the Effects of
                                  Flow-Sensitivity on Pointer Alias
                                  Analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
                   F. Fages and   
                        R. Gori   Analysis of Normal Logic Programs  . . . 82
                 P. M. Hill and   
                 R. Bagnara and   
                  E. Zaffanella   The Correctness of Set-Sharing . . . . . 99
                   V. Gouranton   Deriving Analysers by Folding/Unfolding
                                  of Natural Semantics and a Case Study:
                                  Slicing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
                        F. Levi   A Symbolic Semantics for Abstract Model
                                  Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
                       A. Venet   Automatic Determination of Communication
                                  Topologies in Mobile Systems . . . . . . 152
                   C. Bodei and   
                  P. Degano and   
                      C. Priami   Constructing Specific SOS Semantics for
                                  Concurrency via Abstract Interpretation  168
                       P. Volpe   A First-Order Language for Expressing
                                  Aliasing and Type Properties of Logic
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
               M. Handjieva and   
                   S. Tzolovski   Refining Static Analyses by Trace-Based
                                  Partitioning Using Control Flow  . . . . 200
              R. Giacobazzi and   
                 F. Ranzato and   
                    F. Scozzari   Building Complete Abstract
                                  Interpretations in a Linear Logic-Based
                                  Setting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
                    M. Leuschel   On the Power of Homeomorphic Embedding
                                  for Online Termination . . . . . . . . . 230
              J. U. Peralta and   
            J. P. Gallagher and   
                      H. Saglam   Analysis of Imperative Programs through
                                  Analysis of Constraint Logic Programs    246
                  E. Albert and   
                M. Alpuente and   
                M. Falaschi and   
                      P. Julian   Improving Control in Functional Logic
                                  Program Specialization . . . . . . . . . 262
              W. Charatonik and   
                    A. Podelski   Directional Type Inference for Logic
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
                      D. Duggan   Finite Subtype Inference with Explicit
                                  Polymorphism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
             M. Tadjouddine and   
                F. Eyssette and   
                       C. Faure   Sparse Jacobian Computation in Automatic
                                  Differentiation by Static Program
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
                   D. Goyal and   
                       R. Paige   A New Solution to the Hidden Copy
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
                  R. Giacobazzi   A Tutorial on Domain Theory in Abstract
                                  Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
                 D. Schmidt and   
                     B. Steffen   Program Analysis as Model Checking of
                                  Abstract Interpretations . . . . . . . . 351
                         P. Lee   Certifying, Optimizing Compilation . . . 381


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1504, 1998

                     E. Poeppel   Informationsverarbeitung und
                                  Wissensgenerierung im Nervensystem
                                  (German) [Information processing and
                                  knowledge generation in never systems]   1
                   R. Kruse and   
                     C. Borgelt   Data Mining with Graphical Models  . . . 3
                      P. Struss   Artificial Intelligence for Nature ---
                                  Why Knowledge Representation and Problem
                                  Solving Should Play a Key Role in
                                  Environmental Decision Support . . . . . 17
                     J. F. Sowa   The Infinite Variety of Logics . . . . . 31
                  H. J. Mueller   Thinking in Agents . . . . . . . . . . . 55
                       H. Meyer   Finding Regions for Local Repair in
                                  Partial Constraint Satisfaction  . . . . 57
                 F. Maedler and   
                       K. Knorr   Needle's Eyes --- A General
                                  Decomposition Principle for Practical
                                  Uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
                S. Edelkamp and   
                      F. Reffel   OBDDs in Heuristic Search  . . . . . . . 81
                        W. Pohl   Handling Negative Assumptions in a
                                  Generic User Modeling Framework  . . . . 93
                S. Ossowski and   
          A. Garcia-Serrano and   
                       J. Cuena   From Theory to Practice in Multiagent
                                  System Design: The Case of Structrural
                                  Co-operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
                      G. Stumme   Distributive Concept Exploration --- A
                                  Knowledge Acquisition Tool in Formal
                                  Concept Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
                  F. Baader and   
                    R. Kuesters   Computing the Least Common Subsumer and
                                  the Most Specific Concept in the
                                  Presence of Cyclic A LN-Concept
                                  Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
                S. Autexier and   
                  H. Mantel and   
                     W. Stephan   Simultaneous Quantifier Elimination  . . 141
                      D. Hutter   Deductive Verification of Invariants of
                                  State-Transition Systems . . . . . . . . 153
                 D. Haehnel and   
                 W. Burgard and   
                   G. Lakemeyer   GOLEX: Bridging the Gap between Logic
                                  (GOLOG) and a Real Robot . . . . . . . . 165
                   M. Beetz and   
                      H. Peters   Structured Reactive Communication Plans
                                  --- Integrating Conversational Actions
                                  into High-Level Robot Control Systems    177
                 H. Horacek and   
                    S. Busemann   Towards a Methodology for Developing
                                  Application-Oriented Report Generation   189
             U. Rhein-Desel and   
                       F. Puppe   Concepts for a Diagnostic Critiquing
                                  System in Vague Domains  . . . . . . . . 201
                   A. Seitz and   
                A. M. Uhrmacher   The Treatment of Time in a Case-Based
                                  Analysis of Experimental Medical Studies 213
             C. Spreckelsen and   
                     K. Spitzer   Formal Representation of Temporal Items
                                  of the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual
                                  of Mental Disorders  . . . . . . . . . . 225
                  S. Schulz and   
                M. Romacker and   
                        U. Hahn   Part-Whole Reasoning in Medical
                                  Knowledge Bases Using Description Logics 237


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1505, 1998

                 M. Tatsumi and   
                    A. Yamamoto   Object-Oriented Approach for an
                                  Iterative Calculation Method and Its
                                  Parallelization with Domain
                                  Decomposition Method . . . . . . . . . . 1
           R. Radhakrishnan and   
               D. E. Martin and   
                 M. Chetlur and   
                 D. Madhava Rao   An Object-Oriented Time Warp Simulation
                                  Kernel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
                W. Humphrey and   
                    R. Ryne and   
                 T. Cleland and   
                    J. Cummings   Particle Beam Dynamics Simulations Using
                                  the POOMA Framework  . . . . . . . . . . 25
                  B. Blount and   
                  S. Chatterjee   An Evaluation of Java for Numerical
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--46
                 B. Ganguly and   
                       A. Chien   High-Level Parallel Programming of an
                                  Adaptive Mesh Application Using the
                                  Illinois Concert System  . . . . . . . . 47
                 J. G. Siek and   
                   A. Lumsdaine   The Matrix Template Library: a Generic
                                  Programming Approach to High Performance
                                  Numerical Linear Algebra . . . . . . . . 59
           N. Chrisochoides and   
                  K. Barker and   
                    D. Nave and   
                  C. Hawblitzel   The Mobile Object Layer: a Run-Time
                                  Substrate for Mobile Adaptive
                                  Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
                  J. Rantakokko   Software Tools for Partitioning
                                  Block-Structured Applications  . . . . . 83
                 G. Kumfert and   
                      A. Pothen   An Object-Oriented Collection of Minimum
                                  Degree Algorithms  . . . . . . . . . . . 95
                F. Bassetti and   
                   K. Davis and   
                     D. Quinlan   Optimizing Transformations of Stencil
                                  Operations for Parallel Object-Oriented
                                  Scientific Frameworks on Cache-Based
                                  Architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
             L. Moura Silva and   
                 P. Martins and   
                    J. G. Silva   Merging Web-Based with Cluster-Based
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
               M. Migliardi and   
                J. Dongarra and   
                   A. Geist and   
                    V. Sunderam   Dynamic Reconfiguration and Virtual
                                  Machine Management in the Harness
                                  Metacomputing System . . . . . . . . . . 127--134
                   S. Chaumette   JEM-DOOS: The Java/RMI Based Distributed
                                  Objects Operating System of the JEM
                                  Project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
                   J. Yelon and   
                     L. V. Kale   Static Networks: a Powerful and Elegant
                                  Extension to Concurrent Object-Oriented
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
                  S. Hidaka and   
                    T. Aoki and   
                    H. Aida and   
                       T. Saito   A FIFO Queue Class Library as a State
                                  Variable of Time Warp Logical Processes  151
                 P. A. Buhr and   
                       R. Denda   Profiler: Profiling User-Level Threads
                                  in a Shared-Memory Programming
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
                A. J. Nebro and   
                E. Pimentel and   
                    J. M. Troya   Evaluating a Multithreaded Runtime
                                  System for Concurrent Object-Oriented
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
                      H. Bi and   
                 M. Kessler and   
                    M. Wilhelmi   Object-Oriented Run-Time Support for
                                  Data-Parallel Applications . . . . . . . 175
                  M. Zander and   
                    J. Hall and   
                 J. Painter and   
                    S. O'Rourke   Component Architecture of the Tecolote
                                  Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
                  M. Troyer and   
                   B. Ammon and   
                        E. Heeb   Parallel Object Oriented Monte Carlo
                                  Simulations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
               W. T. Arnold and   
                     R. Haydock   A Parallel, Object-Oriented
                                  Implementation of the Dynamic Recursion
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
                 F. Dobrian and   
                 G. Kumfert and   
                      A. Pothen   Object-Oriented Design for Sparse Direct
                                  Solvers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
                 J. Gerlach and   
                    M. Sato and   
                    Y. Ishikawa   Janus: a C++ Template Library for
                                  Parallel Dynamic Mesh Applications . . . 215
               T. L. Veldhuizen   Arrays in Blitz++  . . . . . . . . . . . 223
                S. Karmesin and   
               J. Crotinger and   
                J. Cummings and   
                       S. Haney   Array Design and Expression Evaluation
                                  in POOMA II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1506, 1998

               R. Buschmann and   
             L. Falkenhagen and   
                    R. Koch and   
                        R. Mohr   CUMULI, PANORAMA, and VANGUARD Project
                                  Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                    R. Mohr and   
               R. Buschmann and   
             L. Falkenhagen and   
                L. Van Gool and   
                        R. Koch   C UMULI , P ANORAMA , and V ANGUARD
                                  Project Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
            Richard Hartley and   
                 Gilles Debunne   Dualizing Scene Reconstruction
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
                  Long Quan and   
                Yuichi Ohta and   
                     Roger Mohr   Geometry of Multiple Affine Views  . . . 32
                Shai Avidan and   
                  Amnon Shashua   Tensor Embedding of the Fundamental
                                  Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
                    Bill Triggs   Optimal Estimation of Matching
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
           Philip Pritchett and   
               Andrew Zisserman   Matching and Reconstruction from Widely
                                  Separated Views  . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
           Lutz Falkenhagen and   
                    Thomas Wedi   Improving Block-Based Disparity
                                  Estimation by Considering the
                                  Non-uniform Distribution of the
                                  Estimation Error . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
                 T. Brodskt and   
              C. Fermueller and   
                   Y. Aloimonos   Beyond the Epipolar Constraint:
                                  Integrating $3$D Motion and Structure
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Tomás Brodský and   
    Cornelia Fermüller and   
              Yiannis Aloimonos   Beyond the Epipolar Constraint:
                                  Integrating $3$D Motion and Structure
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
         Federico Pedersini and   
              Augusto Sarti and   
                 Stefano Tubaro   Multi-Camera Acquisitions for
                                  High-Accuracy $3$D Reconstruction  . . . 124
             Marc Pollefeys and   
              Reinhard Koch and   
          Maarten Vergauwen and   
                   Luc Van Gool   Metric $3$D Surface Reconstruction from
                                  Uncalibrated Image Sequences . . . . . . 139
       Andrew W. Fitzgibbon and   
                Geoff Cross and   
               Andrew Zisserman   Automatic $3$D Model Construction for
                                  Turn-Table Sequences . . . . . . . . . . 155
           Richard Szeliski and   
                  P. H. S. Torr   Geometrically Constrained Structure from
                                  Motion: Points on Planes . . . . . . . . 171
                   Gunnar Sparr   Euclidean and Affine Structure/Motion
                                  for Uncalibrated Cameras from Affine
                                  Shape and Subsidiary Information . . . . 187
           Daphna Weinshall and   
                 P. Anandan and   
                   Michal Irani   From Ordinal to Euclidean Reconstruction
                                  with Partial Scene Calibration . . . . . 208
          Didier Bondyfalat and   
               Sylvain Bougnoux   Imposing Euclidean Constraints During
                                  Self-Calibration Processes . . . . . . . 224
           Heung-Yeung Shum and   
           Richard Szeliski and   
                Simon Baker and   
                    Mei Han and   
                     P. Anandan   Interactive $3$D Modeling from Multiple
                                  Images Using Scene Regularities  . . . . 236
            Philippe Robert and   
                  Damien Minaud   Integration of Multiple Range Maps
                                  through Consistency Processing . . . . . 253
      Stefan Großkopf and   
      Peter Johannes Neugebauer   Fitting Geometrical Deformable Models to
                                  Registered Range Images  . . . . . . . . 266
             Gudrun Klinker and   
            Didier Stricker and   
                   Dirk Reiners   The Use of Reality Models in Augmented
                                  Reality Applications . . . . . . . . . . 275
             Hagen Schumann and   
            Silviu Burtescu and   
                  Frank Siering   Applying Augmented Reality Techniques in
                                  the Field of Interactive Collaborative
                                  Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
                     Theo Moons   A Guided Tour Through Multiview
                                  Relations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1507, 1998

                       Y. Ishii   The Rise, Fall and Return of Software
                                  Industry in Japan  . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                   T. Feyer and   
               K.-D. Schewe and   
                    B. Thalheim   Conceptual Design and Development of
                                  Information Services . . . . . . . . . . 7
              Jae Young Lee and   
                  R. A. Elmasri   An EER-Based Conceptual Model and Query
                                  Language for Time-Series Data  . . . . . 21
             S. Bergamaschi and   
                     C. Sartori   Chrono: a Conceptual Design Framework
                                  for Temporal Entities  . . . . . . . . . 35
                   O. De Troyer   Designing Well-Structured Websites:
                                  Lessons to Be Learned from Database
                                  Schema Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . 51
            S. R. Rollinson and   
                  S. A. Roberts   Formalizing the Informational Content of
                                  Database User Interfaces . . . . . . . . 65
               D. W. Embley and   
             D. M. Campbell and   
                Y. S. Jiang and   
                   S. W. Liddle   A Conceptual-Modeling Approach to
                                  Extracting Data from the Web . . . . . . 78
             S. S. Bhowmick and   
                   W.-K. Ng and   
                       E.-P Lim   Information Coupling in Web Databases    92
                    T. Guan and   
                     M. Liu and   
                   L. V. Saxton   Structure-Based Queries over the World
                                  Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
                      R. Gustas   Integrated Approach for Modelling of
                                  Semantic and Pragmatic Dependencies of
                                  Information Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 121
                      C. Soutou   Inference of Aggregate Relationships
                                  through Database Reverse Engineering . . 135
                    S. Hartmann   On the Consistency of Int-cardinality
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
              K. Karlapalem and   
                          Q. Li   Realizing Next Generation Internet
                                  Applications: Are There Genuine Research
                                  Problems, or Is It Advanced Product
                                  Development? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
                      P. Atzeni   Web Sites Need Models and Schemes  . . . 165
                 S. Castano and   
           V. De Antonellis and   
                   M. Melchiori   ARTEMIS: a Process Modeling and Analysis
                                  Tool Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
                  O. Pastor and   
               V. Pelechano and   
                 E. Insfran and   
                       J. Gomez   From Object Oriented Conceptual Modeling
                                  to Automated Programming in Java . . . . 183
                 S. A. Noah and   
              M. Lloyd-Williams   An Evaluation of Two Approaches to
                                  Exploiting Real-World Knowledge by
                                  Intelligent Database Design Tools  . . . 197
                    D. L. Moody   Metrics for Evaluating the Quality of
                                  Entity Relationship Models . . . . . . . 211
                D. Castelli and   
                      S. Pisani   A Transformational Approach to Correct
                                  Schema Refinements . . . . . . . . . . . 226
                R. Schuette and   
                    T. Rotthowe   The Guidelines of Modeling --- An
                                  Approach to Enhance the Quality in
                                  Information Models . . . . . . . . . . . 240
                   D. Moody and   
               G. G. Shanks and   
                       P. Darke   Improving the Quality of Entity
                                  Relationship Models --- Experience in
                                  Research and Practice  . . . . . . . . . 255
                    A. Grau and   
               J. K. Filipe and   
                 M. Kowsari and   
                    S. Eckstein   The TROLL Approach to Conceptual
                                  Modelling: Syntax, Semantics and Tools   277
                    B. Campbell   Process Failure in a Rapidly Changing
                                  High-Tech Organisation: a System
                                  Dynamics View  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
                     M. Liu and   
                         M. Guo   ROL2: a Real Deductive Object-Oriented
                                  Database Language  . . . . . . . . . . . 302
                L. Al-Jadir and   
                     M. Leonard   Multiobjects to Ease Schema Evolution in
                                  an OODBMS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
                  Y. S. Jun and   
                    E. Hong and   
                      S. I. Yoo   Implementation of Automatic Lock
                                  Determination in C++-based OODBMSs . . . 334
                    B. Thalheim   Do We Need Information Modeling for the
                                  Information Highway? . . . . . . . . . . 348
             M. A. Jeusfeld and   
                    C. Quix and   
                       M. Jarke   Design and Analysis of Quality
                                  Information for Data Warehouses  . . . . 349
             D. Theodoratos and   
                      T. Sellis   Data Warehouse Schema and Instance
                                  Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
                T. Furukawa and   
                         F. Sha   Reducing Algorithms for Materialized
                                  View Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
                 E. V. Hahn and   
                   B. Paech and   
                        C. Bock   Reengineering Conventional Data and
                                  Process Models with Business Object
                                  Models: a Case Study Based on SAP R/3
                                  and UML  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
                 A. Moulton and   
                 S. Bressan and   
              S. E. Madnick and   
                   M. D. Siegel   An Active Conceptual Model for Fixed
                                  Income Securities Analysis for Multiple
                                  Financial Institutions . . . . . . . . . 407
             J. Sonderegger and   
                   P. Petty and   
    J. L. Campos dos Santos and   
                    N. F. Alves   An Entomological Collections Database
                                  Model for INPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
                  E.-P. Lim and   
                R. H. L. Chiang   A Global Object Model for Accommodating
                                  Instance Heterogeneities . . . . . . . . 435
                M. Richters and   
                     M. Gogolla   On Formalizing the UML Object Constraint
                                  Language OCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
             L. Bellatreche and   
              K. Karlapalem and   
                          Q. Li   Derived Horizontal Class Partitioning in
                                  OODBs: Design Strategies, Analytical
                                  Model and Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . 465


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1508, 1998

             Satish K. Tripathi   Quality of Service Support for
                                  Multimedia Data on Internet  . . . . . . 1
                     Val Tannen   Heterogeneous Data Integration with
                                  Mobile Information Managers  . . . . . . 2--3
          Maria Papadopouli and   
                Leana Golubchik   A Scalable Video-on-Demand Server for a
                                  Dynamic Heterogeneous Environment  . . . 4
             Derek L. Eager and   
                 Mary K. Vernon   Dynamic Skyscraper Broadcasts for
                                  Video-on-Demand  . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
             KyungOh O. Lee and   
                   Heon Y. Yeom   Deciding Round Length and Striping Unit
                                  Size for Multimedia Servers  . . . . . . 33
    K. Selçuk Candan and   
                 Eric Lemar and   
             V. S. Subrahmanian   Management and Rendering of Multimedia
                                  Views  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
                  Sami Iren and   
               Paul D. Amer and   
              Phillip T. Conrad   NETCICATS: Network-Conscious Image
                                  Compression and Transmission System  . . 57
           Slobodan S. Petrovic   ABR Service in ATM Networks: Performance
                                  Comparison Between BECN and Adaptive
                                  Stochastic Congestion Control Schemes
                                  with Guaranteed Minimum Cell Rate  . . . 69
          Silvia Hollfelder and   
                    Karl Aberer   An Admission Control Framework for
                                  Applications with Variable Consumption
                                  Rates in Client-Pull Architectures . . . 82
           Gajendra Sisodia and   
                Mark Hedley and   
                 Subrata De and   
                      Ling Guan   Accurate Modelling of VBR Coded Video
                                  Sources in ATM Networks  . . . . . . . . 98
              Chahab Nastar and   
          Matthias Mitschke and   
             Nozha Boujemaa and   
         Christophe Meilhac and   
    Hél\`ene Bernard and   
                   Marc Mautref   Retrieving Images by Content: The
                                  Surfimage System . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
     Christian Altenschmidt and   
             Joachim Biskup and   
        Jürgen Freitag and   
                 Barbara Sprick   Weakly Constraining Multimedia Types
                                  Based on a Type Embedding Ordering . . . 121
             John C. S. Lui and   
                 M. F. Chan and   
          Oldfield K. Y. So and   
                      T. S. Tam   Balancing Workload and Communication
                                  Cost for a Distributed Virtual
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
          Joseph H. Schafer and   
          Timothy J. Rogers and   
                  John A. Marin   Network Visualization of Heterogeneous
                                  US Army War Reserve Readiness Data . . . 136--147
        Alessandro Grimaldi and   
                Tiziana Catarci   A Museum-Oriented Authoring Tool . . . . 148
                A. Woudstra and   
            D. D. Velthausz and   
           H. J. G. de Poot and   
      F. Moelaert El-Hadidy and   
                  W. Jonker and   
           M. A. W. Houtsma and   
               R. G. Heller and   
             J. N. H. Heemskerk   Modeling and Retrieving Audiovisual
                                  Information --- A Soccer Video Retrieval
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
                       H. Suess   A Flexible Architecture for the
                                  Integration of Media Servers and
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
         Henrike Süß   A Flexible Architecture for the
                                  Integration of Media Servers and
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
         Stanislaw Matusiak and   
             Mohamed Daoudi and   
                Thierry Blu and   
                  Olivier Avaro   Sketch-Based Images Database Retrieval   185
           Young-Il I. Choi and   
             Yoo-Mi M. Park and   
            Hun-Soon S. Lee and   
                Seong-Il I. Jin   An Integrated Data Model and A Query
                                  Language for Content-Based Retrieval of
                                  Video  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
                 J. Assfalg and   
               A. Del Bimbo and   
                        P. Pala   Virtual Reality for Image Retrieval  . . 199
                  Chahab Nastar   Trends in Visual Information Retrieval
                                  (Panel Description)  . . . . . . . . . . 205


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1510, 1998

                  A. A. Freitas   On Objective Measures of Rule
                                  Suprisingness  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                  E. Suzuki and   
                   Y. Kodratoff   Discovery of Surprising Exception Rules
                                  Based on Intensity of Implication  . . . 10
                    P. Gago and   
                       C. Bento   A Metric for Selection of the Most
                                  Promising Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
                 X. Polanco and   
                C. Francois and   
               M. A. Ould Louly   For Visualization-Based Analysis Tools
                                  in Knowledge Discovery Process: a
                                  Multilayer Perceptron versus Principal
                                  Components Analysis --- A Comparative
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
                 R. Feldman and   
                  Y. Aumann and   
             A. Zilberstein and   
                  Y. Ben-Yehuda   Trend Graphs: Visualizing the Evolution
                                  of Concept Relationships in Large
                                  Document Collections . . . . . . . . . . 38
               L. Bobrowski and   
                    T. Sowinski   Ranked Rules and Data Visualization  . . 47
                  D. Landau and   
                 R. Feldman and   
                   O. Zamir and   
                      Y. Aumann   TextVis: An Integrated Visual
                                  Environment for Text Mining  . . . . . . 56
                 R. Feldman and   
                  M. Fresko and   
                   Y. Kinar and   
                     Y. Lindell   Text Mining at the Term Level  . . . . . 65
                    J. Hipp and   
                    A. Myka and   
                   R. Wirth and   
                    U. Guentzer   A New Algorithm for Faster Mining of
                                  Generalized Association Rules  . . . . . 74
                  K. Gibert and   
                   T. Aluja and   
                      U. Cortes   Knowledge Discovery with Clustering
                                  Based on Rules Interpreting Results  . . 83
                L. Talavera and   
                       J. Bejar   Efficient Construction of Comprehensible
                                  Hierarchical Clusterings . . . . . . . . 93
                   T. Brijs and   
                     K. Vanhoof   Cost Sensitive Discretization of Numeric
                                  Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
                   N. Zhong and   
                     C. Liu and   
                Y. Kakemoto and   
                      S. Ohsuga   Handling KDD Process Changes by
                                  Incremental Replanning . . . . . . . . . 111
                 A. T. Bjorvand   Object Mining: a Practical Application
                                  of Data Mining for the Construction and
                                  Maintenance of Software Components . . . 121
                  L. Martin and   
                    F. Moal and   
                       C. Vrain   A Relational Data Mining Tool Based on
                                  Genetic Programming  . . . . . . . . . . 130
                     K. M. Ting   Inducing Cost-Sensitive Trees via
                                  Instance Weighting . . . . . . . . . . . 139
              J. Kindermann and   
                       G. Paass   Model Switching for Bayesian
                                  Classification Trees with Soft Splits    148
                   T. B. Ho and   
                   T. D. Nguyen   Interactive Visualization for Predictive
                                  Modelling with Decision Tree Induction   158
                  B. Olsson and   
                      K. Laurio   Discovery of Diagnostic Patterns from
                                  Protein Sequence Databases . . . . . . . 167
               F. Masseglia and   
                 F. Cathala and   
                    P. Poncelet   The PSP Approach for Mining Sequential
                                  Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
                  L. Popelinsky   Knowledge Dicovery in Spatial Data by
                                  Means of ILP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
            J. F. Boulicaut and   
             M. Klemettinen and   
                     H. Mannila   Querying Inductive Databases: a Case
                                  Study on the MINE RULE Operator  . . . . 194
                       J. Rauch   Classes of Four-Fold Table Quantifiers   203
                 J. Lorenzo and   
               M. Hernandez and   
                      J. Mendez   Detection of Interdependences in
                                  Attribute Selection  . . . . . . . . . . 212
                  T. Elomaa and   
                       J. Rousu   Postponing the Evaluation of Attributes
                                  with a High Number of Boundary Points    221
                    M. Boussouf   A Hybrid Approach to Feature Selection   230
                   P. Berka and   
                       I. Bruha   Discretization and Grouping:
                                  Preprocessing Steps for Data Mining  . . 239
              N. M. Bigolin and   
                     C. Marsala   Fuzzy Spacial OQL for Fuzzy Knowledge
                                  Discovery in Databases . . . . . . . . . 246
                    P. Bosc and   
                 L. Lietard and   
                      O. Pivert   Extended Functional Dependencies as a
                                  Basis for Linguistic Summaries . . . . . 255
               L. Carbonara and   
                   A. Borrowman   A Comparison of Batch and Incremental
                                  Supervised Learning Algorithms . . . . . 264
               J. Cerquides and   
           R. Lopez de Mantaras   Knowledge Discovery with Qualitative
                                  Influences and Synergies . . . . . . . . 273
                    X. Chen and   
                  I. Petrounias   Language Support for Temporal Data
                                  Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
                 E. Collopy and   
                      M. Levene   Resampling in an Indefinite Database to
                                  Approximate Functional Dependencies  . . 291
                N. Dewhurst and   
                   S. Lavington   Knowledge Discovery from Client-Server
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
                  A. Flexer and   
                       H. Bauer   Discovery of Common Subsequences in
                                  Cognitive Evoked Potentials  . . . . . . 309
               S. Guillaume and   
                 F. Guillet and   
                    J. Philippe   Improving the Discovery of Association
                                  Rules with Intensity of Implication  . . 318
             H. J. Hamilton and   
            R. J. Hilderman and   
                      L. Li and   
                  D. J. Randall   Generalization Lattices  . . . . . . . . 328
                   K. M. Ho and   
                    P. D. Scott   Overcoming Fragmentation in Decision
                                  Trees Through Attribute Value Grouping   337
                P. Hunziker and   
                   A. Maier and   
                   A. Nippe and   
                      M. Tresch   Data Mining at a Major Bank: Lessons
                                  from a Large Marketing Application . . . 345
              M. V. Kiselev and   
              S. M. Ananyan and   
                 S. B. Arseniev   PolyAnalyst Data Analysis Technique and
                                  Its Specialization for Processing Data
                                  Organized as a Set of Attribute Values   352
                M. Kryszkiewicz   Representative Association Rules and
                                  Minimum Condition Maximum Consequence
                                  Association Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . 361
                  W. Kwedlo and   
                   M. Kretowski   Discovery of Decision Rules from
                                  Databases: An Evolutionary Approach  . . 370
              N. M. Marques and   
                G. P. Lopes and   
                   C. A. Coelho   Using Loglinear Clustering for
                                  Subcategorization Identification . . . . 379
                   K. Matsumoto   Exploratory Attributes Search in
                                  Times-Series Data: An Experimental
                                  System for Agricultural Application  . . 388
                  J. Mendez and   
               M. Hernandez and   
                     J. Lorenzo   A Procedure to Compute Prototypes for
                                  Data Mining in Non-structured Domains    396
               J. Moscarola and   
                      R. Bolden   From the Data Mine to the Knowledge
                                  Mill: Applying the Principles of Lexical
                                  Analysis to the Data Mining and
                                  Knowledge Discovery Process  . . . . . . 405
                       A. Ragel   Preprocessing of Missing Values Using
                                  Robust Associations Rules  . . . . . . . 414
                    T. Reinartz   Similarity-Driven Sampling for Data
                                  Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
              A. P. Sanjeev and   
                   J. M. Zytkow   Modeling the Business Process by Mining
                                  Multiple Databases . . . . . . . . . . . 432
               J. Stepaniuk and   
                         M. Maj   Data Transformation and Rough Sets . . . 441
                  G. Stumme and   
                   R. Wille and   
                       U. Wille   Conceptual Knowledge Discovery in
                                  Databases Using Formal Concept Analysis
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
    J. F. Martinez Trinidad and   
        B. Beltran Martinez and   
           A. Guzman Arenas and   
             J. Ruiz Shulcloper   CLASITEX+: a Tool for Knowledge
                                  Discovery from Texts . . . . . . . . . . 459
                     S. Tsumoto   Discovery of Approximate Medical
                                  Knowledge Based on Rough set Model . . . 468
                  A. A. Freitas   Scalable, High-Performance Data Mining
                                  with Parallel Processing . . . . . . . . 477
                     R. Feldman   Pratical Text Mining . . . . . . . . . . 478
                G. Nakhaeizadeh   Industrial Applications of Data Mining   479


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1511, 1998

                J. F. Prins and   
              S. Chatterjee and   
                      M. Simons   Expressing Irregular Computations in
                                  Modern Fortran Dialects  . . . . . . . . 1
                  J. Carter and   
                   W. Hsieh and   
                 M. Swanson and   
                       L. Zhang   Memory System Support for Irregular
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
                S. Chauveau and   
                       F. Bodin   MENHIR: An Environment for High
                                  Performance Matlab . . . . . . . . . . . 27
                     Y. Lin and   
                       D. Padua   On the Automatic Parallelization of
                                  Sparse and Irregular Fortran Programs    41
                      V. Sarkar   Loop Transformations for Hierarchical
                                  Parallelism and Locality . . . . . . . . 57
                    J. Tims and   
                   R. Gupta and   
                    M. L. Soffa   Dataflow Analysis Driven Dynamic Data
                                  Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
                    S. Moon and   
                      B. So and   
                 M. W. Hall and   
                      B. Murphy   A Case for Combining Compile-Time and
                                  Run-Time Parallelization . . . . . . . . 91
               S. Ioannidis and   
                   S. Dwarkadas   Compiler and Run-Time Support for
                                  Adaptive Load Balancing in Software
                                  Distributed Shared Memory Systems  . . . 107
                O. Beckmann and   
                 P. H. J. Kelly   Efficient Interprocedural Data Placement
                                  Optimisation in a Parallel Library . . . 123
               G. D. Benson and   
                   R. A. Olsson   A Framework for Specializing Threads in
                                  Concurrent Run-Time Systems  . . . . . . 139
                   D. Cronk and   
                    P. Mehrotra   Load Balancing with Migrant Lightweight
                                  Threads  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
                 J. M. Rehg and   
                   K. Knobe and   
            U. Ramachandran and   
                   R. S. Nikhil   Integrated Task and Data Parallel
                                  Support for Dynamic Applications . . . . 167
                 M. Cermele and   
               M. Colajanni and   
                       S. Tucci   Supporting Self-Adaptivity for SPMD
                                  Message-Passing Applications . . . . . . 181
                  D. Hisley and   
                 G. Agrawal and   
                     L. Pollock   Evaluating the Effectiveness of a
                                  Parallelizing Compiler . . . . . . . . . 195
                H. Yamamoto and   
                   K. Taura and   
                    A. Yonezawa   Comparing Reference Counting and Global
                                  Mark-and-Sweep on Parallel Computers . . 205
                    T. W. Pratt   Design of the GODIVA Performance
                                  Measurement System . . . . . . . . . . . 219
               J. Nesheiwat and   
                B. K. Szymanski   Instrumentation Database for Performance
                                  Analysis of Parallel Scientific
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
                   M. Uysal and   
                 T. M. Kurc and   
                 A. Sussman and   
                       J. Saltz   A Performance Prediction Framework for
                                  Data Intensive Applications on Large
                                  Scale Parallel Machines  . . . . . . . . 243
               M. F. P. O'Boyle   MARS: a Distributed Memory Approach to
                                  Shared Memory Compilation  . . . . . . . 259
                 F. Desprez and   
                   S. Domas and   
                J. Dongarra and   
                     A. Petitet   More on Scheduling Block-Cyclic Array
                                  Redistribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--287
                    E. Eide and   
                 J. Lepreau and   
                 J. L. Simister   Flexible and Optimized IDL Compilation
                                  for Distributed Applications . . . . . . 288
               J. P. Loyall and   
               D. E. Bakken and   
              R. E. Schantz and   
                    J. A. Zinky   QoS Aspect Languages and Their Runtime
                                  Integration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
                    P. A. Dinda   The Statistical Properties of Host Load  319
             T. Abdelrahman and   
               N. Manjikian and   
                     G. Liu and   
                      S. Tandri   Locality Enhancement for Large-Scale
                                  Shared-Memory Multiprocessors  . . . . . 335
                 P. Brezany and   
               A. Choudhary and   
                        M. Dang   Language and Compiler Support for
                                  Out-of-Core Irregular Applications on
                                  Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors . . . 343
                    M. Feng and   
               Chung Kwong Yuen   Detection of Races and Control-Flow
                                  Nondeterminism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
                M. Kandemir and   
               A. Choudhary and   
                   J. Ramanujam   Improving Locality in Out-of-Core
                                  Computations Using Data Layout
                                  Transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
                D. Kulkarni and   
                       M. Stumm   Optimizing Computational and Spatial
                                  Overheads in Complex Transformed Loops   367
                  C.-C. Lim and   
                      Y.-H. Low   Building a Conservative Parallel
                                  Simulation with Existing Component
                                  Libraries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
                 S. Orlando and   
                      R. Perego   A Coordination Layer for Exploiting Task
                                  Parallelism with HPF . . . . . . . . . . 386
           S. Parthasarathy and   
                   S. Dwarkadas   InterAct: Virtual Sharing for
                                  Interactive Client-Server Applications   394
             L. Rauchwerger and   
                    F. Arzu and   
                       K. Ouchi   Standard Templates Adaptive Parallel
                                  Library (STAPL)  . . . . . . . . . . . . 402


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1512, 1998

                      A. Bailey   Coercion Synthesis in Computer
                                  Implementations of Type-Theoretic
                                  Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
                      B. Barras   Verification of the Interface of a Small
                                  Proof System in Coq  . . . . . . . . . . 28
                  J. Cederquist   An Implementation of the Heine-Borel
                                  Covering Theorem in Type Theory  . . . . 46
                 F. Damiani and   
                       F. Prost   Detecting and Removing Dead-Code using
                                  Rank 2 Intersection  . . . . . . . . . . 66
                       G. Dowek   A Type-Free Forrealization of
                                  Mathematics where Proofs are Objects . . 88
                  D. Fridlender   Higman's Lemma in Type Theory  . . . . . 112
            J. Goubault-Larrecq   A Proof of Weak Termination of Typed
                                  lambda-Calculi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
                    J. Harrison   Proof Style  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
                   A. Jones and   
                     Z. Luo and   
                    S. Soloviev   Some Algorithmic and Proof-Theoretical
                                  Aspects of Coercive Subtyping  . . . . . 173
                  P. Maeenpaeae   Semantical BNF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
                  M. E. Maietti   The Internal Type Theory of a Heyting
                                  Pretopos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
                     C. McBride   Inverting Inductively Defined Relations
                                  in LEGO  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
              P.-A. Mellies and   
                      B. Werner   A Generic Normalisation Proof for Pure
                                  Type Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
                     J.-F Monin   Proving a Real Time Algorithm for ATM in
                                  Coq  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
                       C. Munoz   Dependent Types with Explicit
                                  Subtitutions: A Meta-Theoreticical
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
            W. Naraschewski and   
                      T. Nipkow   Type Inference Verified: Algorithm W in
                                  Isabelle/HOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
                       S. Negri   Continuous Lattices in Formal Topology   333
                    A. Tasistro   Abstract Insertion Sort in an Extension
                                  of Type Theory with Record Types and
                                  Subtyping  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1513, 1998

                 M. Maybury and   
                   O. Stock and   
                    W. Wahlster   Intelligent Multimedia Communication . . 1
                     E. Gelenbe   Autonomous Search in Complex Spaces  . . 13
              E. J. Neuhold and   
                      R. Ferber   Scientific Digital Libraries in Germany:
                                  Global-Info, a Federal Government
                                  Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
                 S. Payette and   
                      C. Lagoze   Flexible and Extensible Digital Object
                                  and Repository Architecture (FEDORA) . . 41
                    J. Frew and   
                M. Freeston and   
                 N. Freitas and   
                        L. Hill   The Alexandria Digital Library
                                  Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
               M. Marazakis and   
               D. Papadakis and   
                S. A. Papadakis   A Framework for the Encapsulation of
                                  Value-Added Services in Digital Objects  75
               S. Kapidakis and   
                  S. Terzis and   
                   J. Sairamesh   A Management Architecture for Measuring
                                  and Monitoring the Behavior of Digital
                                  Libraries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
            L. C. Faulstich and   
                M. Spiliopoulou   Building HyperView Wrappers for
                                  Publisher Web Sites  . . . . . . . . . . 115
                  J. Hunter and   
                    R. Lannella   The Application of Metadam Standards to
                                  Video Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
                V. Castelli and   
              L. D. Bergman and   
                   C.-S. Li and   
                    J. R. Smith   Search and Progressive Information
                                  Retrieval from Distributed Image/Video
                                  Databases: The SPIRE project . . . . . . 157
                   W. Mahdi and   
                    L. Chen and   
                    D. Fontaine   Improving the Spatial-Temporal Clue
                                  Based Segmentation by the Use of Rhythm  169
               M. Braschler and   
                   P. Schaueble   Multilingual Information Retrieval Based
                                  on Document Alignment Techniques . . . . 183
                S. Sugimoto and   
                  A. Maecla and   
                 M. Dartois and   
                        J. Ohta   Experimental Studies on an Applet-Based
                                  Document Viewer for Multilingual WWW
                                  Documents --- Functional Extension of
                                  and Lessons Learned from Multilingual
                                  HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
                   M. Doerr and   
                   I. Fundulaki   SIS --- TMS: a Thesaurus Management
                                  System for Distributed Digital
                                  Collections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
                 C. B. Owen and   
                    J. Ford and   
                 F. Makedon and   
                   T. Steinberg   Parallel Text Alignment  . . . . . . . . 235
                   S. Jones and   
           S. J. Cunningham and   
                       R. McNab   An Analysis of Usage of a Digital
                                  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
               A. R. Kenney and   
               L. H. Sharpe and   
                      B. Berger   Illustrated Book Study: Digital
                                  Conversion Requirements of Printed
                                  Illustrations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
            P. J. Nuernberg and   
                 U. K. Wiil and   
                  J. J. Leggett   Structuring Facilities in Digital
                                  Libraries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
              C. S. G. Khoo and   
               D. C. C. Poo and   
                  T.-K. Toh and   
                     S.-K. Liew   E-Referencer: a Prototype Expert System
                                  Web Interface to Online Catalogs . . . . 315
               J. S. Hughes and   
                  S. K. McMahon   The Planetary Data System --- A Case
                                  Study in the Development and Management
                                  of Meta-Data for a Scientific Digital
                                  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
                 S. Malloch and   
                   C. Boehm and   
                   C. Duffy and   
                        C. Owen   Performing Arts Data Service --- An
                                  Online Digital Resource Library  . . . . 351
               G. Paliouras and   
           C. Papatheodorou and   
             V. Karkaletsis and   
                 C. Spyropoulos   Learning User Communities for Improving
                                  the Services of Information Providers    367
                      M. Stolze   Soft Navigation in Product Catalogs  . . 385
               M. Sanderson and   
                    F. Crestani   Mixing and Merging for Spoken Document
                                  Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
                   A. Knoll and   
            C. Altenschmidt and   
                  J. Biskup and   
        H.-M. Blüthgen and   
           I. Glöckner and   
               S. Hartrumpf and   
                  H. Helbig and   
                 C. Henning and   
               Y. Karabulut and   
             R. Lüling and   
                  B. Monien and   
                    T. Noll and   
                      N. Sensen   An Integrated Approach to Semantic
                                  Evaluation and Content-Based Retrieval
                                  of Multimedia Documents  . . . . . . . . 409
             A. F. Sineaton and   
                  M. Morony and   
                   G. Quinn and   
                      R. Scaife   Taiscealai: Information Retrieval from
                                  an Archive of Spoken Radio News  . . . . 429
                   A. Becks and   
                  S. Sklorz and   
                       C. Tresp   Semantic Structuring and Visual Querying
                                  of Document Abstracts in Digital
                                  Libraries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
            F. J. M. Bosman and   
                P. D. Bruza and   
        T. P. Van der Weide and   
               L. V. M. Weusten   Documentation, Cataloging, and Query by
                                  Navigation: A practical and sound
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
             B. Chidlovskii and   
                 U. M. Borghoff   Signature File Methods for Semantic
                                  Query Caching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
             J. M. Martinez and   
                  J. Bescos and   
                    G. Cisneros   Introducing MIRA: a Retrieval
                                  Applications' Development Environment    499
            M. F. Costabile and   
                F. Esposito and   
                G. Semeraro and   
                     N. Fanizzi   Interacting with IDL: The Adaptive
                                  Visual Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
                 A. Leouski and   
                       J. Allan   Evaluating a Visual Navigation System
                                  for a Digital Library  . . . . . . . . . 535
                  Y.-H. Liu and   
                 P. Dantzig and   
                   M. Sachs and   
                       J. Corey   Visualizing Document Classification: a
                                  Search Aid for the Digital Library . . . 555
                    D. Hiemstra   A Linguistically Motivated Probabilistic
                                  Model of Information Retrieval . . . . . 569
              K. T. Frantzi and   
               S. Ananiadou and   
                      J. Tsujii   The C-value/NC-value method of Automatic
                                  Recognition for Multi-word Terms . . . . 585
                  W. Kraaij and   
                    R. Pohlmann   Comparing the Effect of Syntactic vs.
                                  Statistical Phrase Indexing Strategies
                                  for Dutch  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
                    M. Ohta and   
                  A. Takasu and   
                      J. Adachi   Reduction of Expanded Search Terms for
                                  Fuzzy English-Text Retrieval . . . . . . 619
                 R. Zarnparelli   Internet Publications: Pay-per-Use or
                                  Pay-per-Subscription?  . . . . . . . . . 635
                  B. Yuwono and   
                     M. Adriani   Statistical Identification of
                                  Domain-Specific Keyterms for Text
                                  Summarisation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
                    J. Bern and   
                  C. Meinel and   
                        H. Sack   The STACS Electronic Submission Service  639
                   A. Ardoe and   
                  F. Falcoz and   
                 T. Nielsen and   
                  S. B. Shanawa   Integrating Article Databases and Full
                                  Text Archives into a Digital Journal
                                  Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
                 D. Faensen and   
                   A. Hinze and   
                    H. Schweppe   Alerting in a Digital Library
                                  Environment. Do Channels Meet the
                                  Requirements?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643
                Y. Kawasaki and   
                  R. Suzuki and   
                    H. Sunahara   NAIST Digital Video Library: Tools for
                                  Restructuring Video Data for the Content
                                  Based Information Retrieval --- A
                                  Representative Image of Shot Concept for
                                  the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
             R. Stubenrauch and   
                 B. Vickery and   
                     A. Ruppert   LIBERATION: a Value-Added Digital
                                  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
               C. Di Napoli and   
              M. M. Furnari and   
                    F. Mele and   
                       G. Minei   A Methodology to Annotate Cultural
                                  Heritage Digital Video . . . . . . . . . 649
                S. Laitinen and   
                    A. Neuvonen   BALTICSEAWEB --- Geographic User
                                  Interface to Bibliographic Information   651
               C. Tsinaraki and   
                 G. Anestis and   
              N. Moumoutzis and   
             S. Christodoulakis   Implementing Powerful Retrieval
                                  Capabilities in a Distributed
                                  Environment for Libraries and Archives   653
            S. Mangiaracina and   
               S. Ferrarini and   
                 M. G. Balestri   OWL-Cat: a Web-Based OPAC Appealing
                                  End-Users to Exploit Library Resources   657
                 B. Trousse and   
               M. Jaczynski and   
                    R. Kanawati   Towards a Framework for Building
                                  Collaborative Information Searching
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
               V. J. Herrington   Towards a New Paradigm for Library
                                  Instruction in the Digital Library . . . 661
                  D. Fensel and   
                  S. Decker and   
                 M. Erdmann and   
                      R. Studer   Ontobroker in a Nutshell . . . . . . . . 663
               C. Fernandez and   
                    P. Diaz and   
                        I. Aedo   WAY: An Architecture for User Adapted
                                  Access to Z39.50 Servers Based on
                                  Intelligent Agents . . . . . . . . . . . 665
                   N. Maria and   
                  P. Gaspar and   
                   N. Grilo and   
                    A. Ferreira   ARIADNE --- Digital Library Architecture 667
                  K. F. Tan and   
                    M. Wing and   
                  N. Revell and   
                     G. Marsden   Facts and Myths of Browsing and
                                  Searching in a Digital Library . . . . . 669
                     M. Kreyche   New Media Showcase . . . . . . . . . . . 671
           A. Simaioforidis and   
                J. Karlgren and   
                     A. Ereback   Creating a Collaborative Task-Specific
                                  Information Retrieval System . . . . . . 673
                    M. Jost and   
                    A. Bruemmer   EULER: An EU Telematics for Libraries'
                                  Project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675
               A. Rasmusson and   
                  T. Olsson and   
                      P. Hansen   A Virtual Community Library: SICS
                                  Digital Library Infrastructure Project   677
                   A. Waern and   
                 M. Tierney and   
              A. Rudstroera and   
                 J. Laaksolahti   Digital Libraries: Information Broker
                                  Roles in Collaborative Filtering . . . . 679
                   G. Munoz and   
                    I. Aedo and   
                        P. Diaz   Virtual Reality and Agents in a Digital
                                  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681
            C. A. Linderoth and   
                A. Bandholm and   
   B. Christensen-Dalsgaard and   
                      G. Berger   The European Schoolnet. An Attempt to
                                  Share Information and Services . . . . . 683
                F. Klaproth and   
                      N. Lossau   The Document Management System Saros
                                  Mezzanine and the New Product AGORA as
                                  Key Component in a Digital Library
                                  Architecture at Goettingen University
                                  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685
                  C. Zervos and   
                   S. Panis and   
               D. Dionysiou and   
                   M. Dionysiou   Electronic Roads in the Information
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689
                  K. Toraki and   
                   S. Kapidakis   The Technical Chamber of Greece Digital
                                  Library: The Vision of a Special
                                  Organisation to Save and Disseminate Its
                                  Information Work through the Network . . 691
              T. Gavrilovag and   
                      A. Voinov   Used-Centered Design of Adaptive
                                  Interfaces for Digital Libraries . . . . 693
                   B. Gatos and   
                N. Gouraros and   
               S. Mantzaris and   
                  S. Perantonis   A New Method for Segmenting Newspaper
                                  Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695
               M. Jaczynski and   
                     B. Trousse   Broadway, a Case-Based Browsing Advisor
                                  for the Web  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697
         V. Chrissikopoulos and   
                D. Georgiou and   
                 N. Koziris and   
                      K. Toraki   A Digital Library Model for the Grey
                                  Literature of Hellenic Academic
                                  Institutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699
               M. Braschler and   
                  C. Peters and   
                  E. Picchi and   
                   P. Schaeuble   Cross-Language Web Querying: The
                                  EuroSearch Approach  . . . . . . . . . . 701
                 C. Stephanidis   Interaction Design in Digital Libraries  703
                      D. Benyon   Beyond Navigation as Metaphor  . . . . . 705
             C. Stephanidis and   
            D. Akoumianakis and   
                  A. Paramythis   User Interaction in Digital Libraries:
                                  Coping with Diversity through Adaptation 717
                   T. Baker and   
                     J. Klavans   Metadata and Content-Based Approaches to
                                  Resource Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . 737
             P. Constantopoulos   Architectures and Services for Cultural
                                  Heritage Information . . . . . . . . . . 739
                     C. Houstis   Federated Scientific Data Repositories
                                  for the Environment Towards Global
                                  Scalable Management of Environmental
                                  Information: How Useful Will They Be?
                                  What Is Their Potential Impact? Shall We
                                  Save the Environment?  . . . . . . . . . 741
                P. J. D. Drenth   Preservation and Access: Two Sides of
                                  the Same Coin  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743
                         D. Law   Access versus Holdings: The Paradox of
                                  the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753
                    A. McDonald   The Human Factors in Digital Library
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761
                   F. W. Froben   Digital Information Management within
                                  Modem Library Systems Consortia and
                                  e-journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771
                   A. Dogac and   
                 I. Durusoy and   
                 S. Arpinar and   
                     E. Gokkoca   METU-EMar: An Agent-Based Electronic
                                  Marketplace on the Web . . . . . . . . . 777
                     T. Ajisaka   Electronic Commerce for Software . . . . 791
                    S. Paul and   
                    E. Park and   
                 D. Hutches and   
                       J. Chaar   RainMaker: Workflow Execution Using
                                  Distributed, Interoperable Components    801
                   S. Field and   
             C. Facciorusso and   
                 Y. Hoffner and   
                      A. Schade   Design Criteria for a Virtual Market
                                  Place (ViMP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819
          N. K. Lakoumentas and   
            E. N. Protonotarios   Intellectual Property Rights and the
                                  Global Information Network . . . . . . . 833
               J. Sairamesh and   
                     C. Codella   NetBazaar: Networked Electronic Markets
                                  for Trading Computation and Information
                                  Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839
                P. Miliotis and   
            A. Poulymenakou and   
                    G. Doukidis   The Shift Towards Electronic Commerce:
                                  Market Transformation and Employment
                                  Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857
                     A. Dan and   
                    D. Dias and   
                  T. Nguyen and   
                       M. Sachs   The Coyote Project: Framework for
                                  Multi-party E-Commerce . . . . . . . . . 873
                  Y. Yemini and   
               A. Dailianas and   
                    D. Florissi   MarketNet: Using Virtual Currency to
                                  Protect Information Systems  . . . . . . 891
                  E. Picchi and   
                 L. Biagini and   
                    D. Merlitti   CiBIT: Biblioteca Italiana Telematica. A
                                  Digital Library for the Italian Cultural
                                  Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903
                S. Biagioni and   
             J. L. Borbinha and   
                  R. Ferber and   
                      P. Hansen   The ERCIM Technical Reference Digital
                                  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905
                H. Sunahara and   
                R. Atarashi and   
               T. Nishimura and   
                        M. Imai   NAIST Digital Library  . . . . . . . . . 907


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1514, 1998

                  A. K. Lenstra   Generating RSA Moduli with a
                                  Predetermined Portion  . . . . . . . . . 1
                 G. Poupard and   
                       J. Stern   Generation of Shared RSA Keys by Two
                                  Parties  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
                   D. Boneh and   
                  G. Durfee and   
                     Y. Frankel   An Attack on RSA Given a Small Fraction
                                  of the Private Key Bits  . . . . . . . . 25--34
                 J. Patarin and   
                  L. Goubin and   
                    N. Courtois   C-+0* and HM: Variations Around Two
                                  Schemes of T. Matsumoto and H. Imai  . . 35
                  B. S. Kaliski   ECC/DLP and Factoring-Based
                                  Cryptography: A Tale of Two Families . . 50
                   H. Cohen and   
                  A. Miyaji and   
                         T. Ono   Efficient Elliptic Curve Exponentiation
                                  Using Mixed Coordinates  . . . . . . . . 51
                     T. Izu and   
                  J. Kogure and   
                    M. Noro and   
                    K. Yokoyama   Efficient Implementation of Schoof's
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
                   Y. Sakai and   
                     K. Sakurai   Design of Hyperelliptic Cryptosystems in
                                  Small Characteristic and a Software
                                  Implementation over F20n . . . . . . . . 80
                    J. Chao and   
                O. Nakamura and   
                K. Sobataka and   
                      S. Tsujii   Construction of Secure Elliptic
                                  Cryptosystems Using CM Tests and
                                  Liftings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
            J. H. Silverman and   
                      J. Suzuki   Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms and
                                  the Index Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . 110
                      H. Wu and   
                     F. Bao and   
                 R. H. Deng and   
                        Q.-Z Ye   Cryptanalysis of Rijmen-Preneel Trapdoor
                                  Cipher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
                      H. Wu and   
                     F. Bao and   
                 R. H. Deng and   
                        Q.-Z Ye   Improved Truncated Differential Attacks
                                  on SAFER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
                      T. Pornin   Optimal Resistance Against the Davies
                                  and Murphy Attack  . . . . . . . . . . . 148
               J. Camenisch and   
                     M. Michels   A Group Signature Scheme with Improved
                                  Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
              Chae Hoon Lim and   
                  Pil Joong Lee   A Study on the Proposed Korean Digital
                                  Signature Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . 175
                A. Canteaut and   
                    N. Sendrier   Cryptanalysis of the Original McEliece
                                  Cryptosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
                      H.-M. Sun   Improving the Security of the McEliece
                                  Public-Key Cryptosystem  . . . . . . . . 200
                     W. Mao and   
                  Chae Hoon Lim   Cryptanalysis in Prime Order Subgroups
                                  of Z0*n  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
                     Z. Dai and   
               Ding Feng Ye and   
                   Kwok Yah Lam   Weak Invertibility of Finite Automata
                                  and Cryptanalysis on FAPKC . . . . . . . 227
            R. Safavi-Naini and   
                        H. Wang   Bounds and Constructions for
                                  Multireceiver Authentication Codes . . . 242
                 Y. Frankel and   
                Y. Tsiounis and   
                        M. Yung   Fair Off-Line e-Cash Made Easy . . . . . 257
                    C. Boyd and   
                         E. Foo   Off-Line Fair Payment Protocols Using
                                  Convertible Signatures . . . . . . . . . 271
                        L. Chen   Efficient Fair Exchange with Verifiable
                                  Confirmation of Signatures . . . . . . . 286
                      D. Beaver   Adaptively Secure Oblivious Transfer . . 300
                      W. Qi and   
                    J. Yang and   
                        J. Zhou   ML-Sequences over Rings Z/(20e)  . . . . 315
              L. R. Knudsen and   
                   W. Meier and   
                 B. Preneel and   
                      V. Rijmen   Analysis Methods for (Alleged) RC4 . . . 327
                   T. Johansson   Reduced Complexity Correlation Attacks
                                  on Two Clock-Controlled Generators . . . 342
                    J. P. Stern   A New and Efficient All-Or-Nothing
                                  Disclosure of Secrets Protocol . . . . . 357
                  P. Nguyen and   
                       J. Stern   The Beguin-Quisquater Server-Aided RSA
                                  Protocol from Crypto'95 Is Not Secure    372
               M. Burmester and   
                 Y. Desmedt and   
                     J. Seberry   Equitable Key Escrow with Limited Time
                                  Span (or How to Enforce Time Expiration
                                  Cryptographically) . . . . . . . . . . . 380
                 Y. Desmedt and   
                     S. Hou and   
               J.-J. Quisquater   Audio and Optical Cryptography . . . . . 392
                        S. Wolf   Strong Security Against Active Attacks
                                  in Information-Theoretic Secret-Key
                                  Agreement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
                K. Kurosawa and   
                 T. Yoshida and   
                 Y. Desmedt and   
                   M. Burmester   Some Bounds and a Construction for
                                  Secure Broadcast Encryption  . . . . . . 420


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1515, 1998

              J. S. Sichman and   
                       R. Conte   On Personal and Role Mental Attitudes: a
                                  Preliminary Dependence-Based Analysis    1
                C. C. De Sa and   
             G. Bittencourt and   
                        N. Omar   An Autonomous Agent Architecture and the
                                  Locomotion Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 11
                  A. Amandi and   
                       A. Price   Building Object-Agents from a Software
                                  Meta-Architecture  . . . . . . . . . . . 21
                  M. Correa and   
                      H. Coelho   Agent's Programming from a Mental States
                                  Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
                 L. Jerinic and   
                V. Devedzic and   
                     D. Radovic   The Component Based Model of the Control
                                  Knowledge in an Intelligent Tutoring
                                  Shell  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
           L. M. M. Giraffa and   
              M. da C. Mora and   
                  R. M. Viccari   Modeling the MCOE Tutor Using a
                                  Computational Model  . . . . . . . . . . 50
         E. De Barros Costa and   
               A. Perkusich and   
                     E. Ferneda   From a Tridimensional View of Domain
                                  Knowledge to Multi-agent Tutoring System 61
                   J. Kinoshita   A Transfer Dictionary for Words and
                                  Bigrams  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
          J. L. T. Da Silva and   
           P. R. C. Abrahao and   
               V. L. S. De Lima   Integrating Morphological, Syntactical
                                  and Semantical Aspects Through
                                  Multi-agent Cooperation  . . . . . . . . 83
            R. S. Wazlawick and   
            J. G. Pereira Lopes   A Massively Parallel Architecture for
                                  Natural Language Parsing --- Some
                                  Results  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
             J. L. Ferreira and   
                    E. J. Costa   Planning and Learning: Put the User in
                                  the Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
        A. De Andrade Lopes and   
                     P. Brazdil   Redundant Covering with Global
                                  Evaluation in the RC1 Inductive Learner  111
            K. K. Bharadwaj and   
              J. D. S. Da Silva   Towards Integrating Hierarchical
                                  Censored Production Rule (HCPR) Based
                                  Systems and Neural Networks  . . . . . . 121
          A. P. de S. Braga and   
                A. F. R. Araujo   Goal-Directed Reinforcement Learning
                                  Using Variable Learning Rate . . . . . . 131
                  F. Protti and   
                   G. Zaverucha   On the Relations between Acceptable
                                  Programs and Stratifiable Classes  . . . 141
       W. Weber Vasconcelos and   
                M. A. T. Aragao   An Adaptation of Dynamic Slicing
                                  Techniques for Logic Programming . . . . 151
         I. De Almeida Mora and   
                  J. J. Alferes   Argumentative and Cooperative
                                  Multi-agent System for Extended Logic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
           B. Borges Garcia and   
           G. Pereira Lopes and   
                    P. Quaresma   Modeling Credulity and Skepticism
                                  through Plausibility Measures  . . . . . 171
                  J. Wainer and   
                      S. Sandri   Fuzzy Temporal Categorical and Intensity
                                  Information in Diagnosis . . . . . . . . 181
                   P. Gomes and   
                       C. Bento   Experiments on a Memory Structure
                                  Supporting Creative Design . . . . . . . 191
                   N. M. Hewahi   Real Time Variable Precision Logic
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
                   C. Nalon and   
                      J. Wainer   Strong Conditional Logic . . . . . . . . 209
                 P. Machado and   
                     A. Cardoso   Computing Aesthetics . . . . . . . . . . 219
          J. H. M. Nogueira and   
                 S. C. P. Gomes   Manipulator Robots Using Partial-Order
                                  Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
              F. C. Pereira and   
                 P. Machado and   
                     A. Cardoso   Darwinci: Creating Bridges to Creativity 239
                 M. Ferrand and   
                     A. Cardoso   Scheduling to Reduce Uncertainty in
                                  Syntactical Music Structures . . . . . . 249


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1516, 1998

         Kevin Hollingworth and   
                     Amer Saeed   CoRSA --- A Constraint Based Approach to
                                  Requirements and Safety Analysis . . . . 3
             Kirsten Winter and   
              Thomas Santen and   
                 Maritta Heisel   An Agenda for Specifying Software
                                  Components with Complex Data Models  . . 16
                  Heinrich Rust   Safety in Production Cell Components: An
                                  Approach Combining Formal Real-Time
                                  Specifications and Patterns  . . . . . . 32
              Vincent David and   
             Jean Delcoigne and   
              Evelyne Leret and   
          Alain Ourghanlian and   
        Philippe Hilsenkopf and   
                 Philippe Paris   Safety Properties Ensured by the OASIS
                                  Model for Safety Critical Real-Time
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
                    K. Lano and   
                     P. Kan and   
                     A. Sanchez   Linking Hazard Analysis to Formal
                                  Specification and Design in B  . . . . . 60
Nicolás Martín-Vivaldi and   
                 Peter Isacsson   Controlling your Design through your
                                  Software Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
                     Timm Grams   Operator Errors and Their Causes . . . . 89
           Andrew Hutchison and   
               Michael Wallbaum   A Performance Comparison of Group
                                  Security Mechanisms  . . . . . . . . . . 103
                 J. Iliadis and   
               S. Gritzalis and   
                   V. Oikonomou   Towards Secure Downloadable Executable
                                  Content: The Java Paradigm . . . . . . . 117
         Ferdinand J. Dafelmair   Model and Implementation of a Secure
                                  SW-Development Process for Mission
                                  Critical Software  . . . . . . . . . . . 128
          Silvije Jovalekic and   
                     Bernd Rist   Impact of Object-Oriented Software
                                  Engineering Applied to the Development
                                  of Security Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 143
               B. A. De Mol and   
                   F. Koornneef   `Profit by Safety' or Quackery in
                                  Biomedical Information Technology? . . . 159
              Bas A. de Mol and   
                Floor Koornneef   ``Profit by Safety'' or Quackery in
                                  Biomedical Information Technology? . . . 159
              Bas A. de Mol and   
                Floor Koornneef   ``Profit by Safety'' or Quackery in
                                  Biomedical Information Technology? . . . 159
          Peter Liggesmeyer and   
              Martin Rothfelder   Towards Automated Proof of Fail-Safe
                                  Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--184
            Agathe Merceron and   
     Monika Müllerburg and   
               G. Michele Pinna   Verifying a Time-Triggered Protocol in a
                                  Multi-language Environment . . . . . . . 185
         Wolfgang A. Halang and   
           Alceu Heinke Frigeri   Methods and Languages for Safety-Related
                                  Real-Time Programming  . . . . . . . . . 196
                  Arndt Lindner   ANSI-C in Safety Critical Applications
                                  --- Lessons-Learned from Software
                                  Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--217
        Piergiorgio Bertoli and   
         Alessandro Cimatti and   
         Fausto Giunchiglia and   
                 Paolo Traverso   A Structured Approach to the Formal
                                  Certification of Safety of Computer
                                  Aided Development Tools  . . . . . . . . 221
             Sandro Bologna and   
                 Rocco Bove and   
           Giovanni Dipoppa and   
           Giorgio Mongardi and   
                Gino Biondi and   
              Carmen Porzia and   
      Benny Graft Mortensen and   
               Niels Kirkegaard   Applying Formal Methods in Industry ---
                                  The UseGat Project . . . . . . . . . . . 231
                Th. Ringler and   
                 J. Steiner and   
               R. Belschner and   
                    B. Hedenetz   Increasing System Safety for by-wire
                                  Applications in Vehicles by Using a
                                  Time-Triggered Architecture  . . . . . . 243
                H.-D. Kochs and   
            W. Geisselhardt and   
                  H. Hilmer and   
                      M. Lenord   Fault-Tolerant Communication in
                                  Large-Scale Manipulators . . . . . . . . 254
                  E. Dilger and   
             T. Führer and   
                 B. Müller   Distributed Fault-Tolerant and
                                  Safety-Critical Applications in Vehicles
                                  --- A Time-Triggered Approach  . . . . . 267--283
         Alessandro Cimatti and   
         Fausto Giunchiglia and   
           Giorgio Mongardi and   
               Dario Romano and   
          Fernando Torielli and   
                 Paolo Traverso   Model Checking Safety-Critical Software
                                  with SPIN: An Application to a Railway
                                  Interlocking System  . . . . . . . . . . 284
             Fokko van Dijk and   
                Wan Fokkink and   
                   Gea Kolk and   
            Paul van de Ven and   
                Bas van Vlijmen   EURIS, a Specification Method for
                                  Distributed Interlockings  . . . . . . . 296
             Fokko van Dijk and   
                Wan Fokkink and   
                   Gea Kolk and   
            Paul van de Ven and   
                Bas van Vlijmen   EURIS, a Specification Method for
                                  Distributed Interlockings  . . . . . . . 296
            Bartosz Nowicki and   
           Janusz Górski   Object Oriented Safety Analysis of an
                                  Extra High Voltage Substation Bay  . . . 306
            Francesca Saglietti   Integration of Logical and Physical
                                  Properties of Embedded Systems by Use of
                                  Time Petri Nets  . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
                Krzysztof Sacha   Safety Verification of Software Using
                                  Structured Petri Nets  . . . . . . . . . 329
                   Ken Wong and   
                     Jeff Joyce   Refinement of Safety-Related Hazards
                                  into Verifiable Code Assertions  . . . . 345
            Bert Knegtering and   
             Aarnout Brombacher   A Conceptual Comparison of Two Commonly
                                  Used Safeguarding Principles . . . . . . 359
             Gerald Sonneck and   
            Erwin Schoitsch and   
               Lorenzo Strigini   A Holistic View on the Dependability of
                                  Software-Intensive Systems . . . . . . . 369
                 Rolf Drechsler   Verifying Integrity of Decision Diagrams 380
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1517, 1998

               B. Courcelle and   
             J. A. Makowsky and   
                      U. Rotics   Linear Time Solvable Optimization
                                  Problems on Graphs of Bounded Clique
                                  Width  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                   P. Damaschke   Minus Domination in Small-Degree Graphs  17
               V. Guruswami and   
               C. P. Rangan and   
                M. S. Chang and   
                    G. J. Chang   The Vertex-Disjoint Triangles Problem    26
             H.-J. Boeckenhauer   Communication in the Two-Way Listen-in
                                  Vertex-disjoint Paths Mode . . . . . . . 38
                  S. Dobrev and   
                     P. Ruzicka   Broadcasting on Anonymous Unoriented
                                  Tori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
                  G. Fertin and   
                     A. Raspaud   Families of Graphs Having Broadcasting
                                  and Gossiping Properties . . . . . . . . 63
                       O. Togni   Optical All-to-All Communication in
                                  Inflated Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 78
                H. Broersma and   
                   T. Kloks and   
                 D. Kratsch and   
                     H. Mueller   A Generalization of AT-free Graphs and a
                                  Generic Algorithm for Solving Treewidth,
                                  Minimum Fill-In and Vertex Ranking . . . 88
                   S. Isobe and   
                    X. Zhou and   
                   T. Nishizeki   A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Finding
                                  Total Colorings of Partial $k$-Trees . . 100
              J. Kratochvil and   
                        Z. Tuza   Rankings of Directed Graphs  . . . . . . 114
                   T. Biedl and   
                M. Kaufmann and   
                      P. Mutzel   Drawing Planar Partitions II:
                                  HH-Drawings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
                 S. Felsner and   
                     K. Kriegel   Triangles in Euclidean Arrangements  . . 137
                        W. Kahl   Internally Typed Second-Order Term
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
                  M. Talamo and   
                       P. Vocca   Compact Implicit Representation of
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
                S. Cicerone and   
                  G. Di Stefano   Graphs with Bounded Induced Distance . . 177
              D. G. Corneil and   
               F. F. Dragan and   
                   M. Habib and   
                        C. Paul   Diameter Determination on Restricted
                                  Graph Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
                      D. Handke   Independent Tree Spanners  . . . . . . . 203
               S. O. Krumke and   
              M. V. Marathe and   
              H. Noltemeier and   
                     S. S. Ravi   Upgrading Bottleneck Constrained Forests 215
                 C. Gauyacq and   
               C. Micheneau and   
                     A. Raspaud   Routing in Recursive Circulant Graphs:
                                  Edge Forwarding Index and Hamiltonian
                                  Decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
                     R. Klasing   Improved Compressions of Cube-Connected
                                  Cycles Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
                M. Roettger and   
                 U.-P Schroeder   Efficient Embeddings of Grids into Grids 257
               F. Shahrokhi and   
                  L. A. Szekely   Integral Uniform Flows in Symmetric
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
                   L. Faria and   
     C. M. H. De Figueiredo and   
              C. F. X. Mendonca   Splitting Number is NP-complete  . . . . 285
               S. P. Fekete and   
                      J. Kremer   Tree Spanners in Planar Graphs . . . . . 298
                   K. Miura and   
               D. Takahashi and   
               S.-I. Nakano and   
                   T. Nishizeki   A Linear-Time Algorithm to Find Four
                                  Independent Spanning Trees in
                                  Four-Connected Planar Graphs . . . . . . 310
                    K. Wada and   
                        W. Chen   Linear Algorithms for a k-partition
                                  Problem of Planar Graphs without
                                  Specifying Bases . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
                   L. Babel and   
                      S. Olariu   Domination and Steiner Tree Problems on
                                  Graphs with Few P4s  . . . . . . . . . . 337
                    E. Dahlhaus   Minimum Fill-in and Treewidth for Graphs
                                  Modularly Decomposable into Chordal
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
                F. V. Fomin and   
                 P. A. Golovach   Interval Completion with the Smallest
                                  Max-degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
                 K. Y. Gorbunov   An Estimate of the Tree-Width of a
                                  Planar Graph Which Has Not a Given
                                  Planar Grid as a Minor . . . . . . . . . 372


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1518, 1998

                 Alan M. Frieze   Disjoint Paths in Expander Graphs via
                                  Random Walks: A Short Survey . . . . . . 1
           Andrei Z. Broder and   
             Moses Charikar and   
           Michael Mitzenmacher   A Derandomization Using Min-Wise
                                  Independent Permutations . . . . . . . . 15
          Vojtech Rödl and   
           Andrzej Rucinski and   
                Michelle Wagner   An Algorithmic Embedding of Graphs via
                                  Perfect Matchings  . . . . . . . . . . . 25
                     Chi-Jen Lu   Deterministic Hypergraph Coloring and
                                  Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
                     Roy Armoni   On the Derandomization of Space-Bounded
                                  Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
            Devdatt P. Dubhashi   Talagrand's Inequality and Locality in
                                  Distributed Computing  . . . . . . . . . 60
                 Yossi Azar and   
                     Oded Regev   On-Line Bin-Stretching . . . . . . . . . 71
             Bernd Gärtner   Combinatorial Linear Programming:
                                  Geometry Can Help  . . . . . . . . . . . 82
                Abraham Sharell   A Note on Bounding the Mixing Time by
                                  Linear Programming . . . . . . . . . . . 97
           Israel A. Wagner and   
         Michael Lindenbaum and   
           Alfred M. Bruckstein   Robotic Exploration, Brownian Motion and
                                  Electrical Resistance  . . . . . . . . . 116
             R. Baeza-Yates and   
          J. Gabarró and   
                   X. Messeguer   Fringe Analysis of Synchronized Parallel
                                  Algorithms on 2-3 Trees  . . . . . . . . 131
               Richard Cole and   
                Alan Frieze and   
             Bruce M. Maggs and   
       Michael Mitzenmacher and   
     Andréa W. Richa and   
           Ramesh Sitaraman and   
                      Eli Upfal   On Balls and Bins with Deletions . . . . 145
                Martin Raab and   
                Angelika Steger   ``Balls into Bins'' --- A Simple and
                                  Tight Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
                   Michael Luby   Tornado Codes: Practical Erasure Codes
                                  Based on Random Irregular Graphs . . . . 171
             Mike Burmester and   
                Yvo Desmedt and   
                    Yongge Wang   Using Approximation Hardness to Achieve
                                  Dependable Computation . . . . . . . . . 172
    Mireille Régnier and   
           Wojciech Szpankowski   Complexity of Sequential Pattern
                                  Matching Algorithms  . . . . . . . . . . 187
               Yael Gertner and   
           Shafi Goldwasser and   
                     Tal Malkin   A Random Server Model for Private
                                  Information Retrieval or How to Achieve
                                  Information Theoretic PIR Avoiding
                                  Database Replication . . . . . . . . . . 200
              C. P. Schnorr and   
              C. R. Subramanian   Almost Optimal (on the average)
                                  Combinatorial Algorithms for Boolean
                                  Matrix Product Witnesses, Computing the
                                  Diameter (Extended Abstract) . . . . . . 218
           Stefano Leonardi and   
               Andrea Vitaletti   Randomized Lower Bounds for Online Path
                                  Coloring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
    Vicente Cerverón and   
                Ariadna Fuertes   Parallel Random Search and Tabu Search
                                  for the Minimal Consistent Subset
                                  Selection Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 248
         K. Steinhöfel and   
                A. Albrecht and   
                     C. K. Wong   On Various Cooling Schedules for
                                  Simulated Annealing Applied to the Job
                                  Shop Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
               Pere Guitart and   
                Josep M. Basart   A High Performance Approximate Algorithm
                                  for the Steiner Problem in Graphs  . . . 280
          Josep Díaz and   
                Jordi Petit and   
                    Maria Serna   Random Geometric Problems on [0,1]$^2$   294
             Carlos Domingo and   
             Osamu Watanabe and   
               Tadashi Yamazaki   A Role of Constraint in
                                  Self-Organization  . . . . . . . . . . . 307
            Don Coppersmith and   
              Gregory B. Sorkin   Constructive Bounds and Exact
                                  Expectations for the Random Assignment
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
        Leslie Ann Goldberg and   
                    Mark Jerrum   The ``Burnside Process'' Converges
                                  Slowly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
             Charles Knessl and   
           Wojciech Szpankowski   Quicksort Again Revisited  . . . . . . . 346
           Gunnar Andersson and   
               Lars Engebretsen   Sampling Methods Applied to Dense
                                  Instances of Non-Boolean Optimization
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
           S. Muthukrishnan and   
                   Torsten Suel   Second-Order Methods for Distributed
                                  Approximate Single- and Multicommodity
                                  Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1520, 1998

               Joxan Jaffar and   
               Roland H. C. Yap   Open Constraint Programming  . . . . . . 1
                  Peter Jeavons   Constructing Constraints . . . . . . . . 2
                Patrick Prosser   The Dynamics of Dynamic Variable
                                  Ordering Heuristics  . . . . . . . . . . 17
                     P. Prosset   The Dynamics of Dynamic Variable
                                  Ordering Heuristics  . . . . . . . . . . 17
           Slim Abdennadher and   
            Thom Frühwirth   On Completion of Constraint Handling
                                  Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
             Yasuhiro Ajiro and   
              Kazunori Ueda and   
                      Kenta Cho   Error-Correcting Source Code . . . . . . 40
       David-Olivier Azulay and   
     Jean-François Pique   Optimized Q-pivot for Exact Linear
                                  Solvers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
                  Rolf Backofen   Constraint Techniques for Solving the
                                  Protein Structure Prediction Problem . . 72
          Philippe Baptiste and   
             Claude Le Pape and   
                 Laurent Peridy   Global Constraints for Partial CSPs: a
                                  Case-Study of Resource and Due Date
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
            Christian Bliek and   
             Bertrand Neveu and   
             Gilles Trombettoni   Using Graph Decomposition for Solving
                                  Continuous CSPs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
             Bertrand Cabon and   
             Simon de Givry and   
       Gérard Verfaillie   Anytime Lower Bounds for Constraint
                                  Violation Minimization Problems  . . . . 117
            Barbara Catania and   
            Alberto Belussi and   
                  Elisa Bertino   Introducing External Functions in
                                  Constraint Query Languages . . . . . . . 132
 Hél\`ene Collavizza and   
    François Delobel and   
                  Michel Rueher   A Note on Partial Consistencies over
                                  Continuous Domains . . . . . . . . . . . 147
               Yves Deville and   
              Micha Janssen and   
          Pascal Van Hentenryck   Consistency Techniques in Ordinary
                                  Differential Equations . . . . . . . . . 162
             Andreas Fordan and   
               Roland H. C. Yap   Early Projection in CLP(R) . . . . . . . 177
          Eugene C. Freuder and   
             Richard J. Wallace   Suggestion Strategies for
                                  Constraint-Based Matchmaker Agents . . . 192
                Yan Georget and   
              Philippe Codognet   Compiling Semiring-Based Constraints
                                  with clp(FD,S) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
           Alfonso Gerevini and   
                    Jochen Renz   Combining Topological and Qualitative
                                  Size Constraints for Spatial Reasoning   220
             Warwick Harvey and   
               Peter J. Stuckey   Constraint Representation for
                                  Propagation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
          Timothy J. Hickey and   
       Maarten H. van Emden and   
                        Huan Wu   A Unified Framework for Interval
                                  Constraints and Interval Arithmetic  . . 250--264
                  Ulrich Junker   Constraint-Based Problem Decomposition
                                  for a Key Configuration Problem  . . . . 265
               R. W. L. Kam and   
                   J. H. M. Lee   Fuzzifying the Constraint Hierarchies
                                  Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
                Thomas H. Kolbe   Constraints for Object Recognition in
                                  Aerial Images --- Handling of Unobserved
                                  Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
   François Laburthe and   
                    Yves Caseau   SALSA: a Language for Search Algorithms  310
             Ewan MacIntyre and   
            Patrick Prosser and   
              Barbara Smith and   
                     Toby Walsh   Random Constraint Satisfaction: Theory
                                  Meets Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
               Kim Marriott and   
              Sitt Sen Chok and   
                    Alan Finlay   A Tableau Based Constraint Solving
                                  Toolkit for Interactive Graphical
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
                Peter Z. Revesz   Safe Datalog Queries with Linear
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
         E. Thomas Richards and   
                 Barry Richards   Non-systematic Search and Learning: An
                                  Empirical Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
             Robert Rodosek and   
                   Mark Wallace   A Generic Model and Hybrid Algorithm for
                                  Hoist Scheduling Problems  . . . . . . . 385
              Vincent Schachter   Linear Concurrent Constraint Programming
                                  Over Reals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
                      Paul Shaw   Using Constraint Programming and Local
                                  Search Methods to Solve Vehicle Routing
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
             Gilles Trombettoni   A Polynomial Time Local Propagation
                                  Algorithm for General Dataflow
                                  Constraint Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 432
         Richard J. Wallace and   
              Eugene C. Freuder   Stable Solutions for Dynamic Constraint
                                  Satisfaction Problems  . . . . . . . . . 447
          Francisco Azevedo and   
                 Pedro Barahona   Generation of Test Patterns for
                                  Differential Diagnosis of Digital
                                  Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
            Nicolas Barnier and   
                 Pascal Brisset   Combine & Conquer: Genetic Algorithm and
                                  CP for Optimization  . . . . . . . . . . 463
            Alessandro Biso and   
            Francesca Rossi and   
            Alessandro Sperduti   Some Experiments on Learning Soft
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
               Amedeo Cesta and   
                Angelo Oddi and   
               Stephen F. Smith   Scheduling Multi-capacitated Resources
                                  under Complex Temporal Constraints . . . 465
                 Yves Colombani   Implementing Global Constraints with
                                  Index-Sets and Constraint Templates  . . 466
             Eric Domenjoud and   
            Claude Kirchner and   
                  Jianyang Zhou   Generating Feasible Schedules for a
                                  Pick-up and Delivery Problem . . . . . . 467
Antonio J. Fernández and   
               Patricia M. Hill   An Impartial Efficiency Comparison of FD
                                  Constraint Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 468
               Daniel Frost and   
                   Rina Dechter   Optimizing with constraints: a Case
                                  Study in Scheduling Maintenance of
                                  Electric Power Units . . . . . . . . . . 469
             Holger H. Hoos and   
            Thomas Stützle   Some Surprising Regularities in the
                                  Behaviour of Stochastic Local Search . . 470--470
                 Stephan Pontow   Modelling CSP Solution Algorithms with
                                  Petri Decision Nets  . . . . . . . . . . 471
       Germán Puebla and   
            Francisco Bueno and   
            Manuel Hermenegildo   A Framework for Assertion-Based
                                  Debugging in Constraint Logic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--472
         Alvaro Ruiz-Andino and   
             Lourdes Araujo and   
      Fernando Sáenz and   
                       Jose Ruz   Parallel Execution Models for Constraint
                                  Propagation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
                 B. Seybold and   
                 F. Metzger and   
                    G. Ogan and   
                       K. Simon   Using Blocks for Constraint Satisfaction 474
                     Armin Wolf   Adaptive Solving of Equations over
                                  Rational Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
               T. Fruewirth and   
                     P. Brisset   Optimal Placement of Base Stations in
                                  Wireless Indoor Telecommunications . . . 476
        Thom Frühwirth and   
                 Pascal Brisset   Optimal Placement of Base Stations in
                                  Wireless Indoor Telecommunication  . . . 476


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1521, 1998

                     M. Boasson   Software Architecture for Distributed
                                  Reactive Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                        M. Broy   A Logical Basis for Modular Software and
                                  Systems Engineering  . . . . . . . . . . 19
                        B. Chor   From Quartets to Phylogenetic Trees  . . 36
              C. Eilinghoff and   
                     U. Kastens   Reuse Methods for Construction of
                                  Parallel Software  . . . . . . . . . . . 54
    G. Van Emde Boas-Lubsen and   
               P. Van Emde Boas   Compiling Horn-Clause Rules in IBM's
                                  Business System 12, an Early Experiment
                                  in Declarativeness . . . . . . . . . . . 68
                   R. Freivalds   Models of Computation, Riemann
                                  Hypothesis, and Classical Mathematics    89
                     P. Hanacek   Security of Electronic Money . . . . . . 107
                  K. Jansen and   
                       J. Rolim   Algorithms Based on Randomization and
                                  Linear and Semidefinite Programming  . . 122
              W. Lamersdorf and   
                    M. Merz and   
                          T. Tu   Distributed Systems Technology for
                                  Electronic Commerce Applications . . . . 135
                 R. Lueling and   
                  F. Cortes and   
                   G. N. Sensen   Parallel Interactive Media Server
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
        A. Marchetti-Spaccamela   On-Line Routing Problems for Broadband
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
                 R. Niedermeier   Some Prospects for Efficient Fixed
                                  Parameter Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 168
                C. Nikolaou and   
                   M. Marazakis   System Infrastructure for Digital
                                  Libraries: A Survey and Outlook  . . . . 186
                     B. Preneel   An Introduction to Cryptology  . . . . . 204
                      C. Roisin   Authoring Structured Multimedia
                                  Documents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
                     D. Rombach   Engineering Software and Software
                                  Engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
                     P. Ruzicka   Efficient Communication Schemes  . . . . 244
                      L. Strous   Audit of Information Systems: The Need
                                  for Co-operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
                  C. Vanoirbeek   Towards the Use of Dynamic Documents in
                                  Business Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 275
                       M. Beran   Computational Power of BSP Computers . . 285
                    R. Cervenka   Modeling of Hypermedia Applications  . . 294
                  B. S. Chlebus   On the Klee's Measure Problem in Small
                                  Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
                  S. Dobrev and   
                     P. Ruzicka   Yet Another Modular Technique for
                                  Efficient Leader Election  . . . . . . . 312
                      H. Fernau   Regulated Grammars with Leftmost
                                  Derivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
                L. Forlizzi and   
                    E. Nardelli   Some Results on the Modelling of Spatial
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
                      M. Gebala   The Reconstruction of Convex Polyominoes
                                  from Horizontal and Vertical Projections 350
                  T. Hruska and   
                P. Kolencik and   
                        M. Mace   Behavioral Safety in a Model with
                                  Multiple Class Objects . . . . . . . . . 360
           C. S. Iliopoulos and   
                       M. Korda   Massively Parallel Suffix Array
                                  Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
                      S. Lasota   Weak Bisimilarity and Open Maps  . . . . 381
   F. D. Muñoz-Escoi and   
                P. Galdamez and   
           J. M. Bernabeu-Auban   A Synchronisation Mechanism for
                                  Replicated Objects . . . . . . . . . . . 389
                     V. Novacek   Data Mining Extension for
                                  Object-Oriented Query Language . . . . . 399
                      H. Rudova   Constraints with Variables' Annotations
                                  and Constraint Hierarchies . . . . . . . 409
               A. Slobodova and   
                      C. Meinel   Sample Method for Minimization of OBDDs  419
                    P. Smrz and   
                 S. Hrbacek and   
                  M. Martinasek   Off-Line Recognition of Cursive
                                  Handwritten Czech Text . . . . . . . . . 437
                    P. Vanousek   Automated Theorem Proving in a
                                  Combination of Theories with Disjoint
                                  Signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1522, 1998

                 K. L. McMillan   Minimalist Proof Assistants:
                                  Interactions of Technology and
                                  Methodology in Formal System Level
                                  Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                R. B. Jones and   
           J. U. Skakkebaek and   
                     D. L. Dill   Reducing Manual Abstraction in Formal
                                  Verification of Out-of-Order Execution   2
                M. N. Velev and   
                   R. E. Bryant   Bit-Level Abstraction in the
                                  Verification of Pipelined
                                  Microprocessors by Correspondence
                                  Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
              M. O. Moeller and   
                       H. Ruess   Solving Bit-Vector Equations . . . . . . 36
                A. P. Eiriksson   The Formal Design of 1M-gate ASICs . . . 49
               J. E. Harlow and   
                      F. Brglez   Design of Experiments for Evaluation of
                                  BDD Packages Using Controlled Circuit
                                  Mutations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
                 M. Sheeran and   
                  G. Staalmarck   A Tutorial on Staadmarck's Proof
                                  Procedure for Propositional Logic  . . . 82
              M. Nikolskaia and   
                   A. Rauzy and   
                  D. J. Sherman   Almana: a BDD Minimization Tool
                                  Integrating Heuristic and Rewriting
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
                  K. Fisler and   
                    M. Y. Vardi   Bisimulation Minimization in an
                                  Automata-Theoretic Verification
                                  Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
                       K. Hanna   Automatic Verification of Mixed-Level
                                  Logic Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
                 S. Tasiran and   
               S. P. Khatri and   
                  S. Yovine and   
                  R. K. Brayton   A Timed Automaton-Based Method for
                                  Accurate Computation of Circuit Delay in
                                  the Presence of Cross-Talk . . . . . . . 149
                     F. Jin and   
                H. Hulgaard and   
                       E. Cerny   Maximum Time Separation of Events in
                                  Cyclic Systems with Linear and Latest
                                  Timing Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . 167
                     J. Ruf and   
                       T. Kropf   Using MTBDDs for Composition and Model
                                  Checking of Real-Time Systems  . . . . . 185
                 C.-J. H. Seger   Formal Methods in CAD from an Industrial
                                  Perspective  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
                N. Mansouri and   
                      R. Vemuri   A Methodology for Automatic Verification
                                  of Synthesized RTL Designs and Its
                                  Integration with a High-Level Synthesis
                                  Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
                    T. Lock and   
                 M. Mendler and   
                        M. Mutz   Combined Formal Post- and Presynthesis
                                  Verification in High Level Synthesis . . 222
                A. Mokkedem and   
               R. Hasabettu and   
              G. Gopalakrishnan   Formalization and Proof of a Solution to
                                  the PCI 2.1 Bus Transaction Ordering
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
                    B. Yang and   
               R. E. Bryant and   
           D. R. O'Hallaron and   
                       A. Biere   A Performance Study of BDD-based Model
                                  Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
                   G. Kamhi and   
                     L. Fix and   
                   Z. Binyamini   Symbolic Model Checking Visualization    290
              S. Mador-Haim and   
                         L. Fix   Input Elimination and Abstraction in
                                  Model-Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
                    D. A. Greve   Symbolic Simulation of the JEM1
                                  Microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
                    J. S. Moore   Symbolic Simulation: An ACL2 Approach    334
                  A. Pnueli and   
                       T. Arons   Verification of Data-Insensitive
                                  Circuits: An In-Order-Retirement Case
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
                 S. Berezin and   
                   A. Biere and   
                  E. Clarke and   
                         Y. Zhu   Combining Symbolic Model Checking with
                                  Uninterpreted Functions for Out-of-Order
                                  Processor Verification . . . . . . . . . 369
                      J. Su and   
                 D. L. Dill and   
               J. U. Skakkebaek   Formally Verifying Data and Control with
                                  Weak Reachability Invariants . . . . . . 387
                       C. N. Ip   Generalized Reversible Rules . . . . . . 403
            T. A. Henzinger and   
                  S. Qadeer and   
             S. K. Rajamani and   
                     S. Tasiran   An Assume-Guarantee rule for checking
                                  simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
                   S. Tahar and   
                  P. Curzon and   
                          J. Lu   Three Approaches to Hardware
                                  Verification: HOL, MDG, and VIS Compared 433
                 S.-K. Chin and   
                   Jang Dae Kim   An Instruction Set Process Calculus  . . 451
               J. H. Kukula and   
               T. R. Shiple and   
                        A. Aziz   Techniques for Implicit State
                                  Enumeration of EFSMs . . . . . . . . . . 469
                   K. Schneider   Model Checking on Product Structures . . 483
          K. Milvang-Jensen and   
                       A. J. Hu   BDDNOW: a Parallel BDD Package . . . . . 501
                 D. Deharbe and   
                 S. Shankar and   
                   E. M. Clarke   Model-Checking VHDL with CV  . . . . . . 508
                  A. Bunker and   
               T. N. Larson and   
                M. D. Jones and   
                  P. J. Windley   Alexandria: a Tool for Hierarchical
                                  Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
                R. Nalumasu and   
              G. Gopalakrishnan   PV: An Explicit Enumeration
                                  Model-Checker  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1524, 1998

                   Y. LeCun and   
                  L. Bottou and   
                  G. B. Orr and   
                  K.-R. Mueller   Efficient BackProp . . . . . . . . . . . 9
                    L. Prechelt   Early Stopping --- But When? . . . . . . 55
            T. S. Roegnvaldsson   A Simple Trick for Estimating the Weight
                                  Decay Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
                       T. Plate   Controling the Hyperparameter Search in
                                  MacKay's Bayesian Neural Network
                                  Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
                  J. Larsen and   
                  C. Svarer and   
                  L. Nonboe and   
                        A. Lars   Adaptive Regularization in Neural
                                  Network Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
                    D. Horn and   
                 U. Naftaly and   
                    N. Intrator   Large Ensemble Averaging . . . . . . . . 133
                    G. W. Flake   Square Unit Augmented, Radially
                                  Extended, Multilayer Perceptrons . . . . 145
                     R. Caruana   A Dozen Tricks with Multitask Learning   165
           P. Van der Smagt and   
                   G. Hirzinger   Solving the Ill-Conditioning in Neural
                                  Network Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
              N. N. Schraudolph   Centering Neural Network Gradient
                                  Factors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
                       T. Plate   Avoiding Roundoff Error in
                                  Backpropagating Derivatives  . . . . . . 227
               P. Y. Simard and   
                Y. A. LeCun and   
               J. S. Denker and   
                    B. Victorri   Transformation Invariance in Pattern
                                  Recognition --- Tangent Distance and
                                  Tangent Propagation  . . . . . . . . . . 239
               L. S. Yaeger and   
                 B. J. Webb and   
                     R. F. Lyon   Combining Neural Networks and
                                  Context-Driven Search for On-Line,
                                  Printed Handwriting Recognition in the
                                  Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
                S. Laurence and   
                   I. Burns and   
                    A. Back and   
                  Ah Chung Tsoi   Neural Network Classification and Prior
                                  Class Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . 299
                 J. Fritsch and   
                       M. Finke   Applying Divide and Conquer to Large
                                  Scale Pattern Recognition Tasks  . . . . 315
                       J. Moody   Forecasting the Economy with Neural
                                  Nets: a Survey of Challenges and
                                  Solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
                R. Neuneier and   
               H. G. Zimmermann   How to Train Neural Networks . . . . . . 373


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1525, 1998

               Daniel Gruhl and   
                  Walter Bender   Information Hiding to Foil the Casual
                                  Counterfeiter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
                  John Lach and   
  William H. Mangione-Smith and   
              Miodrag Potkonjak   Fingerprinting Digital Circuits on
                                  Programmable Hardware  . . . . . . . . . 16--31
           Andreas Westfeld and   
                    Gritta Wolf   Steganography in a Video Conferencing
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--47
             Lisa M. Marvel and   
   Charles G. Boncelet, Jr. and   
              Charles T. Retter   Reliable Blind Information Hiding for
                                  Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--61
             Yvo G. Desmedt and   
                 Shuang Hou and   
        Jean-Jacques Quisquater   Cerebral Cryptography  . . . . . . . . . 62--72
           Ross J. Anderson and   
           Roger M. Needham and   
                     Adi Shamir   The Steganographic File System . . . . . 73--82
             Dogan Kesdogan and   
                  Jan Egner and   
           Roland Büschkes   Stop-and-Go-MIXes Providing
                                  Probabilistic Anonymity in an Open
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--98
                 Gerrit Bleumer   Biometric yet Privacy Protecting Person
                                  Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--110
               Tomas Sander and   
          Christian F. Tschudin   On Software Protection via Function
                                  Hiding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--123
             Markus G. Kuhn and   
               Ross J. Anderson   Soft Tempest: Hidden Data Transmission
                                  Using Electromagnetic Emanations . . . . 124--142
              Jiri Fridrich and   
          Arnold C. Baldoza and   
              Richard J. Simard   Robust Digital Watermarking Based on
                                  Key-Dependent Basis Functions  . . . . . 143--157
                  Jack Lacy and   
    Schuyler R. Quackenbush and   
                Amy Reibman and   
                James H. Snyder   Intellectual Property Protection Systems
                                  and Digital Watermarking . . . . . . . . 158--168
         Alexander Herrigel and   
   Joseph Ó Ruanaidh and   
            Holger Petersen and   
             Shelby Pereira and   
                    Thierry Pun   Secure Copyright Protection Techniques
                                  for Digital Images . . . . . . . . . . . 169--190
Juan Ramón Hernández and   
Fernando Pérez-González   Shedding More Light on Image Watermarks  191--207
              Chr. Neubauer and   
                   J. Herre and   
                 K. Brandenburg   Continuous Steganographic Data
                                  Transmission Using Uncompressed Audio    208--217
    Fabien A. P. Petitcolas and   
           Ross J. Anderson and   
                 Markus G. Kuhn   Attacks on Copyright Marking Systems . . 218--238
             Sabrina Sowers and   
                  Abdou Youssef   Testing Digital Watermark Resistance to
                                  Destruction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--257
   Jean-Paul M. G. Linnartz and   
                Marten van Dijk   Analysis of the Sensitivity Attack
                                  against Electronic Watermarks in Images  258--272
            Neil F. Johnson and   
                 Sushil Jajodia   Steganalysis of Images Created Using
                                  Current Steganography Software . . . . . 273--289
                   Maurice Maes   Twin Peaks: The Histogram Attack to
                                  Fixed Depth Image Watermarks . . . . . . 290--305
               Christian Cachin   An Information-Theoretic Model for
                                  Steganography  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--318
               J. Mark Ettinger   Steganalysis and Game Equilibria . . . . 319--328
         Jean-Paul Linnartz and   
                 Ton Kalker and   
                 Geert Depovere   Modelling the False Alarm and Missed
                                  Detection Rate for Electronic Watermarks 329--343
                J. Zoellner and   
               H. Federrath and   
                 H. Klimant and   
                   A. Pfitzmann   Modeling the Security of Steganographic
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--354
            J. Zöllner and   
               H. Federrath and   
                 H. Klimant and   
               A. Pfitzmann and   
             R. Piotraschke and   
                A. Westfeld and   
                   G. Wicke and   
                        G. Wolf   Modeling the Security of Steganographic
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
                   Scott Craver   On Public-Key Steganography in the
                                  Presence of an Active Warden . . . . . . 355--368


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1526, 1998

                    D. Bjoerner   Domains as a Prerequisite for
                                  Requirements and Software Domain
                                  Perspectives and Facets, Requirements
                                  Aspects and Software Views . . . . . . . 1
                    M. Broy and   
                   F. Huber and   
                   B. Paech and   
                       B. Rumpe   Software and System Modeling Based on a
                                  Unified Formal Semantics . . . . . . . . 43
                    R. Wieringa   Postmodern Software Design with NYAM:
                                  Not Yet Another Method . . . . . . . . . 69
               E. Astesiano and   
                      G. Reggio   A Discipline for Handling Feature
                                  Interaction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
                     V. Berzins   Merging Changes to Software
                                  Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
                  C. George and   
                   Do Tien Dung   Combining and Distributing Hierarchical
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
                  C. Ghezzi and   
                       G. Vigna   Software Engineering Issues for Network
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
                  M. Heisel and   
                  S. Jaehnichen   A Two-Layered Approach to Support
                                  Systematic Software Development  . . . . 179
                E. Kamsties and   
                  H. D. Rombach   A Framework for Evaluating System and
                                  Software Requirements Specification
                                  Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
                        J. Reed   Formal Methods and Industrial-Strength
                                  Computer Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 223
                  S. Gruner and   
                    M. Nagl and   
                     A. Schuerr   Integration Tools Supporting Development
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
                           Luqi   Formal Models and Prototyping  . . . . . 257
                   Z. Manna and   
                M. A. Colon and   
              B. Finkbeiner and   
                    H. B. Sipma   Abstraction and Modular Verification of
                                  Infinite-State Reactive Systems  . . . . 273
                  S. Meldal and   
                  D. C. Luckham   NSA's MISSI Reference Architecture ---
                                  Moving from Prose to Precise
                                  Specification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
               H. W. Nissen and   
                       M. Jarke   Requirements Engineering Repositories:
                                  Formal Support for Informal Teamwork
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1528, 1998

                 B. De Schutter   Trends in the Fight Against
                                  Computer-Related Delinquency . . . . . . 1--17
               Bart De Schutter   Trends in the Fight Against
                                  Computer-Related Delinquency . . . . . . 1
                Lars R. Knudsen   Block Ciphers --- A Survey . . . . . . . 18--48
                   Bart Preneel   Cryptographic Primitives for Information
                                  Authentication --- State of the Art  . . 49--104
               Bart Preneel and   
             Vincent Rijmen and   
              Antoon Bosselaers   Recent Developments in the Design of
                                  Conventional Cryptographic Algorithms    105--130
                  E. De Win and   
                     B. Preneel   Elliptic Curve Public-Key Cryptosystems
                                  --- An Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . 131--141
                Erik De Win and   
                   Bart Preneel   Elliptic Curve Public-Key Cryptosystems
                                  --- An Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . 131
                    Walter Fumy   Key Management Techniques  . . . . . . . 142--162
                 Jan Verschuren   Security of Computer Networks  . . . . . 163--185
                    Walter Fumy   Internet Security Protocols  . . . . . . 186--208
          Mark Vandenwauver and   
                 Frank Jorissen   Securing Internet Electronic Mail  . . . 209--223
                   Klaus Vedder   GSM: Security, Services, and the SIM . . 224--240
                 Peter Landrock   TTPs Overview --- Concepts and Review of
                                  the State of Art from a Technical Point
                                  of View  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--263
                    Joan Daemen   Management of Secret Keys: Dynamic Key
                                  Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--276
              Mark P. Hoyle and   
              Chris J. Mitchell   On Solutions to the Key Escrow Problem   277--306
               Klaus Vedder and   
                 Franz Weikmann   Smart Cards --- Requirements,
                                  Properties, and Applications . . . . . . 307--331
                 E. Bovenlander   Smart Card Security  . . . . . . . . . . 332--337
               Ernst Bovelander   Smart Card Security  . . . . . . . . . . 332
             Berry Schoenmakers   Security Aspects of the Ecash\TM Payment
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--352
                   Klaus Vedder   International Standardisation of IT
                                  Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--365
               David W. Roberts   Security Management --- The Process  . . 366--376
                   B. De Decker   Introduction Computer Security . . . . . 377--394
                 Bart De Decker   Introduction to Computer Security  . . . 377


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1529, 1998

                        P. Fung   A Statistical View on Bilingual Lexicon
                                  Extraction: From Parallel Corpora to
                                  Non-parallel Corpora . . . . . . . . . . 1
                  I. D. Melamed   Empirical Methods for MT Lexicon
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
              M. Woszczcyna and   
               M. Broadhead and   
                   D. Gates and   
                     M. Gavalda   A Modular Approach to Spoken Language
                                  Translation for Large Domains  . . . . . 31
                M. B. Olsen and   
                 B. J. Dorr and   
                   S. C. Thomas   Enhancing Automatic Acquisition of the
                                  Thematic Structure in a Large-Scale
                                  Lexicon for Mandarin Chinese . . . . . . 41
                     Z. Oez and   
                     I. Cicekli   Ordering Translation Templates by
                                  Assigning Confidence Factors . . . . . . 51
          B. Buschbeck-Wolf and   
                       M. Dorna   Quality and Robustness in MT --- A
                                  Balancing Act  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
                      P. Resnik   Parallel Strands: a Preliminary
                                  Investigation into Mining the Web for
                                  Bilingual Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
              D. Z. Hakkani and   
                    G. Tuer and   
                 K. Oflazer and   
                    T. Mitamura   An English-to-Turkish Interlingual MT
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
                  M. Palmer and   
                  O. Rambow and   
                        A. Nasr   Rapid Prototyping of Domain-Specific
                                  Machine Translation Systems  . . . . . . 95
                   J. Toole and   
                 D. Turcato and   
                F. Popowich and   
                        D. Fass   Time-Constrained Machine Translation . . 103
                   C. Hogan and   
               R. E. Frederking   An Evaluation of the Multi-engine MT
                                  Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
                M. Temizsoy and   
                     I. Cicekli   An Ontology-Based Approach to Parsing
                                  Turkish Sentences  . . . . . . . . . . . 124
              G. Bashkansky and   
                       U. Ornan   Monolingual Translator Workstation . . . 136
             J. S. McCarley and   
                      S. Roukos   Fast Document Translation for
                                  Cross-Language Information Retrieval . . 150
                      K. Godden   Machine Translation in Context . . . . . 158
                      A. Bernth   Easy English: Addressing Structural
                                  Ambiguity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
                        M. Hong   Multiple-subject Constructions in the
                                  Multilingual MT-System CAT2  . . . . . . 174
                  A. Meyers and   
                  M. Kosaka and   
                    R. Grishman   A Multilingual Procedure for
                                  Dictionary-Based Sentence Alignment  . . 187
                J. S. Chang and   
                  S. H. Ker and   
                     M. J. Chen   Taxonomy and Lexical Semantics --- From
                                  the Perspective of Machine Readable
                                  Dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
                       D. Loehr   Can Simultaneous Interpretation Help
                                  Machine Translation  . . . . . . . . . . 213
                 L. Serutla and   
                      D. Kourie   Sentence Analysis Using a Concept
                                  Lattice  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
                 J. Schuetz and   
                      R. Nuebel   Evaluating Language Technologies: The
                                  MULTIDOC Approach to Taming the
                                  Knowledge Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
                 G.-W. Bian and   
                      H.-H Chen   Integrating Query Translation and
                                  Document Translation in a Cross-language
                                  Information Retrieval System . . . . . . 250
              P. Danielsson and   
                 K. Muehlenbock   When Staalhandski becomes Steelglove: a
                                  Corpus Based Study of Names in Parallel
                                  Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
                    J. Yang and   
                    E. D. Lange   SYSTRAN on AltaVista: a User Study on
                                  Real-Time Machine Translation on the
                                  Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
                     U. Germann   Making Semantic Interpretation
                                  Parser-Independent . . . . . . . . . . . 286
                  A. Fourla and   
                  O. Yannoutsou   Implementing MT in the Greek Public
                                  Sector: A Users' Survey  . . . . . . . . 300
                         N. Kim   Statistical Approach for Korean
                                  Analysis: a Method Based on Structural
                                  Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
                   D. Jones and   
                    R. Havrilla   Twisted Pair Grammar: Support for Rapid
                                  Development of Machine Translation for
                                  Low Density Languages  . . . . . . . . . 318
                    B. Dorr and   
                  N. Habash and   
                       D. Traum   A Thematic Hierarchy for Efficient
                                  Generation from Lexical-Conceptual
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
                  M. McCord and   
                      A. Bernth   The LMT Transformational System  . . . . 344
                  F. Reeder and   
                       D. Loehr   Finding the Right Words: An Analysis of
                                  Not-Translated Words in Machine
                                  Translation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
                  K. Taylor and   
                       J. White   Predicting What MT is Good for: User
                                  Judgements and Task Performance  . . . . 364
                     R. Guillen   Reusing Translated Terms to Expand a
                                  Multilingual Thesaurus . . . . . . . . . 374
              S. McLaughlin and   
                     U. Schwall   Spicing Up the Information Soup: Machine
                                  Translation and the Internet . . . . . . 384
                     H. Shinnou   Revision of Morphological Analysis
                                  Errors through the Person Name
                                  Construction Model . . . . . . . . . . . 398
                     C. Gdaniec   Lexical Choice and Syntactic Generation
                                  in a Transfer System: Transformations in
                                  the New LMT English-German System  . . . 408
                  K. Knight and   
                  Y. Al-Onaizan   Translation with Finite-State Devices    421
                    B. Dorr and   
                     M. Katsova   Lexical Selection for Cross-Language
                                  Applications: Combining LCS with WordNet 438
                  L. Gerber and   
                        E. Hovy   Improving Translation Quality by
                                  Manipulating Sentence Length . . . . . . 448
                     Y. S. Alam   Machine Translation among Languages with
                                  Transitivity Divergences Using the
                                  Causal Relation in the Interlingual
                                  Lexicon  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
                     D. W. Oard   A Comparative Study of Query and
                                  Document Translation for Cross-Language
                                  Information Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . 472
               K. J. Miller and   
                    D. M. Zajic   Lexicons as Gold: Mining, Embellishment
                                  and Reuse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
                        N. Cote   System Description/Demo of Alis
                                  Translation Solutions Application:
                                  Multilingual Search and Query Expansion  494
                        C. Raby   System Demonstration: SYSTRAN Enterprise 498
                 E. R. Westfall   Integrating Tools with the Translation
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
                  B. Ripplinger   EMIS: a Multilingual Information System  506
                   J. Kinoshita   An Open Transfer Translation . . . . . . 510
                     Q. Liu and   
                          S. Yu   TransEasy: a Chinese--English Machine
                                  Translation System Based on Hybrid
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
                     A. Chalabi   Sakhr Arabic-English Computer-Aided
                                  Translation System . . . . . . . . . . . 518
                        N. Cote   System Description/Demo of Alis
                                  Translation Solutions: Overview  . . . . 522
                      B. Orliac   Logos8 System Description  . . . . . . . 526


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1530, 1998

                    N. Immerman   Descriptive Complexity and Model
                                  Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
           N. Guttmann-Beck and   
                  R. Hassin and   
                 S. Khuller and   
                B. Raghavachari   Approximation Algorithms with Bounded
                                  Performance Guarantees for the Clustered
                                  Traveling Salesman Problem . . . . . . . 6
              D. A. Fotakis and   
                 P. C. Spirakis   A Hamiltonian Approach to the Assignment
                                  of Non-reusable Frequencies  . . . . . . 18
                   C. Lavatelli   Deadlock Sensitive Types for Lambda
                                  Calculus with Resources  . . . . . . . . 30
                 P. Quaglia and   
                      D. Walker   On Encoding $p$ in $m$ . . . . . . . . . 42
                    S. Guha and   
                     S. Khuller   Improved Methods for Approximating Node
                                  Weighted Steiner Trees and Connected
                                  Dominating Sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
              M. Kallahalla and   
                   P. J. Varman   Red-Black Prefetching: An Approximation
                                  Algorithm for Parallel Disk Scheduling   66
               J.-P. Talpin and   
                       D. Nowak   A Synchronous Semantics of Higher-Order
                                  Processes for Modeling Reconfigurable
                                  Reactive Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
              I. Castellani and   
                    M. Hennessy   Testing Theories for Asynchronous
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
                     J. H. Reif   Alternative Computational Models: a
                                  Comparison of Biomolecular and Quantum
                                  Computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
                M. Madhavan and   
                     P. Shankar   Optimal Regular Tree Pattern Matching
                                  Using Pushdown Automata  . . . . . . . . 122
                 A. Neumann and   
                       H. Seidl   Locating Matches of Tree Patterns in
                                  Forests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
                  A. Kuehnemann   Benefits of Tree Transducers for
                                  Optimizing Functional Programs . . . . . 146
                 V. K. Garg and   
                 J. R. Mitchell   Implementable Failure Detectors in
                                  Asynchronous Systems . . . . . . . . . . 158
            E. Meineche Schmidt   BRICS and Quantum Information Processing 170
                 D. P. Dubhashi   Martingales and Locality in Distributed
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
                   I. Munro and   
                   V. Raman and   
               S. Srinivasa Rao   Space Efficient Suffix Trees . . . . . . 186
           N. S. Pendharkar and   
                    K. Gopinath   Formal Verification of an O.S. Submodule 197
           K. Narayan Kumar and   
              R. Cleaveland and   
                   S. A. Smolka   Infinite Probabilistic and
                                  Nonprobabilistic Testing . . . . . . . . 209
     N. Kalyana Rama Prasad and   
            P. Sreenivasa Kumar   On Generating Strong Elimination
                                  Orderings of Strongly Chordal Graphs . . 221
             J. Gudmundsson and   
                 C. Levcopoulos   A Parallel Approximation Algorithm for
                                  Minimum Weight Triangulation . . . . . . 233
                   L. Aceto and   
                  P. Bouyer and   
         A. Burgueño and   
                   K. G. Larsen   The Power of Reachability Testing for
                                  Timed Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
               P. K. Pandya and   
              Y. S. Ramakrishna   Recursive Mean-Value Calculus  . . . . . 257
                        R. Alur   Efficient Formal Verification of
                                  Hierarchical Descriptions  . . . . . . . 269
                 K. L. McMillan   Proof Rules for Model Checking Systems
                                  with Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
                    M. Huhn and   
                 P. Niebert and   
                    H. Wehrheim   Partial Order Reductions for
                                  Bisimulation Checking  . . . . . . . . . 271
                    J. Bohn and   
                    W. Damm and   
                O. Grumberg and   
                      H. Hungar   First-Order-CTL Model Checking . . . . . 283
                  A. Lozano and   
                    V. Raghavan   On the Complexity of Counting the Number
                                  of Vertices Moved by Graph Automorphisms 295
                    S. V. Lokam   Remarks on Graph Complexity  . . . . . . 307
                      M. Lohrey   On the Confluence of Trace Rewriting
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
                 H. Calbrix and   
                      T. Knapik   A String-Rewriting Characterization of
                                  Muller and Schupp's Context-Free Graphs  331
                  P. Jancar and   
                    F. Mraz and   
                  M. Platek and   
                       J. Vogel   Different Types of Monotonicity for
                                  Restarting Automata  . . . . . . . . . . 343
                  K. Lodaya and   
                        P. Weil   A Kleene Iteration for Parallelism . . . 355
                    U. Vazirani   Quantum Computation and Information  . . 367


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1531, 1998

           M. Cameron-Jones and   
                    L. Richards   Repechage Bootstrap Aggregating for
                                  Misclassification Cost Reduction . . . . 1
                       Z. Zheng   Generating Classifier Committees by
                                  Stochastically Selecting both Attributes
                                  and Training Examples  . . . . . . . . . 12
                      X. Wu and   
                    W. H. W. Lo   Multi-layer Incremental Induction  . . . 24
                  B. Hodjat and   
               C. J. Savoie and   
                     M. Amamiya   An Adaptive Agent Oriented Software
                                  Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
                T. Shintani and   
                         T. Ito   An Architecture for Multi-agent
                                  Negotiation Using Private Preferences in
                                  a Meeting Scheduler  . . . . . . . . . . 47
               H. Nishiyama and   
                  H. Ohwada and   
                   F. Mizoguchi   Towards Agent-Oriented Smart Office
                                  Based on Concurrent Logic Languages  . . 59
                K. Takadama and   
                S. Nakasuka and   
                      T. Terano   Analyzing the Roles of Problem Solving
                                  and Learning in Organizational-Learning
                                  Oriented Classifier System . . . . . . . 71
                 G. Beydoun and   
                    A. Hoffmann   Simultaneous Modelling and Knowledge
                                  Acquisition Using NRDR . . . . . . . . . 83
                  S. Ohsuga and   
                      T. Nishio   Model Building and Program Specification
                                  --- In a Case of Enterprise Design . . . 96
                 T. Menzies and   
                       S. Waugh   On the Practicality of Viewpoint-Based
                                  Requirements Engineering . . . . . . . . 110
                   A. Nayak and   
                         N. Foo   Reasoning without Minimality . . . . . . 122
            J. P. Delgrande and   
                      T. Schaub   Reasoning with Sets of Preferences in
                                  Default Logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
                 J. Aisbett and   
                      G. Gibbon   Frugality in Reasoning and the Role of
                                  Summary  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
                     G. Jha and   
                 Siu Cheung Hui   Data Mining for Risk Analysis and
                                  Targeted Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . 158
           S. S. Raza Abidi and   
                         A. Goh   Applying Knowledge Discovery to Predict
                                  Infectious Disease Epidemics . . . . . . 170
                     B. Liu and   
                    K. Wang and   
                  L.-F. Mun and   
                       X.-Z. Qi   Using Decision Tree Induction for
                                  Discovering Holes in Data  . . . . . . . 182
                R. Sekiuchi and   
                    C. Aoki and   
               M. Kurematsu and   
                   T. Yamaguchi   DODDLE: a Domain Ontology Rapid
                                  Development Environment  . . . . . . . . 194
                  A. Suyama and   
                 N. Negishi and   
                   T. Yamaguchi   CAMLET: a Platform for Automatic
                                  Composition of Inductive Learning
                                  Systems Using Ontologies . . . . . . . . 205
                    L. Alem and   
                    P. Marcenac   Management of Worker's Experiences: A
                                  Knowledge-Based Approach . . . . . . . . 216
                   I. Kononenko   The Minimum Description Length Based
                                  Decision Tree Pruning  . . . . . . . . . 228
                    M. Dash and   
                         H. Liu   Hybrid Search of Feature Subsets . . . . 238
                    K. Wang and   
                         B. Liu   Concurrent Discretization of Multiple
                                  Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
                  M.-J. Kim and   
                     I. Han and   
                         K. Lee   The Integration of Machine and Human
                                  Knowledge by Fuzzy Logic for the
                                  Prediction of Stock Price Index  . . . . 260
              Chun Che Fung and   
                    V. Iyer and   
                     C. Maynard   Computational Intelligence Techniques
                                  for Short Term Generation Scheduling in
                                  a Hybrid Energy System . . . . . . . . . 272
                    C. Zhou and   
                        Q. Meng   Fuzzy Rule Extraction Based-Integration
                                  of Linguistic and Numerical Information
                                  for Hybrid Intelligent Systems . . . . . 282
                 T. O'Neill and   
                         N. Foo   Reasoning about Continuous Change  . . . 294
               T. Van Allen and   
               J. Delgrande and   
                       A. Gupta   Point-Based Approaches to Qualitative
                                  Temporal Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . 305
               R. Wetprasit and   
                  A. Sattar and   
                    M. Beaumont   An Experimental Study of Reasoning with
                                  Sequences of Point Events  . . . . . . . 317
                   D. Hoang and   
                  G. Williamson   A Mixture of Global and Local Gated
                                  Experts for the Prediction of High
                                  Frequency Foreign Exchange Rates . . . . 329
                      Y. Xu and   
                       C. Zhang   A Neural Network Diagnosis Model without
                                  Disorder Independence Assumption . . . . 341
                 M. W. Chen and   
               A. M. S. Zalzala   Neural Network Based Motion Control and
                                  Applications to Non-holonomic Mobile
                                  Manipulators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
                  H.-M. Yeh and   
               J. Y.-J. Hsu and   
                    H.-S. Huang   A Geometric Approach to Anytime
                                  Constraint Solving for TCSPs . . . . . . 365
                J. Thornton and   
                      A. Sattar   Dynamic Constraint Weighting for
                                  Over-Constrained Problems  . . . . . . . 377
                H. Hiraishi and   
                  H. Ohwada and   
                   F. Mizoguchi   Time-Constrained Heuristic Search for
                                  Practical Route Finding  . . . . . . . . 389
            A. E. Nicholson and   
                      N. Jitnah   Using Mutual Information to Determine
                                  Relevance in Bayesian Networks . . . . . 399
                    N. L. Zhang   Context-Specific Independence,
                                  Decomposition of Conditional
                                  Probabilities, and Inference in Bayesian
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
                   Y. Ogawa and   
                  M. Mahsut and   
                  K. Toyama and   
                     Y. Inagaki   Derivational Grammar Approach to
                                  Morphological Analysis of Japanese
                                  Sentences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
                C. Jaruskulchai   An Automatic Thai Lexical Acquisition
                                  from Text  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
                   L. Kwang and   
                     A. Wee and   
          Loong Cheong Tong and   
                   Chew Lim Tan   Knowledge Representation Issues in
                                  Information Extraction . . . . . . . . . 448
                T. Watanabe and   
                      M. Yamada   Structuralization of Case-Bases, Using
                                  Concept Hierarchy  . . . . . . . . . . . 459
                A. Courtney and   
                         N. Foo   A Closer Look at Preduction  . . . . . . 471
            M. R. K. K. Rao and   
                      A. Sattar   Learning Linearly-Moded Programs from
                                  Entailment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
                  H. Ohwada and   
                 M. Daidoji and   
                 S. Shirato and   
                   F. Mizoguchi   Learning First-Order Rules from Image
                                  Applied to Glaucoma Diagnosis  . . . . . 494
                    C. Wang and   
                    T.-Y. Leong   Knowledge-Based Formulation of Dynamic
                                  Decision Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
                     J. Liu and   
                     T. Mak and   
                    B. Tang and   
                          K. Ma   An Intelligent Job Counseling System . . 518
                  H. Elwany and   
             M. G. Abou-Ali and   
                   N. A. Harraz   The Layout Problem: Investigation and
                                  Aggregation of Artificial Intelligence
                                  and Optimization Techniques  . . . . . . 530
                    R. A. Girle   Logical Fiction: Real vs. Ideal  . . . . 542
                    R. Kwok and   
                   A. Nayak and   
                         N. Foo   Coherence Measure Based on Average Use
                                  of Formulas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
                         N. Foo   Diagrammatic Reasoning About Linked
                                  Lists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
            A. E. Nicholson and   
                I. Zukerman and   
                 D. W. Albrecht   A Decision-Theoretic Approach for
                                  Pre-sending Information on the WWW . . . 575
                    J. Baum and   
                A. E. Nicholson   Dynamic Non-uniform Abstractions for
                                  Approximate Planning in Large Structured
                                  Stochastic Domains . . . . . . . . . . . 587
                        A. Kean   A Characterization of Contrastive
                                  Explanations Computation . . . . . . . . 599
                M. Ishizuka and   
                      Y. Matsuo   SL Method for Computing a Near-Optimal
                                  Solution Using Linear and Non-linear
                                  Programming in Cost-Based Hypothetical
                                  Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
               H. Kobayashi and   
                 Y. Okouchi and   
                         S. Ota   Image Retrieval System Using KANSEI
                                  Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626
                  H.-Y. Cho and   
                  S.-M. Chi and   
                        Y.-H Oh   A Robust Front-End for Telephone Speech
                                  Recognition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1532, 1998

                         K. Noe   Philosophical Aspects of Scientific
                                  Discovery: A Historical Survey . . . . . 1--11
                 H. Mannila and   
                H. Toivonen and   
                 A. Korhola and   
                     H. Olander   Learning, Mining, or Modeling? A Case
                                  Study from Paleoecology  . . . . . . . . 12--24
                     P. Langley   The Computer-Aided Discovery of
                                  Scientific Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . 25--39
                   S. Morishita   On Classification and Regression . . . . 40--57
                   S. Muggleton   Knowledge Discovery in Biological and
                                  Chemical Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--59
                      K. Uehara   Random Case Analysis of Inductive
                                  Learning Algorithms  . . . . . . . . . . 60--71
                   S. Lange and   
                     G. Grieser   On Variants of Iterative Learning  . . . 72--83
                 Y. Hayashi and   
               S. Matsumoto and   
               A. Shinohara and   
                      M. Takeda   Uniform Characterizations of
                                  Polynomial-Query Learnabilities  . . . . 84--92
                Y. Mukouchi and   
                  I. Yamaue and   
                        M. Sato   Inferring a Rewriting System from
                                  Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--104
                O. Maruyama and   
                  T. Uchida and   
                 T. Shoudai and   
                      S. Miyano   Toward Genomic Hypothesis Creator: View
                                  Designer for Discovery . . . . . . . . . 105--116
                  T. Hirata and   
                   H. Maeda and   
                     T. Nishida   Visualization of Community Knowledge
                                  Interaction Using Associative
                                  Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--128
                M. Yamasaki and   
                  M. Takeda and   
                  T. Fukuda and   
                       I. Nanri   Discovering Characteristic Patterns from
                                  Collections of Classical Japanese Poems  129--140
               T. Shinohara and   
                      J. An and   
                    H. Ishizaka   Approximate Retrieval of
                                  High-dimensional Data by Spatial
                                  Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--149
                 C. Domingo and   
                 R. Gavalda and   
                    O. Watanabe   Practical Algorithms for On-line
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--161
                 T. Yoshida and   
                       T. Kondo   Discovering Conceptual Differences among
                                  People from Cases  . . . . . . . . . . . 162--173
                  Y. Ohsawa and   
                     M. Yachida   Discovery of Unknown Causes from
                                  Unexpected Co-occurrence of Inferred
                                  Known Causes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--185
                W. Sunayama and   
                  Y. Nomura and   
                  Y. Ohsawa and   
                     M. Yachida   Refining Search Expression by
                                  Discovering Hidden User's Interests  . . 186--197
               H. Tsukimoto and   
                      C. Morita   The Discovery of Rules from Brain Images 198--209
                  N. Yugami and   
                    Y. Ohta and   
                     S. Okamoto   Instance Guided Rule Induction . . . . . 210--219
                  M. J. Pazzani   Learning with Globally Predictive Tests  220--231
                    J. Yoon and   
                  L. Kerschberg   Query-Initiated Discovery of Interesting
                                  Association Rules  . . . . . . . . . . . 232--243
              Kai Ming Ting and   
                       Z. Zheng   Boosting Cost-Sensitive Trees  . . . . . 244--255
                E. Takimoto and   
                     A. Maruoka   On the Boosting Algorithm for Multiclass
                                  Functions based on Information-Theoretic
                                  Criterion for Approximation  . . . . . . 256--267
                  M. Boronowsky   The Continuous-Function Attribute Class
                                  in Decision Tree Induction . . . . . . . 268--278
                     H. Liu and   
                     R. Setiono   Feature Transformation and Multivariate
                                  Decision Tree Induction  . . . . . . . . 279--290
                   P. Hajek and   
                      M. Holena   Formal Logics of Discovery and
                                  Hypothesis Formation by Machine  . . . . 291--302
                     K. Ito and   
                    A. Yamamoto   Finding Hypotheses from Examples by
                                  Computing the Least Generalization of
                                  Bottom Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--314
                    K. Furukawa   On the Completion of the Most Specific
                                  Hypothesis Computation in Inverse
                                  Entailment for Mutual Recursion  . . . . 315--325
               S. Muggleton and   
              A. Srinivasan and   
                 R. D. King and   
             M. J. E. Sternberg   Biochemical Knowledge Discovery Using
                                  Inductive Logic Programming  . . . . . . 326--341
                  R. Nakano and   
                       K. Saito   Computational Characteristics of Law
                                  Discovery Using Neural Networks  . . . . 342--351
                  T. Washio and   
                      H. Motoda   Development of SDS2: Smart Discovery
                                  System for Simultaneous Equation Systems 352--363
                 K. Niijima and   
                  H. Uchida and   
              E. Hirowatari and   
                     S. Arikawa   Discovery of Differential Equations from
                                  Numerical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--374
                G. Kitagawa and   
                     T. Higuchi   Automatic Transaction of Signal via
                                  Statistical Modeling . . . . . . . . . . 375--386
                     N. Abe and   
               H. Mamitsuka and   
                    A. Nakamura   Empirical Comparison of Competing Query
                                  Learning Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--388
                  Y. Kameya and   
                        T. Sato   Abstracting a Human's Decision Process
                                  by PRISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--390
             H. H. Hasegawa and   
                      Y. Ohtaki   Mechanisms of Self-Organized
                                  Renormalizability  . . . . . . . . . . . 391--392
                 H. Arimura and   
                  A. Wataki and   
                  R. Fujino and   
                   S. Shimozono   An Efficient Tool for Discovering Simple
                                  Combinatorial Patterns from Large Text
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--394
               M. Haraguchi and   
                      T. Kakuta   A Similarity Finding System under a Goal
                                  Concept  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--396
                  T. Matsui and   
                 N. Inuzuka and   
                    H. Seki and   
                        H. Itoh   Parallel Induction Algorithms for Large
                                  Samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--398
                   X. Zhang and   
                  T. Narita and   
                       M. Numao   Toward Effective Knowledge Acquisition
                                  with First Order Logic Induction . . . . 399--400
                J. Barzdins and   
               R. Freivalds and   
                    C. H. Smith   A Logic of Discovery . . . . . . . . . . 401--402
                       J. Cheng   A Strong Relevant Logic Model of
                                  Epistemic Processes in Scientific
                                  Discovery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--404
                       J. Rauch   Four-Fold Table Calculi for Discovery
                                  Science  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--406
               Y. Nakanishi and   
                      K. Uehara   Parallel Organization Algorithm for
                                  Graph Matching and Subgraph Isomorphism
                                  Detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408
               E. Shibayama and   
                    J. Yabe and   
               S. Takahashi and   
                     M. Matsuda   Visualizing Semantic Clusters in the
                                  Internet Information Space . . . . . . . 409--410
                S. Hirokawa and   
                     T. Taguchi   KN on ZK --- Knowledge Network on
                                  Network Note Pad ZK  . . . . . . . . . . 411--412
                   T. Mohri and   
                      Y. Takada   Virtual Integration of Distributed
                                  Database by Multiple Agents  . . . . . . 413--414
                  Tu Bao Ho and   
          Trong Dung Nguyen and   
           Ngoc Binh Nguyen and   
                         T. Ito   Development of Some Methods and Tools
                                  for Discovering Conceptual Knowledge . . 415--416
                      A. Aizawa   Reducing the Dimensions of Attributes by
                                  Selection and Aggregation  . . . . . . . 417--418
                      A. Takasu   On the Number of Clusters in Cluster
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--420
                   M. Inaba and   
                        H. Imai   Geometric Clustering Models in Feature
                                  Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--422
                    S.-M. Tseng   Efficient Mining of Association Rules
                                  with Item Constraints  . . . . . . . . . 423--424
                    J. Dong and   
                   N. Zhong and   
                      S. Ohsuga   GDT-RS: a Probabilistic Rough Induction
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--426
      M. Do Carmo Nicoletti and   
                   F. O. Santos   A Constructive Fuzzy NGE Learning System 427--428
                  A. Suyama and   
                 N. Negishi and   
                    T. Yamagchi   Composing Inductive Applications Using
                                  Ontologies for Machine Learning  . . . . 429--430
              J. A. Goldman and   
                     W. Chu and   
            D. Stott Parker and   
                  R. M. Goldman   TDDA, a Data Mining Tool for Text
                                  Databases: A Case History in a Lung
                                  Cancer Text Database . . . . . . . . . . 431--434
                   P. Anwyl and   
                    A. Itoh and   
                        A. Oono   Crowww Classification and Retrieval on
                                  WWW  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434
     M. De Fatima Rodrigues and   
                   C. Ramos and   
                P. R. Henriques   Extracting Knowledge Patterns from
                                  Ticket Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--436


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1533, 1998

               Bernard Chazelle   The Discrepancy Method . . . . . . . . . 1
               Roberto Tamassia   Implementing Algorithms and Data
                                  Structures: An Educational and Research
                                  Perspective  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
          Evanthia Papadopoulou   $ {L} \infty $ Voronoi Diagrams and
                                  Applications to VLSI Layout and
                                  Manufacturing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
               Boris Aronov and   
           Marc van Kreveld and   
    René van Oostrum and   
      Kasturirangan Varadarajan   Facility Location on Terrains  . . . . . 19
               Joonsoo Choi and   
               Chan-Su Shin and   
                  Sung Kwon Kim   Computing Weighted Rectilinear Median
                                  and Center Set in the Presence of
                                  Obstacles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
             Hiroki Arimura and   
             Shinichi Shimozono   Maximizing Agreement with a
                                  Classification by Bounded or Unbounded
                                  Number of Associated Words . . . . . . . 39
               Thomas Eiter and   
          Toshihide Ibaraki and   
                Kazuhisa Makino   Disjunctions of Horn Theories and Their
                                  Cores  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
      Giovanni Di Crescenzo and   
            Kouichi Sakurai and   
                      Moti Yung   Checking Programs Discreetly:
                                  Demonstrating Result-Correctness
                                  Efficiently While Concealing It  . . . . 59
            G. Di Crescenzo and   
                 K. Sakurai and   
                        M. Yung   Checking Programs Discreetly:
                                  Demonstrating Result-Correctness
                                  Efficiently While Concealing It  . . . . 59
               Petra Mutzel and   
        René Weiskircher   Two-Layer Planarization in Graph Drawing 69
              Walter Didimo and   
                Giuseppe Liotta   Computing Orthogonal Drawings in a
                                  Variable Embedding Setting . . . . . . . 79
              Ulrik Brandes and   
                Dorothea Wagner   Dynamic Grid Embedding with Few Bends
                                  and Changes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
                   Frank Schulz   Two New Families of List Update
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
                J. Rethmann and   
                       E. Wanke   An Optimal Algorithm for On-Line
                                  Palletizing at Delivery Industry . . . . 109
             Stefan Bischof and   
                  Ernst W. Mayr   On-Line Scheduling of Parallel Jobs with
                                  Runtime Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . 119
             Prosenjit Bose and   
                      Pat Morin   Testing the Quality of Manufactured
                                  Disks and Cylinders  . . . . . . . . . . 129
                Hee-Kap Ahn and   
             Siu-Wing Cheng and   
                 Otfried Cheong   Casting with Skewed Ejection Direction   139
               Tetsuo Asano and   
                   Hiro Ito and   
             Souichi Kimura and   
               Shigeaki Shimazu   Repairing Flaws in a Picture Based on a
                                  Geometric Representation of a Digital
                                  Image  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
            Toshimasa Ishii and   
          Hiroshi Nagamochi and   
              Toshihide Ibaraki   $k$-Edge and $3$-Vertex Connectivity
                                  Augmentation in an Arbitrary Multigraph  159
          Hiroshi Nagamochi and   
              Toshihide Ibaraki   Polyhedral Structure of Submodular and
                                  Posi-modular Systems . . . . . . . . . . 169
            Thomas Erlebach and   
                   Klaus Jansen   Maximizing the Number of Connections in
                                  Optical Tree Networks  . . . . . . . . . 179
                Tak Wah Lam and   
                 Hing Fung Ting   Selecting the $k$ Largest Elements with
                                  Parity Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
                Amalia Duch and   
   Vladimir Estivill-Castro and   
        Conrado Martínez   Randomized $ {K} $-Dimensional Binary
                                  Search Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
                Koji Nakano and   
                 Stephan Olariu   Randomized $ \mathbf {O}(\log \log n)
                                  $-Round Leader Election Protocols in
                                  Packet Radio Networks  . . . . . . . . . 209
                 Andreas Goerdt   Random Regular Graphs with Edge Faults:
                                  Expansion through Cores  . . . . . . . . 219
             Takashi Mihara and   
                 Shao Chin Sung   A Quantum Polynomial Time Algorithm in
                                  Worst Case for Simon's Problem . . . . . 229
               Richard Nock and   
               Pascal Jappy and   
                 Jean Sallantin   Generalized Graph Colorability and
                                  Compressibility of Boolean Formulae  . . 237
      Klaus-Jörn Lange and   
                Pierre McKenzie   On the Complexity of Free Monoid
                                  Morphisms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
             Sun-Yuan Hsieh and   
                Chin-Wen Ho and   
             Tsan-Sheng Hsu and   
                Ming-Tat Ko and   
                  Gen-Huey Chen   Characterization of Efficiently Solvable
                                  Problems on Distance-Hereditary Graphs   257
                   Yaw-Ling Lin   Fast Algorithms for Independent
                                  Domination and Efficient Domination in
                                  Trapezoid Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
              Seok-Hee Hong and   
                Peter Eades and   
                    Sang-Ho Lee   Finding Planar Geometric Automorphisms
                                  in Planar Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
                    Takeaki Uno   A New Approach for Speeding Up
                                  Enumeration Algorithms . . . . . . . . . 287
                 Jung-Heum Park   Hamiltonian Decomposition of Recursive
                                  Circulants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
               Tetsuo Asano and   
                Naoki Katoh and   
               Hisao Tamaki and   
               Takeshi Tokuyama   Convertibility among Grid Filling Curves 307
           Oswin Aichholzer and   
          Franz Aurenhammer and   
           Christian Icking and   
                 Rolf Klein and   
            Elmar Langetepe and   
               Günter Rote   Generalized Self-Approaching Curves  . . 317
                Guo-Hui Lin and   
                   Guoliang Xue   The Steiner Tree Problem in $ \lambda_4
                                  $-geometry Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--337
                 Tatsuya Akutsu   Approximation and Exact Algorithms for
                                  RNA Secondary Structure Prediction and
                                  Recognition of Stochastic Context-Free
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
            Michael Fellows and   
            Michael Hallett and   
                   Ulrike Stege   On the Multiple Gene Duplication Problem 347
               Boris Aronov and   
         Leonidas J. Guibas and   
            Marek Teichmann and   
                       Li Zhang   Visibility Queries in Simple Polygons
                                  and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
             Siu-Wing Cheng and   
                   Kam-Hing Lee   Quadtree Decomposition, Steiner
                                  Triangulation, and Ray Shooting  . . . . 367
                   Akira Tajima   Optimality and Integer Programming
                                  Formulations of Triangulations in
                                  General Dimension  . . . . . . . . . . . 377
            Philip N. Klein and   
                     Hsueh-I Lu   Space-Efficient Approximation Algorithms
                                  for MAXCUT and COLORING Semidefinite
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
          Shin-ya Hamaguchi and   
                    Naoki Katoh   A Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem on
                                  a Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
                 Bang Ye Wu and   
               Kun-Mao Chao and   
                  Chuan Yi Tang   Approximation Algorithms for Some
                                  Optimum Communication Spanning Tree
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
                  Xiao Zhou and   
                Takao Nishizeki   The Edge-Disjoint Paths Problem is
                                  NP-Complete for Partial $k$-Trees  . . . 417
              Stephan Eidenbenz   Inapproximability Results for Guarding
                                  Polygons without Holes . . . . . . . . . 427
                 Liming Cai and   
               David Juedes and   
                      Iyad Kanj   The Inapproximability of Non NP-hard
                                  Optimization Problems  . . . . . . . . . 437
          Hiroshi Nagamochi and   
                  Toru Hasunuma   An Efficient $ {\cal NC} $ Algorithm for
                                  a Sparse $k$-Edge-Connectivity
                                  Certificate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
                    J. Diaz and   
                   J. Petit and   
               P. Psycharis and   
                       M. Serna   A Parallel Algorithm for Sampling
                                  Matchings from an Almost Uniform
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
           Richard Plunkett and   
                    Alan Fekete   Optimal Approximate Agreement with
                                  Omission Faults  . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1534, 1998

                   R. Conte and   
                 N. Gilbert and   
               J. Simao Sichman   MAS and Social Simulation: a Suitable
                                  Commitment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
        H. Van Dyke Parunak and   
                   R. Savit and   
                    R. L. Riolo   Agent-Based Modeling vs. Equation-Based
                                  Modeling: A Case Study and Users Guide   10--25
               C. Castelfranchi   Simulating with Cognitive Agents: The
                                  Importance of Cognitive Emergence  . . . 26--44
                        S. Moss   Social Simulation Models and Reality:
                                  Three Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--60
                  M. Antona and   
                F. Bousquet and   
                  C. LePage and   
                       J. Weber   Economic Theory of Renewable Resource
                                  Management: A Multi-Agent System
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--78
                       P. Terna   ABCDE: Agent Based Chaotic Dynamic
                                  Emergence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--94
           D. J. T. Sumpter and   
                D. S. Broomhead   Formalising the Link between Worker and
                                  Society in Honey Bee Colonies  . . . . . 95--110
                J. Rouchier and   
                    F. Bousquet   Non-merchant Economy and Multi-Agent
                                  System: An Analysis of Structuring
                                  Exchanges  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--123
                   T. Hashimoto   Dynamics of Internal and Global
                                  Structure through Linguistic
                                  Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--139
                       D. Hales   Stereotyping, Groups and Cultural
                                  Evolution: a Case of ``Second Order
                                  Emergence''? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--155
                   R. Conte and   
                      R. Pedone   Finding the Best Partner: The PART-NET
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--168
                 M. Hannoun and   
           J. Simao Sichman and   
                O. Boissier and   
                    C. Sayettat   Dependence Relations between Roles in a
                                  Multi-Agent System: Towards the
                                  Detection of Inconsistencies in
                                  Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--182
                  D. Servat and   
                 E. Perrier and   
               J.-P. Treuil and   
                     A. Drogoul   When Agents Emerge from Agents:
                                  Introducing Multi-scale Viewpoints in
                                  Multi-agent Simulations  . . . . . . . . 183--198
                    H. Verhagen   ACTS in Action: Sim-ACTS --- A
                                  Simulation Model Based on ACTS Theory    199--209
                 L. Garrido and   
                   R. Brena and   
                      K. Sycara   Towards Modeling Other Agents: a
                                  Simulation-Based Study . . . . . . . . . 210
                  E. Fianyo and   
               J.-P. Treuil and   
                 E. Perrier and   
                    Y. Demazeau   Multi-Agent Architecture Integrating
                                  Heterogeneous Models of Dynamical
                                  Processes: The Representation of Time    226--236


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1536, 1998

                W.-P. De Roever   The Need for Compositional Proof
                                  Systems: a Survey  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22
          Willem-Paul de Roever   The Need for Compositional Proof
                                  Systems: a Survey  . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                Rajeev Alur and   
        Thomas A. Henzinger and   
                 Orna Kupferman   Alternating-Time Temporal Logic  . . . . 23--60
          Albert Benveniste and   
            Paul Le Guernic and   
                   Pascal Aubry   Compositionality in Dataflow Synchronous
                                  Languages: Specification and Code
                                  Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--80
             Sergey Berezin and   
       Sérgio Campos and   
               Edmund M. Clarke   Compositional Reasoning in Model
                                  Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--102
    Sébastien Bornot and   
             Joseph Sifakis and   
               Stavros Tripakis   Modeling Urgency in Timed Systems  . . . 103--129
                   Manfred Broy   Compositional Refinement of Interactive
                                  Systems Modelled by Relations  . . . . . 130--149
                   Mads Dam and   
    Lars-åke Fredlund and   
                   Dilian Gurov   Toward Parametric Verification of Open
                                  Distributed Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 150--185
                Werner Damm and   
             Bernhard Josko and   
               Hardi Hungar and   
                    Amir Pnueli   A Compositional Real-Time Semantics of
                                  STATEMATE Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . 186--238
           Bernd Finkbeiner and   
                Zohar Manna and   
                 Henny B. Sipma   Deductive Verification of Modular
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--275
                   Jozef Hooman   Compositional Verification of Real-Time
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--300
                Jerry James and   
                    Ambuj Singh   Compositional Proofs for Concurrent
                                  Objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--326
             Theo M. V. Janssen   An Overview of Compositional
                                  Translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--349
        Catholijn M. Jonker and   
                      Jan Treur   Compositional Verification of
                                  Multi-Agent Systems: A Formal Analysis
                                  of Pro-activeness and Reactiveness . . . 350--380
             Orna Kupferman and   
                 Moshe Y. Vardi   Modular Model Checking . . . . . . . . . 381--401
                 Leslie Lamport   Composition: a Way to Make Proofs Harder 402--423
        Florence Maraninchi and   
             Yann Rémond   Compositionality Criteria for Defining
                                  Mixed-Styles Synchronous Languages . . . 424--438
               B. C. Moszkowski   Compositional Reasoning Using Interval
                                  Temporal Logic and Tempura . . . . . . . 439--464
 Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog and   
                 Henning Dierks   Decomposing Real-Time Specifications . . 465--489
         Axel Poigné and   
             Leszek Holenderski   On the Combination of Synchronous
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--514
                 Roberto Segala   Compositional Verification of Randomized
                                  Distributed Algorithms . . . . . . . . . 515--540
              Natarajan Shankar   Lazy Compositional Verification  . . . . 541--564
                   Qiwen Xu and   
                 Mohalik Swarup   Compositional Reasoning Using the
                                  Assumption-Commitment Paradigm . . . . . 565--583
                    C. Zhou and   
                   M. R. Hansen   An Adequate First Order Interval Logic   584--608
              Zhou Chaochen and   
              Michael R. Hansen   An Adequate First Order Interval Logic   584
                     Job Zwiers   Compositional Transformational Design
                                  for Concurrent Programs  . . . . . . . . 609--631
              F. S. De Boer and   
                W.-P. De Roever   Compositional Proof Methods for
                                  Concurrency: A Semantic Approach . . . . 632--646
              F. S. de Boer and   
                W.-P. de Roever   Compositional Proof Methods for
                                  Concurrency: A Semantic Approach . . . . 632


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1537, 1998

             Kamiar Aminian and   
          Eduardo De Andres and   
          Karen Rezakhanlou and   
              Carlo Fritsch and   
                  Y. Schutz and   
         Mich\`ele Depairon and   
Pierre-François Leyvraz and   
                Philippe Robert   Motion Analysis in Clinical Practice
                                  Using Ambulatory Accelerometry . . . . . 1
             James W. Davis and   
                Aaron F. Bobick   A Robust Human-Silhouette Extraction
                                  Technique for Interactive Virtual
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       Marius-Calin Silaghi and   
         Ralf Plänkers and   
               Ronan Boulic and   
                 Pascal Fua and   
                Daniel Thalmann   Local and Global Skeleton Fitting
                                  Techniques for Optical Motion Capture    26
        Carlos Yániz and   
                Jairo Rocha and   
              Francisco Perales   $3$D Part Recognition Method for Human
                                  Motion Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
            Sandra Sudarsky and   
                   Donald House   Motion Capture Data Manipulation and
                                  Reuse via B-splines  . . . . . . . . . . 55
         Rama Bindiganavale and   
               Norman I. Badler   Motion Abstraction and Mapping with
                                  Spatial Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . 70
                  Y. Bellan and   
                   M. Costa and   
                G. Ferrigno and   
                F. Lombardi and   
             L. Macchiarulo and   
                A. Montuori and   
                  E. Pasero and   
                     C. Rigotti   Artificial Neural Networks for Motion
                                  Emulation in Virtual Environments  . . . 83
              ChangWhan Sul and   
                SoonKi Jung and   
                  Kwangyun Wohn   Synthesis of Human Motion Using Kalman
                                  Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
             K. Dorfmueller and   
                       H. Wirth   Real-Time Hand and Head Tracking for
                                  Virtual Environments Using Infrared
                                  Beacons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
      Klaus Dorfmüller and   
                    Hanno Wirth   Real-Time Hand and Head Tracking for
                                  Virtual Environments Using Infrared
                                  Beacons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
          Tosiyasu L. Kunii and   
            Yoshifuru Saito and   
               Motoyoshi Shiine   A Graphics Compiler for a
                                  $3$-Dimensional Captured Image Database
                                  and Captured Image Reusability . . . . . 128
              Ding-Yun Chen and   
      Murphy Chien-Chang Ho and   
                  Ming Ouhyoung   VideoVR: a Real-Time System for
                                  Automatically Constructing Panoramic
                                  Images from Video Clips  . . . . . . . . 140
Tomás Brodský and   
    Cornelia Fermüller and   
              Yiannis Aloimonos   The Video Yardstick  . . . . . . . . . . 144
                   Wen Tang and   
               Marc Cavazza and   
              Dale Mountain and   
                   Rae Earnshaw   Real-Time Inverse Kinematics through
                                  Constrained Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . 159
          James J. Kuffner, Jr.   Goal-Directed Navigation for Animated
                                  Characters Using Real-Time Path Planning
                                  and Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
               Marc Cavazza and   
                 Ian Palmer and   
                  Steve Parnell   Real-Time Requirements for the
                                  Implementation of Speech-Controlled
                                  Artificial Actors  . . . . . . . . . . . 187
            Hisayoshi Zaima and   
              Tsuyoshi Yamamoto   $3$D Modeling from Captured Images Using
                                  Bi-directional Ray Traversal Method  . . 199
                         P. Fua   Face Models from Uncalibrated Video
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
                     Jin Gu and   
                Terry Chang and   
                   Ivan Mak and   
               S. Gopalsamy and   
                 H. C. Shen and   
                  M. M. F. Yuen   A $3$D Reconstruction System for Human
                                  Body Modeling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
                    Hai Tao and   
                Thomas S. Huang   Bezier Volume Deformation Model for
                                  Facial Animation and Video Tracking  . . 242
               Won-Sook Lee and   
        Nadia Magnenat Thalmann   Head Modeling from Pictures and Morphing
                                  in $3$D with Image Metamorphosis Based
                                  on Triangulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
      Zsófia Ruttkay and   
             Paul ten Hagen and   
                   Han Noot and   
                  Mark Savenije   Facial Animation by Synthesis of
                                  Captured and Artificial Data . . . . . . 268


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1538, 1998

             Susumu Hayashi and   
               Ryosuke Sumitomo   Testing Proofs by Examples . . . . . . . 1
           Harald Ganzinger and   
         Florent Jacquemard and   
                  Margus Veanes   Rigid Reachability . . . . . . . . . . . 4
               Deepak Kapur and   
                 M. Subramaniam   Mechanizing Reasoning about Large Finite
                                  Tables in a Rewrite Based Theorem Prover 22
                   Luca Roversi   A Polymorphic Language Which Is Typable
                                  and Poly-step  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
                   Ichiro Ogata   Cut Elimination for Classical Proofs as
                                  Continuation Passing Style Computation   61
                Tomasz Janowski   Semantics and Logic for Provable
                                  Fault-Tolerance, A Tutorial  . . . . . . 79
            Horatiu Cirstea and   
                Claude Kirchner   The Rewriting Calculus as a Semantics of
                                  \em ELAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
                  C. H. Ang and   
                  S. T. Tan and   
                      T. C. Tan   Tried Linear Hashing . . . . . . . . . . 86
                Xiaoyong Du and   
                 Zhibin Liu and   
                  Naohiro Ishii   A New Factoring Algorithm for Magic
                                  Predicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
             Sun-Yuan Hsieh and   
              Gen-Huey Chen and   
                    Chin-Wen Ho   An Optimal Parallel Algorithm for the
                                  Perfect Dominating Set Problem on
                                  Distance-Hereditary Graphs . . . . . . . 113
           Sophie Pinchinat and   
         Éric Rutten and   
             R. K. Shyamasundar   Taxonomy and Expressiveness of
                                  Preemption: A Syntactic Approach . . . . 125
                Zhiyi Huang and   
             Chengzheng Sun and   
                   Abdul Sattar   Exploring Regional Locality in
                                  Distributed Shared Memory  . . . . . . . 142
              Zhonghua Yang and   
             Chengzheng Sun and   
               Abdul Sattar and   
                    Yanyan Yang   Guaranteed Mutually Consistent
                                  Checkpointing in Distributed
                                  Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
                 M. Mueller and   
                   S. Nishimura   Type Inference for First-Class Messages
                                  with Feature Constraints . . . . . . . . 169
         Martin Müller and   
               Susumu Nishimura   Type Inference for First-Class Messages
                                  with Feature Constraints . . . . . . . . 169
               Simon Helsen and   
                 Peter Thiemann   Two Flavors of Offline Partial
                                  Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
             Masatomo Hashimoto   First-Class Contexts in ML . . . . . . . 206
              Jeannette M. Wing   Formal Methods: Past, Present, and
                                  Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
              Roberto Bruni and   
       José Meseguer and   
              Ugo Montanari and   
              Vladimiro Sassone   A Comparison of Petri Net Semantics
                                  under the Collective Token Philosophy    225
                        Yuxi Fu   Bisimulation Lattice of Chi Processes    245
             Yoshinao Isobe and   
                Yutaka Sato and   
                Kazuhito Ohmaki   Eventuality in LOTOS with a Disjunction
                                  Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
            Madhavan Mukund and   
           K. Narayan Kumar and   
     Jaikumar Radhakrishnan and   
                  Milind Sohoni   Towards a Characterisation of
                                  Finite-State Message-Passing Systems . . 282
                    N. Raja and   
             R. K. Shyamasundar   Mobile Computation: Calculus and
                                  Languages (A Tutorial) . . . . . . . . . 300


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1541, 1998

                  A. Afsahi and   
               N. J. Dimopoulos   Communications Latency Hiding Techniques
                                  for a Reconfigurable Optical
                                  Interconnect: Benchmark Studies  . . . . 1--6
                 P. Amestoy and   
                    I. Duff and   
              J.-Y. L'Excellent   Multifrontal Solvers Within the PARASOL
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--11
                   U. Andersson   Parallelization of a $3$D FD-TD Code for
                                  the Maxwell Equations Using MPI  . . . . 12--19
                    P. Bala and   
              P. Grochowski and   
                K. Nowinski and   
                       T. Clark   Advanced Calculations and Visualization
                                  of Enzymatic Reactions with the Combined
                                  Quantum Classical Molecular Dynamics
                                  Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--27
                S. M. Balle and   
                   S. C. Steely   Memory Access Profiling Tools for
                                  Alpha-based Architectures  . . . . . . . 28--37
                   M. Bubak and   
                  W. Funika and   
                   J. Moscinski   Tuning the Performance of Parallel
                                  Programs on NOWs Using Performance
                                  Analysis Tool  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--47
                         X. Cai   Numerical Simulation of $3$D Fully
                                  Nonlinear Water Waves on Parallel
                                  Computers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
               R. Chakarova and   
                      I. Pazsit   Fluctuations in the Defect Creation by
                                  Ion Beam Irradiation . . . . . . . . . . 56--62
             T. Christensen and   
              A. R. Krommer and   
                  J. Larsen and   
                   L. Soerensen   Parallelisation of an Industrial
                                  Hydrodynamics Application Using the
                                  PINEAPL Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
                  R. Ciegis and   
              R. Sablinskas and   
                  J. Wasniewski   Hyper-Rectangle Selection Strategy for
                                  Parallel Adaptive Numerical Integration  71--75
                A. Clematis and   
                    A. Coda and   
               M. Spagnuolo and   
                    S. Spinello   Parallelising Fuzzy Queries for Spatial
                                  Data Modelling on a Cray T3D . . . . . . 76
                 M. Coletta and   
                 T. Lippert and   
                   P. Palazzari   Hyper-Systolic Implementation of BLAS-3
                                  Routines on the APE100\slash Quadrics
                                  Machine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--87
              K. Czajkowski and   
                  I. Foster and   
                   C. Kesselman   Resource Management for Ultra-scale
                                  Computational Grid Applications  . . . . 88--94
                K. Dackland and   
                  B. Kaagstroem   A ScaLAPACK-Style Algorithm for Reducing
                                  a Regular Matrix Pair to Block
                                  Hessenberg-Triangular Form . . . . . . . 95--103
              B. Di Martino and   
                  M. Celino and   
              M. Briscolini and   
                     L. Colombo   Parallel Tight-Binding Molecular
                                  Dynamics Code Based on Integration of
                                  HPF and Optimized Parallel Libraries . . 104--111
                  A. Edlund and   
                  I. Bar-On and   
                      U. Peskin   Parallel Computation of Multidimensional
                                  Scattering Wavefunctions for
                                  Helmholtz/Schrödinger Equations . . . . . 112--119
                 E. Elmroth and   
                   F. Gustavson   New Serial and Parallel Recursive QR
                                  Factorization Algorithms for SMP Systems 120--128
                  A. Flores and   
                   J. M. Garcia   Improving the Performance of Scientific
                                  Parallel Applications in a Cluster of
                                  Workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--141
         E. Fontdecaba Baig and   
           J. M. Cela Espin and   
         J. C. Duersteler Lopez   On the Parallelisation of Non-linear
                                  Optimisation Algorithms for Ophthalmical
                                  Lens Design  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--148
                    P. Fritzson   Modelica: a Language for Equation-Based
                                  Physical Modeling and High Performance
                                  Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--160
     J. D. Garcia-Consuegra and   
               J. A. Gallud and   
                   G. Sebastian   Distributed Georeferring of Remotely
                                  Sensed Landsat-TM Imagery Using MPI  . . 161--166
                     C. Gil and   
                  J. Ortega and   
              J. L. Bernier and   
                      M. D. Gil   Parallel Test Pattern Generation Using
                                  Circuit Partitioning in a Shared-Memory
                                  Multiprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--171
                  D. Golden and   
                  N. Hurley and   
                     S. McGrath   Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement for
                                  Large Eddy Simulation Using the Finite
                                  Element Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--181
                   A. Gupta and   
                   M. Joshi and   
                       V. Kumar   WSSMP: a High-Performance Serial and
                                  Parallel Symmetric Sparse Linear Solver  182--194
               F. Gustavson and   
              A. Henriksson and   
                 I. Jonsson and   
                  B. Kaagstroem   Recursive Blocked Data Formats and
                                  BLAS's for Dense Linear Algebra
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--206
               F. Gustavson and   
              A. Henriksson and   
                 I. Jonsson and   
                  B. Kaagstroem   Superscalar GEMM-based Level $3$ BLAS
                                  --- The On-going Evolution of a Portable
                                  and High-Performance Library . . . . . . 207--215
               D. L. Harrar and   
                  M. R. Osborne   Parallel Solution of Some Large-Scale
                                  Eigenvalue Problems Arising in Chemistry
                                  and Physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--223
                  F. Hedman and   
                   A. Laaksonen   An Embarrassingly Parallel ab initio MD
                                  Method for Liquids . . . . . . . . . . . 224--229
             L. Hemmingsson and   
                    A. Kaehaeri   A New Parallel Preconditioner for the
                                  Euler Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--238
             B. Hendrickson and   
                    T. G. Kolda   Partitioning Sparse Rectangular Matrices
                                  for Parallel Computations of Ax and A0Tv 239--247
               I. Holmqvist and   
                  E. Lindstroem   NetLink: a Modern Data Distribution
                                  Approach Applied to Transparent Access
                                  of High Performance Software Libraries   248--254
                    J. Howe and   
                S. B. Baden and   
                T. Grimmett and   
                      K. Nomura   Modernization of Legacy Application
                                  Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--262
              C. B. Jenssen and   
                T. Kvamsdal and   
               K. M. Okstad and   
                    J. Amundsen   Parallel Methods for Fluid-Structure
                                  Interaction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--274
                  M. Kallio and   
                        S. Salo   Parallel Computing Tests on Large-Scale
                                  Convex Optimization  . . . . . . . . . . 275--280
                  A. R. Krommer   Parallel Sparse Matrix Computations in
                                  the Industrial Strength PINEAPL Library  281--285
              R. B. Lehoucq and   
                 A. G. Salinger   Massively Parallel Linear Stability
                                  Analysis with PARPACK for $3$D Fluid
                                  Flow Modeled with MPSalsa  . . . . . . . 286--295
              A. Lyubartsev and   
                   A. Laaksonen   Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulations
                                  of Biomolecular Systems  . . . . . . . . 296--303
                  P. Madsen and   
                      M. Larsen   A Parallel Solver for Animal Genetics    304--308
              L. Malinowsky and   
                      P. Oester   Scheduling of a Parallel Workload:
                                  Implementation and Use of the Argonne
                                  Easy Scheduler at PDC  . . . . . . . . . 309--314
             Y. V. Mamontov and   
                   M. Willander   An Algorithm to Evaluate Spectral
                                  Densities of High-Dimensional Stationary
                                  Diffusion Stochastic Processes with
                                  Non-linear Coefficients: The General
                                  Scheme and Issues on Implementation with
                                  PVM  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--321
                W. Maniatty and   
            B. K. Szymanski and   
                      T. Caraco   High-Performance Simulation of
                                  Evolutionary Aspects of Epidemics  . . . 322--331
                       F. Manne   A Parallel Algorithm for Computing the
                                  Extremal Eigenvalues of Very Large
                                  Sparse Matrices  . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--336
                      A. Mathis   Technologies for Teracomputing: a
                                  European Option  . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--344
                P. Mehrotra and   
           J. Van Rosendale and   
                        H. Zima   High Performance Fortran: Status and
                                  Prospects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--356
                    M. Meissner   PAVOR --- Parallel Adaptive Volume
                                  Rendering System . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--365
                  M. Miller and   
               C. D. Hansen and   
                  C. R. Johnson   Simulation Steering with SCIRun in a
                                  Distributed Environment  . . . . . . . . 366--376
                    J. H. Mirza   Addressing the Requirements of
                                  ASCI-class Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
             O. G. Monakhov and   
                 E. B. Grosbein   A Parallel Genetic Algorithm for the
                                  Graphs Mapping Problem . . . . . . . . . 379--384
             O. Moeller Nielsen   Parallel Wavelet Transforms  . . . . . . 385--389
              R. W. Numrich and   
                    J. Reid and   
                         K. Kim   Writing a Multigrid Solver Using
                                  Co-array Fortran . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--399
                  C. M. Pancake   Exploiting Visualization and Direct
                                  Manipulation to Make Parallel Tools More
                                  Communicative  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--417
                J. S. Plank and   
                H. Casanova and   
                    M. Beck and   
                    J. Dongarra   Deploying Fault-Tolerance and Task
                                  Migration with NetSolve  . . . . . . . . 418--432
                  J. Plazek and   
                   K. Banas and   
                    J. Kitowski   Comparison of Implicit and Explicit
                                  Parallel Programming Models for a Finite
                                  Element Simulation Algorithm . . . . . . 433--437
                     P. Poromaa   Parallel Algorithms for Triangular
                                  Sylvester Equations: Design, Scheduling
                                  and Sealability Issues . . . . . . . . . 438--446
                V. Positano and   
           M. F. Santarelli and   
                 L. Landini and   
                     A. Benassi   Fast and Quantitative Analysis of $4$D
                                  Cardiac Images Using a SMP Architecture  447--451
                    S. Poeykkoe   Ab Initio Electronic Structure Methods
                                  in Parallel Computers  . . . . . . . . . 452--459
                      J. Rahola   Iterative Solution of Dense Linear
                                  Systems Arising from Integral Equations  460--467
                  J. Rantakokko   Comparison of Partitioning Strategies
                                  for PDE Solvers on Multiblock Grids  . . 468--475
                 C. Risager and   
                   J. W. Perram   Ship Design Optimization . . . . . . . . 476--482
               L. F. Romero and   
             E. M. Ortigosa and   
               E. L. Zapata and   
                  J. A. Jimenez   Parallelization Strategies for the VMEC
                                  Program  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--490
                    A. Ruhe and   
                      D. Skoogh   Rational Krylov Algorithms for
                                  Eigenvalue Computation and Model
                                  Reduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--502
                    Y. Saad and   
                   M. Sosonkina   Solution of Distributed Sparse Linear
                                  Systems Using PSPARSLIB  . . . . . . . . 503--509
                  W. Sawyer and   
                R. Lucchesi and   
                  P. Lyster and   
                      L. Takacs   Parallelization of the DAO Atmospheric
                                  General Circulation Model  . . . . . . . 510--514
                  S. Shende and   
               A. D. Malony and   
                S. T. Hackstadt   Dynamic Performance Callstack Sampling:
                                  Merging TAU and DAQV . . . . . . . . . . 515--520
                      D. Skoogh   A Parallel Rational Krylov Algorithm for
                                  Eigenvalue Computations  . . . . . . . . 521--526
                     J. Suh and   
                 V. K. Prasanna   Portable Implementation of Real-Time
                                  Signal Processing Benchmarks on HPC
                                  Platforms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--536
             K. Swaminathan and   
           R. Radhakrishnan and   
                  P. Wilsey and   
                A. P. Alexander   Large Scale Active Networks Simulation   537--542
                Z. Szczerbinski   Forward Dependence Folding as a Method
                                  of Communication Optimization in SPMD
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--550
                  H. Telega and   
                R. Schaefer and   
                       E. Cabib   A Parallel Genetic Clustering for
                                  Inverse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--556
                C.-A. Thole and   
                 A. Supalov and   
                       S. Mayer   A Parallel Hierarchical Solver for
                                  Finite Element Applications  . . . . . . 557--564
                    P. Wang and   
                          P. Li   Parallel Computation and Visualization
                                  of $3$D, Time-Dependent, Thermal
                                  Convective Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--573
              J. Wasniewski and   
             B. S. Andersen and   
                   F. Gustavson   Recursive Formulation of Cholesky
                                  Algorithm in Fortran 90  . . . . . . . . 574--578
              J. Wasniewski and   
                    J. Dongarra   High Performance Linear Algebra Package
                                  for FORTRAN 90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--581


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1543, 1998

                     G. Kniesel   Type-Safe Delegation for Dynamic
                                  Component Adaptation . . . . . . . . . . 136--137
                  A. Mikhajlova   Consistent Extension of Components in
                                  Presence of Explicit Invariants  . . . . 138--140
                 G. Outhred and   
                      J. Potter   Component Composition with Sharing . . . 141--142
                  R. Keller and   
                     U. Hoelzle   Late Component Adaptation  . . . . . . . 143--144
                   I. Welch and   
                      R. Stroud   Adaptation of Connectors in Software
                                  Architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146
                 B. Kuecuek and   
          M. Nedim Alpdemir and   
                    R. N. Zobel   Connecting Incompatible Black-Box
                                  Components Using Customizable Adapters   147--148
                E. Niemelae and   
                     J. Marjeta   Dynamic Configuration of Distributed
                                  Software Components  . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
                  B. Robben and   
                  W. Joosen and   
                F. Matthijs and   
                    B. Vanhaute   Components for Non-Functional
                                  Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
                  M. Lycett and   
                     R. J. Paul   The Operational Aspects of Component
                                  Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154
                    G. Graw and   
                      A. Mester   Architectures for Interoperation between
                                  Component Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
           P. S. C. Alencar and   
                D. D. Cowan and   
               C. J. Lucena and   
               P. L. C. M. Nova   A Model for Gluing Together  . . . . . . 157--158
                    M. Grossman   Component Testing: An Extended Abstract  159--160
                  J. Ingham and   
                       M. Munro   Applying a Domain Specific Language
                                  Approach to Component Oriented
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
                      D. Helton   The Impact of Large-Scale Component and
                                  Framework Application Development on
                                  Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--164
                R. Cherinka and   
              C. Overstreet and   
                   J. Ricci and   
                     M. Schrank   Maintaining a COTS Component-Based
                                  Solution Using Traditional Static
                                  Analysis Techniques  . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
                       M. Abadi   Protection in Programming-Language
                                  Translations: Mobile Object Systems  . . 291
                     R. S. Gray   D'Agents: Future Security Directions . . 292
                  J. Hulaas and   
                A. Villazon and   
                       J. Harms   A Multi-Level Interface Structure for
                                  the Selective Publication of Services in
                                  an Open Environment  . . . . . . . . . . 293
            A. P. Greenaway and   
                    G. T. McKee   A Practical Demonstration of the Effect
                                  of Malicious Mobile Agents on CPU Load
                                  Balancing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
              N. Nagaratnam and   
                         D. Lea   Role-Based Protection and Delegation for
                                  Mobile Object Environments . . . . . . . 295
                  T. Jensen and   
              D. Le Metayer and   
                       T. Thorn   Coarse-grained Java Security Policies    296
                        V. Roth   Secure Recording of Itineraries through
                                  Cooperating Agents . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
                        F. Hohl   A Model of Attacks of Malicious Hosts
                                  Against Mobile Agents  . . . . . . . . . 299
               L. L. Kassab and   
                        J. Voas   Agent Trustworthiness  . . . . . . . . . 300
              U. G. Wilhelm and   
                S. Staamann and   
                     L. Buttyan   Protecting the Itinerary of Mobile
                                  Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
                  N. P. Sudmann   Position paper: Security in Tacoma . . . 302--303
                M. Hennessy and   
                       J. Riely   Type-Safe Execution of Mobile Agents in
                                  Anonymous Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 304
                      V. Swarup   Mobile Computations and Trust  . . . . . 305
               D. Milojicic and   
                    G. Agha and   
                P. Bernadat and   
                     D. Chauhan   Case Studies in Security and Resource
                                  Management for Mobile Objects  . . . . . 306--306
               A. P. Afonso and   
            F. S. Regateiro and   
                    M. J. Silva   UbiData: An Adaptable Framework for
                                  Information Dissemination to Mobile
                                  Users  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--310
                 A. Rasheed and   
                   A. Zaslavsky   Twin-Transactions --- Delayed
                                  Transaction Synchronisation Model  . . . 311--312
                D. Kimelman and   
                V. T. Rajan and   
                    T. Roth and   
                      M. Wegman   Partitioning and Assignment of
                                  Distributed Object Applications
                                  Incorporating Object Replication and
                                  Caching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--314
                  E. Truyen and   
                  B. Robben and   
                  P. Kenens and   
                    F. Matthijs   Open Implementation of a Mobile
                                  Communication System . . . . . . . . . . 315--316
          F. J. Ballesteros and   
                     F. Kon and   
                 S. Arevalo and   
                 R. H. Campbell   Towards a Grand Unified Framework for
                                  Mobile Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
             G. H. Kuenning and   
                R. Bagrodia and   
                  R. G. Guy and   
                    G. J. Popek   Measuring the Quality of Service of
                                  Optimistic Replication . . . . . . . . . 319--320
                       L. Frank   Evaluation Overview of the Replication
                                  Methods for High Availability Databases  321--322
                      L. Alonso   Reflection Based Mobile Replication  . . 323--324
                   M. Geier and   
            M. Steckermeier and   
                  U. Becker and   
                    F. J. Hauck   Support for Mobility and Replication in
                                  the AspectIX Architecture  . . . . . . . 325--326
                A. Bonhomme and   
                     L. Lefevre   How to Combine Strong Availability with
                                  Weak Replication of Objects? . . . . . . 327--328
                F. J. Hauck and   
              F. J. Ballesteros   Tradeoffs of Distributed Object Models   329--334
                     E. Angster   Teaching Concepts in the Object-Oriented
                                  Field  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--339
                     B. Kelemen   A Newcomer's Thoughts about
                                  Responsibility Distribution  . . . . . . 340--343
               A. Fernandez and   
                       G. Rossi   An Effective Approach to Learning
                                  Object-Oriented Technology . . . . . . . 344--349
               A. M. D. Moreira   Teaching Objects: The Case for Modelling 350--354
                      A. Seffah   Involving Learners in Object-Oriented
                                  Technology Teaching Process: Five
                                  Web-Based Steps for Success  . . . . . . 355--358
                 M. Knasmueller   How to Teach Object-Oriented Programming
                                  to Well-Trained Cobol Programmers  . . . 359--362


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1544, 1998

          S. Ambroszkiewicz and   
                  O. Matyja and   
                     W. Penczek   Team Formation by Self-Interested Mobile
                                  Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
                 W. Chainbi and   
                  M. Jmaiel and   
               B. H. Abdelmajid   Conception, Behavioral Semantics and
                                  Formal Specification of Multi-Agent
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--28
                T. Sugawara and   
                    S. Kurihara   Learning Message-Related Coordination
                                  Control in Multiagent Systems  . . . . . 29--44
                S. Kurihara and   
                    R. Onai and   
                    T. Sugawara   Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
                                  System Integrating Exploitation and
                                  Exploration-Oriented Learning  . . . . . 45--57
                    M. Luck and   
                   M. D'Inverno   Motivated Behavior for Goal Adoption . . 58--73
                       A. Dorin   Physically Based, Self-Organizing
                                  Cellular Automata  . . . . . . . . . . . 74--87
                       A. Waern   Service Contract Negotiation ---
                                  Agent-Based Support for Open Service
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--104
                      B. Moulin   An Awareness-Based Model for Agents
                                  Involved in Reporting Activities . . . . 105--121
                    H. Wang and   
                      J. Slaney   GISM: a Language for Modelling and
                                  Developing Agent-Based Intelligent
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--136
                   K. Clark and   
             P. J. Robinson and   
                       R. Hagen   Programming Internet Based DAI
                                  Applications in Qu-Prolog  . . . . . . . 137--151
                   A. Scott and   
                  K. Jenkin and   
                      R. Senjen   Design of an Agent-Based, Multi-user
                                  Scheduling Implementation  . . . . . . . 152--165
                    R. Lelouche   A Team of Agents Cooperating for
                                  Intelligent Tutoring . . . . . . . . . . 166--182
                 X. F. Wang and   
                      X. Yi and   
                  K. Y. Lam and   
                     E. Okamoto   Secure Information Gathering Agent for
                                  Internet Trading . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--193


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1545, 1998

              Tony Belpaeme and   
                 Luc Steels and   
             Joris Van Looveren   The Construction and Acquisition of
                                  Visual Categories  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
               Hajime Murao and   
                Shinzo Kitamura   $Q$-Learning with Adaptive State Space
                                  Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
              C. Szepesvari and   
                  Z. Kalmar and   
                     A. Lorincz   Module Based Reinforcement Learning for
                                  a Real Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--45
        Zsolt Kalmár and   
    Csaba Szepesvári and   
     András Lörincz   Module Based Reinforcement Learning: An
                                  Application to a Real Robot  . . . . . . 29
              Yassine Faihe and   
        Jean-Pierre Müller   Analysis and Design of Robot's Behavior:
                                  Towards a Methodology  . . . . . . . . . 46--61
                Eiji Uchibe and   
               Minoru Asada and   
                     Koh Hosoda   Vision Based State Space Construction
                                  for Learning Mobile Robots in Multiagent
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--78
               Aude Billard and   
                  Gillian Hayes   Transmitting Communication Skills
                                  Through Imitation in Autonomous Robots   79--94
        Axel Großmann and   
                  Riccardo Poli   Continual Robot Learning with
                                  Constructive Neural Networks . . . . . . 95--108
                   Andreas Birk   Robot Learning and Self-Sufficiency:
                                  What the Energy-Level Can Tell us About
                                  a Robot's Performance  . . . . . . . . . 109--125
                      Paul Vogt   Perceptual Grounding in Robots . . . . . 126--141
      Nuno Chalmique Chagas and   
                    John Hallam   A Learning Mobile Robot: Theory,
                                  Simulation and Practice  . . . . . . . . 142--154
                 Wei-Po Lee and   
                John Hallam and   
             Henrik Hautop Lund   Learning Complex Robot Behaviours by
                                  Evolutionary Computing with Task
                                  Decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--172
           Didier Keymeulen and   
               Kenji Konaka and   
               Masaya Iwata and   
            Yasuo Kuniyoshi and   
                Tetsuya Higuchi   Robot Learning Using Gate-Level
                                  Evolvable Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . 173--188


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1547, 1998

              Alok Aggarwal and   
            S. Rao Kosaraju and   
                      Mihai Pop   Drawing of Two-Dimensional Irregular
                                  Meshes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
           Paola Bertolazzi and   
       Giuseppe Di Battista and   
                  Walter Didimo   Quasi-Upward Planarity . . . . . . . . . 15--29
               Therese C. Biedl   Three Approaches to $3$D-Orthogonal
                                  Box-Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--43
              Ulrik Brandes and   
                Dorothea Wagner   Using Graph Layout to Visualize Train
                                  Interconnection Data . . . . . . . . . . 44--56
            Stina Bridgeman and   
               Roberto Tamassia   Difference Metrics for Interactive
                                  Orthogonal Graph Drawing Algorithms  . . 57--71
             G. Di Battista and   
                      G. Liotta   Upward Planarity Checking: ``Faces Are
                                  More than Polygons'' . . . . . . . . . . 72--86
       Giuseppe Di Battista and   
                Giuseppe Liotta   Upward Planarity Checking: ``Faces Are
                                  More than Polygons'' . . . . . . . . . . 72
             G. Di Battista and   
              M. Patrignani and   
                      F. Vargiu   A Split and Push Approach to $3$D
                                  Orthogonal Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . 87--101
       Giuseppe Di Battista and   
        Maurizio Patrignani and   
               Francesco Vargiu   A Split&Push Approach to $3$D Orthogonal
                                  Drawing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
     Michael B. Dillencourt and   
             David Eppstein and   
           Daniel S. Hirschberg   Geometric Thickness of Complete Graphs   102--110
        Christian A. Duncan and   
        Michael T. Goodrich and   
            Stephen G. Kobourov   Balanced Aspect Ratio Trees and Their
                                  Use for Drawing Very Large Graphs  . . . 111--124
              U. Foessmeier and   
                    C. Hess and   
                    M. Kaufmann   On Improving Orthogonal Drawings: The
                                  4M-Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--137
 Ulrich Fößmeier and   
          Carsten Heß and   
               Michael Kaufmann   On Improving Orthogonal Drawings: The
                                  4M-Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
            Natasha Gelfand and   
               Roberto Tamassia   Algorithmic Patterns for Orthogonal
                                  Graph Drawing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--152
        Michael T. Goodrich and   
          Christopher G. Wagner   A Framework for Drawing Planar Graphs
                                  with Curves and Polylines  . . . . . . . 153--166
          Carsten Gutwenger and   
                   Petra Mutzel   Planar Polyline Drawings with Good
                                  Angular Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . 167--182
           Kunihiko Hayashi and   
              Michiko Inoue and   
        Toshimitsu Masuzawa and   
                 Hideo Fujiwara   A Layout Adjustment Problem for Disjoint
                                  Rectangles Preserving Orthogonal Order   183--197
              Seok-Hee Hong and   
                Peter Eades and   
              Aaron Quigley and   
                    Sang-Ho Lee   Drawing Algorithms for Series-Parallel
                                  Digraphs in Two and Three Dimensions . . 198--209
           Michael E. Houle and   
                 Richard Webber   Approximation Algorithms for Finding
                                  Best Viewpoints  . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--223
                 M. Juenger and   
                 S. Leipert and   
                      P. Mutzel   Level Planarity Testing in Linear Time   224--237
        Michael Jünger and   
          Sebastian Leipert and   
                   Petra Mutzel   Level Planarity Testing in Linear Time   224
          Jan Kratochvíl   Crossing Number of Abstract Topological
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--245
                    Bernd Meyer   Self-Organizing Graphs --- A Neural
                                  Network Perspective of Graph Layout  . . 246--262
          János Pach and   
                 Rephael Wenger   Embedding Planar Graphs at Fixed Vertex
                                  Locations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--274
                Paolo Penna and   
                    Paola Vocca   Proximity Drawings: Three Dimensions Are
                                  Better than Two  . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--287
             Falk Schreiber and   
          Konstantinos Skodinis   NP-Completeness of Some Tree-Clustering
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--301
               Janet M. Six and   
   Konstantinos G. Kakoulis and   
              Ioannis G. Tollis   Refinement of Orthogonal Graph Drawings  302--315
               Frank Wagner and   
                Alexander Wolff   A Combinatorial Framework for Map
                                  Labeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--331
                  David R. Wood   An Algorithm for Three-Dimensional
                                  Orthogonal Graph Drawing . . . . . . . . 332--346
              Therese Biedl and   
                  Joe Marks and   
                Kathy Ryall and   
                 Sue Whitesides   Graph Multidrawing: Finding Nice
                                  Drawings Without Defining Nice . . . . . 347--355
               U. Dogrusoez and   
             K. G. Kakoulis and   
                  B. Madden and   
                   I. G. Tollis   Edge Labeling in the Graph Layout
                                  Toolkit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--363
         Ugur Dogrusöz and   
   Konstantinos G. Kakoulis and   
             Brendan Madden and   
              Ioannis G. Tollis   Edge Labeling in the Graph Layout
                                  Toolkit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
           Emden R. Gansner and   
               Stephen C. North   Improved Force-Directed Layouts  . . . . 364--373
              Mao Lin Huang and   
                    Peter Eades   A Fully Animated Interactive System for
                                  Clustering and Navigating Huge Graphs    374--383
                 Tamara Munzner   Drawing Large Graphs with H3Viewer and
                                  Site Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--393
                   Gilles Paris   Cooperation between Interactive Actions
                                  and Automatic Drawing in a Schematic
                                  Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--402
     Björn Steckelbach and   
                Till Bubeck and   
 Ulrich Fößmeier and   
           Michael Kaufmann and   
                Marcus Ritt and   
            Wolfgang Rosenstiel   Visualization of Parallel Execution
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--412
               Daniel Tunkelang   JIGGLE: Java Interactive General Graph
                                  Layout Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 413--422
                Peter Eades and   
                  Joe Marks and   
               Petra Mutzel and   
                  Stephen North   Graph Drawing Contest Report . . . . . . 423--435
             Isabel F. Cruz and   
                Donald I. Lambe   Implementation of an Efficient
                                  Constraint Solver for the Layout of
                                  Graphs in Delaunay . . . . . . . . . . . 436--437
            Erik D. Demaine and   
              Martin L. Demaine   Planar Drawings of Origami Polyhedra . . 438--440
             Edmund Dengler and   
                  William Cowan   Human Perception of Laid-Out Graphs  . . 441--443
             G. Di Battista and   
                   R. Lillo and   
                 F. Vernacotola   Ptolomaeus: The Web Cartographer . . . . 444--445
       Giuseppe Di Battista and   
               Renato Lillo and   
              Fabio Vernacotola   Ptolomaeus: The Web Cartographer . . . . 444
                 Arne Frick and   
             Brendan Madden and   
               the Research and   
              Development Staff   Flexible Graph Layout and Editing for
                                  Commercial Applications  . . . . . . . . 446--447
               Robert B. Garvey   Multidimensional Outlines ---
                                  Wordgraphs\TM  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--449
              Markus Holzer and   
                 Muriel Quenzer   VisA: a Tool for Visualizing and
                                  Animating Automata and Formal Languages  450--451
          Claudia Iturriaga and   
                     Anna Lubiw   Elastic Labels on the Perimeter of a
                                  Rectangle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--453
           Carolyn McCreary and   
                 Larry Barowski   VGJ: Visualizing Graphs Through Java . . 454--455
               Petra Mutzel and   
          Carsten Gutwenger and   
           Ralf Brockenauer and   
              Sergej Fialko and   
                Gunnar Klau and   
        Michael Krüger and   
             Thomas Ziegler and   
          Stefan Näher and   
              David Alberts and   
                Dirk Ambras and   
                Gunter Koch and   
        Michael Jünger and   
         Christoph Buchheim and   
              Sebastian Leipert   A Library of Algorithms for Graph
                                  Drawing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--457
                   Michael Soss   The Size of the Open Sphere of Influence
                                  Graph in $ {L}_\infty $ Metric Spaces    458--459
                Cao An Wang and   
            Francis Y. Chin and   
                   Bo Ting Yang   Maximum Weight Triangulation and Graph
                                  Drawing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--461
               Roland Wiese and   
               Michael Kaufmann   Adding Constraints to an Algorithm for
                                  Orthogonal Graph Drawing . . . . . . . . 462--463
                 Binhai Zhu and   
                   Xiaotie Deng   On Computing and Drawing Maxmin-Height
                                  Covering Triangulation . . . . . . . . . 464--466


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 1553, 1998

                Joakim Eriksson   Real-Time and Active Databases: a Survey 1--26
                  Deji Chen and   
                Aloysius K. Mok   Design of a Real-Time SQL Engine in the
                                  Distributed Environment  . . . . . . . . 27--38
              Martin L. Kersten   A Cellular Database System for the 21st
                                  Century  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--50
          John A. Stankovic and   
                Sang H. Son and   
            Jörg Liebeherr   BeeHive: Global Multimedia Database
                                  Support for Dependable, Real-Time
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--72
               Kwei-Jay Lin and   
            Ching-Sang Peng and   
                        Tony Ng   An Active Real-Time Database Model for
                                  Air Traffic Control Systems  . . . . . . 73--97
         Özgür Ulusoy   Performance Issues in Processing Active
                                  Real-Time Transactions . . . . . . . . . 98--118
                Kam-yiu Lam and   
             Gary C. K. Law and   
               Victor C. S. Lee   Scheduling of Triggered Transactions in
                                  Distributed Real-Time Active Databases   119--140
            Igor R. Viguier and   
                  Anindya Datta   Buffer Management in Active, Real-Time
                                  Database Systems: Concepts and An
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--158
              Ulrike Jaeger and   
            Johann K. Obermaier   Parallel Event Detection in Active
                                  Database Systems: The Heart of the
                                  Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--175
           Claudia L. Roncancio   Toward Duration-Based, Constrained and
                                  Dynamic Event Types  . . . . . . . . . . 176--193
                   Jonas Mellin   Supporting System-Level Testing of
                                  Applications by Active Real-Time
                                  Database Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--211
              Luca Chittaro and   
                    Carlo Combi   Temporal Indeterminacy in Deductive
                                  Databases: An Approach Based on Event
                                  Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--230
                Aloysius K. Mok   Panel Session: Predictability in Active
                                  Real-Time/Temporal Databases . . . . . . 231--237
              John A. Stankovic   Panel Session: Practical and Industrial
                                  Experience in Active Real-Time Databases 238--244