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

• SICS - The Hewlett-Packard Internet Research Institute...
• GMD - Carl Adam Petri...
• CLRC - CLRC will be holding a series of Open Days...
• SZTAKI - New Laboratories joined the Autonomous Research Division...
• CWI - The Telematics Institute...

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