C O N T E N T S

• Guest Editorial by Rosalie Zobel
  

• DANIT ­ Denmark's Representative in ERCIM by Fritz Henglein
• ERCIM Meetings in Rocquencourt by Georges Nissen
• ERCIM working groups
• ERCIM sponsored workshops
• ERCIM's Participation in European Projects

SPECIAL THEME:

• Electronic Commerce ­ A New Challenge for ERCIM by Christine Vanoirbeek
• ERCIM Working Group on Electronic Commerce
• European Research Projects on Electronic Commerce and Open Networks Security by Rüdiger Grimm
• Electronic Commerce in Europe by Roger Till
• Legal Issues of Electronic Commerce by Séverine Dusollier
• Secure Banking over the Internet: Recommendations from the European Committee for Banking Standards by Rainer A. Rueppel
• CWASAR ­ A European Infrastructure for Secure Electronic Commerce by Winfried Kühnhauser
• Open Electronic Trading System by Aarno Lehtola, Tor Lillqvist, Kari Kekki and Seija Hakkarainen
• OPERA ­ Open Payments European Research Association by Rafael Hirschfeld
• The VIP Approach for the Formal Verification of Electronic Commerce Protocols by Dominique Bolignano
• Enhanced SmartCard for Electronic Commerce by Zoltán Kincses and István Mezgár
• Teamwork, Extended Enterprise and Electronic Commerce by Yves Pigneur
• Software Agent Applications in Electronic Commerce by Roberto Gagliardi
• Joint Electronic Payment Initiative by Daniel Dardailler
• Middleware Services to support Electronic Commerce by Dimitris Papadakis, Manolis Marazakis and Christos Nikolaou
• SAMSPILL ­ Commercial Service Design for the Web by Stig F. Mjølsnes
• COBRA Project Prototypes e-commerce Brokering System based on inFOCUS by Jürgen Marock
• Issues in Internet Commerce: The MerseyWorld Virtual Business Park by Colin Charlton, Bernard Friery and Paul Leng
• Printius ­ An Electronic Market for the Graphic Arts Industry by Jean-Christophe Leroy
• Application Renting ­ A Killer Application for Electronic Payment Systems

• Intelligent Interfaces for the Exploration of our Cultural Heritage by Oliviero Stock
• MMMSec ­ Security in Multimedia Mail by Ronald Fromm, Rafal Kowalski, Jürgen Sander, Roland Schwarz, Burkhard Wiegel and Andreas Zisowsky
• CANDY ­ Analysis of Physiological Data from the Wake-Sleep Transition with Neural Networks by Klaus-Robert Müller
• Integrating Formal Methods: The SPECTRUM Project by Juan Bicarregui
• Fractal Image Compression by Henk Nieland
• Magnetic Resonance Data Processing by Piero Barone and Giovanni Sebastiani
• Distributed Manufacturing, Extended Enterprises by László Monostori and Botond Kádár
• Actors playing in Multimedia Scenes by Patrizia Palamidese
  

• Software Renovation ­ Y2000, Euro, and All That by Henk Nieland
• Taking ESPRIT Business Process Project Results to the Market by Kenneth Robinson
• Pagevision adopted by Leading Newspapers by Caj Södergård
• GMD Spin-off Globit develops Informix DataBlade Modules by Marlies Ockenfeld
• Cooperation between GMD and Hewlett Packard by Rüdiger Grimm

REPORTS

• ISADS 97 - Third IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems by Eckhard Moeller
• ERCIM Environmental Modelling Group Workshop on Air Pollution Modelling by Achim Sydow

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• 2nd ERCIM Environmental Modelling Group Workshop on Remote Sensing for Air Pollution Analysis at the International 'Symposium Umweltinformatik', 10-12 September 1997, Strasbourg, France
• Eurographics'97, Budapest, Hungary, 4-8 September 1997
• First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Pisa, Italy, 1-3 September 1997
• ParCo 97, Bonn, 16 - 19 September 1997
• EDBT Summer School '97: Information Systems during the Information Revolution: Methods, Tools and Architectures, Capri, Italy, 8-13 September 1997
• LAMPE'97 ­ Workshop on Electronic Page Models, Lausanne (Switzerland), 22-23 September, 1997
• 2nd Euromicro Working Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, Florence, Italy, 9-11 March 1998
• IDMS'97 ­ European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services, Darmstadt, Germany, 10-12 September 1997
• Fifth International Workshop on Deductive Databases and Logic Programming DDLP'97, Leuven, Belgium, 11 July 1997
• SOFSEM '97 ­ XXIV-th Seminar on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics, Milovy, Czech Republic, 22-29 November 1997
  
  
  

• CWI ­ participates in one of the Technological Centres of Excellence (TTI)...
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• CNR ­ Prof. Lucio Bianco is the new President of the Italian National Research Council...
• INRIA ­ China's Academy of Sciences and INRIA created a joint laboratory...