ERCIM News No.56, January 2004, Contents

	ERCIM News No. 56, January 2004 - Contents

	Keynote by Stelios Orphanoudakis, ERCIM President
	JOINT ERCIM ACTIONS
	Tribute to Gerard van Oortmerssen by Stelios Orphanoudakis, ERCIM President
	Ronald de Wolf - Winner of the 2003 Cor Baayen Award
	Possibilities and Limitations of Quantum Computing
	IM2IM – A New ERCIM Working Group on Informatics and Mathematics by Marc Thiriet, INRIA
	News from W3C
	SPECIAL THEME: Industrial Diagnosis, Planning and Simulation
	Industrial Diagnosis, Planning and Simulation - Introduction by Per Kreuger, SICS
	Efficient Algorithms for Inverse Magnetic Field Problems by Domenico Lahaye, CWI
	Deviation Detection of Industrial Processes by Anders Holst, Jan Ekman and Daniel Gillblad, SICS
	Bidding Agents Acquire Cargo in Online Auctions by Pieter Jan 't Hoen
	Decision Support System for Process Analysis and Supervision by Galia Weidl, Suttgart University
	Mathematical Challenges in the Electronics Industry by Wil Schilders, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
	Contpack - Maximising the Volume Utilisation of Containers by Onno Garms, Ralf Heckmann and Stefan Rank, Fraunhofer SCAI
	First Commercial Bayesian Software for Intelligent Troubleshooting and Diagnostics by Claus Skaanning, Dezide, Denmark
	Innovating Shoe Manufacturing using Advanced Simulation Techniques by Emanuele Carpanzano and Andrea Cataldo, ITIA-CNR
	Billy Goat Detects Worms and Viruses by James Riordan and Diego Zamboni, IBM Zurich Research Lab/SARIT
	Decision Support for Personnel and Resources Management in Multi-Project Environments by Antonia Bertolino, Eda Marchetti and Raffaela Mirandola, ISTI-CNR
	Towards Useful Tools for Estimating Railway Infrastructure Capacity by Jan Ekman, SICS
	Efficient Utilisation of Resources in the Railway Industry by Levelling Departures and Arrivals of Trains by Martin Aronsson, SICS
	Real-Time Optimisation of Empty Rail Freight Car Distribution by Martin Joborn, Carmen Consulting, Sweden
	KUORMA: A Collection of APS-Algorithms for Forest Industry Wood Transport by Juha Savola, Hannu Rummukainen and Olli Jokinen, VTT
	Parc Bandwidth on Demand by Helmut Simonis, Parc Technologies Ltd, UK
	DesParO - A Design Parameter Optimisation Toolbox using an Iterative Kriging Algorithm by Christof Bäuerle, Clemens-August Thole and Ulrich Trottenberg, Fraunhofer SCAI
	On-line Testing of the Reactor Protection System in the Paks Nuclear Power Plant by István Varga, Tamás Bartha and Alexandros Soumelidis, SZTAKI
	Process Systems: Theory and Applications from Different Aspects by Katalin Hangos and Gábor Szederkényi, SZTAKI
	Multi-Agent System Technology in a Port Container Terminal Automation by Vicent J. Botti, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia/SpaRCIM
	Contribution to Fault Detection and Diagnosis: Mixture-based Modelling by Tatiana V.Guy, Dani Juricic, Miroslav Kárny and Andrej Rakar, Institute Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciencesof the Czech Republic /CRCIM
	Data Mining Applied in Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment by Simon Lambert, CCLRC
	Integrated Multivariate Statistical Process Control and Condition Monitoring for Fed-batch Fermentation Processes by Hongwei Zhang, Northeast Wales Institute of Higher Education, UK
	Saving Energy by Claude Lemaréchal, INRIA
	R&D AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
	Solving Complex Problems with Advanced Techniques by Enrique Alba, University of Malaga/SpaRCIM
	Nipper - the Neat Internet Protocol Packet Editor by Sami Pönkänen and Marko Lyijynen, VTT
	On Describing B2B Processes with Semantic Web Technologies by Santtu Toivonen, Tapio Pitkäranta, VTT and Jung Ung Min, Stanford University, USA
	Tracking Assets and Vulnerabilities in Corporate Networks by Dieter Gantenbein, IBM Zurich Research Lab/SARIT
	Numerical Simulation through Web Services by Stephan Springstubbe, Jürgen Klein and Ottmar Krämer-Fuhrmann, Fraunhofer SCAI
	Advanced Communication Networks by Michel Mandjes, CWI
	Information Security Research at NTNU by Stig F. Mjølsnes and Ingvild Ytrehus, NTNU
	Supervised Term Weighting for Automated Text Categorization by Franca Debole and Fabrizio Sebastiani, ISTI-CNR
	Remote Monitoring of Health Conditions by Dirk Husemann, IBM Zurich Research Lab/SARIT
	EVENTS
	Reports:
	FM 2003 - 12th International Symposium on Formal Methods by Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR
	ERCIM Workshop on Soft Computing 2003 by Petr Hájek, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic/CRCIM
	SC 2003 - Industrial Simulation Conference by Ana Pajares, Juan C. Guerri and Carlos Palau, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia/SpaRCIM
	For conference announcements, see:
	Calendar of Events and Conferences related to IT and Applied Mathematics
	IN BRIEF
	Book review: "The Birth of Broadband"
	INRIA - Michel Cosnard became the new president of INRIA .. more
	Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft - A Sino-German Mobile-Communications-Institute, located at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut in Berlin was established in December 2003 ..more
	INRIA - Texas Instruments has established a JavaTM competence center in Rennes, France in December 2003" .. more
	NTNU - The Norwegian University of Science and Technology will spend 40 million NOK (5 million Euro) to enhance the research and studies in language technology ..more

ERCIM News No. 56, January 2004 - Contents