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ERCIM News No. 57, April 2004 - Contents
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JOINT ERCIM ACTIONS |
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ERCIM-Led MUSCLE Network of Excellence: Approved and Poised to Embark on Ambitious Four-Year Research and Integration Program
by Eric Pauwels, CWI |
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DELOS - A New Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries under FP6
by Costantino Thanos |
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A Belgian Member for ERCIM |
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News from W3C
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EUROPEAN SCENE |
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IST-FET announces the Launch of Four New Research Initiatives in IST-Call 3 to be published in May 2004 |
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IST-FET launches a New Web Facility for the Submission of Ideas for New Promising Research Directions in FP6 and in FP7 |
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European Science Foundation calls for Proposals in ICT Fields |
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SPECIAL THEME: Games Technology |
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Games and Life - Introduction
by Milan Mares, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic/CRCIM, Czech Republic |
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Enabling Computers to Play Games like Humans
by Stephen McGlinchey, University of Paisley, UK |
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Game Artificial Intelligence that Adapts to the Human Player
by Pieter Spronck and Jaap van den Herik, Maastricht University, The Netherlands |
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Games with Wireless Dynamically Changing Input/Output Units
by Anthony Savidis and Constantine Stephanidis, FORTH Institute of Computer Science, Greece |
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A Framework for Bidding in Procurement Auctions
by Jesús Palomo, David Rios Insua, Fabrizio Ruggeri, University Rey Juan Carlos/SpaRCIM, Spain |
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Multi-Agent Technology Applied to Real Time Strategy Games
by Marco Remondino, University of Turin, Italy
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An Intuitive Game in an Intelligent Ubiquitous Environment
by Jaana Leikas, Hanna Strömberg, Antti Väätänen and Luc Cluitmans, VTT Information Technology, Finland |
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ContextControl - Game Based Interaction
by Holger Diener, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Germany |
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Dramatic Gaming
by Jarmo Laaksolahti, SICS, Sweden |
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Generating Multimedia Presentations: It's All in the Game
by Frank Nack and Lynda Hardman, CWI, The Netherlands |
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Experimenting with the Social Construction of Reality: A Game for the Autistic Mind
by John Harpur, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maria Lawlor, St Mary's Hospital NEHB, Drogheda, Ireland and Michael Fitzgerald, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
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Stability in Labour Market Games
by Katarína Cechlárová, P.J. Safárik University, Kosice/SRCIM, Slovakia; Robert W. Irving, and David F. Manlove, University of Glasgow, UK |
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'Large' Games and their Multiple Applications
by Andrzej Wieczorek, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland |
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Exploring the Video Game as a Learning Tool
by Francis Emmerson, University of Abertay, Dundee, UK |
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Mobile Gaming with Peer-to-Peer Facilities
by Mika Pennanen and Kari Keinänen, VTT Information Technology |
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Auctioning for Bandwidth in Communication Networks
by Bruno Tuffin and Patrick Maillé, INRIA |
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Motion Planning in Virtual Environments and Games
by Mark Overmars, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
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An Accessible Two-Player Multi-Modal Board Game
by Dimitris Grammenos, Anthony Savidis and Constantine Stephanidis, FORTH Institute of Computer Science, Greece |
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Games and Automata for Synthesis and Validation
by Erich Grädel, RWTH Aachen, Germany |
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Story Mechanics as Game Mechanics: Applying Story Analysis Techniques to Game AI
by Chris R Fairclough, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
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Strategy-Proof Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
by Paolo Santi, CNR Institute for Informatics and Telematics, Italy |
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An e-Negotiation Tool to Support e-Democracy
by David Rios Insua, Julio Holgado and Raúl Moreno, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos/SpaRCIM, Spain |
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Game Technology in Virtual Reality Development
by Jukka Rönkkö, VTT Information Technology, Finland |
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Opponent Models in Games
by Jeroen Donkers and Jaap van den Herik, Maastricht University, The Netherlands |
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Edutainment Game Design for Mobile Digital Television
by Sonja Kangas, VTT Information Technology, Finland |
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Introducing Discrete Simulation into Games
by Inmaculada García, Ramón Mollá and Emilio Camahort, Technical University of Valencia, Spain/SpaRCIM, Spain |
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Adversarial Constraint Satisfaction by Game tree Search
by James Little and Ken Brown, University College Cork, Ireland |
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Interactive Storytelling: the Rise of a New Game Genre?
by Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside, UK |
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NetAttack - First Steps towards Pervasive Gaming
by Irma Lindt and Wolfgang Broll, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Germany |
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Sequencing Animations Intelligently
by Stéphane Assadourian, Warthog Games Ltd., UK |
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R&D AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER |
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gViz Project - Visualization Middleware for Grid Users
by Julian Gallop, CCLRC, UK |
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Virtual Prints: A Novel Interaction Concept for Virtual Environments
by Dimitris Grammenos, Alexandros Mourouzis and Constantine Stephanidis, FORTH Institute of Computer Science, Greece |
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OpenMASK: an Open-Source Middleware for Virtual Reality
by Bruno Arnaldi and Stéphane Donikian, IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France |
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GeneSyS: Monitoring and Management of Distributed Systems
by Balázs E. Pataki and László Kovács, SZTAKI, Hungary |
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New Crossbar directly switches Variable-Size Packets
by Manolis Katevenis and Nikos Chrysos, FORTH Institute of Computer Science, Greece |
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N2NSOFT Network Simulator - Simulation and Optimisation of Large IP Networks
by Dohy Hong and François Baccelli, N2NSOFT, France |
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Connecting Wireless Sensor Networks with the Internet
by Adam Dunkels, Thiemo Voigt and Juan Alonso, SICS, Sweden |
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Automated Production of Fully Functional Applications with OlivaNova Model Execution
by Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia/SpaRCIM, Juan Carlos Molina and Emilio Iborra, CARE Technologies S.A., Spain |
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MarineXML: Towards Global Standards for Marine Data Interoperability
by Brian Matthews, CCLRC |
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Agents and Middleware Applications from Seventeen European Projects
by László Kovács, SZTAKI, Hungary |
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EVERGROW, a European Research Project on the Future Internet
by Kersti Hedman, SICS, Sweden |
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EVENTS |
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Reports: |
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SOFSEM 2004: 30th Anniversary
by Julius Stuller |
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INTERACT 2003 |
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For conference announcements, see: |
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Calendar of Events and Conferences related to IT and Applied Mathematics |
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IN BRIEF |
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FORTH - Stelios C. Orphanoudakis has been elected as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of FORTH
.. more |
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FORTH - Constantine Stephanidis has been elected as the new Director of ICS-FORTH
..more
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FORTH - FORTH - Vassilis Dougalis has been elected as the new Director of IACM-FORTH
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SINTEF - SINTEF has pooled all its ICT research resources into one institute: SINTEF ICT
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CWI - The Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science has started a new pilot theme on multimedia delivery.
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CWI - The Dutch government has allocated €48 million to three major ICT projects in which CWI participates
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Italian Institute of Technology founded
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