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

by Hermann Maurer (Editor)

Overview

This volume contains selected papers from the symposium "New Results and NewTrends 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 fiftieth birthday of the editor of the volume. Topics covered include: information on neural nets, ideas on a new paradigm for informatics, hypermedia systems and applications, axioms for concurrent processes, techniques for image generation and compression, the role of data visualization, object-oriented programming andgraphics, 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 interfaces, 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. In total, the 26 high-level contributions authored by prominent experts from all over the world give an up-to-date survey of almost all subfields of computer science. The book is written in a style which is easy to follow, and it is of interest for any computer scientist, be it in research, teaching or practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540548690
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/13/1991
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #555
Edition description:	1991
Pages:	410
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

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.