• Financial Mathematics by Denis Talay
• The Need for Financial Models by Björn Palmgren
• Mining Financial Time Series by Arno Siebes
• Statistical Methods for Financial and other Dynamical Stochastic Models by Kacha Dzhaparidze and Peter Spreij
• Genetic Programming for Feature Extraction in Financial Forecasting by József Hornyák and László Monostori
• Taming Risks: Financial Models and Numerics by Jiri Hoogland and Dimitri Neumann
• Stochastic Systems in Financial Mathematics - Research activities at SZTAKI by László Gerencsér
• Understanding Mortgage-backed Securities by Michiel Bertsch
• ShowRisk - Prediction of Credit Risk by Gerhard Paaß
• Stochastic Methods in Finance: Evaluating Predictions by Valeria Skrivankova
• Model Risk Analysis for Discount Bond Options by Denis Talay
• Numerical Algorithms Group by David Sayers
• Premia: An Option Pricing Project by Claude Martini and Antonino Zanette
• Life Insurance Contract Simulations by Mireille Bossy
• Using a Domain-Specific Language for Financial Engineering by Arie van Deursen
• Subsymbolic and Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Financial Engineering by László Monostori

REPORT

• Joint Summer School on Extending DataBase Technology by Serge Abiteboul and Nourredine Mouaddib

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• 5th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, Dagstuhl, Germany, 28 November - 1 December 1999
• Third European Conference on Research
  and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Paris, 22-24 September 1999

• CLRC - AlphaGalileo, a new internet press centre..
• CWI - Piet Beertema was knighted..
• SZTAKI - Paks nuclear power plant modernizing its safety system..
• SZTAKI - Co-operation agreement with the Faculty of Information Technology, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, to establish an external Department on Information Techniques..
• INRIA - Claude Samson received the 1999 Michel Monpetit award..
• INRIA - Odile Lausecker received the Grand Prix of the Research Film Festival Nancy..
• VTT - Linus Torvalds guested a seminar hosted by VTT together with Helsinki University..

by Branislav Rovan, Director of the Slovak Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathmatics and a founding member of the Department of Computer Science at the Comenius University in Bratislava.

• 5th ERCIM Environmental Modelling Group Workshop by Jean-Paul Berroir
• Ninth DELOS Workshop focuses on Distance Learning by Pasquale Savino and Pavel Zezula
• A new Manager for ERCIM

• IT Training in a Changing Society by Josef Kolar
• A Successful Effort to Increase the Number of Female Students in Computer Science by Truls Gjestland
• Basic Research, Information Technologies, and their Perspectives in the Czech Academy by Milan Mares

• Micro Analytic Simulation Models for Political Planning by Hermann Quinke
• KALIF - Kernel Algorithms for Learning in Feature Spaces by Bernhard Schölkopf
• Control Theory and Electro-elasticity: Realisation of an Active Damper by Maurizio Brocato
• The GRAFIS Word Processor for People with Disabilities by Constantine Stephanidis
• Building Harmonised Semantic Lexicons1 by Nicoletta Calzolari
• Live Teleteaching via the Internet by Konstantinos Fostiropoulos, Detlef Skaley, Hideyuki Inamura and Sepideh Chakaveh
• 3D City - Adaptive Capture and Visualization of Cityscapes by Thomas Jung and Ines Ernst
• AVOCADO - The Virtual Environment Framework by Henrik Tramberend, Frank Hasenbrink, Gerhard Eckel and Uli Lechner
• Immersive Telepresence by Vali Lalioti, Frank Hasenbrink and Olaf Menkens
• BSCW sets Standard for Open Internet Cooperation by Konrad Klöckner

• Helping Company Founders: INRIA’s Technological Outreach Strategy by Bernard Larrouturou and Laurent Kott
• European Software Institute and IEI-CNR to launch a Qualification Scheme for Software Process Assessors by José Arias, Fabrizio Fabbrini, Mario Fusani, Vinicio Lami, Giuseppe Magnani
• Solving Implicit Differential Equations within a Modeling Environment by Jacques de Swart
• Multilevel Forecasting improves Corporate Planning and Operations by Ilkka Karanta