C O N T E N T S

• Editorial by Jirí, Wiedermann, President of the Czech Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics:

• ERCIM Evaluation Team in Tunisia by Jean-Michel Chassériaux
• EU ­ China Industrial Cooperation Initiatives in High-Performance Computing and Networking by Eckart Bierdümpel
• ERCIM Cor Baayen Fellowship'97 by Martin Kersten

• Long Term Research in ESPRIT in the Perspective of the 5th Framework Programme by Jean-Michel Chassériaux
• Towards the Activation of the Information Society in the Euro-Mediterranean Context by Stefano Trumpy
• Partners Across Europe: The IDEALFIT Project by Roberto Gagliardi
• Italian Research Minister at GMD by Siegfried Münch
• New Language Engineering Programme for Italy by Fedrico Flaviano

SPECIAL THEME:

• Information Technology in Medicine by Thomas Berlage
• An Assistant for Planning Neuro-Muscular Tests by Danielle Ziébelin and Annick Vila
• Computerized Blood Center Information System by Matti Koskivirta
• The Examination Room of the Future by Thomas Berlage
• Multimedia-based Diagnosis of Human Memory Defects by Gernoth Grunst, Ute Simon and Manfred Berndtgen
• Multimedia Training Systems in Cardiology by Gernoth Grunst
• The GALEN-IN-USE Project by AL Rector and Pieter Zanstra
• Long-Term Electro-encephalogram Analysis by Vladimír Krajca
• Mammogram and Echocardiogram Analysis by Using Cellular Neural Network Technology by Akos Zarándy, Csaba Rekeczky, Márton Csapodi and Tamás Roska
• Preparing Structured Surgical Operation Reports by Jussi Yliaho and Heino Poutanen
• The PEN&PAD Data Entry System by John Kirby and Alan L Rector
• Image Processing Services in Health Telematics Networks by Marios Zikos, Eleni Kaldoudi and Stelios Orphanoudakis
• Structuring Patient Records by Erik van Mulligen
• CardiAssist - Improving Cardiac Telediagnosis by Enabling Systems and 3D Ultrasound by Thomas Berlage
• Laser Technology in Dentistry by Gavin Pearson
• Research on Co-operation between Health Care Structures at ISRDS-CNR by Fabrizio L. Ricci
• Towards Improved Usability of Health Care Information Systems by Pentti Kolari
• European Health Telematics Observatory by Vesa Pakarinen
• Web-based Medical Services in the Regional Health Care Network of Crete by Catherine Chronaki, Xenophon Zabulis, Manolis Tsiknakis, and Stelios Orphanoudakis
• An Integrated Architecture for the Provision of Health Telematic Services in a Regional Network by Manolis Tsiknakis and Stelios Orphanoudakis
• Hepatic Surgery Simulator by Hervé Delingette
• Personal Health Monitor for Homes by Timo Tuomisto and Vesa Pentikäinen
• Techniques for Brain Morphometry by Alain Colchester and Gérard Subsol
• Artificial Intelligence Based Methods in Medicine by Jean-Paul Haton
• Testing Telemedical Applications under Extreme Conditions by Giampiero Ravagnan

• TIMe ­ The Integrated Method by Richard Sanders
• Fractal Growth Models by Mária Vicsek and Tamás Vicsek
• A Syndetic Approach to Human Computer Interfaces by Giorgio Faconti and Mieke Massink
• Chorochronos - A Research Network for Spatiotemporal Database Systems by Timos Sellis

• Personal R@dio: Audio on Demand on the Internet by Peter Kanzow and Ralf Wegner
• Real-time Processing in Digital Audio and Electroacoustic Applications by Graziano Bertini
• DACCORD - Control of Motorway Networks by Henk Nieland
• GMD-NEC Research Co-operation in High Performance Computing by Guy Lonsdale and Rolf Hempel
• Simulation of Underground Gas Storage by Hans Molenaar
  
  

• GMD Successful at a World-Wide Protein Structure Prediction Experiment
• SOFSEM'96 Conference Report by Keith Jeffery
• ERCIM Computer Graphics Network Workshop on Virtual Reality Modelling Language by David Duce
• DELOS Workshop on Cross-Language Information Retrieval by Páraic Sheridan
• Call for Papers: First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
• Call for Papers: 11th ERCIM Database Research Group Workshop on Databases and Digital Libraries: Heterogeneity, Metadata and Retrieval Techniques
  Call for Papers: Fourth DELOS Workshop on Image Indexing and Retrieval
• Call for Participation: Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (sponsored by ERCIM)
• Call for Papers: Electronic Publishing'98 (sponsored by ERCIM)
• Call for Papers: 6th Eurographics Workshop on Programming Paradigms in Graphics
• Call for Papers: Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics'97
• Call for Paricipation: IROS'97 - International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
• Call for Participation: ParCo'97