Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer From: hra@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hamid R. Arabnia) Subject: PDPTA/CISST Conferences - Exhibition/Participation. June 30 - July 4, 97 - Las Vegas ... Organization: University of Georgia, Athens Date: 26 May 1997 20:12:39 GMT Message-ID: <5mcqrn$p5h$1@cronkite.cc.uga.edu> REF: PDPTA'97 & CISST'97 - Exhibition & Participation Opportunities =================================================================== Dear Colleagues: I would be most grateful if you would distribute the appended conference information to your colleagues. We have reserved 20+ EXHIBIT spaces for the duration of the two conferences (potential exhibitors are requested to contact me at hra@cs.uga.edu). Please find appended the following information (seperated with a row of stars "*"): 1. List of accepted papers (as of May 19) in the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'97); June 30 - July 3, 1997; Monte Carlo Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 2. List of accepted papers (as of May 19) in the International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'97); June 30 - July 3, 1997; Monte Carlo Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 3. PDPTA'97 conference registration form. 4. CISST'97 conference registration form. 5. Hotel Reservation Form. Note that both conferences will be held during the same time (June 30 - July 3, 1997) and at the same location. All conference activities (breaks, exhibition, reception, poster sessions, ...) are joint activities. Conference participants (PDPTA or CISST participants) can attend any of the two sets of presentations (PDPTA or CISST). More information can be found at: http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta. Thank you for your assistance. Kindest regards, Hamid R. Arabnia The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A. Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 email: hra@cs.uga.edu ******************************************************************* =================================================================== List of accepted papers in the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'97); June 30 - July 3, 1997; Monte Carlo Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. (S: Short - R: Regular - I: Invited by Program Committee): =================================================================== I. Title to be announced later. John Gustafson Ames Laboratory, United States Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa, USA I. Predictive Load Balancing for Adaptive Finite Element Computation Boleslaw K. Szymanski Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA R. Experience with Automatic Mapping of Sensor Based Applications Jaspal Subhlok Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA R. Simulated Annealing: A Heuristic for Parallel Stochastic Optimization Richard Frost and Philip Heineman San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, California, USA R. By Hand or Not By Hand - A Case Study of Alternative Approaches Jerry C. Yan NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA R. Proportional-Share Scheduling in a Network of Workstations Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau and David E. Culler University of California, Berkeley, California, USA R. Parallel Supercomputing with Commodity Components Michael S. Warren, Donald J. Becker, M. Patrick Goda, John K. Salmon, and Thomas Sterling Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA R. LDA - Scalable, Off-Line Multiprocessor Scheduling for Real-Time Systems Hongyi Zhou and Karsten Schwan Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA R. Single System Image: The Solaris MC Approach Ken Shirrif, M. B. Jose, Yousef A. Khalidi, Vlada Matena, and Moti Thadani Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, California, USA R. Tuning Parallel and Networked Programs with S-Check Robert Snelick, Mike Indovina, Michel Courson National Institute of Standards and Technology, MD, USA R. Routing in Bidirectional k-ary n-cubes with the Red Rover Algorithm Jeff Draper and Fabrizio Petrini Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa, Italy University of Southern California, USA R. Design and Implementation of a Parallel Java with a Global Object Space Milind Bhandarkar, Terry Wilmarth, and Laxmikant Kale University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA R. Algorithms for Multimedia Object Allocation onto Heterogeneous Storage Systems Abdulaziz Al-Sehibani and Kishan Mehrotra Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA R. Object Patterns for Parallel Programming Neelakantan Sundaresan IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory, San Jose, California, USA R. Continuously Monitored Global Virtual Time Ewa Deelman and Boleslaw K. Szymanski Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA R. DNA Strand Separation Prediction: A Parallel Implementation Gabriela Hristescu, Craig J. Benham, and Martin Farach Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA R. New Scalable Parallel Computer Architecture - Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA-Q) David Xiaowei Wang Sequent Computer Systems, Inc., Rosemont, Illinois, USA R. Parallelizing Fortran Applications for Clusters of Distributed Shared Memory Systems John Levesque Applied Parallel Research, Inc., Sacramento, California, USA R. Performance Analysis of Soft Real Systems Mo Rooholamini University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA R. The Architecture and Performance of the Simultaneous Optical Multiprocessor Exchange (SOME-Bus) Interconnection Network C. Katsinis, W. Cohen, R. Gaede, and J. Kulick University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA R. Performance of a Massively Parallel 3D Non-Hydrostatic Atmospheric Fluid Model William D. Anderson, Vanda Grubisic, and Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA R. Modelling of Wavelet Transform for De Bruijn Graph Connected Multiprocessors B. K. Das, R. N. Mahapatra, and B. N. Chatterji Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA R. Online Displays of Parallel Programs: Problems and Solutions Greg Eisenhauer, Weiming Gu, Eileen Kraemer, Karsten Schwan, and John Stasko Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA R. Combinatorics of Finding the Shortest Path Through N-Dimensional Space David Primeaux and Gordon Clark Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA R. A Distributed Algorithm for Optimal Allocation of Resources Tongjun Huang and Zixue Cheng University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan R. Reliability Analysis for Distributed Systems Jin-Long Wang Ming-Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R. O. C. R. Parallelization of Load Flow Algorithms Phanindra K. Mannava and Lisa Teeslink South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA R. Practical Mesh Algorithms for Finding Shortest Paths in Grid Graphs Hongchi Shi and Paul Gader University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA R. Study on the STC104 Interconnection Networks Hyo Jong Lee and Andy Jones Chonbuk National University, Jeonbuk, Korea R. ARTEMIS: Advanced Reliable DisTributed Environment Middleware System Toshio Shrakihara Toshiba Research and Development, Kawasaki, Japan R. Parallel Programming for Real-Time Image Processing Using Intelligent Computing Agents Fenglei Du, Andrew Izatt, and Cesar Bandera Amherst Systems, Inc., Buffalo, New York, USA R. Towards a Formal Specification of an Object-Oriented Architecture for Parallel Computing S. Bavan, E. Berki, E. Georgiadou, M. Milankovic-Adkinson, and M. Walker University of North London, London, United Kingdom R. Design Decisions for the Parallel Evaluation of Polynomials Walter Dosch Medizinische Universitat zu Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany R. A Self-Adaptive 1D Multi-Degree Rectilinear Partitioning for Adaptive Load-Balancing in Massive Parallel and Distributed Computing Zhengyu Jiang University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany R. Task Allocation Strategies on Workstations Using Processor Load Prediction T. Monteil and J. M. Garcia LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France R. Check-load Interval Analysis for Balancing Distributed SPMD Applications M. Cermele, M. Colajanni, and S. Tucci Universita di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy R. Dynamic-SED for Load Balancing of Parallel Applications in Heterogeneous Systems B. Schnor and M. Gehrke University of Lubeck, Luebeck, Germany R. Design of Combination of Time Sharing and Space Sharing For Parallel Task Scheduling Kuniyasu Suzaki, Hitoshi Tanuma, Yuuji Ichisugi Electrotechnical Laboratory, Ibaraki, Japan R. ALDY: Supporting Load Distribution by Object Migration Thomas Schnekenburger Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Muenchen, Germany R. The Prospero Resource Manager Santosh Rao R. Load Balancing in Task Farms Alan Wagner University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada R. Gear Train Theory: An Approach to the Assignment Problem John Campbell and Ben Abbott Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA R. Applying Parallel Block Predictor-Corrector Methods to Transputer Derived Configurations B. Earl Wells and Kenneth G. Ricks University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama R. A Case Study: In Support of Employing a Transputer Style Architecture for Avionics Mission Information Processing B. Earl Wells and Christian Tournes University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama R. Distributed Visual-based Positioning System Sriharsha Veeramachaneni and Ben Abbott Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA R. Power-Law Convergence of Stochastic Optimization Algorithms G. S. Stiles, F. H. Lee, and C. Gyulai Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA R. PSA-CRS: A Parallel Stochastic Algorithm for Global Optimization P. M. Ortigosa and I. Garcia University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain R. Parallel Adaptive Stochastic Heuristics Z. Hafidi, E. G. Talbi, and G. -M. Geib LIFL URA-369 CNRS, Universite de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France R. Chromosome Reconstruction from Physical Maps Using a Cluster of Workstations Suchendra M. Bhandarkar and Salem Machaka University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA R. Real-Time Scheduler Based on Fuzzy Logic Sandeep Neema and Ben Abbott R. Region Growing on a Clustered Reconfigurable Bus System Tirumale Ramesh Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan, USA R. Meshes with Reconfigurable Switches Alberto C. Moreira Nashua, NH, USA R. Mapping of ANNs on Linear Array with a Reconfigurable Pipelined Bus System Bin Cong South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA R. A Reconfigurable Mesh Design For a Simultaneous Access Match-and-Store Unit P. R. Venkata Subramaniam and Kam-Hoi Cheng University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA R. Reconfigurable Buses with Shift Switches for Fast Final Additions of Parallel Multipliers Rong Lin State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, New York, USA R. Euclidean Distance Transform on Reconfigurable Meshes Yi Pan, Mounir Hamdi, and Keqin Li University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, USA R. Framework, Design Patterns and Pattern Language for Object Concurrency Anto'nio Rito Silva INESC/IST Technical University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal R. Object-Oriented Coordination Abstractions for Parallel Software Matthew B. Dwyer and Virgil Wallentine Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA R. Object Orientation in Time Warp Simulation N. Froehlich, R. Schlagenhaft, A. Ganz, and J. Fleischmann Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany R. VGDS: An Object-Oriented Framework for High Performance Scientific Computing Jan-Jan Wu, Pangfeng Liu, Marina Chen, and James Cowie Institute Information Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan R. Implementing Dynamic Load Distribution Strategies with Orbix Thomas Schnekenburger and Guenther Rackl Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Muenchen, Germany R. Operating System Support for General Purpose SSI Clusters Jose M. Bernabeu Universidad Politcnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain R. An Architecture for Handling Compile-time Scheduled Communication David Shoemaker Cambridge, MA, USA R. Overview of Parallel Processing Systems Based on a Virtual Hardware Xiaoping Ling Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Kanagawa-ken, Japan R. Automatic Support for the Migration of Fortran Applications to Parallel Systems Barbara Chapman and Marcus Egg University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria R. Computer Aided Parallelisation of Unstructured Mesh Codes Stephen P. Johnson, Constantinos S. Ierotheou, and Mark Cross University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom R. A New Reconfiguration Scheme for Two-Level Redundancy Array Stephen Y. H. Su and Rong Yao University Park, Rochester, New York, USA R. Diagnosis Algorithms for Massively Parallel Systems Bharat S. Joshi and Seyed H. Hosseini Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, USA R. Fault-Tolerant Meshes with Efficient Layouts T. Yamada and S. Ueno Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan R. A New Approach for Checkpointing Parallel Application E. G. Talbi L.I.F.L., University des Sciences et Tech. de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France R. Pattern Search Through Cross-Correlation J. A. Martinez and I. Garcia University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain R. Applying Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques to a Tether Dynamics Simulation B. Earl Wells and John Glaese University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA R. Parallel Neighbors-Finding Algorithm for Bincode-Based Images on Reconfigurable Meshes Kuo-Liang Chung and Hsiu-Niang Chen Van-Nung Institute of Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C. R. A Transformational Approach to Object-Based Concurrent Reflective Languages Stephen J. Turner and Norlaily Yaacob University of Exeter, Exeter, England R. An Application Domain Specific Language for Describing Board Games John Romein, Henri E. Bal, and Dick Grune Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands R. Exploiting Temporal Locality by Using a Dependence-Driven Execution Suvas Vajracharya and Dirk Grunwald University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA R. On the Performance of Functional Programming Languages on Realistic Benchmarks Jeff Hammes and Wim Bohm Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA R. On Building Efficient Substrate Software Matthew Haines University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA R. Enabling Flexibility in the Legion Run-Time Library Charles L. Viles, Michael J. Lewis, Adam J. Ferrari, Anh Nguyen-Tuong, and Andrew Grimshaw University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA R. On the Design and Implementation of DSM-Threads Frank Mueller Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany R. A Messaging Facility for Java Mobile Agent Systems Daniel T. Chang and Neelakantan Sundaresan IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory, San Jose, California, USA R. MPI Realtime: Design and Implementation of a Real-Time Message Passing Interface Anthony Skjellum Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA R. Towards an Evolutionary Verification Methodology: Experiences with a Distributed Programming Language Implementation Cui Zhang and Carole M. McNamme California State University, Sacramento, California, USA R. Nearest Neighbor Mesh Hypercube Multiprocessor Networks for Autonomous Decentralized Systems Hiromi Kobayashi Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Japan R. Java, SIMD, The World Wide Web, and Distributed Parallelism: An Integrated Story Rodney S. Tosten, Bradley Steiner, and Paul T. Tymann Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, USA R. Fault Tolerant Routing in Star Graph Networks in the Forbidden Fault Model Shahram Latifi, Yordan Rouskov, and Pradip K. Srimani University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA R. Reliable Parallel Processing on Dynamic Heterogeneous Supercomputer via JMPI Gilbert H. Young, Lai Man Wan, and Vincent S. Yiu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong R. Design of a Fault-Tolerant Circuit-Switched k-ary Tree Multiprocessor Baback A. Izadi and Fusun Ozguner DeVry Institute of Technology, Columbus, Ohio, USA R. Framework for Constructing Parallel and Distributed Applications with Scalable Portability Ami Marowka and Michel Bercovier The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel R. An Efficient Method for Constructing a Distributed Depth-First Search Tree S. A. M. Makki and George Havas University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia R. A Timing Analysis of a Modified Version of the Gauss-Seidel Parallel Algorithm in a One Dimensional Flow Equation Luke Olszewski and Ahmed Barbour Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA R. Visualization of Methods: Computation on Multi-Stage Networks Nikolay Mirenkov, Tatiana Mirenkova, and Masamitsu Sato University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan R. An Interactive Graphic Tool for Systematic Design and Analysis of VLSI Array Processors Stanislav G. Sedukhin and Igor S. Sedukhin University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan R. Efficient Distributed Ray Tracing on a Cluster of Workstations Darrin Weber, Hassan R. Barada, and Madalene Spezialetti King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia R. DSF: A Load Distribution Facility Supporting Multiple Algorithms on Mach Chin Lu and Arthur S. L. Hsieh The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong R. An Associative Processor for Multi-Comparand Parallel Searching And Its Selected Applications Zbigniew Kokosinski University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan R. A SIMD Machine for Massively Parallel Genetic Algorithms Yoshizo Takahashi, Masahoko Sano, and Tomio Inoue University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan R. Triangular Solvers on a Ring Eunice E. Santos Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA R. A Global Synchronization Solution for Racing Servers in the Microkernel-based OS, MISIX Young Jin Nam, Joo Man Kim, and Hae-Jin Kim Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Taejon, Korea R. Transaction Model and Commit Protocol for Supporting Host Mobility JongMin Lee and Chong-Sun Hwang Korea University, Seoul, Korea R. Communication Performance of Shuffle-Exchange Networks with Shortest-Path Routing A. Broadwater, B. D. Jayadev, and K. Efe University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA R. Coupling HPCN and Virtual Reality in a Telemedical Information Society F. Simistira, A. Marsh, and R. A. Robb National Technical University of Athens, Greece R. ISE - A Hardware Accelerator for Switch Level VLSI Simulation M. Bhardwaj, S. S. Erdogan, M. Mishra, and V. V. Yee Nanyang Technological University, Singapore R. Combinatorial Properties of Two-Level Hypernet Networks Hui-Ling Huang and Gen-Huey Chen National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan R. Optimizing Complex Decision Support Queries for Parallel Execution Lionel Brunie and Harald Kosch LIP - CNRS at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France R. Intercommunication Between CORBA and DCE Through Bridge Dong-Jin Kim, In-Won Yoo, and Geun-Young Lee Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Taejeon, S. Korea R. Mapping the Single-Row Routing Problem to a Hypercube Shaharuddin Salleh and Bahrom Sanugi University of Technology Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia R. Object-Oriented Data Parallel Programming in C++ Hua Bi RWCP Laboratory at GMD-FIRST, GMD Institute for Computer Architecture & Software Technology, Berlin, Germany R. ICE: A Communication Environment for Natural Language Processing Jan W. Amtrup University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany R. Instrumenting Parallel Programs Based on a Virtual Clock Approach Kei-Chun Li and Kang Zhang Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia R. Ruling the Behavior of Distributed Software Components Guido Wirtz, Jorg Graf, and Holger Giese Muenster University, Muenster, Germany R. An Experimental Study of Workload Indices for Non-dedicated Heterogeneous Systems G. S. Wolffe, S. H. Hosseini, and K. Vairavan University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA R. Performance Evaluation for Designing a Remote IPC in MISIX Sung In Jung, Jae Kyoung Lee, and Hae-Jin Kim Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Taejon, Korea R. Fault-Tolerant All-to-All Broadcasting in Hypercubes Seungjin Park Kyonggi University, Suwon, Kyonggi-Do, Korea R. A Parallel CORDIC Algorithm for Sine and Cosine Generation Hao-Yung Lo Feng-Chia University, Tai-Chung, Taiwan, R.O.C. R. An Effective Tool for Debugging Races in Parallel Programs Dong-Gook Kim and Yong-Kee Jun Gyeongsang National University, Chinju, South Korea R. Systematic Exploitation of Parallelism in Spatial Interaction Models W. Essah, J. R. Davy, and S. Openshaw University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom R. Supporting Highly Available Distributed Services Using Linda Paradigm Pietro Manzoni, Alberto Tonello, Stefano Crespi Reghizzi Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain R. Dynamic Load Distribution with MPVM Robert M. Prouty, Jonathan Walpole, and Dylan McNamee Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Portland, Oregon, USA R. Parallel Decomposition of Generalized Series-Parallel Graphs Sun-Yuan Hsieh, Chin-Wen Ho, and Gen-Huey Chen National Taiwan University, Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan R. Fault Tolerant Node-Disjoint Routing in n-dimensional Hypercube Network Kisong Yoon System Engineering Research Institute, Taejeon, Korea R. Practical Considerations in the Use of Multithreading for Parallelising Applications Ang Ju Pin and Lim Chu Cheow Singapore R. Parallelization of Holographic Memory for Pattern Recollection with Dynamic Attention Javed I. Khan and D. Y. Y. Yun University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA R. Evolving Software Tools for New Distributed Computing Environments Markus Pizka and Claudia Eckert Munich University of Technology, Munich, Germany R. Accelerating Profiling Services by Parallel Database Technology Clara Nippl, Michael Jaedicke, and Bernhard Mitschang Technische Universitat Muenchen, Munich, Germany R. Management of Events in a Multi-Agent System Yolande Berbers, Bart De Decker, Wouter Joosen, Frank Matthijs, and Bert Robben KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium R. A Fault Tolerant Shared Memory ATM Switch Tsern-Huei Lee and Shun-Jee Liu National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C. R. Multi-block Execution of Dynamic Data-driven Processor Qv-x Teruhiko Kamigata Osaka University, Osaka, Japan R. Parallel Branch-and-Cut for Optimization in Production Planing Dieter Homeister and Hartmut Schwab University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany R. A Parallel Algorithm with Embedded Load Balancing for the Computation of Autocorrelation Matrix S. R. Subramanya George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA R. Investigating DSM Coherence Protocols for Fault Tolerance and Scalability - A Simulation Approach Sachin K. Shah and Brett D. Fleisch University of California, Riverside, California, USA R. A Parallel Algorithm to Reconstruct Bounding Surfaces in 3D Images Frederic H. Mabin and Catherine Mongenet Universite Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France R. A Performance Model for Mobile Agent Systems Markus Strasser and Markus Schwehm University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany R. A Configurable Target Architecture for Rapid Prototyping High Performance Control Systems Franz Fischer, Thomas Kolloch, Annette Muth, and Georg Farber Munich University of Technology, Munich, Germany R. The Chordal Spoke ATM Interconnection Network Mark J. Clement, Bryan S. Morse, J. Kelly Flanagan, Wei Wei, and Phyllis E. Crandall Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA R. The Timewheel Asynchronous Atomic Broadcast Protocol Shivakant Mishra, Christof Fetzer, and Flaviu Cristian University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA R. Hyper-Systolic Routing for SIMD Systems Thomas Lippert and Klaus Schilling HLRZ, Julich, Germany R. Using Sensors to Detect Failures in a Lossely Integrated Heterogeneous Database System Wanlei Zhou Deakin University, Geelong, Australia R. An ATM-Enhanced Meeting System Tony Chan, Lee Bu Sung, Chia Liang Tien, Tung Lai Lai, and Yeo Chai Kiat Nanyang Technological University, Singapore R. A Parallel Volume Rendering Algorithm: Performance Analysis and Implication in Medicine M. F. Santarelli, V. Positano, and L. Landini Institute of Clinical Physiology (C.N.R.), Pisa, Italy R. An Efficient Inner Product-free Parallel Algorithm for Restoring Images Degraded by Spatially-Variant Blur Tianruo Yang Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden R. Rectilinear Partitioning for Load Balancing a 3D Image Processing Algorithm Jean-Marc Nicod and Jean-Marc Pierson Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France R. The NanOS Microkernel: A Basis for a Multicomputer Cluster Operating System F. D. Munoz-Escoi and J. M. Bernabeu-Auban Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain R. An Architecture for Object Replication in Distributed Systems Ganesha Beedubail and Udo Pooch Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA R. Flexible Small Scale Parallel System in the Development of a Hybrid Vehicle Hans Otto Trutmann Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Zurich, Switzerland R. An Effective Interconnection Structure for Various SIMD Communications Youngsik Kim, Tack-Don Han, Shin-Dug Kim, and Sung-Bong Yang Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea R. Parallel Rendering of Radiance on Distributed Memory System Garcia Salcines, G. Cerruela Garcia, J. I. Benavides Benitez and F. Munoz Garcia G.A.A.C., E.U.Politenica, Cordoba, Spain R. Latency Controlled Virtual Channels over Modems Rajesh Chhabria and Ben Abbott Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA R. Fast Communication Mechanisms - Coupling Hardware Distributed Shared Memory and User-Level Messaging Hermann Hellwagner, Wolfgang Karl, and Markus Leberecht Institut fur Informatik der Technischen Universitat Munchen, Munchen, Germany R. I/O Minimization in a Genetic Sequencing Framework Edward M. Robinson, Dan Davison, and Ernst Leiss Binary Consulting, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, USA R. Logical Rings in the Mutual Exclusion Problem of Distributed Memory Systems John Dell and Kia Makki University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA S. Optimistic Agreement in Asynchronous Distributed Systems J. Roger Mitchell and Vijay K. Garg University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA S. The Effect of Mobility on Consistency and Access Time in Distributed Systems Anil Gurijala and Udo Pooch Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA S. Implementation of Distributed Resource Mutual Exclusion Algorithm for Distributed System on SVR4.2 MP UNIX Jang Seung-Ju Dongeui University, Pusan, Korea S. IIRM (Intelligent Information Retrieval Method) Graphical Data Retrieval Interface Based on Hypertext User-Models Lee Jong-Taik and Jang Seung-Ju Dongeui University, Pusan, Korea S. An Improved Version of the Set Routing Labeling Scheme Soulla P. Louca and George A. Horattas University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus S. Two Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Computing Reliability in a Linear and a Circular Distributed System Min-Sheng Lin and Deng-Jyi Chen Tamsui Oxford University College, Taiwan, R.O.C. S. Hardware Formal Verification Using ORA Larch/VHDL Theorem Prover Ahmed E. Barbour and Mike P. Nassif Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA S. Hypercube Minimization Algorithm for Boolean Functions Ahmed E. Barbour Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA S. Simulation Study of Clock Synchronization in Distributed Systems Bo Jin and Lan Yang California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, USA S. PM/Parallel: A Framework for Distributed Physical Simulations Using the Bulk Synchronous Parallel Computing Model Curtis Lisle and Rebecca Parsons University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA S. A Framework for Communication Support in Object Oriented Distributed Systems Anish S. Karmarkar and Udo Pooch Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA S. Incremental Design and Routing Schemes for Torus Networks Nobuyuki Nezu and Huizhu Lu Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA S. Fault-tolerant Properties of Pyramid Networks Feng Cao, D. Z. Du, D. F. Hsu, and S. H. Tong University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA S. Parallelizing A Fourth-Order Runge-Kutta Method Hai C. Tang National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA S. A Task Migration Facility for Parallel & Distributed Applications M. Bozyigit, K. Al-Tawil, and S. K. Naseer King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia S. Pipeline Algorithm for Sparse Linear Equations Solution in Power Systems M. Kacarska, D. Andonov, A. Grnarov, V. Glamocanin Republic of Macedonia S. Font Structure for Heterogeneous Chinese Computing Environment H. W. Chan University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S. Multiprocessor Scheduling with Genetic Algorithms in a Heterogeneous Environment S. H. Woo, S. B. Yang, S. D. Kim, and T. D. Han Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea S. Application of a Genetic Algorithm to the Static Scheduling of Processes on a Parallel Architecture Malek Rahoual Dept. Arch. & Systeme Institut, d'Informatique. U.S.T.H.B., Algeria S. A Partitionability of Interconnection Networks S. Q. Zheng, K. Li, Y. Pan, H. Shen, and G. H. Young Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA S. Performance Characterization and Comparison of SIMD Architectures Esin Onbasioglu and Yakup Paker Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey S. A Distributed Schedular for Meetings of Committees Kazunori Hirai, Tongjun Huang, and Zixue Cheng University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan S. A Distributed Algorithm for Allocation of Resources to Process Groups with Acyclic Graphs Yutaka Wada, Zixue Cheng, and Tongjun Huang University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan S. A Distributed Algorithm for Leader Election from a Partially Ordered Set on a Coterie Zixue Cheng and Qian-Ping Gu University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan S. Optimizing the Use of Distributed Queues in Tuplespace James B. Fenwick, Jr. and Lori L. Pollock University of Delawer, Newark, DE, USA S. Instruction Fetch Mechanism for PN-Superscalar Shusuke Okamoto and Masahiro Sowa University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan S. On the (1+1/2)-Layer Neural Networks as Universal Approximators I. Ciuca and J. A. Ware Research Institute for Informatics Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania S. Enhancement of Neural Networks Novelty Filters with Genetic Algorithms Hamed Elsimary Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt S. Strictly Nonblocking Directional Coupler-Based Photonic Switching Networks Under Crosstalk Constraint Mehdi Vaez and Chin-Tau Lea Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA S. FITOS-RPC: An OSI-based Reliable Group Remote Procedure Call Service Luciano Porto Barreto and Ingrid Jansch-Porto Curso de Pos-Graduacao em Ciencia da Computacao - UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil S. Parallel IQMR Method for Unsymmetric Large and Sparse Linear Systems in Computational Fluid Dynamics Tianruo Yang Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden S. The Improved Unsymmetric Lanczos Process on Massively Distributed Memory Computers Tianruo Yang Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden S. Parallel Three-Dimensional Particle-In-Cell Code Simulation on a Cluster of Heterogeneous Workstation A. Abdelmageed Elsadek, Salleh Alsharaeh, B. Earl Wells University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA S. DIPC: A System Software Solution for Distributed Programming Kamran Karimi and Mohsen Sharifi Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran S. Nonpreemptive Scheduling on the Parallel Task System Gilbert H. Young, Siu-Chung Lau, and Vincent S. Yiu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong S. Two-Level Parallelization Chong-wei Xu and Delong Yang Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA S. New Heuristic Method for the Reliability Optimization of a Distributed Communication Network Ruey-Shun Chen, Y. S. Yeh, and K. M. Liu National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. S. A Program Parallelizing Method for Parallelizing Compiler on Workstation Clusters Koichi Asakura and Toyohide Watanabe Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan S. A Comparative Study of Data-Sharing Software Packages on a Cray T3D George Petit TROY Systems Inc., Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI, USA S. A Randomized Algorithm for Dynamic Tree Growing on k-ary n-cubes Keqin Li State University of New York, New Paltz, New York, USA S. Simulation of Parallel Random Access Machines on Linear Arrays with Reconfigurable Pipelined Bus Systems Keqin Li, Yi Pan, and Si-Qing Zheng State University of New York, New Paltz, New York, USA S. Program Controlled Cache Memory on Parallel Computer Mitsuaki Nakasumi, Shusuke Okamoto, and Masahiro Sowa University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan S. Homogeneous Structure for Regular Algorithms V. Schmoylov and I. Zayats Institute of Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics, Ukraine S. Problem-Oriented Parallelization of an Iterative Placement Algorithm Thomas Schnekenburger, Gunter Stenz, and Henning Spruth Technische Universitat Muenchen, Muenchen, Germany S. An Optimal Parallel Algorithm for the Single-Source Shortest-Path Problem Shu Jane Lee, Wei K. Tsai, and Fan Chen Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, P. R. China S. Modular Development of Correct Meander Programs Holger Giese and Guido Wirtz Muenster University, Muenster, Germany S. Software Techniques Suited to Implement Multimedia Communication in a Distributed System Huiwei Guan and Horace H. S. Ip City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong S. Varying Service Quality to Manage Computational Resources Byron Jeff Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA S. Exploit Parallelism in Intersecting Compressed Bit Vectors for Inverted File Organization Wen-jann Yang and Ramalingam Sridhar State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA S. Fixed Priority Schedulability Analysis of a Distributed Real-Time Fault Tolerant Architecture Guillem Bernat, Jose Miro-Julia, and Julian Proenza Universitat de les Illes Balears, Balearic Islands, Spain S. The Software Architecture of a Virtual Computing Environment Haluk Topcuoglu, Salim Hariri, and Wojtek Furmanski Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA S. Scalable Non-Blocking Networks with Fixed Size Routers Tor Skeie, Olav Lysne, and Geir Horn University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway S. Reliability Issues in Distributed Multimedia Computing Duk-Ho Chang Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejon, Korea S. Distributed Tasks Management System Topos Sergey Kosyakov Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia S. Relocatable Object Creation in a Mobile Computing Environment Sebnem Baydere and MaROS Group Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey S. A Different Approach to Resource Management for Distributed Systems Sascha Groh Munich University of Technology, Munich, Germany S. Applications of Rhombic Multiprocessors K. Hoganson, B. Wilkinson, and W. H. Carlisle Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia, USA S. ABR Service Using a Parallel Control Scheme in ATM Networks Quan-long Ding and Soung C. Liew The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S. Parallel Solution - Adaptive Structured Grid Generator for Complex Multiblock Topologies Manoj S. Apte and Bharat Soni Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA S. The Parallel Anisotropic Autowave Algorithm for Skeletonization of Color Drawings with Erosion Victor Yu. Chekh National Technical University of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine S. An Efficient Scalable Ray Tracing Algorithm for General Purpose SIMD Parallel Machines Sandeep V. Kharkar, Daniel W. Watson, and Larre N. Egbert VZ Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA S. Data Block Size, Software Access Control and Release Consistent Distributed Shared Memory on Reliable Networks Arif M. Bhatti Boston University, Boston, MA, USA S. Improved Parallel Algorithms for Finding the Most Vital Edge of a Graph with Respect to Minimum Spanning Tree Hong Shen Griffith University, Nathan, Australia S. Parallel Implementation of Matrix Decomposition Method for Evaluating Phylogenetic Trees Sanzheng Qiao and Sheldon Siu-tung Tam McMaster University, Ontario, Canada S. The Efficient Two-Phase Coordinators using Multi-Thread Ki-Young Moon, Nam Sik Park, Young-Chul Lew, and Han Nam-Gung Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Taejon, Korea S. The Wrap-Around Banyan-Hypercube Networks Abdelaghani Bellaachia and Jamal Faik Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Ifrane, Morocco S. Virtual-Time-Based Round Robin: A Hardware-Efficient Fair Scheduling Algorithm for High-Speed Networks Ki-Ho Cho and Hyunsoo Yoon Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Taejon, South Korea S. On a Class of (2 log2 N - 1)-stage Shuffle-Exchange Equivalent Interconnection Networks Yanggon Kim and Vishnu S. Indugula Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA S. Preconditioned Rayleigh Quotient and Modified Conjugate Gradients for Total Least Squares Filter in Robot Navigation Tianruo Yang Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden S. A Mapping of Binary Tree Process Organization to Shared Memory Architecture K. M. George and N. Chu Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA S. Solving the Symmetric Eigenvalue Problem on Distributed Memory Systems Domingo Gimenez, Maria J. Majado, and Isidro Verdu Univ de Murcia, Murcia, Spain S. Hazard-Free Connection Release Jennifer E. Walter and Jennifer L. Welch Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA S. MAMR (Multiple Access Multiple Resource) Method for Fault Tolerance Distributed File System Jang Seung-Ju Dongeui University, Pusan, Korea S. Scalability Analysis of Multiprocessors Using Stochastic Models Efthimios Tambouris and Evagelos Dimas Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece S. Concurrency Control for Parallel Transaction Processing Systems Jiahong Wang, Jie Li, and Hisao Kameda University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan S. Parallel Radiosity Algorithm on Distributed Memory Multiprocessor G. Cerruela Garcia, E. Garcia Salcines, and J. I. Benavidez Benitez Cordoba University, Spain S. Parallel Modeling of Rough Surface Electromagnetic Scattering Jeff Boleng and Manavendra Misra Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA ******************************************************************* =================================================================== List of accepted papers in the International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'97); June 30 - July 3, 1997; Monte Carlo Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. (S: Short - R: Regular): =================================================================== R. Prototype Multiple Sensor Luggage Inspection System for Explosive Detection Thomas H. Drayer, Qaing Lu, Panos Arvanitis, Paul E. LaCasse, Yuhua Cui, Richard W. Conners, Lynn A. Abbott, and Shiu Cheung Virginia Institute of Technology Blacksburg, Virginia, USA R. A New Representation of the Contrast Sensitivity Function for Human Vision Bert W. Rust and Holly E. Rushmeier National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD, USA R. Fast and Accurate Evaluation of the Radon Transform Ping Tak Peter Tang Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA R. Representing and Image in Terms of a Set of Images and Applications to Computational Forensics Ying Xu, Victor Olman, and Edward C. Uberbacher Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennesse, USA R. Improved Correlation Discrimination for Multiple Target Detection Using Nonlinear Joint Power Spectrum Apodization Mohammad S. Alam Purdue University, Fort Wayne Indiana, USA R. The WWW and Innovative Product Development for the Discrete Manufacturing Industry : A Vision and Research Agenda Kochhar Sandeep Advanced Video Communications, Burlington, MA, USA R. A Graph Theory Approach to Surface Reconstruction Laura S. Rogers and Carl Bowling Visual Numerics, Inc. Boulder, Colorado, USA R. Selection of Good Biorthogonal Wavelets for Data Compression Abdou Youssef George Washington University Washington, DC, USA R. A New Algorithm for MPEG Video Encryption Lintian Qiao and Klara Nahrstedt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois, USA R. Implementation of Video Compression on DSP K. S. Chua, A. A. Kassim, and S. Rangananth National University of Singapore Singapore R. Visible Vertices Labeling and Hidden Vertices Determination in Hand Line Drawing Paul S. Wu and Kwok-Kei Lai City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong R. High Resolution Hough Transform for Image Model Estimation Xiaoxin Ying The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hongkong R. Using Different Programming Techniques of X Window System to Implement Real-Time Transmission of Image Information Huiwei Guan and Horace Ho-shing Ip City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong R. Storing Graphic Data in Databases Mengchi Liu University of Regina Canada R. Handwritten Digit Recognition Using Radial Basis Functions Y. C. Chim, A. A. Kassim, and Y. Ibrahim National University of Singapore Singapore R. Fractal Image Compression: an efficient acceleration technique Eric Amram and Jacques Blanc-Talon ETCA-CREA-SP France R. An Efficient Inner Product-Free Parallel Algorithm for Restoring Images Degraded by Spatially-Variant Blur Tianruo Yang Linkoping University Linkoping Sweden R. Low-Cost Volume Visualization Silvia Castro, Miguel Danzi, Claudio Delrieux, Marcelo Larrea, and Andrea Silvetti Universidad Nacional del Sur Bahia Blanca Argentina R. Networking Virtual Reality for Network Management Applications Jiann-Liang Chen and Yu-Lin Tseng Tatung Institute of Technology Taipei, Taiwan, R. O. C. R. HTML 2.0 Extension for Adaptative Transmission of Synthetic Images Antonio Mana-Gomez and Francisco Villalba-Sanchez E.T.S. Ingenieria Informatica Malaga, Spain R. DEM2ONS: A High Level Declarative Modeler for 3D Graphics Applications Kwaiter Ghassan, Gaildrat Veronique, and Caubet Rene IRIT - Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse Cedex, France R. Declarative Modelling: Speeding up the Generation Champciaux Laurent Ecole des Mines de Nantes Nantes Cedex, France R. A Qualitive Approach to Fuzzy Properties in Scene Description Daniel Pacholczyk and Emmanuel Desmontils LERIA - Universite d'Angers Angers Cedex, France R. Properties Taxonomy in Declarative Modeling Emmanuel Desmontils and Jean-Yves Martin IRIN - Universite de Nantes Nantes Cedex, France R. A Neural Network Pipeline Architecture for Image Feature Extraction Paul Angel University of Glamorgan South Wales, United Kingdom R. Feature Extraction for Colour Texture Classification Edward Antoniu University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada R. Multichannel Nonlinear Filters for Image Restoration Radaan A. Dosari, Russel C. Hardie, Ahmad M. Sarhan, and Kenneth E. Barner University of Dayton Dayton, Ohio, USA R. Feature Synthesis for Correlation-based Pattern Recognition Farid Ahmed and Fahmida Rahman PennState Erie Erie, PA, USA R. Computer-Assisted Dolphin Identification Based on Dorsal Fin Images A. Kreho, N. Kehtarnavaz, G. Hillman, B. Wursig, and D. Weller Texas A & M University College Station, Texas, USA R. A Watermarking Technique for Digital Imagery Ray Wolfgang and Edward J. Delp Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, USA R. Perceptual Watermarking of JPEG Bitstreams Christine Podilchuk Bell Laboratories Mountain Ave., Murray Hill New Jersey, USA R. Applying Digital Watermarking Techniques to Online Multimedia Commerce Jian Zhao Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics Providence, RI, USA R. Controlable User Access on Multimedia Data in the World Wide Web Eckhard Koch and D. Stock Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Darmstadt, Germany R. Selective Encryption and Watermarking of MPEG Video T. Wu and S. F. Wu North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, USA R. Invisible Watermarking of Compressed Images for Web Applications D. Benham, N. Memon, B-L Yeo, and M. Yeung Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois, USA R. Generic and Fully Automatic Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Texture Suresh K. Choubey and Vijay V. Raghavan Magnetic Resonance Imaging GE Medical Systems, Waukesha, WI, USA R. Region-Based Indexing in an Image Database Niles Nes and Martin Kersten University of Amsterdam The Netherlands R. Extracting Visual Content Representation in Video Databases Haitao Jiang and Ahmed Elmagarmid Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, USA R. Multiple Instance Object Problem in Spatial Similarity-Based Retrieval Rajesh Sonak, Venkat Gudivada, and Jay Bhuyan University of Missouri, Rolla Rolla, MO, USA R. Classification of the Terrestrial Objects Using Boundaries Riza Akturan and Kent Panwarden Globalstar, L. P. San Jose, California, USA R. Uncencumbered Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition for Remote Camera Control Helman I. Stern Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, Israel R. The Slip Detection and Computing for VLSI Wafer Inspection Zhongquan Wu, John Cromer, and Lie Dou ADE Optical Systems, Inc. Charlotte, North Carolina, USA R. A Method for Discriminating Radar Clutter Sequences from Target Range Images Deshuang Huang and Daniel Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, P. R. China R. Color Image Processing for Quality Evaluation of Edible Beans Suranjan Panigrahi North Dakota State University Fargo, North Dakota, USA R. A Vision System for Biotechnological Applications Andrei Doncescu, Alain Bouju, and Chisthine Delorme Laboratoire d'Informatique et d'Imagerie Industrielle La Rochelle Cedex, France R. The CMAC Neural Network - Adaptations and Insights Bai Li and Dave Elliman Nottingham Trent University Nottingham, United Kingdom R. Hyperbase Modelling for Integration of Distributed Unknown Structure Documents Florenco Sedes and Safia Djennane Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France R. GhostSpace: Efficient VRML Browsing on ATM Daisuke Nishioka and Mikio Nagasawa Hitachi Tokyo, Japan R. An Use of Program Supervision for Automatic Galaxy Classification R. Vincent, J-C Ossla, and M. Thonnat I.N.R.I.A. Action ORION Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France R. Double-Time Cubes: A Fast 3D Surface Construction Algorithm for Volume Visualization Dennis J. Bouvier University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA R. Improved Adaptive Skip Factor For Scene Change Detection T. Rachidi, S. A. Maelainin, and A. Bensaid Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Ifrane, Morocco R. Variable Block-size Image Coding Using Resource Planning Chao-wen Chen and David Y. Y. Yun University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA R. A Source Smoothing Scheme for VBR Traffic Lou Wenjing, Chia Liang Tien, and Lee Bu Sung Nanyang Technological University, Singapore R. KLT Compression and Reconstruction of Spatially-Invariant Image Sequences James B. Farison and Yong-gab Park University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA R. Concurrent Processing of JBIG Decomposition and Skew Estimation J. Kanai and A. Bagdanov University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA R. Synthetic Actor Motion Using Fourier Transformation Sudhanshu K. Semwal and Darrin W. Griffin University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA R. Image Transfer in a Mobile Environment Jian Zhang Computer Graphics Center (ZGDV), Darmstadt, Germany R. Plot-and-Patterning Theory in Computer Graphics and Computer Animation Edward G. Belaga Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France R. Pyramid Coding of Video Signals for Progressive Transmission Nehal Dantwala, Subhash C. Kwatra, and Awad Kh. Al-Asmari University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA R. Compression, Visualization and Segmentation Techniques for 3D Spectrum-Images from Multispectral Analytical Electron Microscopy P. G. Kenny, P. F. Newbury, D. L. Mountain, D. Whitehouse, S. A. Haigh, M. Prutton, R. H. Roberts, I. R. Barkshire, and M. J. G. Wenham University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom R. Complexity Evaluation of Imaging Processes with Applications to Design and Detection of Self-Similar Patterns Kohji Kamejima Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Japan R. Selecting Image Features for Automated Visual Inspection of Agricultural Grains Ahmad Ghazanfari, Shahab Sokhansanj, Phill Winter, and Hugh C. Wood University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada S. Visualization of Electromagnetic Fields Influences on Humans in Virtual Kitchen S. Loskovska, L. Ololoska Gagovska, M. Kacarska, L. Grcev Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Karpos, Skopje, Macedonia S. A Low Memory Algorithm for the Ray-Mountain Intersection Test Isidro Verdu, Juan C. Torres, Domingo Gimenez Univ. de Murcia, Murcia, Spain S. Logo Detection in Document Images Steve Seiden, Michael Dillencourt, Sandy Irani, Roland Borrey, and Timothy Murphy University of California, Irvine, California, USA S. Adaptive Error Concealment Techniques in the Transform Domain Chia Liang Tien, Yeo Chai Kiat, and Lim Boon Seng Nanyang Technological University, Singapore S. Additional Properties of the Simultaneous-Diagonalization Transform James B. Farison, J. W. V. Miller, and Xia He University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA S. Rapid Manipulation of Images Compressed by the CCITT Group III 1-D Coding Scheme S. Latifi and J. Kanai University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA S. Determination of Wear Particle Characteristics by Computer Vision M. S. Laghari and A. Boujarwah Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait S. Competitiveness Improvement in Multi-Classifier Systems by Data Equalization Geok See Ng and Harcharan Singh Nanyang Technological University, Singapore S. HYPEX - A Modeling, Analysis and Visualization Toolkit for Hyperspectral Data Sandra J. Conner and Frederick C. Mertz Photon Research Associates, Arlington, Virginia, USA S. A Simple Color Metric and Its Applications Fenglei Du Amherst Systems Inc., Buffalo, New York, USA S. Finding Best Cut Between Touching Chromosomes Using Local Operations Hongchi Shi, Paul Gader, Hongzheng Li, and Young-Bae Lim University of Missouri, Columbia, USA S. Model-Based Approaches for Extracting Road Information from Urban Maps Toyohide Watanabe Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan S. Associative Approach to Machine Vision Rutie Adar and Avidan Akerib Associative Computing Ltd. (ACL), Raanana, Israel S. SPICE Netlist Translation from Circuit Schematic Diagrams M. A. Chatterjee and G. R. Simon Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA S. Web-based On-demand Image Retrieval Based on Color Content and Region of Interest Jia Wang, Wen-jann Yang, and Raj Acharya State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, New York, USA S. Local Fractal Compression Algorithm: a new approach for making real fractal compression Jacques Blanc-Talon ETCA-CREA-SP France S. Preconditioned Rayleigh Quotient and Modified Conjugate Gradients for Total Least Squares Filter in Robot Navigation Tianruo Yang Linkoping University Linkoping Sweden S. A Modeling Method for Multi-Media Databases Based on Segmentation Concept Taketoshi Ushiama and Toyohide Watanabe Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan S. Accurate Data Prefetching with Intelligent Replacement Policy Gilbert H. Young and Siu Ching Sze The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong S. The Polysystem Analysis of Problems and Hypotheses in a Procedure of Declarative Modeling A. K. Cherkashin and E. A. Cherkashin Institute of Geography SB RAS Ulanbatorskaya, Russia S. The Algorithm of Fast Volume Rendering and Its Application in Virtual Environments Chen Xiaowu, He Lei, Shen Xukun, and Zhao Qinping Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Beijing, P. R. China S. Road Detection in Panchromatic SPOT Satellite Images Nicolae Duta East Lansing, Michigan, USA S. Fast Image Indexing by Fuzzy Membership J. You and H. Shen Griffith University, Nathan, Australia S. Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Image Coloring H. Shen and S. Q. Zheng Griffith University, Nathan, Australia S. A Simplified Approach for Desktop 3D Scanning De-Wei Yang and Nagarajan Prabhakaran Florida International University Miami, Florida, USA S. Optimal Surface Triangulation Tianyu Lu and David Y. Y. Yun University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA ******************************************************************* NON-AUTHOR CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM The 1997 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'97) June 30 - July 3, 1997 Monte Carlo Resort & Casino Las Vegas blvd., Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Please complete this form (type or print), and return with your payment to the address given at the end of the form. 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