This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2003, held in Antalya, Turkey in November 2003. The 135 revised papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from over 360 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on architectures and systems, theoretical computer science, databases and information retrieval, e-commerce, graphics and computer vision, intelligent systems and robotics, multimedia, networks and security, parallel and distributed computing, soft computing, and software engineering.
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Invited Talk.- Review of Experiments in Self-Aware Networks.- Web Information Resource Discovery: Past, Present, and Future.- Architectures and Systems.- Courses Modeling in E-learning Context.- Fast Hardware of Booth-Barrett's Modular Multiplication for Efficient Cryptosystems.- Classification of a Large Web Page Collection Applying a GRNN Architecture.- Fast Less Recursive Hardware for Large Number Multiplication Using Karatsuba-Ofman's Algorithm.- Topological and Communication Aspects of Hyper-Star Graphs.- An E-tutoring Service Architecture Based on Overlay Networks.- A Simple Scheme for Local Failure Recovery of Multi-directional Multicast Trees.- Modelling Multi-disciplinary Scientific Experiments and Information.- KinCA: An InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter Based on Dual Processor Cores.- Ontological Cognitive Map for Sharing Knowledge between Heterogeneous Businesses.- Template-Based E-mail Summarization for Wireless Devices.- Some Intrinsic Properties of Interacting Deterministic Finite Automata.- Design and Evaluation of a Source Routed Ad Hoc Network.- Temporal Modelling in Flexible Workflows.- Low Cost and Trusted Electronic Purse System Design.- Uncorrelating PageRank and In-Degree in a Synthetic Web Model.- Integration of Static and Active Data Sources.- Conditional Access Module Systems for Digital Contents Protection Based on Hybrid/Fiber/Coax CATV Networks.- Computer Science Theory.- Approximation Algorithms for Degree-Constrained Bipartite Network Flow.- Demonic I/O of Compound Diagrams Monotype/Residual Style.- Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network Applications on the Gas Sensor Data: Concentration Estimation.- A Security Embedded Text Compression Algorithm.- An Alternative Compressed Storage Format for Sparse Matrices.- Database and Information Retrieval.- Ranking the Possible Alternatives in Flexible Querying: An Extended Possibilistic Approach.- Global Index for Multi Channel Data Dissemination in Mobile Databases.- A Robust Scheme for Multilevel Extendible Hashing.- A Cooperative Paradigm for Fighting Information Overload.- Comparison of New Simple Weighting Functions for Web Documents against Existing Methods.- Stemming in Agglutinative Languages: A Probabilistic Stemmer for Turkish.- A Multi-relational Rule Discovery System.- A Flexible Querying Framework (FQF): Some Implementation Issues.- Similarity for Conceptual Querying.- Virtual Interval Caching Scheme for Interactive Multimedia Streaming Workload.- RUBDES: A Rule Based Distributed Event System.- A Statistical ?-Partitioning Method for Clustering Data Streams.- Text Categorization with ILA.- Online Mining of Weighted Fuzzy Association Rules.- Application of Data Mining Techniques to Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction.- E-Business.- A Heuristic Lotting Method for Electronic Reverse Auctions.- A Poisson Model for User Accesses to Web Pages.- An Activity Planning and Progress Following Tool for Self-Directed Distance Learning.- MAPSEC: Mobile-Agent Based Publish/Subscribe Platform for Electronic Commerce.- CEVS - A Corporative E-voting System Based on EML.- Smart Card Terminal Systems Using ISO/IEC 7816-3 Interface and 8051 Microprocessor Based on the System-on-Chip.- Graphics & Computer Vision.- Practical Gaze Detection by Auto Pan/Tilt Vision System.- License Plate Character Segmentation Based on the Gabor Transform and Vector Quantization.- Segmentation of Protein Spots in 2D Gel Electrophoresis Images with Watersheds Using Hierarchical Threshold.- Multi-resolution Modeling in Collaborative Design.- Model-Based Human Motion Capture from Monocular Video Sequences.- Robust Skin Color Segmentation Using a 2D Plane of RGB Color Space.- Background Estimation Based People Detection and Tracking for Video Surveillance.- Quaternion-Based Tracking of Multiple Objects in Synchronized Videos.- License Plate Segmentation for Intelligent Transportation Systems.- A Turkish Handprint Character Recognition System.- Image-Space-Parallel Direct Volume Rendering on a Cluster of PCs.- Generalization and Localization Based Style Imitation for Grayscale Images.- Robot Mimicking: A Visual Approach for Human Machine Interaction.- Wavelet Packet Based Digital Watermarking for Remote Sensing Image Compression.- Facial Expression Recognition Based upon Gabor-Wavelets Based Enhanced Fisher Model.- Image Sequence Stabilization Using Membership Selective Fuzzy Filtering.- Texture Segmentation Using the Mixtures of Principal Component Analyzers.- Comparison of Feature Sets Using Multimedia Translation.- Intelligent Systems and Robotics.- Estimating Distributions in Genetic Algorithms.- All Bids for One and One Does for All: Market-Driven Multi-agent Collaboration in Robot Soccer Domain.- Fuzzy Variance Analysis Model.- Effects of the Trajectory Planning on the Model Based Predictive Robotic Manipulator Control.- Financial Time Series Prediction Using Mixture of Experts.- Design and Usage of a New Benchmark Problem for Genetic Programming.- A New Approach Based on Recurrent Neural Networks for System Identification.- The Real-Time Development and Deployment of a Cooperative Multi-UAV System.- The Modular Genetic Algorithm: Exploiting Regularities in the Problem Space.- A Realistic Success Criterion for Discourse Segmentation.- Nonlinear Filtering Design Using Dynamic Neural Networks with Fast Training.- Prediction of Protein Subcellular Localization Based on Primary Sequence Data.- Implementing Agent Communication for a Multi-agent Simulation Infrastructure on HLA.- Multimedia.- Improved POCS-Based De-blocking Algorithm for Block-Transform Compressed Images.- Lossy Network Performance of a Rate-Control Algorithm for Video Streaming Applications.- A Hierarchical Architecture for a Scalable Multicast.- Effect of the Generation of MPEG-Frames within a GOP on Queueing Performance.- Multiple Description Coding for Image Data Hiding in the Spatial Domain.- POCS-Based Enhancement of De-interlaced Video.- A New Construction Algorithm for Symmetrical Reversible Variable-Length Codes from the Huffman Code.- A Solution to the Composition Problem in Object-Based Video Coding.- Real-Time Advanced Contrast Enhancement Algorithm.- A Video Watermarking Algorithm Based on the Human Visual System Properties.- Network-Aware Video Redundancy Coding with Scene-Adaptation for H.263+ Video.- Scheduling Mixed Traffic under Earliest-Deadline-First Algorithm.- Fast Mode Decision for H.264 with Variable Motion Block Sizes.- An Optimal Scheduling Algorithm for Stream Based Parallel Video Processing.- Networks and Security.- A Practical Approach for Constructing a Parallel Network Simulator.- Distributed Multicast Routing for Efficient Group Key Management.- Multi-threshold Guard Channel Policy for Next Generation Wireless Networks.- Application of Fiat-Shamir Identification Protocol to Design of a Secure Mobile Agent System.- Neural Network Based Optical Network Restoration with Multiple Classes of Traffic.- Network Level Congestion Control in Mobile Wireless Networks: 3G and Beyond.- Network Dependability: An Availability Measure in N-Tier Client/Server Architecture.- One-Time Passwords: Security Analysis Using BAN Logic and Integrating with Smartcard Authentication.- Design and Implementation of a Secure Group Communication Protocol on a Fault Tolerant Ring.- A New Role-Based Delegation …