List of submitted topics:

Networks and Systems
Active Networks
ATM switching systems
Automated Highway Systems
Automatic redistribution of (internet) caches in case network topologies change (or in case of high loads on certain links)
biocompatible memory systems
collaborative filtering and recommendation systems
Collaborative Working
Computational and Data Grids
Computing GRID
Dependability of software-based systems
Development of concepts and tools for developing and tuning parallel programs
Digital managment information
Distributed data querying
Distributed Operating Systems
Distriubted computing (fault-tolerance, data consistency)
Dynamic Network Topologies
Economics of Broadband Network
Future generation computer systems
Global Computing Grids
Grid Computing
Grid Computing (Metacomputing)
Grid-Computing: coupling of large scale scientific applications
Health Telematics
High Performance Computing, including cluster and meta computing
high performance grid computing
High Performance Systems
High speed networking
High-integrity communication systems
High-speed telecommunication networks
Infrastructure for resource allocation in meta-computing environments
Integrated Health Networks
Interoperability and System description
Large scale computations
Large-scale shared virtual and augmented environment
Learning Algorithms in Broadband Networks
Metacomputer Management
Metacomputing
Metacomputing / Information power grids
Multicasting
Network, Cluster and Grid Computing
networked image transport
Networks engeneering
Next Generation Software
Optical networks
Parallel Computing
patterned media for storage technologies
Performance Engineering Technologies
Performance Technology
Policy and the Grid
Problem Solving Environments
Real-Time distributed software
Reconfigurable optical interconnect networks
Resource Sharing in Broadband Networks
Software / Hardware codesign
Software and system process improvement
Software Internationalisation
Supercomputing on Clusters of PCs
Support tools for dynamic resource management in large scale shared memory systems
System level design methods and tools
Time-critical (temporal+real-time+fast-response) data bases
Towards terrabyte memory systems
Traffic telematics

Software Engineering and Symbolic Computing
Algorithms for Discrete Event Systems
Applied Semantics
Automatic building of taxonomies of concepts from texts
Automating Development
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology, DNA-sequencing, and protein construction
Computational materials science
Computational Mathematics
Computer Security
Constraint Programming
Development of concepts and tools for developing and tuning parallel programs
Distributed software development
Formal methods applied to industrial problems
Formal Verification in EDA
Foundations of Computer Security
Fundamental science and mathematics
Game Theory and Computation
Genetics & ICT
Grid software infrastructure
Image compression
Information Theory
Language based Computer Security
Mathematical Theory of Accelerated Experiments
Mathematics in Computer Science
Mathematics on the Web
Molecular computing and electronics
Molecule- and atom-level electronics / from nanoscale electronics to realisable quantum computers
Network Theory
Next Generation Software
Non linear sciences
Open source software development
Parallel Computing
Parallel scientific computing
Pattern Based database models
Problem Solving Environments
Problems generated by the mining of DB originating from texts
Quantum Computation
Quantum Computing and Algorithms for solving NP hard problems
Quantum Computing with nano devices (spin coherence devices)
Quantum Cryptography and Algorithms
Requirements Engineering
Requirements engineering of technical software-based systems
Rigorous methods for system quality
Safety of complex embedded systems
Search engine technology
secure environments
Soft Computing
Software and system process improvement
Software Engineering
Software Process Improvement and Software Quality
Software product line technology
Software quality
System Safety
System Security
Text and data-mining services development

Human-Computer Interaction, Image Processing, Data Management, Knowledge Systems
Access to large multimedia databases
Ambient electronics / intelligent environments
Assistive Technologies for Disabled & Elderly
Augmented reality
Automatic building of taxonomies of concepts from texts
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Translation
Base de données géotechnique pour l'optimisation de l'utilisation des matériaux locaux dans les projets de BTP
Beyong the 100 Gbits/sq.in storage media
Bionics / man-machine interfaces
CAD tools for semiconductor industrie
Clinical applications of data fusion
Cognitive Issues and Visualization
Cognitive Robotics
Collaborative design
Collective robotics
Comparative analisys of EU-US Management of knoledge
Complexity and Artificial Life
Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, General Linguistics
Computational Molecular Biology
Computer based learning technics
Computer Modelling for Radio-therapy dose determination
Content Based Image/Video retriaval
Content-based image retrieval
Content-based multimedia indexing
Context oriented knowledge extraction
Data base support for visual intensive contexts
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Data storage and management
Decision-centered Visualization
Design methodologies of collective systems
Distributed cognition
Distributed data querying
Distributed Electronic Health Records
Electronic Health Record Based Integrated Services
Fault tolerant recognition processes
Federating multidisciplinary information
Genetics & ICT
Heath Services Information Portal
Heterogeneous database integration
High accuracy color imaging and content based color image representation
Human adaptive Interfaces
Human Computer interactions
Human Language Technologies
Human spoken language understanding
Human-computer interfaces and interaction, especially the use of audiovisual devices and natural language
Human-Machine Interface
Humanoid/personal robotics
Hybrid methods for robust semantic analysis of multimedia documents
Information Visualization
Integration of viewpoints in design
Intelligent adaptive hypermedia in education
Intelligent Homes
Intelligent Vehicle Technology
Interaction with Artificial Beings
Interactive Learning Environmet
International Spectroscopic Data Bank and Archive
Internet information search
IT for Medical and Health Applications
Knowledge accumlation
Knowledge Processing (Wordnet-based knowledge processing)
Knowledge Processing, Knowledge Bases (Artificial Intelligence)
Knowledge retrieval and Information extraction
Large Scientific Databases
Large-scale shared virtual and augmented environment
Large-scale, cross-EU scientific images virtual library of images that have been computer-generated, eg fluouresced chromosomes
Learning
Machine Learning
Machine Translation
Man-Machine communication
Man-machine Interfaces
Medical databases
Medical Image Processing - enhancing and scatter removal of diagnostic X-rays
Medical Imaging
Medical Robotics
Metadata for culture heritage
Metamodels and metadata
Microarray-based gene analysis
Microsystems CAD
Mixed Realities: Integration of real scenes with Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Multimedia Streaming
Multi-agent systems for co-perative and adaptive information extraction
Multimedia
Multimedia databases
Multimedia Indexing
Multimedia, new perspectives
Multi-modal Human Machine Communication
Multimodal interaction and bio-interfaces
Multisensory and multimodal interfaces including wearables
Nanobiotechnology / nanoscale biomedical and biotechnology tools
Nanotechnology, IT and Medicine
Natural Language Processing
Neuro functional imaging
Parallel Data Mining
Pattern Based database models
Perception and action in robotics
Peta-size Database Technology
Problems generated by the mining of DB originating from texts
Quality assurance in complex database applications
Recognition based on Biometrics (Face, iris, fingerprint etc.)
Regional Health Care Networks
Resource discovery based on genetic and neural paradigms
Scientific visualisaton
Search engine technology
Service Robotics
Smart access to digital libraries
Smart objects
Space Robotics
Spatial and temporal cognition / reasoning
Spatio-temporal databases
Special Education Methods Databases
Speech Resources
Sustainability of telecenters and other types of ICTs based community centres
Tele-education
Telemedecine/Telesurgery
Text and data-mining services development
The Virtual Observatory
Time-critical (temporal+real-time+fast-response) data bases
Tools to support Distance learning
Training (in wide sense)
Uncertainty handling in databases & data mining
Unified access to **multi-media** databases
User-centred design
Using ethnographic methods for research on electronic communities
Very Large Textual and Speech Corpora
Video Indexing and retrieval
Video Processing and Indexing
Video surveillance
Virtual environments
Virtual community of each medical specialty, with their professional organisation (eg Royal College of Physicians in the UK) as the 'central' enabling bodies
Virtual Environemts
Virtual Environments for Biomedical/Rehabiltation purposes
Virtual reality for medicine
Vision-based robot navigation
Vitual library (historical and current collections, including archives and manuscripts) of all EU-member states equivalents of the medical Royal Colleges of the UK
Walk-up VR: Integrating VR in the workplace by providing unencumbered, natural human-computer interaction for Virtual Environments
Web management

Simulation and Optimization of Complex Systems
A new synthetic aperture radar satellite(s) with short orbit repeat intervals (ie daily) and real-time completely free access to all data
Air quality forecast and management modelling
Air Traffic Management
Algorithms for Discrete Event Systems
Automatic decision
Automating Development
Calcul et simulation de l'interaction vortex avec defaut : consequence sur le courant critique par mode EBIC
Collaborative filtering and recommendation systems
Component based architecture and infrastructure
Control of hybrid systems for transportation, manufacturing, and chemical process control
Control of industrial processes
Decision theory
Digital stock control
Digital work schedules
Domain specific optimization framework
Driving assistance
Formal Methods for Verification and Testing of Reactive Systems
Intelligent Information Retrieval by Numerical Methods
Large-scale simulations from nature
Life sciencies - Control and system identification
Mathematical Theory of Accelerated Experiments
Multicriteria decision making
Networks - Control and protocol synthesis
Neuro functional imaging
New techniques for archiving simulation results
Operational research
Optimization of manufacturing systems
Performance Analysis/engineering/tuning (or dynamic resource management)
Probabilistic and variational methods for computer vision and image processing
Rounding Errors in Statistical Computation
Simulation d'implantation et de contrôle des réseaux électriques en milieu rural
Simulation of manufacturing systems
Simulation of socio-economic systems
Weather forecast modelling

Technologies of the future
Aircraft use of high bandwidth satellite links
Automated Highway Systems
Broadband Internet
Collaboratories (Web-based environments for collaborative work)
Communicating Math on the Web
Computer Mediated Communication
Concepts, assumptions and practices about information policies
Content personalisation
Digital Identities protecting one's Privacy
Digital libraries
Digital Library subsidiary scientific data
Digital movies projection
e-commerce
EDA market
Electronic Business
Electronic Commerce
ADSL, digital television, WAP and mobile phones
Freely accessible collection of current and archival, publicly-funded scholarly communications both in science and humanities
Governmental attempts to legally regulate the Internet
Information infrastructures for WWWWis
Infrastructures for electronic documents
Instantaneous entirely free access in real time to GPS data recorded at networks of ground stations
Trust and Security in Computational Multi-Agent-Systems for Electronic Commerce Applications
Internet information search
Methods and models for the assessment of the social effects and impacts of ICTs
Mobile computing
Mobile Interactive Multimedia Systems
Mobile Tele-Medicine
Multimedia Indexing
Networking of mobile/distributed IT devices ("artefacts")
On line comunication
Online Privacy and Safe Electronic Commerce
Open end communication
Positioning and personal navigation technologies based on cellular networks
Pro-active information filtering based on user work profiles (not E-mail!)
Rating and filtering on the Internet
Smart access to digital libraries
Social Aspects Of Computer Science Development
Social aspects of online life
The Virtual Observatory
Trusted E-Commerce
Usage-based pricing of Internet services.
Virtual Collaboration in Education and Training
Virtual consultancy
Virtual Enterprises and Electronic Commerce
Virtual university
Virtual world simulation
Virtual library (historical and current collections, including archives and manuscripts)
Web management
Web-based modeling environments (to support use of heterogeneous resources for model-based knowledge sharing)
XML

Artificial intelligence
Agent driven presentation and interaction
Agent technology
Agent technology and agent societies
Digital management information
Enterprise engeneering
Heterogeneous Agent Systems
Intelligent agents
Multi-agent modelling of living systems
Multi-agent system
Multi-Agent Systems in Manufacturing
Software Agents

Material
High-Speed Lo-Power FETs
Hydrogen: an inexhaustible source of energy
Nanometer Quantum-Effects Devices
Quantum magnetic dots: growth and uses
Wide bandgap Materials and Devices

Social
Social empowerment and mobile network technologies
More than sight and sound ; New wave sensory communication between people and machines
New curricular revision for new society. Revision of new challenges
They lived happily ever after ? - Longitudinal study of ICT usage
Think and do - Direct biological control for human computer communication

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