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          *     SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING (SAC '93)        *
          *                                                     *
          *  Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana   *
          *               February 14-16, 1993                  *
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                            Preliminary  Program
                            ====================

        CONFERENCE TUTORIALS SUNDAY,  FEBRUARY 14

        TUTORIAL 1, 1:00-5:00, Room CC201
        Software Specifications for Real-time Systems
        Joe Urban, Arizona State  University

        TUTORIAL 2, 1:00-3:30, Room CC203
        Parallel Computing
        S. Lakshmivarahan, University of Oklahoma

        TUTORIAL 3, 1:00-5:00, Room CC203
        Fuzzy Hybrid Systems
        Abe Kandel, University of South  Floride and  M.  Schneider,
        Florida Institute of Technology

        TUTORIAL 4, 1:00-5:00, Room CC204
        What Do We Do Now That All  The Simple  Problems  Have  Been
        Solved?
        Chris Lee, Manugistics

        TUTORIAL 5, 12:00-6:00, Room CC210
        Microcontroller and Computer Interfacing Using Forth
        Glen Watson and Denise Stilling, University of  Saskatchewan
        and Lawrence Forsley, Forth Institute

        RECEPTION/CASH BAR SUNDAY, FERBRUARY 14

        7:00-9:00 pm,  Hyatt Regency Hotel, Room ChA/B

        OPENING SESSION, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15

        OPENING REMARKS, 8:00-8:30, Room CC211
        Applied Computing:  Where Things Now Stand
        Hal Berghel, SAC'93 Conference Chair and SIGAPP Chair

        CONFERENCE WELCOME

                                   - 2 -

        George Hedrick, SAC'93 Program Chair and SIGAPP Vice-Chair

        TECHNICAL SESSIONS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 8:45 - 10:00

        INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS - Room CC138
        Session  Chairs:  Ray  Hashemi,  University   of   Arkansas,
        LittleRock and Dan St. Clair, University of Missouri, Rolla

        Effect of the Chi-Squared Test on Construction of ID3  Deci-
        sion Trees
        M. Thakore  Sun Microsystems, Inc. & Daniel  C.  St.  Clair,
        University of Missouri-Rolla

        Prediction Capability of Neural Networks Trained  in  Monte-
        Carlo Paradigm
        R.Hashemi & John R. Talburt, University  of  Arkansas-Little
        Rock, A. Chowdhury,University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff

        Dynamic ID3:  A Symbolic Learning Algorithm for  Many-Valued
        Attibute Domains.
        R. Gallion , McDonnell Douglas Missile Systems  Company,  D.
        St.  Clair,  & Chaman Sabharwal , University Missouri-Rolla,
        W. E. Bond, McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories

        BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS - Room CC139
        Session Chair:______________________

        GnomeView:  A Tool for Visual Representation of Human Genome
        Data
        Joanne E. Pelkey, Gregory S. Thomas, David A.Thurman, Victor
        B.  Lort  and Richard J. Douthart,  Pacific Northwst Labora-
        tory

        The VAIDAK Medical Imaging and Model Reconstruction Toolkit
        Brian Bailey, Chandrajit L. Bajaj and Malcolm Fields, Purdue
        University.

        Distributed Design of Hip Prosthesis with BHAUTIK
        Chandrajit L. Bajaj and Daniel R. Schikore   Purdue  Univer-
        sity.

        SOFTWARE REUSABILITY I - Room CC140
        Session Chair: Majid Fathi University of Dortmund

        Opening Remarks
        Mansour Zand, University of Nebraska-Omaha and Mansur Samad-
        zadeh, Oklahoma State Ujniversity

                                   - 3 -

        The Role of Analogy in Software Reuse
        Mehdi Harandi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

        Integration of Domain Analysis and Analogical Approach
        Chuang-Horng  Lung  &  Joseph  E.   Urban,   Arizona   State
        University,Tempe, Arizona

        GENETIC ALGORITHMS  I - Room CC141
        Session Chair: _______________________

        LibGA: A User-Friendly  Workbench  for  Order-Based  Genetic
        Algorithm Research
        Arthur L. Corcoran, & Roger L. Wainwright, The University of
        Tulsa, Tulsa OK

        Manipulating Subpopulations of Feasible and Infeasible Solu-
        tions in Genetic Algorithms
        D.Ansa Sekharan, and Robert  L. Wainwright,  The  University
        of Tulsa, Tulsa OK

        The Hamming Metric in Genetic Algorithms and Its Application
        to Two Network Problems
        William Frederick, Roger L. Sevdlmeyer, and Curt  M.  White,
        Indiana University-Purdue University,Fort Wayne, Indiana

        SOFTWARE ENGINEERING I - Room CC142
        Session  Chair:  Barrett  Bryant  University   of   Alabama-
        Birmingham

        Dynamic Programming in a Pure Functional Language
        Rachel Harrison and Celia A. Glass, University of  Southamp-
        ton, U.K.

        Dynamic Sets and Their Application in VDM
        Shaoying Liu, University of York, York, England

        A Verification Helper for Task Specifications
        William Hankley and  Peikun  Tsai,Kansas  State  University,
        Manhattan,Kansas

        FORTH WORKSHOP - Room CC143

        FORTH IN THE EXPLORATION OF OUTER SPACE

        The 5th Annual SIGForth Workshop will be held  February  14-
        16,  1993  in conjunction with SAC'93. The Workshop is spon-
        sored by ACM's Special Interest Group on the Forth  Program-
        ming  Language (SIGFORTH).  A six hour pre-workshop tutorial

                                   - 4 -

        is listed in the  tutorials  to  be  held  on  Sunday.   The
        workshop will be held in Room CC143 at all scheduled techni-
        cal session hours, Monday and Tuesday.   The  workshop  will
        include technical papers and the following tutorials:

             "Metacompilation" by Bradford J. Rodriguez

             "Scientific Forth" by Julian V. Noble

             "An Introduction to Forth" by Lawrence P. G. Forsley

        TECHNICAL SESSIONS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 10:15 - 11:45

        ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Room CC138
        Session Chair:  Richard Rankin University of Missouri, Rolla

        Benchmarking Automated Solution Generators for the Crozzle
        L. J. Spring, University of Queensland

        A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for an NP-Complete  Problem  With
        An Expensive Evaluation Function
        Richard Rankin, & Ralph Wilkerson, University  of  Missouri-
        Rolla,  Geoff  Harris,  Griffith  University,  L.J.  Spring,
        University of Queensland

        Basic Blocks in Unconstrained Crossword Puzzles
        Geoff Harris, & John Forster, Griffith  University,  Richard
        Rankin, University of Missouri-Rolla

        A Probabilistic Approach to Solving Crossword Puzzles
        Titus D.M. Purdin,  University  of  Arizona,  Geoff  Harris,
        Griffith University

        DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING - Room CC139
        Session Chair: ______________________

        Distributed Search for Cooperative Applications
        Michael A. Bauer, and  J.  Michael  Bennett,  University  of
        Western   Ontario,   London,  Ontario,  Canada,  Richard  A.
        McBride, University of South Dakota, Vermillion

        Construction of a Fault-Tolerant Distributed Tuple-Space
        Lewis I. Patterson, Richard S. Turner, Robert M. Hyatt,  and
        Kevin D. Reilly, University of Alabama, Birmingham

        Asynchronous Organizations for Multi-Algorithm Problems
        Pedro Sergoide Souza, & Sarosh N. Talukdar, Carnegie  Mellon
        University, Pittsburgh

                                   - 5 -

        Partitioning in X.500
        John  Henshaw  and  Michael  Bauer,  University  of  Western
        Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

        SOFTWARE REUSABILITY II - Room CC140
        Session Chair: Jim Tomayko Carnegie Mellon University

        Object-oriented Schema Extension and Abstraction
        Walter L. Hursch & Karl J. Lieberherr, Northeastern  Univer-
        sity

        Generic Templates  for  Object  Specification  and  Software
        Reuse
        Nasser Modiri, Aref Erfani & Athur Ayvaz, Network  Equipment
        Technologies

        Method Reuse in Typed Object-Oriented Languages
        Ryan Stansifer, University  of  North  Texas,  Dan  Wetklow,
        University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

        Migration: A Model for Design by Modification
        Rainer Bruck, Universitat Dortmund

        DATABASE I - Room CC141
        Session Chair: Thiel Chang GAK, The Netherlands

        An Object Calculus for Geographic Databases
        Eliseo Clementini  and  Paolino  Di  Felice,  Universita  ei
        L'Aquila, Roio, Italy

        Scibase-An Object-Oriented Scientific Database for Cell Phy-
        siology Research
        Yi-Wen Guu and Geneva G. Belford, University of Illinois  at
        Urbanna-Champagn

        InGRAPH:  Graphical Interface for  a  Fully  Object-Oriented
        Database System
        Xuequn Wu and Guido Dinkhoff,  University of Dortmund, Dort-
        mund, Germany

        The  Hybrid  Object-Relational   Architecture   (HORA):   An
        Integration of Object-Oriented and Relational Technology
        Jeff Sutherland, ODB, Cambridge,  Mass.,  Ken  Rugg,  Object
        Design,  Burlington, Mass., Pathew Pope, Marcam Canada, Bur-
        lington, Ontario

        GRAPHICS  I - Room CC142
        Session Chair: ___________________________

                                   - 6 -

        Double and Triple-Step Linear Interpolation
        Phil Graham & S. Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State  Univer-
        sity, Baton Rouge

        Generalized Bidirectional Associative Memories or Image Pro-
        cessing
        A.D. Kulkarni and Iraj Yazdanpanahi,  University  of  Texas,
        Tyler

        Computing Visibility Information on Digital Terrain Models
        Leila De Floriani and Paola Magillo, University of Genova

        Hierarchical Boundary Models for Solid Object Representation
        Leila  De  Floriani,  Monica  Pellegrinelli,  University  of
        Genova,Elisabetta   Bruzzone,Elsag  Bailey  S.p.A.,  Genova,
        Italy

        FORTH WORKSHOP - Room CC143

        KEYNOTE SPEAKER  FOR  PLENARY  SESSION  (LUNCHEON),  MONDAY,
        FEBRUARY 15 12:00 - 1:15, HYATT BALLROOM A/B

        Dr. Judson Rosebush:  "Beyond Computer Animation"

        Dr. Rosebush is world-renowned for his  pioneering  work  in
        computer  animation.   His  earliest animations date back to
        1970, and his company,  Digital  Effects,  Inc.,  introduced
        computer  animation to the commercial marketplace in the mid
        1970's.  His  book,  Computer  Graphics  for  Designers  and
        Artists,  is  considered to be a standard in the field.  Dr.
        Rosebush's address is sponsored in part by the  ACM  Lectur-
        ship Series and the ACM Local Activities Board.

        TECHNICAL SESSIONS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1:45 - 3:15

        OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING I- Room CC138
        Session Chair: _______________________

        Cheyenne to LEIM/TMM:  From Research Vision to Product Real-
        ity
        George H. Collier, Laurie Miller, and Eric Sigman, Bellcore

        The Design of an Object-Oriented  Collaborative  Spreadsheet
        with Version Control and History Management
        David A. Fuller, Universidad de Catholica de  Chile,  Sergio
        T. Jujica,Universidad de Santiago,  Jose A. Pin, Universidad
        de Chile

                                   - 7 -

        Applying Object-Oriented Design to Finite  Element  Program-
        ming
        Jun Lu, Donald White, & Waiu-Fah Chen, Purdue University

        Object-Oriented Modeling of the Extended  Application  Layer
        Structure
        Adrian Tand and Wei Wei, University of Missouri- Kansas City

        EXPERT SYSTEMS I - Room CC139
        Session Chair:Sanjiv Bhatia University of Misouri-St.Louis

        To Approach an Intelligent System in Coping with  an  Aspect
        of Complexity of Water Management
        Ying Liu, University of Delft

        Graphs as a Language to describe Learning System Concepts
        D. I. Koutanis, Western  Michigan  University  and  E.  Sam-
        basivam,  Missouri  Western  State College, St. Joseph, Mis-
        souri

        Knowledge Acquisition  and  Retrieval  Based  on  Conceptual
        Graphs
        Gi-Chul Yang & Jonathan C. Oh, University of Missouri-Kansas
        City

        A Symbolic Simulation Model of  the  Organization  of  Human
        Procedural Knowledge
        Kim Trans, Institute of Computer & Systems Sciences, Denmark

        SOFTWARE REUSABILITY III - Room CC140
        Session Chair: Massimo Ancona Genova University

        Parameterized Programming in LILEANNA
        Will Tracz, Stanford University/IBM FSC

        Automating the Re-declaration of Unneeded Globals as Private
        Amitava Datta, Siemens Corporate Research,  Inc.,  Prabhaker
        Mateti, Wright State University

        Toward Application-Based Approaches to System Development: A
        Theoretical Perspective
        Iris Vessey, Penn State University, Robert L. Glass, Comput-
        ing Trends

        PARALLEL PROCESSING I - Room CC141
        Session Chair: Ming-fang Wang University of Central Arkansas

        On the Performance of a Direct Parallel Method  for  Solving

                                   - 8 -

        Separable  Elliptic  Equations Based on  Block Cyclic Reduc-
        tion
        Kevin E. Kelleher, National  Severe  Storms  Laboratory,  S.
        Lakshmivarahan & Sudarshan K. Dhall, University of Oklahoma

        Computation of the Singular Value  Decomposition  on  Arrays
        With Pipelined Optical Buses
        Yi Pan,  University  of  Dayton,  Mounir  Hamdi,  Hong  Kong
        University of Science & Technology

        Implementing Progress Indicators for Recursive Algorithms
        Dave Berque, & Jeffrey  Edmonds,  DePauw  University,   Mark
        Goldberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

        Packet Delay Prediction in  Datagram Mesh Systems
        Zhizhang Shen, Peter Drexel,  Liam  Urbach,  Plymouth  State
        College

        LOGIC PROGRAMMING I - Room CC142
        Session Chair:  Ralph Wilkerson University of Missouri-Rolla

        A Versatile Module System for Prolog Mapped to Flat Prolog
        Isambo Kareli, Evangelos Pelecanos,  &  Constatin  Halatsis,
        University of Athens

        The Unfolding  Problem  in  Logic  Program  Transformations:
        Decidability Results
        Khaled Bsaies & Fransis Alexandre, CRIN-CNRS/INRIA-Lorraine

        A Probabilistic Model for Natural Language Understanding
        Michael Atherton, University of  Tennessee-Knoxville,  Debra
        A. Lelewer, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona,
        California

        Stream Driven Query Processing in a Database
        K.J.Danhof, N.C.K. Phillips,  A.  Vohra,  Southern  Illinois
        University

        FORTH WORKSHOP - Room CC143

        TECHNICAL SESSIONS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 3:30-4:45

        OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING II - Room CC138
        Session Chair:Shirley Browne Hope University

        An  Object  Oriented  Application/Programmer  Interface  for

                                   - 9 -

        Network Programming
        Jennifer  Howell,  Plymouth  State   College,    Ming   Shu,
        MacAlester College, Robert Wohlfarth, Taylor University

        Class Library Management System for Object-Oriented Program-
        ming
        Kekwee Ng, Jian Ma, and Gi-Moon Nam, University of New South
        Wales

        Dynammic Selection  and  Reuse  of  Implementations  in  the
        Object- Oriented Programming Paradigm
        H.  M.  Al-Haddad,   Marshall  University,   K.  M.  George,
        Oklahoma  State  University,  Stillwater and Thomas Gersten,
        ITESM, Mexico City

        MEDICAL APPLICATIONS I - Room CC139
        Session Chair: ______________________

        A PC-Controlled Data Acquisition System  for  Transabdominal
        Recording of Cardiac Activity in the Human Fetus
        Donna Mooney, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

        Histogram Editing for Semi-Quantative Data Input in Interac-
        tive Suimulations
        R. R. Goforth, D. Berleant, K.  A.  Bognaes,  University  of
        Arkansas,  Fayetteville  and  Harry  F. Bushar, Federal Drug
        Administration

        Distributing Molecular Biology  Information:  Gopher,  WAIS,
        and the University of Houston Gene Sevrver
        Diaiel B. Davison, Univeristy of Houston

        SOFTWARE REUSABILITY IV - Room CC140
        Session Chair: Robert Glass Computing Trends

        The Data Derivation Model:  A  Program  Specification  Tech-
        nique That Improves Reusability
        Hee Beng and Kuan Tan, Tok Wang Ling, Stan Jarzbek, and  Yin
        Seong Ho, National University of Singapore

        Filtering Import: A Basic Mechanism for Reusability
        M. Ancona & P. Nieddu, Universita di Genova

        Software-Based  Reconfiguration  of  Quadtree  Embedding  in
        Hypercubes in Response to Node Failures
        Vinayak Hedge, S. Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State Univer-
        sity, Kirshnakumar Narayan, Digital Equipment Corporation

                                   - 10 -

        PARALLEL PROCESSING II - Room CC 141
        Session Chair: ____________________________________

        Distributive Join Algorithm for  Shared-Memory  Multiproces-
        sors
        Soon. M. Chung & Jaerheen Yang, Wright State University

        Parallel  Global  Adaptive  Integration  and  Dynamic   Load
        Balancing on Loosely Coupled Systems
        Ignatios Vakalis,  Capital  University,  Elise  de  Doncker,
        Western Michigan University

        Molecular Dynamics with the Fast Multipole Algorithm
        John A. Board Jr. & James F. Leathrum Jr., Duke University

        GRAPHICS  II - Room  CC142
        Session Chair: _____________________________

        Error Free Incremental Computation of  Voronoi  Diagrams  in
        the Plane
        Gary A. Hyslop & Edmund  A.  Lamagna,  University  of  Rhode
        Island

        An Intelligent Approach to Discrete Sampling  of  Parametric
        Curves
        Chaman L. Sabharwal, University of Missouri-Rolla

        Recovering 3D Image Parameters  From  Corresponding  Two  2D
        Images
        Chaman L. Sabharwal, University of Missouri-Rolla

        FORTH  WORKSHOP - Room CC143

        TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16,1993

        OPENING CEREMONIES OF THE ACM/CSC AND ACM STATE OF THE ASSO-
        CIATION ADDRESS Westin Grand Ballroom - 8:00-8:30

        John F. Buck, Conference Chair, CSC, Gwen  Bell,  President,
        ACM

        CSC/SAC JOINT SESSION,  CSC  KEYNOTE  ADDRESS  Westin  Grand
        Ballroom - 8:30-9:30

        Raymond Kurzweil: "The Emergence of  True  Machine  Intelli-
        gence in the Twenty-first Century"

                                   - 11 -

        TECHNICAL SESSIONS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 10:00 - 11:45

        EXPERT SYSTEMS  II- Room CC 138
        Session Chair: Moti Schneider Florida Institute of  Technol-
        ogy

        Using a High Level Knowledge Representation for Expert  Sys-
        tems Knowledge Acquistion and Prototyping
        Ramon Brena, Jose-Luis Aguirre, Olivia  Barron,  Maria-Nelly
        Garcia, ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico

        Use of Object Oriented Structures to Represent Knowledge  in
        Expert Systems
        Gerard Chew, Moti Schneider, Florida Institute of  Technolo-
        gyand Abraham Kandel,  University of South Florida

        Qualitative Simulation - A Feedback Control System
        Angel Syang and Yichiang Syang ,University of Texas

        Expert Systems for Economic/Business Forecasting
        E. Shnaider, P. Hurtado  & M. Schneider,  Florida  Institute
        Technology

        PARALLEL PROCESSING III  and COGNITIVE SCIENCE- Room CC139
        Session Chair: ____________________________

        Load Balancing Techniques for Dynamic Programming Algorithms
        on Hypercube Multiprocessors
        Steve A. Strate & Roger  L.  Wainwright,  The  Univesity  of
        Tulsa

        A Parallelized Search Strategy for Solving  a  Multicriteria
        Aircraft Routing Problem 1993
        James J. Grimm, Andrew J.  Terzuoli,  Gary  B.  Lamont,  Air
        Force Institute of Technology

        A Comparison of Concept Recognition Skills
        Melvin K. Richardson, Brigham Young University

        Object-Oriented Software  for  the  Analysis  of  Conceptual
        Hierarchies in Thesauri
        Robert E. Kent, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

        SOFTWARE ENGINEERING II- Room CC 140
        Session Chair: ___________________________

        Simulation Control Environment: A Modular Approach to  Simu-
        lation Software

                                   - 12 -

        Daniel T. Wick, Nagy M. Shehad  and  Ankur  R.  Hajare,  The
        MITRE Corporation

        Using Groupware to Develop Space Station Procedures for  On-
        Orbit Research
        Daniel T. Wick, James J. Bovenzi and Ankur  R.  Hajare,  The
        MITRE Corporation

        An Empirical Study of Three Common Software Complexity Meas-
        ures
        Michael B. O'Neal, Louisiana Tech University

        A Hierarchical Structure for Fault  Tolerant  Reactive  Pro-
        grams
        Andrea  Clematis   INA/CNR,  Genova,  Italy   and   Vittoria
        Gianuzzi, Universita de Genova, Italy

        DATABASE II- Room CC 141
        Session Chair:Thiel Chang GAK, The Netherlands

        GELEM, A Multilingual Lexicons Management System
        Pierre  Losco,  Hassane  Chelyah,   Moncef   Mlouka,National
        Research Institute in Informatics & Automation, France

        Automatic Logical Navigation for Relational Databases
        Paul E. Reimers, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,  and  Soon
        M. Chung, Wright State University

        An Integrated Solution for Managing Replicated Data in  Dis-
        tributed Systems
        Panduranga Rao  Adusumilli  &  Lawrence  J.  Osborne,  Lamar
        University

        On The Automation of Physical Database Design
        Sunil Choenni and Henk M.  Blanken,  University  of  Twente,
        Thiel Chang,GAK Amsterdam The Netherlands

        LOGIC PROGRAMMING II-Room CC 142
        Session Chair: Ralph Wilkerson Univesity of Missouri-Rolla

        Ushell:  An Environment for Introduction to  Logic  Program-
        ming
        L. Umit Yalcinalp, BP Research

        Finding Fixed Point Combinators Using Prolog
        Richard Rankin & Ralph Wilkerson,  University  of  Missouri-
        Rolla

        Program Transformation for the Longest Upsequence Set  Prob-
        lem

                                   - 13 -

        Haklin Kim, University of Tennessee

        Dynamic Inferencing With Generalized Resolution
        Gordon Beavers,  University  of  the  Ozarks,  Hal  Berghel,
        University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

        FORTH WORKSHOP - Room CC 143

        KEYNOTE SPEAKER  FOR  PLENARY  SESSION  (LUNCHEON)  TUESDAY,
        FEBRUARY 16 12:00 - 1:15 HYATT BALLROOM A/B

        Gerald Engel: "Federal Funding Opportunities  for  Computing
        Professionals"

        Dr. Engel is the  Program  Director  of  Cross  Disciplinary
        Activities  at  the  National Science Foundation.  He super-
        vises the administration of both the Educational and  Insti-
        tutional  Infrastructure programs, as well as the Instrumen-
        taion and Research Initiation projects for  the  Foundation.
        He  was  awarded  the  prestigious ACM Distinguished Service
        Award for 1992.  Dr. Engel came to the NSF from the  Univer-
        sity  of  Connecticut,  where he was Stamford Profeeessor of
        Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

        TECHNCAL SESSIONS, TUESDAY FEBRUARY 16 1:30 - 3:00

        SPECIAL TOPICS - Room  CC138
        Session Chair: ______________________

        A Model  for Studying Ambiguity in SGML Element Declarations
        R. W. Matzen, K.M. George & G. E.  Hedrick,  Oklahoma  State
        University

        Effect of Probabilistic Error Checking  Procedures  on  Per-
        formability of Robust Objects
        Ing-Ray Chen, University of Mississippi

        Computer-Based Derivation of Flux and Concentration  Control
        Coefficients of Metabolic Control Theory
        Arthur R. Schulz, Indiana University

        SOFTWARE ENGINEERING III - Room - CC139
        Session Chair: _________________________

                                   - 14 -

        A Linkage Analyzer for Process Management
        Alan T. Yaung, IBM Corporation, Rochester, MN

        Comparing and Assessing Programming Languages:  Basis for  a
        Qualitative Methodology
        Jarallah Alghamdi & Joseph E. Urban, Arizona  State  Univer-
        sity

        Syntax-directed Editing Environments:  Issues and Features
        Amir A. Khwaja & Joseph E. Urban, Arizona State University

        Development and Analysis of a Wide Area Multimedia  Informa-
        tion System
        M. Hitz & H. Wethner, University of Vienna, Austria

        NETWORKS I - Room CC140
        Session Chair: ___________________________

        Time-Space Optimal Convex Hull Algorithms
        Hla Min & Si-Qing Zheng, Louisiana State University.  Batton
        Rouge

        Sparse Hypercube-Like Interconnection Networks
        Si-Qing Zheng, Louisiana State University,  Shahram  Latifi,
        University of Nevada-Las Vegas

        A Fast Algorithm for Generalized Network Location Problems
        Dipti  S.  Joshi,  Sridhar  Radhakrishnan,   University   of
        Oklahoma-  Norman,  Chandrasekran  Narayanan,  University of
        Central Florida, Orlando

        INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - Room CC141
        Session Chair: __________________

        Cluster Characterization in Information Retrieval
        Sanjiv K. Bhatia University of Missouri-St. Louis & Jitender
        S. Deogun, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

        HypIR:  A Hypertext-Based Approach to Information Retrieval
        Fazli Can & Yuan-Ming Lee, Miami University,Oxford, Ohio

        Linguistico-Statistical and Logics Applied  for  Documentary
        System
        Omar  Larouk,   Nationale   Superieure   des   Sciences   de
        l'Information et des Bibliotheques, France

        A Methodology for the Automatic Construction of a  Hypertext
        for Information Retrieval
        Maristella Agosti and Fabio Crestani, Universita' di Padova,
        Itlay

                                   - 15 -

        GENETIC ALGORITHMS  II- Room CC 142
        Session Chair: __________________________________

        Dynamic Trajectory Routing using an Adaptive Search Strategy
        Sam  R.  Thangiah,  Slippery  Rock  University,  Kendall  E.
        Nygard, North Dakota State University

        An  Efficient  Storage  Scheme  for  Alignment  of   Genetic
        Sequences
        Yi-Wen Guu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

        The Effect of Population Structure on the  Rate  of  Conver-
        gence of Genetic Algorithms
        Po  Hsiang  Chu,  Depaul  University,  Susan  Dudley,  Brown
        University

        FORTH WORKSHOP - Room CC143

        TECHNICAL SESSIONS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1992, 3:30 - 5:00

        NEURAL NETWORKS - Room CC138
        Session Chair: __________________________

        Analysis of Upper Bound  in  Valiant's  Model  for  Learning
        Bounded CNF Expressions
        Shankar Vaidyanathan  &  S.  Lakshmivarahan,  University  of
        Oklahoma

        Segmentation of Merged Characters  by  Neural  Networks  and
        Shortest-Path
        Jin Wang & Jack Jean, Wright State University

        3-dimensional Reconstruction  by  Silhouettes  to  Construct
        Training Patterns for Neural Networks
        Jens Burkert & Thorsten Brendel, Carl von Ossietsky  Univer-
        sitat, Oldenburg, Germany

        MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS  and SCHEDULING - Room CC139
        Session Chair: ___________________________

        On Concurrent Execution of Information Systems Applications
        D. Motzkin, E. Jarret,  D.  Hager,  M.  Kerstetter,  Western
        Michigan University

        Strategic Sourcing for Information Processing Functions
        Louis A. LeBlanc, University of Arkansas

                                   - 16 -

        An Integrated Optimal Task Assignment Policy
        Sub Ramakrishnan, Larry Dunning, &  Thomas  Nitsch,  Bowling
        Green State University

        The Real-Time Producer/Consumer Paradigm:   A  Paradigm  for
        the Construction of Efficient, Predictable Real-Time Systems
        Kevin Jeffay & Dan Poirier, University  of  North  Carolina-
        Chapel Hill

        NETWORKS II-Room CC 140
        Session Chair: ____________________________

        The Com-Star Network:  A New Family of Star Graph Networks
        Bin Cong, South Dakota State University

        Centralized Packet Radio Network:  A Communication  Approach
        Suited for Data  Collection in a Real-Time Flash Flood Pred-
        iction System
        Manuel Jimenez Cedeno and Ramon  Vasquez Espinasa, Univesity
        of Puerto Rico

        OSI Group Communication Support for a Date Planning Applica-
        tion
        William F. Millen, University of Missouri, Kansas City

        An Efficient  Distributed  Algorithm  to  Find  Articulation
        Points, Bridges and Biconnected Components of a Network
        Vinayak G. Hegde and  Sitharama  S.  Iyengar,Louisana  State
        University

        MEDICAL APPLICATIONS II - Room CC141
        Session Chair: ______________________

        An Object-Oriented Genetics Information System
        Elizabeth Shoop, University of Minnesota

        ADAMS: An Object Oriented System  for  Epidemiological  Data
        Manipulation
        Fabrizio L. Ricci, ISRDS-CNR, Rome, Italy

        An Intelligent Vidor Pattern Generator for Use in Opthalmol-
        ogy
        M..S.Obaidat, City University of New York

        GENETIC ALGORITHMS  III - Room CC 142
        Session Chairs: ___________________________________

        Linear Discriminant Analysis Using Genetic Algorithms
        Aaron H. Konstam, Trinity University

                                   - 17 -

        Minimal Cost Set Covering Using Probabilistic Methods
        Sandip Sen, University of Michigan

        Parallelization and Analysis of A Linear Adaptive  Filtering
        Algorithm
        Richard K. Acree, David T. Croley, Nasr Ullah, Mario J. Gon-
        zalez, Darioush M. Samani, University of Texas at Austin

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