Table of Contents

The might of formulas and their limits.- Hardware — Software.- Defining discipline.- Computer science as cultural development.- Towards adjusting informatics education to information era.- Informatics and society: A curriculum for distance education.- Syntactic and semantic aspects of parallelism.- Unique fixpoints in complete lattices with applications to formal languages and semantics.- On abstract families of languages, power series, and elements.- Are there formal languages complete for SymSPACE(log n)?.- On twist-closed trios: A new morphic characterization of r.e. sets.- An automata approach to some problems on context-free grammars.- On aperiodic sets of Wang tiles.- Closure under complementation of logspace complexity classes - A survey -.- A relation between sparse and printable sets in NSPACE(log n).- A foundation for computable analysis.- A computer scientist's view of life, the universe, and everything.- Calendars and chronologies.- A uniform approach to Petri Nets.- Observing partial order runs of Petri Nets.- Representation theorems for Petri Nets.- A remark on trace equations.- Verification of distributed algorithms with algebraic Petri Nets.- A short story on action refinement.- Interactive and reactive systems: States, observations, experiments, input, output, nondeterminism, compositionality and all that.- Discrete time analysis of a state dependent tandem with different customer types.- How distributed algorithms play the token game.- The asynchronous stack revisited: Rounds set the twilight reeling.- Online scheduling of continuous media streams.- Contribution to Goodenough's and Gerhart's theory of software testing and verification: Relation between strong compiler test and compiler implementation verification.- On the arrangement complexity ofuniform trees.- A relational-functional integration for declarative programming.- Inside and outside the Chinese room.- Abstract structures in spatial cognition.- Spatial and temporal structures in cognitive processes.- Qualitative vs. Fuzzy representations of spatial distance.- What's a part? On formalizing part-whole relations.- SPOCK: A feasibility study on the completeness of parts lists.- Decision support systems with adaptive reasoning strategies.- Knowledge discovery in databases — An inductive logic programming approach.- The composition heuristic.- The job assignment problem: A study in parallel and distributed machine learning.- Self-improving behavior arbitration.- Neural networks for manipulator path planning.- Path planning using a subgoal graph.- A nonlinear markovian characterization of time series using neural networks.- Feature-based perception of semantic concepts.- Automatic detection of thesaurus relations for information retrieval applications.- InfoSphere ? -V: a new approach to 3D-visualization of information.

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