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Volume 2053, 2001
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2053, 2001

                  Neil D. Jones   Program Analysis for Implicit
                                  Computational Complexity . . . . . . . . 1
              Wei-Ngan Chin and   
            Siau-Cheng Khoo and   
                     Dana N. Xu   Deriving Pre-conditions for Array Bound
                                  Check Elimination  . . . . . . . . . . . 2
             Adam Fischbach and   
                    John Hannan   Type Systems for Useless-Variable
                                  Elimination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
                Kevin Glynn and   
           Peter J. Stuckey and   
            Martin Sulzmann and   
      Harald Sòndergaard   Boolean Constraints for Binding-Time
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
     Jörgen Gustavsson and   
             Josef Svenningsson   Constraint Abstractions  . . . . . . . . 63
                Julia L. Lawall   Implementing Circularity Using Partial
                                  Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
            Damien Massé   Combining Forward and Backward Analyses
                                  of Temporal Properties . . . . . . . . . 103
             Isabella Mastroeni   Numerical Power Analysis . . . . . . . . 117
          Hidehiko Masuhara and   
               Akinori Yonezawa   Run-Time Bytecode Specialization . . . . 138
            Antoine Miné   A New Numerical Abstract Domain Based on
                                  Difference-Bound Matrices  . . . . . . . 155
               Ulrik P. Schultz   Partial Evaluation for Class-Based
                                  Object-Oriented Languages  . . . . . . . 173
              Jens Peter Secher   Driving in the Jungle  . . . . . . . . . 198
         Ganesh Sittampalam and   
                   Oege de Moor   Higher-Order Pattern Matching for
                                  Automatically Applying Fusion
                                  Transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
            Gregory T. Sullivan   Dynamic Partial Evaluation . . . . . . . 238
                 Walid Taha and   
            Henning Makholm and   
                    John Hughes   Tag Elimination and Jones-Optimality . . 257
               Harald Ganzinger   Bottom-Up Deduction with Deletion and
                                  Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2054, 2001

                  Ron Weiss and   
          Thomas F. Knight, Jr.   Engineered Communications for Microbial
                                  Robotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                 Ken Komiya and   
           Kensaku Sakamoto and   
             Hidetaka Gouzu and   
         Shigeyuki Yokoyama and   
             Masanori Arita and   
             Akio Nishikawa and   
                  Masami Hagiya   Successive State Transitions with IO
                                  Interface by Molecules . . . . . . . . . 17
      Ravinderjit S. Braich and   
              Cliff Johnson and   
       Paul W. K. Rothemund and   
               Darryl Hwang and   
         Nickolas Chelyapov and   
             Leonard M. Adleman   Solution of a Satisfiability Problem on
                                  a Gel-Based DNA Computer . . . . . . . . 27
               Pierluigi Frisco   Diophantine Equations and Splicing: A
                                  New Demonstration of the Generative
                                  Capability of $H$ Systems  . . . . . . . 43
        Maurice Margenstern and   
                 Yurii Rogozhin   About Time-Varying Distributed $H$
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
               Erik Winfree and   
                   Tony Eng and   
             Grzegorz Rozenberg   String Tile Models for DNA Computing by
                                  Self-Assembly  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
                  Masami Hagiya   From Molecular Computing to Molecular
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
          John S. McCaskill and   
                 Ulrich Niemann   Graph Replacement Chemistry for DNA
                                  Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
            Paola Bonizzoni and   
           Clelia De Felice and   
            Giancarlo Mauri and   
                  Rosalba Zizza   DNA and Circular Splicing  . . . . . . . 117
              Rudolf Freund and   
               Franziska Freund   Molecular Computing with Generalized
                                  Homogeneous $P$-Systems  . . . . . . . . 130
               John H. Reif and   
               Thomas H. LaBean   Computationally Inspired
                                  Biotechnologies: Improved DNA Synthesis
                                  and Associative Search Using
                                  Error-Correcting Codes and
                                  Vector-Quantization  . . . . . . . . . . 145
               John H. Reif and   
           Thomas H. LaBean and   
              Nadrian C. Seeman   Challenges and Applications for
                                  Self-Assembled DNA Nanostructures  . . . 173
                 Kevin Chen and   
             Vijay Ramachandran   A Space-Efficient Randomized DNA
                                  Algorithm for $k$-SAT  . . . . . . . . . 199
         Sergio Díaz and   
          Juan Luis Esteban and   
              Mitsunori Ogihara   A DNA-Based Random Walk Method for
                                  Solving $k$-SAT  . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
            Yasubumi Sakakibara   Solving Computational Learning Problems
                                  of Boolean Formulae on DNA Computers . . 220
               John A. Rose and   
              Russell J. Deaton   The Fidelity of Annealing-Ligation: A
                                  Theoretical Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 231
            Elizabeth Goode and   
          David Harlan Wood and   
                  Junghuei Chen   DNA Implementation of a Royal Road
                                  Fitness Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . 247
          John S. McCaskill and   
          Robert Penchovsky and   
             Marlies Gohlke and   
        Jörg Ackermann and   
             Thomas Rücker   Steady Flow Micro-Reactor Module for
                                  Pipelined DNA Computations . . . . . . . 263
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2055, 2001

               Claudio Baiocchi   Three Small Universal Turing Machines    1
                Asa Ben-Hur and   
             Hava T. Siegelmann   Computation in Gene Networks . . . . . . 11
               Jozef Gruska and   
                   Hiroshi Imai   Power, Puzzles and Properties of
                                  Entanglement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
          Juhani Karhumäki   Combinatorial and Computational Problems
                                  on Finite Sets of Words  . . . . . . . . 69
  Carlos Martín-Vide and   
                Gheorghe P\uaun   Computing with Membranes (P Systems):
                                  Universality Results . . . . . . . . . . 82
                 Kenichi Morita   A Simple Universal Logic Element and
                                  Cellular Automata for Reversible
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Géraud Sénizergues   Some Applications of the Decidability of
                                  DPDA's Equivalence . . . . . . . . . . . 114
           Vladimir A. Zakharov   The Equivalence Problem for
                                  Computational Models: Decidable and
                                  Undecidable Cases  . . . . . . . . . . . 133
            Claudio Zandron and   
           Claudio Ferretti and   
                Giancarlo Mauri   Two Normal Forms for Rewriting $P$
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
         Vincent D. Blondel and   
           Julien Cassaigne and   
                Codrin Nichitiu   On a Conjecture of Krka. A Turing
                                  Machine with No Periodic Configurations  165
                  Didier Caucal   On the Transition Graphs of Turing
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
            Gabriel Ciobanu and   
                   Mihai Rotaru   JC-Nets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
                 Henning Fernau   Nonterminal Complexity of Programmed
                                  Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
              Rudolf Freund and   
                Gheorghe P\uaun   On the Number of Non-terminal Symbols in
                                  Graph-Controlled, Programmed and Matrix
                                  Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
               Pierluigi Frisco   A Direct Construction of a Universal
                                  Extended $H$ System  . . . . . . . . . . 226
              Chuzo Iwamoto and   
         Katsuyuki Tateishi and   
             Kenichi Morita and   
                 Katsunobu Imai   Speeding-Up Cellular Automata by
                                  Alternations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
                  Martin Kutrib   Efficient Universal Pushdown Cellular
                                  Automata and Their Application to
                                  Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
         Salvatore La Torre and   
          Margherita Napoli and   
                  Mimmo Parente   Firing Squad Synchronization Problem on
                                  Bidimensional Cellular Automata with
                                  Communication Constraints  . . . . . . . 264
               Madhu Mutyam and   
             Kamala Krithivasan   $P$ Systems with Membrane Creation:
                                  Universality and Efficiency  . . . . . . 276
         Thomas J. Naughton and   
                   Damien Woods   On the Computational Power of a
                                  Continuous-Space Optical Model of
                                  Computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
                 Zenon Sadowski   On a $P$-optimal Proof System for the
                                  Set of All Satisfiable Boolean Formulas
                                  (SAT)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
              Petr Sosík   D0L System $+$ Watson-Crick
                                  Complementarity $=$ Universal
                                  Computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2056, 2001

                   Aijun An and   
               Nick Cercone and   
                  Xiangji Huang   A Case Study for Learning from
                                  Imbalanced Data Sets . . . . . . . . . . 1
             Andreas Gerber and   
                 Christian Russ   A Holonic Multi-agent Infrastructure for
                                  Electronic Procurement . . . . . . . . . 16
                 Zequn Zhou and   
                   C. I. Ezeife   A Low-Scan Incremental Association Rule
                                  Maintenance Method Based on the Apriori
                                  Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
             Patrick Pantel and   
                     Dekang Lin   A Statistical Corpus-Based Term
                                  Extractor  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
          Eric G. Berkowitz and   
                Peter H. Greene   Body-Based Reasoning Using a
                                  Feeling-Based Lexicon, Mental Imagery,
                                  and an Object-Oriented Metaphor
                                  Hierarchy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
                Robert C. Holte   Combinatorial Auctions, Knapsack
                                  Problems, and Hill-Climbing Search . . . 57
             Nathalie Japkowicz   Concept-Learning in the Presence of
                                  Between-Class and Within-Class
                                  Imbalances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
               Adam Beacham and   
              Xinguang Chen and   
           Jonathan Sillito and   
                 Peter van Beek   Constraint Programming Lessons Learned
                                  from Crossword Puzzles . . . . . . . . . 78
          Michael E. Bergen and   
             Peter van Beek and   
                   Tom Carchrae   Constraint-Based Vehicle Assembly Line
                                  Sequencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
                Tim Menzies and   
               Harhsinder Singh   How AI Can Help SE; or: Randomized
                                  Search Not Considered Harmful  . . . . . 100
                  Bob Price and   
                Craig Boutilier   Imitation and Reinforcement Learning in
                                  Agents with Heterogeneous Actions  . . . 111
               Bradley Bart and   
         James P. Delgrande and   
                 Oliver Schulte   Knowledge and Planning in an
                                  Action-Based Multi-agent Framework: A
                                  Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
         J. William Murdock and   
                  Ashok K. Goel   Learning about Constraints by Reflection 131
                  Jie Cheng and   
                Russell Greiner   Learning Bayesian Belief Network
                                  Classifiers: Algorithms and System . . . 141
                   Y. Xiang and   
                         J. Lee   Local Score Computation in Learning
                                  Belief Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
              Vive S. Kumar and   
          Gordon I. McCalla and   
                   Jim E. Greer   Personalized Contexts in Help Systems    162
                  Sam Scott and   
              Robert Gaizauskas   QA-LaSIE: A Natural Language Question
                                  Answering System . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
     Marius-C\ualin Silaghi and   
         Djamila Sam-Haroud and   
                   Boi Faltings   Search Techniques for Non-linear
                                  Constraint Satisfaction Problems with
                                  Inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
István T. Hernádvölgyi   Searching for Macro Operators with
                                  Automatically Generated Heuristics . . . 194
            Yann Chevaleyre and   
             Jean-Daniel Zucker   Solving Multiple-Instance and
                                  Multiple-Part Learning Problems with
                                  Decision Trees and Rule Sets.
                                  Application to the Mutagenesis Problem   204
         Mike Cameron-Jones and   
        Andrew Charman-Williams   Stacking for Misclassification Cost
                                  Performance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
            Mauricio Osorio and   
             Juan Carlos Nieves   Stratified Partial-Order Logic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
                  Gary King and   
                      Tim Oates   The Importance of Being Discrete:
                                  Learning Classes of Actions and Outcomes
                                  through Interaction  . . . . . . . . . . 236
          Philippe Langlais and   
                Guy Lapalme and   
  Sébastien Sauvé   User Interface Aspects of a Translation
                                  Typing System  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
                Shawn Grant and   
              Gordon I. McCalla   A Hybrid Approach to Making
                                  Recommendations and Its Application to
                                  the Movie Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
               Hanh H. Pham and   
                 Van-Hop Nguyen   Agents with Genders for Inventory
                                  Planning in E-Management . . . . . . . . 267
               David Nadeau and   
                Nicole Tourigny   Évaluation d'un Syst\`eme pour le Résumé
                                  Automatique de Documents Électroniques    277
                    Maria Fasli   On Obligations, Relativised Obligations,
                                  and Bilateral Commitments  . . . . . . . 287
                 Vlado Ke\vselj   Question Answering Using
                                  Unification-Based Grammar  . . . . . . . 297
                 Lixin Yang and   
              Deborah A. Stacey   Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem
                                  Using the Enhanced Genetic Algorithm . . 307
                 Ali Farzan and   
                Ali A. Ghorbani   The Bottom-Up Freezing: An Approach to
                                  Neural Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . 317
              Mario Jarmasz and   
                Stan Szpakowicz   The Design and Implementation of an
                                  Electronic Lexical Knowledge Base  . . . 325
              Rabih Neouchi and   
            Ahmed Y. Tawfik and   
               Richard A. Frost   Towards a Temporal Extension of Formal
                                  Concept Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
             Stuart I. Reynolds   Adaptive Representation Methods for
                                  Reinforcement Learning . . . . . . . . . 345
                   Z. M. Ma and   
                W. J. Zhang and   
                       W. Y. Ma   Imprecise and Uncertain Engineering
                                  Information Modeling in Databases  . . . 349
                  Saeed Hashemi   Incremental Case-Based Reasoning for
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
              Kevin Kennedy and   
               Robert E. Mercer   Planning Animations Using Cinematography
                                  Knowledge  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
               Joe MacInnes and   
              Omid Banyasad and   
                     Afzal Upal   Watching You, Watching Me  . . . . . . . 361
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2057, 2001

                Doron Peled and   
                    Lenore Zuck   From Model Checking to a Temporal Proof  1
                      Rob Gerth   Model Checking if Your Life Depends on
                                  It: A View from Intel's Trenches . . . . 15--15
             Marsha Chechik and   
             Benet Devereux and   
                 Arie Gurfinkel   Model-Checking Infinite State-Space
                                  Systems with Fine-Grained Abstractions
                                  Using SPIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
             Javier Esparza and   
                 Keijo Heljanko   Implementing LTL Model Checking with Net
                                  Unfoldings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
            Stefan Edelkamp and   
     Alberto Lluch Lafuente and   
                    Stefan Leue   Directed Explicit Model Checking with
                                  HSF--SPIN  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
               Flavio Lerda and   
                  Willem Visser   Addressing Dynamic Issues of Program
                                  Model Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
                Thomas Ball and   
             Sriram K. Rajamani   Automatically Validating Temporal Safety
                                  Properties of Interfaces . . . . . . . . 103
                Guoping Jia and   
                   Susanne Graf   Verification Experiments on the MASCARA
                                  Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
               Muffy Calder and   
                   Alice Miller   Using SPIN for Feature Interaction
                                  Analysis --- A Case Study  . . . . . . . 143
              Shin Nakajima and   
                   Tetsuo Tamai   Behavioural Analysis of the Enterprise
                                  \bf JavaBeans\TM Component Architecture  163
           Michael Baldamus and   
      Jochen Schröder-Babo   p2b: A Translation Utility for Linking
                                  Promela and Symbolic Model Checking
                                  (Tool Paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
           Scott D. Stoller and   
                 Yanhong A. Liu   Transformations for Model Checking
                                  Distributed Java Programs  . . . . . . . 192
                Jiri Barnat and   
                 Lubos Brim and   
 Jitka St\vríbrná   Distributed LTL Model-Checking in SPIN   200
             Hubert Garavel and   
              Radu Mateescu and   
              Irina Smarandache   Parallel State Space Construction for
                                  Model-Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
            Fabrice Derepas and   
                    Paul Gastin   Model Checking Systems of Replicated
                                  Processes with Spin  . . . . . . . . . . 235
          Vivek K. Shanbhag and   
                    K. Gopinath   A SPIN-Based Model Checker for
                                  Telecommunication Protocols  . . . . . . 252
               Clement Yuen and   
                      Wei Tjioe   Modeling and Verifying a Price Model for
                                  Congestion Control in Computer Networks
                                  Using Promela/Spin . . . . . . . . . . . 272
             Leszek Holenderski   A Model Checking Project at Philips
                                  Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
               Darren Cofer and   
              Eric Engstrom and   
             Robert Goldman and   
             David Musliner and   
                   Steve Vestal   Applications of Model Checking at
                                  Honeywell Laboratories . . . . . . . . . 296
           Bernhard Steffen and   
           Tiziana Margaria and   
                   Volker Braun   Coarse-Granular Model Checking in
                                  Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2058, 2001

                Robert J. Stone   Haptic Feedback: A Brief History from
                                  Telepresence to Virtual Reality  . . . . 1
             Ben P. Challis and   
         Alistair D. N. Edwards   Design Principles for Tactile
                                  Interaction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
                  Paul Penn and   
               Helen Petrie and   
              Chetz Colwell and   
             Diana Kornbrot and   
             Stephen Furner and   
                Andrew Hardwick   The Haptic Perception of Texture in
                                  Virtual Environments: An Investigation
                                  with Two Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
        Frances L. Van Scoy and   
            Takamitsu Kawai and   
            Marjorie Darrah and   
                    Connie Rash   Haptic Display of Mathematical Functions
                                  for Teaching Mathematics to Students
                                  with Vision Disabilities: Design and
                                  Proof of Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
                     Wai Yu and   
             Ramesh Ramloll and   
               Stephen Brewster   Haptic Graphs for Blind Computer Users   41
               Evan F. Wies and   
            John A. Gardner and   
         M. Sile O'Modhrain and   
      Christopher J. Hasser and   
            Vladimir L. Bulatov   Web-Based Touch Display for Accessible
                                  Science Education  . . . . . . . . . . . 52
                 Ian Oakley and   
           Stephen Brewster and   
                    Philip Gray   Communicating with Feeling . . . . . . . 61
         Eva-Lotta Sallnäs   Improved Precision in Mediated
                                  Collaborative Manipulation of Objects by
                                  Haptic Force Feedback  . . . . . . . . . 69
                Riku Hikiji and   
                Shuji Hashimoto   Hand-Shaped Force Interface for
                                  Human-Cooperative Mobile Robot . . . . . 76
             Gunnar Jansson and   
                Anna Ivås   Can the Efficiency of a Haptic Display
                                  Be Increased by Short-Time Practice in
                                  Exploration? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
           Frank E. Pollick and   
                Chris Chizk and   
       Charlotte Hager-Ross and   
                    Mary Hayhoe   Implicit Accuracy Constraints in
                                  Two-Fingered Grasps of Virtual Objects
                                  with Haptic Feedback . . . . . . . . . . 98
             Steven A. Wall and   
              William S. Harwin   Interaction of Visual and Haptic
                                  Information in Simulated Environments:
                                  Texture Perception . . . . . . . . . . . 108
         Marilyn Rose McGee and   
                  Phil Gray and   
               Stephen Brewster   The Effective Combination of Haptic and
                                  Auditory Textural Information  . . . . . 118
 Hilde Keuning-Van Oirschot and   
           Adrian J. M. Houtsma   Cursor Trajectory Analysis . . . . . . . 127
          Laroussi Bouguila and   
             Masahiro Ishii and   
                    Makoto Sato   What Impact Does the Haptic-Stereo
                                  Integration Have on Depth Perception in
                                  Stereographic Virtual Environment? A
                                  Preliminary Study  . . . . . . . . . . . 135
      Arthur E. Kirkpatrick and   
               Sarah A. Douglas   A Shape Recognition Benchmark for
                                  Evaluating Usability of a Haptic
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
             Andrew Crossan and   
           Stephen Brewster and   
                Stuart Reid and   
                 Dominic Mellor   A Horse Ovary Palpation Simulator for
                                  Veterinary Training  . . . . . . . . . . 157
              Jan B. F. van Erp   Tactile Navigation Display . . . . . . . 165
 Henricus A. H. C. van Veen and   
              Jan B. F. van Erp   Tactile Information Presentation in the
                                  Cockpit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
          Laroussi Bouguila and   
             Masahiro Ishii and   
                    Makoto Sato   Scaleable SPIDAR: A Haptic Interface For
                                  Human-Scale Virtual Environments . . . . 182
              Brett Stevens and   
         Jennifer Jerrams-Smith   The Sense of Object-Presence with
                                  Projection-Augmented Models  . . . . . . 194
               Jaana Leikas and   
Antti Väätänen and   
           Veli-Pekka Räty   Virtual Space Computer Games with a
                                  Floor Sensor Control --- Human Centred
                                  Approach in the Design Process . . . . . 199
            Patricia Dillon and   
                Wendy Moody and   
           Rebecca Bartlett and   
            Patricia Scully and   
               Roger Morgan and   
              Christopher James   Sensing the Fabric: To Simulate
                                  Sensation through Sensory Evaluation and
                                  in Response to Standard Acceptable
                                  Properties of Specific Materials when
                                  Viewed as a Digital Image  . . . . . . . 205


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2059, 2001

           Alfred M. Bruckstein   Invariant Recognition and Processing of
                                  Planar Shapes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
                    Horst Bunke   Recent Advances in Structural Pattern
                                  Recognition with Applications to Visual
                                  Form Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
               Terry Caelli and   
              Andrew McCabe and   
                 Gordon Binsted   On Learning the Shape of Complex Actions 24
              Donald D. Hoffman   Mereology of Visual Form . . . . . . . . 40
              Josef Kittler and   
             Alireza Ahmadyfard   On Matching Algorithms for the
                                  Recognition of Objects in Cluttered
                                  Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
           Ali Shokoufandeh and   
                 Sven Dickinson   A Unified Framework for Indexing and
                                  Matching Hierarchical Shape Structures   67
              Shimon Ullman and   
                  Erez Sali and   
            Michel Vidal-Naquet   A Fragment-Based Approach to Object
                                  Representation and Classification  . . . 85
               Tetsuo Asano and   
          Yasuyuki Kawamura and   
            Reinhard Klette and   
                   Koji Obokata   Minimum-Length Polygons in Approximation
                                  Sausages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
          Gunilla Borgefors and   
                 Stina Svensson   Optimal Local Distances for Distance
                                  Transforms in $3$D Using an Extended
                                  Neighbourhood  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
              Marco Bressan and   
                 Jordi Vitri\`a   Independent Modes of Variation in Point
                                  Distribution Models  . . . . . . . . . . 123
           Virginio Cantoni and   
              Luca Lombardi and   
                Marco Porta and   
                    Ugo Vallone   Qualitative Estimation of Depth in
                                  Monocular Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
        Per-Erik Danielsson and   
                    Qingfen Lin   A New Shape Space for Second Order
                                  $3$D-Variations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
         Claudio De Stefano and   
                   Maria Frucci   Spatial Relations among Pattern Subsets
                                  as a Guide for Skeleton Pruning  . . . . 155
                Petko Faber and   
                   R. B. Fisher   Euclidean Fitting Revisited  . . . . . . 165
              Mario Ferraro and   
        Giuseppe Boccignone and   
                   Terry Caelli   On the Representation of Visual
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
              Roland Glantz and   
            Walter G. Kropatsch   Skeletons in the Framework of Graph
                                  Pyramids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
             Ruth Grossmann and   
              Nahum Kiryati and   
                     Ron Kimmel   Computational Surface Flattening: A
                                  Voxel-Based Approach . . . . . . . . . . 196
                 Hyo-Ju Kim and   
               Chang-Sung Jeong   An Adaptive Image Interpolation Using
                                  the Quadratic Spline Interpolator  . . . 205
       Frederic F. Leymarie and   
              Benjamin B. Kimia   The Shock Scaffold for Representing $3$D
                                  Shape  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
        Ingela Nyström and   
  Gabriella Sanniti di Baja and   
                 Stina Svensson   Curve Skeletonization by Junction
                                  Detection in Surface Skeletons . . . . . 229
                      Binh Pham   Representation of Fuzzy Shapes . . . . . 239
             Gilles Rabatel and   
      Anne-Gaëlle Manh and   
    Marie-José Aldon and   
              Bernard Bonicelli   Skeleton-Based Shape Models with
                                  Pressure Forces: Application to
                                  Segmentation of Overlapping Leaves . . . 249
            Andrea Torsello and   
               Edwin R. Hancock   A Skeletal Measure of $2$D Shape
                                  Similarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
                Liangyin Yu and   
                Charles R. Dyer   Perception-Based $2$D Shape Modeling by
                                  Curvature Shaping  . . . . . . . . . . . 272
              Erhardt Barth and   
              Mario Ferraro and   
             Christoph Zetzsche   Global Topological Properties of Images
                                  Derived from Local Curvature Features    285
          Alberto Biancardi and   
 Manuel Segovia-Martínez   Adaptive Segmentation of MR Axial Brain
                                  Images Using Connected Components  . . . 295
           David Coeurjolly and   
               Serge Miguet and   
                   Laure Tougne   Discrete Curvature Based on Osculating
                                  Circle Estimation  . . . . . . . . . . . 303
           Koichiro Deguchi and   
         Tadahiro Izumitani and   
               Hidekata Hontani   Detection and Enhancement of Line
                                  Structures in an Image by Anisotropic
                                  Diffusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
         Patrick S. Huggins and   
               Steven W. Zucker   How Folds Cut a Scene  . . . . . . . . . 323
            Yukiko Kenmochi and   
              Atsushi Imiya and   
            Toshiaki Nomura and   
                Kazunori Kotani   Extraction of Topological Features from
                                  Sequential Volume Data . . . . . . . . . 333
                 Ron Kimmel and   
                     Nir Sochen   Using Beltrami Framework for Orientation
                                  Diffusion in Image Processing  . . . . . 346
            Reinhard Klette and   
                    Hao Jie Sun   Digital Planar Segment Based
                                  Polyhedrization for Surface Area
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
                 Lifeng Liu and   
                  Stan Sclaroff   Shape-Guided Split and Merge of Image
                                  Regions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
    Cris L. Luengo Hendriks and   
             Lucas J. van Vliet   A Rotation-Invariant Morphology for
                                  Shape Analysis of Anisotropic Objects
                                  and Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
           Youssef Machrouh and   
Jean-Sylvail Liénard and   
               Philippe Tarroux   Multiscale Feature Extraction from the
                                  Visual Environment in an Active Vision
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
                Amin Massad and   
                 Gerard Medioni   $2$-D Shape Decomposition into
                                  Overlapping Parts  . . . . . . . . . . . 398
           Marco Mattavelli and   
               Vincent Noel and   
                 Edoardo Amaldi   Fast Line Detection Algorithms Based on
                                  Combinatorial Optimization . . . . . . . 410
               Mads Nielsen and   
             Ole Fogh Olsen and   
                Michael Sig and   
                      M. Sigurd   Koenderink Corner Points . . . . . . . . 420
 Fernando Pérez Nava and   
   Antonio Falcón Martel   Dynamic Models for Wavelet
                                  Representations of Shape . . . . . . . . 431
                  Paul L. Rosin   Straightening and Partitioning Shapes    440
                   Doron Shaked   Invariant Signatures from Polygonal
                                  Approximations of Smooth Curves  . . . . 451
          Walter F. Bischof and   
                   Terry Caelli   On the Learning of Complex Movement
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
             Frederic Comby and   
            Olivier Strauss and   
        Marie-José Aldon   Possibility Theory and Rough Histograms
                                  for Motion Estimation in a Video
                                  Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
             L. P. Cordella and   
                  P. Foggia and   
                 C. Sansone and   
              F. Tortorella and   
                       M. Vento   Prototyping Structural Shape
                                  Descriptions by Inductive Learning . . . 484
René Dencker Eriksen and   
                   Ivar Balslev   Training Space Truncation in
                                  Vision-Based Recognition . . . . . . . . 494
         Claudio De Stefano and   
            A. Della Cioppa and   
                A. Marcelli and   
                   F. Matarazzo   Grouping Character Shapes by Means of
                                  Genetic Programming  . . . . . . . . . . 504
               Michael Elad and   
               Yacov Hel-Or and   
                  Renato Keshet   Pattern Detection Using a Maximal
                                  Rejection Classifier . . . . . . . . . . 514
          A. K. Gramopadhye and   
                 Kartik Madhani   Visual Search and Visual Lobe Size . . . 525
               David Jacobs and   
            Peter Belhumeur and   
                     Ian Jermyn   Judging Whether Multiple Silhouettes Can
                                  Come from the Same Object  . . . . . . . 532
    Jacques-Olivier Lachaud and   
                   Anne Vialard   Discrete Deformable Boundaries for the
                                  Segmentation of Multidimensional Images  542
       Pierre Martin-Granel and   
              Matthew Roach and   
                     John Mason   Camera Motion Extraction Using
                                  Correlation for Motion-Based Video
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552
            Adnan A. Y. Mustafa   Matching Incomplete Objects Using
                                  Boundary Signatures  . . . . . . . . . . 563
            Francesca Odone and   
            Emanuele Trucco and   
               Alessandro Verri   General Purpose Matching of Grey Level
                                  Arbitrary Images . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
           Marcello Pelillo and   
             Kaleem Siddiqi and   
               Steven W. Zucker   Many-to-many Matching of Attributed
                                  Trees Using Association Graphs and Game
                                  Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
       Antonio Robles-Kelly and   
               Edwin R. Hancock   An Expectation-Maximisation Framework
                                  for Perceptual Grouping  . . . . . . . . 594
        Thomas B. Sebastian and   
            Philip N. Klein and   
              Benjamin B. Kimia   Alignment-Based Recognition of Shape
                                  Outlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606
              Guido Tascini and   
              A. Montesanto and   
                 R. Palombo and   
                      P. Puliti   Behind the Image Sequence: The Semantics
                                  of Moving Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . 619
                     June-Ho Yi   Probabilistic Hypothesis Generation for
                                  Rapid $3$D Object Recognition  . . . . . 630
             Djordje Brujic and   
             Iain Ainsworth and   
             Mihailo Ristic and   
                   Vesna Brujic   Efficient Shape Description Using NURBS  643
          Leila De Floriani and   
              Paola Magillo and   
             Franco Morando and   
                   Enrico Puppo   Non-manifold Multi-tessellation: From
                                  Meshes to Iconic Representations of
                                  Objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654
           Riccardo Distasi and   
              Michele Nappi and   
             Maurizio Tucci and   
                Sergio Vitulano   Image Indexing by Contour Analysis: A
                                  Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
              Atsushi Imiya and   
              Kazuhiko Kawamoto   Shape Reconstruction from an Image
                                  Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
             Itsuo Kumazawa and   
                 Masayoshi Ohno   $3$D Shape Reconstruction from Multiple
                                  Silhouettes: Generalization from Few
                                  Views by Neural Network Learning . . . . 687
               Hirobumi Nishida   Robust Structural Indexing through
                                  Quasi-Invariant Shape Signatures and
                                  Feature Generation . . . . . . . . . . . 696
                Beom-Soo Oh and   
                  Chang-Hun Kim   Fast Reconstruction of $3$D Objects from
                                  Single Free-Hand Line Drawing  . . . . . 706
               B. G. Prasad and   
                S. K. Gupta and   
                   K. K. Biswas   Color and Shape Index for Region-Based
                                  Image Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . . . 716
             Adrian G. Bors and   
         Lefteris Kechagias and   
                  Ioannis Pitas   Virtual Drilling in $3$-D Objects
                                  Reconstructed by Shape-Based
                                  Interpolation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729
         Cecilia Di Ruberto and   
            Andrew Dempster and   
                Shahid Khan and   
                     Bill Jarra   Morphological Image Processing for
                                  Evaluating Malaria Disease . . . . . . . 739
             Giovanni Garibotto   A Binocular License Plate Reader for
                                  High Precision Speed Measurement . . . . 749
                George Nagy and   
                 Tong Zhang and   
             W. R. Franklin and   
                Eric Landis and   
                 Edwin Nagy and   
                 Denis T. Keane   Volume and Surface Area Distributions of
                                  Cracks in Concrete . . . . . . . . . . . 759
                Jan Neumann and   
                Hanan Samet and   
                     Aya Soffer   Integration of Local and Global Shape
                                  Analysis for Logo Classification . . . . 769
                   Petra Perner   Motion Tracking of Animals for Behavior
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779
           Kwan-Yee K. Wong and   
Paulo R. S. Mendonça and   
                Roberto Cipolla   Head Model Acquisition from Silhouettes  787
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2060, 2001

               Satyam Tyagi and   
                 Paul Tarau and   
                   Armin Mikler   Multicast Protocols for Jinni Agents . . 1
             Gerald Eichler and   
   Falk Fünfstück and   
             Fabio Ricciato and   
                Anne Thomas and   
        Charilaos Tsetsekas and   
                  Martin Winter   Modern Software Engineering Methods for
                                  IP-QoS Resource Pool Management  . . . . 19
             Dang-Hai Hoang and   
           Dietrich Reschke and   
                    Werner Horn   Adaptive Quality of Service Management
                                  Using QoS Proxy and User Feedback for
                                  Wireless Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
               Tatsuo Tsuji and   
         Hidetatsu Kawahara and   
            Teruhisa Hochin and   
                    Ken Higuchi   Sharing Extendible Arrays in a
                                  Distributed Environment  . . . . . . . . 41
              Steffen Deter and   
                   Karsten Sohr   Pini --- A Jini-Like Plug&Play Technology
                                  for the KVM/CLDC . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
           Wolfgang Kastner and   
                 Markus Leupold   Discovering Internet Services:
                                  Integrating Intelligent Home Automation
                                  Systems to Plug and Play Networks  . . . 67
            Stephan Lukosch and   
                 Jörg Roth   Reusing Single-User Applications to
                                  Create Multi-user Internet Applications  79
               Narsingh Deo and   
                   Pankaj Gupta   Graph-Theoretic Web Algorithms: An
                                  Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
               Yoo-Sung Kim and   
               Ki-Chang Kim and   
                    Soo Duk Kim   Prefetching Tiled Internet Data Using a
                                  Neighbor Selection Markov Chain  . . . . 103
               Jose Aguilar and   
                    Ernst Leiss   A General Adaptive Cache
                                  Coherency-Replacement Scheme for
                                  Distributed Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 116
             V. Robin Rohit and   
                     D. Sampath   Agents Based Collaborative Framework for
                                  B2C Business Model and Related Services  126
              Moritz Gmelin and   
          Jochen Kreuzinger and   
           Matthias Pfeffer and   
                   Theo Ungerer   Agent-Based Distributed Computing with
                                  JMessengers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
            Armin R. Mikler and   
              Vivek S. Chokhani   Agent-Based Wave Computation: Towards
                                  Controlling the Resource Demand  . . . . 146
           Marcelo d'Amorim and   
                  Carlos Ferraz   A Design for JTrader, an Internet
                                  Trading Service  . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
           Jacques Lonchamp and   
                 Fabrice Muller   Computer-Supported Deliberations for
                                  Distributed Teams  . . . . . . . . . . . 167
                 Igor Sedov and   
                 Marc Haase and   
                Clemens Cap and   
                Dirk Timmermann   Hardware Security Concept for
                                  Spontaneous Network Integration of
                                  Mobile Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2061, 2001

      Christoph M. Hoffmann and   
                        Bo Yuan   On Spatial Constraint Solving Approaches 1
              Xiao-Shan Gao and   
             Lei-Dong Huang and   
                      Kun Jiang   A Hybrid Method for Solving Geometric
                                  Constraint Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 16
          Fabrice Rouillier and   
         Mohab Safey El Din and   
             Éric Schost   Solving the Birkhoff Interpolation
                                  Problem via the Critical Point Method:
                                  An Experimental Study  . . . . . . . . . 26
                    Lu Yang and   
                       Ju Zhang   A Practical Program of Automated Proving
                                  for a Class of Geometric Inequalities    41
             Daniela Tulone and   
                   Chee Yap and   
                        Chen Li   Randomized Zero Testing of Radical
                                  Expressions and Elementary Geometry
                                  Theorem Proving  . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
           Pasqualina Conti and   
                 Carlo Traverso   Algebraic and Semialgebraic Proofs:
                                  Methods and Paradoxes  . . . . . . . . . 83
             Laura Bazzotti and   
           Giorgio Dalzotto and   
               Lorenzo Robbiano   Remarks on Geometric Theorem Proving . . 104
             Michael Bulmer and   
    Desmond Fearnley-Sander and   
                     Tim Stokes   The Kinds of Truth of Geometry Theorems  129
                 Tim Stokes and   
                 Michael Bulmer   A Complex Change of Variables for
                                  Geometrical Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . 143
             Philippe Aubry and   
                  Dongming Wang   Reasoning about Surfaces Using
                                  Differential Zero and Ideal
                                  Decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
           Jürgen Bokowski   Effective Methods in Computational
                                  Synthetic Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . 175
          Ulrich Kortenkamp and   
     Jürgen Richter-Gebert   Decision Complexity in Dynamic Geometry  193
                  Hongbo Li and   
                      Yihong Wu   Automated Theorem Proving in Incidence
                                  Geometry --- A Bracket Algebra Based
                                  Elimination Method . . . . . . . . . . . 199
               Timothy F. Havel   Qubit Logic, Algebra and Geometry  . . . 228
            Jacques D. Fleuriot   Nonstandard Geometric Proofs . . . . . . 246
            Ricardo Caferra and   
            Nicolas Peltier and   
          François Puitg   Emphasizing Human Techniques in
                                  Automated Geometry Theorem Proving: A
                                  Practical Realization  . . . . . . . . . 268
       Christophe Dehlinger and   
Jean-François Dufourd and   
                 Pascal Schreck   Higher-Order Intuitionistic
                                  Formalization and Proofs in Hilbert's
                                  Elementary Geometry  . . . . . . . . . . 306
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2062, 2001

              Alexander Nareyek   1. Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
              Alexander Nareyek   2. Using Global Constraints for Local
                                  Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
              Alexander Nareyek   3. Structural Constraint Satisfaction    47
              Alexander Nareyek   4. The Planning Model  . . . . . . . . . 69
              Alexander Nareyek   5. Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
              Alexander Nareyek   6. Conclusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
              Alexander Nareyek   7. Future Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
              Alexander Nareyek   A. Internet Links  . . . . . . . . . . . 135
              Alexander Nareyek   B. The ``Send More Money'' Problem . . . 139
              Alexander Nareyek   C. Choice Randomization  . . . . . . . . 141
              Alexander Nareyek   D. Ensuring the Satisfaction of
                                  Structural Constraints . . . . . . . . . 151
                      Anonymous   References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2063, 2001

             Paul E. Utgoff and   
             Richard P. Cochran   A Least-Certainty Heuristic for
                                  Selective Search . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                 Thomas Thomsen   Lambda-Search in Game Trees --- with
                                  Application to Go  . . . . . . . . . . . 19
               Tristan Cazenave   Abstract Proof Search  . . . . . . . . . 39
              Makoto Sakuta and   
                  Hiroyuki Iida   Solving Kriegspiel-Like Problems:
                                  Examining Efficient Search Methods . . . 55
               Thomas R. Lincke   Strategies for the Automatic
                                  Construction of Opening Books  . . . . . 74
              Roel van der Goot   Awari Retrograde Analysis  . . . . . . . 87
               Haw-ren Fang and   
             Tsan-sheng Hsu and   
                  Shun-chin Hsu   Construction of Chinese Chess Endgame
                                  Databases by Retrograde Analysis . . . . 96
             Jack van Rijswijck   Learning from Perfection. A Data Mining
                                  Approach to Evaluation Function Learning
                                  in Awari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
            Robert Levinson and   
                     Ryan Weber   Chess Neighborhoods, Function
                                  Combination, and Reinforcement Learning  133
                  Jan Ramon and   
                Tom Francis and   
               Hendrik Blockeel   Learning a Go Heuristic with \sc Tilde   151
             Levente Kocsis and   
              Jos Uiterwijk and   
             Jaap van den Herik   Learning Time Allocation Using Neural
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
                 Wolfgang Slany   The Complexity of Graph Ramsey Games . . 186
            Aviezri S. Fraenkel   Virus Versus Mankind . . . . . . . . . . 204
             Richard J. Lorentz   Creating Difficult Instances of the Post
                                  Correspondence Problem . . . . . . . . . 214
             Masashi Kiyomi and   
                  Tomomi Matsui   Integer Programming Based Algorithms for
                                  Peg Solitaire Problems . . . . . . . . . 229
      Marcel Crâsmaru and   
                     John Tromp   Ladders Are PSPACE-Complete  . . . . . . 241
                   Michael Buro   Simple Amazons Endgames and Their
                                  Connection to Hamilton Circuits in Cubic
                                  Subgrid Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
                 Ernst A. Heinz   New Self-Play Results in Computer Chess  262
                  Jeff Rollason   SUPER--SOMA --- Solving Tactical
                                  Exchanges in Shogi without Tree
                                  Searching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
                Youhei Hori and   
              Minenobu Seki and   
          Reijer Grimbergen and   
           Tsutomu Maruyama and   
                Tsutomu Hoshino   A Shogi Processor with a Field
                                  Programmable Gate Array  . . . . . . . . 297
              Reijer Grimbergen   Plausible Move Generation Using Move
                                  Merit Analysis with Cut-Off Thresholds
                                  in Shogi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
                  Jiefu Shi and   
             Michael L. Littman   Abstraction Methods for Game Theoretic
                                  Poker  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
              Takahisa Ando and   
                   Takao Uehara   Reasoning by Agents in Computer Bridge
                                  Bidding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
                  Boris Stilman   Linguistic Geometry for Solving War
                                  Games  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
               Kei-ichi Tainaka   Physics and Ecology of
                                  Rock-Paper-Scissors Game . . . . . . . . 384
             Michael L. Littman   Review: Computer Language Games  . . . . 396
             Martin Müller   Review: Computer Go 1984-2000  . . . . . 405
              Alexander Nareyek   Review: Intelligent Agents for Computer
                                  Games  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
                Itsuki Noda and   
                      Ian Frank   Review: RoboCup through 2000 . . . . . . 423
          Takenobu Takizawa and   
              Reijer Grimbergen   Review: Computer Shogi through 2000  . . 433
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2064, 2001

                    Jens Blanck   Effectivity of Regular Spaces  . . . . . 1
          Anthony J. Dunlop and   
          Marian Boykan Pour-El   The Degree of Unsolvability of a Real
                                  Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
               Paul Gowland and   
                   David Lester   A Survey of Exact Arithmetic
                                  Implementations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
               Armin Hemmerling   Standard Representations of Effective
                                  Metric Spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
                 Peter Hertling   Banach-Mazur Computable Functions on
                                  Metric Spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
                Namhyun Hur and   
             James H. Davenport   A Generic Root Operation for Exact Real
                                  Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
                  Hiroyasu Kamo   Effective Contraction Theorem and Its
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
                George Kapoulas   Polynomially Time Computable Functions
                                  over $p$-Adic Fields . . . . . . . . . . 101
              Ulrich Kohlenbach   On the Computational Content of the
                                  Krasnoselski and Ishikawa Fixed Point
                                  Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
      Margarita V. Korovina and   
                Oleg V. Kudinov   Formalisation of Computability of
                                  Operators and Real-Valued Functionals
                                  via Domain Theory  . . . . . . . . . . . 146
               Marko Krznari\'c   Computing a Required Absolute Precision
                                  from a Stream of Linear Fractional
                                  Transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--186
        Charles Meyssonnier and   
                Paolo Boldi and   
               Sebastiano Vigna   $ \delta $-Approximable Functions  . . . 187--199
                  Takakazu Mori   Computabilities of Fine-Continuous
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
        Norbert Th. Müller   The iRRAM: Exact Arithmetic in C++ . . . 222--252
              Daniel Richardson   The Uniformity Conjecture  . . . . . . . 253
         Matthias Schröder   Admissible Representations of Limit
                                  Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
                Dimiter Skordev   Characterization of the Computable Real
                                  Numbers by Means of Primitive Recursive
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
                  Izumi Takeuti   Effective Fixed Point Theorem over a
                                  Non-computably Separable Metric Space    310
                  Hideki Tsuiki   Computational Dimension of Topological
                                  Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
             Yoshiki Tsujii and   
              Mariko Yasugi and   
                  Takakazu Mori   Some Properties of the Effective Uniform
                                  Topological Space  . . . . . . . . . . . 336
                Klaus Weihrauch   On Computable Metric Spaces
                                  Tietze--Urysohn Extension Is Computable  357
            Klaus Weihrauch and   
                     Ning Zhong   Is the Linear Schrödinger Propagator
                                  Turing Computable? . . . . . . . . . . . 369
             Martin Ziegler and   
                  Vasco Brattka   A Computable Spectral Theorem  . . . . . 378
                    Jens Blanck   Exact Real Arithmetic Systems: Results
                                  of Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2065, 2001

                Can Türker   Schema Evolution in SQL-99 and
                                  Commercial (Object-)Relational DBMS  . . 1
         Nasreddine Aoumeur and   
                   Gunter Saake   Consistency Management in Runtime
                                  Evolving Concurrent Information Systems:
                                  A CO--NETS-Based Approach  . . . . . . . 33
               Sören Balko   Adaptive Specifications of Technical
                                  Information Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 61
          Kajal T. Claypool and   
      Elke A. Rundensteiner and   
             George T. Heineman   Evolving the Software of a Schema
                                  Evolution System . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
            Enrico Franconi and   
               Fabio Grandi and   
             Federica Mandreoli   Schema Evolution and Versioning: A
                                  Logical and Computational
                                  Characterisation . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
                Roy Gelbard and   
                  Asher Gilmour   Temporal Branching as a Conflict
                                  Management Technique . . . . . . . . . . 100
              Ole G. Jensen and   
         Michael H. Böhlen   Evolving Relations . . . . . . . . . . . 115
               Ron McFadyen and   
                  Fung-Yee Chan   QFD Matrix for Incremental Construction
                                  of a Warehouse via Data Marts  . . . . . 133
           Randal J. Peters and   
                     Ken Barker   Change Propagation in an Axiomatic Model
                                  of Schema Evolution for Objectbase
                                  Management Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 142
               Gunter Saake and   
            Can Türker and   
                  Stefan Conrad   Evolving Objects: Conceptual Description
                                  of Adaptive Information Systems  . . . . 163
                    Hong Su and   
          Kajal T. Claypool and   
          Elke A. Rundensteiner   Extending the Object Query Language for
                                  Transparent Metadata Access  . . . . . . 182
     Marie-Noëlle Terrasse   A Metamodeling Approach to Evolution . . 202
                 Lex Wedemeijer   Defining Metrics for Conceptual Schema
                                  Evolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2066, 2001

       Sa\"\id Abdedda\"\im and   
           Burkhard Morgenstern   Speeding Up the DIALIGN Multiple
                                  Alignment Program by Using the `Greedy
                                  Alignment of BIOlogical Sequences
                                  LIBrary' (GABIOS-LIB)  . . . . . . . . . 1
                  G. Broner and   
                 B. Spataro and   
                 C. Gautier and   
                  F. Rechenmann   GeMCore, a Knowledge Base Dedicated to
                                  Mapping Mammalian Genomes  . . . . . . . 12
                   David Bryant   Optimal Agreement Supertrees . . . . . . 24
         Laurent Guéguen   Segmentation by Maximal Predictive
                                  Partitioning According to Composition
                                  Biases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
      Alain Guénoche and   
                  Henri Garreta   Can We Have Confidence in a Tree
                                  Representation?  . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
            Vsevolod Makeev and   
            Vasily Ramensky and   
            Mikhail Gelfand and   
           Mikhail Roytberg and   
              Vladimir Tumanyan   Bayesian Approach to DNA Segmentation
                                  into Regions with Different Average
                                  Nucleotide Composition . . . . . . . . . 57
             Sabine Mercier and   
          Dominique Cellier and   
    François Charlot and   
            Jean-Jacques Daudin   Exact and Asymptotic Distribution of the
                                  Local Score of One i.i.d. Random
                                  Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
             Vincent Ranwez and   
                Olivier Gascuel   Phylogenetic Reconstruction Algorithms
                                  Based on Weighted $4$-Trees  . . . . . . 84
        Mireille Régnier   Computational Complexity of Word
                                  Counting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
              Thomas Schiex and   
              Annick Moisan and   
            Pierre Rouzé   EUG\`ENE: An Eukaryotic Gene Finder That
                                  Combines Several Sources of Evidence . . 111
             Charles Semple and   
                     Mike Steel   Tree Reconstruction via a Closure
                                  Operation on Partial Splits  . . . . . . 126
       Nicolas Thierry-Mieg and   
               Laurent Trilling   InterDB, a Prediction-Oriented Protein
                                  Interaction Database for C. elegans  . . 135
         Jacques van Helden and   
              David Gilbert and   
            Lorenz Wernisch and   
          Michael Schroeder and   
                 Shoshana Wodak   Application of Regulatory Sequence
                                  Analysis and Metabolic Network Analysis
                                  to the Interpretation of Gene Expression
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2067, 2001

                   Stephan Merz   Model Checking: A Tutorial Overview  . . 3
                    John Rushby   Theorem Proving for Verification . . . . 39
                  Antti Valmari   Composition and Abstraction  . . . . . . 58
              Tobias Amnell and   
              Gerd Behrmann and   
            Johan Bengtsson and   
         Pedro R. D'Argenio and   
            Alexandre David and   
             Ansgar Fehnker and   
                Thomas Hune and   
           Bertrand Jeannet and   
              Kim G. Larsen and   
      M. Oliver Möller and   
            Paul Pettersson and   
              Carsten Weise and   
                        Wang Yi   UPPAAL --- Now, Next, and Future . . . . 99
            Benoit Caillaud and   
         Philippe Darondeau and   
Lo\"\ic Hélouët and   
               Gilles Lesventes   HMSCs as Partial Specifications ... with
                                  PNs as Completions . . . . . . . . . . . 125
             Alessandro Cimatti   Industrial Applications of Model
                                  Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
        Dominique Bolignano and   
   Daniel Le Métayer and   
                Claire Loiseaux   Formal Methods in Practice: The Missing
                                  Links. A Perspective from the Security
                                  Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
                 Javier Esparza   Verification of Systems with an Infinite
                                  State Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
                Ed Brinksma and   
                   Jan Tretmans   Testing Transition Systems: An Annotated
                                  Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
             Alexandre Petrenko   Fault Model-Driven Test Derivation from
                                  Finite State Models: Annotated
                                  Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
              Silvano Dal Zilio   Mobile Processes: A Commented
                                  Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2068, 2001

                  Larry Rudolph   Project Oxygen: Pervasive, Human-Centric
                                  Computing --- An Initial Experience  . . 1
             Peter C. Lockemann   Database Systems Architecture: A Study
                                  in Factor-Driven Software System Design  13
              Markus Tresch and   
                  Dirk Jonscher   Evolution not Revolution: The Data
                                  Warehousing Strategy at Credit Suisse
                                  Financial Services . . . . . . . . . . . 36
           Peter Bielkowicz and   
                   Thein T. Tun   A Comparison and Evaluation of Data
                                  Requirement Specification Techniques in
                                  SSADM and the Unified Process  . . . . . 46
Juan Sánchez Díaz and   
  Oscar Pastor López and   
                   Juan J. Fons   From User Requirements to User
                                  Interfaces: A Methodological Approach    60
               Martin Glinz and   
              Stefan Berner and   
                Stefan Joos and   
             Johannes Ryser and   
               Nancy Schett and   
                       Yong Xia   The ADORA Approach to Object-Oriented
                                  Modeling of Software . . . . . . . . . . 76
           Roel J. Wieringa and   
                David N. Jansen   Techniques for Reactive System Design:
                                  The Tools in TRADE . . . . . . . . . . . 93
             Jaelson Castro and   
                Manuel Kolp and   
                John Mylopoulos   A Requirements-Driven Development
                                  Methodology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
         Antonio L. Furtado and   
          Angelo E. M. Ciarlini   Constructing Libraries of Typical Plans  124
    Wil M. P. van der Aalst and   
                  Mathias Weske   The P2P Approach to Interorganizational
                                  Workflows  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
            Juliane Dehnert and   
                  Peter Rittgen   Relaxed Soundness of Business Processes  157
               Fabio Casati and   
               Mehmet Sayal and   
                Ming-Chien Shan   Developing E-Services for Composing
                                  E-Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
                Carlo Combi and   
               Angelo Montanari   Data Models with Multiple Temporal
                                  Dimensions: Completing the Picture . . . 187
               Jianhua Shao and   
                Xingkun Liu and   
                      G. Fu and   
          Suzanne M. Embury and   
                     W. A. Gray   Querying Data-Intensive Programs for
                                  Data Design  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
              Andrea Zisman and   
       Adamantia Athanasopoulou   Consistency Management of Financial XML
                                  Documents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
              Juhani Iivari and   
                  Magda Huisman   The Relationship Between Organisational
                                  Culture and the Deployment of Systems
                                  Development Methodologies  . . . . . . . 234
             Silke Eckstein and   
            Peter Ahlbrecht and   
                   Karl Neumann   Increasing Reusability in Information
                                  Systems Development by Applying Generic
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
       Jolita Ralyté and   
                Colette Rolland   An Assembly Process Model for Method
                                  Engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
           Soeli T. Fiorini and   
Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite and   
Carlos José Pereira de Lucena   Process Reuse Architecture . . . . . . . 284
              Mark Roantree and   
          Jessie B. Kennedy and   
               Peter J. Barclay   Using a Metadata Software Layer in
                                  Information Systems Integration  . . . . 299
              Lieming Huang and   
               Ulrich Thiel and   
            Matthias Hemmje and   
               Erich J. Neuhold   Distributed Information Search with
                                  Adaptive Meta-Search Engines . . . . . . 315
            Peter M\dcBrien and   
        Alexandra Poulovassilis   A Semantic Approach to Integrating XML
                                  and Structured Data Sources  . . . . . . 330--345
      Franz Pühretmair and   
         Wolfram Wöß   XML-Based Integration of GIS and
                                  Heterogeneous Tourism Information  . . . 346
                Jacky Estublier   Objects Control for Software
                                  Configuration Management . . . . . . . . 359
 Luís Filipe Andrade and   
      José Luiz Fiadeiro   Coordination Technologies for Managing
                                  Information System Evolution . . . . . . 374
             Marcela Genero and   
         José Olivas and   
             Mario Piattini and   
               Francisco Romero   Using Metrics to Predict OO Information
                                  Systems Maintainability  . . . . . . . . 388
       Régine Laleau and   
                   Fiona Polack   A Rigorous Metamodel for UML Static
                                  Conceptual Modelling of Information
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
            Antoni Olivé   Taxonomies and Derivation Rules in
                                  Conceptual Modeling  . . . . . . . . . . 417
        Gerson Sunyé and   
François Pennaneac'h and   
                Wai-Ming Ho and   
           Alain Le Guennec and   
Jean-Marc Jézéquel   Using UML Action Semantics for
                                  Executable Modeling and Beyond . . . . . 433
           Rudolf K. Keller and   
Jean-François Bédard and   
                Guy Saint-Denis   Design and Implementation of a UML-Based
                                  Design Repository  . . . . . . . . . . . 448
               Anne Persson and   
                   Janis Stirna   Why Enterprise Modelling? An Explorative
                                  Study into Current Practice  . . . . . . 465
            Mira Kajko-Mattsson   A Glimpse into CM$^3$: Problem
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--472
          Sjaak Brinkkemper and   
              Motoshi Saeki and   
                  Frank Harmsen   A Method Engineering Language for the
                                  Description of Systems Development
                                  Methods (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . 473
              John Krogstie and   
Håvard D. Jòrgensen   Flexible Support of Work Processes ---
                                  Balancing the Support of Organisations
                                  and Workers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2069, 2001

                   Carol Peters   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
               Donna Harman and   
           Martin Braschler and   
               Michael Hess and   
              Michael Kluck and   
               Carol Peters and   
        Peter Schäuble and   
         Páraic Sheridan   CLIR Evaluation at TREC  . . . . . . . . 7
                   Noriko Kando   NTCIR Workshop: Japanese- and
                                  Chinese--English Cross-Lingual
                                  Information Retrieval and Multi-grade
                                  Relevance Judgments  . . . . . . . . . . 24
                  Julio Gonzalo   Language Resources in Cross-Language
                                  Text Retrieval: A CLEF Perspective . . . 36
              Michael Kluck and   
                 Fredric C. Gey   The Domain-Specific Task of CLEF ---
                                  Specific Evaluation Strategies in
                                  Cross-Language Information Retrieval . . 48
                Douglas W. Oard   Evaluating Interactive Cross-Language
                                  Information Retrieval: Document
                                  Selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
             Gareth J. F. Jones   New Challenges for Cross-Language
                                  Information Retrieval: Multimedia Data
                                  and the User Experience  . . . . . . . . 72
                 Fredric C. Gey   Research to Improve Cross-Language
                                  Retrieval --- Position Paper for CLEF    83
               Martin Braschler   CLEF 2000 --- Overview of Results  . . . 89
            Djoerd Hiemstra and   
              Wessel Kraaij and   
      Renée Pohlmann and   
               Thijs Westerveld   Translation Resources, Merging
                                  Strategies, and Relevance Feedback for
                                  Cross-Language Information Retrieval . . 102
             Fredric C. Gey and   
              Hailing Jiang and   
              Vivien Petras and   
                     Aitao Chen   Cross-Language Retrieval for the CLEF
                                  Collections --- Comparing Multiple
                                  Methods of Retrieval . . . . . . . . . . 116
               Paul McNamee and   
             James Mayfield and   
               Christine Piatko   A Language-Independent Approach to
                                  European Text Retrieval  . . . . . . . . 129
           Martin Braschler and   
            Peter Schäuble   Experiments with the Eurospider
                                  Retrieval System for CLEF 2000 . . . . . 140
              Arjen P. de Vries   A Poor Man's Approach to CLEF  . . . . . 149
                  Mirna Adriani   Ambiguity Problem in Multilingual
                                  Information Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . 156
         Bärbel Ripplinger   The Use of NLP Techniques in CLIR  . . . 166
            Douglas W. Oard and   
            Gina-Anne Levow and   
               Clara I. Cabezas   CLEF Experiments at Maryland:
                                  Statistical Stemming and Backoff
                                  Translation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
               Jian-Yun Nie and   
              Michel Simard and   
                  George Foster   Multilingual Information Retrieval Based
                                  on Parallel Texts from the Web . . . . . 188
           Mohand Boughanem and   
                    Nawel Nassr   Mercure at CLEF-1  . . . . . . . . . . . 202
              Turid Hedlund and   
          Heikki Keskustalo and   
                Ari Pirkola and   
             Mikko Sepponen and   
          Kalervo Järvelin   Bilingual Tests with Swedish, Finnish,
                                  and German Queries: Dealing with
                                  Morphology, Compound Words, and Query
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
        Carlos G. Figuerola and   
José Luis Alonso Berrocal and   
              Angel F. Zazo and   
Raquel Gómez Díaz   A Simple Approach to the
                                  Spanish--English Bilingual Retrieval
                                  Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
            Anne R. Diekema and   
                 Wen-Yuan Hsiao   Cross-Language Information Retrieval
                                  Using Dutch Query Translation  . . . . . 230
            Norbert Gövert   Bilingual Information Retrieval with
                                  HyREX and Internet Translation Services  237
                Tim Gollins and   
                 Mark Sanderson   Sheffield University CLEF 2000
                                  Submission --- Bilingual Track: German
                                  to English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--252
         Isabelle Moulinier and   
         J. Andrew McCulloh and   
                 Elizabeth Lund   West Group at CLEF 2000: Non-English
                                  Monolingual Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . 253
            Nicola Bertoldi and   
              Marcello Federico   ITC-irst at CLEF 2000: Italian
                                  Monolingual Track  . . . . . . . . . . . 261--272
          John A. Goldsmith and   
            Derrick Higgins and   
            Svetlana Soglasnova   Automatic Language-Specific Stemming in
                                  Information Retrieval  . . . . . . . . . 273
                      Anonymous   Appendix A --- Run Statistics  . . . . . 285
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2070, 2001

             Marcus Randall and   
                  Elliot Tonkes   Solving Network Synthesis Problems Using
                                  Ant Colony Optimisation  . . . . . . . . 1
                  Tim Hendtlass   A Combined Swarm Differential Evolution
                                  Algorithm for Optimization Problems  . . 11
  Zoltán Tóth and   
         Gabriella Kókai   An Evolutionary Optimum Searching Tool   19
                 G. Ziegler and   
                 Z. Palotai and   
                 T. Cinkler and   
            P. Arató and   
                A. Lörincz   Value Prediction in Engineering
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
               Habiba Drias and   
              Mohamed Khabzaoui   Scatter Search with Random Walk Strategy
                                  for SAT and MAX--W--SAT Problems . . . . 35
             Levente Kocsis and   
              Jos Uiterwijk and   
             Jaap van den Herik   Move Ordering Using Neural Networks  . . 45
                  John Debenham   Why Use a Unified Knowledge
                                  Representation?  . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
        Witold \Lukaszewicz and   
           Ewa Madalinska-Bugaj   Lazy Knowledge Base Update . . . . . . . 61
                    Yun Bai and   
                      Yan Zhang   On the Computational Aspect of Rule
                                  Based Database Updates . . . . . . . . . 71
Tamás Mészáros and   
            Zsolt Barczikay and   
               Ferenc Bodon and   
     Tadeusz P. Dobrowiecki and   
            György Strausz   Building an Information and Knowledge
                                  Fusion System  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
                  Mark S. Levin   Hierarchical Approach for Engineering
                                  Skills Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . 92
               Setuo Ohsuga and   
                     Naoto Ueda   Dealing with Information in the
                                  Different Styles Together --- Skill
                                  Inheritance and Integration of
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
                   Robert Kende   Knowledge Modelling in Support of
                                  Knowledge Management . . . . . . . . . . 107
                Michel Page and   
 Jérôme Gensel and   
      Cécile Capponi and   
          Christophe Bruley and   
            Philippe Genoud and   
   Danielle Ziébelin and   
              Daniel Bardou and   
     Véronique Dupierris   A New Approach in Object-Based Knowledge
                                  Representation: The AROM System  . . . . 113
               Borys Omelayenko   Ontology Integration Tasks in
                                  Business-to-Business E-Commerce  . . . . 119
                   Franz Wotawa   Using Multiple Models for Debugging VHDL
                                  Designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
           Belarmino Pulido and   
              Carlos Alonso and   
                  Felipe Acebes   Lessons Learned from Diagnosing Dynamic
                                  Systems Using Possible Conflicts and
                                  Quantitative Models  . . . . . . . . . . 135
                  R. Lakner and   
                   K. M. Hangos   Intelligent Assumption Retrieval from
                                  Process Models by Model-Based Reasoning  145
       Martín Molina and   
          Mónica Robledo   A Knowledge Model for Automatic
                                  Configuration of Traffic Messages  . . . 155
                   Luo Xiao and   
            Dieter Wissmann and   
              Michael Brown and   
               Stefan Jablonski   Information Extraction from HTML:
                                  Combining XML and Standard Techniques
                                  for IE from the Web  . . . . . . . . . . 165
         Dieter Bühler and   
          Wolfgang Küchlin   Flexible Similarity Assessment for XML
                                  Documents Based on XQL and Java
                                  Reflection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
                   Luo Xiao and   
            Dieter Wissmann and   
              Michael Brown and   
               Stefan Jablonski   Where to Position the Precision in
                                  Knowledge Extraction from Text . . . . . 187
                Benno Stein and   
               Oliver Niggemann   Generation of Similarity Measures from
                                  Different Sources  . . . . . . . . . . . 197
    Jesús S. Aguilar and   
               Roberto Ruiz and   
    José C. Riquelme and   
    Raúl Giráldez   SNN: A Supervised Clustering Algorithm   207
         Tolga Aydìn and   
          H. Altay Güvenir   An Eager Regression Method Based on Best
                                  Feature Projections  . . . . . . . . . . 217--226
 Péter Stefán and   
 László Monostori   On the Relationship between Learning
                                  Capability and the Boltzmann-Formula . . 227
             Hasan M. Jamil and   
             Giovanni A. Modica   A View Selection Tool for
                                  Multidimensional Databases . . . . . . . 237
           Shigeaki Sakurai and   
              Yumi Ichimura and   
             Akihiro Suyama and   
                 Ryohei Orihara   Inductive Learning of a Knowledge
                                  Dictionary for a Text Mining System  . . 247
          Yannick Toussaint and   
           Jean-Charles Lamirel   Combining Symbolic and Numeric
                                  Techniques for DL Contents
                                  Classification and Analysis  . . . . . . 253
                   Hong Guo and   
                  Yi L. Murphey   Neural Learning from Unbalanced Data
                                  Using Noise Modeling . . . . . . . . . . 259
          P. Berényi and   
                  J. Valyon and   
              G. Horváth   Neural Modeling of an Industrial Process
                                  with Noisy Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
              Gerard Murray and   
                  Tim Hendtlass   Enhanced Artificial Neurons for Network
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
              Pawan Lingras and   
                 Paul Mountford   Time Delay Neural Networks Designed
                                  Using Genetic Algorithms for Short Term
                                  Inter-City Traffic Forecasting . . . . . 290
  Tamás Szabó and   
    Gábor Horváth   An Efficient Hardware Implementation of
                                  Feed-Forward Neural Networks . . . . . . 300
         Evangelos Kotsakis and   
                  Antoni Wolski   MAPS: A Method for Identifying and
                                  Predicting Aberrant Behavior in Time
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
            Vojislav Kecman and   
                 Tiru Arthanari   Comparisons of QP and LP Based Learning
                                  from Empirical Data  . . . . . . . . . . 326
                   Jose Aguilar   A Fuzzy Cognitive Map Based on the
                                  Random Neural Model  . . . . . . . . . . 333
            Chung-Huei Tsai and   
                   Deh-Shiu Hsu   Synthetic Damage Assessment for RC
                                  Structure Based on Fuzzy Logic . . . . . 339
        Alexander Rotshtein and   
              Hanna Rakytyanska   Genetic Algorithm for Fuzzy Logical
                                  Equations Solving in Diagnostic Expert
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
              Yangping Zhou and   
                 Xiang Fang and   
                  Bingquan Zhao   Diagnosis Based on Genetic Algorithms
                                  and Fuzzy Logic in NPPs  . . . . . . . . 359
          Theresa Beaubouef and   
                Frederick Petry   Vagueness in Spatial Data: Rough Set and
                                  Egg-Yolk Approaches  . . . . . . . . . . 367
           Clinton Woodward and   
                  Tim Hendtlass   Dynamic Trait Expression for Multiploid
                                  Individuals of Evolutionary Algorithms   374
               Miguel Rocha and   
             Filipe Pereira and   
        Sónia Afonso and   
              José Neves   A Genetic and Evolutionary Programming
                                  Environment with Spatially Structured
                                  Populations and Built-In Parallelism . . 383
               Paulo Cortez and   
               Miguel Rocha and   
              José Neves   Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms for
                                  Time Series Forecasting  . . . . . . . . 393
               Rym M'hallah and   
              Ahlem Bouziri and   
                   Walid Jilani   Layout of Two Dimensional Irregular
                                  Shapes Using Genetic Algorithms  . . . . 403
                James J. Donlon   An Application of Genetic Algorithms to
                                  Course Scheduling at the United States
                                  Army War College . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
    José C. Riquelme and   
Raúl Giráldez and   
    Jesús S. Aguilar and   
                   Roberto Ruiz   Separation Surfaces through Genetic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
        Alexander Felfernig and   
          Gerhard Friedrich and   
            Dietmar Jannach and   
                  Markus Zanker   Distributed Configuration as Distributed
                                  Dynamic Constraint Satisfaction  . . . . 434
              Ngoc Thanh Nguyen   Representation Choice Methods as the
                                  Tool for Solving Uncertainty in
                                  Distributed Temporal Database Systems
                                  with Indeterminate Valid Time  . . . . . 445
           Yoshinori Morita and   
                 Hiroaki Higaki   Checkpoint-Recovery for Mobile
                                  Intelligent Networks . . . . . . . . . . 455
             Andreas Kaiser and   
          Wolfgang Küchlin   Automotive Product Documentation . . . . 465
                Haiyi Zhang and   
                Barbro Back and   
                    WanLei Zhou   The Design and Implementation of a
                                  Traffic Accident Analysis System . . . . 476
                Honggee Jin and   
                Minsung Kim and   
                 Sabum Jung and   
                Keymok Shon and   
                Hyungtae Ha and   
                Byungjin Ye and   
                       Jiwon Jo   Decision Support System for Shadow Mask
                                  Development Using Rule and Case  . . . . 482
                Javier Tuya and   
        Eugenia Díaz and   
              Marta Hermida and   
   José A. L. Brugos and   
                Angel Neira and   
            Alfredo Alguero and   
                 Faustino Obeso   An Expert System for Ironmaking  . . . . 488
Timót Hidvégi and   
           Péter Szolgay   Short Circuit Detection on Printed
                                  Circuit Boards during the Manufacturing
                                  Process by Using an Analogic CNN
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
       András Kocsor and   
László Tóth and   
László Felföldi   Application of Feature Transformation
                                  and Learning Methods in Phoneme
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
                Tie Qi Chen and   
              Jianxin Zhang and   
               Youning Zhou and   
                  Yi Lu Murphey   A Smart Machine Vision System for PCB
                                  Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
       Jordi Álvarez and   
            Victoria Arranz and   
       Núria Castell and   
               Montserrat Civit   Linguistic and Logical Tools for an
                                  Advanced Interactive Speech System in
                                  Spanish  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
                   J. Turmo and   
            H. Rodríguez   Selecting a Relevant Set of Examples to
                                  Learn IE-Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
             Bilel Gargouri and   
             Mohamed Jmaiel and   
         Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou   An Environment for Formal Specification
                                  and Verification of Lingware . . . . . . 539
           Fairouz Chakkour and   
              Yannick Toussaint   Sentence Analysis by Case-Based
                                  Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
                   Yllias Chali   Topic Detection Using Lexical Chains . . 552
María Isabel Alfonso Galipienso and   
 Federico Barber Sanchís   A Mixed Closure-CSP Method to Solve
                                  Scheduling Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 559
          Hidehiko Yamamoto and   
                    Etsuo Marui   Decentralized Autonomous FMS Control by
                                  Hypothetical Reasoning Including
                                  Discrete Simulator . . . . . . . . . . . 571
                Joonki Hong and   
                  Vittal Prabhu   Distributed Learning and Control for
                                  Manufacturing Systems Scheduling . . . . 582
        L. A. García and   
                      F. Toledo   An Agent for Providing the Optimum Cycle
                                  Length Value in Urban Traffic Areas
                                  Constrained by Soft Temporal Deadlines   592
                  Debasis Mitra   Interactive Modeling for Batch
                                  Simulation of Engineering Systems: A
                                  Constraint Satisfaction Problem  . . . . 602
 Botond Kádár and   
 László Monostori   Approaches to Increase the Performance
                                  of Agent-Based Production Systems  . . . 612
               B. Frankovic and   
                     T. T. Dang   Scheduling of Production Using the
                                  Multi-agent Approach by Hierarchical
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622
                  F. Failli and   
                        G. Dini   Optimization of Disassembly Sequences
                                  for Recycling of End-of-Life Products by
                                  Using a Colony of Ant-Like Agents  . . . 632
           Hiroshi G. Okuno and   
           Kazuhiro Nakadai and   
               Tino Lourens and   
                 Hiroaki Kitano   Sound and Visual Tracking for Humanoid
                                  Robot  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640
                   M. Henao and   
                   J. Soler and   
                       V. Botti   Developing a Mobile Robot Control
                                  Application with CommonKADS--RT  . . . . 651
               Dong-Ying Ju and   
                Satoshi Kushida   Intelligent Control of Mobile Robot
                                  during Autonomous Inspection of Welding
                                  Damage Based on Genetic Algorithm  . . . 661
                 Dejan Mitrovic   Machine Learning for Car Navigation  . . 670
          Christos Stergiou and   
                     Geert Arys   Implementing Agent Management Using
                                  Conversation Patterns and Role Theory    676
          Hiromitsu Hattori and   
               Takayuki Ito and   
            Tadachika Ozono and   
             Toramatsu Shintani   An Approach to Coalition Formation Using
                                  Argumentation-Based Negotiation in
                                  Multi-agent Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 687
               Robin Barker and   
             Leigh Holloway and   
                 Anthony Meehan   A Negotiation Model to Support Material
                                  Selection in Concurrent Design . . . . . 697
               Mao Weiliang and   
               Sheng Huanye and   
                       Dingpeng   An XML-Based Language for Coordination
                                  Protocol Description in Multi-agent
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708--717
                  Chad Dodd and   
           Soundar R. T. Kumara   A Distributed Multi-agent Model for
                                  Value Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718
          Ioan Alfred Letia and   
             Florin Craciun and   
               Zoltan Köpe   Norms for DLP Agents Working in a
                                  Warehouse Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . 728
          Jaime Solano-Soto and   
             Luis Enrique Sucar   A Methodology for Reliable Systems
                                  Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734
               A. Felfernig and   
               G. Friedrich and   
                 D. Jannach and   
                      M. Zanker   Intelligent Support for Interactive
                                  Configuration of Mass-Customized
                                  Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746
Rodrigo Hermes de Araújo and   
             Osmar Possamai and   
           Luiz Dalla Valentina   Knowledge Decomposition for Conceptual
                                  Product Design: An Approach to Develop
                                  Specific Domain Expert Systems for
                                  Supporting Concurrent Engineering
                                  Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757
   Franti\vsek \vCapkovi\vc and   
             Peter \vCapkovi\vc   Intelligent Control Synthesis of
                                  Manufacturing Systems  . . . . . . . . . 767
              Giovani Pieri and   
            Michel R. Klein and   
                 Mario Milanese   A Knowledge Based System for the
                                  Maintenance of Chemical Plants and Its
                                  Implementation Using OPTRANS . . . . . . 777
                    L. Cser and   
           J. Gulyás and   
              L. Szücs and   
          A. Horváth and   
            L. Árvai and   
                      B. Baross   Different Kinds of Neural Networks in
                                  Control and Monitoring of Hot Rolling
                                  Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791
                 Zhi-Hua Ge and   
               Zhong-He Han and   
                  Chang-Fu Ding   Non-linear Prediction of Vibration
                                  Series for Turbogenerator Unit . . . . . 797
         David Riaño and   
   Miquel S\`anchez-Marr\`e and   
                 Ignasi R.-Roda   Autonomous Agents Architecture to
                                  Supervise and Control a Wastewater
                                  Treatment Plant  . . . . . . . . . . . . 804
            Elisabeta Zudor and   
 László Monostori   Agent-Based Support for Handling
                                  Environmental and Life-Cycle Issues  . . 812
              Wilfried Sihn and   
                  Joachim Klink   Fractal Businesses in an E-Business
                                  World  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821
              Z. J. Viharos and   
                   L. Monostori   Optimisation of Process Chains and
                                  Production Plants by Using a Hybrid-,
                                  AI-, and Simulation-Based Approach . . . 827
                   Julio Macedo   A Multi-Agent Fuzzy Cognitive Tool for
                                  Reengineering Manufacturing Systems  . . 836
András Márkus and   
    József Váncza   Product Line Design with Customer
                                  Preferences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846
Sueli Bandeira Teixeira Mendes and   
  Oscar Luiz Monteiro de Farias   Applying Logic of Information Flow and
                                  Situation Theory to Model Agents That
                                  Simulate the Stock Market Behaviour  . . 856
                 Matty Leus and   
               Dwight Deugo and   
             Franz Oppacher and   
                    Rob Cattral   GAs and Financial Analysis . . . . . . . 868
                 Boris Galitsky   Semi-structured Knowledge Representation
                                  for the Automated Financial Advisor  . . 874
               Nadia Nedjah and   
       Luiza de Macedo Mourelle   Improving Space, Time, and Termination
                                  in Rewriting-Based Programming . . . . . 880
Mercedes Gómez-Albarrán and   
Pedro A. González-Calero   Knowledge Intensive Case-Based
                                  Assistance for Framework Reuse . . . . . 891
        Jonathan C. McPhail and   
                   Dwight Deugo   Deciding on a Pattern  . . . . . . . . . 901
                  Thomas Illgen   Program Modeling for Fault Definition
                                  Based Static Analysis  . . . . . . . . . 911
                    Fevzi Belli   Goal-Driven, Scalable Generation of
                                  Complete Interaction Sequences for
                                  Testing Graphical User Interfaces  . . . 919
              Roger Nkambou and   
               Froduald Kabanza   Planning Agents in a Multi-agents
                                  Intelligent Tutoring System  . . . . . . 921
          Antonija Mitrovic and   
               Michael Mayo and   
       Pramuditha Suraweera and   
                   Brent Martin   Constraint-Based Tutors: A Success Story 931
             Chunsheng Yang and   
                  Sieu Phan and   
                 Pikuei Kuo and   
                Fuhua Oscar Lin   Applying Collision Avoidance Expert
                                  System to Navigation Training Systems as
                                  an Intelligent Tutor . . . . . . . . . . 941
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2071, 2001

                     Karl Crary   Sound and Complete Elimination of
                                  Singleton Kinds  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
               Allyn Dimock and   
             Ian Westmacott and   
              Robert Muller and   
            Franklyn Turbak and   
                J. B. Wells and   
              Jeffrey Considine   Program Representation Size in an
                                  Intermediate Language with Intersection
                                  and Union Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
            Sophia Drossopoulou   An Abstract Model of Java Dynamic
                                  Linking and Loading  . . . . . . . . . . 53
                 Dominic Duggan   Sharing in Typed Module Assembly
                                  Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
               Dan Grossman and   
                 Greg Morrisett   Scalable Certification for Typed
                                  Assembly Language  . . . . . . . . . . . 117
              Michael Hicks and   
          Stephanie Weirich and   
                     Karl Crary   Safe and Flexible Dynamic Linking of
                                  Native Code  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
               David Walker and   
                 Greg Morrisett   Alias Types for Recursive Data
                                  Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2072, 2001

                Charles Simonyi   Language, Objects, and Intentionality    1
               John Boyland and   
                James Noble and   
                 William Retert   Capabilities for Sharing: A
                                  Generalisation of Uniqueness and
                                  Read-Only  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
          Marina Biberstein and   
         Joseph (Yossi) Gil and   
                     Sara Porat   Sealing, Encapsulation, and Mutability   28
            David G. Clarke and   
                James Noble and   
                 John M. Potter   Simple Ownership Types for Object
                                  Containment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
            Isabelle Pollet and   
       Baudouin Le Charlier and   
               Agostino Cortesi   Distinctness and Sharing Domains for
                                  Static Analysis of Java Programs . . . . 77
                Tiejun Wang and   
                 Scott F. Smith   Precise Constraint-Based Type Inference
                                  for Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
            Yasunori Harada and   
           Kenichi Yamazaki and   
                 Richard Potter   CCC: User-Defined Object Structure in C  118
        Sophia Drossopoulou and   
          Ferruccio Damiani and   
Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini and   
                 Paola Giannini   $ \mathcal {F} $ ickle: Dynamic Object
                                  Re-classification  . . . . . . . . . . . 130
                Erik Meijer and   
                Nigel Perry and   
            Arjan van Yzendoorn   Scripting .NET Using Mondrian  . . . . . 150
            Olivier Raynaud and   
                   Eric Thierry   A Quasi Optimal Bit-Vector Encoding of
                                  Tree Hierarchies. Application to
                                  Efficient Type Inclusion Tests . . . . . 165
              Martin Hirzel and   
                 Amer Diwan and   
                 Antony Hosking   On the Usefulness of Liveness for
                                  Garbage Collection and Leak Detection    181
             David F. Bacon and   
                    V. T. Rajan   Concurrent Cycle Collection in Reference
                                  Counted Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
         Michiaki Tatsubori and   
           Toshiyuki Sasaki and   
              Shigeru Chiba and   
                     Kozo Itano   A Bytecode Translator for Distributed
                                  Execution of ``Legacy'' Java Software    236
              Denis Caromel and   
             Julien Vayssi\`ere   Reflections on MOPs, Components, and
                                  Java Security  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
               Robert Strom and   
                Joshua Auerbach   The Optimistic Readers Transformation    275
              Alistair Cockburn   People and the Limits of Methodology . . 302
                     Erik Ernst   Family Polymorphism  . . . . . . . . . . 303
            Gregor Kiczales and   
              Erik Hilsdale and   
                Jim Hugunin and   
                Mik Kersten and   
               Jeffrey Palm and   
            William G. Griswold   An Overview of AspectJ . . . . . . . . . 327
              Davide Ancona and   
                    Elena Zucca   True Modules for Java-like Languages . . 354
                 Vu Le Hanh and   
                 Kamel Akif and   
              Yves Le Traon and   
Jean-Marc Jézéquel   Selecting an Efficient OO Integration
                                  Testing Strategy: An Experimental
                                  Comparison of Actual Strategies  . . . . 381
                 Bente Anda and   
         Dag Sjòberg and   
         Magne Jòrgensen   Quality and Understandability of Use
                                  Case Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2073, 2001

                  Cliff Addison   Exploiting OpenMP to Provide Scalable
                                  SMP BLAS and LAPACK Routines . . . . . . 3
             Carl Edward Oliver   Scientific Discovery through Advanced
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
                    James Glimm   Quantification of Uncertainty for
                                  Numerital Simulations with Confidence
                                  Intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
                  Chris Johnson   Large-Scale Simulation and Visualization
                                  in Medicine: Applications to Cardiology,
                                  Neuroscience, and Medical Imaging  . . . 6
                   Peter Kacsuk   Can Parallel Programming Be Made Easy
                                  for Scientists?  . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
                    Ken Kennedy   Software Support for High Performance
                                  Problem-Solving on Computational Grids   8
                Pierre L'Ecuyer   Lattice Rules and Randomized Quasi-Monte
                                  Carlo  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
                Jose E. Moreira   Blue Gene: A Massively Parallel System   10
                  Edward Siedel   Dynamic Grid Computing . . . . . . . . . 11
               Kokichi Sugihara   Robust Geometric Computation Based on
                                  Topological Consistency  . . . . . . . . 12
                 Vaidy Sunderam   Metacomputing with the Harness and IceT
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
               Stefan Unger and   
              Andrew Komornicki   Computational Biology: IT Challenges and
                                  Opportunities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
             L. A. Drummond and   
                  J. Demmel and   
              C. R. Mechoso and   
                H. Robinson and   
                 K. Sklower and   
                    J. A. Spahr   A Data Broker for Distributed Computing
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
        Sathish S. Vadhiyar and   
             Graham E. Fagg and   
               Jack J. Dongarra   Towards an Accurate Model for Collective
                                  Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
            John A. Gunnels and   
              Greg M. Henry and   
         Robert A. van de Geijn   A Family of High-Performance Matrix
                                  Multiplication Algorithms  . . . . . . . 51
            M. Fikret Ercan and   
                 Ceyda Oguz and   
                    Yu-Fai Fung   Performance Evaluation of Heuristics for
                                  Scheduling Pipelined Multiprocessor
                                  Tasks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
          Dragan Mirkovi\'c and   
            S. Lennart Johnsson   Automatic Performance Tuning in the
                                  UHFFT Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
              Nick Mitchell and   
               Larry Carter and   
                Jeanne Ferrante   A Modal Model of Memory  . . . . . . . . 81
        Markus Püschel and   
               Bryan Singer and   
             Manuela Veloso and   
        José M. F. Moura   Fast Automatic Generation of DSP
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
            Sriram Sellappa and   
          Siddhartha Chatterjee   Cache-Efficient Multigrid Algorithms . . 107
              Richard Vuduc and   
            James W. Demmel and   
                    Jeff Bilmes   Statistical Models for Automatic
                                  Performance Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . 117
                 Eun-Jin Im and   
               Katherine Yelick   Optimizing Sparse Matrix Computations
                                  for Register Reuse in SPARSITY . . . . . 127
      Michelle Mills Strout and   
               Larry Carter and   
                Jeanne Ferrante   Rescheduling for Locality in Sparse
                                  Matrix Computations  . . . . . . . . . . 137
              Thomas Bettge and   
              Anthony Craig and   
               Rodney James and   
            Vincent Wayland and   
                    Gary Strand   The DOE Parallel Climate Model (PCM):
                                  The Computational Highway and Backroads  149
                George Chin and   
              L. Ruby Leung and   
           Karen Schuchardt and   
                  Debbie Gracio   Conceptualizing a Collaborative Problem
                                  Solving Environment for Regional Climate
                                  Modeling and Assessment of Climate
                                  Impacts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
               Robert Jacob and   
               Chad Schafer and   
                 Ian Foster and   
              Michael Tobis and   
                  John Anderson   Computational Design and Performance of
                                  the Fast Ocean Atmosphere Model, Version
                                  One  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
           J. Walter Larson and   
            Robert L. Jacob and   
                 Ian Foster and   
                       Jing Guo   The Model Coupling Toolkit . . . . . . . 185
              L. Ruby Leung and   
         John G. Michalakes and   
                     Xindi Bian   Parallelization of a Subgrid Orographic
                                  Precipitation Scheme in an MM5-Based
                                  Regional Climate Model . . . . . . . . . 195
                John Taylor and   
                     Jay Larson   Resolution Dependence in Modeling
                                  Extreme Weather Events . . . . . . . . . 204
             Sheri A. Voelz and   
                    John Taylor   Visualizing High-Resolution Climate Data 212
                David Craig and   
             Steven Carroll and   
                Fabian Breg and   
  Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos and   
   Constantine Polychronopoulos   Improving Java Server Performance with
                                  Interruptlets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
                P. Geoffray and   
                    C. Pham and   
                  L. Prylli and   
             B. Tourancheau and   
                   R. Westrelin   Protocols and Software for Exploiting
                                  Myrinet Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
        Dieter F. Kvasnicka and   
             Helmut Hlavacs and   
        Christoph W. Ueberhuber   Cluster Configuration Aided by
                                  Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
      Zoltán Balaton and   
        Péter Kacsuk and   
             Norbert Podhorszki   Application Monitoring in the Grid with
                                  GRM and PROVE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
               Robert Lovas and   
                 Vaidy Sunderam   Extension of Macrostep Debugging
                                  Methodology Towards Metacomputing
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
             Anand Natrajan and   
          Marty A. Humphrey and   
             Andrew S. Grimshaw   Capacity and Capability Computing Using
                                  Legion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
                 Ivan Tanev and   
             Takashi Uozumi and   
                Dauren Akhmetov   Component Object Based Single System
                                  Image Middleware for Metacomputer
                                  Implementation of Genetic Programming on
                                  Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
              Michel Trehel and   
                   Ahmed Housni   The Prioritized and Distributed
                                  Synchronization in Distributed Groups    294
                    P. Gray and   
                   J. S. Pascoe   On Group Communication Systems: Insight,
                                  a Primer, and a Snapshot . . . . . . . . 307
                  K. Berket and   
              D. A. Agarwal and   
        P. M. Melliar-Smith and   
                    L. E. Moser   Overview of the InterGroup Protocols . . 316
               R. J. Loader and   
               J. S. Pascoe and   
                 V. S. Sunderam   Introducing Fault-Tolerant Group
                                  Membership into the Collaborative
                                  Computing Transport Layer  . . . . . . . 326
               Kwai L. Wong and   
                 A. Jerry Baker   A Modular Collaborative Parallel CFD
                                  Workbench  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
          Tomasz Tyrakowski and   
             Vaidy Sunderam and   
                Mauro Migliardi   Distributed Name Service in Harness  . . 345
             Graham E. Fagg and   
           Antonin Bukovsky and   
               Jack J. Dongarra   Fault Tolerant MPI for the HARNESS
                                  Meta-computing System  . . . . . . . . . 355
          Tomasz Tyrakowski and   
             Vaidy Sunderam and   
                Mauro Migliardi   A Harness Control Application for
                                  Hand-Held Devices  . . . . . . . . . . . 367
            Dawid Kurzyniec and   
                 Vaidy Sunderam   Flexible Class Loader Framework: Sharing
                                  Java Resources in Harness System . . . . 375
               J. S. Pascoe and   
                  G. Sibley and   
             V. S. Sunderam and   
                   R. J. Loader   Mobile Wide Area Wireless
                                  Fault-Tolerance  . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
                  G. Sibley and   
                 V. S. Sunderam   Tools for Collaboration in Metropolitan
                                  Wireless Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 395
               Paul A. Gray and   
      Srividya Chandramohan and   
              Vaidy S. Sunderam   A Repository System with Secure File
                                  Access for Collaborative Environments    404
             Kyung-Ah Chang and   
              Byung-Rae Lee and   
                    Tai-Yun Kim   Authentication Service Model Supporting
                                  Multiple Domains in Distributed
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
              Gunther Stuer and   
             Jan Broeckhove and   
                   Frans Arickx   Performance and Stability Analysis of a
                                  Message Oriented Reliable Multicast for
                                  Distributed Virtual Environments in Java 423
              Byung-Rae Lee and   
             Kyung-Ah Chang and   
                    Tai-Yun Kim   A Secure and Efficient Key Escrow
                                  Protocol for Mobile Communications . . . 433
      Alexander V. Bogdanov and   
         Ashot S. Gevorkyan and   
              Elena N. Stankova   High-Performance Algorithms for Quantum
                                  Systems Evolution  . . . . . . . . . . . 447
                 Y. Nechaev and   
               A. Degtyarev and   
                A. Boukhanovsky   Complex Situations Simulation When
                                  Testing Intelligence System Knowledge
                                  Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
            A. Boukhanovsky and   
                 V. Rozhkov and   
                   A. Degtyarev   Peculiarities of Computer Simulation and
                                  Statistical Representation of
                                  Time-Spatial Metocean Fields . . . . . . 463
             A. V. Bogdanov and   
            A. S. Gevorkyan and   
                   A. A. Udalov   Numerical Investigation of Quantum Chaos
                                  in the Problem of Multichannel
                                  Scattering in Three Body System  . . . . 473
            Y. E. Gorbachev and   
           M. A. Zatevakhin and   
     V. V. Krzhizhanovskaya and   
             A. A. Ignatiev and   
           V. K. Protopopov and   
             N. V. Sokolova and   
                A. B. Witenberg   Distributed Simulation of Amorphous
                                  Hydrogenated Silicon Films: Numerical
                                  Experiments on a Linux Based Computing
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
           Wolfgang Joppich and   
           Herrmann Mierendorff   Performance Prediction for Parallel
                                  Local Weather Forecast Programs  . . . . 492
            A. N. Andrianov and   
              K. N. Efimkin and   
             V. Y. Levashov and   
                I. N. Shishkova   The NORMA Language Application to
                                  Solution of Strong Nonequilibrium
                                  Transfer Processes Problem with
                                  Condensation of Mixtures on the
                                  Multiprocessor System  . . . . . . . . . 502
       Alexander Vinogradov and   
            Vladimir Volkov and   
          Vladimir Gidaspov and   
          Alexander Muslaev and   
                 Peter Rozovski   Adaptive High-Performance Method for
                                  Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Complex
                                  Flows with Number of Strong and Weak
                                  Discontinuities  . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
             P. M. A. Sloot and   
                 A. G. Hoekstra   Cellular Automata as a Mesoscopic
                                  Approach to Model and Simulate Complex
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
            A. P. J. Jansen and   
            C. G. M. Hermse and   
                F. Frechard and   
                  J. J. Lukkien   Ab-Initio Kinetics of Heterogeneous
                                  Catalysis: NO $+$ N $+$ O/Rh(111)  . . . 531
            A. J. Markvoort and   
                    R. Pino and   
               P. A. J. Hilbers   Interpolating Wavelets in Kohn--Sham
                                  Electronic Structure Calculations  . . . 541
              Sean McNamara and   
                Joel Koplik and   
             Jayanth R. Banavar   Simulations of Surfactant-Enhanced
                                  Spreading  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
                Valentina Huber   Supporting Car--Parrinello Molecular
                                  Dynamics with UNICORE  . . . . . . . . . 560
       Valentina Piermarini and   
          Leonardo Pacifici and   
        Stefano Crocchianti and   
           Antonio Lagan\`a and   
        Giuseppina D'Agosto and   
                   Sergio Tasso   Parallel Methods in Time Dependent
                                  Approaches to Reactive Scattering
                                  Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
                Yuji Yamada and   
                James A. Primbs   Construction of Multinomial Lattice
                                  Random Walks for Optimal Hedges  . . . . 579
          Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan   On Parallel Pseudo-Random Number
                                  Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
         Ali Lari-Lavassani and   
           Bradley D. Tifenbach   A General Framework for Trinomial Trees  597
         Christiane Lemieux and   
                Pierre L'Ecuyer   On the Use of Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods
                                  in Computational Finance . . . . . . . . 607
                Henk Bekker and   
          Jos B. T. M. Roerdink   An Efficient Algorithm to Calculate the
                                  Minkowski Sum of Convex $3$D Polyhedra   619
                  Javier Bernal   REGTET: A Program for Computing Regular
                                  Tetrahedralizations  . . . . . . . . . . 629
       Sergei Bespamyatnikh and   
                  Michael Segal   Fast Maintenance of Rectilinear Centers  633
       Amitava Bhattacharya and   
          Subir Kumar Ghosh and   
                  Sudeep Sarkar   Exploring an Unknown Polygonal
                                  Environment with Bounded Visibility  . . 640
                  Ovidiu Daescu   Parallel Optimal Weighted Links  . . . . 649
               Tamal K. Dey and   
             Joachim Giesen and   
                     Wulue Zhao   Robustness Issues in Surface
                                  Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
                M. L. Gavrilova   On a Nearest-Neighbor Problem in
                                  Minkowski and Power Metrics  . . . . . . 663
            M. L. Gavrilova and   
                       J. Rokne   On Dynamic Generalized Voronoi Diagrams
                                  in the Euclidean Metric  . . . . . . . . 673
              Man Chung Hon and   
              Ravi Janardan and   
         Jörg Schwerdt and   
                   Michiel Smid   Computing Optimal Hatching Directions in
                                  Layered Manufacturing  . . . . . . . . . 683
             Seok-Yong Hong and   
           Chung-Seong Hong and   
              Hyun-Chan Lee and   
                   Koohyun Park   Discrete Local Fairing of B-Spline
                                  Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693
     Andrés Iglesias and   
        Akemi Gálvez and   
                 Jaime Puig-Pey   Computational Methods for Geometric
                                  Processing. Applications to Industry . . 698
         Thomas Kämpke and   
               Matthias Strobel   Graph Voronoi Regions for Interfacing
                                  Planar Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708
               Deok-Soo Kim and   
                 Donguk Kim and   
           Kokichi Sugihara and   
                  Joonghyun Ryu   Robust and Fast Algorithm for a Circle
                                  Set Voronoi Diagram in a Plane . . . . . 718
               Deok-Soo Kim and   
                 Donguk Kim and   
           Kokichi Sugihara and   
                  Joonghyun Ryu   Apollonius Tenth Problem as a Point
                                  Location Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 728
              Kei Kobayashi and   
               Kokichi Sugihara   Crystal Voronoi Diagram and Its
                                  Applications to Collision-Free Paths . . 738
            V. A. Luchnikov and   
             N. N. Medvedev and   
                M. L. Gavrilova   The Voronoi--Delaunay Approach for
                                  Modeling the Packing of Balls in a
                                  Cylindrical Container  . . . . . . . . . 748
              T. S. Michael and   
                     Val Pinciu   Multiply Guarded Guards in Orthogonal
                                  Art Galleries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753
                Ali Mohades and   
           Mohammadreza Razzazi   Reachability on a Region Bounded by Two
                                  Attached Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . 763
           Csaba D. Tóth   Illuminating Polygons with Vertex $ \pi
                                  $-Floodlights  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772
             Scott B. Baden and   
                  Daniel Shalit   Performance Tradeoffs in Multi-tier
                                  Formulation of a Finite Difference
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785
       Christian H. Bischof and   
      H. Martin Bücker and   
                 Bruno Lang and   
                 Arno Rasch and   
                 Jakob W. Risch   On the Use of a Differentiated Finite
                                  Element Package for Sensitivity Analysis 795
                  Jaeyoung Choi   Parallel Factorizations with Algorithmic
                                  Blocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802
              Ray Gallagher and   
                     Tony Doran   Bayesian Parameter Estimation: A Monte
                                  Carlo Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812
                   Anshul Gupta   Recent Progress in General Sparse Direct
                                  Solvers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823
         Gennady Y. Kulikov and   
           Alexandra A. Korneva   On Efficient Application of Implicit
                                  Runge--Kutta Methods to Large-Scale
                                  Systems of Index $1$
                                  Differential-Algebraic Equations . . . . 832
    Songrit Maneewongvatana and   
                 David M. Mount   On the Efficiency of Nearest Neighbor
                                  Searching with Data Clustered in Lower
                                  Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842
                   Sha Meng and   
                 Xin Kai Li and   
                   Gwynne Evans   A Spectral Element Method for Oldroyd-B
                                  Fluid in a Contraction Channel . . . . . 852
                 Y. F. Fung and   
            M. Fikret Ercan and   
                   T. K. Ho and   
                   W. L. Cheung   SSE Based Parallel Solution for Power
                                  Systems Network Equations  . . . . . . . 862
                 Yanpeng Mi and   
               Gary F. Margrave   Implementation of Symmetric
                                  Nonstationary Phase-Shift Wavefield
                                  Extrapolator on an Alpha Cluster . . . . 874
              Dongming Peng and   
                          Mi Lu   Generalized High-Level Synthesis of
                                  Wavelet-Based Digital Systems via
                                  Nonlinear I/O Data Space Transformations 884
        Govindan Rangarajan and   
             Minita Sachidanand   Solvable Map Method for Integrating
                                  Nonlinear Hamiltonian Systems  . . . . . 894
            I. V. Schevtschenko   A Parallel ADI Method for a Nonlinear
                                  Equation Describing Gravitational Flow
                                  of Ground Water  . . . . . . . . . . . . 904
             Ioana S\^\irbu and   
                  Harry F. King   The Effect of the Cusp on the Rate of
                                  Convergence of the Rayleigh--Ritz Method 911
         Mohd Salleh Sahimi and   
                Norma Alias and   
         Elankovan Sundararajan   The AGEB Algorithm for Solving the Heat
                                  Equation in Three Space Dimensions and
                                  Its Parallelization Using PVM  . . . . . 918
               Soo Bum Pyun and   
                Hyeong Seon Yoo   A Pollution Adaptive Mesh Generation
                                  Algorithm in $r$--$h$ Version of the
                                  Finite Element Method  . . . . . . . . . 928
               Neville Yoon and   
                      John Rose   An Information Model for the
                                  Representation of Multiple Biological
                                  Classifications  . . . . . . . . . . . . 937
              Wan-Xie Zhong and   
                   Jianping Zhu   A Precise Integration Algorithm for
                                  Matrix Riccati Differential Equations    947
              Giuseppe Carenini   GEA: A Complete, Modular System for
                                  Generating Evaluative Arguments  . . . . 959
              Armin Fiedler and   
                 Helmut Horacek   Argumentation in Explanations to Logical
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969
               Serge V. Gavenko   Analysis of the Argumentative Effect of
                                  Evaluative Semantics in Natural Language 979
             Michael A. Gilbert   Getting Good Value. Facts, Values, and
                                  Goals in Computational Linguistics . . . 989
                 Chris Reed and   
                Floriana Grasso   Computational Models of Natural Language
                                  Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999
                    Nancy Green   An Empirical Study of Multimedia
                                  Argumentation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009
         Valeria Carofiglio and   
              Fiorella de Rosis   Exploiting Uncertainty and Incomplete
                                  Knowledge in Deceptive Argumentation . . 1019
               Harvey Gould and   
                  Jan Tobochnik   Integrating Computation into the Physics
                                  Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031
                N. Giordano and   
                     J. Roberts   Musical Acoustics and Computational
                                  Science  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1041
                Rubin H. Landau   Developing Components and Curricula for
                                  a Research-Rich Undergraduate Degree in
                                  Computational Physics  . . . . . . . . . 1051
         Wolfgang Christian and   
              Mario Belloni and   
                  Melissa Dancy   Physlets: Java Tools for a Web-Based
                                  Physics Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . 1061
                  David M. Cook   Computation in Undergraduate Physics:
                                  The Lawrence Approach  . . . . . . . . . 1074
             Joseph D. Baum and   
                   Hong Luo and   
           Eric L. Mestreau and   
              Dmitri Sharov and   
        Rainald Löhner and   
          Daniele Pelessone and   
                Charles Charman   Recent Developments of a Coupled CFD/CSD
                                  Methodology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1087
           Julie L. McClean and   
          Wieslaw Maslowski and   
                 Mathew Maltrud   Towards a Coupled Environmental
                                  Prediction System  . . . . . . . . . . . 1098
                Jerry Boatz and   
             Mark S. Gordon and   
               Gregory Voth and   
     Sharon Hammes-Schiffer and   
                   Ruth Pachter   New Materials Design . . . . . . . . . . 1108
       Charles A. Rendleman and   
         Vincent E. Beckner and   
                  Mike Lijewski   Parallelization of an Adaptive Mesh
                                  Refinement Method for Low Mach Number
                                  Combustion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117
               Suresh Menon and   
      Vaidyanathan Sankaran and   
              Christopher Stone   Combustion Dynamics of Swirling
                                  Turbulent Flames . . . . . . . . . . . . 1127
                    Hong Hu and   
               Edward L. Turner   Parallel CFD Computing Using Shared
                                  Memory OpenMP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137
                  Osman Ya\csar   Plasma Modeling of Ignition for
                                  Combustion Simulations . . . . . . . . . 1147
                  Osman Ya\csar   Computational Science Education:
                                  Standards, Learning Outcomes, and
                                  Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1159
          André Jaun and   
                Johan Hedin and   
             Thomas Johnson and   
           Michael Christie and   
          Lars-Erik Jonsson and   
             Mikael Persson and   
                Laurent Villard   Learning Computational Methods for
                                  Partial Differential Equations from the
                                  Web  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170
             Carleton DeTar and   
          Aaron L. Fogelson and   
     Christopher R. Johnson and   
        Christopher A. Sikorski   Computational Engineering and Science
                                  Program at the University of Utah  . . . 1176
                 Myron Ginsberg   Influences on the Solution Process for
                                  Large, Numeric-Intensive Automotive
                                  Simulations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1189
                  Ram Mohan and   
                Dale Shires and   
                    Andrew Mark   Scalable Large Scale Process Modeling
                                  and Simulations in Liquid Composite
                                  Molding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1199
            J. Brent Spears and   
               Brett N. Gossage   An Object-Oriented Software Framework
                                  for Execution of Real-Time, Parallel
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1209
                  John Debenham   A Multiagent Architecture Addresses the
                                  Complexity of Industry Process
                                  Re-engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1219
       N. Rakoto-Ravalontsalama   Diagnosis Algorithms for a Symbolically
                                  Modeled Manufacturing Process  . . . . . 1228
             M. A. Chappell and   
                  B. K. Feather   Time-Accurate Turbine Engine Simulation
                                  in a Parallel Computing Environment.
                                  Part II --- Software Alpha Test  . . . . 1237
                  Ray Gallagher   Finding Steady State of Safety Systems
                                  Using the Monte Carlo Method . . . . . . 1253
            Rudolf Schürer   Parallel High-Dimensional Integration:
                                  Quasi-Monte Carlo versus Adaptive
                                  Cubature Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1262
                 V. Filinov and   
                  M. Bonitz and   
                   D. Kremp and   
               W.-D. Kraeft and   
                      V. Fortov   Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulations
                                  and Analytical Approximations for
                                  High-Temperature Plasmas . . . . . . . . 1272
               Chi-Ok Hwang and   
               Michael Mascagni   A Feynman--Kac Path-Integral
                                  Implementation for Poisson's Equation    1282
      Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan and   
              Vassil Alexandrov   Relaxed Monte Carlo Linear Solver  . . . 1289
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2074, 2001

         Mohammad A. Rajabi and   
                J. A. Rod Blais   Densification of Digital Terrain
                                  Elevations Using Shape from Shading with
                                  Single Satellite Imagery . . . . . . . . 3
                Emad Boctor and   
                    A. Saad and   
              Dar-Jen Chang and   
                   K. Kamel and   
                  A. M. Youssef   PC-Based System for Calibration,
                                  Reconstruction, Processing, and
                                  Visualization of $3$D Ultrasound Data
                                  Based on a Magnetic-Field Position and
                                  Orientation Sensing System . . . . . . . 13
          Christian Forlani and   
             Giancarlo Ferrigno   Automatic Real-Time XRII Local
                                  Distortion Correction Method for Digital
                                  Linear Tomography  . . . . . . . . . . . 23
              Wolfgang Karl and   
              Martin Schulz and   
           Martin Völk and   
                Sibylle Ziegler   Meeting the Computational Demands of
                                  Nuclear Medical Imaging Using Commodity
                                  Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
              Joong-Jae Lee and   
              Gye-Young Kim and   
                  Hyung-Il Choi   An Image Registration Algorithm Based on
                                  Cylindrical Prototype Model  . . . . . . 37
                Han-Suh Koo and   
               Chang-Sung Jeong   An Area-Based Stereo Matching Using
                                  Adaptive Search Range and Window Size    44
           Vladimir Penenko and   
             Alexander Baklanov   Methods of Sensitivity Theory and
                                  Inverse Modeling for Estimation of
                                  Source Parameters and Risk/Vulnerability
                                  Areas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
        István Lagzi and   
           Alison S. Tomlin and   
Tamás Turányi and   
László Haszpra and   
Róbert Mészáros and   
                 Martin Berzins   The Simulation of Photochemical Smog
                                  Episodes in Hungary and Central Europe
                                  Using Adaptive Gridding Models . . . . . 67
                Khoi Nguyen and   
                  Donald Dabdub   Numerical Solution of the Aerosol
                                  Condensation/Evaporation Equation  . . . 77
                  Zahari Zlatev   Efficient Treatment of Large-Scale Air
                                  Pollution Models on Supercomputers . . . 82
              Pedro Alberto and   
          Fernando Nogueira and   
             Humberto Rocha and   
         Luís N. Vicente   Pattern Search Methods for Use-Provided
                                  Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
              M. C. Baracca and   
                    G. Clai and   
                     P. Ornelli   In-situ Bioremediation: Advantages of
                                  Parallel Computing and Graphical
                                  Investigating Techniques . . . . . . . . 99
          Milind Bhandarkar and   
          L. V. Kalé and   
            Eric de Sturler and   
                 Jay Hoeflinger   Adaptive Load Balancing for MPI Programs 108
           Elise de Doncker and   
               Rodger Zanny and   
             Karlis Kaugars and   
                Laurentiu Cucos   Performance and Irregular Behavior of
                                  Adaptive Task Partitioning . . . . . . . 118
                  S. Mishra and   
                  K. Sikdar and   
                    M. Satpathy   Optimizing Register Spills for Eager
                                  Functional Languages . . . . . . . . . . 128
             Kazunori Iwata and   
            Shingo Itabashi and   
                  Naohiro Ishii   A Protocol for Multi-Threaded Processes
                                  with Choice in $ \pi $-Calculus  . . . . 138
          Mikhail S. Tarkov and   
              Youngsong Mun and   
              Jaeyoung Choi and   
                  Hyung-Il Choi   Mapping Parallel Programs onto
                                  Distributed Computer Systems with Faulty
                                  Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
             Mark C. Miller and   
              James F. Reus and   
             Robb P. Matzke and   
         William J. Arrighi and   
            Larry A. Schoof and   
                Ray T. Hitt and   
                 Peter K. Espen   Enabling Interoperation of High
                                  Performance, Scientific Computing
                                  Applications: Modeling Scientific Data
                                  with the Sets & Fields (SAF) Modeling
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
              Ajith Abraham and   
                  Baikunth Nath   ALEC: An Adaptive Learning Framework for
                                  Optimizing Artificial Neural Networks    171
             Lucie P. Aarts and   
             Peter Van der Veer   Solving Nonlinear Differential Equations
                                  by a Neural Network Method . . . . . . . 181
         Ahmet Çinar and   
                   Ahmet Arslan   Fuzzy Object Blending in $2$-D . . . . . 190
          Otman M. Ahtiwash and   
            Mohd Zaki Abdulmuin   An Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Approach for
                                  Modeling and Control of Nonlinear
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
          Joseph G. Billock and   
            Demetri Psaltis and   
                  Christof Koch   The Match Fit Algorithm: A Testbed for
                                  the Computational Motivation of
                                  Attention  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
 João Paulo Carvalho and   
José Alberto Tomé   Automatic Implementation and Simulation
                                  of Qualitative Cognitive Maps  . . . . . 217
             Chris Cornelis and   
               Etienne E. Kerre   Inclusion-Based Approximate Reasoning    221
            Christian Storm and   
              Walter J. Freeman   Attractor Density Models with
                                  Application to Analyzing the Stability
                                  of Biological Neural Networks  . . . . . 231
              Ajith Abraham and   
                  Dan Steinberg   MARS: Still an Alien Planet in Soft
                                  Computing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
                 Gongde Guo and   
                   Hui Wang and   
                 David Bell and   
                   Qingxiang Wu   Data Reduction Based on Spatial
                                  Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
       Guadalupe I. Janoski and   
                 Andrew H. Sung   Alternate Methods in Reservoir
                                  Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
             Eulalia Szmidt and   
                Janusz Kacprzyk   Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets in Intelligent
                                  Data Analysis for Medical Diagnosis  . . 263
            Mehmet Karakose and   
                Mehmet Kaya and   
                     Erhan Akin   Design of a Fuzzy Controller Using a
                                  Genetic Algorithm for Stator Flux
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
           Gour C. Karmakar and   
             Syed M. Rahman and   
             Laurence S. Dooley   Object Based Image Ranking Using Neural
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
               Wee Sng Khoo and   
           P. Saratchandran and   
                N. Sundararajan   A Genetic Approach for Two Dimensional
                                  Packing with Constraints . . . . . . . . 291
               Derek Harter and   
                   Robert Kozma   Task Environments for the Dynamic
                                  Development of Behavior  . . . . . . . . 300
              Kok Keong Teo and   
                  Lipo Wang and   
                    Zhiping Lin   Wavelet Packet Multi-layer Perceptron
                                  for Chaotic Time Series Prediction:
                                  Effects of Weight Initialization . . . . 310
                  S. Lozano and   
     J. J. Domínguez and   
                F. Guerrero and   
                       K. Smith   Genetic Line Search  . . . . . . . . . . 318
          Dominique Luzeaux and   
     André Dalgalarrondo   HARPIC, an Hybrid Architecture Based on
                                  Representations, Perception, and
                                  Intelligent Control: A Way to Provide
                                  Autonomy to Robots . . . . . . . . . . . 327
              Ajith Abraham and   
              Baikunth Nath and   
                  P. K. Mahanti   Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Stock
                                  Market Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
         Jorge Muruzábal   On the Emulation of Kohonen's
                                  Self-Organization via Single-Map
                                  Metropolis--Hastings Algorithms  . . . . 346
                 Karen Nazaryan   Quasi Analog Formal Neuron and Its
                                  Learning Algorithm Hardware  . . . . . . 356
              Roger Nkambou and   
                    Yan Laporte   Producing Non-verbal Output for an
                                  Embodied Agent in an Intelligent
                                  Tutoring System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
               Joshua A. Singer   Co-evolving a Neural-Net Evaluation
                                  Function for Othello by Combining
                                  Genetic Algorithms and Reinforcement
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
                Ai Cheo Yeo and   
              Kate A. Smith and   
           Robert J. Willis and   
                 Malcolm Brooks   Modelling the Effect of Premium Changes
                                  on Motor Insurance Customer Retention
                                  Rates Using Neural Networks  . . . . . . 390
       Ninan Sajeeth Philip and   
                 K. Babu Joseph   On the Predictability of Rainfall in
                                  Kerala An Application of ABF Neural
                                  Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
                   Feng-Tse Lin   A Job-Shop Scheduling Problem with Fuzzy
                                  Processing Times . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
            Trandafir Moisa and   
                 Dan Ontanu and   
             Adrian Horia Dediu   Speech Synthesis Using Neural Networks
                                  Trained by an Evolutionary Algorithm . . 419
            Chang-Jiun Tsai and   
                S. S. Tseng and   
                  Chih-Yang Lin   A Two-Phase Fuzzy Mining and Learning
                                  Algorithm for Adaptive Learning
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
                Vincent Tam and   
                       K. T. Ma   Applying Genetic Algorithms and Other
                                  Heuristic Methods to Handle PC
                                  Configuration Problems . . . . . . . . . 439
                 Xiaodan Wu and   
                  Ming Fung and   
                 Andrew Flitman   Forecasting Stock Market Performance
                                  Using Hybrid Intelligent System  . . . . 447
            Rachel J. McCrindle   The MultiMedia Maintenance Management ($
                                  M^4 $) System  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--469
              Claire Knight and   
                  Malcolm Munro   Visualisations; Functionality and
                                  Interaction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
              Avichal Mehra and   
                     Jim Corbin   DMEFS Web Portal: A METOC Application    476
               Angela Violi and   
              Xiaodong Chen and   
             Gary Lindstrom and   
               Eric Eddings and   
                Adel F. Sarofim   Validation Web Site: A Combustion
                                  Collaboratory over the Internet  . . . . 485
              Vincent C. Hu and   
         Deborah A. Frincke and   
             David F. Ferraiolo   The Policy Machine for Security Policy
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
              Charles Bates and   
                 Jeff Lucas and   
                   Joe Robinson   The Javelin Integrated Flight Simulation 507
           James B. Johnson and   
                   Jerry A. Ray   A Multi-spectral Test and Simulation
                                  Facility to Support Missile Development,
                                  Production, and Surveillance Programs    515
                  John Kriz and   
                 Tom Joyner and   
                 Ted Wilson and   
                  Greg McGraner   Correlated, Real Time Multi-spectral
                                  Sensor Test and Evaluation (T&E) in an
                                  Installed Systems Test Facility (ISTF)
                                  Using High Performance Computing . . . . 521
           Mark A. Manzardo and   
              Brett Gossage and   
            J. Brent Spears and   
             Kenneth G. LeSueur   Infrared Scene Projector Digital Model
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
           Mark A. Manzardo and   
              Brett Gossage and   
            J. Brent Spears and   
             Kenneth G. LeSueur   Infrared Scene Projector Digital Model
                                  Mathematical Description . . . . . . . . 540
          David R. Anderson and   
                 Ken Allred and   
               Kevin Dennen and   
            Patrick Roberts and   
           William R. Brown and   
         Ellis E. Burroughs and   
         Kenneth G. LeSueur and   
                     Tim Clardy   Distributed Test Capability Using
                                  Infrared Scene Projector Technology  . . 550
           Jeremy R. Farris and   
                   Marsha Drake   Development of Infrared and Millimeter
                                  Wave Scene Generators for the P3I BAT
                                  High Fidelity Flight Simulation  . . . . 558
           Florian Schintke and   
                 Jens Simon and   
            Alexander Reinefeld   A Cache Simulator for Shared Memory
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
         Gianfranco Bilardi and   
             Carlo Fantozzi and   
       Andrea Pietracaprina and   
                  Geppino Pucci   On the Effectiveness of D--BSP as a
                                  Bridging Model of Parallel Computation   579
                Frank Dehne and   
                 Todd Eavis and   
             Andrew Rau-Chaplin   Coarse Grained Parallel On-Line
                                  Analytical Processing (OLAP) for Data
                                  Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
               Ananth Grama and   
                Vipin Kumar and   
               Sanjay Ranka and   
                   Vineet Singh   Architecture Independent Analysis of
                                  Parallel Programs  . . . . . . . . . . . 599
                Jianer Chen and   
                     Eunseuk Oh   Strong Fault-Tolerance: Parallel Routing
                                  in Networks with Faults  . . . . . . . . 609
            Vijaya Ramachandran   Parallel Algorithm Design with
                                  Coarse-Grained Synchronization . . . . . 619
Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide and   
                     Rolf Wanka   Parallel Bridging Models and Their
                                  Impact on Algorithm Design . . . . . . . 628
       E. N. Cáceres and   
                 S. W. Song and   
              J. L. Szwarcfiter   A Coarse-Grained Parallel Algorithm for
                                  Maximal Cliques in Circle Graphs . . . . 638
                    X. Deng and   
                      H. Ip and   
                     K. Law and   
                      J. Li and   
                   W. Zheng and   
                         S. Zhu   Parallel Models and Job Characterization
                                  for System Scheduling  . . . . . . . . . 648
           M. Mostofa Akbar and   
            Eric G. Manning and   
         Gholamali C. Shoja and   
                  Shahadat Khan   Heuristic Solutions for the
                                  Multiple-Choice Multi-dimension Knapsack
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
           Mir M. Atiqullah and   
                      S. S. Rao   Tuned Annealing for Optimization . . . . 669
              Chetan Offord and   
                \vZeljko Bajzer   A Hybrid Global Optimization Algorithm
                                  Involving Simplex and Inductive Search   680
        Enrique Alba Torres and   
                     Sami Khuri   Applying Evolutionary Algorithms to
                                  Combinatorial Optimization Problems  . . 689
          Brian J. d'Auriol and   
           Claudia V. Casas and   
     Pramod K. Chikkappaiah and   
            L. Susan Draper and   
             Ammar J. Esper and   
         Jorge López and   
         Rajesh Molakaseema and   
       Seetharami R. Seelam and   
          René Saenz and   
                   Qian Wen and   
                 Zhengjing Yang   Exploratory Study of Scientific
                                  Visualization Techniques for Program
                                  Visualization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701
                  Ian Curington   Immersive Visualization Using
                                  AVS/Express  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711
           Randy W. Heiland and   
           M. Pauline Baker and   
                Danesh K. Tafti   VisBench: A Framework for Remote Data
                                  Visualization and Analysis . . . . . . . 718
                Mark Burgin and   
                  Damon Liu and   
                 Walter Karplus   The Problem of Time Scales in Computer
                                  Visualization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728
        James Westland Cain and   
          Rachel Jane McCrindle   Making Movies: Watching Software Evolve
                                  through Visualisation  . . . . . . . . . 738
              Holger Brunst and   
       Hans-Christian Hoppe and   
          Wolfgang E. Nagel and   
                Manuela Winkler   Performance Optimization for Large Scale
                                  Computing: The Scalable VAMPIR Approach  751
           Mark Christiaens and   
              Koen De Bosschere   TRaDe: Data Race Detection for Java  . . 761
            Michael Frumkin and   
               Haoqiang Jin and   
                      Jerry Yan   Automation of Data Traffic Control on
                                  DSM Architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . 771
          Christian Glasner and   
           Roland Hügl and   
         Bernhard Reitinger and   
   Dieter Kranzlmüller and   
                   Jens Volkert   The Monitoring and Steering Environment  781
               Delbert Hart and   
        Mihail E. Tudoreanu and   
                 Eileen Kraemer   Token Finding Using Mobile Agents  . . . 791
        Siegfried Höfinger   Load Balancing for the Electronic
                                  Structure Program GREMLIN in a Very
                                  Heterogeneous SSH-Connected WAN-Cluster
                                  of UNIX-Type Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . 801
       Dieter Kranzlmüller   DeWiz --- Modular Debugging for
                                  Supercomputers and Computational Grids   811
João Lourenço and   
           José C. Cunha   Fiddle: A Flexible Distributed Debugging
                                  Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821
            F.-G. Ottogalli and   
            C. Labbé and   
                   V. Olive and   
       B. de Oliveira Stein and   
  J. Chassin de Kergommeaux and   
                  J.-M. Vincent   Visualisation of Distributed
                                  Applications for Performance Debugging   831
              Ralf Reussner and   
              Gunnar Hunzelmann   Achieving Performance Portability with
                                  SKaMPI for High-Performance MPI Programs 841
             Michiel Ronsse and   
           Mark Christiaens and   
              Koen De Bosschere   Cyclic Debugging Using Execution Replay  851
                    Jie Tao and   
              Wolfgang Karl and   
                  Martin Schulz   Visualizing the Memory Access Behavior
                                  of Shared Memory Applications on NUMA
                                  Architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861
              Torsten Wilde and   
              James A. Kohl and   
        Raymond E. Flanery, Jr.   CUMULVS Viewers for the ImmersaDesk  . . 871
             P. M. A. Sloot and   
             P. F. Spinnato and   
               G. D. van Albada   $N$-Body Simulation on Hybrid
                                  Architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883
                Yun-Bo Duan and   
                  Anne B. McCoy   Quantum Mechanical Simulation of
                                  Vibration-Torsion-Rotation Levels of
                                  Methanol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893
              Elena V. Zudilova   Simulation-Visualization Complexes as
                                  Generic Exploration Environment  . . . . 903
         Alexey S. Rodionov and   
             Hyunseung Choo and   
                Hee Y. Youn and   
               Tai M. Chung and   
                    Kiheon Park   Efficient Random Process Generation for
                                  Reliable Simulation of Complex Systems   912
                     Anil Menon   Replicators & Complementarity: Solving
                                  the Simplest Complex System without
                                  Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922
               Roman Neruda and   
            Pavel Kru\vsina and   
          Zuzana Petrová   More Autonomous Hybrid Models in Bang    935
            S. Vasupongayya and   
               R. S. Renner and   
                  B. A. Juliano   Model Generation of Neural Network
                                  Ensembles Using Two-Level
                                  Cross-Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . 943
           Stephen J. Sheel and   
            Deborah Vrooman and   
               R. S. Renner and   
               Shanda K. Dawsey   A Comparison of Neural Networks and
                                  Classical Discriminant Analysis in
                                  Predicting Students' Mathematics
                                  Placement Examination Scores . . . . . . 952
              Michael J. Barber   Neural Belief Propagation without
                                  Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958
                A. Bogdanov and   
               A. Degtyarev and   
                     Y. Nechaev   Fuzzy Logic Basis in High Performance
                                  Decision Support Systems . . . . . . . . 965
              Lora J. Durak and   
          Alfred W. Hübler   Scaling of Knowledge in Random
                                  Conceptual Networks  . . . . . . . . . . 976
               Roman Neruda and   
 Arno\vst \vSt\vedrý and   
        Jitka Drko\vsová   Implementation of Kolmogorov Learning
                                  Algorithm for Feedforward Neural
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 986--995
          Michael J. Barber and   
              Babette K. Dellen   Noise-Induced Signal Enhancement in
                                  Heterogeneous Neural Networks  . . . . . 996
             Mathieu Blanchette   Evolutionary Puzzles: An Introduction to
                                  Genome Rearrangement . . . . . . . . . . 1003
        Bernard M. E. Moret and   
             David A. Bader and   
                   Tandy Warnow   High-Performance Algorithm Engineering
                                  for Computational Phylogenetics  . . . . 1012
            Donald L. Simon and   
                    Bret Larget   Phylogenetic Inference from
                                  Mitochondrial Genome Arrangement Data    1022
       Maumita Bhattacharya and   
                  Baikunth Nath   Genetic Programming: A Review of Some
                                  Concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031
           G. Y. Kryuchkyan and   
              H. H. Adamyan and   
                S. B. Manvelyan   Numerical Simulation of Quantum
                                  Distributions: Instability and Quantum
                                  Chaos  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1041
               Nirmal Singh and   
                   Renu Vig and   
                   J. K. Sharma   Identification of MIM0 Systems by
                                  Input-Output Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models  1050
               Mark Z. Jacobson   Control of Black Carbon, the Most
                                  Effective Means of Slowing Global
                                  Warming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1060
                 U. Shankar and   
                 A. L. Trayanov   Comparison of Two Schemes for the
                                  Redistribution of Moments for Modal
                                  Aerosol Model Applications . . . . . . . 1061
         Fernando Port-Agel and   
                       Qiao Qin   A Scale-Dependent Dynamic Model for
                                  Scalar Transport in the Atmospheric
                                  Boundary Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062
                     Eric Barth   MDT --- The Molecular Dynamics Test Set  1065--1065
                  Steve D. Bond   Numerical Methods for the Approximation
                                  of Path Integrals Arising in Quantum
                                  Statistical Mechanics  . . . . . . . . . 1066
                 David J. Hardy   The Multigrid $N$-Body Solver  . . . . . 1067
                 Brian B. Laird   Do Your Hard-Spheres Have Tails? A
                                  Molecular Dynamics Integration Algorithm
                                  for Systems with Mixed
                                  Hard-Core/Continuous Potentials  . . . . 1068
         Benedict J. Leimkuhler   An Improved Dynamical Formulation for
                                  Constant Temperature and Pressure
                                  Dynamics, with Application to Particle
                                  Fluid Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2075, 2001

              Susanna Donatelli   Kronecker Algebra and (Stochastic) Petri
                                  Nets: Is It Worth the Effort?  . . . . . 1
                   Robin Milner   The Flux of Interaction  . . . . . . . . 19
             Mogens Nielsen and   
          Vladimiro Sassone and   
             Ji\vrí Srba   Towards a Notion of Distributed Time for
                                  Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
    Wil M. P. van der Aalst and   
                    Twan Basten   Identifying Commonalities and
                                  Differences in Object Life Cycles Using
                                  Behavioral Inheritance . . . . . . . . . 32
        Parosh Aziz Abdulla and   
            Aletta Nylén   Timed Petri Nets and BQOs  . . . . . . . 53
     Michel Beaudouin-Lafon and   
            Wendy E. Mackay and   
             Peter Andersen and   
               Paul Janecek and   
                Mads Jensen and   
             Michael Lassen and   
                Kasper Lund and   
            Kjeld Mortensen and   
            Stephanie Munck and   
                Anne Ratzer and   
               Katrine Ravn and   
   Sòren Christensen and   
                    Kurt Jensen   CPN/Tools: A Post-WIMP Interface for
                                  Editing and Simulating Coloured Petri
                                  Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
              Slavek Bulach and   
             Anton Brauchle and   
  Hans-Jörg Pfleiderer and   
              Zdenek Kucerovsky   Petri Net Based Design and
                                  Implementation Methodology for Discrete
                                  Event Control Systems  . . . . . . . . . 81
   Sòren Christensen and   
    Lars Michael Kristensen and   
                 Thomas Mailund   Condensed State Spaces for Timed Petri
                                  Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
       Jean-Michel Couvreur and   
    Sébastien Grivet and   
               Denis Poitrenaud   Unfolding of Products of Symmetrical
                                  Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
                  Peter Deussen   Partial Order Verification of
                                  Programmable Logic Controllers . . . . . 144
               Serge Haddad and   
            Patrice Moreaux and   
              Matteo Sereno and   
                   Manuel Silva   Structural Characterization and
                                  Qualitative Properties of Product Form
                                  Stochastic Petri Nets  . . . . . . . . . 164
         Marian V. Iordache and   
             Panos J. Antsaklis   Generalized Conditions for Liveness
                                  Enforcement and Deadlock Prevention in
                                  Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
              Hanna Klaudel and   
               Franck Pommereau   A Concurrent Semantics of Static
                                  Exceptions in a Parallel Programming
                                  Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
        Michael Köhler and   
               Daniel Moldt and   
               Heiko Rölke   Modelling the Structure and Behaviour of
                                  Petri Net Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
                   Timo Latvala   Model Checking LTL Properties of
                                  High-Level Petri Nets with Fairness
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
                Glenn Lewis and   
                  Charles Lakos   Incremental State Space Construction for
                                  Coloured Petri Nets  . . . . . . . . . . 263
         Marko Mäkelä   Optimising Enabling Tests and Unfoldings
                                  of Algebraic System Nets . . . . . . . . 283
Olga Marroquín Alonso and   
         David de Frutos Escrig   Extending the Petri Box Calculus with
                                  Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
           Wojciech Penczek and   
          Agata Pó\lrola   Abstractions and Partial Order
                                  Reductions for Checking Branching
                                  Properties of Time Petri Nets  . . . . . 323
               Carsten Rust and   
         Jürgen Tacken and   
              Carsten Böke   Pr/T-Net Based Seamless Design of
                                  Embedded Real-Time Systems . . . . . . . 343
              L. Jason Steggles   Rewriting Logic and Elan: Prototyping
                                  Tools for Petri Nets with Time . . . . . 363
                  Walter Vogler   Partial $S$-Invariants for the
                                  Verification of Infinite Systems
                                  Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2076, 2001

      Christos H. Papadimitriou   Algorithms, Games, and the Internet  . . 1
          Boris A. Trakhtenbrot   Automata, Circuits, and Hybrids: Facets
                                  of Continuous Time . . . . . . . . . . . 4
                Ahmed Bouajjani   Languages, Rewriting Systems, and
                                  Verification of Infinite-State Systems   24
       Martin Große-Rhode   Integrating Semantics for
                                  Object-Oriented System Models  . . . . . 40
                 Mogens Nielsen   Modelling with Partial Orders --- Why
                                  and Why Not? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
                   Ingo Wegener   Theoretical Aspects of Evolutionary
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
             Markus Bläser   Improvements of the Alder--Strassen
                                  Bound: Algebras with Nonzero Radical . . 79
                   E. Boros and   
              K. Elbassioni and   
                 V. Gurvich and   
               L. Khachiyan and   
                      K. Makino   On Generating All Minimal Integer
                                  Solutions for a Monotone System of
                                  Linear Inequalities  . . . . . . . . . . 92
                  William Hesse   Division Is in Uniform TC$^0$  . . . . . 104
          Pankaj K. Agarwal and   
                  Lars Arge and   
         Octavian Procopiuc and   
           Jeffrey Scott Vitter   A Framework for Index Bulk Loading and
                                  Dynamization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
         Gianfranco Bilardi and   
                 Enoch Peserico   A Characterization of Temporal Locality
                                  and Its Portability across Memory
                                  Hierarchies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Gerth Stòlting Brodal and   
             Rolf Fagerberg and   
   Christian N. S. Pedersen and   
               Anna Östlin   The Complexity of Constructing
                                  Evolutionary Trees Using Experiments . . 140
          Philippe Flajolet and   
             Yves Guivarc'h and   
       Wojciech Szpankowski and   
         Brigitte Vallée   Hidden Pattern Statistics  . . . . . . . 152
          Kunihiko Sadakane and   
        Nadia Takki-Chebihi and   
               Takeshi Tokuyama   Combinatorics and Algorithms on
                                  Low-Discrepancy Roundings of a Real
                                  Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
               Alexandre Tiskin   All-Pairs Shortest Paths Computation in
                                  the BSP Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
           Bernard Chazelle and   
           Ronitt Rubinfeld and   
                  Luca Trevisan   Approximating the Minimum Spanning Tree
                                  Weight in Sublinear Time . . . . . . . . 190
           Lars Engebretsen and   
                Marek Karpinski   Approximation Hardness of TSP with
                                  Bounded Metrics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
                Uriel Feige and   
               Michael Langberg   The RPR$^2$ Rounding Technique for
                                  Semidefinite Programs  . . . . . . . . . 213
               Rajiv Gandhi and   
              Samir Khuller and   
             Aravind Srinivasan   Approximation Algorithms for Partial
                                  Covering Problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 225
               Steven S. Seiden   On the Online Bin Packing Problem  . . . 237
                  Mikkel Thorup   Quick $k$-Median, $k$-Center, and
                                  Facility Location for Sparse Graphs  . . 249
               Jochen Alber and   
             Henning Fernau and   
               Rolf Niedermeier   Parameterized Complexity: Exponential
                                  Speed-Up for Planar Graph Problems . . . 261
                 Liming Cai and   
                   David Juedes   Subexponential Parameterized Algorithms
                                  Collapse the W-Hierarchy . . . . . . . . 273
           Amit Chakrabarti and   
                   Subhash Khot   Improved Lower Bounds on the Randomized
                                  Complexity of Graph Properties . . . . . 285
                 Yevgeniy Dodis   New Imperfect Random Source with
                                  Applications to Coin-Flipping  . . . . . 297
              Joel Friedman and   
                 Andreas Goerdt   Recognizing More Unsatisfiable Random
                                  $3$-SAT Instances Efficiently  . . . . . 310
              Martin Fürer   Weisfeiler-Lehman Refinement Requires at
                                  Least a Linear Number of Iterations  . . 322
             Oded Goldreich and   
               Salil Vadhan and   
                  Avi Wigderson   On Interactive Proofs with a Laconic
                                  Prover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
         Peter Hòyer and   
                Jan Neerbek and   
                     Yaoyun Shi   Quantum Complexities of Ordered
                                  Searching, Sorting, and Element
                                  Distinctness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
                 Pranab Sen and   
                   S. Venkatesh   Lower Bounds in the Quantum Cell Probe
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
           Emanuele Bandini and   
                 Roberto Segala   Axiomatizations for Probabilistic
                                  Bisimulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
       Gérard Boudol and   
              Ilaria Castellani   Noninterference for Concurrent Programs  382
              P. Madhusudan and   
              P. S. Thiagarajan   Distributed Controller Synthesis for
                                  Local Specifications . . . . . . . . . . 396
           Davide Sangiorgi and   
                 Andrea Valente   A Distributed Abstract Machine for Safe
                                  Ambients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
         Franck van Breugel and   
                  James Worrell   Towards Quantitative Verification of
                                  Probabilistic Transition Systems . . . . 421
               Zhangjian Li and   
               Shin-ichi Nakano   Efficient Generation of Plane
                                  Triangulations without Repetitions . . . 433
                Guo-Hui Lin and   
             Zhi-Zhong Chen and   
                  Tao Jiang and   
                    Jianjun Wen   The Longest Common Subsequence Problem
                                  for Sequences with Nested Arc
                                  Annotations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
              Sang-Min Park and   
                 Jae-Ha Lee and   
                Kyung-Yong Chwa   Visibility-Based Pursuit-Evasion in a
                                  Polygonal Region by a Searcher . . . . . 456
                 Salvador Roura   A New Method for Balancing Binary Search
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
             Graham Cormode and   
           S. Muthukrishnan and   
  Süleyman Cenk \dSahinalp   Permutation Editing and Matching via
                                  Embeddings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--492
               Artur Czumaj and   
               Christian Sohler   Testing Hypergraph Coloring  . . . . . . 493
                Shuji Isobe and   
                  Xiao Zhou and   
                Takao Nishizeki   Total Colorings of Degenerated Graphs    506
            Luciano Margara and   
                    Janos Simon   Decidable Properties of Graphs of
                                  All-Optical Networks . . . . . . . . . . 518
           Nabil H. Mustafa and   
             Aleksandar Peke\vc   Majority Consensus and the Local
                                  Majority Rule  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--542
             Volker Diekert and   
                  Anca Muscholl   Solvability of Equations in Free
                                  Partially Commutative Groups Is
                                  Decidable  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
             Manfred Droste and   
                Guo-Qiang Zhang   Rational Transformations of Formal Power
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
  Sébastien Ferenczi and   
             Charles Holton and   
                Luca Q. Zamboni   Combinatorics of Three-Interval
                                  Exchanges  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
                 Tero Harju and   
               Oscar Ibarra and   
      Juhani Karhumäki and   
                   Arto Salomaa   Decision Questions Concerning
                                  Semilinearity, Morphisms, and
                                  Commutation of Languages . . . . . . . . 579
                 Daniel Kirsten   The Star Problem in Trace Monoids:
                                  Reductions Beyond C4 . . . . . . . . . . 591
                    Michal Kunc   The Trace Coding Problem Is Undecidable  603
                Eric Rivals and   
                   Sven Rahmann   Combinatorics of Periods in Strings  . . 615
              Priti Shankar and   
             P. N. A. Kumar and   
              Harmeet Singh and   
                    B. S. Rajan   Minimal Tail-Biting Trellises for
                                  Certain Cyclic Block Codes Are Easy to
                                  Construct  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627
        Parosh Aziz Abdulla and   
                Luc Boasson and   
                Ahmed Bouajjani   Effective Lossy Queue Languages  . . . . 639
           Michael Benedikt and   
          Patrice Godefroid and   
                    Thomas Reps   Model Checking of Unrestricted
                                  Hierarchical State Machines  . . . . . . 652
                Michele Boreale   Symbolic Trace Analysis of Cryptographic
                                  Protocols  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
               Hubert Comon and   
   Véronique Cortier and   
                  John Mitchell   Tree Automata with One Memory, Set
                                  Constraints, and Ping-Pong Protocols . . 682
            Kousha Etessami and   
               Thomas Wilke and   
            Rebecca A. Schuller   Fair Simulation Relations, Parity Games,
                                  and State Space Reduction for Büchi
                                  Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694
              Georg Gottlob and   
               Reinhard Pichler   Hypergraphs in Model Checking:
                                  Acyclicity and Hypertree-Width versus
                                  Clique-Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708
              Anca Muscholl and   
                    Doron Peled   From Finite State Communication
                                  Protocols to High-Level Message Sequence
                                  Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720
        Ioannis Caragiannis and   
            Afonso Ferreira and   
        Christos Kaklamanis and   
Stéphane Pérennes and   
            Hervé Rivano   Fractional Path Coloring with
                                  Applications to WDM Networks . . . . . . 732
                Edith Cohen and   
              Eran Halperin and   
                    Haim Kaplan   Performance Aspects of Distributed
                                  Caches Using TTL-Based Consistency . . . 744
          Pierre Fraigniaud and   
                 Cyril Gavoille   Routing in Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . 757
               Jessen T. Havill   Online Packet Routing on Linear Arrays
                                  and Rings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773
                  Jop F. Sibeyn   Faster Gossiping on Butterflies  . . . . 785
                Rajeev Alur and   
            Kousha Etessami and   
             Mihalis Yannakakis   Realizability and Verification of MSC
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797
                  P. Madhusudan   Reasoning about Sequential and Branching
                                  Behaviours of Message Sequence Graphs    809
                  Patrick Maier   A Set-Theoretic Framework for
                                  Assume-Guarantee Reasoning . . . . . . . 821
         Mahesh Viswanathan and   
             Ramesh Viswanathan   Foundations for Circular Compositional
                                  Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835
            Chandra Chekuri and   
                 Sanjeev Khanna   A PTAS for Minimizing Weighted
                                  Completion Time on Uniformly Related
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848
              Marek Chrobak and   
        János Csirik and   
        Csanád Imreh and   
                  John Noga and   
          Ji í Sgall and   
           Gerhard J. Woeginger   The Buffer Minimization Problem for
                                  Multiprocessor Scheduling with Conflicts 862
         Aleksei V. Fishkin and   
               Klaus Jansen and   
                Lorant Porkolab   On Minimizing Average Weighted
                                  Completion Time of Multiprocessor Tasks
                                  with Release Dates . . . . . . . . . . . 875
           Gerhard J. Woeginger   On the Approximability of Average
                                  Completion Time Scheduling under
                                  Precedence Constraints . . . . . . . . . 887
            Birgit Baum-Waidner   Optimistic Asynchronous Multi-party
                                  Contract Signing with Reduced Number of
                                  Rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898
                Amos Beimel and   
                    Yuval Ishai   Information-Theoretic Private
                                  Information Retrieval: A Unified
                                  Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912
            Joan Feigenbaum and   
                Yuval Ishai and   
                 Tal Malkin and   
               Kobbi Nissim and   
          Martin J. Strauss and   
              Rebecca N. Wright   Secure Multiparty Computation of
                                  Approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927
            Aggelos Kiayias and   
                      Moti Yung   Secure Games with Polynomial Expressions 939
              Miquel Bofill and   
                  Guillem Godoy   On the Completeness of Arbitrary
                                  Selection Strategies for Paramodulation  951
              Furio Honsell and   
             Marino Miculan and   
                 Ivan Scagnetto   An Axiomatic Approach to Metareasoning
                                  on Nominal Algebras in HOAS  . . . . . . 963
         Konstantin Korovin and   
                Andrei Voronkov   Knuth--Bendix Constraint Solving Is
                                  NP-Complete  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979
         Lutz Schröder and   
           Till Mossakowski and   
               Andrzej Tarlecki   Amalgamation in CASL via Enriched
                                  Signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993
            Albert Atserias and   
   María Luisa Bonet and   
              Juan Luis Esteban   Lower Bounds for the Weak Pigeonhole
                                  Principle Beyond Resolution  . . . . . . 1005
              Harry Buhrman and   
                 John Tromp and   
            Paul Vitányi   Time and Space Bounds for Reversible
                                  Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017
                Jack J. Dai and   
           James I. Lathrop and   
               Jack H. Lutz and   
               Elvira Mayordomo   Finite-State Dimension . . . . . . . . . 1028
       Lane A. Hemaspaandra and   
                 Sven Kosub and   
                Klaus W. Wagner   The Complexity of Computing the Size of
                                  an Interval  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1040
        Tomasz Jurdzi\'nski and   
          Miros\law Kuty\lowski   Communication Gap for Finite Memory
                                  Devices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1052
              Rocco A. Servedio   Separating Quantum and Classical
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1065
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1081


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2077, 2001

                  Frank Leymann   Web Services and Their Composition . . . 1
          Pierre-Yves Cunin and   
          R. Mark Greenwood and   
            Laurent Francou and   
              Ian Robertson and   
                  Brian Warboys   The PIE Methodology -- Concept and
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
          R. Mark Greenwood and   
    Dharini Balasubramaniam and   
               Graham Kirby and   
                  Ken Mayes and   
               Ron Morrison and   
                Wykeen Seet and   
              Brian Warboys and   
            Evangelos Zirintsis   Reflection and Reification in Process
                                  System Evolution: Experience and
                                  Opportunity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
               Ilham Alloui and   
           Sorana C\^\impan and   
                 Flavio Oquendo   Monitoring Software Process
                                  Interactions: A Logic-Based Approach . . 39
             Meir M. Lehman and   
              Juan F. Ramil and   
                     Goel Kahen   Experiences with Behavioural Process
                                  Modelling in FEAST, and Some of Its
                                  Practical Implications . . . . . . . . . 47
   Ulrike Becker-Kornstaedt and   
                 Holger Neu and   
                  Gunter Hirche   Software Process Technology Transfer:
                                  Using a Formal Process Notation to
                                  Capture a Software Process in Industry   63
               Louise Scott and   
            Lucila Carvalho and   
               Ross Jeffery and   
                   John D'Ambra   An Evaluation of the Spearmint Approach
                                  to Software Process Modelling  . . . . . 77
               Volker Gruhn and   
             Lothar Schöpe   A Software Process for an Integrated
                                  Electronic Commerce Portal System  . . . 90
           Giuseppe Valetto and   
                Gail Kaiser and   
                   Gaurav S. Kc   A Mobile Agent Approach to Process-Based
                                  Dynamic Adaptation of Complex Software
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
              Alf Inge Wang and   
                   Liu Chunnian   Process Support for Mobile Work across
                                  Heterogeneous Systems  . . . . . . . . . 117
               Simon Becker and   
            Dirk Jäger and   
          Ansgar Schleicher and   
           Bernhard Westfechtel   A Delegation Based Model for Distributed
                                  Software Process Management  . . . . . . 130
              Aaron G. Cass and   
              Leon J. Osterweil   Applying Real-Time Scheduling Techniques
                                  to Software Processes: A Position Paper  145
       Josep M. Ribó and   
                  Xavier Franch   Building Expressive and Flexible Process
                                  Models Using a UML-Based Approach  . . . 152
            Harald Störrle   Describing Process Patterns with UML . . 173
              Michael Gnatz and   
            Frank Marschall and   
               Gerhard Popp and   
             Andreas Rausch and   
              Wolfgang Schwerin   Towards a Living Software Development
                                  Process Based on Process Patterns  . . . 182
                     Jin Sa and   
              Brian Warboys and   
             Mark Greenwood and   
                  Ian Robertson   Modeling a Support Framework for Dynamic
                                  Organizations as a Process Pattern Using
                                  UML  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Christian Printzell Halvorsen and   
                 Reidar Conradi   A Taxonomy to Compare SPI Frameworks . . 217
            Thomas C. Green and   
            Kenneth M. Anderson   Configuration Management Culture as the
                                  Kernel to Success in Software Process
                                  Improvement Efforts  . . . . . . . . . . 236
            Giovanni A. Cignoni   Reporting about the Mod Software Process 242
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2078, 2001

                J.-L. Camus and   
                  T. Le Sergent   Combining SDL with Synchronous Data Flow
                                  Modelling for Distributed Control
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                N. Mansurov and   
                     D. Campara   Using Message Sequence Charts to
                                  Accelerate Maintenance of Existing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
               Ò. Haugen   From MSC-2000 to UML 2.0 --- The Future
                                  of Sequence Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . 38
                     R. Arthaud   SDL and Layered Systems: Proposed
                                  Extensions to SDL to Better Support the
                                  Design of Layered Systems  . . . . . . . 52
                F. Roessler and   
                 B. Geppert and   
                    R. Gotzhein   Collaboration-Based Design of SDL
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
                   J. Floch and   
                 R. Sanders and   
                U. Johansen and   
                  R. Bræk   Using UML for Implementation Design of
                                  SDL Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
                       N. Bauer   Deployment of SDL Systems Using UML  . . 107
                       A. Wiles   ETSI Testing Activities and the Use of
                                  TTCN-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
               J. Grabowski and   
               P. Graubmann and   
                     E. Rudolph   HyperMSCs with Connectors for Advanced
                                  Visual System Modelling and Testing  . . 129
                   P. Baker and   
                 E. Rudolph and   
              I. Schieferdecker   Graphical Test Specification --- The
                                  Graphical Format of TTCN-3 . . . . . . . 148
                 D. Hogrefe and   
                    B. Koch and   
                  H. Neukirchen   Some Implications of MSC, SDL and TTCN
                                  Time Extensions for Computer-Aided Test
                                  Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
                    I. Ober and   
                     A. Kerbrat   Verification of Quantitative Temporal
                                  Properties of SDL Specifications . . . . 182
       R. Münzenberger and   
                  F. Slomka and   
             M. Dörfel and   
                     R. Hofmann   A General Approach for the Specification
                                  of Real-Time Systems with SDL  . . . . . 203
                   M. Bozga and   
                    S. Graf and   
                 L. Mounier and   
                    I. Ober and   
                 J.-L. Roux and   
                     D. Vincent   Timed Extensions for SDL . . . . . . . . 223
                    J. Larmouth   ASN.1 Is Reaching Out! . . . . . . . . . 241
                  F. Dubois and   
                    M. Born and   
              H. Böhme and   
                 J. Fischer and   
                    E. Holz and   
                    O. Kath and   
                B. Neubauer and   
                    F. Stoinski   Distributed Systems: From Models to
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
                    A. Miga and   
                   D. Amyot and   
               F. Bordeleau and   
                 D. Cameron and   
                    M. Woodside   Deriving Message Sequence Charts from
                                  Use Case Maps Scenario Specifications    268
             J. Sipilä and   
                    V. Luukkala   An SDL Implementation Framework for
                                  Third Generation Mobile Communications
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
               O. Monkewich and   
                   I. Sales and   
                     R. Probert   OSPF Efficient LSA Refreshment Function
                                  in SDL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
               V. Courzakis and   
          M. von Löwis and   
               R. Schröder   Using SDL in a Stateless Environment . . 316
            J. C. M. Baeten and   
          H. M. A. van Beek and   
                        S. Mauw   An MSC Based Representation of DiCons    328
           L. Hëlouët   Some Pathological Message Sequence
                                  Charts, and How to Detect Them . . . . . 348
                 B. Jonsson and   
                     G. Padilla   An Execution Semantics for MSC-2000  . . 365
                        N. Goga   Comparing TorX, Autolink, TGV and UIO
                                  Test Algorithms  . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
                N. Sidorova and   
                     M. Steffen   Verifying Large SDL-Specifications Using
                                  Model Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
                       W. Zhang   Applying SDL Specifications and Tools to
                                  the Verification of Procedures . . . . . 421
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2079, 2001

             M. P. Carrasco and   
                     M. V. Pato   A Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm for
                                  the Class/Teacher Timetabling Problem    3
      H. M. M. ten Eikelder and   
                 R. J. Willemen   Some Complexity Aspects of Secondary
                                  School Timetabling Problems  . . . . . . 18
             K. Zervoudakis and   
               P. Stamatopoulos   A Generic Object-Oriented
                                  Constraint-Based Model for University
                                  Course Timetabling . . . . . . . . . . . 28
                    H. Ueda and   
                   D. Ouchi and   
               K. Takahashi and   
                    T. Miyahara   A Co-evolving Timeslot/Room Assignment
                                  Genetic Algorithm Technique for
                                  University Timetabling . . . . . . . . . 48
                   M. W. Carter   A Comprehensive Course Timetabling and
                                  Student Scheduling System at the
                                  University of Waterloo . . . . . . . . . 64
                G. M. White and   
                      B. S. Xie   Examination Timetables and Tabu Search
                                  with Longer-Term Memory  . . . . . . . . 85
              L. Di Gaspero and   
                     A. Schaerf   Tabu Search Techniques for Examination
                                  Timetabling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
                E. K. Burke and   
                   Y. Bykov and   
                    S. Petrovic   A Multicriteria Approach to Examination
                                  Timetabling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
                       W. Erben   A Grouping Genetic Algorithm for Graph
                                  Colouring and Exam Timetabling . . . . . 132
                    P. Chan and   
                        G. Weil   Cyclical Staff Scheduling Using
                                  Constraint Logic Programming . . . . . . 159
                 P. Cowling and   
                 G. Kendall and   
                    E. Soubeiga   A Hyperheuristic Approach to Scheduling
                                  a Sales Summit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
            H. Meyer auf'm Hofe   Solving Rostering Tasks as Constraint
                                  Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
                 A. Meisels and   
                      E. Ovadia   Assigning Resources to Constrained
                                  Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
               D. Sosnowska and   
                       J. Rolim   Fleet Scheduling Optimization: A
                                  Simulated Annealing Approach . . . . . . 227
                    M. A. Trick   A Schedule-Then-Break Approach to Sports
                                  Timetabling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
                E. K. Burke and   
                 P. Cowling and   
          J. D. Landa Silva and   
                    B. McCollum   Three Methods to Automate the Space
                                  Allocation Process in UK Universities    254
                 P. Brucker and   
                       S. Knust   Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling
                                  and Timetabling  . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
                  B. Rising and   
            J. Shawe-Taylor and   
                  J. \vZerovnik   Graph Colouring by Maximal Evidence Edge
                                  Adding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
                 J. H. Kingston   Modelling Timetabling Problems with STTL 309
                 L. P. Reis and   
                    E. Oliveira   A Language for Specifying Complete
                                  Timetabling Problems . . . . . . . . . . 322
             J. H. Kingston and   
                  B. Y.-S. Lynn   A Software Architecture for Timetable
                                  Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
                      Anonymous   Other Timetabling Presentations  . . . . 353
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2080, 2001

                 Ralph Bergmann   Highlights of the European INRECA
                                  Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Ramon López de Mántaras and   
       Josep Lluís Arcos   The Synthesis of Expressive Music: A
                                  Challenging CBR Application  . . . . . . 16
                   Petra Perner   Why Case-Based Reasoning Is Attractive
                                  for Image Interpretation . . . . . . . . 27
               Eva Armengol and   
                    Enric Plaza   Similarity Assessment for Relational CBR 44
               L. Karl Branting   Acquiring Customer Preferences from
                                  Return-Set Selections  . . . . . . . . . 59
  Stefanie Brüninghaus and   
                Kevin D. Ashley   The Role of Information Extraction for
                                  Textual CBR  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
            Edmund K. Burke and   
             Bart MacCarthy and   
             Sanja Petrovic and   
                        Rong Qu   Case-Based Reasoning in Course
                                  Timetabling: An Attribute Graph Approach 90
                    Robin Burke   Ranking Algorithms for Costly Similarity
                                  Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
                Guoqing Cao and   
                 Simon Shiu and   
                    Xizhao Wang   A Fuzzy-Rough Approach for Case Base
                                  Maintenance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
                 Susan Craw and   
             Jacek Jarmulak and   
                       Ray Rowe   Learning and Applying Case-Based
                                  Adaptation Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . 131
  Pádraig Cunningham and   
                Gabriele Zenobi   Case Representation Issues for
                                  Case-Based Reasoning from Ensemble
                                  Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Belén Díaz-Agudo and   
Pedro A. González-Calero   A Declarative Similarity Framework for
                                  Knowledge Intensive CBR  . . . . . . . . 158
Belén Díaz-Agudo and   
Pedro A. González-Calero   Classification Based Retrieval Using
                                  Formal Concept Analysis  . . . . . . . . 173
         Joseph A. Giampapa and   
                   Katia Sycara   Conversational Case-Based Planning for
                                  Agent Team Coordination  . . . . . . . . 189
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim and   
             Andre Bortolon and   
            Aldo von Wangenheim   A Hybrid Approach for the Management of
                                  FAQ Documents in Latin Languages . . . . 204
               Kalyan Moy Gupta   Taxonomic Conversational Case-Based
                                  Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
                Conor Hayes and   
  Pádraig Cunningham and   
                    Barry Smyth   A Case-Based Reasoning View of Automated
                                  Collaborative Filtering  . . . . . . . . 234
            Scott Henninger and   
                Kurt Baumgarten   A Case-Based Approach to Tailoring
                                  Software Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 249
              Ioannis Iglezakis   The Conflict Graph for Maintaining
                                  Case-Based Reasoning Systems . . . . . . 263
                Gada Kadoda and   
        Michelle Cartwright and   
                Martin Shepperd   Issues on the Effective Use of CBR
                                  Technology for Software Project
                                  Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
               Boris Kerkez and   
                 Michael T. Cox   Incremental Case-Based Plan Recognition
                                  Using State Indices  . . . . . . . . . . 291
          Andreas Kohlmaier and   
             Sascha Schmitt and   
                 Ralph Bergmann   A Similarity-Based Approach to Attribute
                                  Selection in User-Adaptive Sales Dialogs 306
             David B. Leake and   
              Raja Sooriamurthi   When Two Case Bases Are Better than One:
                                  Exploiting Multiple Case Bases . . . . . 321
                Maria Malek and   
                Rushed Kanawati   COBRA: A CBR-Based Approach for
                                  Predicting Users Actions in a Web Site   336
                Barry Smyth and   
                   Paul McClave   Similarity vs. Diversity . . . . . . . . 347
          Lorraine Mc Ginty and   
                    Barry Smyth   Collaborative Case-Based Reasoning:
                                  Applications in Personalised Route
                                  Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
           Bruce M. McLaren and   
                Kevin D. Ashley   Helping a CBR Program Know What It Knows 377
                 David McSherry   Precision and Recall in Interactive
                                  Case-Based Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . 392
         J. William Murdock and   
                  Ashok K. Goel   Meta-case-Based Reasoning: Using
                                  Functional Models to Adapt Case-Based
                                  Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
             Nicoleta Neagu and   
                   Boi Faltings   Exploiting Interchangeabilities for Case
                                  Adaptation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
                Enric Plaza and   
 Santiago Ontañón   Ensemble Case-Based Reasoning:
                                  Collaboration Policies for Multiagent
                                  Cooperative CBR  . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
      Thomas Roth-Berghofer and   
                Thomas Reinartz   MAMA: A Maintenance Manual for
                                  Case-Based Reasoning Systems . . . . . . 452
        Maria Salamó and   
            Elisabet Golobardes   Rough Sets Reduction Techniques for
                                  Case-Based Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . 467
                  Jenngang Shih   Sequential Instance-Based Learning for
                                  Planning in the Context of an Imperfect
                                  Information Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
                    Armin Stahl   Learning Feature Weights from Case Order
                                  Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
                Haris Supic and   
               Slobodan Ribaric   Adaptation by Applying Behavior Routines
                                  and Motion Strategies in Autonomous
                                  Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
          Flavio Tonidandel and   
            Márcio Rillo   An Accurate Adaptation-Guided Similarity
                                  Metric for Case-Based Planning . . . . . 531
          Flavio Tonidandel and   
            Márcio Rillo   Releasing Memory Space through a
                                  Case-Deletion Policy with a Lower Bound
                                  for Residual Competence  . . . . . . . . 546
              Yacine Zeghib and   
 François De Beuvron and   
               Martina Kullmann   Using Description Logics for Designing
                                  the Case Base in a Hybrid Approach for
                                  Diagnosis Integrating Model and
                                  Case-Based Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . 561
       Josep Lluís Arcos   T-Air: A Case-Based Reasoning System for
                                  Designing Chemical Absorption Plants . . 576
               William Cheetham   Benefits of Case-Based Reasoning in
                                  Color Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
        Alexander P. Morgan and   
              John A. Cafeo and   
           Diane I. Gibbons and   
       Ronald M. Lesperance and   
      Gülcin H. Sengir and   
                Andrea M. Simon   CBR for Dimensional Management in a
                                  Manufacturing Plant  . . . . . . . . . . 597
              Hideo Shimazu and   
                      Dai Kusui   Real-Time Creation of Frequently Asked
                                  Questions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
                     Anil Varma   Managing Diagnostic Knowledge in Text
                                  Cases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622
           Stefania Bandini and   
                   Sara Manzoni   CBR Adaptation for Chemical Formulation  634
            Pei-Chann Chang and   
            Jih-Chang Hsieh and   
                 T. Warren Liao   A Case-Based Reasoning Approach for
                                  Due-Date Assignment in a Wafer
                                  Fabrication Factory  . . . . . . . . . . 648
              Gareth Hurley and   
                David C. Wilson   DubLet: An Online CBR System for Rental
                                  Property Recommendation  . . . . . . . . 660
     Christopher L. Johnson and   
             Larry Birnbaum and   
                Ray Bareiss and   
                   Tom Hinrichs   Improved Performance Support through an
                                  Integrated Task-Based Video Case Library 675
                  Dai Kusui and   
                  Hideo Shimazu   Transforming Electronic Mail Folders
                                  into Case Bases  . . . . . . . . . . . . 690
              Cindy Marling and   
               Peter Whitehouse   Case-Based Reasoning in the Care of
                                  Alzheimer's Disease Patients . . . . . . 702
               Claude Mount and   
                 T. Warren Liao   Prototype of an Intelligent Failure
                                  Analysis System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 716
              Timo Seuranen and   
               Elina Pajula and   
                   Markku Hurme   Applying CBR and Object Database
                                  Techniques in Chemical Process Design    731
                 Qiang Yang and   
             Ian Tian-Yi Li and   
            Henry Haining Zhang   Mining High-Quality Cases for Hypertext
                                  Prediction and Prefetching . . . . . . . 744
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2081, 2001

                   Aaron Archer   Two $ O(\log * k) $-Approximation
                                  Algorithms for the Asymmetric $k$-Center
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                 Yossi Azar and   
                     Oded Regev   Strongly Polynomial Algorithms for the
                                  Unsplittable Flow Problem  . . . . . . . 15
            Joseph Cheriyan and   
                Santosh Vempala   Edge Covers of Setpairs and the
                                  Iterative Rounding Method  . . . . . . . 30
      Cheng-Feng Mabel Chou and   
          Maurice Queyranne and   
              David Simchi-Levi   The Asymptotic Performance Ratio of an
                                  On-Line Algorithm for Uniform Parallel
                                  Machine Scheduling with Release Dates    45
    Fabián A. Chudak and   
            Tim Roughgarden and   
            David P. Williamson   Approximate $k$-MSTs and $k$-Steiner
                                  Trees via the Primal-Dual Method and
                                  Lagrangean Relaxation  . . . . . . . . . 60
Gérard Cornuéjols and   
                      Yanjun Li   On the Rank of Mixed $ 0, 1 $ Polyhedra  71
       Friedrich Eisenbrand and   
               Günter Rote   Fast $2$-Variable Integer Programming    78
              Michael Elkin and   
                    David Peleg   Approximating $k$-Spanner Problems for $
                                  k > 2 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
           Tamás Fleiner   A Matroid Generalization of the Stable
                                  Matching Polytope  . . . . . . . . . . . 105
                 Lisa Fleischer   A $2$-Approximation for Minimum Cost
                                  0,1,2 Vertex Connectivity  . . . . . . . 115
        András Frank and   
     Tamás Király   Combined Connectivity Augmentation and
                                  Orientation Problems . . . . . . . . . . 130
        András Frank and   
   László Szeg\Ho   An Extension of a Theorem of Henneberg
                                  and Laman  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
           Satoru Fujishige and   
                   Satoru Iwata   Bisubmodular Function Minimization . . . 160
                Naveen Garg and   
            Rohit Khandekar and   
             Goran Konjevod and   
                    R. Ravi and   
               F. S. Salman and   
                  Amitabh Sinha   On the Integrality Gap of a Natural
                                  Formulation of the Single-Sink
                                  Buy-at-Bulk Network Design Problem . . . 170
                Bertrand Guenin   Circuit Mengerian Directed Graphs  . . . 185
                Bertrand Guenin   Integral Polyhedra Related to Even Cycle
                                  and Even Cut Matroids  . . . . . . . . . 196
              Eran Halperin and   
                      Uri Zwick   A Unified Framework for Obtaining
                                  Improved Approximation Algorithms for
                                  Maximum Graph Bisection Problems . . . . 210
              Refael Hassin and   
                     Asaf Levin   Synthesis of $2$-Commodity Flow Networks 226
                 A. Hordijk and   
             D. A. van der Laan   Bounds for Deterministic Periodic
                                  Routing Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . 236
                 G. Iyengar and   
             M. T. Çezik   Cutting Planes for Mixed $ 0 - 1 $
                                  Semidefinite Programs  . . . . . . . . . 251
               Bill Jackson and   
            Tibor Jordán   Independence Free Graphs and Vertex
                                  Connectivity Augmentation  . . . . . . . 264
             Murali S. Kodialam   The Throughput of Sequential Testing . . 280
               Jean B. Lasserre   An Explicit Exact SDP Relaxation for
                                  Nonlinear $ 0 - 1 $ Programs . . . . . . 293
         François Margot   Pruning by Isomorphism in Branch-and-Cut 304
           Andrew J. Miller and   
        George L. Nemhauser and   
       Martin W. P. Savelsbergh   Facets, Algorithms, and Polyhedral
                                  Characterizations for a Multi-item
                                  Production Planning Model with Setup
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
             Alantha Newman and   
                Santosh Vempala   Fences Are Futile: On Relaxations for
                                  the Linear Ordering Problem  . . . . . . 333
         Michael Perregaard and   
                     Egon Balas   Generating Cuts from Multiple-Term
                                  Disjunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
          Maurice Queyranne and   
               Maxim Sviridenko   A $ (2 + \varepsilon) $-Approximation
                                  Algorithm for Generalized Preemptive
                                  Open Shop Problem with Minsum Objective  361
            Petra Schuurman and   
                Tjark Vredeveld   Performance Guarantees of Local Search
                                  for Multiprocessor Scheduling  . . . . . 370
         András Sebo and   
                   Eric Tannier   Connected Joins in Graphs  . . . . . . . 383
            René Sitters   Two NP-Hardness Results for Preemptive
                                  Minsum Scheduling of Unrelated Parallel
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
             Clifford Stein and   
                David P. Wagner   Approximation Algorithms for the Minimum
                                  Bends Traveling Salesman Problem . . . . 406
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2082, 2001

          Arthur E. Burgess and   
       Francine L. Jacobson and   
                 Philip F. Judy   On the Difficulty of Detecting Tumors in
                                  Mammograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                John Hoppin and   
           Matthew Kupinski and   
              George Kastis and   
              Eric Clarkson and   
            Harrison H. Barrett   Objective Comparison of Quantitative
                                  Imaging Modalities Without the Use of a
                                  Gold Standard  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
             Craig K. Abbey and   
             Miguel P. Eckstein   Theory for Estimating Human-Observer
                                  Templates in Two-Alternative
                                  Forced-Choice Experiments  . . . . . . . 24
      Xenophon Papademetris and   
              E. Turan Onat and   
          Albert J. Sinusas and   
            Donald P. Dione and   
          R. Todd Constable and   
                James S. Duncan   The Active Elastic Model . . . . . . . . 36
           Rhodri H. Davies and   
              Tim F. Cootes and   
                Chris J. Taylor   A Minimum Description Length Approach to
                                  Statistical Shape Modelling  . . . . . . 50
               Sarang Joshi and   
              Stephen Pizer and   
         P. Thomas Fletcher and   
               Andrew Thall and   
                  Gregg Tracton   Multi-scale $3$-D Deformable Model
                                  Segmentation Based on Medial Description 64
        Alejandro F. Frangi and   
            Daniel Rueckert and   
          Julia A. Schnabel and   
                Wiro J. Niessen   Automatic $3$D ASM Construction via
                                  Atlas-Based Landmarking and Volumetric
                                  Elastic Registration . . . . . . . . . . 78
             Olivier Coulon and   
        Daniel C. Alexander and   
               Simon R. Arridge   A Regularization Scheme for Diffusion
                                  Tensor Magnetic Resonance Images . . . . 92
      Geoffrey J. M. Parker and   
Claudia A. M. Wheeler-Kingshott and   
               Gareth J. Barker   Distributed Anatomical Brain
                                  Connectivity Derived from Diffusion
                                  Tensor Imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
       Philipp G. Batchelor and   
           Derek L. G. Hill and   
         Fernando Calamante and   
                 David Atkinson   Study of Connectivity in the Brain Using
                                  the Full Diffusion Tensor from MRI . . . 121
                Paul Taylor and   
            Eugenio Alberdi and   
                Richard Lee and   
                   John Fox and   
            Margarita Sordo and   
           Andrew Todd-Pokropek   Incorporating Image Processing in a
                                  Clinical Decision Support System . . . . 134
           D. Louis Collins and   
            Johan Montagnat and   
          Alex P. Zijdenbos and   
              Alan C. Evans and   
              Douglas L. Arnold   Automated Estimation of Brain Volume in
                                  Multiple Sclerosis with BICCR  . . . . . 141
       Caterina M. Gallippi and   
                Gregg E. Trahey   Automatic Image Registration for MR and
                                  Ultrasound Cardiac Images  . . . . . . . 148
             Andrew P. King and   
       Philipp G. Batchelor and   
           Graeme P. Penney and   
           Jane M. Blackall and   
           Derek L. G. Hill and   
                David J. Hawkes   Estimating Sparse Deformation Fields
                                  Using Multiscale Bayesian Priors and
                                  $3$-D Ultrasound . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
               Robert Marti and   
           Reyer Zwiggelaar and   
                 Caroline Rubin   Automatic Registration of Mammograms
                                  Based on Linear Structures . . . . . . . 162
              Xavier Pennec and   
             Pascal Cachier and   
                Nicholas Ayache   Tracking Brain Deformations in
                                  Time-Sequences of $3$D US Images . . . . 169
             Baba C. Vemuri and   
                Jundong Liu and   
       José L. Marroquin   Robust Multimodal Image Registration
                                  Using Local Frequency Representations    176
             Oskar Skrinjar and   
            Colin Studholme and   
                Arya Nabavi and   
                   James Duncan   Steps Toward a Stereo-Camera-Guided
                                  Biomechanical Model for Brain Shift
                                  Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
        Jayasanka Piyaratna and   
            Jagath C. Rajapakse   Spatiotemporal Analysis of Functional
                                  Images Using the Fixed Effect Model  . . 190
               Habib Benali and   
Mélanie Pélégrini-Issac and   
               Frithjof Kruggel   Spatio-temporal Covariance Model for
                                  Medical Images Sequences: Application to
                                  Functional MRI Data  . . . . . . . . . . 197
            Philip D. Allen and   
            Chris J. Taylor and   
          Ariane L. Herrick and   
            Marina Anderson and   
                    Tonia Moore   Microvascular Dynamics in the Nailfolds
                                  of Scleroderma Patients Studied Using
                                  Na-fluorescein Dye . . . . . . . . . . . 204
      Edward V. R. Di Bella and   
                Arkadiusz Sitek   Time Curve Analysis Techniques for
                                  Dynamic Contrast MRI Studies . . . . . . 211
           Gabriele Lohmann and   
             D. Yves von Cramon   Detecting Functionally Coherent Networks
                                  in fMRI Data of the Human Brain Using
                                  Replicator Dynamics  . . . . . . . . . . 218
 Václav Smídl and   
Miroslav Kárný and   
        Martin Sámal and   
         Werner Backfrieder and   
                    Zsolt Szabo   Smoothness Prior Information in
                                  Principal Component Analysis of Dynamic
                                  Image Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
   François G. Meyer and   
               Gregory McCarthy   Estimation of Baseline Drifts in fMRI    232
           Frithjof Kruggel and   
   Martina K. Brückner and   
              Thomas Arendt and   
     Christopher J. Wiggins and   
             D. Yves von Cramon   Analyzing the Neocortical Fine-Structure 239
                Luis Freire and   
    Jean-François Mangin   Motion Correction Algorithms of the
                                  Brain Mapping Community Create Spurious
                                  Functional Activations . . . . . . . . . 246
             Andre Lehovich and   
        Harrison H. Barrett and   
           Eric W. Clarkson and   
               Arthur F. Gmitro   Estimability of Spatio-temporal
                                  Activation in fMRI . . . . . . . . . . . 259
              Olivier David and   
               Line Garnero and   
            Francisco J. Varela   A New Approach to the MEG/EEG Inverse
                                  Problem for the Recovery of Cortical
                                  Phase-Synchrony  . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
            Viktor K. Jirsa and   
           Kelly J. Jantzen and   
                Armin Fuchs and   
              J. A. Scott Kelso   Neural Field Dynamics on the Folded
                                  Three-Dimensional Cortical Sheet and Its
                                  Forward EEG and MEG  . . . . . . . . . . 286
                 Haili Chui and   
               Lawrence Win and   
             Robert Schultz and   
               James Duncan and   
               Anand Rangarajan   A Unified Feature Registration Method
                                  for Brain Mapping  . . . . . . . . . . . 300
             Pierre Hellier and   
             Christian Barillot   Cooperation between Local and Global
                                  Approaches to Register Brain Images  . . 315
            Hans J. Johnson and   
            Gary E. Christensen   Landmark and Intensity-Based, Consistent
                                  Thin-Plate Spline Image Registration . . 329
          Julia A. Schnabel and   
           Christine Tanner and   
   Andy D. Castellano Smith and   
            Martin O. Leach and   
               Carmel Hayes and   
          Andreas Degenhard and   
                Rodney Hose and   
           Derek L. G. Hill and   
                David J. Hawkes   Validation of Non-rigid Registration
                                  Using Finite Element Methods . . . . . . 344
      Calvin R. Maurer, Jr. and   
             Vijay Raghavan and   
                    Rensheng Qi   A Linear Time Algorithm for Computing
                                  the Euclidean Distance Transform in
                                  Arbitrary Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . 358
          Christopher Wyatt and   
                     Yaorong Ge   An Elliptic Operator for Constructing
                                  Conformal Metrics in Geometric
                                  Deformable Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 365
            David J. Pettey and   
                   James C. Gee   Using a Linear Diagnostic Function and
                                  Non-rigid Registration to Search for
                                  Morphological Differences Between
                                  Populations: An Example Involving the
                                  Male and Female Corpus Callosum  . . . . 372
          Jürgen Weese and   
               Michael Kaus and   
           Christian Lorenz and   
             Steven Lobregt and   
                Roel Truyen and   
                 Vladimir Pekar   Shape Constrained Deformable Models for
                                  $3$D Medical Image Segmentation  . . . . 380
                Qingfen Lin and   
            Per-Erik Danielsson   Stenosis Detection Using a New Shape
                                  Space for Second Order $3$D-Variations   388
                   Xiao Han and   
                Chenyang Xu and   
         Ulisses Braga-Neto and   
                Jerry L. Prince   Graph-Based Topology Correction for
                                  Brain Cortex Segmentation  . . . . . . . 395
            Paul Yushkevich and   
           Stephen M. Pizer and   
               Sarang Joshi and   
                   J. S. Marron   Intuitive, Localized Analysis of Shape
                                  Variability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Kálmán Palágyi and   
             Erich Sorantin and   
               Emese Balogh and   
                Attila Kuba and   
             Csongor Halmai and   
    Balázs Erdohelyi and   
                Klaus Hausegger   A Sequential $3$D Thinning Algorithm and
                                  Its Medical Applications . . . . . . . . 409
                Marc Droske and   
             Bernhard Meyer and   
               Martin Rumpf and   
                 Carlo Schaller   An Adaptive Level Set Method for Medical
                                  Image Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . 416
                  Aljaz Noe and   
                   James C. Gee   Partial Volume Segmentation of Cerebral
                                  MRI Scans with Mixture Model Clustering  423
           Bryan W. Reutter and   
            V. Ralph Algazi and   
              Ronald H. Huesman   Nonlinear Edge Preserving Smoothing and
                                  Segmentation of $4$-D Medical Images via
                                  Scale-Space Fingerprint Analysis . . . . 431
               Daniel Welti and   
                Guido Gerig and   
    Ernst-Wilhelm Radü and   
              Ludwig Kappos and   
           Gabor Székely   Spatio-temporal Segmentation of Active
                                  Multiple Sclerosis Lesions in Serial MRI
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
 Boudewijn P. F. Lelieveldt and   
         Steven C. Mitchell and   
             Johan G. Bosch and   
       Rob J. van der Geest and   
                Milan Sonka and   
             Johan H. C. Reiber   Time-Continuous Segmentation of Cardiac
                                  Image Sequences Using Active Appearance
                                  Motion Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
          Djamal Boukerroui and   
            J. Alison Noble and   
                  Michael Brady   Feature Enhancement in Low Quality
                                  Images with Application to
                                  Echocardiography . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
         Albert C. S. Chung and   
            J. Alison Noble and   
               Paul Summers and   
                  Michael Brady   $3$D Vascular Segmentation Using MRA
                                  Statistics and Velocity Field
                                  Information in PC--MRA . . . . . . . . . 461
                Jun L. Chen and   
              Steve R. Gunn and   
              Mark S. Nixon and   
                  Roger N. Gunn   Markov Random Field Models for
                                  Segmentation of PET Images . . . . . . . 468
               Xiaodong Tao and   
                   Xiao Han and   
         Maryam E. Rettmann and   
            Jerry L. Prince and   
            Christos Davatzikos   Statistical Study on Cortical Sulci of
                                  Human Brains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
           Paul M. Thompson and   
            Michael S. Mega and   
            Christine Vidal and   
         Judith L. Rapoport and   
                 Arthur W. Toga   Detecting Disease-Specific Patterns of
                                  Brain Structure Using Cortical Pattern
                                  Matching and a Population-Based
                                  Probabilistic Brain Atlas  . . . . . . . 488
              Martin Styner and   
                    Guido Gerig   Medial Models Incorporating Object
                                  Variability for $3$D Shape Analysis  . . 502
             Polina Golland and   
         W. Eric L. Grimson and   
          Martha E. Shenton and   
                    Ron Kikinis   Deformation Analysis for Shape Based
                                  Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
                      Anonymous   Subject Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535


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                  Neil D. Jones   Program Termination Analysis by
                                  Size-Change Graphs (Abstract)  . . . . . 1
            Lawrence C. Paulson   SET Cardholder Registration: The Secrecy
                                  Proofs (Extended Abstract) . . . . . . . 5
                Andrei Voronkov   Algorithms, Datastructures, and other
                                  Issues in Efficient Automated Deduction  13
            Volker Haarslev and   
           Ralf Möller and   
                 Michael Wessel   The Description Logic $ \mathcal
                                  {ALCNH}_{R+} $ Extended with Concrete
                                  Domains: A Practically Motivated
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
                   Carsten Lutz   \sc NExPTime-Complete Description Logics
                                  with Concrete Domains  . . . . . . . . . 45--60
            Volker Haarslev and   
           Ralf Möller and   
             Anni-Yasmin Turhan   Exploiting Pseudo Models for TBox and
                                  ABox Reasoning in Expressive Description
                                  Logics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
             Ulrike Sattler and   
                 Moshe Y. Vardi   The Hybrid $ \mu $-Calculus  . . . . . . 76
               Franz Baader and   
                 Stephan Tobies   The Inverse Method Implements the
                                  Automata Approach for Modal
                                  Satisfiability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
       Regimantas Pliuskevicius   Deduction-Based Decision Procedure for a
                                  Clausal Miniscoped Fragment of FTL . . . 107
               Carsten Lutz and   
               Holger Sturm and   
               Frank Wolter and   
          Michael Zakharyaschev   Tableaux for Temporal Description Logic
                                  with Constant Domains  . . . . . . . . . 121
          Serenella Cerrito and   
            Marta Cialdea Mayer   Free-Variable Tableaux for
                                  Constant-Domain Quantified Modal Logics
                                  with Rigid and Non-rigid Designation . . 137
           Andrea Formisano and   
          Eugenio G. Omodeo and   
                Marco Temperini   Instructing Equational Set-Reasoning
                                  with Otter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
                 Stefan Szeider   NP-Completeness of Refutability by
                                  Literal-Once Resolution  . . . . . . . . 168
         Reiner Hähnle and   
             Neil V. Murray and   
                 Erik Rosenthal   Ordered Resolution vs. Connection Graph
                                  Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
             Jürgen Stuber   A Model-Based Completeness Proof of
                                  Extended Narrowing and Resolution  . . . 195
            Hans de Nivelle and   
             Ian Pratt-Hartmann   A Resolution-Based Decision Procedure
                                  for the Two-Variable Fragment with
                                  Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
                   Uwe Waldmann   Superposition and Chaining for Totally
                                  Ordered Divisible Abelian Groups
                                  (Extended Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . 226
           Harald Ganzinger and   
         Robert Nieuwenhuis and   
                   Pilar Nivela   Context Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
         Robert Nieuwenhuis and   
         Thomas Hillenbrand and   
         Alexandre Riazanov and   
                Andrei Voronkov   On the Evaluation of Indexing Techniques
                                  for Theorem Proving  . . . . . . . . . . 257
              Sylvie Doutre and   
     Jérôme Mengin   Preferred Extensions of Argumentation
                                  Frameworks: Query Answering and
                                  Computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
    Pablo A. Armelín and   
                   David J. Pym   Bunched Logic Programming (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
                     Kewen Wang   A Top-Down Procedure for Disjunctive
                                  Well-Founded Semantics . . . . . . . . . 305
                 Michael Beeson   A Second-Order Theorem Prover Applied to
                                  Circumscription  . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
            Christian Anger and   
            Kathrin Konczak and   
                   Thomas Linke   NoMoRe: A System for Non-monotonic
                                  Reasoning with Logic Programs under
                                  Answer Set Semantics . . . . . . . . . . 325
                Marco Benedetti   Conditional Pure Literal Graphs  . . . . 331
         Enrico Giunchiglia and   
            Massimo Maratea and   
          Armando Tacchella and   
                Davide Zambonin   Evaluating Search Heuristics and
                                  Optimization Techniques in Propositional
                                  Satisfiability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
         Enrico Giunchiglia and   
          Massimo Narizzano and   
              Armando Tacchella   \sc QuBE: A System for Deciding
                                  Quantified Boolean Formulas
                                  Satisfiability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--369
                 Stephan Schulz   System Abstract: E 0.61  . . . . . . . . 370
         Alexandre Riazanov and   
                Andrei Voronkov   Vampire 1.1 (System Description) . . . . 376
              Reinhold Letz and   
                   Gernot Stenz   DCTP --- A Disconnection Calculus
                                  Theorem Prover --- System Abstract . . . 381
                   Marko Luther   More On Implicit Syntax  . . . . . . . . 386
               Brigitte Pientka   Termination and Reduction Checking for
                                  Higher-Order Logic Programs  . . . . . . 401
                  Armin Fiedler   \em P.rex: An Interactive Proof
                                  Explainer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--420
            Stephan Schmitt and   
                Lori Lorigo and   
           Christoph Kreitz and   
                  Aleksey Nogin   JProver: Integrating Connection-Based
                                  Theorem Proving into Interactive Proof
                                  Assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
            Gilles Audemard and   
               Laurent Henocque   The eXtended Least Number Heuristic  . . 427
             Kahlil Hodgson and   
                    John Slaney   System Description: SCOTT-5  . . . . . . 443
           Maria Paola Bonacina   Combination of Distributed Search and
                                  Multi-search in Peers-mcd.d  . . . . . . 448
Luis Fariñas del Cerro and   
             David Fauthoux and   
            Olivier Gasquet and   
             Andreas Herzig and   
           Dominique Longin and   
                 Fabio Massacci   Lotrec: The Generic Tableau Prover for
                                  Modal and Description Logics . . . . . . 453
                     Jens Happe   The \sc ModProf Theorem Prover . . . . . 459
   Peter F. Patel-Schneider and   
             Roberto Sebastiani   A New System and Methodology for
                                  Generating Random Modal Formulae . . . . 464
          Jürgen Giesl and   
                   Deepak Kapur   Decidable Classes of Inductive Theorems  469
                  Xavier Urbain   Automated Incremental Termination Proofs
                                  for Hierarchically Defined Term
                                  Rewriting Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 485
          Christopher Lynch and   
               Barbara Morawska   Decidability and Complexity of Finitely
                                  Closable Linear Equational Theories  . . 499
           Harald Ganzinger and   
               David McAllester   A New Meta-complexity Theorem for
                                  Bottom-Up Logic Programs . . . . . . . . 514
                Arnon Avron and   
                       Iddo Lev   Canonical Propositional Gentzen-Type
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
                   Martin Giese   Incremental Closure of Free Variable
                                  Tableaux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
                   Uwe Egly and   
                Stephan Schmitt   Deriving Modular Programs from Short
                                  Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
                Nicolas Peltier   A General Method for Using
                                  Schematizations in Automated Deduction   578
                Aart Middeldorp   Approximating Dependency Graphs Using
                                  Tree Automata Techniques . . . . . . . . 593
           Bernard Boigelot and   
   Sébastien Jodogne and   
                  Pierre Wolper   On the Use of Weak Automata for Deciding
                                  Linear Arithmetic with Integer and Real
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
           Bernhard Beckert and   
               Steffen Schlager   A Sequent Calculus for First-Order
                                  Dynamic Logic with Trace Modalities  . . 626
              Wolfgang Reif and   
              G. Schellhorn and   
                  Andreas Thums   Flaw Detection in Formal Specifications  642
       Jürgen Avenhaus and   
             Bernd Löchner   CCE: Testing Ground Joinability  . . . . 658
         Alessandro Armando and   
              Luca Compagna and   
                  Silvio Ranise   System Description: RDL: Rewrite and
                                  Decision Procedure Laboratory  . . . . . 663
            Joshua S. Hodas and   
                 Naoyuki Tamura   lolliCop --- A Linear Logic
                                  Implementation of a Lean
                                  Connection-Method Theorem Prover for
                                  First-Order Classical Logic  . . . . . . 670
               Dominique Pastre   \sc Muscadet 2.3: A Knowledge-Based
                                  Theorem Prover Based on Natural
                                  Deduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--689
           Jörg Lücke   Hilberticus --- A Tool Deciding an
                                  Elementary Sublanguage of Set Theory . . 690
        D. Larchey-Wendling and   
             D. Méry and   
                Didier Galmiche   STRIP: Structural Sharing for Efficient
                                  Proof-Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696
            Volker Haarslev and   
               Ralf Möller   RACER System Description . . . . . . . . 701
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2084, 2001

                O. Herreras and   
                J. M. Ibarz and   
     L. López-Aguado and   
                      P. Varona   Dendrites: The Last Generation Computers 1
                  E. Andreu and   
                 R. Pomares and   
                   B. Soria and   
           J. V. Sanchez-Andres   Homogeneity in the Electrical Activity
                                  Pattern as a Function of Intercellular
                                  Coupling in Cell Networks  . . . . . . . 14
     Eduardo Sánchez and   
         Senén Barro and   
        Jorge Mariño and   
                 Antonio Canedo   A Realistic Computational Model of the
                                  Local Circuitry of the Cuneate Nucleus   21
          Ruggero Scorcioni and   
              Giorgio A. Ascoli   Algorithmic Extraction of Morphological
                                  Statistics from Electronic Archives of
                                  Neuroanatomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
           José Mira and   
                 Ana E. Delgado   What Can We Compute with Lateral
                                  Inhibition Circuits? . . . . . . . . . . 38
                  Jianfeng Feng   Neuronal Models with Current Inputs  . . 47
     J. M. Ferrández and   
                 M. Bongard and   
F. García de Quirós and   
                J. A. Bolea and   
        J. Ammermüller and   
              R. A. Normann and   
            E. Fernández   Decoding the Population Responses of
                                  Retinal Ganglions Cells Using
                                  Information Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 55
           Roustem Miftakov and   
              James Christensen   Numerical Study of Effects of
                                  Co-transmission by Substance $P$ and
                                  Acetylcholine on Synaptic Plasticity in
                                  Myenteric Neurons  . . . . . . . . . . . 63
              Reza Rajimehr and   
        Leila Montaser Kouhsari   Neurobiological Modeling of Bursting
                                  Response During Visual Attention . . . . 72
     Konstantin A. Saltykov and   
               Igor A. Shevelev   Sensitivity of Simulated Striate Neurons
                                  to Cross-Like Stimuli Based on
                                  Disinhibitory Mechanism  . . . . . . . . 81
             Santi Chillemi and   
              Michele Barbi and   
                Angelo Di Garbo   Synchronisation Mechanisms in Neuronal
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
               Tino Lourens and   
           Hiroshi G. Okuno and   
                 Hiroaki Kitano   Detection of Oriented Repetitive
                                  Alternating Patterns in Color Images (A
                                  Computational Model of Monkey Grating
                                  Cells) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
             Ernesto Pereda and   
           Joydeep Bhattacharya   Synchronization in Brain --- Assessment
                                  by Electroencephalographic Signals . . . 108
Manuel A. Sánchez-Montañés   Strategies for the Optimization of Large
                                  Scale Networks of Integrate and Fire
                                  Neurons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
             Tetsuto Minami and   
                    Toshio Inui   A Neural Network Model of Working Memory
                                  (Processing of ``What'' and ``Where''
                                  Information) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
               Mehdi N. Shirazi   Orientation Selectivity of Intracortical
                                  Inhibitory Cells in the Striate Visual
                                  Cortex: A Computational Theory and a
                                  Neural Circuitry . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
             Claudio Moraga and   
                   Luis Salinas   Interpreting Neural Networks in the
                                  Frame of the Logic of Lukasiewicz  . . . 142
             Isabel Gonzalo and   
               Miguel A. Porras   Time-Dispersive Effects in the J.
                                  Gonzalo's Research on Cerebral Dynamics  150
            Pedro Rodrigues and   
      J. Félix Costa and   
             Hava T. Siegelmann   Verifying Properties of Neural Networks  158
    J. Andrés Berzal and   
               Pedro J. Zufiria   Algorithms and Implementation
                                  Architectures for Hebbian Neural
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
  Flávio J. de Souza and   
   Marley Maria R. Vellasco and   
Marco Aurélio C. Pacheco   The Hierarchical Neuro-Fuzzy BSP Model:
                                  An Application in Electric Load
                                  Forecasting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
     J. Barahona da Fonseca and   
     I. Barahona da Fonseca and   
 C. P. Suárez Araujo and   
    J. Simões da Fonseca   The Chemical Metaphor in Neural
                                  Computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
                Tai-Wen Yue and   
                  Suchen Chiang   The General Neural-Network Paradigm for
                                  Visual Cryptography  . . . . . . . . . . 196
                  J. Santos and   
                     R. J. Duro   $ \Pi $-DTB, Discrete Time
                                  Backpropagation with Product Units . . . 207
               Shunji Satoh and   
               Shogo Miyake and   
                   Hirotomo Aso   Neocognitron-Type Network for
                                  Recognizing Rotated and Shifted Patterns
                                  with Reduction of Resources  . . . . . . 215
               J. David Buldain   Classification with Synaptic Radial
                                  Basis Units  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
            Naoyuki Tsuruta and   
           Yuichiro Yoshiki and   
               Tarek El. Tobely   A Randomized Hypercolumn Model and
                                  Gesture Recognition  . . . . . . . . . . 235
               Sergio Negri and   
       Lluís A. Belanche   Heterogeneous Kohonen Networks . . . . . 243
               J. David Buldain   Divided-Data Analysis in a Financial
                                  Case Classification with Multi-dendritic
                                  Neural Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
                  Ajith Abraham   Neuro Fuzzy Systems: Sate-of-the-Art
                                  Modeling Techniques  . . . . . . . . . . 269
                   Rudy Setiono   Generating Linear Regression Rules from
                                  Neural Networks Using Local Least
                                  Squares Approximation  . . . . . . . . . 277
                  A. Blanco and   
                 M. Delgado and   
            M. C. Pegalajar and   
                     I. Requena   Speech Recognition Using Fuzzy
                                  Second-Order Recurrent Neural Networks   285
           Enrique Castillo and   
      Oscar Fontenla-Romero and   
Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas and   
         Amparo Alonso-Betanzos   A Measure of Noise Immunity for
                                  Functional Networks  . . . . . . . . . . 293
      Oscar Fontenla Romero and   
Bertha Guijarro Berdiñas and   
         Amparo Alonso Betanzos   A Functional-Neural Network for
                                  Post-Nonlinear Independent Component
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
        A. S. Cofiño and   
José M. Gutiérrez   Optimal Modular Feedforward Neural Nets
                                  Based on Functional Network
                                  Architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
           Enrique Castillo and   
                Ali S. Hadi and   
                 Beatriz Lacruz   Optimal Transformations in Multiple
                                  Linear Regression Using Functional
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
            Shun-ichi Amari and   
               Tomoko Ozeki and   
                  Hyeyoung Park   Generalization Error and Training Error
                                  at Singularities of Multilayer
                                  Perceptrons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
          Vladimir Chinarov and   
              Michael Menzinger   Bistable Gradient Neural Networks: Their
                                  Computational Properties . . . . . . . . 333
                 S. Snyders and   
                    C. W. Omlin   Inductive Bias in Recurrent Neural
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
    Marcelino Lázaro and   
  Ignacio Santamaría and   
        Carlos Pantaleón   Accelerating the Convergence of EM-Based
                                  Training Algorithms for RBF Networks . . 347
           J. A. Gomez-Ruiz and   
      J. Muñoz-Perez and   
             E. Lopez-Rubio and   
            M. A. Garcia-Bernal   Expansive and Competitive Neural
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
              Joern Fischer and   
           Ralph Breithaupt and   
                   Mathias Bode   Fast Function Approximation with
                                  Hierarchical Neural Networks and Their
                                  Application to a Reinforcement Learning
                                  Agent  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
             Hiroyuki Okada and   
           Hiroshi Yamakawa and   
                  Takashi Omori   Two Dimensional Evaluation Reinforcement
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
           Hiroshi Yamakawa and   
              Yuji Miyamoto and   
                 Hiroyuki Okada   Comparing the Learning Processes of
                                  Cognitive Distance Learning and Search
                                  Based Agent  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
              A. P. Engelbrecht   Selective Learning for Multilayer
                                  Feedforward Neural Networks  . . . . . . 386
        J. Molina Vilaplana and   
     J. Feliú Batlle and   
       J. López Coronado   Connectionist Models of Cortico-Basal
                                  Ganglia Adaptive Neural Networks During
                                  Learning of Motor Sequential Procedures  394
                  Hyeyoung Park   Practical Consideration on
                                  Generalization Property of Natural
                                  Gradient Learning  . . . . . . . . . . . 402
         Ganesh Arulampalam and   
          Abdesselam Bouzerdoum   Novel Training Algorithm Based on
                                  Quadratic Optimisation Using Neural
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
                  Jianfeng Feng   Non-symmetric Support Vector Machines    418
  José R. Dorronsoro and   
        Ana González and   
              Carlos Santa Cruz   Natural Gradient Learning in NLDA
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
               Iuri Wickert and   
     Felipe M. G. França   AUTOWISARD: Unsupervised Modes for the
                                  WISARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
            Gordon Milligan and   
            Michael K. Weir and   
              Jonathan P. Lewis   Neural Steering: Diffcult and Impossible
                                  Sequential Problems for Gradient Descent 442
               Jong-Min Lee and   
                Dae-Jin Kim and   
               In-Young Kim and   
                     Sun I. Kim   Analysis of Scaling Exponents of Waken
                                  and Sleeping Stage in EEG  . . . . . . . 450
              Xavier Blasco and   
     Miguel Martínez and   
                Juan Senent and   
                 Javier Sanchis   Model Based Predictive Control Using
                                  Genetic Algorithms. Application to
                                  Greenhouses Climate Control  . . . . . . 457
                  X. Blasco and   
              J. M. Herrero and   
         M. Martínez and   
                      J. Senent   Nonlinear Parametric Model
                                  Identification with Genetic Algorithms.
                                  Application to a Thermal Process . . . . 466
               Carlos Cotta and   
           José M. Troya   A Comparison of Several Evolutionary
                                  Heuristics for the Frequency Assignment
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
Horacio M. González Velasco and   
Carlos J. García Orellana and   
Miguel Macías Macías and   
       M. Isabel Acevedo Sotoca   GA Techniques Applied to Contour Search
                                  in Images of Bovine Livestock  . . . . . 482
            F. B. Rodriguez and   
                  P. Varona and   
                  R. Huerta and   
           M. I. Rabinovich and   
          Henry D. I. Abarbanel   Richer Network Dynamics of Intrinsically
                                  Non-regular Neurons Measured through
                                  Mutual Information . . . . . . . . . . . 490
         J. González and   
                   I. Rojas and   
                 H. Pomares and   
                      J. Ortega   RBF Neural Networks, Multiobjective
                                  Optimization and Time Series Forecasting 498
                V. M. Rivas and   
             P. A. Castillo and   
                   J. J. Merelo   Evolving RBF Neural Networks . . . . . . 506
        G. Gutiérrez and   
                   P. Isasi and   
               J. M. Molina and   
          A. Sanchís and   
            I. M. Galván   Evolutionary Cellular Configurations for
                                  Designing Feed-Forward Neural Networks
                                  Architectures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
      Enrique Mérida and   
   José Muñoz and   
         Rafaela Benítez   A Recurrent Multivalued Neural Network
                                  for the $N$-Queens Problem . . . . . . . 522
      Héctor Pomares and   
              Ignacio Rojas and   
Jesús González and   
                   Miguel Damas   A Novel Approach to Self-Adaptation of
                                  Neuro-fuzzy Controllers in Real Time . . 530
         J. González and   
                   I. Rojas and   
                 H. Pomares and   
             M. Salmerón   Expert Mutation Operators for the
                                  Evolution of Radial Basis Function
                                  Neural Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
     Emilio Del Moral Hernandez   Studying Neural Networks of Bifurcating
                                  Recursive Processing Elements ---
                                  Quantitative Methods for Architecture
                                  Design and Performance Analysis  . . . . 546
                Valery Tereshko   Topology-Preserving Elastic Nets . . . . 554
                Mikiya Oota and   
              Naohiro Ishii and   
         Kouichiro Yamauchi and   
                Mayumi Nakamura   Optimization with Linear Constraints in
                                  the Neural Network . . . . . . . . . . . 561
               A. J. Rivera and   
                  J. Ortega and   
                   I. Rojas and   
                      A. Prieto   Optimizing RBF Networks with
                                  Cooperative/Competitive Evolution of
                                  Units and Fuzzy Rules  . . . . . . . . . 570
     Jose D. Piñeiro and   
        Roberto L. Marichal and   
             Lorenzo Moreno and   
              Jose F. Sigut and   
      Evelio J. González   Study of Chaos in a Simple Discrete
                                  Recurrence Neural Network  . . . . . . . 579
                   Habiba Drias   Genetic Algorithm versus Scatter Search
                                  and Solving Hard MAX--W--SAT Problems    586
            Michael Affenzeller   A New Approach to Evolutionary
                                  Computation: Segregative Genetic
                                  Algorithms (SEGA)  . . . . . . . . . . . 594
                   Nadia Jacoby   Evolution of Firms in Complex Worlds
                                  Generalized NK Models  . . . . . . . . . 602
           Santiago Garrido and   
                    Luis Moreno   Learning Adaptive Parameters with
                                  Restricted Genetic Optimization Method   612
           Juan Castellanos and   
  Carlos Martín-Vide and   
             Victor Mitrana and   
                Jose M. Sempere   Solving NP-Complete Problems With
                                  Networks of Evolutionary Processors  . . 621
                  G. Romero and   
             P. A. Castillo and   
               J. J. Merelo and   
                      A. Prieto   Using SOM for Neural Network
                                  Visualization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
                 F. Fessant and   
                   P. Aknin and   
               L. Oukhellou and   
                     S. Midenet   Comparison of Supervised Self-Organizing
                                  Maps Using Euclidian or Mahalanobis
                                  Distance in Classification Context . . . 637
  N. García-Pedrajas and   
              E. Sanz-Tapia and   
             D. Ortiz-Boyer and   
C. Hervás-Martínez   Introducing Multi-objective Optimization
                                  in Cooperative Coevolution of Neural
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
            Robert Burbidge and   
            Matthew Trotter and   
             Bernard Buxton and   
                    Sean Holden   STAR --- Sparsity through Automated
                                  Rejection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
             Cecilio Angulo and   
                Andreu Catal\`a   Ordinal Regression with $K$-SVCR
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
             Sergio Bermejo and   
                 Joan Cabestany   Large Margin Nearest Neighbor
                                  Classifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
            Winfried A. Fellenz   Reduced Support Vector Selection by
                                  Linear Programs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
Hilario Gómez-Moreno and   
Saturnino Maldonado-Bascón and   
Francisco López-Ferreras   Edge Detection in Noisy Images Using the
                                  Support Vector Machines  . . . . . . . . 685
             Camino R. Vela and   
              Ramiro Varela and   
                   Jorge Puente   Initialization in Genetic Algorithms for
                                  Constraint Satisfaction Problems . . . . 693
         Jorge Muruzábal   Evolving High-Posterior Self-Organizing
                                  Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701
            Rafael Nogueras and   
                   Carlos Cotta   Using Statistical Techniques to Predict
                                  GA Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709
              Julian Dorado and   
            Antonino Santos and   
         Juan R. Rabuñal   Multilevel Genetic Algorithm for the
                                  Complete Development of ANN  . . . . . . 717
         A. M. López and   
            H. López and   
              L. Sánchez   Graph Based GP Applied to Dynamical
                                  Systems Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . 725
               Terence Kwok and   
                  Kate A. Smith   Nonlinear System Dynamics in the
                                  Normalisation Process of a
                                  Self-Organising Neural Network for
                                  Combinatorial Optimisation . . . . . . . 733
              Kate A. Smith and   
           Jatinder N. D. Gupta   Continuous Function Optimisation via
                                  Gradient Descent on a Neural Network
                                  Approximation Function . . . . . . . . . 741
        Pablo Cortés and   
          Fernando Guerrero and   
                David Canca and   
   José M. García   An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Design
                                  of Hybrid Fiber Optic-Coaxial Cable
                                  Networks in Small Urban Areas  . . . . . 749
                      Sa Li and   
                      Lipo Wang   Channel Assignment for Mobile
                                  Communications Using Stochastic Chaotic
                                  Simulated Annealing  . . . . . . . . . . 757
            Igor Aleksander and   
               Helen Morton and   
                  Barry Dunmall   Seeing is Believing: Depictive
                                  Neuromodeling of Visual Awareness  . . . 765
           José Mira and   
     Rafael Martínez and   
José Ramón Álvarez and   
                 Ana E. Delgado   DIAGEN-WebDB: A Connectionist Approach
                                  to Medical Knowledge Representation and
                                  Inference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772
              Janet Aisbett and   
                    Greg Gibbon   Conceptual Spaces as Voltage Maps  . . . 783
                  Guido Bologna   Determining Hyper-planes to Generate
                                  Symbolic Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791
            Agapito Ledezma and   
           Antonio Berlanga and   
                   Ricardo Aler   Automatic Symbolic Modelling of
                                  Co-evolutionarily Learned Robot Skills   799
              J. G. Wallace and   
                       K. Bluff   ANNs and the Neural Basis for General
                                  Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807
            Juan Carlos Herrero   Knowledge and Intelligence . . . . . . . 814
          Iara M. O. Vilela and   
            Priscila M. V. Lima   Conjecturing the Cognitive Plausibility
                                  of an ANN Theorem-Prover . . . . . . . . 822
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2085, 2001

               Daniel Mange and   
      André Stauffer and   
          Gianluca Tempesti and   
              Christof Teuscher   From Embryonics to POEtic Machines . . . 1
                  L. M. Reyneri   Design and Codesign of Neuro-Fuzzy
                                  Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
            Vincent Douence and   
        S. Renaud-Le Masson and   
               S. Sa\"\ighi and   
                   G. Le Masson   A Field-Programmable Conductance Array
                                  IC for Biological Neurons Modeling . . . 31
      Hector Fabio Restrepo and   
                   Daniel Mange   A $2$-by-$n$ Hybrid Cellular Automaton
                                  Implementation Using a Bio-Inspired FPGA 39
               J. I. Mulero and   
     J. Feliú Batlle and   
       J. López Coronado   Parametric Neurocontroller for
                                  Positioning of an Anthropomorphic Finger
                                  Based on an Oponent Driven-Tendon
                                  Transmission System  . . . . . . . . . . 47
             Emilia I. Barakova   An Integration Principle for Multimodal
                                  Sensor Data Based on Temporal Coherence
                                  of Self-Organized Patterns . . . . . . . 55
Luis F. Lago-Fernández and   
                   Gustavo Deco   Simultaneous Parallel Processing of
                                  Object and Position by Temporal
                                  Correlation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Carlos J. García Orellana and   
Ramón Gallardo Caballero and   
Horacio M. González Velasco and   
Francisco J. López Aligué   NeuSim: A Modular Neural Networks
                                  Simulator for Beowulf Clusters . . . . . 72
               Paul Bourret and   
                Bruno Pelletier   Curved Kernel Neural Network for
                                  Functions Approximation  . . . . . . . . 80
Elisa Guerrero Vázquez and   
Andrés Yañez Escolano and   
 Pedro Galindo Riaño and   
Joaquín Pizarro Junquera   Repeated Measures Multiple Comparison
                                  Procedures Applied to Model Selection in
                                  Neural Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Patricio García Báez and   
Carmen Paz Suárez Araujo and   
Pablo Fernández López   Extension of HUMANN for Dealing with
                                  Noise and with Classes of Different
                                  Shape and Size: A Parametric Study . . . 96
  Evelio J. González and   
        Alberto F. Hamilton and   
             Lorenzo Moreno and   
       José F. Sigut and   
            Roberto L. Marichal   Evenet 2000: Designing and Training
                                  Arbitrary Neural Networks in Java  . . . 104
               Diego Andina and   
José L. Sanz-González   Neyman--Pearson Neural Detectors . . . . 111
            Patrick Rousset and   
              Christiane Guinot   Distance between Kohonen Classes
                                  Visualization Tool to Use SOM in Data
                                  Set Analysis and Representation  . . . . 119
              Spyros Raptis and   
           Spyros Tzafestas and   
            Hermione Karagianni   Optimal Genetic Representation of
                                  Complete Strictly-Layered Feedforward
                                  Neural Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
              J. L. Bernier and   
         J. González and   
            A. Cañas and   
                      J. Ortega   Assessing the Noise Immunity of Radial
                                  Basis Function Neural Networks . . . . . 136
        Fco. Javier Salcedo and   
               Julio Ortega and   
                 Alberto Prieto   Analyzing Boltzmann Machine Parameters
                                  for Fast Convergence . . . . . . . . . . 144
Joaquín Pizarro Junquera and   
 Pedro Galindo Riaño and   
Elisa Guerrero Vázquez and   
Andrés Yañez Escolano   A Penalization Criterion Based on Noise
                                  Behaviour for Model Selection  . . . . . 152
     M. A. Patricio Guisado and   
D. Maravall Gómez-Allende   Wood Texture Analysis by Combining the
                                  Connected Elements Histogram and
                                  Artificial Neural Networks . . . . . . . 160
Ezequiel López-Rubio and   
José Muñoz-Pérez and   
José Antonio Gómez-Ruiz   Dynamic Topology Networks for Colour
                                  Image Compression  . . . . . . . . . . . 168
            Taichi Hayasaka and   
             Eiichi Ohnishi and   
           Shigeki Nakauchi and   
                     Shiro Usui   Analysis on the Viewpoint Dependency in
                                  $3$-D Object Recognition by Support
                                  Vector Machines  . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Miguel Macías Macías and   
F. Javier López Aligué and   
Antonio Serrano Pérez and   
       Antonio Astilleros Vivas   A Comparative Study of Two Neural Models
                                  for Cloud Screening of Iberian Peninsula
                                  Meteosat Images  . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
          K. Toscano-Medina and   
           G. Sanchez-Perez and   
         M. Nakano-Miyatake and   
                 H. Perez-Meana   A Growing Cell Neural Network Structure
                                  for Off-Line Signature Recognition . . . 192
              Kurosh Madani and   
Ghislain de Trémiolles and   
                 Pascal Tannhof   ZISC-036 Neuro-processor Based Image
                                  Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
         P. Martínez and   
              P. L. Aguilar and   
         R. M. Pérez and   
                  M. Linaje and   
             J. C. Preciado and   
                       A. Plaza   Self-Organizing Map for Hyperspectral
                                  Image Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
             Igor Aizenberg and   
       Ekaterina Myasnikova and   
                Maria Samsonova   Classification of the Images of Gene
                                  Expression Patterns Using Neural
                                  Networks Based on Multi-valued Neurons   219
           Souheila Ghennam and   
              Khier Benmahammed   Image Restoration Using Neural Networks  227
     Pascual Campoy-Cervera and   
David F. Muñoz-García and   
         Daniel Peña and   
José A. Calderón-Martínez   Automatic Generation of Digital Filters
                                  by NN Based Learning: An Application on
                                  Paper Pulp Inspection  . . . . . . . . . 235
        Miguel A. Jaramillo and   
J. Álvaro Fernández and   
   José M. Montanero and   
                 Fernando Zayas   Image Quality Enhancement for Liquid
                                  Bridge Parameter Estimation with DTCNN   246
             Igor Aizenberg and   
             Naum Aizenberg and   
           Constantine Butakoff   Neural Network Based on Multi-valued
                                  Neurons: Application in Image
                                  Recognition, Type of Blur and Blur
                                  Parameters Identification  . . . . . . . 254
                Pedro Isasi and   
             Manuel Velasco and   
                 Javier Segovia   Analyzing Wavelets Components to Perform
                                  Face Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Nicolás J. Medrano-Marqués and   
Bonifacio Martín-del-Brío   Man-Machine Voice Interface Using a
                                  Commercially Available Neural Chip . . . 271
Gustavo Hernández Ábrego and   
   Israel Torres Sánchez   Partial Classification in Speech
                                  Recognition Verification . . . . . . . . 279
      Eric Simancas-Acevedo and   
            Akira Kurematsu and   
     Mariko Nakano Miyatake and   
             Hector Perez-Meana   Speaker Recognition Using Gaussian
                                  Mixtures Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
                Ch. Ziegaus and   
                     E. W. Lang   A Comparative Study of ICA Filter
                                  Structures Learnt from Natural and Urban
                                  Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
               Kenji Suzuki and   
                Isao Horiba and   
                   Noboru Sugie   Neural Edge Detector --- A Good Mimic of
                                  Conventional One Yet Robuster against
                                  Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
              Adrian Burian and   
             Jukka Saarinen and   
                Pauli Kuosmanen   Neural Networks for Image Restoration
                                  from the Magnitude of Its Fourier
                                  Transform  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
        Margarita Bachiller and   
      Mariano Rincón and   
           José Mira and   
Julián García-Feijó   An Automatic System for the Location of
                                  the Optic Nerve Head from $2$D Images    319
                   Ch. Mies and   
                  Ch. Bauer and   
               G. Ackermann and   
            W. Bäumler and   
                   C. Abels and   
             C. G. Puntonet and   
              M. R. Alvarez and   
                     E. W. Lang   Can ICA Help Classify Skin Cancer and
                                  Benign Lesions?  . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
                  L. Hamami and   
                  N. Lassouaoui   An Approach Fractal and Analysis of
                                  Variogram for Edge Detection of
                                  Biomedical Images  . . . . . . . . . . . 336
              A. J. Serrano and   
                   E. Soria and   
                   G. Camps and   
        J. D. Martín and   
           N. V. Jiménez   Some Examples for Solving Clinical
                                  Problems Using Neural Networks . . . . . 345
       Elias Restum Antonio and   
           Luiz Biondi Neto and   
            Vincenzo Junior and   
          Fernando Hideo Fukuda   Medical Images Analysis: An Application
                                  of Artificial Neural Networks in the
                                  Diagnosis of Human Tissues . . . . . . . 353
              Enrique Monte and   
 Jordi Solé i Casals and   
           Jose Antonio Fiz and   
                  Nieves Sopena   Feature Selection, Ranking of Each
                                  Feature and Classification for the
                                  Diagnosis of Community Acquired
                                  Legionella Pneumonia . . . . . . . . . . 361
              Hiroyuki Aoki and   
              Eiju Watanabe and   
             Atsushi Nagata and   
                   Yukio Kosugi   Rotation-Invariant Image Association for
                                  Endoscopic Positional Identification
                                  Using Complex-Valued Associative
                                  Memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
            Rajai El Dajani and   
           Maryvonne Miquel and   
                     Paul Rubel   A Multi Layer Perceptron Approach for
                                  Predicting and Modeling the Dynamical
                                  Behavior of Cardiac Ventricular
                                  Repolarisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
               Diego Andina and   
            Antonio Vega-Corona   Detection of Microcalcifications in
                                  Mammograms by the Combination of a
                                  Neural Detector and Multiscale Feature
                                  Enhancement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas and   
     Amparo Alonso-Betanzos and   
      Oscar-Fontenla-Romero and   
           Olga Garcia-Dans and   
Noelia Sánchez-Maroño   An Auto-learning System for the
                                  Classification of Fetal Heart Rate
                                  Decelerative Patterns  . . . . . . . . . 393
            Enrique Carmona and   
           José Mira and   
    Julián G. Feijoo and   
           Manuel G. de la Rosa   Neuro-Fuzzy Nets in Medical Diagnosis:
                                  The DIAGEN Case Study of Glaucoma  . . . 401
             Frank Pasemann and   
              Uli Steinmetz and   
          Martin Hülse and   
                     Bruno Lara   Evolving Brain Structures for Robot
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
     Eduardo Sánchez and   
           Manuel Mucientes and   
             Senén Barro   A Cuneate-Based Network and Its
                                  Application as a Spatio-Temporal Filter
                                  in Mobile Robotics . . . . . . . . . . . 418
                  D. Morano and   
                  L. M. Reyneri   An Application of Fuzzy State Automata:
                                  Motion Control of an Hexapod Walking
                                  Machine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
                  N. Saadia and   
                  Y. Amirat and   
                J. Pontnaut and   
              A. Ramdane-Cherif   Neural Adaptive Force Control for
                                  Compliant Robots . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
                  P. Puliti and   
                 G. Tascini and   
                  A. Montesanto   Reactive Navigation Using Reinforment
                                  Learning in Situations of POMDPs . . . . 444
Javier de Lope Asiaín and   
Darío Maravall Gómez-Allende   Landmark Recognition for Autonomous
                                  Navigation Using Odometric Information
                                  and a Network of Perceptrons . . . . . . 451
  F. de la Paz López and   
J. R. Álvarez-Sánchez   Topological Maps for Robot's Navigation:
                                  A Conceptual Approach  . . . . . . . . . 459
              Changjiu Zhou and   
              Yansheng Yang and   
                     J. Kanniah   Information Integration for Robot
                                  Learning Using Neural Fuzzy Systems  . . 468
              Changjiu Zhou and   
              Yansheng Yang and   
                      Xinle Jia   Incorporating Perception-Based
                                  Information in Reinforcement Learning
                                  Using Computing with Words . . . . . . . 476
                Marco Balsi and   
      Alessandro Maraschini and   
             Giada Apicella and   
               Sonia Luengo and   
              Jordi Solsona and   
  Xavier Vilasís-Cardona   Cellular Neural Networks for Mobile
                                  Robot Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Andrés Pérez-Uribe and   
              Mich\`ele Courant   Learning to Predict Variable-Delay
                                  Rewards and Its Role in Autonomous
                                  Developmental Robotics . . . . . . . . . 492
 José Ramírez and   
           Gianmichele Grittani   Robust Chromatic Identification and
                                  Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
              Gerardo Quero and   
                 Carolina Chang   Sequence Learning in Mobile Robots Using
                                  Avalanche Neural Networks  . . . . . . . 508
                 Sorin Moga and   
          Philippe Gaussier and   
                   Mathias Quoy   Investigating Active Patern Recognition
                                  in an Imitative Game . . . . . . . . . . 516
                     Erol Sahin   Towards an On-Line Neural Conditioning
                                  Model for Mobile Robots  . . . . . . . . 524
Nicolás Medrano-Marqués and   
     Rafael del-Hoyo-Alonso and   
Bonifacio Martín-del-Brío   A Thermocouple Model Based on Neural
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
              Olga M. Perez and   
                F. J. Marin and   
                     O. Trelles   Improving Biological Sequence Property
                                  Distances by Using a Genetic Algorithm   539
       Juan A. Botía and   
Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta and   
     Mercedes Valdés and   
                Antonio Padilla   Data Mining Applied to Irrigation Water
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
                    Tae Soo Yun   Classification of Specular Object Based
                                  on Statistical Learning Theory . . . . . 555
                B. Raducanu and   
                M. Graña   On the Application of Heteroassociative
                                  Morphological Memories to Face
                                  Localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
                    J. Juez and   
                G. I. Sainz and   
                 E. J. Moya and   
             J. R. Perán   Early Detection and Diagnosis of Faults
                                  in an AC Motor Using Neuro Fuzzy
                                  Techniques: FasArt + Fuzzy k Nearest
                                  Neighbors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
            Jacobus van Zyl and   
             Christian W. Omlin   Knowledge-Based Neural Networks for
                                  Modelling Time Series  . . . . . . . . . 579
                R. Carrasco and   
                 J. Galindo and   
                       A. Villa   Using Artificial Neural Network to
                                  Define Fuzzy Comparators in FSQL with
                                  the Criterion of some Decision-Maker . . 587
         M. Salmerón and   
                D. Guidotti and   
                R. Petacchi and   
                  L. M. Reyneri   Predictive Classification for Integrated
                                  Pest Management by Clustering in NN
                                  Output Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
             Adriana Dapena and   
                   Luis Castedo   Blind Source Separation in the Frequency
                                  Domain: A Novel Solution to the
                                  Amplitude and the Permutation
                                  Indeterminacies  . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
                  E. Bellei and   
                D. Guidotti and   
                R. Petacchi and   
              L. M. Reyneri and   
                       I. Rizzi   Evaluation, Classification and
                                  Clustering with Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques
                                  in Integrate Pest Management . . . . . . 611
              Kurosh Madani and   
                   Ion Berechet   Inaccessible Parameters Monitoring in
                                  Industrial Environment: A Neural Based
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619
                Marta Penas and   
   María J. Carreira and   
               Manuel G. Penedo   Autoorganised Structures for Extraction
                                  of Perceptual Primitives . . . . . . . . 628
             Victor M. Preciado   Real-Time Wavelet Transform for Image
                                  Processing on the Cellular Neural
                                  Network Universal Machine  . . . . . . . 636
              J. L. Alvarez and   
                    J. Mata and   
                 J. C. Riquelme   OBLIC: Classification System Using
                                  Evolutionary Algorithm . . . . . . . . . 644
        Pilar Jarabo Amores and   
         Manuel Rosa Zurera and   
Francisco López Ferreras   Design of a Pre-processing Stage for
                                  Avoiding the Dependence on TSNR of a
                                  Neural Radar Detector  . . . . . . . . . 652
A. Fernández-Caballero and   
                    J. Mira and   
         F. J. Gómez and   
         M. A. Fernández   Foetal Age and Weight Determination
                                  Using a Lateral Interaction Inspired Net 660
    Gustavo A. Casañ and   
M. Asunción Castaño   Inference of Stochastic Regular
                                  Languages through Simple Recurrent
                                  Networks with Time Delays  . . . . . . . 671
              Ajith Abraham and   
                  Dan Steinberg   Is Neural Network a Reliable Forecaster
                                  on Earth? A MARS Query!  . . . . . . . . 679
       Roberto J. Rodrigues and   
          Gizelle K. Vianna and   
     Antonio C. G. Thomé   Character Feature Extraction Using
                                  Polygonal Projection Sweep (Contour
                                  Detection) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687
           Predrag Neskovic and   
                 Leon N. Cooper   Using Contextual Information to
                                  Selectively Adjust Preprocessing
                                  Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696
              Carsten Leder and   
              Christian Rehtanz   Electric Power System's Stability
                                  Assessment and Online-Provision of
                                  Control Actions Using Self-Organizing
                                  Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704
     F. García-Lagos and   
                    G. Joya and   
         F. J. Marín and   
                    F. Sandoval   Neural Networks for Contingency
                                  Evaluation and Monitoring in Power
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711
                   M. Damas and   
         M. Salmerón and   
                  J. Ortega and   
                    G. Olivares   Hybrid Framework for Neuro-Dynamic
                                  Programming Application to Water Supply
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719
         Carlos León and   
       Antonio López and   
     Juan C. Montaño and   
          Iñigo Monedero   Classification of Disturbances in
                                  Electrical Signals Using Neural Networks 728
           Sophie Ponthieux and   
                 Marie Cottrell   Neural Classification and
                                  ``Traditional'' Data Analysis: An
                                  Application to Households' Living
                                  Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738
                Erhard Rank and   
                   Gernot Kubin   Nonlinear Synthesis of Vowels in the LP
                                  Residual Domain with a Regularized RBF
                                  Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746
    Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy   Nonlinear Vectorial Prediction with
                                  Neural Nets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754
Manuel Rodríguez-Álvarez and   
         Carlos G. Puntonet and   
                  Ignacio Rojas   Separation of Sources Based on the
                                  Partitioning of the Space of
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762
             Yolanda Blanco and   
              Santiago Zazo and   
          Jose M. Paez-Borrallo   Adaptive ICA with Order Statistics in
                                  Multidimensional Scenarios . . . . . . . 770
            Fabian J. Theis and   
                  Ch. Bauer and   
                C. Puntonet and   
                  Elmar W. Lang   Pattern Repulsion Revisited  . . . . . . 778
              Sergio Cruces and   
           Andrzej Cichocki and   
                Shun-ichi Amari   The Minimum Entropy and Cumulants Based
                                  Contrast Functions for Blind Source
                                  Extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786
         Athanasios Koutras and   
       Ioanna Christoyianni and   
         Evangelos Dermatas and   
              George Kokkinakis   Feature Extraction in Digital
                                  Mammography: An Independent Component
                                  Analysis Approach  . . . . . . . . . . . 794
Frédéric Abrard and   
                Yannick Deville   Blind Source Separation in Convolutive
                                  Mixtures: A Hybrid Approach for Colored
                                  Sources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802
Rubén Martín-Clemente and   
         Carlos G. Puntonet and   
            José I. Acha   A Conjugate Gradient Method and
                                  Simulated Annealing for Blind Separation
                                  of Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810
    Jaakko Särelä and   
         Ricardo Vigário   The Problem of Overlearning in
                                  High-Order ICA Approaches: Analysis and
                                  Solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818
                L.-Q. Zhang and   
                   S. Amari and   
                    A. Cichocki   Equi-convergence Algorithm for Blind
                                  Separation of Sources with Arbitrary
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826
       Massoud Babaie-Zadeh and   
           Christian Jutten and   
                  Kambiz Nayebi   Separating Convolutive Mixtures by
                                  Mutual Information Minimization  . . . . 834
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2086, 2001

                     Les Gasser   Perspectives on Organizations in
                                  Multi-agent Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 1
                   Katia Sycara   Multi-agent Infrastructure, Agent
                                  Discovery, Middle Agents for Web
                                  Services and Interoperation  . . . . . . 17
             Wiebe van der Hoek   Logical Foundations of Agent-Based
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
                  Yannis Labrou   Standardizing Agent Communication  . . . 74
              Stefan Poslad and   
              Patricia Charlton   Standardizing Agent Interoperability:
                                  The FIPA Approach  . . . . . . . . . . . 98
               Edmund H. Durfee   Distributed Problem Solving and Planning 118
                    Sarit Kraus   Automated Negotiation and Decision
                                  Making in Multiagent Environments  . . . 150
        Eugénio Oliveira   Agents' Advanced Features for
                                  Negotiation and Coordination . . . . . . 173
               Milind Tambe and   
              David V. Pynadath   Towards Heterogeneous Agent Teams  . . . 187
Vladimír Ma\vrík and   
  Michal Péchou\vcek and   
Olga \vSt\vepánková   Social Knowledge in Multi-agent Systems  211--245
            Dimitar Kazakov and   
                 Daniel Kudenko   Machine Learning and Inductive Logic
                                  Programming for Multi-agent Systems  . . 246
                 Kurt Driessens   Relational Reinforcement Learning  . . . 271
                  Jozef Kelemen   From Statistics to Emergence: Exercises
                                  in Systems Modularity  . . . . . . . . . 281
                Paolo Petta and   
                  Robert Trappl   Emotions and Agents  . . . . . . . . . . 301
           Paul Valckenaers and   
        Hendrik Van Brussel and   
         Martin Kollingbaum and   
                  Olaf Bochmann   Multi-agent Coordination and Control
                                  Using Stigmergy Applied to Manufacturing
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
    Luis M. Camarinha-Matos and   
            Hamideh Afsarmanesh   Virtual Enterprise Modeling and Support
                                  Infrastructures: Applying Multi-agent
                                  System Approaches  . . . . . . . . . . . 335
              Klaus Fischer and   
                 Petra Funk and   
            Christian Ruß   Specialised Agent Applications . . . . . 365
                      Jim Doran   Agent-Based Modelling of Ecosystems for
                                  Sustainable Resource Management  . . . . 383
                 Bernhard Nebel   Cooperating Physical Robots: A Lesson in
                                  Playing Robotic Soccer . . . . . . . . . 404
       Vladimir Kvasni\vcka and   
        Ji\vri Pospíchal   A Multi-agent Study of Interethnic
                                  Cooperation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--435
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2087, 2001

         Gabriele Kern-Isberner   1. Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
         Gabriele Kern-Isberner   2. Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic
                                  Reasoning --- State of the Art . . . . . 11
         Gabriele Kern-Isberner   3. Conditionals  . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
         Gabriele Kern-Isberner   4. Revising Epistemic States by
                                  Conditional Beliefs  . . . . . . . . . . 53
         Gabriele Kern-Isberner   5. Characterizing the Principle of
                                  Minimum Cross-Entropy  . . . . . . . . . 73
         Gabriele Kern-Isberner   6. Reasoning at Optimum Entropy  . . . . 91
         Gabriele Kern-Isberner   7. Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic
                                  Reasoning --- Revisited  . . . . . . . . 103
         Gabriele Kern-Isberner   8. Knowledge Discovery by Following
                                  Conditional Structures . . . . . . . . . 119
         Gabriele Kern-Isberner   9. Algorithms and Implementations  . . . 137
                      Anonymous   10. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
                      Anonymous   A. Proofs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
                      Anonymous   Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2088, 2001

                David Harel and   
                  Hillel Kugler   Synthesizing State-Based Object Systems
                                  from LSC Specifications  . . . . . . . . 1
                Lauri Karttunen   Applications of Finite-State Transducers
                                  in Natural Language Processing . . . . . 34
              Anne Bergeron and   
                   Sylvie Hamel   Fast Implementations of Automata
                                  Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
 Anne Brüggemann-Klein and   
                    Derick Wood   Regularly Extended Two-Way
                                  Nondeterministic Tree Automata . . . . . 57
               Pascal Caron and   
               Marianne Flouret   Glushkov Construction for Multiplicities 67
          Jean-Marc Champarnaud   Implicit Structures to Implement NFA's
                                  from Regular Expressions . . . . . . . . 80
      Jean-Marc Champarnaud and   
                       D. Ziadi   New Finite Automaton Constructions Based
                                  on Canonical Derivatives . . . . . . . . 94
                     Jan Daciuk   Experiments with Automata Compression    105
               Frank Drewes and   
               Sigrid Ewert and   
   Renate Klempien-Hinrichs and   
        Hans-Jörg Kreowski   Computing Raster Images from Grid
                                  Picture Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
       Jacques Farré and   
José Fortes Gálvez   A Basis for Looping Extensions to
                                  Discriminating-Reverse Parsing . . . . . 122
     Pierre-Cyrille Héam   Automata for Pro-$V$ Topologies  . . . . 135
                Oscar H. Ibarra   Reachability and Safety in Queue Systems 145
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
                     Jianwen Su   Generalizing the Discrete Timed
                                  Automaton  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
             André Kempe   Factorization of Ambiguous Finite-State
                                  Transducers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
              Nils Klarlund and   
       Anders Mòller and   
        Michael I. Schwartzbach   MONA Implementation Secrets  . . . . . . 182
               Vincent Le Maout   Cursors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
                  K. Lodaya and   
                   R. Ramanujam   An Automaton Model of User-Controlled
                                  Navigation on the Web  . . . . . . . . . 208
               Stoyan Mihov and   
                   Denis Maurel   Direct Construction of Minimal Acyclic
                                  Subsequential Transducers  . . . . . . . 217
                  Mehryar Mohri   Generic $ \epsilon $-Removal Algorithm
                                  for Weighted Automata  . . . . . . . . . 230
              Andrei P\uaun and   
      Nicolae Sântean and   
                       Sheng Yu   An $ {O}(n^2) $ Algorithm for
                                  Constructing Minimal Cover Automata for
                                  Finite Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
            Giovanni Pighizzini   Unary Language Concatenation and Its
                                  State Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
            Dominik Schmitz and   
                 Jens Vöge   Implementation of a Strategy Improvement
                                  Algorithm for Finite-State Parity Games  263
                Jeffrey Shallit   State Complexity and Jacobsthal's
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
              Priti Shankar and   
              K. Sasidharan and   
             Vikas Aggarwal and   
                B. Sundar Rajan   A Package for the Implementation of
                                  Block Codes as Finite Automata . . . . . 279
                 M. Vilares and   
              V. M. Darriba and   
                  F. J. Ribadas   Regional Least-Cost Error Repair . . . . 293
                H. Todd Wareham   The Parameterized Complexity of
                                  Intersection and Composition Operations
                                  on Sets of Finite-State Automata . . . . 302
                Bruce W. Watson   Directly Constructing Minimal DFA s:
                                  Combining Two Algorithms by Brzozowski   311
           Lynette van Zijl and   
           John-Paul Harper and   
                  Frank Olivier   The MERLin Environment Applied to *-NFAs 318
              Stephan Diehl and   
             Andreas Kerren and   
                 Torsten Weller   Visual Exploration of Generation
                                  Algorithms for Finite Automata on the
                                  Web  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
               Frank Drewes and   
       Renate Klempien-Hinrichs   \sc Treebag  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Ji\vrí Dvorský and   
    Václav Snásel   Word Random Access Compression . . . . . 331
       Tamás Gaál   Extended Sequentialization of
                                  Transducers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
              J. Howard Johnson   Lessons from INR in the Specification of
                                  Transductions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
             André Kempe   Part-of-Speech Tagging with Two
                                  Sequential Transducers . . . . . . . . . 337
   João José Neto   Solving Complex Problems Efficiently
                                  with Adaptive Automata . . . . . . . . . 340
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2089, 2001

                Gonzalo Navarro   Regular Expression Searching over
                                  Ziv--Lempel Compressed Text  . . . . . . 1
          Shmuel Tomi Klein and   
                   Yair Wiseman   Parallel Lempel Ziv Coding (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
          Veli Mäkinen and   
            Gonzalo Navarro and   
                   Esko Ukkonen   Approximate Matching of Run-Length
                                  Compressed Strings . . . . . . . . . . . 31
                    Uzi Vishkin   What to Do with All this Hardware?
                                  (Invited Lecture)  . . . . . . . . . . . 50
             Cyril Allauzen and   
          Maxime Crochemore and   
               Mathieu Raffinot   Efficient Experimental String Matching
                                  by Weak Factor Recognition . . . . . . . 51
           Stefan Burkhardt and   
      Juha Kärkkäinen   Better Filtering with Gapped $q$-Grams   73
          Abraham Bookstein and   
          Shmuel Tomi Klein and   
                     Timo Raita   Fuzzy Hamming Distance: A New
                                  Dissimilarity Measure (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
        Aviezri S. Fraenkel and   
                  Jamie Simpson   An Extension of the Periodicity Lemma to
                                  Longer Periods (Invited Lecture) . . . . 98
                  Anne Bergeron   A Very Elementary Presentation of the
                                  Hannenhalli-Pevzner Theory . . . . . . . 106
                    Gary Benson   Tandem Cyclic Alignment  . . . . . . . . 118
               Laxmi Parida and   
          Isidore Rigoutsos and   
                      Dan Platt   An Output-Sensitive Flexible Pattern
                                  Discovery Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . 131
     Zden\vek Troní\vcek   Episode Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--146
                Masayuki Takeda   String Resemblance Systems: A Unifying
                                  Framework for String Similarity with
                                  Applications to Literature and Music . . 147
             Hiroki Arimura and   
               Hiroki Asaka and   
           Hiroshi Sakamoto and   
                 Setsuo Arikawa   Efficient Discovery of Proximity
                                  Patterns with Suffix Arrays (Extended
                                  Abstract)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
      Jean-Marc Champarnaud and   
                 Djelloul Ziadi   Computing the Equation Automaton of a
                                  Regular Expression in $ O(s^2) $ Space
                                  and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--168
           Shunsuke Inenaga and   
           Hiromasa Hoshino and   
            Ayumi Shinohara and   
            Masayuki Takeda and   
             Setsuo Arikawa and   
            Giancarlo Mauri and   
                  Giulio Pavesi   On-Line Construction of Compact Directed
                                  Acyclic Word Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . 169
                 Toru Kasai and   
                  Gunho Lee and   
             Hiroki Arimura and   
             Setsuo Arikawa and   
                    Kunsoo Park   Linear-Time Longest-Common-Prefix
                                  Computation in Suffix Arrays and Its
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
                Takuya Kida and   
          Tetsuya Matsumoto and   
            Masayuki Takeda and   
            Ayumi Shinohara and   
                 Setsuo Arikawa   Multiple Pattern Matching Algorithms on
                                  Collage System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
              Steffen Heber and   
                     Jens Stoye   Finding All Common Intervals of k
                                  Permutations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
           Christine E. Heitsch   Generalized Pattern Matching and the
                                  Complexity of Unavoidability Testing . . 219
                S. Rao Kosaraju   Balanced Suffix Trees (Invited Lecture)  231
             Jesper Jansson and   
                 Andrzej Lingas   A Fast Algorithm for Optimal Alignment
                                  between Similar Ordered Trees  . . . . . 232
                 Jens Gramm and   
               Rolf Niedermeier   Minimum Quartet Inconsistency Is Fixed
                                  Parameter Tractable  . . . . . . . . . . 241
              Rolf Backofen and   
                 Sebastian Will   Optimally Compact Finite Sphere Packings
                                  --- Hydrophobic Cores in the FCC . . . . 257
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2090, 2001

                  Ulrich Herzog   Formal Methods for Performance
                                  Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
         Boudewijn R. Haverkort   Markovian Models for Performance and
                                  Dependability Evaluation . . . . . . . . 38
               Gianfranco Balbo   Introduction to Stochastic Petri Nets    84
                Reinhard German   Non-Markovian Analysis . . . . . . . . . 156
                Ed Brinksma and   
                Holger Hermanns   Process Algebra and Markov Chains  . . . 183
                 Roberto Segala   Verification of Randomized Distributed
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
                  Pierre Wolper   Constructing Automata from Temporal
                                  Logic Formulas: A Tutorial . . . . . . . 261
                  Jane Hillston   Exploiting Structure in Solution:
                                  Decomposing Compositional Models . . . . 278
         William H. Sanders and   
                  John F. Meyer   Stochastic Activity Networks: Formal
                                  Definitions and Concepts . . . . . . . . 315
              Gianfranco Ciardo   Distributed and Structured Analysis
                                  Approaches to Study Large and Complex
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
        Joost-Pieter Katoen and   
             Pedro R. D'Argenio   General Distributions in Process Algebra 375
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2091, 2001

                 J. Kittler and   
                 R. Ghaderi and   
                T. Windeatt and   
                       J. Matas   Face Identification and Verification via
                                  ECOC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
         Michael C. Lincoln and   
                Adrian F. Clark   Pose-Independent Face Identification
                                  from Video Sequences . . . . . . . . . . 14
               Chengjun Liu and   
                 Harry Wechsler   Face Recognition Using Independent Gabor
                                  Wavelet Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
               Yingjie Wang and   
             Chin-Seng Chua and   
                 Yeong-Khing Ho   Face Recognition from $2$D and $3$D
                                  Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
               Kyunghee Lee and   
              Yongwha Chung and   
                    Hyeran Byun   Face Recognition Using Support Vector
                                  Machines with the Feature Set Extracted
                                  by Genetic Algorithms  . . . . . . . . . 32
             Srinivas Gutta and   
              Jeffrey Huang and   
               Chengjun Liu and   
                 Harry Wechsler   Comparative Performance Evaluation of
                                  Gray-Scale and Color Information for
                                  Face Recognition Tasks . . . . . . . . . 38
                Josef Bigun and   
              Kwok-wai Choy and   
                  Henrik Olsson   Evidence on Skill Differences of Women
                                  and Men Concerning Face Recognition  . . 44
             Bai-Ling Zhang and   
                        Yan Guo   Face Recognition by Auto-associative
                                  Radial Basis Function Network  . . . . . 52
            O. Déniz and   
       M. Castrillón and   
            M. Hernández   Face Recognition Using Independent
                                  Component Analysis and Support Vector
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
         Erik Hjelmås and   
                     Ivar Farup   A Comparison of Face/Non-face
                                  Classifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
           Carlos E. Thomaz and   
          Duncan F. Gillies and   
                Raul Q. Feitosa   Using Mixture Covariance Matrices to
                                  Improve Face and Facial Expression
                                  Recognitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
        Bernhard Fröba and   
         Christian Külbeck   Real-Time Face Detection Using
                                  Edge-Orientation Matching  . . . . . . . 78
            Samuel Chindaro and   
                  Farzin Deravi   Directional Properties of Colour
                                  Co-occurrence Features for Lip Location
                                  and Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
            Oliver Jesorsky and   
         Klaus J. Kirchberg and   
           Robert W. Frischholz   Robust Face Detection Using the
                                  Hausdorff Distance . . . . . . . . . . . 90
           Menaka Rajapakse and   
                        Yan Guo   Multiple Landmark Feature Point Mapping
                                  for Robust Face Recognition  . . . . . . 96
Ginés García Mateos and   
       Cristina Vicente Chicote   Face Detection on Still Images Using HIT
                                  Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
               Makoto Omata and   
          Takayuki Hamamoto and   
               Seiichiro Hangai   Lip Recognition Using Morphological
                                  Pattern Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
                 Robert Mariani   A Face Location Algorithm Robust to
                                  Complex Lighting Conditions  . . . . . . 115
  Séverine Dubuisson and   
             Franck Davoine and   
          Jean-Pierre Cocquerez   Automatic Facial Feature Extraction and
                                  Facial Expression Recognition  . . . . . 121
               Satoshi Nakamura   Fusion of Audio-Visual Information for
                                  Integrated Speech Processing . . . . . . 127
        Kirk P. H. Sullivan and   
                Jason Pelecanos   Revisiting Carl Bildt's Impostor: Would
                                  a Speaker Verification System Foil Him?  144
              Tomi Kinnunen and   
               Pasi Fränti   Speaker Discriminative Weighting Method
                                  for VQ-Based Speaker Identification  . . 150
                J. D. Brand and   
             J. S. D. Mason and   
                 Sylvain Colomb   Visual Speech: A Physiological or
                                  Behavioural Biometric? . . . . . . . . . 157
              J. E. Higgins and   
                   R. I. Damper   An HMM-Based Subband Processing Approach
                                  to Speaker Identification  . . . . . . . 169
               Sabri Gurbuz and   
             Eric Patterson and   
           Zekeriya Tufekci and   
                  John N. Gowdy   Affine-Invariant Visual Features Contain
                                  Supplementary Information to Enhance
                                  Speech Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . 175
               Anil K. Jain and   
           Sharath Pankanti and   
            Salil Prabhakar and   
                      Arun Ross   Recent Advances in Fingerprint
                                  Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
       Raghavendra Udupa U. and   
                Gaurav Garg and   
                  Pramod Sharma   Fast and Accurate Fingerprint
                                  Verification (Extended Abstract) . . . . 192
             Asker M. Bazen and   
                 Sabih H. Gerez   An Intrinsic Coordinate System for
                                  Fingerprint Matching . . . . . . . . . . 198
                  Bir Bhanu and   
                     Xuejun Tan   A Triplet Based Approach for Indexing of
                                  Fingerprint Database for Identification  205
               Anil K. Jain and   
            Salil Prabhakar and   
               Sharath Pankanti   Twin Test: On Discriminability of
                                  Fingerprints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
            D. Simon-Zorita and   
           J. Ortega-Garcia and   
             S. Cruz-Llanas and   
         J. L. Sanchez-Bote and   
              J. Glez-Rodriguez   An Improved Image Enhancement Scheme for
                                  Fingerprint Minutiae Extraction in
                                  Biometric Identification . . . . . . . . 217
            Nalini K. Ratha and   
        Jonathan H. Connell and   
                  Ruud M. Bolle   An Analysis of Minutiae Matching
                                  Strength . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
                Wai Mun Koo and   
                       Alex Kot   Curvature-Based Singular Points
                                  Detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
                Seonjoo Kim and   
                Dongjae Lee and   
                     Jaihie Kim   Algorithm for Detection and Elimination
                                  of False Minutiae in Fingerprint Images  235
        Gian Luca Marcialis and   
                 Fabio Roli and   
                 Paolo Frasconi   Fingerprint Classification by
                                  Combination of Flat and Structural
                                  Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
            Kenneth Nilsson and   
                    Josef Bigun   Using Linear Symmetry Features as a
                                  Pre-processing Step for Fingerprint
                                  Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
                   Yuan Yao and   
             Paolo Frasconi and   
            Massimiliano Pontil   Fingerprint Classification with
                                  Combinations of Support Vector Machines  253
         Alberto Bartesaghi and   
    Alicia Fernández and   
            Alvaro Gómez   Performance Evaluation of an Automatic
                                  Fingerprint Classification Algorithm
                                  Adapted to a Vucetich Based
                                  Classification System  . . . . . . . . . 259
                LinLin Shen and   
                   Alex Kot and   
                     WaiMun Koo   Quality Measures of Fingerprint Images   266
    James B. Hayfron-Acquah and   
              Mark S. Nixon and   
                 John N. Carter   Automatic Gait Recognition by Symmetry
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
              Chew-Yean Yam and   
              Mark S. Nixon and   
                 John N. Carter   Extended Model-Based Automatic Gait
                                  Recognition of Walking and Running . . . 278
       Chiraz BenAbdelkader and   
                Ross Cutler and   
                Harsh Nanda and   
                    Larry Davis   EigenGait: Motion-Based Recognition of
                                  People Using Image Self-Similarity . . . 284
                 James W. Davis   Visual Categorization of Children and
                                  Adult Walking Styles . . . . . . . . . . 295
            Amos Y. Johnson and   
                Aaron F. Bobick   A Multi-view Method for Gait Recognition
                                  Using Static Body Parameters . . . . . . 301
               J. P. Foster and   
                M. S. Nixon and   
              A. Prugel-Bennett   New Area Based Metrics for Gait
                                  Recognition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
                  H. Morita and   
                D. Sakamoto and   
                  T. Ohishi and   
                  Y. Komiya and   
                   T. Matsumoto   On-Line Signature Verifier Incorporating
                                  Pen Position, Pen Pressure, and Pen
                                  Inclination Trajectories . . . . . . . . 318
        Raul Sanchez-Reillo and   
           Carmen Sanchez-Avila   Iris Recognition with Low Template Size  324
        Raul Sanchez-Reillo and   
           Carmen Sanchez-Avila   RBF Neural Networks for Hand-Based
                                  Biometric Recognition  . . . . . . . . . 330
           Cenker Öden and   
    Aytül Erçil and   
Vedat Taylan Yìldìz and   
Hikmet Kìrmìzìta\cs and   
                Burak Büke   Hand Recognition Using Implicit
                                  Polynomials and Geometric Features . . . 336--341
            Raul Sanchez-Reillo   Including Biometric Authentication in a
                                  Smart Card Operating System  . . . . . . 342
                 Norman Poh and   
                  Jerzy Korczak   Hybrid Biometric Person Authentication
                                  Using Face and Voice Features  . . . . . 348
                  Arun Ross and   
               Anil K. Jain and   
                Jian-Zhong Qian   Information Fusion in Biometrics . . . . 354
               Jongmoo Choi and   
               Sanghoon Lee and   
                Chilgee Lee and   
                      Juneho Yi   PrimeEye: A Real-Time Face Detection and
                                  Recognition System Robust to
                                  Illumination Changes . . . . . . . . . . 360
             Alberto Albiol and   
                Luis Torres and   
                 Edward J. Delp   A Fast Anchor Person Searching Scheme in
                                  News Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373


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            Andrew Campbell and   
            Carsten Griwodz and   
            Joerg Liebeherr and   
            Dwight Makaroff and   
             Andreas Mauthe and   
             Giorgio Ventre and   
                   Michael Zink   Panel Discussion: How Will Media
                                  Distribution Work in the Internet  . . . 3
                 Joseph Sventek   Invited Talk: Automated, Dynamic Traffic
                                  Engineering in Multi-service IP Networks 6
         Raymond R.-F. Liao and   
             Andrew T. Campbell   Dynamic Core Provisioning for
                                  Quantitative Differentiated Service  . . 9
             Ulrich Fiedler and   
                Polly Huang and   
              Bernhard Plattner   Towards Provisioning Diffserv Intra-Nets 27
                  Ravi Jain and   
               Tracy Mullen and   
                 Robert Hausman   Analysis of Paris Metro Pricing Strategy
                                  for QoS with a Single Service Provider   44
                 Anna Bouch and   
                M. Angela Sasse   Why Value Is Everything: A User-Centered
                                  Approach to Internet Quality of Service
                                  and Pricing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
                    John Wilkes   Traveling to Rome: QoS Specifications
                                  for Automated Storage System Management  75
                Hans Domjan and   
                Thomas R. Gross   Extending a Best-Effort Operating System
                                  to Provide QoS Processor Management  . . 92
            Reinder J. Bril and   
   E. (Liesbeth) F. M. Steffens   User Focus in Consumer Terminals and
                                  Conditionally Guaranteed Budgets . . . . 107
                  Aiguo Fei and   
                    Mario Gerla   Extending BGMP for Shared-Tree
                                  Inter-Domain QoS Multicast . . . . . . . 123
               Ying-Dar Lin and   
                Nai-Bin Hsu and   
                 Ren-Hung Hwang   Granularity of QoS Routing in MPLS
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
        Scott Seongwook Lee and   
                    Mario Gerla   Fault Tolerance and Load Balancing in
                                  QoS Provisioning with Multiple MPLS
                                  Paths  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
         Srihari Nelakuditi and   
                   Zhi-Li Zhang   On Selection of Paths for Multipath
                                  Routing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
   Konstantina Papagiannaki and   
             Patrick Thiran and   
              Jon Crowcroft and   
                Christophe Diot   Preferential Treatment of Acknowledgment
                                  Packets in a Differentiated Services
                                  Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
             Thomas Ziegler and   
         Christof Brandauer and   
                    Serge Fdida   A Quantitative Model for the Parameter
                                  Setting of RED with TCP Traffic  . . . . 202
        Karl-Johan Grinnemo and   
                 Anna Brunstrom   Evaluation of the QoS Offered by
                                  PRTP--ECN --- A TCP-Compliant Partially
                                  Reliable Transport Protocol  . . . . . . 217
           Mohamed Moustafa and   
              Ibrahim Habib and   
             Mahmoud Naghshineh   GAME Based QoS Provisioning in
                                  Multimedia Wideband CDMA Networks  . . . 235
                     Baochun Li   QoS-Aware Adaptive Services in Mobile
                                  Ad-Hoc Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
                 Martin Karsten   Experimental Extensions to RSVP ---
                                  Remote Client and One-Pass Signalling    269
               Jukka Manner and   
              Kimmo Raatikainen   Extended Quality-of-Service for Mobile
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
            Anders Lindgren and   
           Andreas Almquist and   
            Olov Schelén   Quality of Service Schemes for IEEE
                                  802.11: A Simulation Study . . . . . . . 281
              Pascal Anelli and   
               Gwendal Le Grand   Differentiated Services over Shared
                                  Media  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
            Yasunori Yasuda and   
            Nobuhiko Nishio and   
                Hideyuki Tokuda   End-to-Edge QoS System Integration:
                                  Integrated Resource Reservation
                                  Framework for Mobile Internet  . . . . . 294
             Joachim Charzinski   Problems of Elastic Traffic Admission
                                  Control in an HTTP Scenario  . . . . . . 300
                 Huirong Fu and   
             Edward W. Knightly   Aggregation and Scalable QoS: A
                                  Performance Study  . . . . . . . . . . . 307
      Syed Umair Ahmed Shah and   
               Peter Steenkiste   Customizable Cooperative Metering for
                                  Multi-ingress Service Level Agreements
                                  in Differentiated Network Services . . . 325
            Hermann de Meer and   
                 Piers O'Hanlon   Segmented Adaptation of Traffic
                                  Aggregates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
           Joseph Eggleston and   
                    Sugih Jamin   Differentiated Services with Lottery
                                  Queueing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
                  Ulf Bodin and   
            Andreas Jonsson and   
            Olov Schelén   On Creating Proportional Loss-Rate
                                  Differentiation: Predictability and
                                  Performance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
                Paul Hurley and   
                Mourad Kara and   
         Jean-Yves LeBoudec and   
                 Patrick Thiran   A Novel Scheduler For a Low Delay
                                  Service Within Best-Effort . . . . . . . 389
        Jörg Liebeherr and   
               Nicolas Christin   JoBS: Joint Buffer Management and
                                  Scheduling for Differentiated Services   404
          Antonis Panagakis and   
            Ioannis Stavrakakis   Optimal Call Admission Control under
                                  Generalized Processor Sharing Scheduling 419
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
            Henning Schulzrinne   Keynote: Quality of Service --- 20 Years
                                  Old and Ready to Get a Job?  . . . . . . ??


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                 Sang-Ho Le and   
              Dong-Soo Jung and   
                  Sung-Woo Park   Bandwidth Management for QoS Support in
                                  Mobile Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
                  T. Kanter and   
                T. Rindborg and   
                      D. Sahlin   $ 3 G $ and Beyond & Enabled Adaptive
                                  Mobile Multimedia Communication  . . . . 12
                J. Oliveira and   
                   R. Roque and   
                S. Sedillot and   
                 E. Carrapatoso   Creation of $ 3^{\rm rd} $ Generation
                                  Services in the Context of Virtual Home
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
                    H. Pham and   
                  B. Lavery and   
                  H. Nam Nguyen   WLL Link Layer Protocol for QoS Support
                                  of Multi-service Internet  . . . . . . . 37
                     X. Hei and   
                 D. H. K. Tsang   The Earliest Deadline First Scheduling
                                  with Active Buffer Management for
                                  Real-Time Traffic in the Internet  . . . 45
                         Z. Fan   Pricing and Provisioning for Guaranteed
                                  Internet Services  . . . . . . . . . . . 55
                  K. Yamori and   
                  Y. Tanaka and   
                     H. Akimaru   Price Optimization of Contents Delivery
                                  Systems with Priority  . . . . . . . . . 65
                 M. Popovic and   
                   V. Kovacevic   An Approach to Internet-Based Virtual
                                  Call Center Implementation . . . . . . . 75
                       F. Risso   Implementation and Characterization of
                                  an Advanced Scheduler  . . . . . . . . . 85
                 R. Kinicki and   
                       Z. Zheng   A Performance Study of Explicit
                                  Congestion Notification (ECN) with
                                  Heterogeneous TCP Flows  . . . . . . . . 98
            Rachid Laalaoua and   
      Stanis\law J\cedru\'s and   
          Tülin Atmaca and   
           T. Czachórski   Diffusion Model of RED Control Mechanism 107--116
                     K. Kim and   
              P. Mouchtaris and   
                 S. Samtani and   
                 R. Talpade and   
                        L. Wong   A Simple Admission Control Algorithm for
                                  IP Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
                M. V. Hegde and   
            M. Naraghi-Pour and   
                  J. Bordes and   
                   C. Davis and   
                  O. Schmid and   
                       M. Maher   An Architecture for a Scalable Broadband
                                  IP Services Switch . . . . . . . . . . . 124
            D. A. Khotimsky and   
               I. A. Zhuklinets   On Implementation of Logical Time in
                                  Distributed Systems Operating over a
                                  Wireless IP Network  . . . . . . . . . . 137
                     L. Fan and   
             M. E. Woodward and   
                 J. G. Gardiner   Performance of an Inter-segment Handover
                                  Protocol in an IP-Based
                                  Terrestrial/Satellite Mobile
                                  Communications Network . . . . . . . . . 147
              M. Chatterjee and   
                  S. K. Das and   
                  G. D. Mandyam   Performance Evaluation of Voice-Data
                                  Integration for Wireless Data Networking 157
               Y. Takahashi and   
               N. Shinagawa and   
                   T. Kobayashi   A Hard Handover Control Scheme
                                  Supporting IP Host Mobility  . . . . . . 167
                    W.-J. Tsaur   A Flexible User Authentication Scheme
                                  for Multi-server Internet Services . . . 174
               N. S. V. Rao and   
           S. Radhakrishnan and   
                    B.-Y. Choel   NetLets: Measurement-Based Routing for
                                  End-to-End Performance over the Internet 184
                  K. Jakobs and   
                    C. Pils and   
                    M. Wallbaum   Using the Internet in Transport
                                  Logistics -- The Example of a Track &
                                  Trace System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
              L. P. Gaspary and   
             L. F. Balbinot and   
                  R. Storch and   
                   F. Wendt and   
          L. Rockenbach Tarouco   Distributed Management of High-Layer
                                  Protocols and Network Services through a
                                  Programmable Agent-Based Architecture    204
                  R. Pletka and   
                    P. Droz and   
                     B. Stiller   A Buffer-Management Scheme for Bandwidth
                                  and Delay Differentiation Using a
                                  Virtual Scheduler  . . . . . . . . . . . 218
                      H. Wu and   
                 H.-R. Shao and   
                          X. Li   Enhanced End-System Support for
                                  Multimedia Transmission over the
                                  Differentiated Services Network  . . . . 235
                      Z. Di and   
                  H. T. Mouftah   Investigations into the Per-Hop
                                  Behaviors of Diffserv Networks . . . . . 245
               H.-T. Nguyen and   
                      H. Rzehak   An Adaptive Bandwidth Scheduling for
                                  Throughput and Delay Differentiation . . 256
           E. G. Nikolouzou and   
           P. D. Sampatakos and   
                 I. S. Venieris   Evaluation of an Algorithm for Dynamic
                                  Resource Distribution in a
                                  Differentiated Services Network  . . . . 266
               P. Stuckmann and   
                 F. Müller   Quality of Service Management in GPRS
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
       C. Konstantinopoulou and   
            K. Koutsopoulos and   
             P. Demestichas and   
             E. Matsikoudis and   
                   M. Theologou   Case Studies and Results on the
                                  Introduction of GPRS in Legacy Cellular
                                  Infrastructures  . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
                 P. Fazekas and   
                        S. Imre   Traffic Analysis of Multimedia Services
                                  in Broadband Cellular Networks . . . . . 296
                 J.-L. Chen and   
                 H-C. Cheng and   
                     H.-C. Chao   Scheduling Disciplines in Cellular Data
                                  Services with Probabilistic Location
                                  Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
                  C.-C. Sue and   
                      S.-Y. Kuo   Restoration from Multiple Faults in WDM
                                  Networks without Wavelength Conversion   317
             M. R. Salvador and   
       S. Heemstra de Groot and   
                         D. Dey   An All-Optical WDM Packet-Switched
                                  Network Architecture with Support for
                                  Group Communication  . . . . . . . . . . 326
                   S. Dastangoo   Performance Consideration for Building
                                  the Next Generation Multi-service
                                  Optical Communications Platforms . . . . 336
                 H. Elbiaze and   
                      T. Atmaca   Traffic Management in Multi-service
                                  Optical Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
               M. M. Freire and   
              H. J. A. da Silva   Performance Comparison of Wavelength
                                  Routing Optical Networks with Chordal
                                  Ring and Mesh-Torus Topologies . . . . . 358
                      X. He and   
                         H. Che   Achieving End-to-End Throughput
                                  Guarantee for Individual TCP Flows in a
                                  Differentiated Services Network  . . . . 368
                J. Ehrensberger   Performance Evaluation of Integrated
                                  Services in Local Area Networks  . . . . 378
              S. Manjanatha and   
                    R. Barto\vs   Integrating Differentiated Services with
                                  ATM  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--397
                M. Hashmani and   
                 M. Yoshida and   
                 T. Ikenaga and   
                         Y. Oie   Management and Realization of SLA for
                                  Providing Network QoS  . . . . . . . . . 398
                 E. W. Fulp and   
                   D. S. Reeves   Optimal Provisioning and Pricing of
                                  Internet Differentiated Services in
                                  Hierarchical Markets . . . . . . . . . . 409
                  R. Jäger   Adding Interactive Services in a Digital
                                  Video Broadcasting Network . . . . . . . 419
              M. Mehmet Ali and   
                   X. Zhang and   
                    J. F. Hayes   A Discrete-Time Queuing Analysis of the
                                  Wireless ATM Multiplexing System . . . . 429
               G. F. Marias and   
                     L. Merakos   A QoS Based Distributed Method for
                                  Resource Allocation in Unlicensed
                                  Wireless ATM Systems . . . . . . . . . . 439
                 P. R. Denz and   
                  A. A. Nilsson   An Adaptive Error Control Mechanism for
                                  Wireless ATM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
             D. D. Vergados and   
         N. G. Protopsaltis and   
         C. Anagnostopoulos and   
         J. Anagnostopoulos and   
            M. E. Theologou and   
            E. N. Protonotarios   A Review of Call Admission Control
                                  Schemes in Wireless ATM Networks . . . . 459
                  E. Pagani and   
                    G. P. Rossi   Analysis and Evaluation of QoS-Sensitive
                                  Multicast Routing Policies . . . . . . . 468
                  D. Tutsch and   
                 M. Hendler and   
                      G. Hommel   Multicast Performance of Multistage
                                  Interconnection Networks with Shared
                                  Buffering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
     Tarik \vCiçi\'c and   
             Stein Gjessing and   
             Òivind Kure   Performance Evaluation of PIM--SM
                                  Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--497
        J.-U. Klöcking and   
           C. Maihöfer and   
                   K. Rothermel   Reducing Multicast Inter-receiver Delay
                                  Jitter --- A Server Based Approach . . . 498
         R. Libeskind-Hadas and   
                      R. Melhem   Multicast Routing and Wavelength
                                  Assignment in Multi-Hop Optical Networks 508
                 Y. Bouzida and   
                     R. Beghdad   Improving the Timed Token Protocol . . . 520
                     K.-Y. Sung   Design of a Specification Language and
                                  Real-Time APIs for Easy Expression of
                                  Soft Real-Time Constraints with Java . . 530
              G.-M. Muntean and   
                      L. Murphy   Feedback-Controlled Traffic Shaping for
                                  Multimedia Transmissions in a Real-Time
                                  Client-Server System . . . . . . . . . . 540
               L. K. Miller and   
                    E. L. Leiss   Bandwidth Reallocation Techniques for
                                  Admitting High Priority Real-Time Calls
                                  in ATM Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
                 H.-Y. Kung and   
                    C.-M. Huang   Temporal Control Specifications and
                                  Mechanisms for Multimedia Multicast
                                  Communication Services . . . . . . . . . 559
                H.-Y. Hsieh and   
                   R. Sivakumar   Improving Fairness and Throughput in
                                  Multi-Hop Wireless Networks  . . . . . . 569
                    J. Zhou and   
               Y. Shiraishi and   
                U. Yamamoto and   
                     Y. Onozato   Dynamic Allocation of Transmitter Power
                                  in a DS--CDMA Cellular System Using
                                  Genetic Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 579
                  T. Asfour and   
                 A. Serhrouchni   The Coexistence of Multicast and Unicast
                                  over a GPS Capable Network . . . . . . . 589
                D.-H. Hoang and   
                     D. Reschke   An Approach for QoS Scheduling on the
                                  Application Level for Wireless Networks  599
                    V. Roca and   
                    A. El-Sayed   A Host-Based Multicast (HBM) Solution
                                  for Group Communications . . . . . . . . 610
                 D. Zappala and   
                      A. Fabbri   An Evaluation of Shared Multicast Trees
                                  with Multiple Active Cores . . . . . . . 620
                H. Bettahar and   
                 A. Bouabdallah   QoS Routing Protocol for the Generalized
                                  Multicast Routing Problem (GMRP) . . . . 630
                   H. Smith and   
                   M. Mutka and   
                        L. Yang   Feedback Scalability for Multicast
                                  Videoconferencing  . . . . . . . . . . . 640
    J. Templemore-Finlayson and   
                   S. Budkowski   Group Communication and Multicast  . . . 649
                  A. Schmid and   
                  O. Kandel and   
                   Ch. Steigner   Avoiding Counting to Infinity in
                                  Distance Vector Routing  . . . . . . . . 657
                   N. Ogino and   
                      M. Suzuki   Proposal of an Inter-AS Policy Routing
                                  and a Flow Pricing Scheme to Improve
                                  ASes' Profits  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
             T. Michalareas and   
                       L. Sacks   Stigmergic Techniques for Solving
                                  Multi-constraint Routing for Packet
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687
                 S. H. Rhee and   
                    J. Yoon and   
                    H. Choi and   
                        I. Choi   Dynamic Capacity Resizing of Virtual
                                  Backbone Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 698
                 H.-C. Chao and   
                S. W. Chang and   
                     J. L. Chen   Throughput Improvements Using the Random
                                  Leader Technique for the Reliable
                                  Multicast Wireless LANs  . . . . . . . . 708
             V. Mirchandani and   
                  E. Dutkiewicz   Performance Evaluation and
                                  Implementation of QoS Support in an
                                  802.11b Wireless LAN . . . . . . . . . . 720
                        J. Rapp   Increasing Throughput and QoS in a
                                  HIPERLAN/2 System with Co-channel
                                  Interference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727
                     M. Umemoto   An Intra-media Multimode Wireless
                                  Communication Terminal for DSRC Service
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737
            T. T. Mai Hoang and   
                        W. Zorn   Simulation of Traffic Engineering in
                                  IP-Based Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 743
                      J. He and   
                 C. E. Chow and   
                    J. Yang and   
                       T. Chujo   An Algorithm for Available Bandwidth
                                  Measurement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753
                  D. Magoni and   
                  J.-J. Pansiot   Influence of Network Topology on
                                  Protocol Simulation  . . . . . . . . . . 762
                     Y. Lee and   
                        Y. Choi   An Adaptive Flow-Level Load Control
                                  Scheme for Multipath Forwarding  . . . . 771
                H. Benaboud and   
                       N. Mikou   Performance Evaluation of CANIT
                                  Algorithm in Presence of Congestion
                                  Losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780
          A. Van de Capelle and   
                 E. Van Lil and   
                 J. Theunis and   
                J. Potemans and   
                    M. Teughels   Project Driven Graduate Network
                                  Education  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790
                   H. Graja and   
                     J. McManis   Modelling User Interaction with
                                  E-commerce Servers . . . . . . . . . . . 803
                   P. Urien and   
                   H. Saleh and   
                    A. Tizraoui   XML Smartcards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811
            C. Hava Muntean and   
                 J. McManis and   
                      J. Murphy   The Influence of Web Page Images on the
                                  Performance of Web Servers . . . . . . . 821
                  F. Touvet and   
                       D. Harle   Network Resilience in Multilayer
                                  Networks: A Critical Review and Open
                                  Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839


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                  D.-E. Lee and   
                  B.-J. Lee and   
                   J.-W. Ko and   
                      Y.-C. Kim   Dynamic Resource Management Scheme for
                                  Multimedia Services in Wireless
                                  Communication Networks . . . . . . . . . 1
                   S. Szabo and   
                        S. Imre   An Adaptive Handover-Supporting Routing
                                  Method for ATM Based Mobile Networks,
                                  and Its Adaptation to Ip Scenarios . . . 11
                M. Kabatnik and   
                  A. Zugenmaier   Location Stamps for Digital Signatures:
                                  A New Service for Mobile Telephone
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
                 M. Hayashi and   
                      C. Bonnet   A New Method for Scalable and Reliable
                                  Multicast System for Mobile Networks . . 31
                         M. Woo   An Adaptive Mobility Management Scheme
                                  to Support Internet Host Mobility  . . . 41
                     M. Liu and   
                       N. Ehsan   Modeling and Analysis of TCP Enhancement
                                  over Heterogeneous Links . . . . . . . . 51
                    S. Choi and   
                         C. Kim   TCP Throughput Guarantee Using Packet
                                  Buffering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
                    W. Tang and   
              L. Cherkasova and   
                 L. Russell and   
                    M. W. Mutka   Modular TCP Handoff Design in
                                  STREAMS-Based TCP/IP Implementation  . . 71
                 H. Y. Liao and   
                 Y. C. Chen and   
                      C. L. Lee   An Efficient TCP Flow Control and Fast
                                  Recovery Scheme for Lossy Networks . . . 82
                 C. Barakat and   
                      E. Altman   Bandwidth Tradeoff between TCP and
                                  Link-Level FEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
               C. Tsetsekas and   
                S. Maniatis and   
                 I. S. Venieris   Supporting QoS for Legacy Applications   108
                      K. Wehrle   An Open Architecture for Evaluating
                                  Arbitrary Quality of Service Mechanisms
                                  in Software Routers  . . . . . . . . . . 117
          V. Räisänen   Measurement-Based IP Transport Resource
                                  Manager Demonstrator . . . . . . . . . . 127
                 M. C. Choi and   
                 H. L. Owen and   
                       J. Sokol   Packet-Size Based Queuing Algorithm for
                                  QoS Support  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
                  H.-H. Yen and   
                   F. Y.-S. Lin   Backbone Network Design with QoS
                                  Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
                 W.-H. Liao and   
                Y.-C. Tseng and   
                 S.-L. Wang and   
                     J.-P. Sheu   A Multi-path QoS Routing Protocol in a
                                  Wireless Mobile ad Hoc Network . . . . . 158
                 B.-C. Seet and   
                  B.-S. Lee and   
                      C.-T. Lau   Study of a Unicast Query Mechanism for
                                  Dynamic Source Routing in Mobile ad Hoc
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
                  K. Yasuda and   
                      T. Hagino   Ad-hoc Filesystem: A Novel Network
                                  Filesystem for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks  177
               M. Abolhasan and   
                 T. Wysocki and   
                  E. Dutkiewicz   A Review of Current On-demand Routing
                                  Protocols  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
                  J. Scharinger   Construction of Data Dependent Chaotic
                                  Permutation Hashes to Ensure
                                  Communications Integrity . . . . . . . . 196
             M. Günter and   
                  M. Brogle and   
                       T. Braun   Secure Communication: A New Application
                                  for Active Networks  . . . . . . . . . . 206
                    A. K. Singh   Deployment of Public-Key Infrastructure
                                  in Wireless Data Networks  . . . . . . . 217
                  L.-C. Wuu and   
                     H.-C. Chen   A Scalable Framework for Secure Group
                                  Communication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
              M. Al-Ibrahim and   
                    J. Pieprzyk   Authenticating Multicast Streams in
                                  Lossy Channels Using Threshold
                                  Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
                  K. Kaario and   
T. Hämäläinen and   
                       J. Zhang   Tuning of QoS Aware Load Balancing
                                  Algorithm (QoS-LB) for Highly Loaded
                                  Server Clusters  . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
                Y. Blanpain and   
                H.-Y. Hsieh and   
                   R. Sivakumar   The Incremental Deployability of
                                  Core-Stateless Fair Queuing  . . . . . . 259
                H. S. Eissa and   
                       T. Kamel   A New IP Multicast QoS Model on IP Based
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
  L. Zambenedetti Granville and   
   L. M. Rockenbach Tarouco and   
            M. Bartz Ceccon and   
       M. J. Bosquiroli Almeida   Integrated Management of QoS-Enabled
                                  Networks Using QAME  . . . . . . . . . . 277
                      M. Tsykin   On Web Quality of Service: Approaches to
                                  Measurement of End-to-End Response Time  291
                G. Banerjee and   
                       D. Sidhu   Path Computation for Traffic Engineering
                                  in MPLS Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
                     V. Marbukh   Minimum Regret Approach to Network
                                  Management under Uncertainty with
                                  Application to Connection Admission
                                  Control and Routing  . . . . . . . . . . 309
                     G. Ahn and   
                        W. Chun   MPLS Restoration Scheme Using Least-Cost
                                  Based Dynamic Backup Path  . . . . . . . 319
                   S. Yucel and   
                      T. Saydam   Connection Management in MPLS Networks
                                  Using Mobile Agents  . . . . . . . . . . 329
                 G. Kesidis and   
                   L. Tassiulas   General Connection Blocking Bounds and
                                  an Implication of Billing for
                                  Provisioned Label-Switched Routes in an
                                  MPLS Internet Cloud  . . . . . . . . . . 339
                   P. Homan and   
                      J. Bester   FPCF Input-Queued Packet Switch for
                                  Variable-Size Packets  . . . . . . . . . 348
             M. B. Caminero and   
          C. Carrión and   
               F. J. Quiles and   
                   J. Duato and   
                S. Yalamanchili   A Cost-Effective Hardware Link
                                  Scheduling Algorithm for the Multimedia
                                  Router (MMR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
                 J. S. Park and   
                 N. J. Davis IV   The Folded Hypercube ATM Switches  . . . 370
                 H.-J. Park and   
                 Y.-I. Choi and   
                  B.-S. Lee and   
                      K.-P. Jun   Open Software Architecture for
                                  Multiservice Switching System  . . . . . 380
                    S. F. Oktug   A Multicast ATM Switch Based on PIPN . . 390
             Armin Stranjak and   
          Damir Kova\vci\'c and   
              Igor \vCavrak and   
                  Mario \vZagar   Concurrent Access to Remote
                                  Instrumentation in CORBA-Based
                                  Distributed Environment  . . . . . . . . 399--408
                 J.-H. Kwon and   
                     J.-T. Park   Design and Implementation of CORBA-
                                  Based Integrated Network Management
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
                 Z. Mammeri and   
               J. Rodriguez and   
                      P. Lorenz   Framework for Real-Time CORBA
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
                 A. Sekkaki and   
L. M. Cáceres Alvarez and   
        W. Tatsuya Watanabe and   
                   B. Westphall   Development of Accounting Management
                                  Based Service Environment in Tina, Java
                                  and Corba Architectures  . . . . . . . . 438
                    J. Leal and   
            J. M. Fornés   A QoS System for CaTV Networks . . . . . 449
        Paulo Simões and   
              Paulo Marques and   
                 Luis Silva and   
          João Silva and   
               Fernando Boavida   Towards Manageable Mobile Agent
                                  Infrastructures  . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--467
                   R. Sugar and   
                        S. Imre   Dynamic Agent Domains in Mobile Agent
                                  Based Network Management . . . . . . . . 468
                      M. Palola   Networking in a Service Platform Based
                                  on Mobile Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
            M. K. Perdikeas and   
          O. I. Pyrovolakis and   
            A. E. Papadakis and   
                 I. S. Venieris   Realizing Distributed Intelligent
                                  Networks Based on Distributed Object and
                                  Mobile Agent Technologies  . . . . . . . 488
            A. Papadopoulos and   
          T. Antonakopoulos and   
                      V. Makios   A New Cut-Through Forwarding Mechanism
                                  for ATM Multipoint-to-Point Connections  497
              H. M. Mokhtar and   
                 R. Pereira and   
                     M. Merabti   Cell-by-Cell Round Robin Service
                                  Discipline for ATM Networks  . . . . . . 507
                 C. G. Park and   
                      D. H. Han   Delay and Departure Analysis of CBR
                                  Traffic in AAL MUX with Bursty
                                  Background Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . 517
                     S. Choplin   Virtual Path Layout in ATM Path with
                                  Given Hop Count  . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
                   R. Citro and   
                       S. Ghosh   Simulation-Based Stability of a
                                  Representative, Large-Scale ATM Network
                                  for a Distributed Call Processing
                                  Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
                  R. Estepa and   
                    J. Leal and   
              J. A. Ternero and   
               J. M. Vozmediano   Proposed Architectures for the
                                  Integration of H.323 and QoS over IP
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
             A. Miloslavski and   
                 V. Antonov and   
                L. Yegoshin and   
                S. Shkrabov and   
                   J. Boyle and   
              G. Pogosyants and   
                    N. Anisimov   Third-Party Call Control in H.323
                                  Networks -- A Case Study . . . . . . . . 559
                N. S. Kambo and   
                D. Z. Deniz and   
                       T. Iqbal   Measurement-Based MMPP Modeling of Voice
                                  Traffic in Computer Networks Using
                                  Moments of Packet Interarrival Times . . 570
               F. A. Shaikh and   
                   S. McClellan   Evaluation of End-to-End QoS Mechanisms
                                  in IP Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
                 S. Kuhlins and   
                    D. Gutacker   Web-Enabled Voice over IP Call Center.
                                  An Open Source Based Implementation  . . 590
                 W.-K. Hong and   
                     M.-J. Jung   ANMP: Active Network Management Platform
                                  for Telecommunications Applications  . . 599
           E. Hladká and   
                      Z. Salvet   An Active Network Architecture:
                                  Distributed Computer or Transport Medium 612
                  E. Rashid and   
                   T. Araki and   
                    T. Nakamura   An Active Network for Improving
                                  Performance of Traffic Flow over
                                  Conventional ATM Service . . . . . . . . 620
                 J. I. Khan and   
                    A. U. Haque   An Active Programmable Harness for
                                  Measurement of Composite Network States  628
                      S. Go and   
                 J. W. Wong and   
                          Z. Wu   Protocol Design of MPEG-4 Media Delivery
                                  with Active Networks . . . . . . . . . . 639
                  G. Corral and   
    Agustín Zaballos and   
                 Joan Camps and   
               Josep M. Garrell   Prediction and Control of Short-Term
                                  Congestion in ATM Networks Using
                                  Artificial Intelligence Techniques . . . 648
          A. A. K. Mouharam and   
              M. J. Tunnicliffe   Monitoring the Quality of Service on an
                                  ATM Network Carrying MMB Traffic Using
                                  Weighted Significance Data . . . . . . . 658
    P. Solís Barreto and   
                 R. Pinto Lemos   ATM Traffic Prediction Using Artificial
                                  Neural Networks and Wavelet Transforms   668
                    X. Yuan and   
                       M. Ilyas   Threshold-Based Connection Admission
                                  Control Scheme in ATM Networks: A
                                  Simulation Study . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
                 K. Dimyati and   
                     C. O. Chow   ABR Congestion Control in ATM Networks
                                  Using Neural Networks  . . . . . . . . . 687
                  S. Guerra and   
                  J. Vinyes and   
            D. Fernández   An Architecture for the Transport of IP
                                  Telephony Services . . . . . . . . . . . 697
                  R. Glitho and   
                  R. Hamadi and   
                        R. Huie   Architectural Framework for Using Java
                                  Servlets in a SIP Environment  . . . . . 707
               S. Milanovic and   
                    Z. Petrovic   A Practical Solution for Delivering
                                  Voice over IP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717
                   E.-J. Ha and   
                 J.-H. Kwon and   
                     J.-T. Park   QoS Guaranteed Voice Traffic
                                  Multiplexing Scheme over VoIP Network
                                  Using DiffServ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726
                J.-M. Chung and   
                 E. Marroun and   
                  H. Sandhu and   
                      S.-C. Kim   VoIP over MPLS Networking Requirements   735
                G. Al-Regib and   
                  Y. Altunbasak   A System Level Framework for Streaming
                                  $3$-D Meshes over Packet Networks  . . . 745
            B. E. Wolfinger and   
                     M. Zaddach   Techniques to Improve Quality-of-Service
                                  in Video Communications via Best Effort
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754
                J. R. Renno and   
          M. J. Tunnicliffe and   
                G. A. Jones and   
                   D. J. Parish   Simulation of a Video Surveillance
                                  Network Using Remote Intelligent
                                  Security Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . 766
                E. Ishikawa and   
                      C. Amorim   Cooperative Video Caching for
                                  Interactive and Scalable VoD Systems . . 776
                     M. Kim and   
                  Y. Altunbasak   Optimal Dynamic Rate Shaping for
                                  Compressed Video Streaming . . . . . . . 786
             Geert Goossens and   
                Marnix Goossens   IP Stack Emulation over ATM  . . . . . . 795
               S. N. Ashraf and   
                         C. Lac   ATM Network Restoration Using a Multiple
                                  Backup VPs Based Self-Healing Protocol   805
            M. Shamsuzzaman and   
                A. K. Gupta and   
                      B.-S. Lee   A New Consolidation Algorithm for
                                  Point-to-Multipoint ABR Service in ATM
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815
                     S. Ano and   
                   N. Decre and   
                    T. Hasegawa   Experimental TCP Performance Evaluation
                                  on Diffserv Assured Forwarding over ATM
                                  SBR Service  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825
                    C. Yang and   
                        S. Phan   PMS: A PVC Management System for ATM
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836
                 P. Linwong and   
                   A. Fujii and   
                      Y. Nemoto   Buffer-Size Approximation for the
                                  Geo/D/1/K Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . 845
                 B. Roussev and   
                          J. Wu   Client-Server Design Alternatives: Back
                                  to Pipes but with Threads  . . . . . . . 854
             A. T. A. Gomes and   
                 S. Colcher and   
                L. F. G. Soares   Towards a Descriptive Approach to Model
                                  Adaptable Communication Environments . . 867
                H. Masuyama and   
               H. Taniguchi and   
                     T. Miyoshi   All-to-All Personalized Communication
                                  Algorithms in Chordal Ring Networks  . . 877
                      A. Pollak   Formal and Practical Approach to Load
                                  Conditions in High Speed Networks  . . . 890
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2095, 2001

                  R. Gregor and   
           M. Lützeler and   
               M. Pellkofer and   
        K.-H. Siedersberger and   
                E. D. Dickmanns   A Vision System for Autonomous Ground
                                  Vehicles with a Wide Range of
                                  Maneuvering Capabilities . . . . . . . . 1
      Cristian Sminchisescu and   
                Alexandru Telea   A Framework for Generic State Estimation
                                  in Computer Vision Applications  . . . . 21
Alexandre R. J. François and   
       Gérard G. Medioni   A Modular Software Architecture for
                                  Real-Time Video Processing . . . . . . . 35
             Matthias Zobel and   
            Joachim Denzler and   
                Benno Heigl and   
            Elmar Nöth and   
            Dietrich Paulus and   
             Jochen Schmidt and   
                  Georg Stemmer   MOBSY: Integration of Vision and
                                  Dialogue in Service Robots . . . . . . . 50
            Markus Wienecke and   
             Gernot A. Fink and   
                Gerhard Sagerer   A Handwriting Recognition System Based
                                  on Visual Input  . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
              Bastian Leibe and   
               David Minnen and   
               Justin Weeks and   
                   Thad Starner   Integration of Wireless Gesture
                                  Tracking, Object Tracking, and $3$D
                                  Reconstruction in the Perceptive
                                  Workbench  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
            Martin Spengler and   
                  Bernt Schiele   Towards Robust Multi-cue Integration for
                                  Visual Tracking  . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
                   Qiang Ji and   
                   Xiaojie Yang   Real Time Visual Cues Extraction for
                                  Monitoring Driver Vigilance  . . . . . . 107
                 U. Hofmann and   
                  A. Rieder and   
                E. D. Dickmanns   Radar and Vision Data Fusion for Hybrid
                                  Adaptive Cruise Control on Highways  . . 125
        K.-H. Siedersberger and   
               M. Pellkofer and   
           M. Lützeler and   
            E. D. Dickmanns and   
                  A. Rieder and   
              R. Mandelbaum and   
                      L. Bogoni   Combining EMS-Vision and Horopter Stereo
                                  for Obstacle Avoidance of Autonomous
                                  Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
         Elsayed E. Hemayed and   
            Moumen T. Ahmed and   
                   Aly A. Farag   The CardEye: A Trinocular Active Vision
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
              Daisaku Arita and   
           Rin-ichiro Taniguchi   RPV-II: A Stream-Based Real-Time
                                  Parallel Vision System and Its
                                  Application to Real-Time Volume
                                  Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
           Bruce A. Maxwell and   
        Nathaniel Fairfield and   
            Nikolas Johnson and   
                Pukar Malla and   
               Paul Dickson and   
                       Suor Kim   A Real-Time Vision Module for
                                  Interactive Perceptual Agents  . . . . . 190
        Deepak R. Karuppiah and   
                Zhigang Zhu and   
            Prashant Shenoy and   
              Edward M. Riseman   A Fault-Tolerant Distributed Vision
                                  System Architecture for Object Tracking
                                  in a Smart Room  . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
            Bruce A. Draper and   
     A. P. Willem Böhm and   
                Jeff Hammes and   
               Walid Najjar and   
          J. Ross Beveridge and   
               Charlie Ross and   
            Monica Chawathe and   
               Mitesh Desai and   
               José Bins   Compiling SA--C Programs to FPGAs:
                                  Performance Results  . . . . . . . . . . 220
                   S. Hoque and   
                  S. Kazadi and   
                      A. Li and   
                    W. Chen and   
                       E. Sadun   Identification of Shapes Using A
                                  Nonlinear Dynamic System . . . . . . . . 236
            Bruce A. Draper and   
            Ulrike Ahlrichs and   
                Dietrich Paulus   Adapting Object Recognition across
                                  Domains: A Demonstration . . . . . . . . 256
              Markus Vincze and   
              Minu Ayromlou and   
             Carlos Beltran and   
        Antonios Gasteratos and   
            Simon Hoffgaard and   
                 Ole Madsen and   
         Wolfgang Ponweiser and   
                Michael Zillich   A System to Navigate a Robot into a Ship
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
               Huijing Zhao and   
              Ryosuke Shibasaki   Reconstructing Textured CAD Model of
                                  Urban Environment Using Vehicle-Borne
                                  Laser Range Scanners and Line Cameras    284
          Maarten Vergauwen and   
             Marc Pollefeys and   
                   Luc Van Gool   A Stereo Vision System for Support of
                                  Planetary Surface Exploration  . . . . . 298
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2096, 2001

          Marina Skurichina and   
              Robert P. W. Duin   Bagging and the Random Subspace Method
                                  for Redundant Feature Spaces . . . . . . 1
      Jeevani Wickramaratna and   
                Sean Holden and   
                 Bernard Buxton   Performance Degradation in Boosting  . . 11
            Elizabeth Tapia and   
José C. González and   
                  Julio Villena   A Generalized Class of Boosting
                                  Algorithms Based on Recursive Decoding
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
             Stefano Merler and   
          Cesare Furlanello and   
            Barbara Larcher and   
                  Andrea Sboner   Tuning Cost-Sensitive Boosting and Its
                                  Application to Melanoma Diagnosis  . . . 32
Juan J. Rodríguez Diez and   
Carlos J. Alonso González   Learning Classification RBF Networks by
                                  Boosting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
                     Tin Kam Ho   Data Complexity Analysis for Classifier
                                  Combination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
              W. B. Langdon and   
                   B. F. Buxton   Genetic Programming for Improved
                                  Receiver Operating Characteristics . . . 68
                 Fabio Roli and   
           Giorgio Giacinto and   
                Gianni Vernazza   Methods for Designing Multiple
                                  Classifier Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 78
            Salil Prabhakar and   
                   Anil K. Jain   Decision-Level Fusion in Fingerprint
                                  Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
              K. Sirlantzis and   
            M. C. Fairhurst and   
                    M. S. Hoque   Genetic Algorithms for Multi-classifier
                                  System Configuration: A Case Study in
                                  Character Recognition  . . . . . . . . . 99
           Jörg Dahmen and   
             Daniel Keysers and   
                    Hermann Ney   Combined Classification of Handwritten
                                  Digits Using the `Virtual Test Sample
                                  Method'  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
               Dechang Chen and   
                       Jian Liu   Averaging Weak Classifiers . . . . . . . 119
            Giuseppina Gini and   
            Marco Lorenzini and   
           Emilio Benfenati and   
        Raffaella Brambilla and   
              Luca Malvé   Mixing a Symbolic and a Subsymbolic
                                  Expert to Improve Carcinogenicity
                                  Prediction of Aromatic Compounds . . . . 126
              David J. Hand and   
             Niall M. Adams and   
                  Mark G. Kelly   Multiple Classifier Systems Based on
                                  Interpretable Linear Classifiers . . . . 136
               Reza Ghaderi and   
                 Terry Windeatt   Least Squares and Estimation Measures
                                  via Error Correcting Output Code . . . . 148
          Francesco Masulli and   
              Giorgio Valentini   Dependence among Codeword Bits Errors in
                                  ECOC Learning Machines: An Experimental
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
           Jirí Grim and   
              Josef Kittler and   
                Pavel Pudil and   
                     Petr Somol   Information Analysis of Multiple
                                  Classifier Fusion  . . . . . . . . . . . 168
            Patrice Latinne and   
             Olivier Debeir and   
         Christine Decaestecker   Limiting the Number of Trees in Random
                                  Forests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
             Pitoyo Hartono and   
                Shuji Hashimoto   Learning-Data Selection Mechanism
                                  through Neural Networks Ensemble . . . . 188
  Dimitrios S. Frossyniotis and   
           Andreas Stafylopatis   A Multi-SVM Classification System  . . . 198
                  P. Foggia and   
                 C. Sansone and   
              F. Tortorella and   
                       M. Vento   Automatic Classification of Clustered
                                  Microcalcifications by a Multiple
                                  Classifier System  . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Thomas Martini Jòrgensen and   
            Christian Linneberg   Feature Weighted Ensemble Classifiers
                                  --- A Modified Decision Scheme . . . . . 218
        Ludmila I. Kuncheva and   
        Christopher J. Whitaker   Feature Subsets for Classifier
                                  Combination: An Enumerative Experiment   228
              Nikunj C. Oza and   
                    Kagan Tumer   Input Decimation Ensembles:
                                  Decorrelation through Dimensionality
                                  Reduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
               D. Windridge and   
                     J. Kittler   Classifier Combination as a Tomographic
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
           Lorenzo Bruzzone and   
                  Roberto Cossu   A Robust Multiple Classifier System for
                                  a Partially Unsupervised Updating of
                                  Land-Cover Maps  . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
                  Paul C. Smits   Combining Supervised Remote Sensing
                                  Image Classifiers Based on Individual
                                  Class Performances . . . . . . . . . . . 269
         Gunnar Jakob Briem and   
      Jon Atli Benediktsson and   
          Johannes R. Sveinsson   Boosting, Bagging, and Consensus Based
                                  Classification of Multisource Remote
                                  Sensing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
              S. A. Dolenko and   
                Y. V. Orlov and   
          I. G. Persiantsev and   
               J. S. Shugai and   
             A. V. Dmitriev and   
             A. V. Suvorova and   
               I. S. Veselovsky   Solar Wind Data Analysis Using
                                  Self-Organizing Hierarchical Neural
                                  Network Classifiers  . . . . . . . . . . 289
            David M. J. Tax and   
              Robert P. W. Duin   Combining One-Class Classifiers  . . . . 299
                       Ana Fred   Finding Consistent Clusters in Data
                                  Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
                 S. P. Luttrell   A Self-Organising Approach to Multiple
                                  Classifier Fusion  . . . . . . . . . . . 319
             Giorgio Fumera and   
                     Fabio Roli   Error Rejection in Linearly Combined
                                  Multiple Classifiers . . . . . . . . . . 329
                 J. Kittler and   
                   F. M. Alkoot   Relationship of Sum and Vote Fusion
                                  Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
             L. I. Kuncheva and   
                    F. Roli and   
            G. L. Marcialis and   
                    C. A. Shipp   Complexity of Data Subsets Generated by
                                  the Random Subspace Method: An
                                  Experimental Investigation . . . . . . . 349
          Elzbieta Pekalska and   
              Robert P. W. Duin   On Combining Dissimilarity
                                  Representations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
              J. E. Higgins and   
                 T. J. Dodd and   
                   R. I. Damper   Application of Multiple Classifier
                                  Techniques to Subband Speaker
                                  Identification with an HMM/ANN System    369
                C. Dietrich and   
               F. Schwenker and   
                        G. Palm   Classification of Time Series Utilizing
                                  Temporal and Decision Fusion . . . . . . 378
                U.-V. Marti and   
                       H. Bunke   Use of Positional Information in
                                  Sequence Alignment for Multiple
                                  Classifier Combination . . . . . . . . . 388
                Dymitr Ruta and   
                  Bogdan Gabrys   Application of the Evolutionary
                                  Algorithms for Classifier Selection in
                                  Multiple Classifier Systems with
                                  Majority Voting  . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
        Friedhelm Schwenker and   
              Günther Palm   Tree-Structured Support Vector Machines
                                  for Multi-class Pattern Recognition  . . 409
        Bernhard Fröba and   
                    Walter Zink   On the Combination of Different Template
                                  Matching Strategies for Fast Face
                                  Detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
               F. M. Alkoot and   
                     J. Kittler   Improving Product by Moderating $k$-NN
                                  Classifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
               Shimon Cohen and   
                Nathan Intrator   Automatic Model Selection in a Hybrid
                                  Perceptron/Radial Network  . . . . . . . 440
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2097, 2001

          Alexander Maedche and   
              Steffen Staab and   
           Nenad Stojanovic and   
                Rudi Studer and   
                      York Sure   SEAL -- A Framework for Developing
                                  SEmantic Web PortALs . . . . . . . . . . 1
                       Tony Hey   E-Science and the Grid . . . . . . . . . 23
           Richard D. Regan and   
                     Alex Delis   An Analysis of Main-Memory and Log Space
                                  Usage in Extended Ephemeral Logging  . . 24
               Yuanling Zhu and   
                  Kevin Lü   An Effective Data Placement Strategy for
                                  XML Documents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
          Nicholas J. Caine and   
              Suzanne M. Embury   LOIS: The ``Lights Out'' Integrity
                                  Subsystem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
          Henrik Gustavsson and   
                    Brian Lings   CASE-Tool Interchange of Design
                                  Transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
              Weiping Zhang and   
                 Norbert Ritter   The Real Benefits of Object-Relational
                                  DB-Technology for Object-Oriented
                                  Software Development . . . . . . . . . . 89
              A. Al-Khudair and   
                 W. A. Gray and   
                    J. C. Miles   Object-Oriented Versioning in a
                                  Concurrent Engineering Design
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
            Henk Ernst Blok and   
          Arjen P. de Vries and   
            Henk M. Blanken and   
              Peter M. G. Apers   Experiences with IR TOP N Optimization
                                  in a Main Memory DBMS: Applying `the
                                  Database Approach' in New Domains  . . . 126
            Kai-Uwe Sattler and   
            Oliver Dunemann and   
               Ingolf Geist and   
               Gunter Saake and   
                  Stefan Conrad   Limiting Result Cardinalities for
                                  Multidatabase Queries Using Histograms   152
               Florian Waas and   
              Martin L. Kersten   Memory Aware Query Routing in
                                  Interactive Web-Based Information
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
                 A. Trigoni and   
                  G. M. Bierman   Inferring the Principal Type and the
                                  Schema Requirements of an OQL Query  . . 185
              Ayman Ammoura and   
         Osmar R. Za\"\iane and   
                        Yuan Ji   Immersed Visual Data Mining: Walking the
                                  Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2098, 2001

                Jin Akiyama and   
                Gisaku Nakamura   Dudeney Dissections of Polygons and
                                  Polyhedrons --- A Survey . . . . . . . . 1
                Jin Akiyama and   
             Hiroshi Fukuda and   
            Gisaku Nakamura and   
            Toshinori Sakai and   
              Jorge Urrutia and   
             Carlos Zamora-Cura   Universal Measuring Devices without
                                  Gradations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
                Jin Akiyama and   
            Gisaku Nakamura and   
             Akihiro Nozaki and   
                 Ken'ichi Ozawa   A Note on the Purely Recursive
                                  Dissection for a Sequentially
                                  $n$-Divisible Square . . . . . . . . . . 41
                Jin Akiyama and   
            Toshinori Sakai and   
                  Jorge Urrutia   Sequentially Divisible Dissections of
                                  Simple Polygons  . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
                 Helmut Alt and   
                 Ferran Hurtado   Packing Convex Polygons into Rectangular
                                  Boxes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
               Boris Aronov and   
Hervé Brönnimann and   
               Dan Halperin and   
           Robert Schiffenbauer   On the Number of Views of Polyhedral
                                  Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
  Imre Bárány and   
           Gyula Károlyi   Problems and Results around the
                                  Erd\Hos--Szekeres Convex Polygon Theorem 91
                    Peter Brass   On Finding Maximum-Cardinality Symmetric
                                  Subsets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
                Eric D. Demaine   Folding and Unfolding Linkages, Paper,
                                  and Polyhedra  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
               Antoine Deza and   
               Komei Fukuda and   
          Dmitrii Pasechnik and   
                  Masanori Sato   On the Skeleton of the Metric Polytope   125
           Greg N. Frederickson   Geometric Dissections that Swing and
                                  Twist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
             Kiyoshi Hosono and   
            David Rappaport and   
                Masatsugu Urabe   On Convex Decompositions of Points . . . 149
                John Iacono and   
               Stefan Langerman   Volume Queries in Polyhedra  . . . . . . 156
                   Hiro Ito and   
            Hideyuki Uehara and   
                Mitsuo Yokoyama   Sum of Edge Lengths of a Graph Drawn on
                                  a Convex Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
             Shin-ichi Iwai and   
              Kenjiro Ogawa and   
              Morimasa Tsuchiya   On Double Bound Graphs with Respect to
                                  Graph Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
              Atsuhi Kaneko and   
                        M. Kano   Generalized Balanced Partitions of Two
                                  Sets of Points in the Plane  . . . . . . 176
              Atsuhi Kaneko and   
                        M. Kano   On Paths in a Complete Bipartite
                                  Geometric Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
                Naoki Katoh and   
           Hiromichi Kojima and   
                  Ryo Taniguchi   Approximating Uniform Triangular Meshes
                                  for Spheres  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
           Pierre Kauffmann and   
            Jean-Claude Spehner   The Construction of Delaunay Diagrams by
                                  Lob Reduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
     Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi and   
          Atsuhiro Nakamoto and   
               Yoshiaki Oda and   
                Mamoru Watanabe   Geometric Transformations in Plane
                                  Triangulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
          David Kirkpatrick and   
              Bettina Speckmann   Separation Sensitive Kinetic Separation
                                  Structures for Convex Polygons . . . . . 222
                Hiroshi Maehara   On Acute Triangulations of
                                  Quadrilaterals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
             Andrea Mantler and   
                  Jack Snoeyink   Intersecting Red and Blue Line Segments
                                  in Optimal Time and Precision  . . . . . 244
             Takayuki Nagai and   
                  Nobuki Tokura   Tight Error Bounds of Geometric Problems
                                  on Convex Objects with Imprecise
                                  Coordinates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
              Atsuhiro Nakamoto   Triangle Contact Systems, Orthogonal
                                  Plane Partitions, and their Hit Graphs   264
          Atsuhiro Nakamoto and   
                   Seiya Negami   Note on Diagonal Flips and Chromatic
                                  Numbers of Quadrangulations on Closed
                                  Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
                Joseph O'Rourke   An Extension of Cauchy's Arm Lemma with
                                  Application to Curve Development . . . . 280
              János Pach   On the Complexity of the Union of
                                  Geometric Objects  . . . . . . . . . . . 292
          János Pach and   
         József Solymosi   Structure Theorems for Systems of
                                  Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
       András Recski and   
   Dávid Szeszlér   $3$-Dimensional Single Active Layer
                                  Routing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
              Fumihiko Takeuchi   Nonregular Triangulations, View Graphs
                                  of Triangulations, and Linear
                                  Programming Duality  . . . . . . . . . . 330
                     Xuehou Tan   Efficient Algorithms for Searching a
                                  Polygonal Room with a Door . . . . . . . 339
          Yoshinori Teshima and   
         Yoshinori Watanabe and   
                    Tohru Ogawa   A New Structure of Cylinder Packing  . . 351
               Takeshi Tokuyama   Efficient Algorithms for the Minimum
                                  Diameter Bridge Problem  . . . . . . . . 362
           Csaba D. Tóth   Illuminating Both Sides of Line Segments 370
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2099, 2001

               Michael Moortgat   Structural Equations in Language
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
         Geoffrey K. Pullum and   
              Barbara C. Scholz   On the Distinction between
                                  Model-Theoretic and
                                  Generative-Enumerative Syntactic
                                  Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
           Miguel A. Alonso and   
       Eric de la Clergerie and   
                 Manuel Vilares   A Formal Definition of Bottom-Up
                                  Embedded Push-Down Automata and Their
                                  Tabulation Technique . . . . . . . . . . 44
           Daniele Bargelli and   
                 Joachim Lambek   An Algebraic Approach to French Sentence
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
              Paolo Bottoni and   
                Bernd Meyer and   
               Kim Marriott and   
      Francesco Parisi Presicce   Deductive Parsing of Visual Languages    79
            Wojciech Buszkowski   Lambek Grammars Based on Pregroups . . . 95
            Claudia Casadio and   
                 Joachim Lambek   An Algebraic Analysis of Clitic Pronouns
                                  in Italian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Christophe Costa Florêncio   Consistent Identification in the Limit
                                  of Any of the Classes $k$-Valued Is
                                  NP-hard  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
             Alexander Dikovsky   Polarized Non-projective Dependency
                                  Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
                    Annie Foret   On Mixing Deduction and Substitution in
                                  Lambek Categorial Grammars . . . . . . . 158
                  Chris Fox and   
                  Shalom Lappin   A Framework for the Hyperintensional
                                  Semantics of Natural Language with Two
                                  Implementations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
                   Henk Harkema   A Characterization of Minimalist
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
        Torbjörn Lager and   
                   Joakim Nivre   Part of Speech Tagging from a Logical
                                  Point of View  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
                 Jens Michaelis   Transforming Linear Context-Free
                                  Rewriting Systems into Minimalist
                                  Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
              Edward P. Stabler   Recognizing Head Movement  . . . . . . . 245
        Jòrgen Villadsen   Combinators for Paraconsistent Attitudes 261
           Jeanne Villaneau and   
          Jean-Yves Antoine and   
                 Olivier Ridoux   Combining Syntax and Pragmatic Knowledge
                                  for the Understanding of Spontaneous
                                  Spoken Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
                       R. Zuber   Atomicity of Some Categorially
                                  Polyvalent Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . 296--310
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2100, 2001

              Ralf Küsters   Chapter 1. Introduction  . . . . . . . . 1
              Ralf Küsters   Chapter 2. Description Logics  . . . . . 11
              Ralf Küsters   Chapter 3. Non-Standard Inferences . . . 33
              Ralf Küsters   Chapter 4. Characterizing Subsumption    73
              Ralf Küsters   Chapter 5. LCS and MSC . . . . . . . . . 107
              Ralf Küsters   Chapter 6. Matching  . . . . . . . . . . 153
              Ralf Küsters   Chapter 7. Conclusion  . . . . . . . . . 229
                      Anonymous   References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2101, 2001

                  Enrico Coiera   Mediated Agent Interaction . . . . . . . 1
                      Jos Aarts   On Articulation and Localization ---
                                  Some Sociotechnical Issues of Design,
                                  Implementation and Evaluation of
                                  Knowledge Based Systems  . . . . . . . . 16
                  B. Sierra and   
                 E. Lazkano and   
                    I. Inza and   
                  M. Merino and   
        P. Larrañaga and   
                     J. Quiroga   Prototype Selection and Feature Subset
                                  Selection by Estimation of Distribution
                                  Algorithms. A Case Study in the Survival
                                  of Cirrhotic Patients Treated with TIPS  20
           Timothy Langford and   
  Christophe Giraud-Carrier and   
                     John Magee   Detection of Infectious Outbreaks in
                                  Hospitals through Incremental Clustering 30
          Riccardo Bellazzi and   
               Ivano Azzini and   
             Gianna Toffolo and   
          Stefano Bacchetti and   
                     Mario Lise   Mining Data from a Knowledge Management
                                  Perspective: An Application to Outcome
                                  Prediction in Patients with Resectable
                                  Hepatocellular Carcinoma . . . . . . . . 40
                  N. Durand and   
       B. Crémilleux and   
                  M. Henry-Amar   Discovering Associations in Clinical
                                  Data: Application to Search for
                                  Prognostic Factors in Hodgkin's Disease  50
           A. Rosemary Tate and   
           Joshua Underwood and   
         Christophe Ladroue and   
            Rosemary Luckin and   
              John R. Griffiths   Visualisation of Multidimensional Data
                                  for Medical Decision Support . . . . . . 55
José A. Sanandrés and   
        Víctor Maojo and   
         José Crespo and   
    Agustín Gómez   A Clustering-Based Constructive
                                  Induction Method and Its Application to
                                  Rheumatoid Arthritis . . . . . . . . . . 59
               Jorma Laurikkala   Improving Identification of Difficult
                                  Small Classes by Balancing Class
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
             Marco Zaffalon and   
               Keith Wesnes and   
                Orlando Petrini   Credal Classification for Dementia
                                  Screening  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
     Marko Robnik-\vSikonja and   
              David Cukjati and   
                 Igor Kononenko   Evaluation of Prognostic Factors and
                                  Prediction of Chronic Wound Healing Rate
                                  by Machine Learning Tools  . . . . . . . 77--87
                 Matja\vz Kukar   Making Reliable Diagnoses with Machine
                                  Learning: A Case Study . . . . . . . . . 88--98
            Ameen Abu-Hanna and   
            Nicolette de Keizer   A Classification-Tree Hybrid Method for
                                  Studying Prognostic Models in Intensive
                                  Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
            Tomislav \vSmuc and   
           Dragan Gamberger and   
             Goran Krsta\vci\'c   Combining Unsupervised and Supervised
                                  Machine Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--112
         Goran Krsta\vci\'c and   
           Dragan Gamberger and   
                Tomislav \vSmuc   Coronary Heart Disease Patient Models
                                  Based on Inductive Machine Learning  . . 113
                Markku Siermala   Prediction of Protein Secondary
                                  Structures of All Types Using New
                                  Hypersphere Machine Learning Method  . . 117
           Stefania Montani and   
                Paolo Magni and   
          Abdul V. Roudsari and   
            Ewart R. Carson and   
              Riccardo Bellazzi   Integrating Different Methodologies for
                                  Insulin Therapy Support in Type $1$
                                  Diabetic Patients  . . . . . . . . . . . 121
            Stephen E. Rees and   
   Charlotte Alleròd and   
Sòren Kjærgaard and   
                  Egon Toft and   
              Per Thorgaard and   
               Steen Andreassen   Diagnosing Patient State in Intensive
                                  Care Patients Using the Intelligent
                                  Ventilator (INVENT) System . . . . . . . 131
              Robert Kosara and   
                  Silvia Miksch   A User Interface for Executing Asbru
                                  Plans  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
         David Riaño and   
                   Susana Prado   Improving HISYS1 with a Decision Support
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
              Paola Baiardi and   
              Valter Piazza and   
             Maria C. Mazzoleni   Diagnosis of Iron-Deficiency Anemia in
                                  Hemodialyzed Patients through Support
                                  Vector Machines Technique  . . . . . . . 144
            Mauro Giacomini and   
        Raffaella Michelini and   
         Francesca Deantoni and   
             Carmelina Ruggiero   A Visual Tool for a User-Friendly
                                  Artificial Neural Network Based Decision
                                  Support System in Medicine . . . . . . . 148
            Rajai El Dajani and   
           Maryvonne Miquel and   
       Marie-Claire Forlini and   
                     Paul Rubel   Modeling of Ventricular Repolarisation
                                  Time Series by Multi-layer Perceptrons   152
                    Peter Lucas   Expert Knowledge and Its Role in
                                  Learning Bayesian Networks in Medicine:
                                  An Appraisal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
           Steen Andreassen and   
             Marko Suojanen and   
           Björn Falck and   
             Kristian G. Olesen   Improving the Diagnostic Performance of
                                  MUNIN by Remodelling of the Diseases . . 167
                Peter Antal and   
               Geert Fannes and   
               Bart De Moor and   
            Joos Vandewalle and   
                  Y. Moreau and   
                 Dirk Timmerman   Extended Bayesian Regression Models: A
                                  Symbiotic Application of Belief Networks
                                  and Multilayer Perceptrons for the
                                  Classification of Ovarian Tumors . . . . 177
      Linda C. van der Gaag and   
          C. L. M. Witteman and   
              Silja Renooij and   
             M. Egmont-Petersen   The Effects of Disregarding Test
                                  Characteristics in Probabilistic
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
               Joachim Horn and   
     Thomas Birkhölzer and   
                Oliver Hogl and   
           Marco Pellegrino and   
  Ruxandra Lupas Scheiterer and   
            Kai-Uwe Schmidt and   
                   Volker Tresp   Knowledge Acquisition and Automated
                                  Generation of Bayesian Networks for a
                                  Medical Dialogue and Advisory System . . 199
          M. Elena Hernando and   
    Enrique J. Gómez and   
                    F. del Pozo   Educational Tool for Diabetic Patients
                                  Based on Causal Probabilistic Networks   203
   Severino F. Galán and   
           Francisco Aguado and   
   Francisco J. Díez and   
               José Mira   NasoNet, Joining Bayesian Networks and
                                  Time to Model Nasopharyngeal Cancer
                                  Spread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
            Andreas Seyfang and   
              Silvia Miksch and   
                Werner Horn and   
        Michael S. Urschitz and   
            Christian Popow and   
             Christian F. Poets   Using Time-Oriented Data Abstraction
                                  Methods to Optimize Oxygen Supply for
                                  Neonates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
              Luca Chittaro and   
                    Carlo Combi   Visual Definition of Temporal Clinical
                                  Abstractions: A User Interface Based on
                                  Novel Metaphors  . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
        Nicolette de Bruijn and   
                Peter Lucas and   
             Karin Schurink and   
                Marc Bonten and   
                 Andy Hoepelman   Using Temporal Probabilistic Knowledge
                                  for Medical Decision Making  . . . . . . 231
          M. Cabrero-Canosa and   
          M. Castro-Pereiro and   
      M. Graña-Ramos and   
       E. Hernandez-Pereira and   
               V. Moret-Bonillo   Temporal Issues in the Intelligent
                                  Interpretation of the Sleep Apnea
                                  Syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
                  S. Modgil and   
                     P. Hammond   Generating Symbolic and Natural Language
                                  Partial Solutions for Inclusion in
                                  Medical Plans  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
               Patrick Ruch and   
                Robert Baud and   
   Antoine Geissbühler and   
            Christian Lovis and   
       Anne-Marie Rassinoux and   
                Alain Rivi\`ere   Using Part-of-Speech and Word-Sense
                                  Disambiguation for Boosting String-Edit
                                  Distance Spelling Correction . . . . . . 249
            Martin Romacker and   
                       Udo Hahn   Semantic Interpretation of Medical
                                  Language --- Quantitative Analysis and
                                  Qualitative Yield  . . . . . . . . . . . 258
                     Cungen Cao   Medical Knowledge Acquisition from the
                                  Electronic Encyclopedia of China . . . . 268
                   John Fox and   
            David Glasspool and   
                  Jonathan Bury   Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
                                  to Reasoning under Uncertainty in
                                  Medical Decision Making  . . . . . . . . 272
           Agnieszka Onisko and   
                Peter Lucas and   
              Marek J. Druzdzel   Comparison of Rule-Based and Bayesian
                                  Network Approaches in Medical Diagnostic
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
              Stefan Schulz and   
                       Udo Hahn   Parts, Locations, and Holes -- Formal
                                  Reasoning about Anatomical Structures    293
                 Blaz Zupan and   
                Ivan Bratko and   
               Janez Demsar and   
             J. Robert Beck and   
                 Adam Kuspa and   
                   Gad Shaulsky   Abductive Inference of Genetic Networks  304
             Alan L. Rector and   
           Peter D. Johnson and   
                  Samson Tu and   
                 Chris Wroe and   
                  Jeremy Rogers   Interface of Inference Models with
                                  Concept and Medical Record Models  . . . 314
Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar and   
Francisca Ibañez-Cruz and   
               Paul Compton and   
Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis and   
Manuel De las Heras-González   Integrating Ripple Down Rules with
                                  Ontologies in an Oncology Domain . . . . 324
          Rolf Grütter and   
                Claus Eikemeier   Towards a Simple Ontology Definition
                                  Language (SOntoDL) for a Semantic Web of
                                  Evidence-Based Medical Information . . . 328
     Cláudia Antunes and   
                  J. P. Martins   Knowledge Acquisition System to Support
                                  Low Vision Consultation  . . . . . . . . 332
        Radim \vSára and   
              Daniel Smutek and   
Petr Sucharda andt\vStépán Sva\vcina   Systematic Construction of Texture
                                  Features for Hashimoto's Lymphocytic
                                  Thyroiditis Recognition from Sonographic
                                  Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--348
           Nathalie Richard and   
               Michel Dojat and   
               Catherine Garbay   Dynamic Adaptation of Cooperative Agents
                                  for MRI Brain Scans Segmentation . . . . 349
            Olivier Dameron and   
             Bernard Gibaud and   
                 Xavier Morandi   Numeric and Symbolic Knowledge
                                  Representation of Cortex Anatomy Using
                                  Web Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
                A. Albrecht and   
                    E. Hein and   
         K. Steinhöfel and   
                 M. Taupitz and   
                     C. K. Wong   Depth-Four Threshold Circuits for
                                  Computer-Assisted X-ray Diagnosis  . . . 369
             Antonio Moreno and   
              A\"\ida Valls and   
                    Jaime Bocio   Management of Hospital Teams for Organ
                                  Transplants Using Multi-agent Systems    374
            Diego Marchetti and   
           Giordano Lanzola and   
               Mario Stefanelli   An AI-Based Approach to Support
                                  Communication in Health Care
                                  Organizations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
             Hans Schlenker and   
         Hans-Joachim Goltz and   
         Joerg-Wilhelm Oestmann   TAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
         Ana Maria Monteiro and   
                 Jacques Wainer   A Conceptual Framework to Model Chronic
                                  and Long-Term Diseases . . . . . . . . . 405
                   K. Faber and   
                 D. Krechel and   
              D. Reidenbach and   
          A. von Wangenheim and   
                    P. R. Wille   Modelling of Radiological Examinations
                                  with POKMAT, a Process Oriented
                                  Knowledge Management Tool  . . . . . . . 409
                   A. Aldea and   
            B. López and   
                  A. Moreno and   
            D. Riaño and   
                       A. Valls   A Multi-agent System for Organ
                                  Transplant Co-ordination . . . . . . . . 413
              Julien Balter and   
        Annick Labarre-Vila and   
   Danielle Ziébelin and   
               Catherine Garbay   A Platform Integrating Knowledge and
                                  Data Management for EMG Studies  . . . . 417
   Brigitte Séroussi and   
             Jacques Bouaud and   
Éric-Charles Antoine and   
              Laurent Zelek and   
                 Marc Spielmann   Using ONCODOC as a Computer-Based
                                  Eligibility Screening System to Improve
                                  Accrual onto Breast Cancer Clinical
                                  Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
                 Mar Marcos and   
               Geert Berger and   
         Frank van Harmelen and   
          Annette ten Teije and   
               Hugo Roomans and   
                  Silvia Miksch   Using Critiquing for Improving Medical
                                  Protocols: Harder than It Seems  . . . . 431
           Silvana Quaglini and   
              Carla Rognoni and   
             Anna Cavallini and   
               Giuseppe Micieli   Evaluating the Impact of Clinical
                                  Practice Guidelines on Stroke Outcomes   442
          Henry W. W. Potts and   
            Jeremy C. Wyatt and   
              Douglas G. Altman   Challenges in Evaluating Complex
                                  Decision Support Systems: Lessons from
                                  Design-a-Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
      Linda C. van der Gaag and   
                  Silja Renooij   On the Evaluation of Probabilistic
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
             Rainer Schmidt and   
             Dagmar Steffen and   
                   Lothar Gierl   Evaluation of a Case-Based Antibiotics
                                  Therapy Adviser  . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2102, 2001

             David Lorge Parnas   Software Documentation and the
                                  Verification Process . . . . . . . . . . 1
              Kedar S. Namjoshi   Certifying Model Checkers  . . . . . . . 2
                    Yves Bertot   Formalizing a JVML Verifier for
                                  Initialization in a Theorem Prover . . . 14
         Abhik Roychoudhury and   
             I. V. Ramakrishnan   Automated Inductive Verification of
                                  Parameterized Protocols  . . . . . . . . 25
             Girish S. Bhat and   
           Rance Cleaveland and   
                     Alex Groce   Efficient Model Checking Via Büchi
                                  Tableau Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
                Paul Gastin and   
                   Denis Oddoux   Fast LTL to Büchi Automata Translation    53
              Hana Chockler and   
             Orna Kupferman and   
          Robert P. Kurshan and   
                 Moshe Y. Vardi   A Practical Approach to Coverage in
                                  Model Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
            Agostino Dovier and   
               Carla Piazza and   
              Alberto Policriti   A Fast Bisimulation Algorithm  . . . . . 79
              in Model Checking   Symmetry and Reduced Symmetry in Model
                                  Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
          Andreas Kuehlmann and   
              Jason Baumgartner   Transformation-Based Verification Using
                                  Generalized Retiming . . . . . . . . . . 104
               Gianpiero Cabodi   Meta-BDDs: A Decomposed Representation
                                  for Layered Symbolic Manipulation of
                                  Boolean Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . 118
             John Moondanos and   
              Carl H. Seger and   
                Ziyad Hanna and   
                    Daher Kaiss   CLEVER: Divide and Conquer Combinational
                                  Logic Equivalence VERification with
                                  False Negative Elimination . . . . . . . 131
                 Yoav Rodeh and   
                Ofer Shtrichman   Finite Instantiations in Equivalence
                                  Logic with Uninterpreted Functions . . . 144
         Alexander Asteroth and   
             Christel Baier and   
            Ulrich Aßmann   Model Checking with Formula-Dependent
                                  Abstract Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
                Rajeev Alur and   
                   Bow-Yaw Wang   Verifying Network Protocol
                                  Implementations by Symbolic Refinement
                                  Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
                  Hao Zheng and   
                Eric Mercer and   
                    Chris Myers   Automatic Abstraction for Verification
                                  of Timed Circuits and Systems  . . . . . 182
          Marta Kwiatkowska and   
              Gethin Norman and   
                 Roberto Segala   Automated Verification of a Randomized
                                  Distributed Consensus Protocol Using
                                  Cadence SMV and PRISM  . . . . . . . . . 194
                Rajeev Alur and   
            Kousha Etessami and   
             Mihalis Yannakakis   Analysis of Recursive State Machines . . 207
              Tamarah Arons and   
                Amir Pnueli and   
              Sitvanit Ruah and   
                 Jiazhao Xu and   
                    Lenore Zuck   Parameterized Verification with
                                  Automatically Computed Inductive
                                  Assertions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
          Miroslav N. Velev and   
               Randal E. Bryant   EVC: A Validity Checker for the Logic of
                                  Equality with Uninterpreted Functions
                                  and Memories, Exploiting Positive
                                  Equality, and Conservative
                                  Transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
                  Dawn Song and   
              Adrian Perrig and   
                   Doantam Phan   AGVI --- Automatic Generation,
                                  Verification, and Implementation of
                                  Security Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Jean-Christophe Filliâtre and   
                   Sam Owre and   
          Harald Rueß and   
              Natarajan Shankar   ICS: Integrated Canonizer and Solver . . 246
                Stefan Blom and   
                Wan Fokkink and   
           Jan Friso Groote and   
        Izak van Langevelde and   
                Bert Lisser and   
                Jaco van de Pol   $ \mu $CRL: A Toolset for Analysing
                                  Algebraic Specifications . . . . . . . . 250
             Martin Leucker and   
                    Thomas Noll   Truth/SLC --- A Parallel Verification
                                  Platform for Concurrent Systems  . . . . 255
                Thomas Ball and   
             Sriram K. Rajamani   The SLAM Toolkit . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
                   Xavier Leroy   Java Bytecode Verification: An Overview  265
                Dennis Dams and   
           Yassine Lakhnech and   
                 Martin Steffen   Iterating Transducers  . . . . . . . . . 286
           Giorgio Delzanno and   
Jean-François Raskin and   
              Laurent Van Begin   Attacking Symbolic State Explosion . . . 298
                   Monika Maidl   A Unifying Model Checking Approach for
                                  Safety Properties of Parameterized
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
             Javier Esparza and   
                 Stefan Schwoon   A BDD-Based Model Checker for Recursive
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
                 Luca de Alfaro   Model Checking the World Wide Web  . . . 337
              Orna Grumberg and   
               Tamir Heyman and   
                 Assaf Schuster   Distributed Symbolic Model Checking for
                                  $ \mu $-Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
                  Ilan Beer and   
           Shoham Ben-David and   
               Cindy Eisner and   
                Dana Fisman and   
             Anna Gringauze and   
                     Yoav Rodeh   The Temporal Logic Sugar . . . . . . . . 363
           Aurore Annichini and   
            Ahmed Bouajjani and   
             Mihaela Sighireanu   \sc Trex: A Tool for Reachability
                                  Analysis of Complex Systems  . . . . . . 368
                 Peer Johannsen   \sc BooStER: Speeding Up RTL Property
                                  Checking of Digital Designs by
                                  Word-Level Abstraction . . . . . . . . . 373--377
             Vladimir Levin and   
   Hüsnü Yenigün   SDLcheck: A Model Checking Tool  . . . . 378
          Vivek K. Shanbhag and   
                K. Gopinath and   
             Markku Turunen and   
              Ari Ahtiainen and   
               Matti Luukkainen   EASN: Integrating ASN.1 and Model
                                  Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
                  Nina Amla and   
           E. Allen Emerson and   
          Robert P. Kurshan and   
                 Kedar Namjoshi   \sc Rtdt: A Front-End for Efficient
                                  Model Checking of Synchronous Timing
                                  Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--390
             Etienne Closse and   
               Michel Poize and   
              Jacques Pulou and   
             Joseph Sifakis and   
             Patrick Venter and   
                Daniel Weil and   
                  Sergio Yovine   TAXYS: A Tool for the Development and
                                  Verification of Real-Time Embedded
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
               Ranjit Jhala and   
            Kenneth L. McMillan   Microarchitecture Verification by
                                  Compositional Model Checking . . . . . . 396
              J. Strother Moore   Rewriting for Symbolic Execution of
                                  State Machine Models . . . . . . . . . . 411
                  Tamarah Arons   Using Timestamping and History Variables
                                  to Verify Sequential Consistency . . . . 423
                 Fady Copty and   
                  Limor Fix and   
                Ranan Fraer and   
         Enrico Giunchiglia and   
                 Gila Kamhi and   
          Armando Tacchella and   
                 Moshe Y. Vardi   Benefits of Bounded Model Checking at an
                                  Industrial Setting . . . . . . . . . . . 436
                 Per Bjesse and   
                Tim Leonard and   
                 Abdel Mokkedem   Finding Bugs in an Alpha Microprocessor
                                  Using Satisfiability Solvers . . . . . . 454
              Sumio Morioka and   
           Yasunao Katayama and   
               Toshiyuki Yamane   Towards Efficient Verification of
                                  Arithmetic Algorithms over Galois Fields
                                  $ G F(2^m) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--477
       Yasmina Abdedda\"\im and   
                     Oded Maler   Job-Shop Scheduling Using Timed Automata 478
                 Kim Larsen and   
              Gerd Behrmann and   
                Ed Brinksma and   
             Ansgar Fehnker and   
                Thomas Hune and   
            Paul Pettersson and   
                    Judi Romijn   As Cheap as Possible: Efficient
                                  Cost-Optimal Reachability for Priced
                                  Timed Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
                       Zhe Dang   Binary Reachability Analysis of Pushdown
                                  Timed Automata with Dense Clocks . . . . 506
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2103, 2001

          Markus Hannebauer and   
                Jan Wendler and   
                 Enrico Pagello   Balancing Reactivity and Social
                                  Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems ---
                                  A Short Guide to the Contributions . . . 3
                Luca Iocchi and   
              Daniele Nardi and   
           Massimiliano Salerno   Reactivity and Deliberation: A Survey on
                                  Multi-Robot Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 9
             Stefano Carpin and   
              Carlo Ferrari and   
             Enrico Pagello and   
             Pierluigi Patuelli   Bridging Deliberation and Reactivity in
                                  Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems through
                                  Map Focus  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Vangelis Kourakos Mavromichalis and   
               George A. Vouros   Balancing between Reactivity and
                                  Deliberation in the IC AGENT Framework   53
                    Jacek Malec   On Augmenting Reactivity with
                                  Deliberation in a Controlled Manner  . . 76
              Marc S. Atkin and   
         David L. Westbrook and   
                  Paul R. Cohen   HAC: A Unified View of Reactive and
                                  Deliberative Activity  . . . . . . . . . 92
          Ansgar Bredenfeld and   
           Hans-Ulrich Kobialka   Team Cooperation Using Dual Dynamics . . 111
                Sven Behnke and   
              Raúl Rojas   A Hierarchy of Reactive Behaviors
                                  Handles Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . 125
          Martin Riedmiller and   
               Andrew Moore and   
                 Jeff Schneider   Reinforcement Learning for Cooperating
                                  and Communicating Reactive Agents in
                                  Electrical Power Grids . . . . . . . . . 137
             Olivier Sigaud and   
           Pierre Gérard   Being Reactive by Exchanging Roles: An
                                  Empirical Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
     Luís Paulo Reis and   
                   Nuno Lau and   
 Eugéfnio Costa Oliveira   Situation Based Strategic Positioning
                                  for Coordinating a Team of Homogeneous
                                  Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
              Maroua Bouzid and   
               Hossam Hanna and   
           Abdel-Illah Mouaddib   Deliberation Levels in
                                  Theoretic-Decision Approaches for Task
                                  Allocation in Resource-Bounded Agents    198
             Gerhard Weiß   Cognition, Sociability, and Constraints  217
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2104, 2001

               Vishal Aslot and   
                Max Domeika and   
           Rudolf Eigenmann and   
              Greg Gaertner and   
            Wesley B. Jones and   
                    Bodo Parady   SPEComp: A New Benchmark Suite for
                                  Measuring Parallel Computer Performance  1
              Seung Jai Min and   
              Seon Wook Kim and   
               Michael Voss and   
                Sang Ik Lee and   
               Rudolf Eigenmann   Portable Compilers for OpenMP  . . . . . 11
            Kazuhiro Kusano and   
             Mitsuhisa Sato and   
               Takeo Hosomi and   
                    Yoshiki Seo   The Omni OpenMP Compiler on the
                                  Distributed Shared Memory of Cenju-4 . . 20
           Matthias Müller   Some Simple OpenMP Optimization
                                  Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
             Jay Hoeflinger and   
                   Bob Kuhn and   
             Wolfgang Nagel and   
              Paul Petersen and   
               Hrabri Rajic and   
                Sanjiv Shah and   
                Jeff Vetter and   
               Michael Voss and   
                      Renee Woo   An Integrated Performance Visualizer for
                                  MPI/OpenMP Programs  . . . . . . . . . . 40
               Jordi Caubet and   
              Judit Gimenez and   
              Jesus Labarta and   
                    Luiz DeRose   A Dynamic Tracing Mechanism for
                                  Performance Analysis of OpenMP
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
                So-Hee Park and   
              Mi-Young Park and   
                   Yong-Kee Jun   A Comparison of Scalable Labeling
                                  Schemes for Detecting Races in OpenMP
                                  Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
                Rene Kobler and   
   Dieter Kranzlmüller and   
                   Jens Volkert   Debugging OpenMP Programs Using Event
                                  Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
                  D. J. Lee and   
                   T. J. Downar   The Application of POSIX Threads and
                                  OpenMP to the U.S. NRC Neutron Kinetics
                                  Code PARCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
               Jens Gerlach and   
             Zheng-Yu Jiang and   
               Hans-Werner Pohl   Integrating OpenMP into Janus  . . . . . 101
  Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos and   
          Eduard Ayguadé   A Study of Implicit Data Distribution
                                  Methods for OpenMP Using the SPEC
                                  Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
             Mitsuhisa Sato and   
            Motonari Hirano and   
              Yoshio Tanaka and   
              Satoshi Sekiguchi   OmniRPC: A Grid RPC Facility for Cluster
                                  and Global Computing in OpenMP . . . . . 130
            Barbara Chapman and   
                 Amit Patil and   
                Achal Prabhakar   Performance Oriented Programming for
                                  NUMA Architectures . . . . . . . . . . . 137
                M. Gonzalez and   
          E. Ayguadé and   
               X. Martorell and   
                     J. Labarta   Defining and Supporting Pipelined
                                  Executions in OpenMP . . . . . . . . . . 155
             Peter Jamieson and   
                  Angelos Bilas   CableS: Thread Control and Memory System
                                  Extensions for Shared Virtual Memory
                                  Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2105, 2001

                 Minzheong Song   Market Strategies in the Internet
                                  Content Business . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
               Chew Lay Lek and   
            Suliman Al-Hawamdeh   Government Initiatives and the Knowledge
                                  Economy: Case of Singapore . . . . . . . 19
                Dong Su Jin and   
                 Kyoung Jun Lee   Impacts and Limitations of Intelligent
                                  Agents in Electronic Commerce  . . . . . 33
               Nam Yong Lee and   
                   Eun Hee Choi   Appling the AHP Techniques to Electronic
                                  Commerce in a Special Attention to
                                  Fashion Website Selection  . . . . . . . 49
                  Jaewon Oh and   
               Geunduk Park and   
                 Kapsoo Kim and   
               Sang-goo Lee and   
                       Chisu Wu   Catalog Sharing through Catalog
                                  Interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
                Mun-Cho Kim and   
                   Jong-Kil Kim   Digital Divide: Conceptual Discussions
                                  and Prospect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
              Takayuki Watanabe   Merits of Open-Source Resolution to
                                  Resolve a Digital Divide in Information
                                  Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
                Andy Williamson   Emancipatory Learning via the Internet:
                                  A Model for Reducing Maori
                                  Socio-economic Exclusion in Aotearoa/New
                                  Zealand  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
              Hyokyung Bahn and   
               Yong H. Shin and   
                       Kern Koh   Analysis of Internet Reference Behaviors
                                  in the Korean Education Network  . . . . 114
            Cheng-Yue Chang and   
                 Ming-Syan Chen   Load Balancing Studies on an H.323
                                  Gatekeeper Prototype . . . . . . . . . . 128
                Sei-Ie Jang and   
              Joong-Han Kim and   
              R. S. Ramakrishna   Framework for Building Mobile
                                  Context-Aware Applications . . . . . . . 139
              Takuya Otsuka and   
                  Akira Onozawa   Personal Information Market: Toward a
                                  Secure and Efficient Trade of Privacy    151
            Eun-Kyeong Kwon and   
                Yong-Gu Cho and   
                   Ki-Joon Chae   Security Enhancement on Mobile Commerce  164
                  Qiuli Qin and   
                    Zhao Xi and   
                   Jingyan Chen   The Innovation of E-marketing
                                  Combination Tactics  . . . . . . . . . . 177
                       Jack Yan   Online Branding: An Antipodean
                                  Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
               Weng-Kin Lai and   
       Chandran Elamvazuthi and   
           Normaziah Abdul Aziz   Staying Put But Going Far: Empowering
                                  Online Rural Communities in Malaysia . . 203
                   Tao Meng and   
                      Ning Ding   Enterprise Alliance and Virtue
                                  Enterprise: A Systematic Analysis and
                                  Theoretical Explanation  . . . . . . . . 220
                   Sanghyun Lee   Challenges in Building Design and the
                                  Construction Industry: The Future of
                                  Design and Construction in the Internet
                                  Age  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Oscar Díaz-Alcántara and   
               Dermot McCluskey   Towards Policy-Based Management QoS in
                                  Multicommunicative Education . . . . . . 237
                    Eunhye Park   Challenges and Promises in the Cyber
                                  World with Young Children  . . . . . . . 249
                    Sunsook Noh   A Vision for Improving Mathematics
                                  Education in the Internet-Based Society  261
                  Seang-Tae Kim   Leapfrogging from Traditional Government
                                  to e-Government  . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
               Craig Carter and   
                    Kay Fielden   Towards Cyber-democracy: True
                                  Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
                Xiaoli Wang and   
                  Walter Karten   Organizational Structure Triangle
                                  Stability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
               Cheolbum Ahn and   
                Yunmook Nah and   
              Seunghun Park and   
                    Jungsun Kim   An Integrated Medical Information System
                                  Using XML  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
                  Kyoung-Mi Lee   Image-Guided Telemedicine System via the
                                  Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
               Seok-Soo Kim and   
                 Dae-Joon Hwang   An Algorithm for Formation and
                                  Confirmation of Password for Paid
                                  Members on the Internet-Based
                                  Telemedicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
      Elvis Wai Chung Leung and   
                        Qing Li   Agent-Based Approach to e-Learning: An
                                  Architectural Framework  . . . . . . . . 341
               Hyosook Jung and   
                Woochun Jun and   
                   Le Gruenwald   A Design and Implementation of Web-Based
                                  Project-Based Learning Support Systems   354
              Hee Yong Youn and   
                Hee-Suk Kim and   
             Hyunseung Choo and   
                   Keecheon Kim   A New Incremental Rerouting for Handoff
                                  in Wireless ATM Networks . . . . . . . . 368
            Chin-Chen Chang and   
             Hsien-Chu Hsia and   
                 Tung-Shou Chen   A Progressive Image Transmission Scheme
                                  Based on Block Truncation Coding . . . . 383
               Daewoo Chung and   
             Hyunseung Choo and   
              Hee Yong Youn and   
                Dong Ryeol Shin   Reduction of Location Update Traffic
                                  Using Virtual Layer in PCS . . . . . . . 398
               Woongjae Lee and   
                  Jun Hwang and   
              Kyung-Moo Lee and   
                      Inhan Kim   A Study on Implementation of Evaluation
                                  System of Ataxia Using a Touchscreen . . 411
             Ren-Junn Hwang and   
            Timothy K. Shih and   
               Chuan-Ho Kao and   
               Tsung-Ming Chang   Lossy Compression Tolerant Steganography 427
                Dong-Ho Lee and   
             Hyung-Dong Lee and   
               Il-Hwan Choi and   
                 Hyoung-Joo Kim   An Algorithm for Incremental Nearest
                                  Neighbor Search in High-Dimensional Data
                                  Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
              Jong Ha Hwang and   
                  Jae Ho Ro and   
              Keung Hae Lee and   
              Jong Sou Park and   
                  Soochan Hwang   An XML-Based $3$-Dimensional Graphic
                                  Database System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2106, 2001

          José Gomes and   
               Olivier Faugeras   Using the Vector Distance Functions to
                                  Evolve Manifolds of Arbitrary
                                  Codimension  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
            Kim S. Pedersen and   
                   Mads Nielsen   Computing Optic Flow by Scale-Space
                                  Integration of Normal Flow . . . . . . . 14
     Martin Lefébure and   
               Laurent D. Cohen   Image Registration, Optical Flow, and
                                  Local Rigidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
               Mads Nielsen and   
                Martin Lillholm   What Do Features Tell about Images?  . . 39
             Elena Tagliati and   
               Lewis D. Griffin   Features in Scale Space: Progress on the
                                  $2$D $ 2^{\rm nd} $ Order Jet  . . . . . 51
                Ivan Laptev and   
                 Tony Lindeberg   Tracking of Multi-state Hand Models
                                  Using Particle Filtering and a Hierarchy
                                  of Multi-scale Image Features  . . . . . 63
Frédéric Guichard and   
              Jean-Michel Morel   A Note on Two Classical Shock Filters
                                  and Their Asymptotics  . . . . . . . . . 75
               Charles Kervrann   Bayesian Object Detection through Level
                                  Curves Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
                Ivan Laptev and   
                 Tony Lindeberg   A Multi-scale Feature Likelihood Map for
                                  Direct Evaluation of Object Hypotheses   98
     François Malgouyres   Total Variation Based Oversampling of
                                  Noisy Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
       Alfred M. Bruckstein and   
               Michael Elad and   
                     Ron Kimmel   Down-Scaling for Better Transform
                                  Compression  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
                 Petros Maragos   Algebraic and PDE Approaches for
                                  Multiscale Image Operators with Global
                                  Constraints: Reference Semilattice
                                  Erosions and Levelings . . . . . . . . . 137
     Renato Keshet (Kresch) and   
         Henk J. A. M. Heijmans   Adjunctions in Pyramids and Curve
                                  Evolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--160
                  Fernand Meyer   Hierarchies of Partitions and
                                  Morphological Segmentation . . . . . . . 161
                 Marco Loog and   
 Johannes Jisse Duistermaat and   
              Luc M. J. Florack   On the Behavior of Spatial Critical
                                  Points under Gaussian Blurring. A
                                  Folklore Theorem and Scale-Space
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
              Luc M. J. Florack   Scale-Space Theories for Scalar and
                                  Vector Images  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
     Rein van den Boomgaard and   
               Rik van der Weij   Gaussian Convolutions. Numerical
                                  Approximations Based on Interpolation    205
         Henk J. A. M. Heijmans   Scale-Spaces, PDE's, and
                                  Scale-Invariance . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
          Marielle Mokhtari and   
                Robert Bergevin   Generic Multi-scale Segmentation and
                                  Curve Approximation Method . . . . . . . 227
                    Jayant Shah   Segmentation of Shapes . . . . . . . . . 236
                    Peter Majer   The Influence of the $ \gamma
                                  $-Parameter on Feature Detection with
                                  Automatic Scale Selection  . . . . . . . 245--254
    Bart M. ter Haar Romeny and   
          Luc M. J. Florack and   
                   Mads Nielsen   Scale-Time Kernels and Models  . . . . . 255
                   Erik Dam and   
                   Mads Nielsen   Exploring Non-linear Diffusion: The
                                  Diffusion Echo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
                   Danny Barash   Bilateral Filtering and Anisotropic
                                  Diffusion: Towards a Unified Viewpoint   273
               Danny Barash and   
              Moshe Israeli and   
                     Ron Kimmel   An Accurate Operator Splitting Scheme
                                  for Nonlinear Diffusion Filtering  . . . 281
            Pavel Mrázek   Selection of Optimal Stopping Time for
                                  Nonlinear Diffusion Filtering  . . . . . 290
                 Guy Gilboa and   
          Yehoshua Y. Zeevi and   
                  Nir A. Sochen   Complex Diffusion Processes for Image
                                  Filtering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
              Nir A. Sochen and   
                     Ron Kimmel   Combing a Porcupine via Stereographic
                                  Direction Diffusion  . . . . . . . . . . 308
             Otmar Scherzer and   
                 Chuck Groetsch   Inverse Scale Space Theory for Inverse
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
               Lewis D. Griffin   Histograms of Infinitesimal
                                  Neighbourhoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
                 Tim K. Lee and   
           M. Stella Atkins and   
                     Ze-Nian Li   Indentation and Protrusion Detection and
                                  Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
                 Chen Sagiv and   
              Nir A. Sochen and   
              Yehoshua Y. Zeevi   Geodesic Active Contours Applied to
                                  Texture Feature Space  . . . . . . . . . 344
    Bart M. ter Haar Romeny and   
        Jan-Mark Geusebroek and   
             Peter Van Osta and   
     Rein van den Boomgaard and   
              Jan J. Koenderink   Color Differential Structure . . . . . . 353
            Alexander Brook and   
                 Ron Kimmel and   
                  Nir A. Sochen   Geometry Motivated Variational
                                  Segmentation for Color Images  . . . . . 362
              Iris Vanhamel and   
         Ioannis Pratikakis and   
                   Hichem Sahli   Hierarchical Segmentation Using Dynamics
                                  of Multiscale Color Gradient Watersheds  371
         Sophie Schüpp and   
        Abderrahim Elmoataz and   
       Mohamed-Jalal Fadili and   
                  Daniel Bloyet   Fast Statistical Level Sets Image
                                  Segmentation for Biomedical Applications 380
         Ioannis Pratikakis and   
         Christian Barillot and   
                 Pierre Hellier   Robust Multi-scale Non-rigid
                                  Registration of $3$D Ultrasound Images   389
    Cris L. Luengo Hendriks and   
             Lucas J. van Vliet   Segmentation-Free Estimation of Length
                                  Distributions Using Sieves and RIA
                                  Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
        Javier Ruiz Hidalgo and   
             Philippe Salembier   Morphological Tools for Robust
                                  Key-Region Extraction and Video Shot
                                  Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
            Yukiko Kenmochi and   
                  Atsushi Imiya   Polyhedral Set Operations for $3$D
                                  Discrete Object Deformation  . . . . . . 417
              Atsushi Imiya and   
                Akihiko Ito and   
                Yukiko Kenmochi   Inverse Quantization of Digital Binary
                                  Images for Resolution Conversion . . . . 426
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2107, 2001

                Junji Ogawa and   
                  Mark Horowitz   A 64Mbit Mesochronous Hybrid Wave
                                  Pipelined Multibank DRAM Macro . . . . . 1
           Hiroshi Nakamura and   
              Masaaki Kondo and   
                   Taisuke Boku   Software Controlled Reconfigurable
                                  On-Chip Memory for High Performance
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
             Robert Cooksey and   
           Dennis Colarelli and   
                  Dirk Grunwald   Content-Based Prefetching: Initial
                                  Results  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
                Lixin Zhang and   
         Venkata K. Pingali and   
        Bharat Chandramouli and   
                 John B. Carter   Memory System Support for Dynamic Cache
                                  Line Assembly  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
                Yan Solihin and   
                 Jaejin Lee and   
                Josep Torrellas   Adaptively Mapping Code in an
                                  Intelligent Memory Architecture  . . . . 71
          Richard C. Murphy and   
             Peter M. Kogge and   
                 Arun Rodrigues   The Characterization of Data Intensive
                                  Memory Workloads on Distributed PIM
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
                  Mary Hall and   
                   Craig Steele   Memory Management in a PIM-Based
                                  Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
                 David Judd and   
           Katherine Yelick and   
     Christoforos Kozyrakis and   
               David Martin and   
                David Patterson   Exploiting On-Chip Memory Bandwidth in
                                  the VIRAM Compiler . . . . . . . . . . . 122
        Csaba Andras Moritz and   
           Matthew I. Frank and   
              Saman Amarasinghe   FlexCache: A Framework for Flexible
                                  Compiler Generated Data Caching  . . . . 135
                 Peter Grun and   
                 Nikil Dutt and   
                   Alex Nicolau   Aggressive Memory-Aware Compilation  . . 147
              Michael Huang and   
                 Jose Renau and   
             Seung-Moon Yoo and   
                Josep Torrellas   Energy/Performance Design of Memory
                                  Hierarchies for Processor-in-Memory
                                  Chips  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
          Tsung-Chuan Huang and   
                     Slo-Li Chu   SAGE: A New Analysis and Optimization
                                  System for FlexRAM Architecture  . . . . 160
                 Koji Inoue and   
                   Koji Kai and   
               Kazuaki Murakami   Performance/Energy Efficiency of
                                  Variable Line-Size Caches for
                                  Intelligent Memory Systems . . . . . . . 169
                   Jeff La Coss   The DIVA Emulator: Accelerating
                                  Architecture Studies for PIM-Based
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
             Dan Nicolaescu and   
                 Xiaomei Ji and   
       Alexander Veidenbaum and   
          Alexandru Nicolau and   
                   Rajesh Gupta   Compiler-Directed Cache Line Size
                                  Adaptivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
                      Anonymous   Workshop Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2108, 2001

             Markus Bläser   Complete Problems for Valiant's Class of
                                  $ q p $-Computable Families of
                                  Polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
           Michal Koucký   Log-Space Constructible Universal
                                  Traversal Sequences for Cycles of Length
                                  $ O(n^{4.03}) $  . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
                  Nicholas Tran   On Universally Polynomial Context-Free
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
                Kazuo Iwama and   
                Yasuo Okabe and   
                 Toshiro Takase   Separating Oblivious and Non-oblivious
                                  BPs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
                Iain A. Stewart   Program Schemes, Queues, the Recursive
                                  Spectrum and Zero-One Laws . . . . . . . 39
       Lane A. Hemaspaandra and   
              Harald Hempel and   
                Arfst Nickelsen   Algebraic Properties for $P$-Selectivity 49
      Carla Denise Castanho and   
                   Wei Chen and   
                Koichi Wada and   
               Akihiro Fujiwara   Parallelizability of Some $P$-Complete
                                  Geometric Problems in the EREW--PRAM . . 59
            Samuel A. Heath and   
            Franco P. Preparata   Enhanced Sequence Reconstruction with
                                  DNA Microarray Application . . . . . . . 64
                   Bodo Siebert   Non-approximability of Weighted Multiple
                                  Sequence Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . 75
                 Shiquan Wu and   
                         Xun Gu   A Greedy Algorithm for Optimal
                                  Recombination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
                  Xiang-Yang Li   Generating Well-Shaped $d$-dimensional
                                  Delaunay Meshes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
           Oswin Aichholzer and   
          Franz Aurenhammer and   
             Hannes Krasser and   
                 Ferran Hurtado   Towards Compatible Triangulations  . . . 101
         Abdullah N. Arslan and   
        Ömer E\ugecio\uglu   An Improved Upper Bound on the Size of
                                  Planar Convex-Hulls  . . . . . . . . . . 111--120
       Sergei Bespamyatnikh and   
              Zhixiang Chen and   
              Kanliang Wang and   
                     Binhai Zhu   On the Planar Two-Watchtower Problem . . 121
               Shin-ichi Nakano   Efficient Generation of Triconnected
                                  Plane Triangulations . . . . . . . . . . 131
             Prosenjit Bose and   
                  Pat Morin and   
               Antoine Vigneron   Packing Two Disks into a Polygonal
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
              Danny Z. Chen and   
         Xiaobo (Sharon) Hu and   
                    Xiaodong Wu   Maximum Red/Blue Interval Matching with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
             Otfried Cheong and   
               Chan-Su Shin and   
               Antoine Vigneron   Computing Farthest Neighbors on a Convex
                                  Polytope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
                     Xuehou Tan   Finding an Optimal Bridge between Two
                                  Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
              Xiang-Yang Li and   
                        Yu Wang   How Good Is Sink Insertion?  . . . . . . 181
                 Rob Duncan and   
                Jianbo Qian and   
                     Binhai Zhu   Polynomial Time Algorithms for
                                  Three-Label Point Labeling . . . . . . . 191
                     Xuehou Tan   Approximation Algorithms for the
                                  Watchman Route and Zookeeper's Problems  201
                   Wen-Lian Hsu   PC-Trees vs. PQ-Trees  . . . . . . . . . 207
                Holger Petersen   Stacks versus Deques . . . . . . . . . . 218
                      H. K. Dai   Optimizing a Computational Method for
                                  Length Lower Bounds for Reflecting
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
                Hee-Kap Ahn and   
             Siu-Wing Cheng and   
             Otfried Cheong and   
             Mordecai Golin and   
        René van Oostrum   Competitive Facility Location along a
                                  Highway  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
                 Qizhi Fang and   
               Shanfeng Zhu and   
               Maocheng Cai and   
                   Xiaotie Deng   Membership for Core of LP Games and
                                  Other Games  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
         Pino Caballero-Gil and   
Candelaria Hernández-Goya   Strong Solutions to the Identification
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
              Hyun-Sung Kim and   
                  Kee-Young Yoo   Area Efficient Exponentiation Using
                                  Modular Multiplier/Squarer in GF$ (2^m)
                                  $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
               Valerie King and   
                  Mikkel Thorup   A Space Saving Trick for Directed
                                  Dynamic Transitive Closure and Shortest
                                  Path Algorithms  . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
            Enrico Nardelli and   
             Guido Proietti and   
                 Peter Widmayer   Finding the Most Vital Node of a
                                  Shortest Path  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
                  Xiao Zhou and   
                Takao Nishizeki   Algorithm for the Cost Edge-Coloring of
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
          Josep Díaz and   
                Maria Serna and   
          Dimitrios M. Thilikos   Counting $H$-Colorings of Partial
                                  $k$-Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
              L. Sunil Chandran   A Linear Time Algorithm for Enumerating
                                  All the Minimum and Minimal Separators
                                  of a Chordal Graph . . . . . . . . . . . 308
               Jochen Alber and   
             Henning Fernau and   
               Rolf Niedermeier   Graph Separators: A Parameterized View   318
        N. S. Narayanaswamy and   
            C. E. Veni Madhavan   On Assigning Prefix Free Codes to the
                                  Vertices of a Graph  . . . . . . . . . . 328
               Chin Lung Lu and   
               Zheng-Yao Su and   
                  Chuan Yi Tang   A New Measure of Edit Distance between
                                  Labeled Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
                Dingjun Lou and   
                     Ning Zhong   A Highly Efficient Algorithm to
                                  Determine Bicritical Graphs  . . . . . . 349
                 Irene Finocchi   Layered Drawings of Graphs with Crossing
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
             Irene Finocchi and   
             Rossella Petreschi   On the Validity of Hierarchical
                                  Decompositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
                Liying Kang and   
                  Hong Qiao and   
                Erfang Shan and   
                    Ding-Zhu Du   Lower Bounds on the Minus Domination and
                                  $k$-Subdomination Numbers  . . . . . . . 375
              L. Sunil Chandran   Edge Connectivity vs Vertex Connectivity
                                  in Chordal Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 384
               Ting-Yi Sung and   
                 Jeng-Jung Wang   Changing the Diameter of Graph Products  390
                     Baogang Xu   Plane Graphs with Acyclic Complex  . . . 395
             Yosuke Kikuchi and   
                  Yukio Shibata   On the Domination Numbers of Generalized
                                  de Bruijn Digraphs and Generalized Kautz
                                  Digraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
                 Milind Dawande   A Notion of Cross-Perfect Bipartite
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
                     Haodi Feng   Some Results on Orthogonal
                                  Factorizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
              Myra B. Cohen and   
        Charles J. Colbourn and   
                Dalibor Froncek   Cluttered Orderings for the Complete
                                  Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
               Wun-Tat Chan and   
                Tak-Wah Lam and   
             Hing-Fung Ting and   
                    Wai-Ha Wong   Improved On-Line Stream Merging: From a
                                  Restricted to a General Setting  . . . . 432
               Jae-Hoon Kim and   
                Kyung-Yong Chwa   On-Line Deadline Scheduling on Multiple
                                  Resources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
             Ee-Chien Chang and   
                       Chee Yap   Competitive Online Scheduling with Level
                                  of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
                   Leah Epstein   On-Line Variable Sized Covering  . . . . 463
                 Jin-Yi Cai and   
                      Eric Bach   On Testing for Zero Polynomials by a Set
                                  of Points with Bounded Precision . . . . 473
              Marek Chrobak and   
         Leszek G\kasieniec and   
                Wojciech Rytter   A Randomized Algorithm for Gossiping in
                                  Radio Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--492
            Kyoichi Okamoto and   
                 Osamu Watanabe   Deterministic Application of Grover's
                                  Quantum Search Algorithm . . . . . . . . 493
                  Mitsuo Motoki   Random Instance Generation for MAX 3SAT  502
                 Dingzhu Du and   
               Lusheng Wang and   
                     Baogang Xu   The Euclidean Bottleneck Steiner Tree
                                  and Steiner Tree with Minimum Number of
                                  Steiner Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
             Guangting Chen and   
                   Guoliang Xue   An FPTAS for Weight-Constrained Steiner
                                  Trees in Series-Parallel Graphs  . . . . 519
                   Zhe Dang and   
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
            Richard A. Kemmerer   Decidable Approximations on Generalized
                                  and Parameterized Discrete Timed
                                  Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
                  Zhixiang Chen   Multiplicative Adaptive Algorithms for
                                  User Preference Retrieval  . . . . . . . 540
                   K. Subramani   Parametric Scheduling for Network
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
                   Kaile Su and   
                 Xudong Luo and   
              Huaiqing Wang and   
              Chengqi Zhang and   
              Shichao Zhang and   
                  Qingfeng Chen   A Logical Framework for Knowledge
                                  Sharing in Multi-agent Systems . . . . . 561
             Kumiko Obokata and   
              Michiko Omori and   
            Kazuhiro Motegi and   
             Yoshihide Igarashi   A Lockout Avoidance Algorithm without
                                  Using Time-Stamps for the $k$-Exclusion
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
                      Guohua Wu   Prefix-Free Languages and Initial
                                  Segments of Computably Enumerable
                                  Degrees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576
           Robert Rettinger and   
              Xizhong Zheng and   
             Romain Gengler and   
    Burchard von Braunmühl   Weakly Computable Real Numbers and Total
                                  Computable Real Functions  . . . . . . . 586
            Klaus Weihrauch and   
                     Ning Zhong   Turing Computability of a Nonlinear
                                  Schrödinger Propagator  . . . . . . . . . 596
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2109, 2001

               Eric Horvitz and   
                       Tim Paek   Harnessing Models of Users' Goals to
                                  Mediate Clarification Dialog in Spoken
                                  Language Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
            Lisa N. Michaud and   
          Kathleen F. McCoy and   
                 Litza A. Stark   Modeling the Acquisition of English: An
                                  Intelligent CALL Approach  . . . . . . . 14
      Christian Müller and   
Barbara Großmann-Hutter and   
            Anthony Jameson and   
                Ralf Rummer and   
                   Frank Wittig   Recognizing Time Pressure and Cognitive
                                  Load on the Basis of Speech: An
                                  Experimental Study . . . . . . . . . . . 24
                Nico Jacobs and   
               Hendrik Blockeel   The Learning Shell: Automated Macro
                                  Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
          Giovanni Semeraro and   
            Stefano Ferilli and   
             Nicola Fanizzi and   
               Fabio Abbattista   Learning Interaction Models in a Digital
                                  Library Service  . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
            Michael Fleming and   
                    Robin Cohen   A User Modeling Approach to Determining
                                  System Initiative in Mixed-Initiative AI
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
                  Neal Lesh and   
               Charles Rich and   
              Candace L. Sidner   Collaborating with Focused and Unfocused
                                  Users under Imperfect Communication  . . 64
           Bernardo Magnini and   
              Carlo Strapparava   Improving User Modelling with
                                  Content-Based Techniques . . . . . . . . 74
                Ingrid Zukerman   An Integrated Approach for Generating
                                  Arguments and Rebuttals and
                                  Understanding Rejoinders . . . . . . . . 84
              David N. Chin and   
                  Asanga Porage   Acquiring User Preferences for Product
                                  Customization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
              Markus Stolze and   
           Michael Ströbel   Utility-Based Decision Tree
                                  Optimization: A Framework for Adaptive
                                  Interviewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
                 Susan Bull and   
                  Jim Greer and   
             Gordon McCalla and   
                Lori Kettel and   
                     Jeff Bowes   User Modelling in I-Help: What, Why,
                                  When and How . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
             Silke Höppner   An Adaptive User-Interface-Agent
                                  Modeling Communication Availability  . . 127
                 Albert Corbett   Cognitive Computer Tutors: Solving the
                                  Two-Sigma Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 137
            Vania Dimitrova and   
                  John Self and   
                      Paul Brna   Applying Interactive Open Learner Models
                                  to Learning Technical Terminology  . . . 148
               Maria Virvou and   
               Maria Moundridou   Student and Instructor Models: Two Kinds
                                  of User Model and Their Interaction in
                                  an ITS Authoring Tool  . . . . . . . . . 158
                David Bueno and   
                  Amos A. David   METIORE: A Personalized Information
                                  Retrieval System . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
            Gerhard Fischer and   
                      Yunwen Ye   Personalizing Delivered Information in a
                                  Software Reuse Environment . . . . . . . 178
             Dina Goren-Bar and   
                Tsvi Kuflik and   
                   Dror Lev and   
                  Peretz Shoval   Automating Personal Categorization Using
                                  Artificial Neural Networks . . . . . . . 188
                Johan Aberg and   
                Nahid Shahmehri   User Modelling as an Aid for Human Web
                                  Assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
        Fredrik Åhman and   
                   Annika Waern   Modelling the Interests of a News
                                  Service User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
               Kenro Aihara and   
                Atsuhiro Takasu   Category Based Customization Approach
                                  for Information Retrieval  . . . . . . . 207
             Joseph E. Beck and   
             Beverly Park Woolf   Using Rollouts to Induce a Policy from a
                                  User Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
               Kalina Bontcheva   Tailoring the Content of Dynamically
                                  Generated Explanations . . . . . . . . . 213
Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez and   
Manuel J. Maña López and   
Alberto Díaz Esteban and   
Pablo Gervás Gómez-Navarro   A User Model Based on Content Analysis
                                  for the Intelligent Personalization of a
                                  News Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
                Andrea Bunt and   
                Cristina Conati   Modeling Exploratory Behaviour . . . . . 219
         Valeria Carofiglio and   
          Fiorella de Rosis and   
        Cristiano Castelfranchi   Ascribing and Weighting Beliefs in
                                  Deceptive Information Exchanges  . . . . 222
           Martha E. Crosby and   
             Marie K. Iding and   
                  David N. Chin   Visual Search and Background Complexity:
                                  Does the Forest Hide the Trees?  . . . . 225
              Thomas Draier and   
              Patrick Gallinari   Characterizing Sequences of User Actions
                                  for Access Logs Analysis . . . . . . . . 228
            Pablo Gervás   Modeling Literary Style for
                                  Semi-automatic Generation of Poetry  . . 231
              George Ghinea and   
             George D. Magoulas   Perceptual Considerations for Quality of
                                  Service Management: An Integrated
                                  Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
     Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz and   
           Christine L. Lisetti   Emotions and Personality in Agent Design
                                  and Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
                Sanghee Kim and   
                 Wendy Hall and   
                     Andy Keane   Using Document Structures for Personal
                                  Ontologies and User Modeling . . . . . . 240
         Detlef Küpper and   
                   Alfred Kobsa   User-Tailored Plan Presentation  . . . . 243
              Antonija Mitrovic   Investigating Students' Self-Assessment
                                  Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
        Cécile Paris and   
                Stephen Wan and   
             Ross Wilkinson and   
                    Mingfang Wu   Generating Personal Travel Guides -- And
                                  Who Wants Them?  . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
       António Silva and   
               Zita A. Vale and   
                   Carlos Ramos   Inspectability and User Controlled
                                  Revision on Long Term User Models  . . . 254
                     Gloria Teo   Getting the Right Information to the
                                  Right Person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
                   Ilaria Torre   Goals, Tasks and Application Domains as
                                  the Guidelines for Defining a Framework
                                  for User Modelling . . . . . . . . . . . 260
                Ivon Arroyo and   
             Beverly Park Woolf   Improving Student Models by Reasoning
                                  about Cognitive Ability, Emotions and
                                  Gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
    Alberto Díaz Esteban   Integrating Multilingual Text
                                  Classification Tasks and User Modeling
                                  in Personalized Newspaper Services . . . 268
                Patrick Gebhard   Enhancing Embodied Intelligent Agents
                                  with Affective User Modelling  . . . . . 271
                  Cristina Gena   Designing TV Viewer Stereotypes for an
                                  Electronic Program Guide . . . . . . . . 274
                 Jessica Givone   AGENDA CULTUREL: An Adaptive Cultural
                                  Information Service  . . . . . . . . . . 277
               Dominik Heckmann   Ubiquitous User Modeling for Situated
                                  Interaction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
              Ognian Kalaydjiev   An Intelligent Pedagogical Agent in CALL 283
                    Ingo Schwab   How to Learn More about Users from
                                  Implicit Observations  . . . . . . . . . 286
   Monika Tarantowicz-Gasiewicz   Student Modelling for CALL Based on
                                  Pedagogical Standards  . . . . . . . . . 289
             Stephan Weibelzahl   Evaluation of Adaptive Systems . . . . . 292
       Juan-Diego Zapata-Rivera   Supporting Negotiated Assessment Using
                                  Open Student Models  . . . . . . . . . . 295
                    Jianhan Zhu   Using Markov Chains for Structural Link
                                  Prediction in Adaptive Web Sites . . . . 298
                   Alfred Kobsa   Tailoring Privacy to Users' Needs  . . . 303
              Joseph A. Konstan   Heavyweight Applications of Lightweight
                                  User Models: A Look at Collaborative
                                  Filtering, Recommender Systems, and
                                  Real-Time Personalization  . . . . . . . 314
             Sandra P. Marshall   Eye Tracking: A Rich Source of
                                  Information for User Modeling  . . . . . 315
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2110, 2001

                Ewa Deelman and   
             Carl Kesselman and   
               Roy Williams and   
           Albert Lazzarini and   
           Thomas A. Prince and   
                 Joe Romano and   
                    Bruce Allen   A Virtual Data Grid for LIGO . . . . . . 3
              John V. Ashby and   
         Juan C. Bicarregui and   
           David R. S. Boyd and   
     Kerstin Kleese-van Dam and   
           Simon C. Lambert and   
          Brian M. Matthews and   
               Kevin D. O'Neill   A Multidisciplinary Scientific Data
                                  Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--22
               Marian Bubak and   
               Dariusz Zbik and   
            Dick van Albada and   
                Kamil Iskra and   
                    Peter Sloot   Migratable Sockets for Dynamic Load
                                  Balancing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
               Geoff Stoker and   
             Brian S. White and   
            Ellen Stackpole and   
              T. J. Highley and   
                 Marty Humphrey   Toward Realizable Restricted Delegation
                                  in Computational Grids . . . . . . . . . 32
            Carlos Figueira and   
        Emilio Hernández   Profiling Facility on a Metasystem . . . 42
        Bert C. Schultheiss and   
             Erik H. Baalbergen   Utilizing Supercomputer Power from Your
                                  Desktop  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
              Darin Nikolow and   
              Renata S\lota and   
             Jacek Kitowski and   
               Piotr Nyczyk and   
              Janusz Otfinowski   Tertiary Storage System for Index-Based
                                  Retrieving of Video Sequences  . . . . . 62
         Arcot K. Rajasekar and   
                Reagan W. Moore   Data and Metadata Collections for
                                  Scientific Applications  . . . . . . . . 72
                 A. Belloum and   
            Z. W. Hendrikse and   
                D. L. Groep and   
              E. C. Kaletas and   
         A. W. van Halderen and   
             H. Afsarmanesh and   
              L. O. Hertzberger   The VLAM--G Abstract Machine: A Data and
                                  Process Handling System on the Grid  . . 81
             M. D. Hamilton and   
                   P. McKee and   
                     I. Mitrani   Optimal Caching Policies for Web Objects 94
               Tomasz Haupt and   
      Purushotham Bangalore and   
                 Gregory Henley   A Computational Web Portal for the
                                  Distributed Marine Environment Forecast
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
         Ludmila Cherkasova and   
              Gianfranco Ciardo   Role of Aging, Frequency, and Size in
                                  Web Cache Replacement Policies . . . . . 114
              James TenEyck and   
                     G. Sampath   A Java-Based Model of Resource Sharing
                                  among Independent Users on the Internet  124
           Giovanni Aloisio and   
             Massimo Cafaro and   
                 Euro Blasi and   
            Lucio De Paolis and   
                  Italo Epicoco   The GRB Library: Grid Computing with
                                  Globus in C  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
               Paul A. Gray and   
              Vaidy S. Sunderam   Certificate Use for Supporting Merging
                                  and Splitting of Computational
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
           Heinz Stockinger and   
               Omer F. Rana and   
               Reagan Moore and   
                   Andre Merzky   Data Management for Grid Environments    151
               Rocco Aversa and   
       Beniamino Di Martino and   
            Nicola Mazzocca and   
          Salvatore Venticinque   Mobile Agents for Distributed and
                                  Dynamically Balanced Optimization
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
           Dan C. Marinescu and   
               Yongchang Ji and   
                Robert E. Lynch   A Comparison of Three Parallel
                                  Algorithms for $3$D Reconstruction . . . 173
             Kengo Nakajima and   
            Jochen Fingberg and   
                  Hiroshi Okuda   Parallel $3$D Adaptive Compressible
                                  Navier--Stokes Solver in GeoFEM with
                                  Dynamic Load-Balancing by DRAMA Library  183
       Valentina Piermarini and   
          Leonardo Pacifici and   
        Stefano Crocchianti and   
               Antonio Lagan\`a   Parallel Models for Reactive Scattering
                                  Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
      Alexander V. Bogdanov and   
              Elena N. Stankova   The Use of Intrinsic Properties of
                                  Physical System for Derivation of
                                  High-Performance Computational
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
               J.-A. Ferrez and   
                 Th.M. Liebling   Parallel DEM Simulations of Granular
                                  Materials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
           Jacques Lonchamp and   
                 Fabrice Muller   A Generic Support for Distributed
                                  Deliberations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
                 S. Olbrich and   
                  H. Pralle and   
                      S. Raasch   Using Streaming and Parallelization
                                  Techniques for $3$D Visualization in a
                                  High-Performance Computing and
                                  Networking Environment . . . . . . . . . 231
               David Taniar and   
            J. Wenny Rahayu and   
                 Hero Ekonomosa   Performance Evaluation of Parallel
                                  GroupBy-Before-Join Query Processing in
                                  High Performance Database Systems  . . . 241
                   L. Aruna and   
              Yamini Sharma and   
             Rushikesh K. Joshi   Design and Implementation of an
                                  RPC-Based ARC Kernel . . . . . . . . . . 251
Cicero Roberto de Oliveira Galdino and   
Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves de Melo   Application-Controlled Coherence
                                  Protocols for Scope Consistent Software
                                  DSMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
             Welf Löwe and   
            Wolf Zimmermann and   
               Sven Dickert and   
         Jörn Eisenbiegler   Source Code and Task Graphs in Program
                                  Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
   Dieter Kranzlmüller and   
                Rene Kobler and   
                   Jens Volkert   Event Manipulation for Nondeterministic
                                  Shared-Memory Programs . . . . . . . . . 283
                   G. Manis and   
           L. Lymberopoulos and   
                 N. Koziris and   
            G. Papakonstantinou   An Open Distributed Shared Memory System 293
                 F. Baiardi and   
                  D. Guerri and   
                    P. Mori and   
                  L. Moroni and   
                       L. Ricci   Two Layers Distributed Shared Memory . . 302
             Toshinori Sato and   
             Akihiko Hamano and   
            Kiichi Sugitani and   
                 Itsujiro Arita   Influence of Compiler Optimizations on
                                  Value Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
    Sathiamoorthy Manoharan and   
       Chaitanya Reddy Yavasani   Experiments with Sequential Prefetching  322
         Andrea G. M. Cilio and   
                 Henk Corporaal   Code Positioning for VLIW Architectures  332
               N. Zingirian and   
                     M. Maresca   Selective Register Renaming: A
                                  Compiler-Driven Approach to Dynamic
                                  Register Renaming  . . . . . . . . . . . 344
               Zhengao Zhou and   
          Sivarama P. Dandamudi   An Adaptive Space-Sharing Policy for
                                  Heterogeneous Parallel Systems . . . . . 353
              Thomas Rauber and   
             Robert Reilein and   
             Gudula Rünger   Orthogonal Processor Groups for
                                  Message-Passing Programs . . . . . . . . 363
              Oliver Sinnen and   
                   Leonel Sousa   Scheduling Task Graphs on Arbitrary
                                  Processor Architectures Considering
                                  Contention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
               Taisuke Boku and   
         Masazumi Matsubara and   
               Ken'ichi Itakura   PIO: Parallel I/O System for Massively
                                  Parallel Processors  . . . . . . . . . . 383
               M. Danelutto and   
                     A. Rampini   Fast ``Short'' Messages on a Linux
                                  Cluster  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Maria Isabel Casas Villalba and   
          Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan   Efficient Monte Carlo Linear Solver with
                                  Chain Reduction and Optimization Using
                                  PLFG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
               Marian Bubak and   
        W\lodzimierz Funika and   
               Bartosz Bali and   
          Roland Wismüller   On-Line Tool Support for Parallel
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
            Ladislav Hluchy and   
            Giang T. Nguyen and   
            Ladislav Halada and   
                   Viet D. Tran   Cluster Computation for Flood
                                  Simulations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
              Peter Brezany and   
               Marian Bubak and   
            Maciej Malawski and   
                Katarzyna Zajac   Advanced Library Support for Irregular
                                  and Out-of-Core Parallel Computing . . . 435
            I. V. Schevtschenko   A Parallel ADI Method for Linear and
                                  Non-linear Equations . . . . . . . . . . 445
               E. M. Daoudi and   
               A. Lakhouaja and   
                      H. Outada   Study of the Parallel Block One-Sided
                                  Jacobi Method  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
            Andrea Clematis and   
           Gabriella Dodero and   
              Vittoria Gianuzzi   A Practical Approach to Efficient Use of
                                  Heterogeneous PC Network for Parallel
                                  Mathematical Computation . . . . . . . . 464
              Peter Friedel and   
         Jörg Bergmann and   
              Stephan Seidl and   
              Wolfgang E. Nagel   An Hierarchical MPI Communication Model
                                  for the Parallelized Solution of
                                  Multiple Integrals . . . . . . . . . . . 474
              Gary Zoppetti and   
              Gagan Agrawal and   
                    Rishi Kumar   Impact of Data Distribution on
                                  Performance of Irregular Reductions on
                                  Multithreaded Architectures  . . . . . . 483
              Edgar Gabriel and   
              Michael Resch and   
              Roland Rühle   Implementing and Benchmarking Derived
                                  Datatypes in Metacomputing . . . . . . . 493
             Yoshiaki Sakae and   
               Satoshi Matsuoka   MPC++ Performance for Commodity
                                  Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
              A. M. Alkindi and   
             D. J. Kerbyson and   
                     G. R. Nudd   Dynamic Instrumentation and Performance
                                  Prediction of Application Execution  . . 513
            M. A. R. Dantas and   
                    F. M. Lopes   Improving Load Balancing in a Parallel
                                  Cluster Environment Using Mobile Agents  524
              M. C. Baracca and   
                    G. Clai and   
                     P. Ornelli   Simulation and $3$D Visualization of
                                  Bioremediation Interventions in Polluted
                                  Soils  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
            T. T. Mai Hoang and   
                    Werner Zorn   Resource Planning in Converged Networks  539
       J. C. Mouriño and   
                D. E. Singh and   
        M. J. Martín and   
                J. M. Eiroa and   
               F. F. Rivera and   
                  R. Doallo and   
                 J. D. Bruguera   Parallelization of the STEM--II Air
                                  Quality Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
                   Lasse Natvig   Simulating Parallel Architectures with
                                  BSPlab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
              Daisuke Takahashi   A Blocking Algorithm for FFT on
                                  Cache-Based Processors . . . . . . . . . 551
                C. Chiccoli and   
                  P. Pasini and   
                 F. Semeria and   
                     C. Zannoni   Monte Carlo Simulations of a Biaxial
                                  Liquid Crystal Model Using the Condor
                                  Processing System  . . . . . . . . . . . 555
              Elena V. Zudilova   Generic Approach to the Design of
                                  Simulation-Visualization Complexes . . . 561
             Sergey R. Vartanov   On Parallel Programming Language Caper   565
             Yuichi Inadomi and   
             Tatsuya Nakano and   
              Kazuo Kitaura and   
                Umpei Nagashima   Increased Efficiency of Parallel
                                  Calculations of Fragment Molecular
                                  Orbitals by Using Fine-Grained
                                  Parallelization on a HITACHI SR8000
                                  Supercomputer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
                 Reinhard Riedl   Customer-Centered Models for Web-Sites
                                  and Intra-Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
                       Odej Kao   A Prototype for a Distributed Image
                                  Retrieval System . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
                       G. Manis   Data-Object Oriented Design for
                                  Distributed Shared Memory  . . . . . . . 583
                 M. Kupczyk and   
                 M. Lawande and   
                   N. Meyer and   
                  P. Wolniewicz   Using Virtual User Account System for
                                  Managing Users Account . . . . . . . . . 587
            M. A. R. Dantas and   
                     G. Jardini   Performance Evaluation of XTP and TCP
                                  Transport Protocols for Reliable
                                  Multicast Communications . . . . . . . . 591
         Abdeljalil Benyoub and   
              El Mostafa Daoudi   Parallelization of the Continuous Global
                                  Optimization Problem with Inequality
                                  Constraints by Using Interval Arithmetic 595
            Serge Chaumette and   
                   Asier Ugarte   A Distributed Platform with Features for
                                  Supporting Dynamic and Mobile Resources  603
                David Gregg and   
              M. Anton Ertl and   
                  Andreas Krall   Implementing an Efficient Java
                                  Interpreter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
               Bowen Alpern and   
             Anthony Cocchi and   
                David Grove and   
                   Derek Lieber   Efficient Dispatch of Java Interface
                                  Methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621
               Y. Cardinale and   
                  M. Curiel and   
                C. Figueira and   
           P. García and   
            E. Hernández   Implementation of a CORBA-Based
                                  Metacomputing System . . . . . . . . . . 629
         Eduardo J. H. Yero and   
      Marco A. A. Henriques and   
        Javier R. Garc\"\ia and   
                 Alina C. Leyva   JOINT: An Object Oriented Message
                                  Passing Interface for Parallel
                                  Programming in Java  . . . . . . . . . . 637
              Jyoti Batheja and   
                Manish Parashar   A Framework for Opportunistic Cluster
                                  Computing Using JavaSpaces . . . . . . . 647
           Michael S. Noble and   
               Stoyanka Zlateva   Scientific Computation with JavaSpaces   657
            Steven Newhouse and   
                John Darlington   Computational Communities: A Marketplace
                                  for Federated Resources  . . . . . . . . 667
           Neil V. Brewster and   
           Tarek S. Abdelrahman   A Compiler Infrastructure for
                                  High-Performance Java  . . . . . . . . . 675
          Ronald S. Veldema and   
             Thilo Kielmann and   
                   Henri E. Bal   Optimizing Java-Specific Overheads: Java
                                  at the Speed of C? . . . . . . . . . . . 685
               Torsten Fink and   
             Stephan Kindermann   Combining Batch and Streaming Paradigms
                                  for Metacomputing Applications . . . . . 693
               John Waldron and   
                    David Gregg   Identification and Quantification of
                                  Hotspots in Java Grande Programs . . . . 701
                   Koen Holtman   HEPGRID2001: A Model of a Virtual Data
                                  Grid Application . . . . . . . . . . . . 711
                  Peter Baumann   Grid Services for Fast Retrieval on
                                  Large Multidimensional Databases . . . . 721
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2111, 2001

              Hans Ulrich Simon   How Many Queries Are Needed to Learn One
                                  Bit of Information?  . . . . . . . . . . 1
                Michael Schmitt   Radial Basis Function Neural Networks
                                  Have Superlinear VC Dimension  . . . . . 14
           Olivier Bousquet and   
             Manfred K. Warmuth   Tracking a Small Set of Experts by
                                  Mixing Past Posteriors . . . . . . . . . 31
      Nicol\`o Cesa-Bianchi and   
            Gábor Lugosi   Potential-Based Algorithms in Online
                                  Prediction and Game Theory . . . . . . . 48
                     Tong Zhang   A Sequential Approximation Bound for
                                  Some Sample-Dependent Convex
                                  Optimization Problems with Applications
                                  in Learning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
              Deepak Chawla and   
                     Lin Li and   
                  Stephen Scott   Efficiently Approximating Weighted Sums
                                  with Exponentially Many Terms  . . . . . 82
               Koby Crammer and   
                   Yoram Singer   Ultraconservative Online Algorithms for
                                  Multiclass Problems  . . . . . . . . . . 99
               Paul W. Goldberg   Estimating a Boolean Perceptron from Its
                                  Average Satisfying Assignment: A Bound
                                  on the Precision Required  . . . . . . . 116
                Shie Mannor and   
                  Nahum Shimkin   Adaptive Strategies and Regret
                                  Minimization in Arbitrarily Varying
                                  Markov Environments  . . . . . . . . . . 128
                  John Case and   
                Sanjay Jain and   
              Frank Stephan and   
                  Rolf Wiehagen   Robust Learning -- Rich and Poor . . . . 143
                  Sandra Zilles   On the Synthesis of Strategies
                                  Identifying Recursive Functions  . . . . 160
                Sanjay Jain and   
                    Efim Kinber   Intrinsic Complexity of Learning
                                  Geometrical Concepts from Positive Data  177
                 David G. Stork   Toward a Computational Theory of Data
                                  Acquisition and Truthing . . . . . . . . 194
         Antonio Piccolboni and   
        Christian Schindelhauer   Discrete Prediction Games with Arbitrary
                                  Feedback and Loss  . . . . . . . . . . . 208
          Peter L. Bartlett and   
               Shahar Mendelson   Rademacher and Gaussian Complexities:
                                  Risk Bounds and Structural Results . . . 224
      Vladimir Koltchinskii and   
          Dmitriy Panchenko and   
                Fernando Lozano   Further Explanation of the Effectiveness
                                  of Voting Methods: The Game between
                                  Margins and Weights  . . . . . . . . . . 241
               Shahar Mendelson   Geometric Methods in the Analysis of
                                  Glivenko-Cantelli Classes  . . . . . . . 256
               Shahar Mendelson   Learning Relatively Small Classes  . . . 273
                 Philip M. Long   On Agnostic Learning with $ \{ 0, *, 1
                                  \} $-Valued and Real-Valued Hypotheses   289--302
               Paul W. Goldberg   When Can Two Unsupervised Learners
                                  Achieve PAC Separation?  . . . . . . . . 303
            Peter Grünwald   Strong Entropy Concentration, Game
                                  Theory, and Algorithmic Randomness . . . 320
           Ilia Nouretdinov and   
               Volodya Vovk and   
             Michael Vyugin and   
                 Alex Gammerman   Pattern Recognition and Density
                                  Estimation under the General i.i.d.
                                  Assumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
José L. Balcázar and   
               Jorge Castro and   
                 David Guijarro   A General Dimension for Exact Learning   354
  Balázs Kégl and   
        Tamás Linder and   
            Gábor Lugosi   Data-Dependent Margin-Based
                                  Generalization Bounds for Classification 368
             Shai Ben-David and   
                Nadav Eiron and   
              Hans Ulrich Simon   Limitations of Learning via Embeddings
                                  in Euclidean Half-Spaces . . . . . . . . 385
        Jürgen Forster and   
              Niels Schmitt and   
              Hans Ulrich Simon   Estimating the Optimal Margins of
                                  Embeddings in Euclidean Half Spaces  . . 402
    Bernhard Schölkopf and   
              Ralf Herbrich and   
                  Alex J. Smola   A Generalized Representer Theorem  . . . 416
                     Tong Zhang   A Leave-One-out Cross Validation Bound
                                  for Kernel Methods with Applications in
                                  Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
                  Mark Herbster   Learning Additive Models Online with
                                  Fast Evaluating Kernels  . . . . . . . . 444
                Shie Mannor and   
                       Ron Meir   Geometric Bounds for Generalization in
                                  Boosting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
              Rocco A. Servedio   Smooth Boosting and Learning with
                                  Malicious Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
           Nader H. Bshouty and   
                Dmitry Gavinsky   On Boosting with Optimal Poly-Bounded
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
             Shai Ben-David and   
             Philip M. Long and   
                 Yishay Mansour   Agnostic Boosting  . . . . . . . . . . . 507
                Wee Sun Lee and   
                 Philip M. Long   A Theoretical Analysis of Query
                                  Selection for Collaborative Filtering    517
           Nader H. Bshouty and   
                 Vitaly Feldman   On Using Extended Statistical Queries to
                                  Avoid Membership Queries . . . . . . . . 529
           Nader H. Bshouty and   
                    Nadav Eiron   Learning Monotone DNF from a Teacher
                                  That Almost Does Not Answer Membership
                                  Queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
              Rocco A. Servedio   On Learning Monotone DNF under Product
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
              Nader Bshouty and   
                   Avi Owshanko   Learning Regular Sets with an Incomplete
                                  Membership Oracle  . . . . . . . . . . . 574
              Eyal Even-Dar and   
                 Yishay Mansour   Learning Rates for $Q$-Learning  . . . . 589
                    Sham Kakade   Optimizing Average Reward Using
                                  Discounted Rewards . . . . . . . . . . . 605
             Leonid Peshkin and   
                Sayan Mukherjee   Bounds on Sample Size for Policy
                                  Evaluation in Markov Environments  . . . 616
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2112, 2001

         Graham J. Williams and   
                 Dickson Lukose   Artificial Intelligence in Industry  . . 3
               Andreas Birk and   
                    Holger Kenn   Applying Behavior-Oriented Robotics to a
                                  Mobile Security Device . . . . . . . . . 5
                Lin-Li Chen and   
              Christine W. Chan   Ontology Design and Its Application in
                                  the Petroleum Remediation Domain . . . . 16
                Weiqin Chen and   
                  Ryan Shaw and   
             Leif Mortenson and   
                  Tom Foley and   
             Riichiro Mizoguchi   A Sales Agent for Website
                                  Personalization  . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
                Jongho Choy and   
                   Sung-Bae Cho   Anomaly Detection of Computer Usage
                                  Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques 31
               Hyun-Don Kim and   
                   Sung-Bae Cho   Application of Self-Organizing Maps to
                                  Classification and Browsing of FAQ
                                  E-mails  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
              Setsuo Ohsuga and   
           Shunsuke Chigusa and   
               Katsuyuki Sugaya   Model Based Program Specification and
                                  Program Generation --- In a Case of
                                  Vehicle-Engine Control System Design . . 56
                  Wim Pijls and   
                   Rob Potharst   Classification Based upon Frequent
                                  Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
          Dharmendra Sharma and   
                Nivlesh Chandra   An Evolutionary Approach to
                                  Constraint-Based Timetabling . . . . . . 80
             Pieter Spronck and   
                Klaas Schilstra   BOKS: A Rule-Based System in Support of
                                  the Dutch Building Materials Regulations 93
                 Said Tabet and   
        Prabhakar Bhogaraju and   
                      David Ash   Using XML as a Language Interface for AI
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
                     Ian Watson   INFOSHOP: A Decision Support Tool for
                                  Local Government Regulatory Advice . . . 111
                Virginia Wheway   Using Boosting to Detect Noisy Data  . . 123
          Ryszard Kowalczyk and   
                      Maria Lee   Artificial Intelligence in Electronic
                                  Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
                Ahmad Kayed and   
               Robert M. Colomb   Conceptual Structures for Tendering
                                  Ontology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
                Iyad Rahwan and   
          Ryszard Kowalczyk and   
                       Yun Yang   Virtual Enterprise Design --- BDI Agents
                                  vs. Objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
        Sukunesan Sinnappan and   
         Mary-Anne Williams and   
                   Siva Muthaly   Agent Based Architecture for Internet
                                  Marketing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
                    On Wong and   
                    Raymond Lau   Possibilistic Reasoning for Intelligent
                                  Payment Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
             Dong Mei Zhang and   
                   Wai Yat Wong   A Web-Based Negotiation Agent Using CBR  183
                  Seng Wai Loke   Intelligent Information Agents . . . . . 199
                   Harold Boley   Relationships between Logic Programming
                                  and RDF  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
               Naoki Fukuta and   
               Takayuki Ito and   
             Toramatsu Shintani   An Approach to Building Mobile
                                  Intelligent Agents Based on Anytime
                                  Migration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
               Xiaoying Gao and   
                  Leon Sterling   Knowledge-Based Information Agents . . . 229
               Clint Heinze and   
              Adrian Pearce and   
              Leon Sterling and   
                     Simon Goss   Designing Perception Modules to Shape
                                  Information for Agents . . . . . . . . . 239
          Hironori Hiraishi and   
              Hiroshi Sawai and   
                Fumio Mizoguchi   Design of a Visualization Agent for WWW
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
               Hassen Kriaa and   
               Guy Gouard\`eres   Revisable Analysis and Design by Actors
                                  Interaction: Emergency Case Study  . . . 259
                Raymond Lau and   
  Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede and   
                 Peter D. Bruza   A Logic-Based Approach for Adaptive
                                  Information Filtering Agents . . . . . . 269
               Carsten Pils and   
                  Jens Hartmann   The User Agent: An Approach for Service
                                  and Profile Management in Wireless
                                  Access Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
         Tiemei Irene Zhang and   
              Elizabeth Kendall   System Analysis of Agent-Based LCC
                                  Information Gathering  . . . . . . . . . 289
                  Nancy E. Reed   Teamwork and Adjustable Autonomy in
                                  Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
          K. Suzanne Barber and   
           Cheryl E. Martin and   
                  Ryan M. McKay   A Communication Protocol Supporting
                                  Dynamic Autonomy Agreements in
                                  Multi-agent Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 303
             Gregory Dorais and   
               David Kortenkamp   Designing Human-Centered Autonomous
                                  Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
                  Henry Hexmoor   A Cognitive Model of Situated Autonomy   325
               David Kortenkamp   Designing an Architecture for Adjustably
                                  Autonomous Robot Teams . . . . . . . . . 335
                Paul Scerri and   
                  Nancy E. Reed   Making Adjustable Autonomy Easier with
                                  Teamwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
          K. Suzanne Barber and   
           Cheryl E. Martin and   
              Nancy E. Reed and   
               David Kortenkamp   Dimensions of Adjustable Autonomy  . . . 353
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2113, 2001

                   Rudolf Bayer   XML Databases: Modeling and
                                  Multidimensional Indexing  . . . . . . . 1
                Mong Li Lee and   
              Sin Yeung Lee and   
                  Tok Wang Ling   Updatability in Federated Database
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
                Mong Li Lee and   
              Sin Yeung Lee and   
              Tok Wang Ling and   
             Gillian Dobbie and   
         Leonid A. Kalinichenko   Designing Semistructured Databases: A
                                  Conceptual Approach  . . . . . . . . . . 12
                  S. Flesca and   
                 F. Furfaro and   
                    E. Masciari   Meaningful Change Detection on the Web   22
               Mohamed Dahchour   Definition and Application of
                                  Metaclasses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Aluízio Haendchen Filho and   
Hércules A. do Prado and   
        Paulo Martins Engel and   
                 Arndt von Staa   XSearch: A Neural Network Based Tool for
                                  Components Search in a Distributed
                                  Object Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 42
            Churn-Jung Liau and   
                      Y. Y. Yao   Information Retrieval by Possibilistic
                                  Reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
            D. Llidó and   
                R. Berlanga and   
                 M. J. Aramburu   Extracting Temporal References to Assign
                                  Document Event-Time Periods  . . . . . . 62
            Rafael Berlanga and   
          Juan Pérez and   
María José Aramburu and   
           Dolores Llidó   Techniques and Tools for the Temporal
                                  Analysis of Retrieved Information  . . . 72
         Francesca Cesarini and   
               Marco Lastri and   
             Simone Marinai and   
                  Giovanni Soda   Page Classification for Meta-data
                                  Extraction from Digital Collections  . . 82
          Catherine Roussey and   
          Sylvie Calabretto and   
               Jean-Marie Pinon   A New Conceptual Graph Formalism Adapted
                                  for Multilingual Information Retrieval
                                  Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
   M. Montes-y-Gómez and   
                 A. Gelbukh and   
A. López-López and   
                 R. Baeza-Yates   Flexible Comparison of Conceptual
                                  GraphsWork done under partial support of
                                  CONACyT, CGEPI-IPN, and SNI, Mexico  . . 102
              Su-Shing Chen and   
         Othoniel Rodriguez and   
            Chee-Yoong Choo and   
                   Yi Shang and   
                    Hongchi Shi   Personalizing Digital Libraries for
                                  Learners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
      Andrés Montoyo and   
             Manuel Palomar and   
                   German Rigau   Interface for WordNet Enrichment with
                                  Classification Systems . . . . . . . . . 122
        Sean W. M. Siqueira and   
          Diva de S.e Silva and   
      Elvira A. Uchôa and   
          Helena L. B. Braz and   
                 Rubens N. Melo   An Architecture for Database Marketing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
              Xiaofeng Meng and   
                      Shan Wang   NChiql: The Chinese Natural Language
                                  Interface to Databases . . . . . . . . . 145
         Patrick Etcheverry and   
 Philippe Lopistéguy and   
              Pantxika Dagorret   Pattern-Based Guidelines for
                                  Coordination Engineering . . . . . . . . 155
                 A. Frenkel and   
             H. Afsarmanesh and   
                  G. Eijkel and   
              L. O. Hertzberger   Information Management for Material
                                  Science Applications in a Virtual
                                  Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
            Mohamed Ibrahim and   
       Alexander M. Fedorec and   
                 Keith Rennolls   TREAT: A Reverse Engineering Method and
                                  Tool for Environmental Databases . . . . 175
        Adriano Di Pasquale and   
                Enrico Nardelli   A Very Efficient Order Preserving
                                  Scalable Distributed Data Structure  . . 186
         Michael Dittenbach and   
             Andreas Rauber and   
                   Dieter Merkl   Business, Culture, Politics, and Sports
                                  --- How to Find Your Way through a Bulk
                                  of News?: On Content-Based Hierarchical
                                  Structuring and Organization of Large
                                  Document Archives  . . . . . . . . . . . 200
                Su-Jeong Ko and   
                  Jung-Hyun Lee   Feature Selection Using Association Word
                                  Mining for Classification  . . . . . . . 211
               Jia-Ling Koh and   
               William D. C. Yu   Efficient Feature Mining in Music
                                  Objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
                   Ji Zhang and   
                  Wynne Hsu and   
                    Mong Li Lee   An Information-Driven Framework for
                                  Image Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
           Takako Hashimoto and   
             Yukari Shirota and   
             Atsushi Iizawa and   
              Hiroyuki Kitagawa   A Rule-Based Scheme to Make Personal
                                  Digests from Video Program Meta Data . . 243
             Jeong-Joon Yoo and   
               Young-Ho Suh and   
                Dong-Ik Lee and   
            Seung-Woog Jung and   
             Choul-Soo Jang and   
                  Joong-Bae Kim   Casting Mobile Agents to Workflow
                                  Systems: On Performance and Scalability
                                  Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
            Daniela Grigori and   
     François Charoy and   
                  Claude Godart   Anticipation to Enhance Flexibility of
                                  Workflow Execution . . . . . . . . . . . 264
                Minxin Shen and   
                   Duen-Ren Liu   Coordinating Interorganizational
                                  Workflows Based on Process-Views . . . . 274
                     Luo Li and   
   Birgitta König-Ries and   
              Niki Pissinou and   
                      Kia Makki   Strategies for Semantic Caching  . . . . 284
                Keiji Izaki and   
             Katsuya Tanaka and   
                Makoto Takizawa   Information Flow Control among Objects
                                  in Role-Based Access Control Model . . . 299
              Mathieu Roger and   
                Ana Simonet and   
                 Michel Simonet   Object Space Partitioning in a DL-Like
                                  Database and Knowledge Base Management
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
 Luiz Fernando Bessa Seibel and   
        Sérgio Lifschitz   A Genome Databases Framework . . . . . . 319
                 Angelo Brayner   Lock Downgrading: An Approach to
                                  Increase Inter-transaction Parallelism
                                  in Advanced Database Applications  . . . 330
            Tran Khanh Dang and   
            Josef Küng and   
                  Roland Wagner   The SH-tree: A Super Hybrid Index
                                  Structure for Multidimensional Data  . . 340
            Youngchoon Park and   
                 PanKoo Kim and   
          Forouzan Golshani and   
        Sethuraman Panchanathan   Concept-Based Visual Information
                                  Management with Large Lexical Corpus . . 350--359
           Wesley T. Chuang and   
                D. Stott Parker   Pyramidal Digest: An Efficient Model for
                                  Abstracting Text Databases . . . . . . . 360
              Shuigeng Zhou and   
                   Yunfa Hu and   
                    Jiangtao Hu   A Novel Full-Text Indexing Model for
                                  Chinese Text Retrieval . . . . . . . . . 370
                   Chen Qun and   
                 Andrew Lim and   
                  Oon Wee Chong   Page Access Sequencing in Join
                                  Processing with Limited Buffer Space . . 380
               Ahmad Ghazal and   
                Ramesh Bhashyam   Dynamic Constraints Derivation and
                                  Maintenance in the Teradata RDBMS  . . . 390
                  Alain Couchot   Improving Termination Analysis of Active
                                  Rules with Composite Events  . . . . . . 400
                  G. Kappel and   
                 G. Kramler and   
              W. Retschitzegger   TriGS Debugger --- A Tool for Debugging
                                  Active Database Behavior . . . . . . . . 410
              Antoni Ligeza and   
              Igor Wojnicki and   
             Grzegorz J. Nalepa   Tab-Trees: A CASE Tool for the Design of
                                  Extended Tabular Systems . . . . . . . . 422
                 Roy Ladner and   
          Mahdi Abdelguerfi and   
                Ruth Wilson and   
          John Breckenridge and   
             Frank McCreedy and   
                  Kevin B. Shaw   A Framework for Databasing $3$D
                                  Synthetic Environment Data . . . . . . . 432
      Petr Miksovský and   
                 Zden\vek Kouba   GOLAP --- Geographical Online Analytical
                                  Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
              Hak-Cheol Kim and   
                    Ki-Joune Li   Declustering Spatial Objects by
                                  Clustering for Parallel Disks  . . . . . 450
              Yoh Shiraishi and   
                 Yuichiro Anzai   A Retrieval Method for Real-Time Spatial
                                  Data Browsing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
                 Andreas Dehmel   Designing a Compression Engine for
                                  Multidimensional Raster Data . . . . . . 470
                Mengchi Liu and   
            Shilpesh Katragadda   DrawCAD: Using Deductive
                                  Object-Relational Databases in CAD . . . 481
   M. Montes-y-Gómez and   
                 A. Gelbukh and   
   A. López-López   A Statistical Approach to the Discovery
                                  of Ephemeral Associations among News
                                  Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
               Steffen Jurk and   
                   Mira Balaban   Improving Integrity Constraint
                                  Enforcement by Extended Rules and
                                  Dependency Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 501
          Roman Mázl and   
            Miroslav Kulich and   
              Libor P\vreu\vcil   Statistical and Feature-Based Methods
                                  for Mobile Robot Position Localization   517
               Eng Koon Sze and   
                  Tok Wang Ling   Efficient View Maintenance Using Version
                                  Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
               Jin Hyun Son and   
                  Myoung Ho Kim   $ \alpha $-Partitioning Algorithm:
                                  Vertical Partitioning Based on the Fuzzy
                                  Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
                 I. N. Wang and   
              N. J. Fiddian and   
                     W. A. Gray   Using Market Mechanisms to Control Agent
                                  Allocation in Global Information Systems 547
                Haifeng Liu and   
               Wee-Keong Ng and   
                    Ee-Peng Lim   Query Integration for Refreshing Web
                                  Views  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
                Wen-Chi Hou and   
                      Suli Wang   Size-Adjusted Sliding Window LFU --- A
                                  New Web Caching Scheme . . . . . . . . . 567
                      Yi Li and   
               Wee Keong Ng and   
                    Ee-Peng Lim   ViDE: A Visual Data Extraction
                                  Environment for the Web  . . . . . . . . 577
                   Ma Qiang and   
            Shinya Miyazaki and   
                 Katsumi Tanaka   WebSCAN: Discovering and Notifying
                                  Important Changes of Web Sites . . . . . 587
                  John Debenham   Knowledge Base Maintenance through
                                  Knowledge Representation . . . . . . . . 599
         Claudia Diamantini and   
                 Maurizio Panti   ANKON: A Multi-agent System for
                                  Information Gathering  . . . . . . . . . 609
                   Bruno Voisin   Mining Astronomical Data . . . . . . . . 621
         Norihide Shinagawa and   
           Kouichi Kuragaki and   
              Hiroyuki Kitagawa   Integration of WWW Applications Based on
                                  Extensible XML Query and Processing
                                  Languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
       Manolis Gergatsoulis and   
           Yannis Stavrakas and   
              Dimitris Karteris   Incorporating Dimensions in XML and DTD  646
                 Wenfei Fan and   
            Peter Schwenzer and   
                         Kun Wu   Keys with Upward Wildcards for XML . . . 657
      Alberto Abelló and   
          José Samos and   
                 F\`elix Saltor   A Framework for the Classification and
                                  Description of Multidimensional Data
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668
               ZhongWei Luo and   
              Tok Wang Ling and   
             Chuan Heng Ang and   
              Sin Yeung Lee and   
                        Bin Cui   Range Top/Bottom $k$ Queries in OLAP
                                  Sparse Data Cubes  . . . . . . . . . . . 678
         Sourav S. Bhowmick and   
               Wee Keong Ng and   
                  Sanjay Madria   On Formulation of Disjunctive Coupling
                                  Queries in \sc Whoweda . . . . . . . . . 688--698
      I. S. Altingövde and   
            S. A. Özel and   
             Ö. Ulusoy and   
        G. Özsoyo\uglu and   
         Z. M. Özsoyo\uglu   Topic-Centric Querying of Web
                                  Information Resources  . . . . . . . . . 699
             Akiyo Nadamoto and   
             Hiroyuki Kondo and   
                 Katsumi Tanaka   WebCarousel: Automatic Presentation and
                                  Semantic Restructuring of Web Search
                                  Result for Mobile Environments . . . . . 712
         Sourav S. Bhowmick and   
               Wee Keong Ng and   
                  Sanjay Madria   Imposing Disjunctive Constraints on
                                  Inter-document Structure . . . . . . . . 723
            Domenico Rosaci and   
          Giorgio Terracina and   
                Domenico Ursino   A Semi-automatic Technique for
                                  Constructing a Global Representation of
                                  Information Sources Having Different
                                  Formats and Structure  . . . . . . . . . 734
          Thomas Luckeneder and   
               Knud Steiner and   
         Wolfram Wöß   Integration of Topic Maps and Databases:
                                  Towards Efficient Knowledge
                                  Representation and Directory Services    744
         Haruhiko Hiramatsu and   
           Kazutoshi Sumiya and   
                 Kuniaki Uehara   A Spatial Hypermedia Framework for
                                  Position-Aware Information Delivery
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754
         Paloma Díaz and   
               Ignacio Aedo and   
                 Susana Montero   Ariadne, a Development Method for
                                  Hypermedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764
                  Jukka Teuhola   A General Approach to Compression of
                                  Hierarchical Indexes . . . . . . . . . . 775
                   Chen Qun and   
                 Andrew Lim and   
                         Zhu Yi   Index and Data Allocation in Mobile
                                  Broadcast  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785
               Renguo Xiaou and   
           Tharam S. Dillon and   
                   E. Chang and   
                      Ling Feng   Modeling and Transformation of
                                  Object-Oriented Conceptual Models into
                                  XML Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795
         Mirella Moura Moro and   
    Silvia Maria Saggiorato and   
             Nina Edelweiss and   
      Clesio Saraiva dos Santos   Adding Time to an Object-Oriented
                                  Versions Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805
                    Zhen He and   
                 Alonso Marquez   Cache Conscious Clustering C3  . . . . . 815
              Manuel Torres and   
              José Samos   Closed External Schemas in
                                  Object-Oriented Databases  . . . . . . . 826
       Juha Puustjärvi and   
                    Harri Laine   Supporting Cooperative
                                  Inter-organizational Business
                                  Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836
               Zhiming Ding and   
              Xiaofeng Meng and   
                      Shan Wang   O2PC-MT: A Novel Optimistic Two-Phase
                                  Commit Protocol for Mobile Transactions  846
             Katsuya Tanaka and   
                Makoto Takizawa   Quorum-Based Locking Protocol in Nested
                                  Invocations of Methods . . . . . . . . . 857
          Jacek P\lodzie\'n and   
              Kazimierz Subieta   Applying Low-Level Query Optimization
                                  Techniques by Rewriting  . . . . . . . . 867--876
                Sang Ho Lee and   
              Jin Seon Hong and   
               Larry Kerschberg   A Popularity-Driven Caching Scheme for
                                  Meta-search Engines: An Empirical Study  877
       Jesús Vilares and   
             Manuel Vilares and   
               Miguel A. Alonso   Towards the Development of Heuristics
                                  for Automatic Query Expansion  . . . . . 887
            Jerome Robinson and   
         Barry G. T. Lowden and   
             Mohammed Al Haddad   Utilising Multiple Computers in Database
                                  Query Processing and Descriptor Rule
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897
               Coral Calero and   
         Houari A. Sahraoui and   
             Mario Piattini and   
                   Hakim Lounis   Estimating Object-Relational Database
                                  Understandability Using Structural
                                  Metrics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909
          Waldemar Wieczerzycki   CDM --- Collaborative Data Model for
                                  Databases Supporting Groupware
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923
               Jong Sul Lee and   
             Jae Ryong Shin and   
                    Jae Soo Yoo   An Efficient Distributed Concurrency
                                  Control Algorithm Using Two Phase
                                  Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933
           Rashmi Srinivasa and   
             Craig Williams and   
           Paul F. Reynolds Jr.   A New Look at Timestamp Ordering
                                  Concurrency Control  . . . . . . . . . . 943
               Yangjun Chen and   
                    Gerald Huck   On the Evaluation of Path-Oriented
                                  Queries in Document Databases  . . . . . 953
                 Junhu Wang and   
               Rodney Topor and   
                  Michael Maher   Reasoning with Disjunctive Constrained
                                  Tuple-Generating Dependencies  . . . . . 963
            Jae-heon Cheong and   
               Sang-goo Lee and   
                  Jonghoon Chun   A Method for Processing Boolean Queries
                                  Using a Result Cache . . . . . . . . . . 974
             Mukesh Mohania and   
          Yahiko Kambayashi and   
                A. Min Tjoa and   
              Roland Wagner and   
             Ladjel Bellatreche   Trends in Database Research  . . . . . . 984
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989


Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume 2114, 2001

               Larry Kerschberg   Knowledge Management in Heterogeneous
                                  Data Warehouse Environments  . . . . . . 1
           Ming-Cheng Tseng and   
                   Wen-Yang Lin   Mining Generalized Association Rules
                                  with Multiple Minimum Supports . . . . . 11
      Peter Bollmann-Sdorra and   
         Alaaeldin M. Hafez and   
              Vijay V. Raghavan   A Theoretical Framework for Association
                                  Mining Based on the Boolean Retrieval
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
                  Ling Feng and   
                    Qing Li and   
                     Allan Wong   Mining Inter-transactional Association
                                  Rules: Generalization and Empirical
                                  Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
                 Hasan M. Jamil   On the Equivalence of Top-Down and
                                  Bottom-Up Data Mining in Relational
                                  Databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
              Steffan Baron and   
              Myra Spiliopoulou   Monitoring Change in Mining Results  . . 51
   Sérgio Viademonte and   
             Frada Burstein and   
               Robert Dahni and   
                 Scott Williams   Discovering Knowledge from
                                  Meteorological Databases: A
                                  Meteorological Aviation Forecast Study   61
          Salvatore Orlando and   
               P. Palmerini and   
                Raffaele Perego   Enhancing the Apriori Algorithm for
                                  Frequent Set Counting  . . . . . . . . . 71
          Ismail H. Toroslu and   
             Murat Kantarcioglu   Mining Cyclically Repeated Patterns  . . 83
              Hideyuki Maki and   
                 Yuko Teranishi   Development of Automated Data Mining
                                  System for Quality Control in
                                  Manufacturing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
             Catharine Wyss and   
            Chris Giannella and   
               Edward Robertson   FastFDs: A Heuristic-Driven, Depth-First
                                  Algorithm for Mining Functional
                                  Dependencies from Relation Instances ---
                                  Extended Abstract  . . . . . . . . . . . 101
             Seppo Puuronen and   
             Iryna Skrypnyk and   
                 Alexey Tsymbal   Ensemble Feature Selection Based on the
                                  Contextual Merit . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
              Yongqiao Xiao and   
             Margaret H. Dunham   Interactive Clustering for Transaction
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
               Se June Hong and   
           Ramesh Natarajan and   
               Ilana Belitskaya   A New Approach for Item Choice
                                  Recommendations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
        Sonny Han Seng Chee and   
                 Jiawei Han and   
                        Ke Wang   RecTree: An Efficient Collaborative
                                  Filtering Method . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
    K. Selçuk Candan and   
                    Wen-Syan Li   Discovering Web Document Associations
                                  for Web Site Summarization . . . . . . . 152
               Samuel Kaski and   
            Janne Sinkkonen and   
                Jaakko Peltonen   Data Visualization and Analysis with
                                  Self-Organizing Maps in Learning Metrics 162
              Ayman Ammoura and   
            Osmar Za\"\iane and   
                   Randy Goebel   Towards a Novel OLAP Interface for
                                  Distributed Data Warehouses  . . . . . . 174
               Thomas Eiter and   
                Daniel Veit and   
   Jörg P. Müller and   
               Martin Schneider   Matchmaking for Structured Objects . . . 186
             Thanh N. Huynh and   
                 Josef Schiefer   Prototyping Data Warehouse Systems . . . 195
           Anne Tchounikine and   
           Maryvonne Miquel and   
             André Flory   Information Warehouse for Medical
                                  Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
         Robert M. Bruckner and   
                 Beate List and   
                 Josef Schiefer   Risk-Management for Data Warehouse
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
                  Xin Zhang and   
                Lingli Ding and   
          Elke A. Rundensteiner   PVM: Parallel View Maintenance under
                                  Concurrent Data Updates of Distributed
                                  Sources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
              M. Akhtar Ali and   
            Norman W. Paton and   
         Alvaro A. A. Fernandes   An Experimental Performance Evaluation
                                  of Incremental Materialized View
                                  Maintenance in Object Databases  . . . . 240
         Robert M. Bruckner and   
                     A. M. Tjoa   Managing Time Consistency for Active
                                  Data Warehouse Environments  . . . . . . 254
               Panos Kalnis and   
              Dimitris Papadias   Optimization Algorithms for Simultaneous
                                  Multidimensional Queries in OLAP
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
             Joachim Hammer and   
                       Lixin Fu   Improving the Performance of OLAP
                                  Queries Using Families of Statistics
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
                Johann Eder and   
             Christian Koncilia   Changes of Dimension Data in Temporal
                                  Data Warehouses  . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
        Christian Böhm and   
             Hans-Peter Kriegel   Determining the Convex Hull in Large
                                  Multidimensional Databases . . . . . . . 294
             Yannis Kotidis and   
            Yannis Sismanis and   
              Nick Roussopoulos   Shared Index Scans for Data Warehouses   307
        Christian Böhm and   
         Hans-Peter Kriegel and   
                   Thomas Seidl   Adaptable Similarity Search Using Vector
                                  Quantization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
           Oscar Mangisengi and   
             Johannes Huber and   
            Christian Hawel and   
               Wolfgang Essmayr   A Framework for Supporting
                                  Interoperability of Data Warehouse
                                  Islands Using XML  . . . . . . . . . . . 328
         Marinette Savonnet and   
     Marie-Noëlle Terrasse   Fragtique: Applying an OO Database
                                  Distribution Strategy to Data Warehouses 339
           Jorge Bernardino and   
              Pedro Furtado and   
               Henrique Madeira   Approximate Query Answering Using Data
                                  Warehouse Striping . . . . . . . . . . . 349
                      Anonymous   Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361