ERCIM News No.33 - April 1998

C O N T E N T S

Front Page article by Paul R. Williams

Letter from the Manager
EU-China Industrial Cooperation Initiatives in High-Performance Computing and Networking by Eckart Bierdümpel
ERCIM Technical Reference Digital Library by Stefania Biagioni
European-US Working Groups in Digital Libraries Research
- EU-NSF Working Group on Metadata by Thomas Baker and Clifford Lynch
- EU-NSF Working Group on Interoperability between Digital Libraries by Daniel L. Kiskis and Uwe Röhm

Aquarelle - Sharing Cultural Heritage by Alain Michard
The Aquarelle Access-server by Alain Michard and Dale Suttcliff
Distributed Link Service in Aquarelle by Antoine Rizk and Dale Sutcliffe
The Aquarelle - CIMI Z39.50 Profile and its Mapping to Cultural Databases by Oreste Signore
Querying Heterogeneous Semi-Structured Data by Vassilis Christophides, Michel Scholl and Anne-Marie Vercoustre
The Aquarelle Folder Server by Vassilis Christophides, Martin Doerr and Irini Fundulaki
The Aquarelle Terminology Service by Martin Doerr and Irini Fundulaki
Contrastive Indexing of Full Text Documents by Laurent Romary and Patrice Bonhomme
Virtual Galleries for Browsing Cultural Collections by Roberto Scopigno
Protection of Intellectual Property Rights related to Images by Daniel Augot

SPECIAL THEME:

Enhancing Learning Processes by Caj Södergård
Cooperative Learning Environments - Effective Support for Distributed Teams by Martin Wessner and Jörg M. Haake
ARIADNE - Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks for Europe by Eddy N. Forte
The Vicarious Learner: Discussion as Learning Resource and Learning Task by Jean McKendree, Finbar Dineen, Terry Mayes and John Lee
Information Technology for Education of Visually Impaired Students by Ivan Kopecek and Karel Pala
Using Pen Scanners for Collection of Web-Material for Lectures by Caj Södergård
TeachWEB - Novel Learning Approaches using the World-Wide Web by Evangelos Markatos
Network-based Multimedia Technology for Continuous Training in Enterprises by Paola Forcheri, Maria Teresa Molfino, Alfonso Quarati and Francesco Riccio
Transforming Distance Education Courses for Large-scale Internet Presentation by Marian Petre, Pete Thomas, Blaine Price and Linda Carswell
Open and Distant Training Techniques for Small and Medium Enterprises by Paolo Bianchetti, Stefania Manca, Donatella Persico and Luigi Sarti
InterSim Interactive Simulation based Learning with Intelligent Assistance by Reinhard Oppermann
A CD-ROM for Teaching and Learning Educational Psychology at the University? by Gérald Collaud and Jean-François Perret
Simulation Software for Training in the Graphic Arts by Raimo Launonen
Classroom 2000: Towards an Integrated Environment for Distance Learning by Giovanni Coray, Antoine Delley, Lorenz Muller and Christine Vanoirbeek
HIPOKT - Multimedia Courseware in Education by Tibor Remzsö and Miklós Biró
Using Information Technologies for Learning and Training in Industry by Monique Grandbastien and Cyrille Desmoulins

Wavelets as a Tool for Numerical Simulation by Silvia Bertoluzza
Geometric Optimization with Genetic Algorithms by Gábor Renner
Ariadne - A Service Robot Team by Liliane Peters, Hartmut Surmann, Michael Pauly and Nan Liang
Sir Arthur - Learning to walk on six Legs by Frank Kirchner
Analogy-based Lexical Acquisition from Text Corpora by Stefano Federici, Simonetta Montemagni and Vito Pirrelli
PERSONA - from Maps to Social Interactions by Kristina Höök and Catriona MaCaulay
READ - Recognition and Document Analysis by Liliane Peters and Ashutosh Malaviya

New Numerical Methods for CFD applied to Ship Hull Design by Henk Nieland
Verification and Analysis Software Tools by Uwe Gläser
Authoring Multimedia for the Web by Henk Nieland
Employment in SMEs as a Result of Effective Knowledge Transfer by Lars Bergman

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 21-23 September 1998
Air Pollution Modelling and Simulation, APMS'98, Champs-sur-Marne, France, 26-29 October 1998
Third ERCIM Workshop on Control and System Theory, Padova, Italy, 13-14 July 1998
11th ERCIM Database Research Group Workshop on Metadata for Web Databases, Sankt Augustin, Germany, 26 May 1998
Second ERCIM Health and Information Technology Working Group Meeting, Sankt Augustin, Germany, 26 May 1998
European Summer School on Reliability and Safety of Human-Machine Systems, Knossos Royal Village, Crete, 6-13 September 1998
A Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOG - TSD'98, Brno, Czech Republic, 23-26 September 1998
International Summer School on Logic Programming Perspectives in Hot Research Areas, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, 7-12 September 1998
HLCL'98 - 3rd International Workshop on High-Level Concurrent Languages, Nice, France, 12 September 1998
EXPRESS'98 - 5th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency, Nice, France, 7 September 1998
4th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, Stockholm, Sweden, 19-21 October 1998

Next issue: ERCIM News 34 (July 1998) Special theme: Environmental Modelling

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