C O N T E N T S

• Editorial
• Joint Ercim Actions:
  • Ercim meetings at AEDIMA
  • Workshop on Deductive and Interoperable Databases
  • ERCIM Parallel Network Steering Committee meets in Barcelona
  • Intelligent Multimedia Systems
  • Fifth Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation

• SPECIAL: Electronic Publishing

  • Trends in Electronic Publishing
  • OPERA - Editing Complex Structured Documents
  • Usability in Electronic Publishing
  • Document Analysis and Writing Recognition
  • Daily Interactive News Service
  • HyperstorM - Object-oriented Database Technology for Innovative Publishing Applications
  • The Editor's Workbench - A Knowledge-based Editing Tool
  • Distribution of News to Visually Impaired and People with Dyslexia
  • The Labyrinth System
  • DIAMANT - Generating, Managing and Presenting Multimedia Documents
  • Printing Hyperdocuments
  • From Electronic Dictionaries to Lexical Referecne Systems
• Other Research Activities:
  • Parallel Signature Files
  • ASSO - Combining Database Design with Formal Methods
  • Polikom - GMD Participates in Projects on Telelcooperation
  • INESC Manufactures the First Portuguese Integrated Circuit
  • A Model for Texture Processing based on the Unification of Analysis and Synthesis
• Technology Transfer:
  • Modelling of Thermoelectric Power Units
  • Rapid - A High Performance Computing Consortium in France
  • VISIOLAM A Workstation for Volumetric Data Acquisition
  • Railroad Time Tables for the 21st Century
• In Brief