C O N T E N T S

• Editorial by Morten Kyng

• ERCIM launches the 1998/99 Fellowship Programme by Bruno Le Dantec
• ERCIM Working Group on Constraints by Krzysztof Apt
• Working Group on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems by Stefania Gnesi and Diego Latella
• Fourth DELOS Workshop on Image Retrieval by Carlo Meghini and Pasquale Savino
• First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries by Carol Peters

THE EUROPEAN SCENE:

• Research Networking in Europe by Stefano Trumpy
• Information Society Programme Support for Research Infrastructure by Jean-Pierre Euzen
• The Future of European Education and Research Networking by Hans-Peter Axmann and Sabine Payr
• TEN-34 and the Commercial Realities of the Next Generation Research Internet by Dai Davies
• European Research Networking moving to a Next Phase by Karel Vietsch
• TEN-34 ­ Implementing the Network by Michael H. Behringer
• Trans-European Research Application Domains by Hermann Ludwig Moeller
• First German Gigabit Network Testbed by Peter Wunderling
• The Danish Research Network is going Wireless by Allan Jensen
• Hungarnet - The Hungarian Academic Computer Network by Balázs Martos
• By the Year 2000, 100 % of Swedish University Students will be Connected to Internet by Lars Bergman

SPECIAL THEME:

• Virtual Environments by Martin Göbel
• BRIGHT ­ An Efficient Lighting Simulation System for Complex Scenes by George Drettakis and François Sillion
• Shape Perception of 3D Virtual Objects by Tactile Feedback Systems by Massimo Bergamasco
• Mobile Multimodal Virtual Reality for Personal Teleservices by Petri Pulli
• CyberStage ­ An Advanced Virtual Environment by Henrik Tramberend, Frank Hasenbrink, Gerhard Eckel, Ulrich Lechner and Martin Göbel
• Fabule - A Multi-Purpose Animation System for Simulation and Virtual Reality by Mathieu Desbrun, Jean-Dominique Gascuel, Marie-Paule Cani-Gascuel and Nicolas Tsingos
• VIRTUOUS by Pavel Andris, José P. Costeira, Karol Dobrovodsky, Michal Haindl, Josef Kittler, Peter Kurdel, José Santos-Victor and Andrew J. Stoddart
• RECCAD - Reconstruction and Analysis of Complex Objects for Building CAD Models Based on Measured Data by Václav Hlavác
• CAD Model-Based Planning and Vision guide Accurate Geometric Measurement by Heikki Ailisto
• Intelligent Real-Time Closed Circuit TV-based Surveillance, Automated Verification and Access Control by Shaogang Gong
• Compositing Computer and Video Image Sequences by Marie-Odile Berger and Jean-Claude Paul
• Multi-user Virtual Reality on the Internet by Wolfgang Broll
• TELEPORT - A 3D Telepresence System by Christian Breiteneder
• COllaborative Virtual ENvironments by Lennart Fahlén
• Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment by Lennart Fahlén
• I3: Intelligent Information Interfaces Initiative by Lennart Fahlén
• FASE ­ Facial Analysis and Synthesis of Expressions by Paul ten Hagen
• Virtual Re-opening of the Leaning Tower by Claudio Bruno, Mario Fusani and Ovidio Salvetti
• Virtual Reality for Visualisation of Interior Decoration and Furnishing by Matti Kuusisto and Raimo Launonen
• The Responsive Workbench for Visualization of Fluid Dynamics by Gerold Wesche, Jürgen Wind and Martin Göbel
• High Performance Visualization by Robert van Liere
• Studying the Heart Left Ventricular Motion with 4D Transformations by Jérôme Declerck, Jacques Feldmar and Nicholas Ayache
• Computerized Anatomical Segmentation of the Liver from Helical CT Scanners by Luc Soler, Gregoire Malandain, Hervé Delingette and Johan Montagnat
• MAESTRO by Roberto Gagliardi and Olivia Catoni
• Virtual Reality at CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory by David Boyd
• Computer Vision and Virtual Reality in the UK by Bob Fisher
• The ALCATECH Project by Jens Arnspang
• Image Analysis by Scale-Space Operators by Peter Johansen and Mads Nielsen
• Computer Vision Projects in Image and Pattern Analysis Group of SZTAKI by Dmitry Chetverikov
• Image Analysis of Deformable Structures - A Meteorological Example by Hussein Yahia and Jean-Paul Berroir

• A Cellular Automata Programming Environment for Computational Steering by Giandomenico Spezzano
• The AVANTI Web Browser by Constantine Stephanidis
• Three Worlds collide - The CLRC/DCI Web by Victoria Marshal
• Visual Enabling for Precision Surgery by Klaus Kansy
• Reasoning with Complex Cases by Friedrich Gebhardt
• CWI factors Giant Number in Record-Time by Henk Nieland
• ILEX: a Lexical Source for Italian by Giacomo Ferrari

• Using ConcurTaskTrees for Designing New Interactive Applications in an Industrial Context by Fabio Paternò
• The USEweb Group by Yves Peynaud

REPORTS

• Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition by Pavel Pudil and Michal Haindl

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• ACM SIGMETRICS98 - PERFORMANCE98, Madinson, Wisconsin, USA, 22-26 June 1998
• AQuIS'98 - Fourth International Conference on 'Achieving Quality in Software: Software Quality in the Communication Society, Venice, Italy, 30 March - 2 April 1998
• Fifth Delos Workshop on Collaborative Filtering, Budapest Hungary, 10-12 November 1997
• CAiSE '98 - 10th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Pisa, Italy, 8-12 June 1998

• SGFI - Carl August Zehnder was appointed new President of SGFI..
• GMD - Mars-Media Art Research Studies, a new research program, was installed at GMD..
• CLRC - The European Commission has just awarded a contract to INRIA and CCLRC..
• GMD - Wolfgang K. Giloi, former director of GMD's Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology, was awarded the Gold Diesel Medal..
• GMD ­ Monika Fleischmann, scientist in GMD's Institute for Media Communication, got a recommendatory prize at ARTEC'97..