SOFSEM'99: Theory and Practice of Informatics

This year the SOFSEM conference is coming back to Milovy in Moravia to th be held for the 26 time. Although born as a local Czechoslovak event 25 years ago SOFSEM did not miss the opportunity oe red in 1989 by the newly found freedom in our part of Europe and has evolved into a full-?edged international conference. For all the changes, however, it has kept its generalist and mul- disciplinarycharacter.Thetracksofinvitedtalks,rangingfromTrendsinTheory to Software and Information Engineering, attest to this. Apart from the topics mentioned above, SOFSEM'99 oer s invited talks exploring core technologies, talks tracing the path from data to knowledge, and those describing a wide variety of applications. TherichcollectionofinvitedtalkspresentsonetraditionalfacetofSOFSEM: that of a winter school, in which IT researchers and professionals get an opp- tunity to see more of the large pasture of today's computing than just their favourite grazing corner. To facilitate this purpose the prominent researchers delivering invited talks usually start with a broad overview of the state of the art in a wider area and then gradually focus on their particular subject.

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Invited Talks.- Quantum Challenges.- Stability of Approximation Algorithms for Hard Optimization Problems.- Algorithms on Compressed Strings and Arrays.- WWW Based Collaboration with the BSCW System.- Middleware and Quality of Service.- Dynamic Reconfiguration of CORBA-Based Applications.- Fast, Error Correcting Parser Combinators: A Short Tutorial.- IBM SanFrancisco: Java Based Business Components, and New Tools to Develop Applications.- Databases and the World Wide Web.- Exploiting Formality in Software Engineering.- Biomolecular Computing and Programming.- Software Change and Evolution.- Distributed Simulation with Cellular Automata: Architecture and Applications.- Supporting Group-By and Pipelining in Bitmap-Enabled Query Processors.- On Interactive Computation: Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- Coherent Concepts, Robust Learning.- Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Different Engineering Problems.- Factor Oracle: A New Structure for Pattern Matching.- Principles of Forecasting - A Short Overview.- Contributed Papers.- UPV-Curry: An Incremental Curry Interpreter.- Quantum Finite Multitape Automata.- Decomposable Bulk Synchronous Parallel Computers.- Component Change and Version Identification in SOFA.- Pattern Equations and Equations with Stuttering.- Garbage Collection for Mobile and Replicated Objects.- Randomized Gossiping by Packets in Faulty Networks.- Object-Oriented Specification with the Parallel Multi-Label-Selective ?-calculus.- Simulation Problems for One-Counter Machine.- On Semantics of Petri Nets Over Partial Algebra.- Towards Possibilistic Decision Functions with Minimum-Based Sugeno Integrals.- Quantum Finite One-Counter Automata.- A Performance Comparison of Mobile Agents and RPC.- Cyclic Cutwidth of the Mesh.- Some Afterthoughts on Hopfield Networks.- A persistent-Set Approach to Abstract State-Space Construction in Verification.- Computational Power of Neuroidal Nets.- Cellular Automata with Dynamically Reconfigurable Buses.