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Newsgroups: comp.parallel Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!hubcap!fpst From: Kam-Fai.Wong@ecrc.de (Kam-Fai Wong) Subject: 1993 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Message-ID: <1992Dec31.141011.4199@hubcap.clemson.edu> Apparently-To: comp-parallel@uunet.uu.net Sender: news@ecrc.de Organization: European Computer-Industry Research Centre GmbH, Munich, Germany Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 11:07:39 GMT Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu Lines: 1124 ******************************************************* * * * SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING (SAC '93) * * * * Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana * * February 14-16, 1993 * ******************************************************* 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