New Results and New Trends in Computer Science: Graz, Austria, June 20-21, 1991 Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540548690 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 410 str.

Hermann Maurer; Hermann A. Maurer

Opis

This volume contains selected papers from the symposium New Results and New Trends in Computer Science held in Graz, Austria, June 20-21, 1991. The symposium was organized to give a wide-ranging overview of new work in the field on the occasion of the 50th birthday of the editor of the volume. Topics covered include: information on neural nets, ideas on a new paradigm for informatics, hypermedia systems and application, axioms for concurrent processes, techniques for image generation and compression, the role of data visualization, object-oriented programming and graphics, algorithms for layout compaction, new methods in database systems, the future of data networks, object-oriented artificial intelligence, problems in data structures and sorting, aspects of user interface, a theory of structures, applications of cryptography, evaluation of Ada, results in algorithmic geometry, remarks on the history of computers, and a novel interpretation of machine learning.

Spis treści

What is all the fuss about neural networks ?.- The new paradigm of informatics.- Virtual text and new habits of mind.- Axioms for concurrent processes.- New methods for image generation and compression.- The role of visualization in understanding data.- On the zone theorem for hyperplane arrangements.- Sorting, measures of disorder, and worst-case performance.- Object-oriented programming.- New algorithms and approaches for 1-dimensional layout compaction.- Query processing in spatial database systems.- How to find a minimum spanning tree in practice.- Current trends in distributed systems.- Object-oriented distributed artificial intelligence.- Trees — a personal view.- Supporting user testing in human-computer interaction design.- Labeled 2-structures.- Verifying and recasting secret ballots in computer networks.- Face traverses and a volume algorithm for polyhedra.- Ada — On the acceptance problems of a planned innovation.- User interface development: Problems and experiences.- Hypermedia — from the past to the future.- Let the fingers do the walking: Object manipulation in an NF2 database editor.- Smallest enclosing disks (balls and ellipsoids).- The first computer.- Evaluating programs formed by example: An informational heuristic.